Next week, Destiny 2 comes to an end. The Monument of Triumph update, releasing on June 9, marks the final release for Bungie’s nine-year-old live-service behemoth. I have to admit that, when I first heard the news, I was almost relieved—over the last year I’ve watched the game’s baffling new direction alienate almost every person…
AMD is going first out of the big PC gaming tech companies in rolling out its plans for 2024, with its CES livestream kicking off today at 7am PT/10am ET, and 3pm UK time. The general information on the event is pretty vague, and as the “Advancing AI PCs” title suggests, it’s leaning heavily into…
Category: Games August 7, 2025 Heretic + Hexen Gets a Surprise Re-Release Today: How Nightdive Studios Delivered Another Definitive Version of a Classic Mike Nelson, Xbox Wire Editor Summary Heretic + Hexen returns as a surprise, enhanced multi-platform re-release at QuakeCon 2025 – and it’s out today. We talk with the creative team at Nightdive…
I’ve been working on something special in the form of a messed up Cities: Skylines 2 layout, courtesy of you, the people. It’s a design that really speaks to us at PC Gamer, and cements our followers as true, unfaltering disciples of the one true Geralt. I’ve had a chance to play around with some…
When the HMS Escapist sank everyone worth a damn swam away to form a YouTube channel called Second Wind, where Yahtzee Croshaw’s video series Zero Punctuation continued under the name Fully Ramblomatic. It’s not exactly the same—the people have glasses now—but it’s continuing the essential work of being rude about videogames on the internet. Back…
As any good PC enthusiast will tell you, adding fans for optimal cooling can get pretty fiddly at times. So SilverStone has decided to do something about this with its new range of AIO coolers, that honestly look absolutely nuts. Highlighted by PC Watch, SilverStone’s IceMyst closed-loop CPU coolers, first unveiled at Computex this year,…
A gaming laptop must be the complete package. The screen, GPU, CPU, memory, cooling, keyboard, and trackpad are all important. So, when we’re talking about the best gaming laptop in any given year, it has to be a device that offers an extraordinary package, done extraordinarily well. We’re not short of options for this prestigious…
Learning how to dive with Esquie in Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 is the final exploration upgrade you’ll get access to, but unlike the others, this ability is entirely optional. While out swimming, you’ve likely noticed glowing blue lights in the water, but when you try to interact with them you simply get a message saying…
Nearly 200 Overwatch developers at Activision Blizzard have formed a new union under the Communications Workers of America called The Overwatch Gamemakers Guild—CWA, “a wall-to-wall unit that includes game developers across all disciplines, including design, production, engineering, art, sound, and quality assurance.” The announcement of the new union followed confirmation from a neutral arbitrator that…
Given AI is meant to change everything, it’s not exactly a surprise to learn that it’s going to upend operating systems, too. At least, that’s what OpenAI has planned for ChatGPT. In a new interview, OpenAI’s ChatGPT boss Nick Turley says he wants to make the chatbot “more like an operating system” over the next…