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Steam’s beta program for Chromebooks is officially coming to an end on January 1, 2026. As reported by 9to5Google, Chromebook users will now see a pop-up warning when attempting to install Steam, announcing that the beta app will no longer be available at the end of the year. The notice states: “The Steam for Chromebook…
Promise Mascot Agency was already wonderfully weird when it released back in April, so when I saw that its latest update adds Tony Hawk-style grinding tricks into its bizarro Japanophile delivery sim, my instant reaction was, “Oh yes, of course.” If anything, I’m surprised the game launched without the ability to propel your van along…
I’ve never met a ghost in the machine, but I remember every time an AI enemy surprised me by doing something deeply human. I know where in the church rafters I was standing when a Wolfenstein paratrooper started bunny-hopping on the spiral staircase, so that he could get a better look at me. And I’ll…
It’s one of the great ‘What ifs’ of PC gaming. What if Duke Nukem Forever had not stumbled onto Steam in 2011 looking tired and confused in a washed-out Doom 3 engine, but had released as depicted in its legendary E3 2001 trailer, where it looked set to steal Half-Life 2’s thunder with its cinematic…
The AI future would be bad enough on its own, eroding the human spirit and upending the economy in the name of a homework cheating revolution, but I find it especially galling that Microsoft is spending so much money trying to get me to turn on Copilot in Windows 11 and not fixing basic features…
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. For over two decades now, Warhammer 40,000 facts and lore have been accumulating in my brain like calcium buildup in…
Like a diabolical shopkeeper awaiting his first victim—sorry—customer of the day, I’ve been eagerly anticipating the release of Strange Antiquities since it was announced last year. The follow-up to 2022’s Strange Horticulture lets players get their Needful Things on, selling eldritch antiques to an array of weird townsfolk. And it turns out the Lake District’s…
BioShock‘s Big Daddy is one of gaming’s most iconic enemy designs. The drillbit-wielding, diving-helmet wearing protectors of Rapture are synonymous with Irrational’s classic shooter, to the point where they were plastered all over the game’s box-art when it launched back in 2007. But it turns out that, like so much else about BioShock, the Big…
Portal is not only one of the most mechanically inventive puzzle games ever made, but it’s also one of the most elegantly crafted. Each of its Euclid-defying conundrums was built with surgical precision by Valve’s mega-brain designers, created to slowly and specifically introduce you to the power of thinking with Portals. Central to this is…
Logging into apps or websites is one of our most-repeated digital activities, a sacred handshake between internet and user that says “I’m me, please let me in.” To my disappointment, at some point in the last few years we reached a point where logging in wasn’t a matter of extending your hand and completing a…