“It’s my wits against the person who’s going to be playing it”. We’ve recently witnessed the arrival of the excellent Head Over Heels sequel Return to Blacktooth, a title which has taken its developer, Colin Porch, 37 years to complete. Porch has been speaking to British television network ITV about how the project was revived,…
Weird Weekend Weird Weekend is our regular Saturday column where we celebrate PC gaming oddities: peculiar games, strange bits of trivia, forgotten history. Pop back every weekend to find out what Jeremy, Josh and Rick have become obsessed with this time, whether it’s the canon height of Thief’s Garrett or that time someone in the…
Nintendo has announced that Jump Rope Challenge players have jumped 2,500,000 times. To mark the occasion, Nintendo says that “the free download will be available until further notice and will not be removed from Nintendo Switch eShop on September 30th”. Their official tweet about the matter is down below.
Hey Xbox Insiders! We are releasing a new Xbox App for Windows build to Xbox Insiders who are enrolled in the PC Gaming Insiders preview! This is the first 2312 build released! Thank you all for being Xbox Insiders. Continue read to learn about fixes and known issues. Make sure that you update the Xbox…
There’s still plenty of life left in Nintendo’s hybrid system. The Switch has smashed all sorts of records but one thing it hasn’t done just yet is surpassed the lifetime sales of the PlayStation 2. While it was assumed at one point the hybrid system only needed to shift another 15 million units to surpass…
Despite months of corporate acrimony, Subnautica 2 got a firm release date today. The most-wishlisted game on Steam will launch on May 14, and even if you don’t plan to play it, you might want to follow the narrative of what has turned out to be one of the most controversial launches of 2026. Which…
Repo’s Monster Update—that’s literally what it’s called, unless you want to roll with the far more snooze-inducing v0.3.0—is now live on Steam. As promised it’s a big one, with new upgrades, valuables, rooms to explore, and enemies to deal with—and, as PC Gamer’s very own Repo man Lincoln Carter is especially excited about, “butt physics.”…
It’s easy to get lightly obsessed with upgrading PC gaming hardware, but if Linux developer Linus Torvalds is still on an old card, maybe I don’t need that RTX 50-series GPU just yet. As spotted by Phoronix, Linus Torvalds is still rocking an AMD Radeon RX 580 GPU in their rig, alongside an Intel i9…
I’ve done plenty of yapping about Haru Urara this week, the beloved Japanese racehorse who lost every single one of her 113 career races. Both the real Haru Urara and her anime counterpart in Umamusume: Pretty Derby have been feeling all of the love since the game launched an English version in June, introducing her…
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