Trump's AI czar echoes Jen-Hsun, says China's AI models are 'maybe three to six months' behind the US—while also arguing for ever fewer AI regulations in the US

PC Gamer

12 juin 2025 à 17:45

AI anxieties laid bare.

Crypto Czar David Sacks Speaks Outside The White House - WASHINGTON, DC - MARCH 07: David Sacks, U.S. President Donald Trump's AI and Crypto Czar, speaks to press outside of the White House on March 07, 2025 in Washington, DC. Sacks spoke about the executive order on Crypto and U.S. Digital Asset Stockpile. (Photo by Kayla Bartkowski/Getty Images)

MSI's latest BIOS update hints at new AMD CPUs and I'm hoping it's Strix Point APUs coming to desktop

PC Gamer

12 juin 2025 à 17:11

Or Gorgonzola Poi- sorry, Gorgon Point.

A photo showing the GPU retaining mechanism on an MSI MAG X870 Tomahawk motherboard

I think it's a safe bet The Witcher 4 will run just as well as its tech demo after talking with UE5 devs and analyzing Unreal Fest tech data

PC Gamer

12 juin 2025 à 16:36

The devil is in the details. The Nanite-shaped, Lumen-lit devil in this particular case.

A screenshot of the The Witcher 4 tech demo, as presented at the Unreal Fest 2025 in Orlando, US.

Games Workshop hits the panic button, temporarily shuts down Warhammer site after scalpers descend upon it with 'abominable intelligence' and bots

PC Gamer

12 juin 2025 à 16:03

"Don't worry, it's still coming."

A cover for the book Era of Ruin, with artwork by Neil Roberts.

There it is: Bloober Team is remaking Silent Hill 1 after everyone went gaga for its SH2 remake

PC Gamer

12 juin 2025 à 16:03

Who could have seen this coming?

Cover art from Silent Hill 1, showing a man's slightly gormless face.

'Most chairs labeled as 'gaming' chairs are simply budget task chairs with colorful accent stripes': here's what annoys industry experts the most about gaming chairs

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

12 juin 2025 à 15:52

I've spoken with a group of certified ergonomists about what makes the best gaming chair and what annoys them the most about modern seats.

Image of three of the best cheap gaming chairs on a grey background.

The Switch 2 has already sold 3.5 million units, making it Nintendo's fastest selling console yet—but I'm struggling to feel enthusiastic about this hardware launch

PC Gamer

12 juin 2025 à 15:25

More of the same but at what cost?

'The game should speak for itself': MindsEye's publisher denies developer claims of a conspiratorial 'effort to trash' it

PC Gamer

12 juin 2025 à 14:31

Never you mind.

Resident Evil 9 Requiem director Koshi Nakanishi confirms Grace Ashcroft as the 'brand new lead character' but I'm still not convinced Leon Kennedy won't pop up out of somewhere

PC Gamer

12 juin 2025 à 14:30

I'll believe it when I see it.

Cooler Master's super stylish Hyper 612 Apex air cooler is a genuine bargain with this 34% discount

PC Gamer

12 juin 2025 à 14:12

It's not the quietest or the most powerful of CPU coolers, but it's arguably one of the best-looking ones for the money.

An image of a Cooler Master Hyper 612 Apex CPU air cooler against a teal background with a white border

The Alters review

PC Gamer

12 juin 2025 à 14:00

Fraught and flexible, The Alters expertly blends storytelling with survival.

The Alters screenshot showing a clone of Jan.

Jurassic World Evolution 3's system requirements are graciously breezy and don't require a dino-sized SSD

PC Gamer

12 juin 2025 à 13:53

Prehistoric rigs rejoice.

Some RTX 50-series gamers with EVGA motherboards are having to physically tape their graphics cards to boot up their PC

PC Gamer

12 juin 2025 à 12:14

Nothing a bit of tape won't fix, eh?

Close-up shot of an RTX 5070's PCIe slot

Today's Wordle answer for Thursday, June 12

PC Gamer

12 juin 2025 à 05:00

Help with today's Wordle if you need it.

Solasta 2 is switching to D&D 5th edition's 2024 rules update

PC Gamer

12 juin 2025 à 02:29

Drinking potions as a bonus action? Sold.

An armored cleric holding a mace with a green potion on her belt

Don’t let your rig slow you down, these Kingston upgrades make your battlestation beastly

PC Gamer

12 juin 2025 à 01:45

How the Kingston FURY Renegade G5 SSD and Renegade memory can transform your PC gaming rig

An Elden Ring Nightreign dataminer dove into the numbers to prove that reaching max level isn't as strong as it seems

PC Gamer

12 juin 2025 à 01:36

Also: One stat doesn't change at all.

A doll character in white from Elden Ring Nightreign with one arm holding the other and a castle in the background

MindsEye hotfix promised for the end of this week as Steam rating sinks back down to 'mostly negative'

PC Gamer

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

12 juin 2025 à 00:17

A sponsored stream by CohhCarnage was also "paused" at the last minute.

Videogame voice actors strike 'suspended' following agreement with game companies: 'All SAG-AFTRA members are instructed to return to work'

PC Gamer

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

12 juin 2025 à 00:00

After nearly a year on strike, voice actors are back on the job.

SAG-AFTRA image header on announcement of strike authorization approval

Steam review bombs can be harmful, says Mecha Break dev, but it had a positive takeaway after Chinese players hammered the beta: 'We underestimated players' passion to get into our game'

PC Gamer

11 juin 2025 à 23:59

Thanks to a relatively recent change to Steam, the beta review bomb won't affect the final game's rating at launch.

A girl in a school uniform pilots a giant robot

'We encourage you to live with your choices, but if you want to change it, you can:' Supermassive explains why it's adding a flowchart to its narrative horror with Directive 8020

PC Gamer

11 juin 2025 à 23:53

Supermassive Games isn't just heading to a new frontier, but changing up how permanent choices can be too.

Summer Game Fest no-shows: 9 big games that were absent from 2025's showcases

PC Gamer

11 juin 2025 à 23:03

The heavy hitters that were radio silent over Summer Game Fest weekend.

Famous half-vampire Blade unsheathing his sword

Splitgate 2 boss blames a former Call of Duty developer for $80 bundle, says he 'didn't intend for it to come off as shifting blame'

PC Gamer

11 juin 2025 à 22:45

1047 Games head Ian Proulx says he has implemented a new process so that it doesn't happen again.

Ian Proulx takes the stage at Summer Game Fest with a hat reading "MAKE FPS GREAT AGAIN"

'A bottomless pit of plagiarism': Disney and Universal sue AI image generator Midjourney for copyright infringement

PC Gamer

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

11 juin 2025 à 22:00

This isn't the first time Midjourney has been sued, but it may be the one that matters.

This absurd trolley conductor simulator gave me 3 separate Steam achievements for throwing grandmas from a moving public transportation vehicle

PC Gamer

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

11 juin 2025 à 20:26

All in a day's work.

New report details Dragon Age: The Veilguard's ugly failure through live service flip-flops, rewrites, and conflicts with Mass Effect

PC Gamer

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

11 juin 2025 à 19:57

The last Dragon Age game we're likely to see for a very long while was in trouble right from the start.

Rook, Neve, Emmrich, Lucanis, and the rest of their alliance stand together

Grounded 2 will have an arachnophobia mode, even for its rideable spiders

PC Gamer

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

11 juin 2025 à 18:48

Making the spider mounts safe for everyone is "tricky," but probably not as bad as you might think.

Dune: Awakening's dungeons are so atrocious that I'd rather get slowly digested by a sandworm than fight through another one

PC Gamer

11 juin 2025 à 18:24

The rest of the game is pretty rad, though.

Dune: Awakening promo image - sexy man with sword

Dune: Awakening falls just shy of Steam's top 100 as it nets 142,000 players on its first proper launch day

PC Gamer

11 juin 2025 à 18:17

Which is more people than I'd expect to find on a planet with, like, no water.

Dune: Awakening erythrite crystals - A close-up shot of a masculine character with a thick beard looking up slightly.

OpenAI head Sam Altman claims a single ChatGPT query uses ‘one 15th of a teaspoon’ of water but that doesn't put AI's environmental impact in the clear

PC Gamer

11 juin 2025 à 17:48

But is water usage actually the worry?

SAN FRANCISCO, CALIFORNIA - NOVEMBER 06: OpenAI CEO Sam Altman speaks during the OpenAI DevDay event on November 06, 2023 in San Francisco, California. Altman delivered the keynote address at the first-ever Open AI DevDay conference.(Photo by Justin Sullivan/Getty Images)

After beating Elden Ring Nightreign's bosses with 'mind control,' Twitch streamer PerriKaryal may turn her big brain to Nintendo next

PC Gamer

11 juin 2025 à 17:43

If she can beat Malenia with just the power of thought, then maybe I can one day learn to parry.

The streamer PerriKaryal is seen concentrating via a picture-in-picture stream. She's playing Elden Ring: Nightreign via a hands-free EEG control scheme. Her hands are seen, clasped under her chin, in a contemplative gesture as she stares intently at the game screen.

Anonymous employee accuses RuneScape of kowtowing to Trump as it puts the kibosh on new Pride events: 'The content… is now controversial in a way it didn't used to be'

PC Gamer

11 juin 2025 à 17:25

Players and Jagex staff are both upset by an executive decision to scale back Pride celebrations.

A little RuneScape guy holding a Pride flag banner.

Dispatch is the first Telltale-style game I've played that's delivering on the promise of playing a TV show, and it's even got a compelling management sim tucked inside, too

PC Gamer

11 juin 2025 à 17:14

AdHoc's nailing it so far.

Robert, the protagonist of AdHoc Studio's dispatch, stands in a crammed elevator full of superheroes.

Resident Evil Requiem isn't a first-person or third-person horror game—it's both

PC Gamer

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

11 juin 2025 à 17:00

Swap at any time.

Resident Evil Requiem's behind-closed-doors demo was weirdly boring, but it's got me donning a tin foil hat and joining the 'Leon's back' chants

PC Gamer

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

11 juin 2025 à 17:00

Capcom's demo was uncharacteristically dull—what is it holding back on?

Razer's first barebones kit is a big win for keyboard nerds and is cheaper than Corsair's new one

PC Gamer

11 juin 2025 à 16:45

This could be the start of a healthy customisable gaming keyboard scene.

Razer BlackWidow V4 75 barebones gaming keyboard

Ex-Intel engineers are developing the 'biggest, baddest CPU in the world' by targeting IPC, not clockspeed or core counts

PC Gamer

11 juin 2025 à 16:45

AheadComputing reckons the future of CPU performance is all about instructions per clock, not GHz or a zillion cores.

Fight predatory capitalism with a yo-yo possessed by your aunt's spirit in this brilliantly bizarre metroidvania

PC Gamer

11 juin 2025 à 16:37

Pipistrello and the Cursed Yoyo feels like a long lost Nintendo game.

Pipistrello racing along with his yo-yo in Pipistrello and the Cursed Yoyo.

This one-of-a-kind GPU is actually an entire prebuilt PC in disguise—with a memorable codename and everything

PC Gamer

11 juin 2025 à 16:28

Double-oh-trouble.

CherryTree Compyers' prebuilt PC housed in the salvaged chassis of a modern GPU floats through space.

How to prepare for the Mysteries of Skull Rock update in Disney Dreamlight Valley

PC Gamer

11 juin 2025 à 16:05

Get you and your valley ready for Peter Pan to join.

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