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As reported by Eurogamer, EA has not only resolved the glitches with its first party app that were keeping players out of Battlefield 6 on launch day, the publisher is also offering free season passes and other goodies to affected players as a mea culpa. “Today, we experienced an outage on the EA app that…
I’ve never played an invite-only beta test with such a fully-formed ranking system as Deadlock’s, but I guess when everyone gets unlimited plus-ones, the audience is big enough to warrant it. Besides, the game’s beta status didn’t stop me lamenting my place in Arcanist IV—below average, assuming ranks fall into normal distribution—but a patch dropped…
Weird Weekend Weird Weekend is our regular Saturday column where we celebrate PC gaming oddities: peculiar games, strange bits of trivia, forgotten history. Pop back every weekend to find out what Jeremy, Josh and Rick have become obsessed with this time, whether it’s the canon height of Thief’s Garrett or that time someone in the…
More quizzes! (Image credit: Larian Studios, PC Gamer) Want to keep testing your knowledge of gaming trivia? We’ve got loads more PC Gamer quizzes, on everything from healthbars to weird currencies to absurd patch notes. I love a good card game, and developers seem to agree with me. Not only have deckbuilders become one of…
For a very brief period before becoming PC Gamer’s weekend newshound, I wrote a newsletter dedicated to rounding up the best Steam demos of any given week. By far and away the best demo I played during those days was for a little game called Sektori. If you haven’t heard of Sektori, it’s a geometric…
Realism is serious business for the Hell Let Loose series, and that applies equally to the military simulator’s upcoming instalment Hell Let Loose: Vietnam. But that commitment to authenticity has posed a significant challenge for developer Expression Games for this iteration, one that was equally a problem for the soldiers who actually fought in the…
It sure looks like Aliens: Fireteam Elite 2 is in development, and it could be set for a surprise launch before the end of the year. While this apparent sequel to Cold Iron Studios’ 2021 blaster hasn’t been officially announced yet, it has seemingly been rated by the ESRB. As spotted by Gematsu (via PCGamesN)…
Windows 10 is dead. Well, nearly anyway. The much-beloved operating system reaches its EOL on October 14, meaning that security updates, feature updates and technical support will cease. Should you still be eeking out the last gasps of a Windows 10 build, there are steps you can take—listed by our Jacob here—to keep the ageing…
We’re in another grim period for poorly optimised PC games, with the last couple of years bringing us a string of power-hungry virtual slideshows such as 2023’s Star Wars Jedi: Survivor and, more recently, Borderlands 4. Corpos like Randy Pitchford think we should stop moaning and fork out for a better PC, as playing the…
Treat yourself to an easy Wordle win this weekend—just click or scroll straight to the October 11 (1575) answer and celebrate. Not your thing, but still hoping for a little help? That’s why we’ve packed every last inch of space before it with hints and clues for today’s Wordle. We’re happy to help you save…