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Doom: The Dark Ages received a whole new mode back in August—the wave-based “Ripatorium” that allows players to build their own demonic encounters. But it seems id Software has had a rethink about the Ripatorium, as The Dark Ages’ latest update substantially overhauls how it works. While update 2.3 is mainly Ripatorium focussed, it’s worth…

Need to know What is it? Near-future aim down sights shooting.Release date: November 14, 2025Expect to pay: $70 Developer: TreyarchPublisher: ActivisionReviewed on: Ryzen 7 7700, RX 7800 XT, 64gb DDR5Steam Deck: UnverifiedLink: Official website It only takes a single mission in Black Ops 7’s atrocious co-op campaign to figure out what the scheme with this…

If you opened up the ol’ Windows Media player back in the 95, 98 or XP days, brace yourself for a mild shock: it was lying to you. And by lying, well, what I really mean is rendering video somewhere other than inside the actual window that was open on your desktop—sort of a parallel…

There’s an observable phenomena in Arc Raiders that dictates the somewhat rare material that you used to easily find all the time will suddenly disappear from all maps once you actually need it. For me, that’s Arc Raiders’ rusted gears, a mid-level crafting material needed to upgrade the gunsmith bench. The search has been going…

Roblox CEO David Baszucki is taking heat for a recent podcast interview with the New York Times, in which he discussed the platform’s new AI-powered age gating technology, dismissed accusations that Roblox has a predator problem, and got into a bit of a high-strung back-and-forth with the interviewer over the company’s approach to moderation. The…

If you count the peanut with the human eyes and mouth, The Game Awards 2025 has two vtuber nominees for its Content Creator of the Year award. Arc Raiders players may know of TheBurntPeanut, but they may not recognize the pink-haired anime girl pictured next to Kai Cenat and MoistCr1tikal. Her name is Sakura Miko…

Microsoft AI CEO Mustafa Suleyman says it’s “mindblowing” that people aren’t more impressed with generative AI tools. “Jeez there so many cynics!” wrote Suleyman on X this week. “It cracks me up when I hear people call AI underwhelming. I grew up playing Snake on a Nokia phone! The fact that people are unimpressed that…

I still regularly think about the 2018 text adventure game You Are Jeff Bezos, which confronts you with how colossal an amount of money Bezos’s $156 billion net worth really was, and how much good it could do if it wasn’t hoarded by an individual. (Bezos is now worth more than $200 billion). It’s a…

Remember some years back when the US Army formed an esports team to be more hip with the youths, and then tried its hand at streaming and was promptly bullied off of Twitch—not just once, but twice? You might have expected that to be the end of it, and in some ways it was: The…

It’s almost Christmas! Okay, maybe not quite just yet, but now’s a good time to open up your heart (and your wallet) and start stocking up on the best gifts for PC gamers. And who better to assist you than the team here at PC Gamer? Why are we qualified to tell you what gifts…