If you wanted to play a sneaky assassin guy (like I often do) in the excellent CRPG, Pathfinder: Wrath of the Righteous, you paradoxically never, ever wanted to pick the Assassin prestige class—it was that bad. In the game’s 2.2 update accompanying the release of its Lord of Nothing DLC on November 21, though, Assassins…
I’ve been squirrelled away in the PC Gamer office all week testing Halo: Campaign Evolved on all manner of hardware, including a beastly rig with an RTX 5080 and Ryzen 7 7700X3D. To my surprise, the difference between Low and Ultra is incredibly subtle and, frankly, not worth the performance hit. Across the majority of…
With large-scale hostilities breaking out between Israel and Hamas in the Middle East, Arma 3 developer Bohemia Interactive has issued a statement asking its players and content creators to “use their footage responsibly” in order to avoid contributing to a flood of false information being spread on social media. The studio also shared a detailed…
(Image credit: Lemaitre Bros) It’s a time for gift giving, which must also mean it’s a time for gift receiving. That’s not the part we’re supposed to cherish, but I won’t tell on you if you do a little cherishing. Getting free stuff is nice, and there’s always more free stuff to claim from PC…
Prepare your wallets. Uh oh, you’d best get your wallets ready folks, because the official Pokémon Center pop-up store is making a return in London this February as part of the 2026 Pokémon Europe International Championships. Open from Thursday, 12th February to Sunday, 15th February 2026, accessing the store will once again require a reservation,…
Gemini X is “built for fans of classic 32-bit run-and-gun platformers”. Komi Games, an independent developer from Canada, recently announced a new 2.5D run-and-gun metroidvania coming to PC (via Steam), and it will no doubt look a little familiar to fans of Mega Man X. Gemini X is being pitched as a game “built for…
Part of the ‘My Mario’ line launching today. Apart from a new range of toys and even an interactive app, Nintendo’s new ‘My Mario’ line includes a series of stop motion shorts. The first three episodes have now been uploaded to the ‘Play Nintendo’ channel on YouTube, and you can watch them right here. Below…
It’s a normal day in my tavern. A talking skeleton has lurched in and is standing at the bar inquiring about a job. A pale white octopus is swimming through the swamp to deliver my order of potatoes and rat meat. I’m using arcane magic to peer into the future to gain some extremely important…
Today, Nintendo debuted a Nintendo Direct Mini: Partner Showcase, a video presentation focused on Nintendo Switch games from Nintendo’s development and publishing partners. The video is the first in a series of upcoming Partner Showcase presentations that will be released this year. Highlights of the debut showcase include details about two new games in the…
A report from Kitguru suggests that Microsoft may be eyeing struggling chipmaker AMD as a potential acquisition. The news arrives via an unnamed source who claims that Microsoft approached the chip maker several months ago. The details of the acquisition talks are unknown for now, but the report points to Microsoft’s $95.3 billion in cash…