Capture the flag is my favorite shooter mode—shoutout to Quake 2 CTF—and who knew that I’d find kindred spirits in Mac and Dan Reynolds, respectively the manager and lead singer of pop rock band Imagine Dragons? At Summer Game Fest today, the Reynolds (who are brothers) and their new studio Night Street Games announced Last…
Hey guys! Nick here, a game designer from Grinding Gear Games. We’ve just launched Delirium, our latest expansion and challenge league for Path of Exile. In the Delirium challenge league, players encounter shimmering illusions throughout the world which, when approached, release a rush of flowing mist. The mist moves outwards, and if you can keep…
I do not envy PC game developers—any videogame that actually releases at all is a miracle, the result of the combined work of (in the case of big studios) hundreds of people to convince a fancy rock to not only think, but to run an entire simulated world on hardware they cannot predict. Battlefield 6‘s…
Now that’s sweet. We are mere hours away from The Game Awards 2025, where we’ll finally learn which of this year’s nominees will walk away with the coveted GOTY trophy. Hades II is one of the six games up for the grand prize, and before the ceremony can get underway, developer Supergiant Games has shared…
The progenitor MOBAs—RTS mods like Aeon of Strife and Defense of the Ancients—had something sensational on their hands, but it took awhile for the whole thing to catch on. In 2010, before League of Legends and Dota 2 had become the esports institutions they are now, there was Heroes of Newerth. Before it shut down…
Ninja Five-O was originally released back in 2003. Yesterday, the video game publisher Limited Run Games revealed at IGN FanFest that it is planning to bring the rare and highly sought-after Game Boy Advance title Ninja Five-O (otherwise known as Ninja Cop) to the Nintendo Switch, PS4, and PS5. The game was originally developed by…
Low frills, low price headset The iPhone 6s isn’t the only piece of tech gear coming out tomorrow (September 25, 2015), so is Turtle Beach’s new Ear Force Recon 50 series, which is a new line of headsets for PC (Recon 50), Xbox One (Recon 50X), and PlayStation 4 (Recon 50P). Turtle Beach didn’t go…
More quizzes! (Image credit: Larian Studios, PC Gamer) Want to keep testing your knowledge of gaming trivia? We’ve got loads more PC Gamer quizzes, on everything from healthbars to weird currencies to absurd patch notes. My first job covering videogames was a mid-2000s internship at a website dedicated to cheat codes, tips, and walkthroughs. My…
Those of us at Hopoo Games and Gearbox Publishing are stoked out of our minds to surprise launch Risk of Rain 2 today on PS4. If you’re hearing about Risk of Rain 2 for the first time, let’s play a little catch up! Way back in the halcyon days of 2013, Risk of Rain dropped,…
*whispers* Go for a Tetris. Few video games can lay claim to having such enormous influence on both gamers and the industry at large as Tetris. All who played Alexey Pajitnov’s block-falling puzzler fell for its elegant design and Nintendo in particular harnessed its addictiveness to great effect as a pack-in title that made ‘Game…