Splitgate 2 open beta test kicks off in May with a 'massive amount of new content'

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

30 avril 2025 à 00:30

Developer 1047 Games also teased "infinite maps," but we won't get to know more about that for a while yet.

The Elder Scrolls 4: Oblivion Remastered review

PC Gamer

30 avril 2025 à 00:11

Oblivion Remastered is a beautiful, buggy wonder.

'AI is going to become more and more difficult to detect': Fortnite has no plans to clean up increasing number of AI thumbnails cluttering up user-generated experiences

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29 avril 2025 à 22:16

Fortnite Discovery has become a cesspit for AI-generated thumbnails.

Electronic Arts lays off hundreds of employees and cancels 2 'incubation projects' including a new Titanfall game

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

29 avril 2025 à 22:11

It's all about "driving future growth," you see.

Dune-inspired indie roguelike admits it kinda ran out of ideas, but releases out of early access anyway and goes 100% free: 'Only so many things you can do that fit into the 'lateral worm cannon' mold'

PC Gamer

29 avril 2025 à 22:01

"Master the piloting of giant mechanical worms!"

Mecha worms glide around a 2D landscape.

Eric Barone says Stardew Valley was about 'the fundamentals of human sustenance,' while Haunted Chocolatier is about 'what's next': 'There's another realm of the human experience'

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Par :wesley@pcgamer.com (Wes Fenlon)

29 avril 2025 à 21:57

What if making chocolate wasn't a traditional crafting system, but more "intuitive?"

After getting Stardew Valley to 'a good place' with update 1.6, Eric Barone is now fully focused on his next game: 'I'm committed to not working on Stardew Valley until I'm done with Haunted Chocolatier'

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

29 avril 2025 à 20:49

Eric Barone's got a plan for getting Haunted Chocolatier across the finish line—or at least an idea.

We Will Be Gods promises months-long PvP wars with 'no fairness': 'There can be 140 people on one side and 70 on the other, and that's how it's going to be'

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Par :tyler@pcgamer.com (Tyler Wilde)

29 avril 2025 à 19:01

Multiplayer fantasy war game We Will Be Gods enters public pre-alpha in May, and will be free-to-play when it launches this year.

Borderlands 4 is bringing its release date forward a week and I'm already breaking out my GTA 6 conspiracy board

PC Gamer

29 avril 2025 à 18:39

Is Borderlands reverse delaying to avoid stepping on Marathon's toes? Or is it avoiding something even bigger?

Nexon wins the bidding war to make a new StarCraft as well as distribute a Blizzard mobile game that's being called 'Overwatch 3'

PC Gamer

29 avril 2025 à 18:15

I can't be the only one wondering: why?

The Minecraft Movie is well on its way to becoming the most successful videogame film of all time, as it earns $816 million

PC Gamer

29 avril 2025 à 18:13

All the credit surely has to go to the chicken jockey.

MSI Vector 16 HX AI gaming laptop review

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

29 avril 2025 à 18:11

A classic gaming laptop that delivers on the frame rate promise of Nvidia's RTX 50-series, but not on the battery life.

A Japanese retailer is only selling RTX 5090 and RTX 5080 GPUs for domestic use, which feels like a policy that is impossible to enforce

PC Gamer

29 avril 2025 à 18:08

Pretty please can I spend thousands at your store?

Nvidia RTX 5090 Founders Edition graphics card on different backgrounds

For a limited time you can get all the XCOM games for just $10—yes, even that one

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

29 avril 2025 à 18:03

That's $269 and 100s of hours' worth of the best turn-based tactics around.

Forget the rumoured 18 GB RTX 5070 Super, this utterly epic 96 GB Nvidia GPU will solve all your VRAM worries, kinda

PC Gamer

29 avril 2025 à 18:00

All for the low, low price of $8,500.

Fighting game Marvel Contest of Champions is coming to PC with over 300 characters

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Par :tyler@pcgamer.com (Tyler Wilde)

29 avril 2025 à 18:00

Marvel Contest of Champions launched on mobile devices over a decade ago, and is now bringing its giant hero and villain roster to PC.

Marvel Contest of Champions PC screenshot

Thrustmaster T.Flight HOTAS One Microsoft Flight Simulator Edition review

PC Gamer

29 avril 2025 à 17:59

A cheap-yet-cheerful starting point to an otherwise expensive hobby.

The Thrustmaster T.Flight HOTAS One Microsoft Flight Simulator Edition on white gravel with foliage in the background

Devs lament Oblivion Remastered's surprise release as Todd Howard eats their lunch: 'I noticed a complete stop in game sales from about 2 pm onward on Oblivion day'

PC Gamer

29 avril 2025 à 17:58

"I'm pretty sure Oblivion releasing gave us like a 10-20% haircut on daily revenue."

Oblivion imperial woman in blue dress with imposing Nord in regal fur coat looming behind her intimidatingly.

Elden Ring legend Let Me Solo Her finally played Bloodborne, and came across new levels of pain: 'This boss took me more tries than any previous boss'

PC Gamer

29 avril 2025 à 17:52

I can't believe he'd fight an orphan.

Hello Kitty Island Adventure is getting its first major content update today, including a new area, more visitors, and the ability to finally place items on tables

PC Gamer

29 avril 2025 à 17:34

It's time to welcome new friends to Friendship Island.

Hello Kitty and friends stood on an icy mountain in Hello Kitty Island Adventure

How to start Knights of the Nine in Oblivion and the remaster

PC Gamer

29 avril 2025 à 17:26

How to begin your Pilgrimage to The Nine.

Oblivion Remastered - a pillar shrine to the nine

Donkey Kong 64 composer shares why Nintendo didn't credit him in the Super Mario Bros. Movie for the DK rap—it owns the song, and didn't want to

PC Gamer

29 avril 2025 à 17:13

"They're all the performers on the track. So they're all in the movie uncredited."

Donkey Kong from the Super Mario Bros. Movie trailer.

How to begin The Shivering Isles in Oblivion and the remaster

PC Gamer

29 avril 2025 à 17:07

How and when you can unlock Oblivion's most beloved expansion.

Oblivion Remastered - Sheogorath balances a staff on his hand while surrounded by magical fires

'There are currently three Xbox controller prototypes': New cloud gaming-enabled controller rumour suggests everything really is an Xbox

PC Gamer

29 avril 2025 à 16:52

Xbox could be all-in on the cloud.

The Xbox Wireless Controller in white sat on a desk.

Save £100 on any Chillblast gaming PC worth over £2,000 with this voucher code

PC Gamer

29 avril 2025 à 16:25

Stick a new PC into your basket before the end of May and get a tasty discount.

White and black Chillblast gaming PC on a turquoise background

Sea of Thieves has finally changed its broken ban system and, more importantly, actually tells you what you did wrong now

PC Gamer

29 avril 2025 à 16:11

Not the type of points you want to be earning, really.

I hear you, upgrading your PC has probably felt out of reach this year, but these are the 5 best Amazon and Newegg Gaming Week deals I've found so far to help you out

PC Gamer

29 avril 2025 à 16:11

It's still possible to find good prices on some seriously great components.

A selection of PC components artfully arranged on a teal deals background

Intel's upcoming Panther Lake CPU looks like a killer gaming handheld chip thanks to a reported massive graphics upgrade, hefty AI performance and upgraded E-cores

PC Gamer

29 avril 2025 à 16:07

50% more graphics cores, 180 AI TOPS, Darkmont cores, the works.

A photograph of Intel's Interim Co-CEO Michelle Johnston Holthaus standing on stage, with a background displaying Panther Lake and Intel 18A

Chinese gamers are protesting Infinity Nikki by flooding its Steam launch with attempts to scare off would-be players

PC Gamer

29 avril 2025 à 16:04

Infinity Nikki's Version 1.5 has slipped in some monetisation changes that haven't gone down well.

Ubisoft remembers it owns Splinter Cell, patches Steam achievements into Blacklist 12 years after it first came out

PC Gamer

29 avril 2025 à 15:54

Call it an act of conviction.

Dragon Age creator says Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 is 'kind of to JRPGs what Baldur's Gate 3 was to CRPGs'

PC Gamer

29 avril 2025 à 15:51

David Gaider's among the spellbound for Sandfall's latest hit.

New RPG Clair Obscur: Expedition 33's team of protagonists, including Gustave, Lune, and Maelle

An Oblivion Remastered player ended up in 'the backrooms of Oblivion' trying to find the exact location from The Elder Scrolls 6 teaser trailer

PC Gamer

29 avril 2025 à 15:20

The search for The Elder Scrolls 6 is a hard trek.

Archer standing in front of Oblivion gate

Larian's Swen Vincke says AI-obsessed studios won't 'have a competitive advantage', because those tools are 'gonna be what's available to everybody'

PC Gamer

29 avril 2025 à 15:19

Vincke says that all games'll need the human touch, even if AI's been useful for early prototyping and annoying busywork.

With Larian finally at the end of its journey with Baldur's Gate 3, what do we want next from the new kings of the RPG?

PC Gamer

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

29 avril 2025 à 14:53

With Baldur's Gate 4 off the table, the studio has moved on to two mysterious new projects.

A Dark Urge character with the default Dragonborn appearance posing dramatically, presumably after having done an evil deed.

Fortnite's rarest collaboration has returned to the store after a 1,794 day absence

PC Gamer

29 avril 2025 à 14:00

Psycho Bandit's back, baby.

AMD and Samsung demo 8K 120 Hz gaming and I am really, really struggling to care

PC Gamer

29 avril 2025 à 13:47

So many pixels. So little point.

Nvidia has just released yet another GPU driver hotfix to add further fixes to the other hotfix driver it released last week. And it still hasn't really fixed things

PC Gamer

29 avril 2025 à 13:30

We heard you like hotfixes, so we added hotfixes to your hotfix.

Speedy card battler Arcane Rush has just launched a new Gauntlet mode

PC Gamer

29 avril 2025 à 13:24

The fast-paced alternative to the old guard of card battlers is a great starting point for curious card players, but it might just get its hooks into you for the long haul too.

Lethal Company dev is currently sitting on an update, but might 'give it a couple of weeks and add a creature or two' instead

PC Gamer

29 avril 2025 à 13:22

Another update is finally on the way.

Scientists in hazmat suits in a science facility

Infinity Nikki's Steam launch has been branded with 'mixed' reviews after players are struggling to even launch the game

PC Gamer

29 avril 2025 à 13:16

No one can dress to impress right now.

'We are profoundly thankful for your lasting devotion': Elden Ring celebrates 30 million copies sold just a month before Elden Ring Nightreign

PC Gamer

29 avril 2025 à 13:06

Now that's a lot of maidens.

Be Quiet! Dark Mount gaming keyboard review

PC Gamer

29 avril 2025 à 13:00

A modular keyboard desperate for the spotlight.

Be Quiet's Dark Mount mechanical keyboard seen on a desk. The modular media dock and numberpad attachments are attached. The two-part magnetic wrist rest is attached. The RGB lights are on, bathing everything in orange light.

Be Quiet! Light Mount gaming keyboard review

PC Gamer

29 avril 2025 à 13:00

A full-size sound-dampened board exuding far from quiet confidence.

Be Quiet's Light Mount mechanical gaming keyboard sits on a large red and black mouse mat. The magnetic wrist rest is attached. The RGB lights are on, displaying very bright and vibrant rainbow colours.

Bitcoin mining now just totes unprofitable, costing over $137,000 to mine just one BTC in the US and near $200,000 per coin in Germany

PC Gamer

29 avril 2025 à 11:11

With coins pricing at around $90,000 the math just doesn't add up.

A hand holds a bitcoin over the US flag draped over a slate board.

Intel says reports of 20k redundancies 'inaccurate' and states previous early retirement options robbed them of valuable experience

PC Gamer

29 avril 2025 à 10:50

It's still a very scary week to be an Intel employee.

Three engineers give a thumbs up inside Intel's Fab 28.

Taiwan to drop new law restricting TSMC from allowing foreign fabs to produce leading edge nodes after company's $100 billion investment in US facilities

PC Gamer

29 avril 2025 à 10:43

The law's designed to keep other countries one node behind Taiwan at all times.

Today's Wordle answer for Tuesday, April 29

PC Gamer

29 avril 2025 à 05:00

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

Dark Souls 2 cut content includes a giant enemy crab wearing a castle tower as a shell which you could enter from above for massive damage

PC Gamer

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

29 avril 2025 à 03:56

Dark Souls 2's cut hermit crab proves that FromSoft's love affair with angry crustaceans goes way back.

A screenshot showing a giant enemy crab wearing a castle tower as a shell, which was cut from Dark Souls 2 in its development stage

There's a reason Oblivion Remastered's new voice actors all sound familiar: It's a huge Skyrim reunion

PC Gamer

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

29 avril 2025 à 03:50

The return of actor Keith Szarabajka (Erandur in Skyrim, Joshua Graham in New Vegas) for Newblivion was a particular treat for me.

Lucien Lachance closeup in Oblivion Remastered

I hope Dune: Awakening's base-building get weirder and wilder than what we saw in the beta, because it's going up against decades of killer Dune artwork

PC Gamer

Par :wesley@pcgamer.com (Wes Fenlon)

29 avril 2025 à 01:52

Dune: Awakening's building interface is a bit clunky, too.

HR Giger artwork of The Emperor's Palace for Jodorowsky's Dune

Oblivion Remastered has nearly tripled how much Skooma you can chug at once, ringing in a new era of drug-fueled super speed

PC Gamer

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

29 avril 2025 à 00:19

OG Oblivion: Eight stacks of Skooma zoomies (Skoomies). Oblivion Remastered: 22.

Crusader Kings 3 rides into the Steam best sellers atop a 70% sale and new Mongol-centric DLC

PC Gamer

28 avril 2025 à 23:12

It's Temujin time.

Mongol horsemen ride across the steppe in the key art for the Khans of the Steppe DLC.

Russia accuses World of Tanks executives of 'extremist activities,' moves to seize assets of Russian publisher

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

28 avril 2025 à 22:46

Russia apparently takes issue with Wargaming's opposition to the invasion of Ukraine, but a different company is paying the price.

World of Tanks WargamingUnited Ukraine charity art

Swen Vincke says Larian didn't do Baldur's Gate 3 DLC because the idea is 'boring… there's just no passion'

PC Gamer

28 avril 2025 à 21:06

"What we're doing now makes developers way more happy."

Elden Ring Nightreign system requirements are good news if you haven't upgraded your PC since you played Elden Ring

PC Gamer

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

28 avril 2025 à 19:31

Aside from a bump in CPU requirement, Nightreign's minimum and recommended specs are virtually identical to those of the original Elden Ring.

Nightreign knight holds his fist in menacing fashion

It took us embarrassingly long to realize that Oblivion Remastered still has a local map for when you get lost in dungeons

PC Gamer

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

28 avril 2025 à 19:30

Oblivion Remastered's local map isn't exactly easy to find.

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