PC Gaming 2w ago

"Nearly everyone" laid off at Hyper Light Drifter devs Heart Machine after publisher drops unannounced game

Heart Machine, the US-based makers of Hyper Light Drifter, its multiplayer spinoff Hyper Light Breaker, and last year&r...

Rock Paper Shotgun James Archer

PC Gaming 2w ago

I have officially made Grand Theft Auto 5 good by turning it into a golf sim

GTA Tour. ...

PC Gamer joshua.wolens@futurenet.com (Joshua Wolens)

PC Gaming 2w ago

Epic boss Tim Sweeney says the EU's social media ban for under-13s 'would be terrible for the next generation of humanity'

The EU KIDS Act would impose strict new regulations on social media, video sharing, gaming...

PC Gamer andy.chalk@pcgamer.com (Andy Chalk)

PC Gaming 2w ago

Candy Crush Developers Are Preparing To Go On Strike Next Week

Two Swedish unions have issued a strike notice against King

Kotaku Ash Parrish

PC Gaming 2w ago

Backrooms director & Portal superfan Kane Parsons spotted visiting Valve for the second time this year

A well-deserved victory lap, or something more? ...

PC Gamer ted.litchfield@futurenet.com (Ted Litchfield)

PC Gaming 2w ago

Escape a roundabout as a stoned tuk-tuk driver in Zero Parades' free Director’s Cut update, which will add about 40,000 new words to the RPG next month

As many reservations as I had going into ZA/UM's Zero Parades: For Dead Spies earlier this year, what with all of the d...

Rock Paper Shotgun Mark Warren

PC Gaming 2w ago

Missing Fail States Aren’t The Problem With Wolverine’s QTEs, It’s Everything Else

The satisfying quick time event remains a mostly lost art

Kotaku Kevin Wong

PC Gaming 2w ago

Industry vet who worked on Ultima Online says the next big thing needs to have 'sh*tty graphics' to escape the doom of rising development costs

"What used to be a single 128x128 texture is now multiple 4K textures." ...

PC Gamer harvey.randall@futurenet.com (Harvey Randall)

PC Gaming 2w ago

The lead developer of the PS5 Linux project has abandoned ship: 'It is just a bunch of noobs using LLMs and writing hacks they don't even understand':

The project, apparently, is "all down the sink." ...

PC Gamer Jacob Fox

PC Gaming 2w ago

iBuyPower RDY Scale B06 review

It's a sign of how bad the memory crisis is that this rig doesn't feel super expensive. ...

PC Gamer James Bentley

PC Gaming 2w ago

Studio Ghibli-Looking Cozy Sim Bloomwalker Is Now Officially A Ni No Kuni Spin-Off

Netmarble's adventure-crafting game Bloomwalker will be part of the Ni No Kuni universe

Kotaku Lewis Parker

PC Gaming 2w ago

Twitch CEO expects GTA 6 online multiplayer will launch next year, which if accurate would leave only the PC port's arrival point up in the air

Despite Rockstar Games' silence on the matter, the cat rather seems to be out of the bag about GTA 6 getting its own on...

Rock Paper Shotgun Mark Warren

PC Gaming 2w ago

Twitch CEO Expects GTA 6 Will Lead To A Huge Influx Of Viewers And Anticipates Multiplayer Mode Is Coming Next Year

Dan Clancy says other studios and publishers are right to try and avoid GTA 6's launch

Kotaku Zack Zwiezen

PC Gaming 2w ago

HP Omen 35L (2026) review

Something wicked this way comes. ...

PC Gamer Ian Evenden

PC Gaming 2w ago

Three different 4X strategy games, three different solutions to "that inherent problem" of disappearing exploration

There is an issue in 4X games. In fact, it's so persistent, that Amplitude Studios' co-founder and CEO Romain de Wauber...

Rock Paper Shotgun Julian Benson

PC Gaming 2w ago

Valor Mortis is only $40 because its developer knows you'll be choosing from a lot of big games over this "stacked" autumn

The Valor Mortis developer has announced the game's price and offered an explanation as to why the team picked this par...

Eurogamer Sherif Saed

PC Gaming 2w ago

LG UltraGear 25G590B review

LG's new 1,000 Hz esports monitor is so fast it, well, hertz. ...

PC Gamer Jeremy Laird

PC Gaming 2w ago

Dishonored's Harvey Smith named his new studio Black Pony Immersive so people would stop asking him to work on other genres: 'Specialising on what you love is not a bad path'

Please don't ask him to work on a third-person shooter. ...

PC Gamer Fraser Brown

PC Gaming 2w ago

Ghostrunner Devs Explain Why Their Napoleon Soulslike Valor Mortis Is Just $40: ‘The Fall Is Stacked And There’s High Demand For Your Time And Money’

Steam competition is fiercer than ever

Kotaku Ethan Gach

PC Gaming 2w ago

FF14's new roguelike mode's leaderboards were accidentally encouraging players to min-max all the fun out of it, so it'll be 'postponing the start of Crucible Rankings'

Looks like changes are in the Crucible of the Unbroken's future. ...

PC Gamer harvey.randall@futurenet.com (Harvey Randall)

PC Gaming 2w ago

AMD presents new method of handing indirect lighting off to an image generation model: 'frame-by-frame' solution could be part of AMD's answer to DLSS 5 someday

"We try to solve global illumination as an image generation problem," says one of the rese...

PC Gamer Jacob Ridley

PC Gaming 2w ago

Pokémon TCG’s 30th Celebration Set Has Incredible Pull Rates, And It’s Demolishing Resale Prices

The prettiest cards are showing up five times more frequently than in years of recent sets

Kotaku John Walker

PC Gaming 2w ago

Following wide-ranging leaks, Bungie says Marathon is not 'merging' with Destiny

Destiny being reborn within Marathon sounds like one of those ridiculous ideas fans come up with to keep their hope ali...

Eurogamer Sherif Saed

PC Gaming 2w ago

GTA 6 Won’t Have A Game Disc But It Is Getting A Vinyl And CD Soundtrack

That’s something for the physical media lovers, I suppose

Kotaku Kenneth Shepard

PC Gaming 2w ago

18 Stunning Cosplay Outfits From Japan’s Comiket Convention

The biennial doujinshi con sees some incredible fits from anime, manga, and gaming

Kotaku John Walker

PC Gaming 2w ago

"If the player trusts you enough, they are not going to savescum": Why the makers of some of the best RPGs on PC want you to get used to failing

When it comes to RPGs, I am an irredeemable savescummer. I admit it. I'll slam F9 at the drop of a hat (perhaps the hat...

Rock Paper Shotgun James Nouch

PC Gaming 2w ago

GTA 6 is getting a 34-song original soundtrack, with music from multiple real-world artists - and you can stream six tracks today

Grand Theft Auto 6's original soundtrack was partially revealed today. The full album contains 34 original tracks made ...

Eurogamer Sherif Saed

PC Gaming 2w ago

Kojima Says Physint Is Making ‘Steady Progress’ And Stars Bill Skarsgård In First Update Since Switching To Xbox

Kojima Production's Xbox published action-espionage game now has its lead; horror star Bill Skarsgård

Kotaku Lewis Parker

PC Gaming 2w ago

EA Tells Devs Its Saudi Arabia Owners Won’t Make Creative Decisions, Queer Fans Don’t Buy It

BioWare, Sims, and Apex Legends fans found belonging in games they feel they can no longer support

Kotaku Kenneth Shepard