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RuneScape player pulls off a personal Shawshank Redemption: Grinds his way out of one-zone house arrest by grinding a raid 2,000 times over 10,000 hours: 'It was all worth it'

PC Gamer

18 juin 2025 à 18:30

Makes the Moon landing look like a walk in the park.

A low-poly Old School RuneScape man stares ahead, dejected.

Intel has joined Nvidia with its own neural texture compression tech but it probably won't rescue your VRAM-starved 8 GB GPU any time soon

PC Gamer

18 juin 2025 à 18:26

By the time games use this tech, you'll have a different graphics card.

Neural texture compression

Elden Ring movie director reveals how he's getting through his 7th playthrough, 'It's like monkeys and typewriters—you just keep doing it'

PC Gamer

18 juin 2025 à 18:16

It's a tough lesson to learn, but an important one.

elden ring let her solo me

Gamakay x NaughShark NS68 review

PC Gamer

18 juin 2025 à 18:15

More than a surprising price tag.

GAMAKAY x NaughShark NS68 gaming keyboard on a desk.

Our favorite budget wireless gaming mouse has knocked almost $20 off, making it an even more wallet-friendly option

PC Gamer

18 juin 2025 à 18:01

A solid wireless mouse for just over $30? Sign me up.

Logitech G305 Lightspeed wireless gaming mouse on a blue background

Survival game AETHUS sees you rebuilding a sci-fi colony after the ravages of galactic capitalism—and forging a new kind of future from the wreckage

PC Gamer

18 juin 2025 à 18:00

Survival game AETHUS sees you rebuilding a sci-fi colony after the ravages of galactic capitalism—and forging a new kind of future from the wreckage

Key art for Aethus, showing a figure in a space suit standing on top of a large planetary base.

Dune: Awakening patch fixes the ornithopter 'goomba stomp' problem in PvP, just not in the way I expected

Par :clivingston@pcgamer.com (Christopher Livingston)

18 juin 2025 à 17:28

Ornithopters still don't take damage from collisions—but now neither do players.

An ornithopter landing near people in the desert

This is all the best PC gaming gear we recommend in one techie tier list

Par :dave.james@futurenet.com (Dave James)

18 juin 2025 à 17:11

Here are PC Gamer's hardware picks, based on years of experience and expert knowledge, all in an easily digestible but admittedly big ol' list.

A compact gaming PC on a desk with various parts on show.

Google AI happens to be really bad at playing Pokémon, repeatedly 'panicking' and taking more than 800 hours to beat the Elite Four

PC Gamer

18 juin 2025 à 17:10

Do AI agents dream of Mareep?

Three Magikarp Pokémon

Das Keyboard DeltaForce 65 review

PC Gamer

18 juin 2025 à 17:03

Das does different.

A Das Keyboard DeltaForce 65 gaming keyboard with Cherry MX switches and in camo colourway on a desk.

Doom: The Dark Ages gets path tracing for even better graphics but unless you've got an RTX 50 graphics card, it's not worth using

PC Gamer

18 juin 2025 à 17:00

The new built-in benchmarks are pretty neat, though.

A screenshot of the PC version of Doom: The Dark Ages, showing the visual impact of the use of path tracing

'The winds of change are blowing': After 159 days Marvel Rivals has finally nerfed Storm, albeit not by much

PC Gamer

18 juin 2025 à 16:46

At this point, I'll take anything.

marvel rivals characters screenshots

This retro sleeper build hides one of the top mini PCs inside and I wish I had the tools and patience to game like it's the '90s

PC Gamer

18 juin 2025 à 16:46

Someone bring me a Dremel.

An Amstrad-ALT286 retro PC with a Minisforum UM890 Pro mini PC inside, on a desk with a retro mouse

Microsoft's exciting multi-year silicon partnership with AMD doesn't actually make it clearer if there's an official Xbox handheld or next-gen console coming

PC Gamer

18 juin 2025 à 16:04

Will next-gen Xbox hardware be made by Microsoft, by someone else, maybe both?

An ROG Xbox Ally X and Ally shown during Microsoft's Xbox stream in June 2025.

I don't believe it, but this Digimon RPG really was the best game I saw at SGF

PC Gamer

18 juin 2025 à 16:01

I was a non-believer, but Digimon Story: Time Stranger made me see the light.

A digimon trainer shoots something out of I don't know what

Dark day for humanity as Gex Trilogy achieves 'huge success,' patches in its cursed EU voices from Red Dwarf's Cat and the 'Ding dong' guy

PC Gamer

18 juin 2025 à 15:40

Or Danny John-Jules and Leslie Philips, if you're a connoisseur.

Gex stands against a fiery background.

Elden Ring Nightreign's relic system could learn a lot from MMOs like World of Warcraft, which figured out pure RNG loot sucks years ago

PC Gamer

18 juin 2025 à 15:33

We don't have to stay in gamba purgatory. There's a better way.

A bird man character from Elden Ring reads a book in a library

Borderlands 4 hands-on: Yeah, it's just 'more Borderlands,' but Gearbox's consistency is respectable and there's a cool hoverbike

Par :tyler@pcgamer.com (Tyler Wilde)

18 juin 2025 à 15:00

The next big Borderlands game isn't transformative, but on the flip side, it also isn't a live service extraction shooter with survival elements, so that's good.

Borderlands 4 screenshot

Microsoft announces new dream team partnership with AMD on a 'portfolio' of next-gen Xbox devices, all with backwards compatibility with existing games

PC Gamer

18 juin 2025 à 14:02

Console, handheld and PC, all based on silicon co-engineered with AMD.

An ROG Xbox Ally X and Ally shown during Microsoft's Xbox stream in June 2025.

Endgame Gear OP1w 4K review

PC Gamer

18 juin 2025 à 13:53

A mean, lightweight mousing machine.

An Endgame Gear OP1w 4K gaming mouse on a desk.

Endgame Gear XM2w 4K review

PC Gamer

18 juin 2025 à 13:52

Comfortable and powerful!

Endgame Gear XM2w 4K gaming mouse on a mouse pad.

It's time to update Asus Armoury Crate, folks—the latest vulnerability could allow hackers to compromise your Windows OS

PC Gamer

18 juin 2025 à 13:51

In the club, we all care about system security.

Asus Armoury Crate application on a gradient background.

Become John Nightreign with a 1:1 5KG Wylder helmet which Bandai Namco is currently selling for $190

PC Gamer

18 juin 2025 à 13:32

"Now you can feel what it's like to join his quest."

An Elden Ring Nightreign character clad in full armor, rearing back what looks to be a small crossbow before firing.

Steam turbo-charges its performance overlay, shows you how many real and framegen frames you're getting and, oh, Proton is enabled on Linux by default now

PC Gamer

18 juin 2025 à 13:20

A buffet of stats awaits.

TF2 Heavy giving the Bret Rambo thumbs up

You aren't just imagining things: Elden Ring Nightreign player confirms it's 6x harder to revive someone at 3 bars when compared to 1, because FromSoftware's UI is basically lying to you

PC Gamer

18 juin 2025 à 12:32

Damnit, FromSoftware.

Elden Ring Nightreign Wylder build: A close-up of Wylder slumped over in the Roundtable Hold.

An ex-Apple Vision Pro engineer turned a Steam Deck into an all-in-one keyboard for XR, and now you can too

PC Gamer

18 juin 2025 à 12:20

Though I'd still be using it for gaming myself.

Bento project from michaelthatsit, which puts a Steam Deck's hardware inside a keyboard

Today's Wordle answer for Wednesday, June 18

PC Gamer

18 juin 2025 à 05:00

Today's Wordle: Help with the daily puzzle.

Wordle today puzzle on a smartphone

No wonder it took so long to rerelease Final Fantasy Tactics—the source code was lost: 'Keeping that kind of data wasn't a normal thing to do at the time'

PC Gamer

18 juin 2025 à 02:50

Creating a problem that had to be solved "by sheer force".

Final Fantasy Tactics protagonists

Splitgate 2 review

PC Gamer

18 juin 2025 à 02:40

It doesn't make FPS great again.

Splitgate 2 screenshot

Ball hogs and 'wannabe Messis' are already the heels of the Rematch community: 'Coach should run out onto the field and beat them with a stick'

PC Gamer

18 juin 2025 à 00:42

Captain Tsubasa would be disappointed.

Rematch screen - two kneeling soccer players celebrating a goal as other teammates run in behind them

Ubisoft slows free currency gain in Rainbow Six Siege X to a pathetic crawl, then immediately drops its most expensive skin in 10 years

Par :morgan.park@futurenet.com (Morgan Park)

18 juin 2025 à 00:22

It didn't take long for "free-to-play" to also mean "more hostile to your time and wallet."

Rainbow Six Siege X Paragon bundle

Just 1 year after raising $340,000 on Kickstarter to make a 'vibrant' new JPRG, Studio Camelia abruptly closes

Par :andy.chalk@pcgamer.com (Andy Chalk)

17 juin 2025 à 23:53

The studio was taking "late pledges" as recently as February.

Alzara Radiant Echoes trailer still

Hades 2 adds nastier bosses and new weapon variants in its last major update before it leaves early access behind

PC Gamer

17 juin 2025 à 23:47

The Unseen Update also finally gives us a look at Narcissus.

The witch Melinoe holds up her ghostly hand to conjure something magical with her staff in the other hand. A dark blue sky broods in the background with a skeleton man on the right side of the frame.

Dark and Darker will be purged from Epic Games Store libraries later this year, but it's still available on Steam for now

Par :andy.chalk@pcgamer.com (Andy Chalk)

17 juin 2025 à 21:27

Ironmace's dungeon crawler will be removed from Epic Store libraries on November 1.

Dark and Darker concept art - a character opens a chest of gold loot while two others celebrate

'I can't even hit anything': Path of Exile player watches helplessly as his mercenary wipes out screens of enemies before he can even reach them

PC Gamer

17 juin 2025 à 20:46

Action RPG automation.

Three Path of Exile Secrets of the Atlas mercenaries stand together

Turns out that fantasy Factorio is a pretty good idea, and if you doubt me try the MoteMancer demo

PC Gamer

17 juin 2025 à 20:29

Mix and match elemental motes as the raw ingredients for an interplanar factory.

Pre-release screenshot of fantasy factory building game MoteMancer

Marathon is delayed, new release date will be announced in the fall: 'We need more time to craft Marathon into the game that truly reflects your passion'

Par :andy.chalk@pcgamer.com (Andy Chalk)

17 juin 2025 à 20:15

Bungie has a lot of work to do.

Image from Bungie's Marathon reboot. Not for use until after 12 April 2025, 11 PDT.

Everything in GTA Online's Money Fronts update

PC Gamer

17 juin 2025 à 20:06

Here's the full rundown of the new cars, money laundering businesses, and more.

GTA Online Money Fronts update

Stellar Blade sold a million units in 3 days on PC and you can mostly thank Chinese players

PC Gamer

17 juin 2025 à 19:06

Stellar results.

Stellar Blade

FBC: Firebreak doesn't have the eldritch chaos I had hoped for so I'm going back to one of my favourite games that you've never played

PC Gamer

17 juin 2025 à 18:53

Who let the dog out?

Nine-Tailed Fox soldiers in an elevator