I don’t know if you’ve noticed, but the games industry kind of sucks. Despite (and because of) the absurd amount of money games rake in, there’s an ungodly degree of consolidation, the RAMpocalypse, and constant, huge waves of layoffs. Tim Cain, who co-created the original Fallout, uploaded a video to YouTube last Wednesday explaining why…
As part of a new partnership between Blizzard & CD Projekt Red. At Gamescom this year, CD Projekt Red and Blizzard announced a partnership and teased some announcements. Now, at day two of BlizzCon 2026 this weekend, fans of these companies have got a first look at the Diablo IV x Witcher 3 collab. Read…
Over the last few days, Roblox’s 2026 Developers Conference was held in San Jose, California, and one of Roblox CEO David Baszucki’s on-stage introduction’s hit something of a hitch. Roblox YouTuber Mathieo took to the stage shouting, “We deserve better, don’t we deserve better,” while revealing a shirt that read “Kids deserve better,” until he…
Critical Hit (Image credit: Future) Welcome to Critical Hit, where I (or someone else on the PC Gamer team) celebrate and lament all things videogame music, audio design, and the ways our favourite games make our ears tingle. I have not been able to stop thinking about Big Walk since I finished the game alongside…
Play This Right Now Welcome to Play This Right Now, the site version of our weekly newsletter in which we celebrate a new game, update, or DLC that we think is well worth checking out. You can subscribe to the newsletter at the link if you want to get our thoughts about a new videogame…
I lobbied to make Promise Mascot Agency the best cozy game in our 2025 Game of the Year awards, which means I’m only (checks calendar) a little late in getting it added to my list of best cozy games this week. I adore its silly story and open world exploration and got to thinking about…
We all hoped that Inzoi would be the competitor to The Sims 4 that the life sim genre has needed for years. Thus far, though, things haven’t quite panned out that way. Life sim expert Mollie Taylor described Inzoi’s early access version as a “shallow imitation” of The Sims, while the game’s own director Hyungjin…
The joys and cons. Coming into this console generation with the spectre of Switch 1’s Joy-Con drift debacle in our minds, reviewers approached the Switch 2’s Joy-Con with extreme caution. The controllers seemed much improved, but problems take time to manifest, and even when things do go wrong, knowing whether you’ve got a one-off dud…
Disk Cleanup (Image credit: Future) Welcome to Disk Cleanup, our regular weekend feature delving into the PCs of PC gaming luminaries. Come back every weekend to read a new interview, digging into the important questions, like “How tidy is your desktop?” and “What game will you never uninstall?” Ashly Burch’s first encounter with PC gaming…
Nighthawks, the long-in-development vampire RPG due to be released later this month, is the latest game to run afoul of Steam’s increasingly stringent rules regarding adult content. According to publisher Wadjet Eye Games, the game has been labelled ‘Adults Only’—causing it to be removed from Steam search and outright delisted in certain countries like Germany—despite…