'Patient gaming' only gets more attractive when $70 games get heavy Steam sale discounts just months after launch

2 juillet 2025 à 01:26

But some publishers are going in the opposite direction, launching at the old PC standard of $50 (or less) and offering smaller discounts in sales.

Avowed - The Delemgan Queen, a magical humanoid creature with bark skin, leaf accents, and twisted root horns and crown

Death Stranding 2 is too damn easy

PC Gamer

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

1 juillet 2025 à 23:48

I blame the Chiral Network.

Destiny 2 just got weird: Launch trailer leans hard into time travel and looks more like a Control crossover

PC Gamer

Par :timothydclark@gmail.com (Tim Clark)

1 juillet 2025 à 23:31

Edge of Fate might be light on new activities, but at least the campaign sets up a cool mystery.

The NPC Lodi from Destiny 2's Edge of Fate expansion, having a bad day.

A new WoW event boosts ultra-rare item drop rates tenfold, which admittedly isn't a huge difference when the starting number is 0.5%

PC Gamer

1 juillet 2025 à 23:23

The Collector's Bounty event nudges the odds in your favor, but you might still walk away empty-handed.

An orc in World of Warcraft grins greedily into a bag overflowing with gold.

Hideo Kojima goes in hard on AI and is worried we'll all 'be unknowingly led into a predetermined lifestyle'

PC Gamer

1 juillet 2025 à 23:15

Hard to disagree.

Hideo Kojima wearing a Policenauts t-shirt.

I'm diagnosing survivors of a zombie apocalypse and only occasionally mistaking cold symptoms for the zombie plague in this military base management sim

PC Gamer

Par :clivingston@pcgamer.com (Christopher Livingston)

1 juillet 2025 à 22:36

Manage a military base and examine survivors for sickness in the demo for Quarantine Zone: The Last Check.

'It makes me cringe every time': 25 years after Diablo 2 reshaped the RPG landscape, Diablo creator David Brevik still thinks its stamina bar sucks

PC Gamer

Par :lincoln.carpenter@futurenet.com (Lincoln Carpenter)

1 juillet 2025 à 22:30

Even classics have flaws.

A close-up of Diablo's face from the Diablo 2 box art.

A 'big beautiful bill' provision to prevent states from regulating AI for 10 years got nixed by the US Senate

PC Gamer

1 juillet 2025 à 22:19

A revised proposal that changed it to five years was quickly introduced and then abandoned.

Half of Artificial Intelligence robot face

Palworld guide—Exploring the Terraria update, breeding combos, and crafting

PC Gamer

1 juillet 2025 à 20:52

Palworld's latest update adds a few new Pals with a Terraria twist.

A Palworld player character sitting in the grass, wearing red metal high level armor. Behind her, you can see a Tombat in the distance.

Death Stranding 2's ending explained (to the extent humanly possible)

PC Gamer

Par :wesley@pcgamer.com (Wes Fenlon)

1 juillet 2025 à 20:42

What happened? When did it happen? And wait, can you play as [redacted]?

'Give me more of that': Monster Hunter Wilds players have discovered its returning monsters got hands, and they're thrilled to be getting clobbered

PC Gamer

Par :lincoln.carpenter@futurenet.com (Lincoln Carpenter)

1 juillet 2025 à 19:39

Lotta carts rolling around since Monday.

Lagiacrus, a large leviathan monster, in Monster Hunter Wilds.

Youtuber PewDiePie is going all in on deGoogling and the Steam Deck is one of the surprising tools that's helping him to 'escape'

PC Gamer

1 juillet 2025 à 18:56

Ditch Google, Gmail and Android, add a Deck, Graphene and a Raspberry Pi.

Randy Pitchford asks fans if they'd swallow future Borderlands exclusivity deals, almost 10,000 people say just put your damn games on Steam

PC Gamer

1 juillet 2025 à 18:52

Which, I have to be honest, you could see coming a mile away.

Where to find the Terraria dungeon in Palworld, plus the new Pals and items you'll find inside

PC Gamer

1 juillet 2025 à 18:40

One Slime, two slime, Red Slime, Blue Slime.

Terraria's Hallowed Armor in statue form, marking where the island is in Palworld to start the crossover dungeon.

Phoenix and Blade headline the new Marvel Rivals season, and it starts next week

PC Gamer

1 juillet 2025 à 18:40

The House of Ideas' hero shooter keeps the momentum going.

Marvel Rivals Season 3: Phoenix gritting her teeth as she's pinned to the ground by Hela, who's out of frame.

I played Elden Ring Nightreign for goofy co-op shenanigans, but wound up punched in my feelings by the Revenant's remembrance questline

PC Gamer

1 juillet 2025 à 18:37

Well, that was absolutely horrifying.

'It took a while to get there, but now we feel we're in a good place': Fatshark's design director talks doing years of repair work on Warhammer 40,000: Darktide

PC Gamer

1 juillet 2025 à 18:14

"They knew, 'it's going to get better, so don't worry'."

My best friend is a gaming mouse: An ode to the finest rodent around, the Logitech G Pro X Superlight

PC Gamer

1 juillet 2025 à 17:22

This post is not sponsored, honest.

Jacob kissing a Logitech G Pro X Superlight gaming mouse

Get an entire tabletop role-playing library for the price of one book, thanks to what might be the most impressive bundle of RPGs I've ever seen in my 22 years in the hobby

PC Gamer

Par :robin.valentine@futurenet.com (Robin Valentine)

1 juillet 2025 à 17:02

Grab $1,227 worth of games for just $40.

A dragon perched on an old ruin in Dragonbane.

Nexus Mods will soon require age verification for UK and EU users looking for its treasure trove of adult mods

PC Gamer

1 juillet 2025 à 16:54

But it won't say what that looks like yet.

Deus Ex was a hard sell because, among other things, the Thief devs thought 'if you give players a gun, they won't sneak'

PC Gamer

1 juillet 2025 à 16:51

Give someone a gun, and everything starts to look like a nail you can shoot with a gun.

How to get Dragon Fruit in Grow a Garden

PC Gamer

1 juillet 2025 à 16:36

Another elusive fruit to add to your collection.

Character avatar in front of an Overgrown garden in Roblox Grow a Garden

Fortnite's newest mode is a frantic dopamine machine that lives up to the hype—and I hope it's a new-player gateway to more considered battle royales

PC Gamer

1 juillet 2025 à 16:17

Blitz Royale is bitesize Fortnite, and I want to keep eating.

The US claims $81.5 billion bonus revenue from Trump tariffs but that's a drop in the ocean compared to its spending deficit

PC Gamer

1 juillet 2025 à 16:11

How much!?

US President Donald Trump holds a chart as he delivers remarks on reciprocal tariffs during an event in the Rose Garden entitled "Make America Wealthy Again" at the White House in Washington, DC, on April 2, 2025.

'Xbox hardware is dead' and 'there's literally no reason to buy' the ROG Xbox Ally handheld says founding member of the OG Xbox team

PC Gamer

1 juillet 2025 à 15:56

It's much easier for Microsoft to slap an Xbox sticker on an existing piece of hardware and call it day.

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

Commodore's been bought by a YouTuber who's re-assembling key execs and already teasing new hardware

PC Gamer

1 juillet 2025 à 15:49

Though the finances may yet scupper it.

A close-up of the logo on a Commodore 64.

The RTX 5060 variant of this 14-inch OLED gaming laptop is down to $1,480 already, making it a tempting travel companion for gamers on the go

PC Gamer

1 juillet 2025 à 15:34

It's a cutie-patootie. I can't believe I just wrote that.

The HP Omen Transcend 14 gaming laptop on a teal background

How to get bees in Grow a Garden and what they do

PC Gamer

1 juillet 2025 à 15:32

If you've ever wondered why people have bees in Grow a Garden, here's what you need to know.

Two bees surrounded by flowers in Roblox Grow a Garden

Anthropic tasked an AI with running a vending machine in its offices, and it not only sold some products at a big loss but it invented people, meetings, and experienced a bizarre identity crisis

PC Gamer

1 juillet 2025 à 15:31

It's all funny to watch an AI have an existential moment in a little experiment, but it's a stark reminder of the limitations that LLMs have.

Obsidian director Josh Sawyer says it's a 'mistake' for RPGs to sacrifice crunchy 'sweaty boy' systems in favour of a 'one size fits all' game, since easier difficulties aren't too hard to make

PC Gamer

1 juillet 2025 à 15:24

"With not a whole lot of effort, but just good planning, we can support a wide spectrum of players."

Bing Bong is talking to you: Peak players are getting jump-scared by what seems to be the developers possessing a little green plushie

PC Gamer

1 juillet 2025 à 15:13

Do not cast Bing Bong aside, it will remember.

BG3 might be the last hurrah for the era of the Hexblade, as D&D's 2024 rules revamp tries to dethrone the king of multiclass dips

PC Gamer

1 juillet 2025 à 13:33

Rest in gish.

A Warlock/Paladin multiclass wields an accursed blade in D&D's 2024 ruleset.

Anker recalls a number of power banks amid safety fears, though it says that 'the likelihood of malfunction is considered minimal'

PC Gamer

1 juillet 2025 à 13:32

Minimal or not, when the problem involves lithium-ion cells, it's better to be safe than very, very sorry.

A composite image showing two promotional shots of an Anker power bank.

Good guy GSC wordlessly deletes ads in Stalker remaster menus with itsy-bitsy new patch

PC Gamer

1 juillet 2025 à 13:21

Get out of here, Stalker ads.

An armoured trooper stands in front of the Chernobyl sarcophagus.

The Blood of Dawnwalker: All the key details about Rebel Wolves' dark fantasy action RPG

PC Gamer

1 juillet 2025 à 13:01

Get to know what horrors await.

The Blood of Dawnwalker trailer still - closeup of Coen

Steam adds an in-game performance monitor so you can brag about hitting 900 FPS in Deus Ex

PC Gamer

1 juillet 2025 à 12:31

And promises more tools to help identify performance bottlenecks.

Valve logo with a man with a steam valve for an eye.

The end is probably nigh for full Windows driver support for GTX 10, 9 and 7 Series graphics cards as Nvidia announces that its next major Linux driver fork will be its last for those GPUs

PC Gamer

1 juillet 2025 à 12:29

Looks like the end of the road for most GeForce GTX graphics cards later this year.

Right to repair bill in Texas has been signed into law after winning by a landslide victory, with not a single vote against it

PC Gamer

1 juillet 2025 à 12:15

That's seven states done, only another 43 to go.

A photo of the pink marble granite Texas Capitol building, located at the end of Congress Avenue in downtown Austin, Texas.

Mecha Break launch times and release date

PC Gamer

1 juillet 2025 à 11:22

Buckle up, it's almost time for a new mech battler.

Mecha Break release times: Art of a large mech leaping into the air as it jabs a glowing spear into a mech on the ground.

Incredible neural implant translates neural activity into speech almost instantly by focussing on sound production instead of word choice

PC Gamer

1 juillet 2025 à 06:59

I just can't wait to see BCIs like this in the gaming scene.

Vue lecture