BioWare veteran says Baldur's Gate 3 was such a great sequel because it didn't try to be too much like Baldur's Gate 2 Mark Darrah thinks Larian succeeded because it wasn't afraid to do its own thing. PC Gamer · Aug 7
Even with an $80 price tag, 'Grand Theft Auto 6 will be an incredible bargain,' Take-Two boss says Strauss Zelnick reckons that the quality of the experience will more than justify the price. PC Gamer · Aug 7
Take-Two CEO says he expects the games industry to be in 'commercial streaming mode within 3 years,' which is great news if you hate owning things Rockstar's parent company believes cloud gaming will grow its customer base even as hardware prices rise. PC Gamer · Aug 7
Big Walk patch addresses voice volume complaints with restraint: 'We consider it an important part of the game's design that you can only hear players who are close to you' A new update "makes quiet voices louder overall," but doesn't let you hear players from farther away. PC Gamer · Aug 7
Japan has reportedly asked the US to stop using Mario, Pokemon, and others in social media posts It's not just about the sanctity of copyright law anymore—Japan's foreign ministry is apparently worried that the US government is damaging the brands. PC Gamer · Aug 7
Take-Two boss dismisses hand-wringing over the end of disc-based games: 'Our business is well over 90% digitally distributed as it is' Strauss Zelnick says Take-Two will still put out physical editions "now and then," but for the most part, the era of games on discs is already over. PC Gamer · Aug 7
Overwatch's new mech hero is the sword-and-board sequel to D.Va, except her code isn't 'a plate of spaghetti' under the hood Blizzard set out to avoid the mistakes of the past with D.Mon. PC Gamer · Aug 7
Launch day performance issues and forced logins take another victim: Marvel Tōkon: Fighting Souls sees mixed Steam rating, especially among Linux users Ouch, that's gotta sting. PC Gamer · Aug 7
Asus ROG Zephyrus G16 (2026) review The super-portable G16 is, in many ways, better than ever—but the memory crisis has priced it out of top contention. PC Gamer · Aug 7
The humble Wii Nunchuck has been turned into a video editing tool because it's 'one of the most ergonomic things ever made' What a wonderfully geeky way to edit. PC Gamer · Aug 7
ChatTJB is a fake chatbot where a guy called Tucker Bryant answers queries himself: 'I tend to overcommit to bits' Bryant will answer any questions asked (eventually) and will even scribble images for users. PC Gamer · Aug 7
WoW's changing how world bosses work because they've 'really been a little bit lackluster' in recent years, says dev "A lot of players just cluster into a boss. It drops in a few moments." PC Gamer · Aug 7
'They call us old stupid farmers, you know, but we’re not': Family declines $26 million offer to convert their farmland into an AI data center AI companies may have the cash to throw around, but some can't be bought so easily. PC Gamer · Aug 7
If your AMD chipset drivers are mysteriously failing to install like mine, you'll need to manually update instead Something's borked with the AMD Install Manager, it seems. PC Gamer · Aug 7
PC Gamer · Aug 7 Sam Neill will reportedly star in the forthcoming The Legend of Zelda film It'll be among the late actor's final screen performances.
PC Gamer · Aug 7 How to craft an engagement ring in Fields of Mistria Oh no, when I said he was "endgame" I didn't realize marriage was also very endgame content.
PC Gamer · Aug 7 Following its excellent Lord of the Rings cards, Magic: The Gathering's new Hobbit set is a bit of a second breakfast It's nice to have, but it's more of the same.
PC Gamer · Aug 7 Trent Reznor on Doom: 'In some ways I felt a parallel with what I was trying to do with music' A new range of Nine Inch Nails Quake merch is out.
PC Gamer · Aug 6 30 years after it 'ruined id Software,' Quake gets another big update while the studio once again grapples with adversity New levels from MachineGames and archival development material have been added to the id Software classic in a free update.
PC Gamer · Aug 6 Devolver Digital wants to get off the stock market, because 'the ongoing challenge of delivering growth in line with market expectations' just isn't worth the headaches Devolver went public in 2021 and it's not working out.
PC Gamer · Aug 6 Diablo 4's newest class barely made a splash with Lord of Hatred, but it's shaping up to be king of the next season Warlocks finally get their time in the spotlight.
PC Gamer · Aug 6 Capcom says it wants Monster Hunter Wilds to outsell World 'over the medium to long term,' but it'll need to muster a lot of sales momentum to get there Wilds didn't rank in Capcom's quarterly best sellers, but the company hopes to turn that around.
PC Gamer · Aug 6 Couple's dispute over playing Slay the Spire 2 in bed gets a ruling from comedian John Hodgman: 'Pick an arbitrary battle and stick with it' Gaming in bed: awful or lawful? The man who played the PC in Apple's "Get a Mac" ads issues a landmark PC gaming ruling.
PC Gamer · Aug 6 John Romero says id Software once sold empty Doom boxes to Taiwanese pirates so fans there could have legit copies: 'For us, it was distribution' The id Software co-founder told the story during an opening panel at QuakeCon.
PC Gamer · Aug 6 You deserve a travel power adapter you actually like for your next trip Get rid of those oversized all-in-one chunks of plastic.