A gorgeous ground-up remake of Counter-Strike 1.6 is on its way to Steam, and one of the game's original creators says 'it really gives me old vibes'

PC Gamer

17 mars 2025 à 23:57

"Hopefully Valve allows this to get released without any issues…"

Help, I can't move forward in this chill crafting RPG because I'm too wrapped up in building bases and making sick tools

PC Gamer

17 mars 2025 à 23:52

Atelier Yumia mixes the crafting and gathering of survival games with the framework of a classic RPG.

There's a new Portal game and it costs $12,500

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

17 mars 2025 à 23:47

Valve's famous puzzle games are now available in pinball form, and it's really not cheap.

The best-looking gaming microphone is currently AU$100 off, so you can speak into a resplendent RGB rainbow for less

PC Gamer

Par :shaun.prescott@futurenet.com (Shaun Prescott)

17 mars 2025 à 23:05

The HyperX Quadcast S looks great, but it's also a brilliant mic.

Beast Games opens casting for season 2: MrBeast lost a ton of money on season 1 but apparently not enough that he won't do it again

PC Gamer

17 mars 2025 à 22:15

MrBeast's Squid Game clone is back for a second season despite controversy and lawsuits.

MrBeast posing in front of a stack of cashing, promoting Beast Games season 2

Rise of the Ronin's PC troubles continue as players report disappearing saves on Steam

PC Gamer

17 mars 2025 à 20:34

You might want to put a pause on Rise of the Ronin or your save data could get erased.

Former Treyarch studio co-head and Black Ops 3 director is heading up a new first-party PlayStation studio

PC Gamer

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

17 mars 2025 à 20:19

Jason Blundell's new operation is called Dark Outlaw Games.

'I want to raise this glass to our fans, to our community': 4A Games celebrates Metro 2033's 15th anniversary and hints at next Metro game

PC Gamer

17 mars 2025 à 19:11

"Metro has always had a hard-hitting, political, anti-war and often emotional story—and you can be sure these themes will continue."

Lenovo Legion Go S (Windows) review

PC Gamer

17 mars 2025 à 18:29

Gorgeous and comfortable, this handheld has unfortunately had its internals stripped back.

Lenovo Legion Go S playing Path of Exile 2

Ubisoft reportedly has an anti-harassment plan in place for Assassin's Creed Shadows developers

PC Gamer

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

17 mars 2025 à 18:25

The leadup to the release of Assassin's Creed Shadows has been very ugly, and Ubisoft is bracing for launch day.

This MSI Afterburner file unlocks 36 Gbps RTX 50-series memory overclocks for, y'know, the few people that actually own a card

PC Gamer

17 mars 2025 à 18:07

All of the speed, all at once.

MSI RTX 5070 Ti Gaming Trio OC Plus graphics card under a red light

Avowed's new patch just gave you 6 more talent points to muck around with, along with a heap of fixes and improvements

PC Gamer

17 mars 2025 à 18:01

Hybrids, rejoice.

Avowed Kai holding out his hand toward camera while explaining something to the player.

Silent Hill 2 remake and Indiana Jones are at historically low prices this Steam Spring Sale—so long as you don't buy them directly from Steam

PC Gamer

17 mars 2025 à 17:51

There is, in fact, any deal.

In-game recreation of iconic Indiana Jones stealing the idol in Indiana Jones and the Great Circle

Cherry Xtrfy K4V2 TKL review

PC Gamer

17 mars 2025 à 17:06

Like a skeleton playing their own ribs xylophone-style, while also falling down the stairs.

The Cherry Xtrfy K4V2 TKL gaming keyboard on top of a mouse pad depicting a nebula. The keyboard is grey with red accent keys, a grey braided wire, and the bright RGB lights switched on.

A new and improved desktop experience just landed on Steam Deck and SteamOS is readying 'support for non-Steam Deck handhelds'

PC Gamer

17 mars 2025 à 17:02

That'll be the Legion Go S then, presumably.

A Steam Deck with SteamOS running in desktop mode.

Monster Hunter Wilds players wonder if frenzied monsters are a little undercooked, as one slaps a sickly bird into a fine paste in just 25 seconds

PC Gamer

17 mars 2025 à 16:47

Hunter, the guild authorises you to obliterate that angry bird.

Olivia, a hunter from Monster Hunter Wilds, looks perplexed in an icy blue environment.

This Pathfinder Humble Bundle lets you level up your TTRPG library and donate to charity at the same time starting at just $5

PC Gamer

17 mars 2025 à 16:32

Support a good cause and snag some new TTRPG books at a huge discount with this Humble Bundle deal.

A group of adventurers plans out their strategy on a table of maps and documents.

MSI MAG CoreLiquid A15 360 review

PC Gamer

17 mars 2025 à 16:31

An AIO cooler that hits the price-performance sweet spot.

MSI MAG CoreLiquid A15 360 AIO CPU cooler installed close-up of pump

Inzoi is giving eager life simmers another free taste of its gorgeous character creator, with a bonus build mode demo for the architecture nerds

PC Gamer

17 mars 2025 à 16:26

Inzoi: Creative Studio is launching later this week.

Inzoi character studio - A Zoi designed to look like Billie Eilish

You can grab Undertale for less than $1, as the genre-defining indie RPG beats its all-time player peak for the first time in 10 years

PC Gamer

17 mars 2025 à 15:56

Undersale.

Sans, from the hit 2015 RPG undertale, folds his arms in a dashing suit as stonks rise in the background.

Age of Empires 2 team continues to cook while delivering 'legendarily long' 8,000-word patch notes about 'the biggest updates' the 26-year-old game has ever had

PC Gamer

17 mars 2025 à 14:55

Five new civilisations arrive in mid-April.

Key art for the new Age of Empires 2 expansion showing an angry Viking and Japanese warlod.

Life is Strange: Double Exposure reportedly a 'large loss' for Square Enix, says analyst, who adds: 'The company's IP fundamentally varies too much between good and bad'

PC Gamer

17 mars 2025 à 14:43

Double-dipping.

Max, protagonist of Life is Strange and Life is Strange: Double Exposure, stares with trepidation at something off-screen with her friend.

Would you like to taste fish soup in VR? Me neither, but this electronic tongue does it anyway

PC Gamer

17 mars 2025 à 14:38

It can also replicate cake, lemonade, and fried egg. Mmmm.

A "sensor-actuator–coupled gustatory interface chemically connecting virtual and real environments for remote tasting," or essentially a virtual reality tongue in an artificial mouth

The DeathAdder V3 Pro is currently so cheap it's put the usually more affordable HyperSpeed version out of a job

PC Gamer

17 mars 2025 à 14:25

Gimme that curvy hand skater in its most powerful form.

Razer DeathAdder V3 Pro gaming mouse on a blue background

'REPO is fun': Lethal Company creator recants their criticism of the new co-op horror game after trying to move a grand piano through a mansion

PC Gamer

17 mars 2025 à 14:22

You heard it here first, folks.

MSI RTX 5090 Suprim SOC review

PC Gamer

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

17 mars 2025 à 14:09

The biggest, most powerful consumer graphics card I've ever jammed into our test rig, but not the RTX 5090 I would recommend.

MSI RTX 5090 Suprim SOC graphics card on a grey background with a gradient

Your Discord friends list may soon appear directly in the games you play

PC Gamer

Par :tyler@pcgamer.com (Tyler Wilde)

17 mars 2025 à 14:00

The new Discord Social SDK offers free friends lists, text and voice chat, and Discord client integration to game developers.

KOTOR remake returns for annual tradition of reminding you it's still alive, but no you can't hear anything more about it until it comes back next year to say it again

PC Gamer

17 mars 2025 à 13:31

An old Jedi ritual.

A rather pleasing Windows 11 update bug automatically uninstalls Copilot and unpins it from the taskbar, which is jolly nice of it

PC Gamer

17 mars 2025 à 12:38

Ah, the eternal developer debate: Bug, or feature?

Valorant dev accepts there's too much random crap cluttering up the screen: 'The balance team generally agrees with this take'

PC Gamer

17 mars 2025 à 12:25

"Good luck seeing your screen some rounds."

Official artwork of Valorant showing the game's characters in a row

New headset reads minds and uses AR, AI and machine learning to help people with locked-in-syndrome communicate with loved ones again

PC Gamer

17 mars 2025 à 11:11

No brain surgery required.

92% of Nvidia users turn on DLSS... if they've been lucky enough to bag an RTX 50-series card at launch AND have the Nvidia App installed

PC Gamer

17 mars 2025 à 11:03

60% of the time, it works, every time.

Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang holding an RTX 50-series card.

This palm-sized PC has removably memory, a flip up screen, and a Ryzen AI 9 HX 370 processor

PC Gamer

17 mars 2025 à 10:44

Phenomenal processing power. Itty bitty screen space.

Today's Wordle answer for Monday, March 17

PC Gamer

17 mars 2025 à 05:00

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

Deconstructeam's next game is about training to shoot a single fireball at an impossible target

PC Gamer

17 mars 2025 à 04:15

An Olympian task.

A woman with an arcane slingshot uses it to light a distant fire

We asked two parkour athletes to rate the realism of Assassin's Creed's acrobatics, and a surprising 'crime against parkour' might actually be one of the most realistic things they saw

PC Gamer

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

17 mars 2025 à 02:47

You won't be surprised to learn that the leap of faith is a little too Hollywood, though.

Five new Steam games you probably missed (March 17, 2025)

PC Gamer

Par :shaun.prescott@futurenet.com (Shaun Prescott)

17 mars 2025 à 01:39

Sorting through every new game on Steam so you don't have to.

MechWarrior 5: Clans is getting DLC with playable Elementals and a fight on the outside of a spaceship

PC Gamer

17 mars 2025 à 01:38

Ghost Bear: Flash Storm is due in April.

Mechs fight on the outside of a spaceship

'I feel worried about this art form:' Unsurprisingly, the real Aloy from Horizon isn't a fan of AI Aloy

PC Gamer

16 mars 2025 à 22:24

Horizon voice actor Ashly Burch speaks out about leaked AI tech demo of her character and calls for AI protection for game actors.

REPO's first update will add a new map and a 'duck bucket' so we can finally give that pesky quacker a time out

PC Gamer

16 mars 2025 à 17:20

Tired of dying to that duck in REPO? Its first update promises a fix, plus a new map and more.

Crying laughing emoji with disturbing realistic elements for REPO

Wyrdsong, the RPG from ex-Bethesda talent, isn't dead—but it's no longer an open world: 'We're down to a skeleton crew'

PC Gamer

16 mars 2025 à 16:00

The next game from the project lead of Fallout 76 has been scaled back amid rough industry seas.

Today's Wordle answer for Sunday, March 16

PC Gamer

16 mars 2025 à 05:00

Help with solving Sunday's puzzle.

2011 was an amazing comeback year for PC gaming

PC Gamer

16 mars 2025 à 04:53

Actually, do call it a comeback.

Geralt, two swords on his back, in the wilderness

My new most anticipated RPG let me be a kleptomaniac gourmand set loose in a noir city on a quest to make 'the perfect sandwich'

PC Gamer

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

16 mars 2025 à 02:18

Moves of the Diamond Hand has the right stuff.

Alligator skull with glowing eyes on human body and cords coming out sitting at piano with "The Norwood Etudes" ready to play

The Day Before studio reportedly sues Russian website for calling infamous disaster-game a 'scam'

PC Gamer

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

15 mars 2025 à 19:30

Well, it certainly wasn't game of the year 2023.

I played the notoriously ratings-board-ravaged Manhunt 2 and was quite glad for the censorship actually

PC Gamer

15 mars 2025 à 17:00

I’d rather pull off the perfect stealth game takedown without pulling off a man’s goolies in the process.

The best Battlefield game of the last decade is 95% off until Thursday

PC Gamer

15 mars 2025 à 16:00

A discount so deep you could use it as a trench.

The hottest farming sim since Stardew Valley just got its second major update, adding lava caves and pets you unlock by having a 'pet dream'

PC Gamer

15 mars 2025 à 15:00

Fields of Mistria is also 20% off until Thursday.

Grab the brilliant Doom 2016 for its lowest price ever

PC Gamer

15 mars 2025 à 14:00

A mere $2 and it's yours.

Dune Awakening's latest trailer offers a glimpse of its massive coriolis storms, which reshape swathes of the map each week for 'infinite exploration'

PC Gamer

15 mars 2025 à 13:00

Shifting sands.

Today's Wordle answer for Saturday, March 15

PC Gamer

15 mars 2025 à 05:00

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

'What are most games about? Killing': Black Mirror Season 7 includes a follow-up to 2018 interactive film Bandersnatch

PC Gamer

Par :clivingston@pcgamer.com (Christopher Livingston)

15 mars 2025 à 00:00

Netflix's horror anthology returns April 10.

Sony, which is making a Helldivers 2 movie, is also making a new Starship Troopers movie, but it's not based on the Starship Troopers movie we already have

PC Gamer

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

14 mars 2025 à 23:53

This could be a little confusing—the new flick will apparently go back to the 1959 Robert Heinlein novel.

Ubisoft is reportedly talking to Tencent about creating a new business entity to manage Assassin's Creed and other big games

PC Gamer

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

14 mars 2025 à 23:40

Nothing is finalized yet, but it sounds like Ubisoft is moving toward some kind of new deal that could involve Tencent.

'It really truly changed my life in every possible way': Lady Dimitrescu actor says her Resident Evil Village role was just as transformative for her as it was for roughly half the internet in 2021

PC Gamer

14 mars 2025 à 22:21

Many such cases.

Monster Hunter Wilds' new gyro controls are a fantastic option for disabled and able-bodied players alike

PC Gamer

14 mars 2025 à 22:19

Wilds is the most accessible Monster Hunter to date, in more ways than one.

Monster Hunter Wilds' stockpile master studying a manifest

Another live service shooter is getting shut down, this time before it even launched on Steam

PC Gamer

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

14 mars 2025 à 21:00

Star Wars: Hunters debuted on the Nintendo Switch in June 2024 and a Steam release was announced in November, but now the whole thing is off.

Possibility Space owners sue NetEase for $900 million over allegations it spread 'false and defamatory rumors' of fraud at the studio that ultimately forced it to close

PC Gamer

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

14 mars 2025 à 20:49

Possibility Space was closed in 2024 under mysterious circumstances, and the rest of Jeff and Annie Strain's Prytania Media followed not long after.

Fragpunk review

PC Gamer

14 mars 2025 à 20:06

Fragpunk offers an innovative, unrestrictive, thrilling approach to competitive shooters.

Rise of the Ronin review

PC Gamer

14 mars 2025 à 19:18

A year after its console launch, Team Ninja’s latest stumbles onto PC.

2024 was Steam's 'best year ever' of users buying newly released games—but I wouldn't celebrate the end of the forever game era just yet

PC Gamer

14 mars 2025 à 19:16

Number goes up. Or does it?

Valve tracked 1.7 million Steam users who joined in 2023 to see if they stuck around—they did, and they spent $93 million

PC Gamer

14 mars 2025 à 19:13

Hot stuff.

The Bazaar could be the future of autobattlers, if it stops strangling itself to death with its own microtransactions

PC Gamer

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

14 mars 2025 à 18:37

Aggressive monetisation has made the existing community furious—but it also makes the new player experience miserable.

Varjo Aero VR headsets seem to be not working on RTX 5090s, and its community is opting for strange solutions while waiting for an Nvidia driver release to fix it

PC Gamer

14 mars 2025 à 18:18

Putting a dampener on that new card.

Microsoft co-authored paper suggests the regular use of gen-AI can leave users with a 'diminished skill for independent problem-solving' and at least one AI model seems to agree

PC Gamer

14 mars 2025 à 18:17

'Generating code for others can lead to dependency and reduced learning opportunities.'

Closeup of the new Copilot key coming to Windows 11 PC keyboards

Hall effect controllers are so cheap now I’ve got a deal for you AND your player two

PC Gamer

Par :jessica.kinghorn@futurenet.com (Jess Kinghorn)

14 mars 2025 à 18:09

Not quite a two-for-one, but serious savings nonetheless.

A pink GameSir Nova Lite, and a purple 8BitDo Ultimate 2C float in a teal void.

Final Fantasy 14 patch 7.2's trailer has me finally hyped to get stuck back in—and to go to the moon and pilot some mechs, because why not

PC Gamer

14 mars 2025 à 18:04

Fly me to the moon.

A lolporrit squeals in excitement while being driven in a moon buggie in Final Fantasy 14: Dawntrail, patch 7.2.

World's smallest microcontroller looks like I could easily accidentally inhale it but packs a genuine 32-bit Arm CPU

PC Gamer

14 mars 2025 à 17:57

A sneeze-inducing 1.38 mm² and small enough to make a Raspberry Pi look like a bus.

Soundcore Liberty 4 Pro review

PC Gamer

14 mars 2025 à 17:49

Massively customisable, tiny earbuds.

Soundcore Liberty 4 Pro earbuds on a black desk with various handheld gaming PCs.

Fortnite comes to Snapdragon: Epic Games announces upcoming Arm support for its Easy Anti-Cheat software

PC Gamer

14 mars 2025 à 17:47

Soon you can build forts and fight knights in... look, I'm getting old, okay?

Peely from Fortnite with banana-fied Wolverine claws.

'We've been keeping fans waiting for an awfully long time': We finally got to see more of Silent Hill f and boy, does it look great

PC Gamer

14 mars 2025 à 16:40

This is the kind of Silent Hill content I love to see.

Silent Hill f transmission trailer screenshots

Penne for your thoughts: This pasta display can show three individual frames and it's trying its best, okay

PC Gamer

14 mars 2025 à 16:36

There cannelloni be one. I'll stop now.

A pasta "display" on a table showing the word "keep" surrounded by fruit. Obviously.

The hooligan hacker guild that tore up WoW's newest raid (twice) just posted video evidence of the whole thing, and it's got me feeling weirdly nostalgic

PC Gamer

14 mars 2025 à 16:29

A simpler time. Maybe not better, but simpler.

A goblin with sharp teeth, wearing goggles, lets out a mischievous cackle in WoW's latest patch: Undermine(d).

Finally some good vibes from Intel as stock jumps 15% on new CEO hire and Arizona fab celebrates 'Eagle has landed' moment for its 18A node

PC Gamer

14 mars 2025 à 16:17

Is Intel finally on the up?

Intel engineers inspect a lithography machine

Asus appears to have quietly changed the design of its Q-Release PCIe slot after claims of potential GPU pin damage

PC Gamer

14 mars 2025 à 14:33

A subtle change, but a change nonetheless.

A side by side comparison of two Asus Q-Release systems, with the original design on the top and the bottom showing the apparently new design.

Mass Effect's Jennifer Hale, who played femshep, 'saw no line' before she recorded them for Bioware's flagship trilogy: 'It was all cold reading on the spot'

PC Gamer

14 mars 2025 à 14:18

"It's extraordinarily demanding."

SteelSeries QcK Performance mouse pad review

PC Gamer

14 mars 2025 à 14:01

Top-notch competitive gaming performance for a price.

SteelSeries QcK Performance mouse pads overlapping on a desk

After years of complaints about Windows Task Manager displaying CPU utilization incorrectly, a fix is finally on its way

PC Gamer

14 mars 2025 à 13:49

You can now more accurately manage your tasks.

How to find a barber and change hairstyle in Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2

PC Gamer

14 mars 2025 à 13:40

Trek across Zhelejov and Kuttenberg to find the barber locations.

Kingdom Come Deliverance 2 barbers change hairstyle - Henry sitting on a horse wearing armour.

Sony's fixing the wrong panel problems while showing off its new 'RGB LED' backlight tech with outrageous colours and brightness

PC Gamer

14 mars 2025 à 13:32

It may be bright and pretty, but that backlight resolution is still super small.

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