It's January 13 and Ubisoft just announced its second round of layoffs for 2026, at Massive Entertainment and Ubisoft Stockholm

It’s January 13 and Ubisoft just announced its second round of layoffs for 2026, at Massive Entertainment and Ubisoft Stockholm

A “voluntary career transition program” at Ubisoft’s Massive studio announced in October 2025 apparently wasn’t enough to get the job done, and so now Ubisoft is going back to the old-fashioned way of doing things by simply laying people off. “Earlier today, we informed all employees in our Swedish studios (Massive Entertainment and Ubisoft Stockholm)…

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I’ve been training my whole life for a battle royale like Final Sentence, it’s just a shame the demo is a tad undercooked right now

I’ve been typing for most of my life—flogging flax so I could afford a dragon longsword in RuneScape, roleplaying in World of Warcraft, and at present, writing multiple articles a day for the good site PC Gamer. I average about 130 words per minute, which isn’t competitive or anything, but I’m pretty nippy compared to…

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Oblivion guru found a way to save the Emperor and his bodyguard in the original game, getting the drop on his assassin like the fantasy secret service

The YouTuber known as Bacon is, as our own Ted Litchfield wrote in an article yesterday, the undisputed king of Oblivion meme videos. If you’ve ever cracked up at a viral video of Oblivion’s unmatched comic timing, odds are good it was a Bacon video you watched. But Bacon’s talents don’t just extend to comedy,…

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Microsoft killed the promising Perfect Dark reboot, but Take-Two has snapped up its leads for a new 2K studio

When Microsoft laid off an astonishing 9,000 people in July, the long-awaited Perfect Dark reboot was among the casualties. The main studio working on it—The Initiative—was shuttered, but co-developers Crystal Dynamics tried to salvage the project by cutting a publishing deal with Take-Two. The deal never eventuated because Take-Two and Microsoft couldn’t agree on who…

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We just got a free expansion pack out of nowhere for one of the most underrated FPSes on Steam⁠, and it adds a second open world to the one we already had

Echo Point Nova is one of our favorite recent FPSes here at PCG: Four player hoverboard shooting in an open world of floating islands that feels like Titanfall with all the safeties off. A steady stream of free updates has only made it better, crescendoing yesterday with the launch of a free expansion pack. So…

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AMD has a new marketing chief, Salesforce’s former president and marketing boss, and he’s all in on data centers and AI

Ask any long-term PC tech enthusiast or hardware journalist what they think about AMD, and you’ll probably be met with endless praise for its products and engineering know-how. Prod them for the negative aspects, and they’ll probably grumble about its marketing decisions, but perhaps that’s all set to change, as there’s a new bod in…

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