How long can a live service game last? Theoretically, 'forever,' says Mecha Break developer: 'The last game I was in charge of has been alive and well for 16 years'

PC Gamer

11 mars 2025 à 18:47

Amazing Seasun CEO Kris Kwok hopes that the new mech combat game will live on in perpetuity.

Naughty Dog's next game is definitely steering clear of controversy: 'Let's do something that people won't care as much about. Let's make a game about faith and religion'

PC Gamer

11 mars 2025 à 18:47

Intergalactic: The Heretic Prophet will take a deep dive into spirituality.

A red Porsche spaceship in front of a red planet

We need to decide on a genre name for Vampire Survivors-like games before a really terrible one sticks

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

11 mars 2025 à 18:35

No, Steam, they're not "bullet hell action roguelikes".

A vampire with a dark castle and swarms of bats in the background.

Coder faces 10 years' jailtime for creating a 'kill switch' that screwed-up his employers' systems when he was laid off

PC Gamer

11 mars 2025 à 17:53

Probably shouldn't have put his name on it, mind.

A computer screen with program code warning of a detected malware script program. 3d illustration

New modder tool makes it easier than ever to swap AMD's FSR 4 scaling for Nvidia's DLSS or Intel's XeSS and vice versa

PC Gamer

11 mars 2025 à 17:53

It's not supported by every game, but it does increase your options.

Gigabyte seemingly mocks Asus' recent Q-release debacle with a video swapping out an RTX 5070 Ti 100 times

PC Gamer

11 mars 2025 à 17:41

That's some cheeky marketing.

The PCIe slot on an Asus ROG Strix B850-F Gaming WiFi motherboard, showing the Q-release latch for GPUs.

It's another day of Disco Elysium-related announcements trying to kneecap each other: Studio ZA/UM has put out a teaser for its first new game since 2019, and it's not Disco Elysium 2

PC Gamer

Par :ted.litchfield@futurenet.com (Ted Litchfield)

11 mars 2025 à 17:39

Surely there are other ways of marketing videogames.

If you've ever wanted to trap your D&D character in dice like a fly in amber, 3,700+ people are paying Hero Forge close to $400,000 in Kickstarter funds for the pleasure

PC Gamer

11 mars 2025 à 17:13

My character turned into a dice, DM. Funniest thing I've ever seen.

A goblin wizard, holding a dice, and a dice with a goblin wizard holding a dice placed within it.

'I was recklessly brave to even think about creating a game of this scale': Inzoi director admits he now sees 'why so few companies have attempted to develop a life simulation game'

PC Gamer

11 mars 2025 à 17:04

It's been two long years for Hyungjun Kim.

Inzoi - A Zoi with blonde hair and blue eyes wears a cardigan and smiles in a gaming room

PCG's best city builder of 2024 is adding a map with a gigantic hill in the middle: the perfect spot for your next castle

PC Gamer

11 mars 2025 à 16:59

I'm here for more granular control over battlement placement.

Manor Lords promo art - knight on horseback looking at a medieval village in the distance, viewed from behind

NZXT H7 Flow review (2024 Edition)

PC Gamer

11 mars 2025 à 16:50

Pseudo full-tower with some insane cooling.

I wish Monster Hunter Wilds wasn't so afraid of letting me play Monster Hunter

PC Gamer

11 mars 2025 à 16:38

A story on rails gives Monster Hunter the wrong kind of guidance.

Microsoft is reportedly prepping a handheld Xbox for later this year with new consoles coming in 2027

PC Gamer

11 mars 2025 à 16:01

We've got a feeling the handheld could look rather familiar...

WoW's nerfed its poor Delve companion into a dwarf-shaped crater after his tank spec made them too easy, and people aren't happy

PC Gamer

11 mars 2025 à 15:57

Poor buddy Brann just can't catch a break.

A World of Warcraft dwarf and human character standing in front of the entrance to a delve dungeon

After REPO 'kinda blew up', its developer asks the community for advice on how to make matchmaking lobbies

PC Gamer

11 mars 2025 à 15:44

"The issue with an anti-cheat system is that you're ruining the experience for everyone who has made mods."

One of Repo's player characters, resembling a yellow pedal bin with googly eyes, encounters a skeletal, open mouthed face with glowing yellow eyes.

After suing a Disco Elysium writer to prevent him from making his own game, a tech CEO who's allegedly banned from the Disco Elysium subreddit is trying to crowdfund a spiritual successor

PC Gamer

Par :ted.litchfield@futurenet.com (Ted Litchfield)

11 mars 2025 à 15:40

I want to keep writing this sort of thing even less than you want to keep reading it.

Art of a woman smoking a cigarette on teal background wearing leather jacket, challenging the viewer.

AMD Ryzen 9 9950X3D review

PC Gamer

11 mars 2025 à 15:40

AMD has taken its Ryzen 9 9950X and given it some 3D V-Cache lovin'. Oh hell yeah.

Photo of an AMD Ryzen 9 9950X3D processor

The latest Windows 11 dev build gives you the ability to snap together commonly paired apps for access in a single click, and I'm already sold

PC Gamer

11 mars 2025 à 15:38

Now I can open Solitaire and Spotify even quicker.

Limbo and Inside studio demands compensation from co-founder Dino Patti for alleged 'unauthorized use of Playdead's trademarks and copyrighted works'

PC Gamer

11 mars 2025 à 15:30

Patti claims such demands have "happened repeatedly over the last nine years".

Some Monster Hunter Wilds players are skipping the endgame weapon grind because they just freaking hate how they look

PC Gamer

11 mars 2025 à 15:26

Not all weapons are made equal.

Monster Hunter Wilds - a player yells in despair with their arms out, kneeling on the ground.

The SteelSeries QcK Performance series has reignited my excitement over the simple pleasure of a quality mouse pad… and trying to click skulls with pinpoint accuracy

PC Gamer

11 mars 2025 à 15:01

Time to party like it's 2012 and pretend I don't have an old man's reaction time.

SteelSeries QcK Performance mouse pads overlapping on a desk

'My own voice was driving me f***ing insane': GTA Vice City actor admits even he couldn't get past his own, notoriously difficult mission

PC Gamer

11 mars 2025 à 14:42

Danny Dyer headed up the role of Kent Paul in Vice City and San Andreas.

Key art of Kent Paul in Grand Theft Auto Vice City.

Blue Lock Rivals codes and how to redeem them

PC Gamer

11 mars 2025 à 14:30

Get ready to hit the pitch in this anime-themed soccer game.

Blue Lock Rivals - a player in a soccer uniform kicks a ball

Specs for Nvidia's new RTX 5050, 5060, and 5060 Ti GPUs leak out and that 5060 might actually be half decent. If it's priced right

PC Gamer

11 mars 2025 à 12:35

And if you can actually buy the darned thing...

Asus' new monitors purify 90% of airborne dust from your desktop and I've definitely seen some gnarly gaming setups that would benefit

PC Gamer

11 mars 2025 à 11:57

From pee-eww to VU.

Asus's new ultrawide sucks as hard as it blows

The AMD x Sony collab gave us FSR4 and a version will appear in PlayStation next year, too, having 'already started to implement the new neural network on PS5 Pro'

PC Gamer

11 mars 2025 à 11:51

"It should take the same inputs and produce essentially the same outputs."

A screenshot from Sony's PlayStation 5 Pro announcement video, showing a stylized processor against a dark background with glowing lines streaming from its edges

Where to find sticks in Hello Kitty Island Adventure

PC Gamer

11 mars 2025 à 11:44

An essential material.

Player character and chococat sat next to a stick in Hello Kitty Island Adventure

A BIOS update could be all that's stopping you or someone else from jailbreaking your old AMD CPU

PC Gamer

11 mars 2025 à 11:16

We are once again asking everyone to update their stuff.

Assassin's Creed: Shadows is just around the corner, so come and see the last 17 years of the series' PC graphics at max 4K settings

PC Gamer

11 mars 2025 à 11:09

Bringing history to life and then killing it with a hidden blade. Or bugs.

A screenshot from the original Assassin's Creed game

Today's Wordle answer for Tuesday, March 11

PC Gamer

11 mars 2025 à 05:00

Get all the help you need with today's Wordle.

'Don't you know what he did?': The truth comes out in The Last of Us Season 2 trailer

PC Gamer

Par :clivingston@pcgamer.com (Christopher Livingston)

10 mars 2025 à 23:50

There's also spores, stalkers, and Joey Pants.

Pedro Pascal as Joel in a coat in winter looking unhappy

'Creepy,' 'ghastly,' 'rancid': Viewers react to leaked video of Sony's AI-powered Aloy

PC Gamer

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

10 mars 2025 à 23:11

The video of Aloy hooked up to OpenAI and various other systems was not meant for public consumption, and you can see why.

I’m not sure what’s weirder: that someone made a sequel to a completely forgettable 37-year-old game I played as a kid, or that it was actually worth the wait

PC Gamer

10 mars 2025 à 22:38

Better late than never.

Split Fiction sells 1 million copies over 2 days

PC Gamer

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

10 mars 2025 à 21:26

1 million over 2 days - ½. Split Fraction? Get it? No? OK.

Split Fiction trailer still - Zoe and Mio standing side by side, wearing glowing neon sci-fi jammies

The original Verdansk map is returning to Call of Duty: Warzone, to celebrate which we get a soldier crying to Nat King Cole

PC Gamer

10 mars 2025 à 20:32

Complete with a soldier crying with joy.

A soldier looks out over the Verdansk map, as a single tear rolls down his cheek.

More than 5 years after launch, Control gets a surprise patch that lets everyone play the Hideo Kojima mission

PC Gamer

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

10 mars 2025 à 19:42

Today's update also adds some previously preorder-exclusive cosmetics, official HDR support, and more.

Swen Vincke stamps seal of approval on Stardew Valley mod that yoinks the Baldur's Gate 3 cast out of D&D and into a cosy pastoral life

PC Gamer

10 mars 2025 à 18:11

Astarion's farmin' on.

Nvidia says it really has sorted RTX 50-series black screen issues this time around as yet another driver fix finds its way to release

PC Gamer

10 mars 2025 à 17:49

It can't hurt to be sure, can it?

Nvidia RTX 5080 Founders Edition graphics card from different angles

I never thought a handheld PC bloated with Windows could replace my Steam Deck, but after gaming on an old OneXPlayer 2 Pro I can see now I judged it too harshly

PC Gamer

10 mars 2025 à 17:04

Full Steam ahead.

Warner Bros says it will replace certain DVDs damaged by 'disc rot', but you might not get the same movie you sent in for replacement

PC Gamer

10 mars 2025 à 16:53

Send in The Matrix, receive The Goonies. Or something like that.

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