We asked two parkour athletes to rate the realism of Assassin’s Creed’s acrobatics, and a surprising ‘crime against parkour’ might actually be one of the most realistic things they saw
I think the Assassin’s Creed games are how I first learned about parkour, which would probably be nails on a chalkboard to Toby Segar and Benj Cave, two actual parkour athletes with team Storror in the UK. We asked Toby and Benj to judge Assassin’s Creed’s take on the sport in the latest episode of […]
MechWarrior 5: Clans is getting DLC with playable Elementals and a fight on the outside of a spaceship
Although publisher Enad Global 7 kicked the year off by announcing that MechWarrior 5: Clans had ‘performed below expectations’ and 38 employees of its developer Piranha Games would be laid off, it is still being supported. An expansion called Ghost Bear: Flash Storm has been revealed, and it’ll be out next month. Ghost Bear: Flash […]
‘I feel worried about this art form:’ Unsurprisingly, the real Aloy from Horizon isn’t a fan of AI Aloy
Voice actor Ashly Burch, known for her role as Aloy in Horizon Zero Dawn and Horizon Forbidden West, shared her response to a controversial AI tech demo of her character leaked last week and, unsurprisingly, it has her worried about the future of the gaming industry. Burch explained in a TikTok video, “Gorilla reached out […]
REPO’s first update will add a new map and a ‘duck bucket’ so we can finally give that pesky quacker a time out
REPO is already getting its first update and it includes the feature we all need most: a way to stop that duck from sabotaging our team. On Friday, REPO’s dev team shared an early look at the viral horror game‘s first update since its early access release in February. While there’s no release date for […]
Today’s Wordle answer for Sunday, March 16
However you want to win Sunday’s Wordle, we can make it happen. Take it nice and slow with our helpful tips and our hint for today’s Wordle, tailored to give you enough direction to help, without spoiling all your puzzle solving fun. Or go grab yourself a win whenever you want with the March 16 […]
The Day Before studio reportedly sues Russian website for calling infamous disaster-game a ‘scam’
First reported by 80 Level, The Day Before studio Fntastic has reportedly sued Russian news site Yakutia.info, which is based in Fntastic’s founders’ home region of Yakutia in Siberia. The suit claims Yakutia.info damaged Fntastic’s reputation by referring to the company’s behavior surrounding The Day Before as a “scam.” The news comes from Yakutia.info itself, […]
The best Battlefield game of the last decade is 95% off until Thursday
Steam’s spring sale has officially sprung, bringing an array of mighty discounts like Doom 2016 for less than two dollars, and Undertale for less than one. But the best discount by raw percentage is delivered by EA, which offers multiplayer shooter Battlefield 1 for a whopping 95% off. Released in 2016, Battlefield 1 has largely […]
The hottest farming sim since Stardew Valley just got its second major update, adding lava caves and pets you unlock by having a ‘pet dream’
Throwback farming sim Fields of Mistria proved pretty darn popular when it launched into Steam early access late last year, with over 16,000 reviewers showering it with ‘Overwhelmingly Positive’ praise. It was likewise well received in PC Gamer’s own little agrarian community, with associate editor Lauren Morton selecting it as her personal pick for 2024’s […]
Grab the brilliant Doom 2016 for its lowest price ever
Doom 2016 is less than two dollars. Id’s superb reboot of its own 1993 FPS is currently available at a 90% discount thanks to Steam’s spring sale. With a current RRP of £15.99/$19.99 that discount brings the price down to £1.59 in the UK, or as I have already stated numerous times, less than two […]
A demo for a lost videogame based on George Orwell’s 1984 has emerged from the memory hole
In 1996, a US studio called MediaX began working on a videogame inspired by George Orwell’s 1984. It was called Big Brother, and you played a member of the resistance called Eric Blair (which was Orwell’s real name), breaking into and sabotaging government installations across 12 levels with hundreds of puzzles. Yes, they were turning […]
Firaxis says it’s ‘entering our Sukritact Age’ as it hires popular modder to work on Civilization 7
It’s fair to say that the release of Civilization 7 has not gone quite according to plan. It’s good but not great, and the resulting letdown—people expect big things from new Civ games—has manifested in a straight 50/50 split between positive and negative user ratings on Steam and concurrent player numbers that continue to lag […]
The thing I’m most excited about in Assassin’s Creed Shadows is my hideout: ‘a little over one acre of fully customizable land’ to build on, decorate, and fill with pettable baby deer
Morgan has played six hours of Assassin’s Creed Shadows and officially announced he’s excited for it: his preview in January made “a fantastic first impression.” I haven’t gotten my hands on Ubisoft‘s next stabby stealth game yet, but as of today I’m extremely interested in one particular aspect of it: building and managing my base, […]
The Hand of Fate devs are back with a bullet heaven called Hordes of Fate
Bullet heaven is what we’re apparently calling the Vampire Survivors-like genre, because the only decent competing name was “auto shooter survival” and unfortunately the acronym for that is “ass”. Spitfire Interactive, the developers of Hordes of Fate, are splitting the difference with “bullet heaven auto shooter”, but you know what kind of game it is: […]
Cities: Skylines 2’s asset editor remains a distant dream: Colossal Order is still working on it but says it’s ‘proven more technically challenging than initially anticipated’
Colossal Order said in November 2024 that an update on the long-awaited Cities: Skylines 2 asset editor would be shared “once the remaining issues are ironed out.” As it turns out, that promise was a bit off the mark: The studio posted an update on the asset editor today, and those remaining issues remained unironed. […]
Ubisoft reveals Assassin’s Creed Shadows preload and unlock times
In what I think we can all take as final confirmation that Assassin’s Creed Shadows is not going to be hit with one more super-last-second delay, Ubisoft has revealed a somewhat complicated rundown of the game’s global preload and unlock times. The preload times are simple enough: If you’re on Xbox Series X/S, you can […]
Epic’s war against the Fortnite fraudsters sees it simultaneously name and shame alleged ne’er-do-wells as its high-powered lawyers sue them
Epic Games has announced it is suing an individual from Illinois, named in its suit as one Isaac Strock, for allegedly stealing hundreds of Fortnite accounts which he then re-sold through Telegram. An anti-cheat update from Epic links to the suit, filed on February 27, in which it alleges that Strock obtained access to the […]
The Witcher show finally adds a character exclusive to the games, too bad he’s ‘exceptionally loathsome and arrogant’
We don’t talk about The Witcher on Netflix as much as we used to—the air’s gone out of it a little bit, I think, although I hold out hope that Liam Hemsworth’s debut in the title role will rejuvenate it—but this is interesting enough to be notable: According to Witcher fan site Redanian Intelligence, actor […]
Looks like we won’t be seeing Western Digital SSDs in our gaming PCs as the company hands the reins back over to SanDisk
Western Digital (WD) is one of the most recognisable brands for both SSDs and hard drives, alongside Samsung and Crucial. So it’s no small thing that you might not see WD SSDs for much longer, as the company will no longer make or sell them. That’s because, after a long time in the works, last […]
Early backers of game decry ‘bait and switch’ after it backtracks on monetisation promises, dev chooses to stir the pot: ‘Seeing Reddit lose it today lets me breathe a huge sigh of relief’
The Bazaar, after seven long years, is finally entering into open beta with a F2P package—and it’s, uh, not going great. Here’s the rub: In a recent video going over patch 0.1.8’s notes, it was revealed that the autobattler would be receiving a “prize pass”—a battlepass-style earn-via-playing system which’ll allow players to grind 10-card expansions […]
Magic: The Gathering’s last set for 2025 will be Avatar: The Last Airbender
This year’s preview panel at MagicCon Chicago showcased a bunch of cards from the upcoming Tarkir: Dragonstorm set, as well as from Edge of Eternities. But tucked away at the end was a little treat for fans of the Universes Beyond crossovers—the announcement of an Avatar: The Last Airbender set, due in November this year. […]
Void Martyrs is ‘Grimdark survival horror about a nun in a space suit’ so sign me up
Do you like the Sisters of Battle from Warhammer 40,000? How about the birdseye sci-fi survival horror of Signalis? The roguelite progression of Void Bastards? The whole vibe of Event Horizon? If at least three of those things seem like your cup of recaf, then sit down and let me tell you about Void Martyrs. […]
$1.5 billion crypto heist could be the biggest yet, more than doubling the previous record, but don’t worry: The affected firm says it can take the hit
As reported by the BBC, Dubai-based crypto firm Bybit is down $1.5 billion in Ethereum after hackers compromised its digital wallet. If the hackers successfully make off with the dough, that would make this the largest single crypto heist ever, more than doubling the previous record holder’s ill-gotten gains. Bybit has not fully disclosed how […]
There’s a free beta on for the mech game by the World of Tanks creators
As part of a Steam Publisher Weekend, World of Tanks and World of Warships developer Wargaming is having a playtest of Steel Hunters, its upcoming fusion of mech-hero shooter with extraction battle royale. The four-day beta is going until February 24, and is free to participate in via Wargaming’s website or on Steam. A community-wide […]
Avowed could have been Obsidian’s Redfall, with a Destiny plus Skyrim co-op multiplayer vision scrapped early in a grueling 6-year development
In a recent interview with Bloomberg, Avowed director Carrie Patel shed some more light on what seems to have been a challenging development cycle for the venerable RPG studio. Not only was Avowed initially supposed to be a seamless open world, it was going to have a co-op or even live service multiplayer component, and […]
An autobattler designed by Magic: The Gathering creator Richard Garfield is coming in March
The latest game from Magic: The Gathering designer Richard Garfield is coming to early access on March 11, says development studio The Tea Division. Vanguard Exiles is a collaboration between Garfield and the studio, an autobattler that it says is “revolutionary” in the genre and will be “a competitive strategy gameplay experience unlike any other, […]
There’s gonna be a 1 vs many board game based on 2001: A Space Odyssey
Much-loved Stanley Kubrick film 2001: A Space Odyssey is getting a new tie-in board game where one player, as HAL 9000, tries to kill everyone else as they scramble around a spaceship trying, desperately, to turn off their very badly-behaved PC. It’s perhaps the third most famous aspect of 2001, right behind monkeys killing each […]
Skyrim was ‘personally rebalanced’ by producer Jeff Gardiner just 2 weeks before launch: ‘Well, I hope this is good’
Skyrim was getting ready to launch—it was mere weeks away—but former Bethesda producer Jeff Gardiner and the designers were in the midst of a disagreement over balance. This led Gardiner, who also had years of creative and design experience, to take matters into his own hands. “I had this fight with the designers at the […]
Atomfall dev says Rebellion’s open world shooter has ‘some experimental stuff’ that can have a ‘huge influence’ on the game world: ‘It might work out. It might not’
Rebellion’s upcoming Atomfall already draws strong comparisons with Stalker, what with it being an open-world shooter set in a cordoned off zone in the aftermath of a nuclear disaster. But it seems the latest game from the Sniper Elite devs may also be taking a leaf out of Dying Light 2’s book, if the words […]
Need to relax? Grab a coffee, kick back and submerge yourself in the sound of Hades 2’s narrator reading the patch notes for its latest massive update
While I need little extra motivation to read patch notes, bugfix sicko that I am, I admire the additional effort Supergiant has gone to in guiding players through Hades 2’s second major update. Not content with throwing the update’s voluminous changelog on Steam (though it’s done that too), Supergiant enlisted Hades 2’s narrator Logan Cunningham […]
There are already Civilization 7 mods that improve the UI, unlock all civs, and add ‘ludicrous’-sized maps
Civilization 7 is officially here, and with it comes (at least for now) a “Mixed” review status on Steam and a lot of complaints about the 4X strategy’s UI. While we’re keeping up with all the latest Civ 7 news and developments, the community has been busy too: the first Civ 7 mods have arrived […]
Palmer Luckey says he wants to ‘turn warfighters into technomancers’ as Anduril takes over production of the US Army’s IVAS AR headset from Microsoft
Microsoft has announced that it is getting out of the Kill-O-Vision headset business, more formally known as the US Army’s Integrated Visual Augmentation System (IVAS) program. While the company’s “advanced cloud infrastructure and AI capabilities will continue to provide a robust backbone for the program,” responsibility for actually making the headsets and the software that […]
To make its fantasy extraction game, this studio of ex-Blizzard devs had to teach itself the art of third-person combat design: ‘There’s a science to how those are built’
Late last year, I played in a closed alpha playtest of Legacy: Steel & Sorcery, an upcoming extraction game pairing World of Warcraft-style high fantasy with third-person action combat. Over a couple of hours, I got an early taste of stringing together longbow headshots on skeletons, smashing wolves with maces, and panicked escapes as a […]
Here’s our first look at Karl Urban in Mortal Kombat 2 as ‘Johnny ******* Cage’
As Benjamin Franklin famously wrote in a letter to Jean-Baptiste Le Roy in 1789, “In this world nothing can be said to be certain except death, taxes, and a bunch of Mortal Kombat reboots.” Benny Franks (as he was commonly called around the Continental Congress) wasn’t wrong: The Mortal Kombat game series has been rebooted […]
Karlach voice actor offers a pre-emptive no thanks to Disco Elysium successors that don’t include the original project lead: ‘Miss me with that casting call’
The post-Disco Elysium world we live in is… complicated. Following the release of one of the biggest and most acclaimed RPGs to come along in years, developer ZA/UM imploded, and left its wake are splinters of the shell, each claiming they’re making a Disco Elysium “spiritual successor” and putting in some real effort to discredit […]
Doug Cockle says that playing Geralt again is like ‘slipping into a warm bath’: the voice is ‘part of me now’
Doug Cockle is your favorite Geralt’s favorite Geralt. He’s been Mr. Rivia’s voice in all three of CD Projekt Red’s Witcher games and some spinoffs, becoming iconic enough through the trilogy that when Netflix’s first live action show was getting ready to air, then star Henry Cavill said he’d accidentally imitated Cockle’s version of Geralt […]
2 years into Unity’s long downward spiral, even more employees are being laid off as CEO says it’s still ‘stretched across too many products’
A year after laying off 25% of its workforce in what it called “a company reset,” engine maker Unity has reportedly put even more people out of work. The layoffs were reported by multiple Unity employees on LinkedIn (via Game Developer) and while the number of people let go is currently unknown, a post on […]
The best Far Cry game of all time now has achievements on Steam
Ubisoft‘s return to Steam has continued slowly but surely since September 2024, when the company finally decided that enough was enough and it was time to start selling games where people actually want to buy them. That means day-one releases on Steam, which is a big deal in its own right, but Ubisoft has been […]
The unwelcome workaround for Nvidia’s RTX 50-series black screen issues is to hobble your gaming monitor with a 60 Hz refresh rate
During all of my initial review testing and overclocking of the RTX 5090 and RTX 5080 graphics cards, I had no issues with the black screening problem that we’ve seen cropping up in various forums and Reddit threads. My Founders Edition cards have worked beautifully and not once set fire to the wooden cabin tinderbox […]
With great self-awareness WinRAR releases official $150 merch: ‘What better way to support the software you’ve NEVER paid for than by buying a WinRAR bag?’
WinRAR, the compression and encryption software known for having a paid version that many users deftly dodge, has put out flashy new merch including a messenger bag modelled after its iconic logo. For $150, you can get some of the geekiest (and most fun) merch I’ve seen this year. In an announcement tweet that has […]
Drone operator who damaged LA firefighting plane was Peter Akemann, who co-founded Treyarch back in the ’90s
As firefighters struggled to contain the devastating Palisades Fire in Los Angeles in early January, someone wanted a bird’s eye view, and ended up hitting a Super Scooper firefighting aircraft with their DJI Mini 3 Pro drone. That someone has now been identified as Peter Tripp Akemann—and both SF Gate and The Hollywood Reporter have […]
‘It may seem like a whole new game’: One of my favorite medieval city builders just got a huge update with a ton of new features
It’s been a long road for medieval city builder Foundation, but after six years it’s just launched out of early access and into version 1.0. I first tried it out in 2019, and it quickly became one of my favorites, a beautiful and chill builder that I return to every so often to see what’s […]
YouTube’s explanation for why Dr Disrespect can start making money on his channel again doesn’t add up
Seven months after demonetizing Dr Disrespect’s channel over his admission of inappropriate communications with a minor, YouTube has decided that Guy Beahm, better known as the streamer Dr Disrespect, has served his penance and can start monetizing his videos again. After multiple sources reported the change in direction, Beahm himself triumphantly announced the remonetization in […]
Fallout: New Vegas lead writer returns to Obsidian after leaving 14 years ago, but before you ask, no, ‘It’s not FNV2’
14 years after leaving Obsidian Entertainment to ply his trade on games including Guardians of Middle-earth, Horizon Zero Dawn, and Horizon Forbidden West, Fallout: New Vegas creative design lead John Gonzalez has returned. But don’t get too excited, New Vegas fans, because he says it’s not for New Vegas 2. “I’m happy to share that […]
Baldur’s Gate 3 Patch 8 testers are whispering that a previously mediocre subclass is now an S-tier war god of infinite thunder smites, but there’s no way it can last
Baldur’s Gate 3’s upcoming deluge of new subclasses is practically as exciting as all the entirely new games we’re about to get in February, and we’re starting to get reports trickling in from loose-lipped Patch 8 stress testers about how those new subclasses work in action. One thing that really stands out to me among […]
Elder Scrolls voice actor Wes Johnson shares message of thanks after waking from coma to $175K GoFundMe: ‘I love you all. I’m not going anywhere’
Wes Johnson, the actor whose voice permeates Bethesda’s RPGs like The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion, Fallout 3 and Skyrim, has addressed fans and friends as he recovers from being found “barely alive” in his hotel room last week. The actor had travelled to Atlanta, where he was scheduled to host a benefit event for the […]
‘Dragon Age isn’t dead because it’s yours now,’ former BioWare writer reassures fans: ‘EA/BioWare owns the IP but you can’t own an idea’
Dragon Age appears to have reached the end of the road, at least for now. Despite the largely positive reception, sales of Dragon Age: The Veilguard didn’t meet C-suite expectations, the game’s most recent update appears to be its last, and developers at BioWare have been scattered to the four winds as the studio focuses […]
Truly the dumbest timeline: Mexican president formally requests Google Maps does not re-name the Gulf of Mexico, jokes about renaming North America ‘América Mexicana’
It is one of life’s truisms that, whenever you see something and think “this couldn’t possibly get any dumber”, it will then proceed to astound and amaze you with just how god damn dumb it can get. Today’s exhibit A is US President Donald Trump’s idea that the Gulf of Mexico, an enormous body of […]
Hello Kitty Island Adventure warns players coming from ‘other cozy games’ not to do that cheat-y time travel stuff or risk corrupting their save files
Hello Kitty Island Adventure arrived this week as the newest and cutest in the genre of ‘games where you’re stuck on an island with those licensed property characters you love’ but hold your darn Turfys just a minute. HKIA has kicked off its PC launch with a warning that bringing your cheater-pants system date changing […]
The new game from the Blasphemous devs is like if Commandos was a metroidvania set in a Spanish monastery, and also the Green Beret kept losing his mind
Do you have any of those games it feels like only you remember? For me, it’s Prisoner of War, a third-person stealth/adventure thing on the original Xbox that saw you play a captured WW2 pilot trying to break out of prisons like Stalag Luft and Colditz. It had some neat ideas for 2002: the prison […]
‘You’re not supposed to say this out loud!’: Baldur’s Gate 3 dev reacts to analyst who says some game makers ‘hope’ Grand Theft Auto 6 will cost up to $100 at launch
Larian head of publishing Michael Douse warned that game companies are saying the quiet part out loud after industry analyst Michael Ball wrote that some of them are hoping Grand Theft Auto 6 will launch with a price of at least $80, and possibly as high as $100. The remark came in Ball’s “State of […]
