With a lawsuit looming, World of Warcraft private server Turtle WoW has issued a formal plea for a fan server licensing: ‘We hope that Blizzard embraces fan‑driven content as its own legacy, rather than alienate this passionate community’

Turtle WoW—a fanmade, souped-up take on World of Warcraft Classic with new character customization options and zones—is like a lot of MMO private servers in that it took years of work across a dozen modding disciplines to make it a reality. Unfortunately, it became so successful that it caught the attention of the original game’s…

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Every MMO I play in 2025, I end up with a bag filled with trash—but that won’t change any time soon, if at all

Terminally Online This is Terminally Online: PC Gamer’s very own MMORPG column. Every other week, I’ll be sharing my thoughts on the genre, interviewing fellow MMO-heads like me, taking a deep-dive into mechanics we’ve all taken for granted, and, occasionally, bringing in guest writers to talk about their MMO of choice. The year is 2025,…

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This wild mod for Metal Gear Solid 5 massively expands its Subsistence system and makes enemies learn new tactics within missions rather than across them

Metal Gear Solid 5 isn’t exactly short of options for approaching its open-ended stealth scenarios. But encouraging players to use every tool at their disposal can be difficult once they’ve found a loadout that they like. Its Subsistence rule was one of Kojima’s solutions to this, allowing players to re-enter previous missions without a specific…

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‘GZDoom is basically dead’ modders proclaim as contributors split from Doom’s most popular sourceport, with tensions boiling over after its creator adds AI-generated code to the project

Numerous contributors to GZDoom, Doom’s most popular sourceport and the basis for countless mods and several entire games, have split from the project and revealed plans to build their own version, after long-running tensions with GZDoom’s creator came to a head earlier this week. As reported by Techspot, the schism within GZDoom’s community arose through…

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Drive a truck filled with explosives across horrible terrain in this gnarly mix of Snowrunner and Baby Steps—inspired by one of Hollywood’s most misunderstood films

Film sickos will instantly recognise the inspiration behind Nitroglyerine! which sees you drive a truck filled with volatile explosives across terrain more rugged than Glen Powell’s chin. Its rough and ready demo oozes with the same the lo-fi tension of William Friedkin’s Sorcerer, a nihilistic thriller that was critically panned and buried at the box…

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Doom: The Dark Ages gets Steam Deck verification and a bunch of portable optimisations, just in time for the launch of Microsoft’s new handheld

Doom: The Dark Ages is officially Steam Deck verified, which is surprising only in how long it took considering id Software’s history delivering shooters that are not just visually impressive, but exceedingly well optimised. The studio has worked minor miracles with handheld ports too, most notably the Nintendo Switch version of 2020’s Doom Eternal. That…

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My new most anticipated game is about a lonely house who can roll, jump, fish and go on dates

Building Relationships is a game about roaming an island and meeting potential romantic partners. But that’s not all: You’re a building. Specifically, you’re a house who eats furniture, loves fishing, and even knows how to jump. As a house, you roll around this island at sometimes ridiculous speeds, chatting with different buildings and going on…

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