After conflict between the staff of gaming site Giant Bomb and owner Fandom, ‘Giant Bomb is now owned by the people who make Giant Bomb’
In October of 2022, popular personality-led gaming site Giant Bomb was bought by Fandom, the multi-headed wiki-hosting hydra, at the same time as Fandom acquired GameSpot, Metacritic, and GameFAQs. Conflict between Fandom and the opiniated editors of Giant Bomb arose this year when the publication of new content was put on hold as part of […]
Characters from The Witcher and Five Nights at Freddy’s are joining Dead by Daylight, with a hint of The Walking Dead to follow
Asymmetric multiplayer horror game Dead by Daylight celebrated its ninth anniversary with a chonky livestream broadcast from PAX East where a screaming crowd of Dead-heads reacted to the announcements of upcoming additions and collaborations. Among them was a couple details about the previously announced Five Nights at Freddy’s collaboration, which will bring the villain of […]
PC gaming remains undefeated: Nintendo now says it has the right to brick your Switch if it thinks you’re pirating games or modifying the console
First spotted by Game File (readers may encounter a paywall), Nintendo has recently changed its online user agreement in multiple consumer-unfriendly ways just before the launch of the Switch 2. Chief among them: Nintendo asserts the right to render your console “permanently unusable” if it determines you’re in violation of the agreement. Nintendo’s specific new […]
One of the most visually stunning roguelikes just overhauled its graphics to look even gnarlier, but you can still toggle back to the OG art style at will
The gorgeous first person action-roguelike Mortal Sin recently went live with a surprising new update: A graphical overhaul with an arguably even more stunning riff on its pulp comic book art style. Fans of the original needn’t fret, though: You can toggle between the OG palette and new hotness at any time. Mortal Sin’s whole […]
Elden Ring’s upcoming update will add two new starting classes, one of them equipped with a top-tier DLC weapon it used to take dozens of hours to grab
As reported by Eurogamer, Elden Ring‘s “Tarnished Edition” GOTY re-release and update won’t just come with new weapons out in the world: It’ll have two new starting classes added to the lineup, with both harkening back to Souls characters of the past, and one of them coming equipped with the Milady Light Greatsword, a killer […]
Finally, this Kingdom Come Deliverance 2 camping mod means I’ll never have to scour Bohemia for a place to sleep again
Much as I love Kingdom Come Deliverance 2, one thing I didn’t like, at least in the early game, was bed hunting. Sleeping is the main way you save and regenerate health in Warhorse Studios’ marvellous medieval RPG, but in the game’s first area beds are rarer than groschen and good steel. Rocking up to […]
Even Starfield’s community patch modders are growing ‘disenchanted’ with the sci-fi RPG, as volunteers depart in droves: ‘If nobody comes forward, we may have to retire the project’
It would be unfair to call Starfield a terrible game, but by now it’s safe to say that Bethesda’s sci-fi RPG lacks the magic of its earlier games, particularly when compared to Skyrim and Oblivion. Indeed, the fervour around Oblivion Remastered demonstrates much of what Starfield lacks, like the ability to create a distinct, interesting […]
After a decade of development, Roboquest’s developer is calling time on its roguelite shooter: ‘There’s no way we can continue to provide content for players with over 1,000 hours of gameplay’
When I was a kid, post-launch support was a concept reserved mainly for NASA, and rarely the domain of video games. Sure, you might download the odd online patch on your 56k modem to fix particularly gnarly bugs. But that was more or less it. These days, it’s expected that games will be supported for […]
Celebrate Star Wars being good again with up to 85% off EA’s Jedi and Battlefront games until May 15
I am not typically one to celebrate Star Wars Day, partly because dedicating a day of the year to a fictional universe is the highest form of corporate nonsense, but also because being a Star Wars fan always comes with the risk of being blown up by the proton torpedo of disappointment. This year, though, […]
Today’s Wordle answer for Wednesday, April 30
Our hint for today’s Wordle is a versatile thing. Use it early on as a springboard for your own ideas, ensuring your opening guess is as good as they get. Or save it for later, when you’re feeling a bit low on spare rows and green letters. Either way, it’ll help you win—and the April […]
Wagon is a 1-bit card-based spiritual successor to survival classic The Oregon Trail, and wastes no time getting right into the cannibalism
Things could get pretty bleak in classic text adventure The Oregon Trail, with dwindling supplies, damaging storms, and hostile entities making the frontier journey a test of resource management and strategy. Dying of dysentery was only one of the risks, along with (depending on which of the many versions you played) broken limbs, typhoid, or […]
More than 19,000 NFT images briefly disappeared last week thanks to a server problem
Remember NFTs? Essentially JPEGs that cost a lot of money, non-fungible tokens were really big for a brief while among C-tier celebrities, budding criminals, and Ubisoft, until the internet was finally able to bully them out of sight and thus out of mind: Not really gone, but mostly forgotten. But a funny thing recently happened […]
Splitgate 2 open beta test kicks off in May with a ‘massive amount of new content’
The Splitgate 2 open alpha test that ran earlier this year was “very fun,” in the opinion of PC Gamer shooter pro Morgan Park, with some significant changes made based on feedback from a playtest that ran in 2024. And there’s good news if you missed it: 1047 Games announced today that a much bigger […]
‘AI is going to become more and more difficult to detect’: Fortnite has no plans to clean up increasing number of AI thumbnails cluttering up user-generated experiences
Head into Fortnite’s ever-growing library of user-generated game modes and you’ll be inundated with all kinds of AI-generated thumbnails vying for your attention. That won’t be changing anytime soon either, as Epic product management director Dan Walsh and executive vice president Saxs Persson dove into the rise of generative AI usage in Fortnite during a […]
Electronic Arts lays off hundreds of employees and cancels 2 ‘incubation projects’ including a new Titanfall game
Electronic Arts has reportedly laid off 300 and 400 people, according to a new Bloomberg report, including roughly 100 at Apex Legends studio Respawn Entertainment. Respawn has also cancelled at least two early-in-development projects, one of which was reportedly a Titanfall-based extraction shooter. “As part of our continued focus on our long-term strategic priorities, we’ve […]
Dune-inspired indie roguelike admits it kinda ran out of ideas, but releases out of early access anyway and goes 100% free: ‘Only so many things you can do that fit into the ‘lateral worm cannon’ mold’
Indie developer Emerick Gibson first released Iron Mandate on Steam early access in March 2023: a roguelike shooter loosely inspired by Dune’s sandworms, Gibson subsequently spent around a month updating the game, before seemingly abandoning the idea. Two years later Gibson returned to fully release the game, make it free of charge, and share a […]
Eric Barone says Stardew Valley was about ‘the fundamentals of human sustenance,’ while Haunted Chocolatier is about ‘what’s next’: ‘There’s another realm of the human experience’
After spending much of last year dedicated to Stardew Valley’s big 1.6 update, Eric Barone is ready to buckle down on Haunted Chocolatier. Though he’s not ready to talk too many hard details about his next game, in a recent interview with PC Gamer Barone said that what he’s interested in exploring with Haunted Chocolatier […]
After getting Stardew Valley to ‘a good place’ with update 1.6, Eric Barone is now fully focused on his next game: ‘I’m committed to not working on Stardew Valley until I’m done with Haunted Chocolatier’
Eric Barone has a problem: He wants to make his new game, Haunted Chocolatier, but he also has a deep love for his indie mega-hit Stardew Valley—and, more to the point, a seeming inability to stop working on it. It’s a tough spot alright, one he’s talked about before, but speaking to PC Gamer’s Wes […]
We Will Be Gods promises months-long PvP wars with ‘no fairness’: ‘There can be 140 people on one side and 70 on the other, and that’s how it’s going to be’
Large-scale PvP warfare leads to some of the best stories in gaming, but it takes a certain level of dedication to participate in something like war MMO Foxhole (in which players once fought for 48 hours straight and built “a religion around a corpse pile”), and getting involved in EVE Online’s shenanigans is a lifestyle […]
Today’s Wordle answer for Saturday, April 19
It’s Saturday, so why not celebrate the start of the weekend with a nice easy Wordle win? Today’s answer is here whenever you want to click on it, whether that’s before you’ve touched the first row or you’re one line away from the bottom of the board. As always, we’ve got a clue for the […]
I don’t know what I expected: Everybody’s just recreating memes in Baldur’s Gate 3’s new photo mode
Perusing the Baldur’s Gate 3 subreddit for pro gamer tips this morning (as one does), I was struck by something: It was all photo mode shitposts. The subreddit has gazed upon all Patch 8 has to offer, and summarily declared: “This is r/BaldursGate3, bitch. We clown in this mf. Better take your sensitive ass back […]
While this paleontologist doesn’t find Elden Ring’s monster designs all that realistic, he was impressed by FromSoft’s subtle storytelling and commitment to ‘speculative biology’
In the latest episode of our video series Reality Check, paleontologist Dr. Darren Naish returned to give his assessment of the monster designs in Elden Ring. While you might be unsurprised to learn that FromSoft’s opus isn’t exactly “realistic,” Naish praised the studio’s attention to detail and commitment to its fiction. Case and point: The […]
Rematch passes 100K Steam concurrents in open beta as ‘Rocket League but with feet’ turns out to be a winning idea
I’ve seen lots of attempts to recreate the success of Rocket League over the past decade, but none have come close. Rematch might finally, actually do it. The multiplayer soccer game (‘Rocket League but with feet,’ as I’m calling it here) is having an open beta on Steam this weekend, and has already surpassed 100,000 […]
Tempest Rising accidentally launched a week early on Steam, and the publisher has decided to just go with it
Base-building RTS Tempest Rising released on Steam yesterday, a full week before it was supposed to, and the publisher doesn’t see a good way out of it, so the game just has a new release date now: April 17 instead of April 24. “While the team worked quickly to address the issue, the most seamless […]
Marvel Rivals players annoyed and confused by ‘misleading’ $25 Doctor Strange skin that’s missing the coolest part when worn in-game
A gnarly new skin for Doctor Strange is causing a stir among Marvel Rival players. The $25 “Doctor Strange In The Multiverse of Madness” skin, depicting the wizard’s zombified form from the 2022 Sam Raimi film, was teased earlier this week and released today, but some customers are miffed that the in-game skin doesn’t match […]
The new trailer for The Fantastic Four: First Steps finally shows us stretchy Pedro Pascal (but only for about two seconds)
I don’t have any way to prove it, but I’d bet money (up to $11) that over at Marvel movie headquarters there’s a big whiteboard upon which a phrase has been written and circled and underlined for the past several years: How do we make Mr. Fantastic’s stretchy powers not look goofy af??? I genuinely […]
Capcom says it has ‘already taken and will continue to take action’ to ban Monster Hunter Wilds cheaters as it begins a ‘1-to-2 week review’ of the challenge quest leaderboard
Monster Hunter Wilds just finished up its first limited-time challenge quest, where hunters could compete on a worldwide leaderboard for the fastest clear time in a hunt against a Doshaguma to earn bragging rights and cosmetic rewards. Unsurprisingly, those leaderboards were quickly flooded with cheaters posting impossibly fast hunting times. Today Capcom said it’s beginning […]
The new trailer for Remedy’s co-op FPS features explosive pink goop and flying desk chairs, so it’s still looking like the silliest thing they’ve made
There’s a guy in FBC: Firebreak‘s newest trailer getting absolutely pummeled—a highlight reel shows him electrocuting himself, going blind in a blizzard of sticky notes, going blind in an actual blizzard, and screaming “I’M PINK!” as he combusts in a pile of explosive pink sludge. It seems like a pretty standard day of work, though, […]
Rebellion’s CEO says ‘it looks like we want to do more Atomfall’ but it will depend on whether the studio can ‘find the resources to do it’
Rebellion’s open world shooter Atomfall released in March among some stiff competition, landing in the same month as Hazelight’s cooperative hit Split Fiction and a week after the massively popular Assassin’s Creed Shadows. Yet according to CEO Jason Kingsley, this hasn’t stopped Atomfall from becoming a success in its own right. Indeed, Atomfall has done […]
Today’s Wordle answer for Tuesday, April 8
Polish up your daily Wordle puzzle solving with our general tips. They offer handy advice that’ll make every game that little bit easier, and help you make the most out of every letter. Pair those with our clue for the April 8 (1389) puzzle for maximum effect. Or cut to the best bit and read […]
Cops called as A Minecraft Movie sends kids into chicken jockey frenzies
The appearance of Minecraft on the big screen has apparently unbalanced the humors of the world’s youths, whose ecstatic outbursts at screenings are showering audiences with popcorn and cries of “chicken jockey!” At least two incidents have even ended with police intervention. A chicken jockey is a baby zombie riding a chicken, a rare occurrence […]
How a hardcore survival game morphed into an open world town-builder where you play as a corgi mech pilot
You wouldn’t know it by looking at Animalkind, a cozy and colorful town-builder where you play as a cute little corgi driving a mech, but it got its start in a different genre altogether. The game about building houses for a bunch of adorable forest animals was originally a hardcore survival game. I met with […]
The Netflix bump is working its magic once again, sending Devil May Cry rocketing up the Steam top sellers in a $20 franchise bundle
The Netflix boost is a phenomenon so predictable that it should qualify as legitimate economic theory. It follows a simple pattern: Netflix releases a videogame adaptation, and the people who watch it want an excuse to linger in that world, causing related game sales to spike shortly afterwards. We saw it when Henry Cavill’s Geralt […]
Schedule I gets Bleuballs in its first ‘proper patch,’ now live in Steam beta
The first “proper update” for everyone’s favorite drug-dealing simulator Schedule I is now available in a Steam beta branch, where it will stay for a day or two for testing before it goes into full release. The update comes as Schedule I faces potential trouble from Drug Dealer Simulator publisher Movie Games SA, which has […]
Assassin’s Creed Shadows’ first major update arrives tomorrow with very good news for your horse
The first “major patch” for Assassin’s Creed Shadows is set to arrive tomorrow, April 8, and along with the usual array of bug fixes and gameplay tweaks it will make a number of big changes including the ability to reset Mastery Nodes so you can experiment with different character builds, and even better (in my […]
Drug Dealer Simulator is getting review bombed for suing Schedule I, even though it hasn’t actually sued Schedule I yet
Word that Drug Dealer Simulator publisher Movie Games SA is investigating the hit drug dealer simulator Schedule I for possible copyright infringement is not going over well with gamers, who are reacting to the news in the most predictable way possible: A big ol’ review bombing campaign. Movie Games recently confirmed that it is looking […]
Path of Exile 2’s nerf-happy update has the playerbase revolting, review-bombing their baby, and scorning the developer’s promises: ‘Like reading a Blizzard post on fixing Diablo 4’
Last week saw a major patch for Path of Exile 2 that made a bewildering range of alterations to the game, with the headline message being that almost everything got nerfed. The goal was to improve the endgame experience by making it more challenging for players: but after a few days in the wild, it […]
La Quimera, the new shooter from former 4A Games Ukraine studio Reburn, will be out later this month
We won’t be waiting long for La Quimera, the sci-fi shooter set in a “fictional Latin American megalopolis” revealed less than two months ago as part of Reburn’s surprise reverse Fight Club twist. The studio announced today that its first game with the new name will be out on April 25, and ahead of that […]
The turf wars begin: Schedule I is being investigated for possible copyright infringement by the publisher of Drug Dealer Simulator
In a rather pointed example of life imitating art imitating life, Schedule I and Drug Dealer Simulator are beefing over turf—and by “beefing over turf,” I mean that Drug Dealer Simulator publisher Movie Games SA has begun an investigation into potential copyright infringement of its games by Schedule I. The investigation was first reported last […]
One of Square Enix’ most underrated PlayStation-era JRPGs just shadow dropped on Steam
Saga Frontier 2 didn’t exactly set the world on fire when it released for the original PlayStation in 2000—at least in the west—but time has treated it well. Like its predecessor, it ignores the then-ascendant move to 3D in favor of lavishly illustrated hand-drawn backgrounds and cheerful sprite work. As a result—and sure, this is […]
Studio Ghibli AI image trend floods social media, cheered on by OpenAI and denounced by critics as an insult to Hayao Miyazaki
If you’re on social media you’ve probably stumbled over some quote, clip, or screen grab from one of Studio Ghibli’s movies, but with ChatGPT’s newest update introducing its most refined image generation yet, you’re now just as likely to find an AI facsimile with a startling resemblance to the real thing. Possibly based on someone’s […]
Marvel Rivals technical designer says a future patch will reduce the shooter’s insatiable hunger for RAM: ‘It’s a very big problem’
Recent updates Update 3/28: An earlier version of this story mistakenly attributed comments to game director Guangyun Chen. The correct speaker is Marvel Rivals lead technical designer Weikang Ruan. The story has been updated to reflect the correction. Let all the modestly powerful computer owners breathe a sigh of relief. NetEase is aware that Marvel […]
An unannounced Hogwarts Legacy expansion and ‘definitive edition’ have reportedly been cancelled
A new Bloomberg report says a planned expansion for Hogwarts Legacy, as well as a “Definitive Edition” release that would’ve included the base game and the new content in a single package, have been cancelled as part of the ongoing structuring of Warner’s game business. The expansion hadn’t been formally announced, but the Definitive Edition […]
Story of Seasons is doing another Harvest Moon remake and it might be the best the series has ever looked
We’re firmly in the era of Nintendo Direct presentations having announcements relevant to PC gamers and that’s especially true when it comes to the cozy farm sim genre. This year’s harvest of pastoral sims now includes Story of Seasons: Grand Bazaar, announced with an August 27 release date during today’s Direct. Farm sim lifers will […]
Assassin’s Creed Shadows puts up the ‘second highest day-one sales revenue in Assassin’s Creed franchise history’
Ubisoft is continuing to trumpet the success of Assassin’s Creed Shadows, saying today that the game has now surpassed three million players a week after its release. The new big number comes just four days after Ubisoft said Shadows had broken the two million player mark, and points to continued growth for a game the […]
Cozy gamers rejoice: Witchbrook finally has a release window, and yes, you can fly around on a broom with your friends
Cozy games are as big as ever, with the likes of Stardew Valley maintaining their vice grip on chilling out and relaxing enthusiasts. It’s hard to imagine how the formula for an unwind-’em-up could get much more appealing, but setting things in a school for witches seems like a good start. So it goes in […]
Path of Exile 2 director isn’t worried about ARPG competition, in part thanks to seasons: ‘So long as people are willing to come back and play our game for a month four times a year, then I’m good’
When Path of Exile first emerged on the ARPG scene, it was like an oasis in the desert. Diablo 2 had long reigned as the genre go-to and Diablo 3 was still shaking off the worst aspects of its notoriously rocky launch. Over 10 years later, it’s a very different story: Diablo 4 got a […]
The biggest update since Path of Exile 2’s early access launch is coming next week, bringing a new class and a bunch of endgame changes
Grinding Gear Games has announced the Dawn of the Hunt update for Path of Exile 2. It launches on April 4, and it’s a big one: the first major content drop to hit the early access ARPG. The headline feature here is a new class—the Huntress—but GGG has also got plenty of new toys for […]
StarCraft fans taunted by the announcement of a new StarCraft… board game
StarCraft 2: Legacy of the Void was released in 2015, a fitting capstone to one of the greatest RTS games ever made. This was the final entry in the StarCraft 2 trilogy of games, which started with Wings of Liberty in 2010, and ever since then… nope, nothing. The series appears to be on hiatus […]
Deconstructeam’s next game is about training to shoot a single fireball at an impossible target
Deconstructeam, the indie studio who brought us The Red Strings Club, Gods Will Be Watching, and The Cosmic Wheel Sisterhood, has teamed up with fellow Spanish indie studio Selkie Harbor for their next game: Many Nights a Whisper. It casts us as the Dreamer, someone chosen to perform a ritual that, if performed correctly, will […]
