Borderlands 4 looks like more of the same yet again—and in 2025, that's not enough

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

1 mai 2025 à 18:38

When your big, headline features are just basic quality-of-life improvements, something's not right.

Amid tariff woes, 8BitDo stops shipping product from China-based warehouse to US customers

PC Gamer

1 mai 2025 à 18:30

Put on pause.

The 8BitDo mechanical gaming keyboard designs with a retro PC.

League of Legends' world champion Shushei dies at 36: 'One of the first greats of our game'

PC Gamer

1 mai 2025 à 18:14

"We lost a legend."

The LoL player Shushei looks at the camera.

Skyrim lead designer makes it sound like there's gonna be loading screens in Bethesda games for years to come yet, bucko: 'We just didn’t have a choice, really'

PC Gamer

1 mai 2025 à 18:08

Heavy load.

Silksong got a release date for an Australian museum exhibit before anything else, and I wish I was kidding

PC Gamer

1 mai 2025 à 18:03

But hey, there's a new sprite sheet, at least.

An image of Hornet from Hollow Knight: Silksong standing amidst a verdant landscape.

The RX 9060 XT rumour mill flip-flops again: we shall have an 8 GB version of AMD's card after all

PC Gamer

1 mai 2025 à 17:46

Hopefully at a reasonable price point.

AMD RX 9070 XT and Nvidia RTX 5070 Ti graphics cards from Asus

Foundry VTT creator does what Hasbro won't with D&D, trashes the idea of AI in tabletop roleplaying game industry as a 'betrayal'

PC Gamer

1 mai 2025 à 17:42

"A betrayal of the creative people who made the TTRPG industry what it is."

A group of bandits sweep into a tavern to viciously interrogate its subjects in the D&D 2024 monster manual.

Gigabyte MO34WQC2 OLED gaming monitor review

PC Gamer

1 mai 2025 à 17:33

Gigabyte's first OLED ultrawide delivers the goods but we've seen it all before.

Gigabyte MO34WQC2 ultrawide OLED gaming monitor

Turtle Beach Recon 70 review

PC Gamer

1 mai 2025 à 17:32

This ultra-cheap headset is an admirable attempt at a solid budget set of cans, but spending just a little more will make a big difference in terms of all-around quality.

Turtle Beach Recon 70 gaming headset on a blue background

WoW's idea to clamp down on combat add-ons is misguided, especially since it could keep improving its base experience without, uh, doing that

PC Gamer

1 mai 2025 à 17:29

Blizzard is playing with forces I'm not sure it fully comprehends.

Anduin Wrynn smiles, almost nostalgically, at something off-screen in World of Warcraft: The War Within.

Modding turf war erupts as 'notoriously controversial' dev puts out an Unofficial Oblivion Remastered Patch one week after the game came out

PC Gamer

1 mai 2025 à 17:23

The ghosts of Elder Scrolls' modding past are already rearing their heads.

LG's new 'Hybrid Tandem' tech apparently solves the blue light problem which could mean near-flawless OLED gaming monitors

PC Gamer

1 mai 2025 à 16:58

Here's hoping, anyway.

This colour E-ink monitor is very pretty but the price means you may be better off strapping 7 Kindle Colorsofts together

PC Gamer

1 mai 2025 à 16:48

Finally, something perfectly suited to battling my visual novel backlog.

BOOX's Mira Pro--the color version and the greyscale version of the e-ink monitor--sit side by side on a marble counter.

How to get black soul gems in Oblivion Remastered

PC Gamer

1 mai 2025 à 16:34

Make your own black soul gems for enchanting and Vaermina's quest.

Oblivion black soul gems - A masculine character wearing ornate heavy armour standing next to a stone altar.

Oblivion Remastered contains an incredibly neat easter egg to one of the nerdiest viral videos of the early 2010s

PC Gamer

1 mai 2025 à 16:14

Potion Seller makes a small cameo in Oblivion Remastered.

Tandilwe, the Imperial City's master speechcraft trainer.

This Acer RTX 4050 notebook is just $600 and, with a cheap RAM upgrade, you'll have a brilliant budget gaming laptop

PC Gamer

1 mai 2025 à 16:00

Plus, you can add a second SSD to host your bulging Steam library.

An image of an Acer Nitro V 15 gaming laptop against a teal background with a white border

'We as the developers do not feel like we are being robbed by anyone': Drug Dealer Simulator developer says it 'would not pursue any legal actions against Schedule 1 in any shape or form' if it had its way

PC Gamer

1 mai 2025 à 14:23

The two games spent April entangled in drama.

Nobody told me you could cheese the hell out of Oblivion Remastered's lockpicking minigame and I've only broken 3 lockpicks since discovering it

PC Gamer

1 mai 2025 à 14:20

I'd almost given up on ObRem's painstaking lockpicking until recently.

Lucien Lachance, a Dark Brotherhood member in a black hood and robes, gives a rictus grin into the camera.

Turns out that the earliest versions of Windows 7 took longer to load depending on your choice of desktop wallpaper

PC Gamer

1 mai 2025 à 13:50

It wasn't just you left staring at the Welcome screen for 30 seconds.

Cape Town, South Africa - June 27, 2011: Stickers on a new laptop computer brag about its equipment: the Windows 7 operating system and the Intel Core i3 processor chip. Part of the keyboard can be seen, out of focus, in the background.

Assassin's Creed Shadows announces more difficulties, more immersion options, more Jesuits, and a bo staff in its year 1 roadmap

PC Gamer

1 mai 2025 à 13:07

Just what I wanted.

Assassin's Creed Shadows immersive mode - Naoe holding a tanto in her hand as two guards fall to the ground behind her.

PC gaming can't stop getting Ws, as Microsoft shares it's being weighed down by console and hardware revenue woes

PC Gamer

1 mai 2025 à 12:45

We're having a sensible chuckle from our (ivory) gaming towers.

'China is right behind us': Jensen Huang says we need to 'accelerate the diffusion of American AI technology around the world'

PC Gamer

1 mai 2025 à 12:14

Is more exports or less exports in the American interest?

Jensen Huang, co-founder and chief executive officer of Nvidia Corp., speaks while holding the company's new GeForce RTX 50 series graphics cards and a Thor Blackwell robotics processor during the 2025 CES event in Las Vegas, Nevada, US, on Monday, Jan. 6, 2025. Huang announced a raft of new chips, software and services, aiming to stay at the forefront of artificial intelligence computing. Photographer: Bridget Bennett/Bloomberg via Getty Images

How to complete the A Taste of Home quest in Disney Dreamlight Valley

PC Gamer

1 mai 2025 à 11:25

Tick off another friendship quest for Mirabel.

Herring location with white ripples and bubbles in the water in Disney Dreamlight Valley

I spent the day using GameSir's new GameHub app, potentially corrupting my phone and gaming PC, so you don't have to

PC Gamer

1 mai 2025 à 11:24

If you want to sideload a dodgy seeming Trombone Champ emulator, GameHub is pretty good.

GameSir X5 Lite with the GameHub logo on the screen

More Intellimouse than eXtreme gamer, Cherry's new wireless gaming mice give understated office chic in the best possible way

PC Gamer

1 mai 2025 à 10:35

These gamer mice have that Microsoft Office aesthetic.

Today's Wordle answer for Thursday, May 1

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1 mai 2025 à 05:00

Help with today's Wordle if you need it.

US court slams Apple for 'obvious cover-up' in major Epic victory that could see Fortnite return to iOS soon

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Par :tyler@pcgamer.com (Tyler Wilde)

1 mai 2025 à 03:23

Today's court order finds that Apple has violated a 2021 injunction, and that one Apple exec "outright lied under oath."

Tim Sweeney, CEO of Epic Games, looks at the camera.

Shotgun Cop Man review

PC Gamer

1 mai 2025 à 01:09

The Flash game aesthetic lives on in this fast-paced action-platformer.

Shotgun Cop Man aims a double-barreled shotgun

Rusty Lake celebrates 10 years of strangeness with a free game, a new game announcement, a short film, and a big sale

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

1 mai 2025 à 01:07

Servant of the Lake will be "a classic single-player Rusty Lake point-and-click adventure."

A rabbit magician about to get his arm bitten off by a tiger. Yeah that's a spoiler.

Gearbox is 'making rarity matter again' in Borderlands 4 after dropping too many legendaries in Borderlands 3

PC Gamer

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

1 mai 2025 à 00:30

Borderlands 3 "devalued" legendary items, so in Borderlands 4 they'll "truly be special events."

Todd Howard is hiding in Oblivion Remastered, and you can find him and make him fall in love with you

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Par :clivingston@pcgamer.com (Christopher Livingston)

30 avril 2025 à 23:59

"Oh no! What do we do? I'm so scared!" 🥺👉👈

A surprised looking person wearing armor in Oblivion Remastered

Every house you can buy in Oblivion Remastered, including upgrades and freebies

PC Gamer

30 avril 2025 à 22:49

Every house (or castle) in Cyrodiil is a fantasy fixer-upper.

The house in Cheydinhal exterior from Oblivion Remastered.

'Be more like Larian, less like Activision': Ex-Call of Duty producer takes his old employer to task for prioritizing FOMO over quality

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

30 avril 2025 à 22:47

The XDefiant producer and former face of Call of Duty has some thoughts on CoD's live service shift.

New Baldur's Gate 3 hotfix patches a rare case of 'teeny tiny legs' syndrome and ensures Charisma gives polearm users the clout they deserve

PC Gamer

30 avril 2025 à 22:39

God, I love patch day.

Baldur's Gate 3 — A half-elf paladin player character in conversation with a party member.

EA says Codemasters won't be making any more rally games: 'We've reached the end of the road working on WRC'

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

30 avril 2025 à 22:08

The FIA says it's going in an "ambitious new direction" with future WRC game releases, but for Codemasters it's the end of an era.

Evil Dead: The Game is being removed from sale just three years after it launched

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

30 avril 2025 à 20:26

Saber Interactive has confirmed the takedown is intentional, but won't say why.

You can get 74 indie games for a scant $16 in this eSims for Gaza Itch.io bundle

PC Gamer

30 avril 2025 à 19:59

Plus over 80 TTRPGs, 26 books, over a dozen comics, and a few soundtracks on the side.

A researcher rides a dogsled across a polar expanse at sunset in Arctico.

Blizzard's making a huge World of Warcraft change: combat add-ons will be eliminated, with new features coming to replace some of their functions

PC Gamer

30 avril 2025 à 19:05

All the details on Blizzard's planned changes to World of Warcraft add-ons, which will end support for the MMO's most popular mods.

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

Outraged Redditors discover they have been subject to a secret chatbot experiment that found AI posts were 'three to six times more persuasive' than humans

PC Gamer

30 avril 2025 à 18:43

All your subreddits are belong to us.

Randy Pitchford says Borderlands 4's new release date 'is literally 0% about any other product’s actual or theoretical launch date,' and you know he's talking about Grand Theft Auto 6

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

30 avril 2025 à 18:42

The Borderlands 4 release date was moved up by nearly two weeks, and we're all wondering why.

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