RPGs have the blursed task of catering to many a different type of player. You’ve got your huge story nerds who’ll go around reading every book, journal entry, and notice stuck to those little wooden boards they can. Then there’s your good old-fashioned battle-brained gamers who love all of the skills, levelling, and combat flexibility…
Ever since Forza’s first foray into open-world racing back with Horizon in 2012, it’s gone on to define the series, outpacing the original mainline Motorsport series. That’s certainly not slowing down with Forza Horizon 6, which takes the racing festival to Japan after over a decade of fan requests. I was already on board when…
The Elder Scrolls Arena launched in 1994 and, with the benefit of hindsight, you can see the beginnings of much that would come to define the series: here’s PC Gamer’s own 1994 review. It was the first game in a series that would go on to become Bethesda’s golden goose, and make the studio one…
Odds are that you didn’t just stumble across this story via the PC Gamer homepage—it’s way more likely that Google had something to do with it. Maybe Google Discover served you this story, or maybe you dove into Google search in a bid to collate all of the news you can find about various government…
Peak gaming. Sigono’s latest narrative adventure, OPUS: Prism Peak, arrived on Switch 1 and Switch 2 yesterday. And a quick look at the reviews show that this might just be one of the best games of 2026. That should be no surprise to anyone who’s played any of the OPUS games, as these are beautifully…
Earlier this week, Intel’s bean counters were buoyed by a spot of good news: Its market capitalization had pushed well past $300 billion for the first time since October 2000. Now it’s AMD’s turn to celebrate because its cap is now the highest it has ever been, since the chip giant went public back in…
Pre-orders go live next week. Boutique physical publisher Super Rare Games was revealed its first Switch 2 release: SoulGame Studio’s Minishoot’ Adventures. This will be Super Rare’s first game for the platform since Switch 2 launched back in June 2025, and they’ll be offering two versions of the game: a Standard Edition for £38.50 (which…
Category: Games April 17, 2026 7 Reasons to Get Excited for Directive 8020 on Xbox Courtney O’Connor, Senior Marketing Manager at Supermassive Games Pre-orders are now open for Directive 8020, a cinematic sci-fi survival horror game from Supermassive Games, launching May 12 on Xbox Series X|S. Want the full breakdown fast? Watch our “Everything You…
Proton—Valve’s Windows-to-Linux compatibility layer that makes so much of your Steam library work on Steam Deck and Linux desktops—got a new big number today, in the form of the first Proton 11 beta release. This one incorporates goodies from (the also recently released) Wine 11, on which Proton is based, and you might already have…
Every time I think Skyrim modders can’t show me any more, they deliver something new. Take a bow daubuoi, whose Unique Jarl Throne Sitting Animation mod fixes a problem I’d honestly never even noticed: in vanilla Skyrim, you see, there is one throne-sitting animation that is used for all jarls. Quick jargon reminder: the jarls…