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US president Donald Trump says Intel should give the US government a 10% stake in the company, echoing a recent statement made by US commerce secretary Howard Lutnick, who said earlier this week that the US government should get an equity stake in Intel in exchange for CHIPS Act funding. Trump had actually called for…

PC Gamer senior editor Rich Stanton called Metal Gear Solid Delta a “safe, but excellent” remake in his review, but the extent to which Konami faithfully recreated even the most minute aspects of 2004’s Snake Eater has been tickling our lizard brain nostalgia centers. You can still wait until sniper boss The End dies of…

It sure feels like everything’s a subscription these days, and subscriptions are getting more and more specific as time and capitalism grind forward. We’ve moved on from subscriptions that give you a bunch of games to subscriptions within specific games themselves, like Grand Theft Auto Online’s GTA+. For $8 a month, you get a monthly…

One of the weird things about being a lover of RTS games—aside from the fact that it sometimes feels like the games industry has left us behind—is how often the people making these games, and certainly the ones financing them, seem to forget that the initial popularity of the genre was driven by high-quality singleplayer…

I’ve returned to Seattle for the first time since February. Not the real Seattle, of course. I’d probably get deported. But the ominous, permanently dark Seattle created by The Chinese Room for Vampire: The Masquerade – Bloodlines 2. Earlier in the year, I was drinking blood and getting up to mischief as a Tremere vampire,…

Rory Norris, Guides Writer (Image credit: Future) Last week I was: playing way too much of the Battlefield 6 open beta. This week I’ve been: slogging my way through the Road to Battlefield event in Battlefield 2042, remembering why it’s my least favourite game in the series. The most significant difference between most playtests I’ve…

Here’s a useful piece of advice right up top—don’t use a free VPN. Many will have serious caveats, as demonstrated by the security researchers at Koi, who say they’ve discovered a particularly popular Chrome-based variant taking unauthorised screenshots and spying on its users. The accused Chrome extension is called FreeVPN.One, and it’s currently sat at…

Are you ready for Hollow Knight: Silksong? Well, by my count, about 22,941 players are desperate for another fix of Team Cherry’s work, a number that’ll continue to rise over the intervening minutes of me sitting down and writing this article. Per SteamDB, Hollow Knight: Silksong’s release date of September 4 has driven swarms of…

AMD made a bit of an oopsie yesterday, as it accidentally released the source code for FSR 4, before promptly hauling it back again. Despite the course correction, it seems possible that it’s too late to put the genie back in the highly technical bottle. What makes this specific mistake notable is the fact that…

You know what they say: The best laid plans of mice and men sometimes get abruptly derailed by a surprise launch announcement. Thanks to yesterday’s reveal that Silksong’s release date is only two weeks away, CloverPit developer Panik Arcade has decided to push back the launch of the slot machine roguelite to dodge the all-consuming…