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- 1.Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang tells Trump he agrees the AI doomsayers are perpetrating a hoax: 'you saw through all of that'Jacob Fox · There's been a lot of talk about AI 'slowdown' over the last few days, since Anthropic's CEO Dario Amodei said the industry needs to slow down to allow for better safety measures to be implemented, wi
- 2.Dishonored director Harvey Smith thinks there's still room for big-budget immersive sims: 'When it really comes together and it has the budget behind it and the team, you end up with Deus Ex or Dishonored'Fraser Brown · Should immersive sims rein in their budgets? Thief designer Randy Smith Evergreen thinks so. We chatted to him last month, where he said a lot of immersive sims are in "an arms race to be bigger and b
- 3.Admitting the OGL fiasco was a 'rug pull', D&D head says 'bluntly, we're recovering from a lot of missteps—very loud, very public missteps'harvey.randall@futurenet.com (Harvey Randall) · Dungeons & Dragons has had a rough handful of years. A new version of the Open Game Licence (OGL) leaked in 2023 , portending doom for independent creators and giving Wizards of the Coast a licence to
- 4.The Steam Deck 2 has 'not really' been impacted by the memory supply crisis, with Valve still focused on a 'very delineated performance improvement' for its next handheldJess Kinghorn · With the release of the new Steam Controller , the Steam Machine , and now the Steam Frame VR headset, this year has been chock-full of Valve hardware releases. So, what could possibly be next—the Ste
- 5.Here's the Aniimo release time for your regionSean Martin · The Aniimo release time is almost here, unveiling the world of Idyll and its many creatures for you to catch. This game certainly seems to be trying to tap into that Palworld vein of an open world fil
- 6.Arc Raiders Expeditions may not come back: 'Maybe we'll scrap the whole system'andy.chalk@pcgamer.com (Andy Chalk) · Embark Studios announced a "pause" on Expeditions in Arc Raiders until early 2027 so it can rework the system to address longstanding issues and complaints that can't be handled with "incremental fixe
- 7.After nearly a year of silence following its last-minute delay, Kingmakers resurfaces with an extended gameplay video and new playtestandy.chalk@pcgamer.com (Andy Chalk) · It's been just about a year since Kingmakers , the game about bringing a gun to a knife fight, was delayed just ahead of its planned launch , and we've heard nothing about it since. Today developer Re
- 8.Wardogs players are actively avoiding one team in particular: 'They are literally the dumbest people on the planet'morgan.park@futurenet.com (Morgan Park) · Last night, a buddy and I were stuck on the team selection screen in Wardogs. Manticore (Green) and Valkyra (Red) were 100% full, but Lonestar (Blue) had plenty of vacancies. Yet, there we sat—locked
- 9.The Steam Frame launches during one of the slowest periods for VR on Steam, but Valve hopes to 'rekindle the excitement' for PCVRJacob Ridley · There was a time when VR was pretty much exclusive to the PC. I'm talking about when the HTC Vive and Oculus Rift were the pinnacle of technology, circa 2016. I have very fond memories of those two he
- 10.Bungie delays next Marathon update and ends 'strict seasonal schedule' as it goes all-in on Destiny-like featuresandy.chalk@pcgamer.com (Andy Chalk) · Bungie is changing how it updates Marathon going forward, saying it is "moving away from a strict seasonal schedule to give the team more flexibility to build, test, and improve features before releas
- 11.Valve had next-gen VR 'headsets ready three, four years ago and they were big, bulky devices' but went back to the drawing board after actually putting them ondave.james@futurenet.com (Dave James) · The Steam Frame is here and it's one of the best VR headsets I've ever had attached to my face, just don't ask me about the price. But when we spoke to two of the people at Valve who helped create the
- 12.Lies of P publisher files trademark for likely sequel 'Wonders of O'ted.litchfield@futurenet.com (Ted Litchfield) · First reported by Phrasemaker , Lies of P publisher Neowiz has filed an EU trademark for something called "Wonders of O" categorized as, among other, similar things, a bit of "virtual reality game sof
- 13.Forget GTA 6, I have brought GTA 5 closer to being the true greatest game of all time: Hulk – Ultimate Destructionjoshua.wolens@futurenet.com (Joshua Wolens) · Los Santos Customs I'm modding GTA 5 every day in a quest to either transform it into a PC version of GTA 6 or break it entirely. Come back tomorrow to find out what new horrible thing I've done to Ro
- 14.Valve targeted a lower price for the Steam Frame, then the memory crisis happened: 'I wish we could have shipped it at the price that we were at last year'Jacob Ridley · After many years of waiting and a few false starts over on Reddit , the Steam Frame is finally here. We even have a price for the virtual reality headset, which is set to ship imminently to customers.
- 15.Valve working on Steam Frame strap that adds Index-like speakers and hot-swappable batteries, 'coming soon'Jacob Ridley · The Valve Index might be outdated in many ways today, but it still holds a special place in my heart for its excellent audio solution: twin speakers that deliver impressive spatial properties without
- 16.Steam Frame reviewJacob Ridley · The Steam Frame is a great way to game in virtual reality. I've been testing it for three weeks and I've played more VR games in that time than I have in many months. That's because, above all else, i
- 17.Steam Frame starts at $1,059 and you'll want to enter the stock lottery before September 17 for a higher chance of getting one this yearJacob Ridley · The Steam Frame is ready for launch, and Valve has finally announced pricing and availability for its streaming/standalone VR headset. There are two models of the Steam Frame available: Steam Frame (2
- 18.Someone made a copper gaming PC Frankensteined out of an old blowtorch and other assorted parts and is 'just going to let it tarnish over time'Jacob Fox · Custom Copper 9070xt, 9800x3d Build from r/pcmasterrace There's being into PC hardware and then there's crafting a glorious custom loop. Every time I see the latter I'm hit with a pang of jealousy, an
- 19.YouTuber gets classic Tomb Raider running on a chip that sips a mere 1 W of powerJess Kinghorn · Modern PC gaming may not be the most energy efficient hobby. Even as someone who would sooner play yesteryear's favourite over this month's shiniest new game, I dread to think just how much smaller my
- 20.Sombra's change to Support is the right move, but I fear some Overwatch players may take time to adjustElie Gould · No one knows how to haunt the narrative quite like Overwatch's two misfits, Roadhog and Sombra. When these heroes are strong the game sucks for everyone else, but when they're nerfed for the sake of e
- 21.The RAMpocalypse support groupdave.james@futurenet.com (Dave James) · It's rough out there, trust me, we know. And there are few signs that things are improving, in fact all the noise from across the globe, from almost every memory company and chip producer, is that it'
- 22.Redfall co-director Harvey Smith thinks Arkane 'never should have been working on a games-as-a-service game'Fraser Brown · "That was a game that did not come together, and we never should have been working on a games-as-a-service game, to be honest," says Harvey Smith, former creative director at Arkane Austin, now CEO of
- 23.That Last of Us 2 multiplayer mod everyone was looking forward to has been killed by Sonyandy.chalk@pcgamer.com (Andy Chalk) · Just a couple months after hitting " quite a big milestone " on its way toward a planned release in September, a multiplayer mod for The Last of Us Part 2 has been scrapped thanks to a cease-and-desis
- 24.World of Warcraft: Forever will get a hardcore mode by winter, say devs—which'll be interesting, given all the new and undiscovered ways to dieharvey.randall@futurenet.com (Harvey Randall) · World of Warcraft : Forever, in case you missed the wild news that came out of BlizzCon over the weekend, is essentially Classic+. A reimagining of vanilla WoW with updated talent trees, new raids and
- 25.Overwatch's newest hero is yet another example of how Team 4 is on a generational runElie Gould · The last time an Overwatch hero captured my heart like this, I ended up maining an old sniper for almost a decade, so I think I'll be seeing a hell of a lot of Overwatch's newest hero: Doctrine. Unvei
- 26.Thief designer Randy Smith Evergreen refused to work for Xbox because it would be like 'walking past some stakes with human skulls on them' and pretending 'it's probably fine in this direction'Jeremy Peel · Randy Smith Evergreen had been pitching the idea to publishers for a while. A nonviolent RPG, in tune with the values of the Looking Glass games he worked on in the '90s, about a young American woman
- 27.Talent calculators have already been assembled for World of Warcraft: Forever, and there's some real interesting stuff in hereharvey.randall@futurenet.com (Harvey Randall) · World of Warcraft has a long-standing tradition of datamining and min-maxing. So it should come as no surprise that, despite only just being shown at Blizzcon, World of Warcraft: Forever now already h
- 28.We tested the simple Windows 11 account bypass and it works. Just no-one tell MicrosoftJess Kinghorn · For security reasons, a Microsoft account is required to set up a fresh installation of Windows 11—unless you exploit this one weird oversight. After navigating through the usual setup screens for a f
- 29.World of Warcraft: Forever devs say a direct sequel like Guild Wars 2 is unlikely: 'Why would you throw that away and start over?'harvey.randall@futurenet.com (Harvey Randall) · World of Warcraft: Forever looks—well, pretty interesting, all told. Rather than just being a Season of Discovery-style reimagining of Classic, Forever promises to be a full-on remake of classic-era W
- 30.Diablo 5 will fully support multiplayer, but Blizzard won't say how similar to Diablo 4 it'll beTyler Colp · Diablo 5 may be set in a lonely world ravaged by a demon lord, but you'll still be able to team up with your friends like in previous Diablo games. Senior game director Joe Shely confirmed that Diablo
- 31.Cyberpunk 2077 is coming to Battle.net for some reason, and Geralt will be in Diablo 4Jody Macgregor · Wouldn't it be nice if more of Blizzard's classic games were available on Steam? People could easily play them on their Steam Decks! But no, that's not happening. Instead, we're getting Cyberpunk 2077
- 32.10 big World of Warcraft Forever details from BlizzCon: No separate realms, optional transmog, and massively improved itemsTyler Colp · World of Warcraft Forever might be stuck in the first year of the MMO for the foreseeable future, but it's going to draw from future iterations of it to freshen up the experience. Blizzard held a pane
- 33.Warcraft 3: Reforged adds always-online requirement, removes LAN modeted.litchfield@futurenet.com (Ted Litchfield) · Warcraft 3: Reforged got a hefty 3.0 patch alongside its new Forsaken Kingdom expansion , but not all of the changes are for the better. Amid bugfixes and new features, Reforged now requires an intern
- 34.World of Warcraft Forever hype dampened by $30 elves: New Skyborne race locked behind expansion-tier purchaseted.litchfield@futurenet.com (Ted Litchfield) · As noted by MMORPG.com , World of Warcraft: Forever is coming with a peculiar economic proposition: Most of the new fork of the MMO is included in your normal WoW subscription (rad), but the new Skybo
- 35.StarCraft is a narrative-driven shooter with 'a definitive ending' and 'not a seasonal game'tyler@pcgamer.com (Tyler Wilde) · Following the announcement of a new StarCraft game at BlizzCon's Opening Ceremony, GM and creative director Dan Hay (best known for Far Cry 3-6) spoke to Korean media about the open-world shooter. Bas
- 36.Discussing 20 years of Company of Heroes with the team carrying its torch into the futureLeana Hafer · I still remember the PC Gamer cover from October 2006 featuring Company of Heroes as the vanguard of the "RTS Revolution." This was back in the day that I would walk down to the local grocery store to
- 37.Fallout dev Tim Cain says the games industry's volatility is 'always gonna be around': 'What's happening now isn't novel, it isn't new'Justin Wagner · I don't know if you've noticed, but the games industry kind of sucks . Despite (and because of) the absurd amount of money games rake in, there's an ungodly degree of consolidation , the RAMpocalypse
- 38.YouTuber runs onto the stage at Roblox Developers Conference shouting 'We deserve better,' gets tackled and ejected from showJustin Wagner · Over the last few days, Roblox's 2026 Developers Conference was held in San Jose, California, and one of Roblox CEO David Baszucki's on-stage introduction's hit something of a hitch. Roblox YouTuber M
- 39.My favourite soundtrack of 2026 so far is tucked in one of this year's biggest sleeper hitsMollie Taylor · Critical Hit (Image credit: Future) Welcome to Critical Hit , where I (or someone else on the PC Gamer team) celebrate and lament all things videogame music, audio design, and the ways our favourite g
- 40.I've got a soft spot for cozy games with flying in them and these are my 4 favoriteslauren@pcgamer.com (Lauren Morton) · I lobbied to make Promise Mascot Agency the best cozy game in our 2025 Game of the Year awards, which means I'm only ( checks calendar ) a little late in getting it added to my list of best cozy games
- 41.After more than 400 hours of Valheim in early access, I love the journey from naked adventurer to godly Viking now more than everAndrea Shearon · Play This Right Now Welcome to Play This Right Now, the site version of our weekly newsletter in which we celebrate a new game, update, or DLC that we think is well worth checking out. You can subscri
- 42.Inzoi's director says he is 'very much focused on our core goals' as he announces a multiplayer roleplaying mode designed to be like Ready Player OneRick Lane · We all hoped that Inzoi would be the competitor to The Sims 4 that the life sim genre has needed for years. Thus far, though, things haven't quite panned out that way. Life sim expert Mollie Taylor de
- 43.Ashly Burch, voice of Horizon's Aloy and star of Mythic Quest, is currently obsessed with Slay the Spire 2 and thinks videogames have too many stoic characters: 'I want more sh*tty little b*tches'Rick Lane · Disk Cleanup (Image credit: Future) Welcome to Disk Cleanup , our regular weekend feature delving into the PCs of PC gaming luminaries. Come back every weekend to read a new interview, digging into th
- 44.Upcoming vampire RPG Nighthawks has been removed from Steam search and delisted in certain countries as Valve classifies it Adults Only: 'It's very bad news for us'Rick Lane · Nighthawks , the long-in-development vampire RPG due to be released later this month, is the latest game to run afoul of Steam's increasingly stringent rules regarding adult content. According to publ
- 45.As an OG Crazy Taxi lover, its new remake might just not be crazy enoughMollie Taylor · I've played just about every damn iteration of Crazy Taxi there is. My first exposure to it was the PlayStation 2 EyeToy version included in Sega Superstars, which involved me wildly gesticulating and
- 46.This remarkable mod transforms the most frightening horror game of the decade into Mirror's EdgeRick Lane · Amnesia: The Bunker is without a doubt the most frightening horror game I've played this decade. Its terrifying tale of being chased through a crumbling French bunker by a monster has the darkest, thi
- 47.Beneath a Steel Sky review (1994)Gary Whitta · Special commentary on this classic PC Gamer review provided by: From the archives: The review below appears as originally written, with only minor changes in formatting and screenshots. By Garry Whitt
- 48.Why is Blizzard still announcing games years ahead of release? 'We want to convey confidence in some of our biggest bets coming forward'Jody Macgregor · Reactions to the StarCraft trailer shown at BlizzCon this year seem pretty universal. Initial excitement, immediately deflated when the words "STARCRAFT RETURNS 2030" appeared at the end. (The fact it
- 49.Playing RTS with a controller? Total War: Warhammer 40,000 dev says it 'really does work' in their game: 'I think we've landed in a really solid spot'Jody Macgregor · The kids who grew up playing StarCraft on Nintendo 64 must have thumbs of steel. With the exception of a handful of games designed specifically for consoles like Herzog Zwei and Halo Wars, the RTS has
- 50.Diablo 5 gameplay details from BlizzCon: More classes than ever before, procedurally-generated dungeons, and Diablo 2-style lootTyler Colp · Diablo 5 is shaping up to be very different from Diablo 4. The sequel is set a hundred years after Diablo 4 in the aftermath of Diablo (the demon)'s apocalyptic destruction of Sanctuary, and it's goin