Out today on Switch. Today marks the release of Beyond the Ice Palace 2, and no, you’re not imagining things — this is a sequel the 1988 Amiga, Commodore 64, and ZX Spectrum platformer. Taking the shape of a Soulslike Metroidvania, Beyond the Ice Palace 2 sees you take up the chains of the Cursed…
After showing off how puny Tarnished are in comparison to Armored Core 6’s maps, dataminer Dropoff has now gone in the opposite direction, demonstrating some beastly-huge mechs thrashing about in comparatively tiny Elden Ring environments. This isn’t my personal holy grail of a mech one-shotting Malenia with the Red Shift, mind. Dropoff brought the Elden…
Today, The Pokémon Company International announced that the Mythical Pokémon Zarude will star in the next animated Pokémon film, “Pokémon the Movie: Secrets of the Jungle,” and the latest Pokémon Trading Card Game expansion that launched today. It will also appear in the best-selling Pokémon Sword and Pokémon Shield video games through an upcoming distribution….
The Bioscanner is a very important late-game upgrade to your trusty Scanner in Subnautica 2, since it lets you scan marine life to unlock additional Biomods. I recommend you grab it as soon as you can, as unfortunately the scans aren’t retroactive. You’ll have to find and scan any creatures you might have already catalogued….
I’ve always had a hope, ever since I was little—that I would, someday, be able to run really fast and hit a rock and break all of my bones. Okay, that’s not the exact dream, but as a mentally hyperactive kid with a strong imagination, I did spend a lot of my car journeys running…
Gear of the Year (Image credit: Future) Check out more of the year’s best tech in our PC Gamer Hardware Awards 2025 coverage. This year has been very good to us on the mouse front. We’ve not only seen some fantastic iterations on already-great designs—hello Razer DeathAdder V4 Pro—but also some genuinely new and interesting…
Sony and the Guinness World Records have announced that the PlayStation brand has been declared the best-selling home video game console brand of all-time beating both Nintendo and Microsoft. The company says that they have sold 450 million units sold across the original PlayStation, PlayStation 2, PlayStation 3, and PlayStation 4 as of the 7th…
Processors seem to be one product category, along with displays, where there are glimmers of hope for us gamers amidst the RAMpocalypse. From an Nvidia chip with good gaming performance to new handheld chips from Intel and even the promise of some Intel-Nvidia collab chips that could also be great for handhelds, there are definitely…
Welcome to Soundtrack Sunday. Each week, a member of the PC Gamer team will highlight one of their favourite soundtracks in gaming, offering a little backstory on its creation and sharing some of their favourite scores that you should be adding to your playlist. I’d argue that Final Fantasy 13 was a game the world…
As a lifelong genre aficionado, I am downright giddy at the resurgence of the side-scrolling brawler, which wouldn’t be happening without the likes of Castle Crashers and Scott Pilgrim vs. the World: The Game kicking things off many moons ago. But time is a flat circle, so new Castle Crashers DLC is coming and we’re…