43% of you have, or will be switching to gaming on Linux this year, but more surprising than that over a quarter of you actually don’t mind Windows

Linux is something that has been on our minds, and honestly on our gaming PCs quite extensively over the past few months. Since Valve dropped it into the Steam Deck, and Proton became the way forward for gaming on Linux distros the world over, there has been increased interest in the open source operating system….

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An architect of GameStop’s long-forgotten Steam competitor explains why he thinks Valve came out on top: ‘What Steam did better than anybody else was to create a community’

Larry Kuperman made his mark on the industry as part of the team at Nightdive, the games preservation and remaster specialists, but before that, he was on the front line of the digital distribution wars from the early 2000s to 2013. He helped build up the online storefront, Impulse, which was later acquired (and ultimately…

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Warren Spector’s multiplayer Thief successor changes direction: Instead of PvPvE, it’s now focusing on 2-player co-op and singleplayer

A few of my coworkers might yell at me for saying so, but I’m calling this good news. Otherside Entertainment says it’s taking a “new direction” with Thick as Thieves, the multiplayer first-person stealth game it announced in 2024: Instead of being a four-player competitive multiplayer game mixing humans and AI enemies as it was…

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Slay the Spire 2’s team is already cooking on 3 ideas for new game modes, each offering ‘ways to interact with Slay the Spire that don’t exist right now’

In an interview with PC Gamer, Mega Crit co-founder Casey Yano shared three mysterious plans for new modes that Slay the Spire 2 could see during the next year or two of planned early access development. The roguelike card game is already bigger than its predecessor—the co-op mode alone is a major addition for what…

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Open world crime game Samson had to be pared back mid-development, which led to its unusual structure: ‘It’s become more unique’

Every morning, Samson wakes up with an enormous problem pressing on his skull: a debt he can’t afford to pay back. Either he can take extreme measures to reduce the amount he owes—driving getaways, extorting businesses, taking down rival gangsters—or watch the total grow day by day. Should he ultimately fail to come up with…

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Marathon game director says Bungie’s rebalancing ‘god-like’ knife damage, buffing Vandal and Recon shells, and knocking bubble shields down a peg

Amidst yesterday’s yearly crop of April Fool’s japery, Marathon game director Joe Ziegler broke from seasonal convention on X by sharing an early, fool-free preview of balance adjustments Bungie has planned for upcoming patches in the weeks ahead. With tweaks planned for weapons, attachments, deployables, runner shells, and more, Ziegler said the wide-ranging slate of…

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What will Slay the Spire 2’s final ending be like? ‘I do want it to be more extravagant when you win,’ says Mega Crit

Watch the full interview video above on the PC Gamer YouTube channel, if you prefer. There are many goofy placeholders across Slay the Spire 2, MS Paint-style art pieces that stand in for the finished products that will come later as development progresses through Early Access, which Mega Crit says the game might take between…

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Teamgroup MP44Q 2 TB NVMe SSD review

Everything changed when the fire nation attacked… Honestly, that’s what it feels like writing this review. Teamgroup’s MP44Q PCIe 4.0 SSD has finally landed with me for testing, and it’s a curious little QLC number that, once upon a time, would have offered itself up as a nice, affordable, tantalizing opportunity for any would-be budget…

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