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Hardcore World War 2 shooter Hell Let Loose is free to play all weekend, and on a 50% discount for the next two weeks

PC Gamer

15 juin 2025 à 16:00

Team17's Battlefield aspirant will let you sign up for free until Monday.

I was surprised and delighted to learn that every FromSoft protagonist outside of Elden Ring Nightreign is 5 feet 7 inches tall, aka the best height for cool people

PC Gamer

15 juin 2025 à 15:00

Height mapping.

A cloaked Elden Ring Nightreign character lifts her hand and seemingly looks at it despite wearing a mask

Still Wakes the Deep is getting an expansion where you investigate the events of the base game ten years later, and it's out next week

PC Gamer

15 juin 2025 à 14:00

Siren's Rest will lure you in on Wednesday.

A saturation diving bell descends into the abyss in Still Wakes the Deep's expansion.

Less than a week from launch, FBC: Firebreak has broken out its roadmap, with two new updates coming this year adding new levels, enemies and even systems

PC Gamer

15 juin 2025 à 13:00

Remedy's cooperative shooter releases on Tuesday.

Firing water at incoming Hiss in FBC: Firebreak.

Why was The Witcher 3 so dark? 'It's dishonest to always show and paint the world in a positive light'

PC Gamer

15 juin 2025 à 05:12

Classic Polish pessimism.

Orianna, from The Witcher 3 launch trailer

Today's Wordle answer for Sunday, June 15

PC Gamer

15 juin 2025 à 05:00

Help with solving Sunday's puzzle.

Wordle today being played on a phone

Silent Hill series producer Motoi Okamoto says 'as the series progressed, I felt that the essence of Japanese horror was lost'

PC Gamer

15 juin 2025 à 03:03

He wants Silent Hill F to bring it back.

A Japanese schoolgirl, partially obscured by red flowers

Somebody actually bought that $3,000 Steam Deck prototype off eBay, then they let a YouTuber crack it open to see what's inside

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

15 juin 2025 à 01:23

I'm glad that Valve iterated beyond this.

Prototype Steam Deck with rounded trackpads, blue accents, smaller analogue sticks on top of a wooden table.

Dark Souls narrator and prolific actor Pik-Sen Lim has died

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

15 juin 2025 à 00:03

Lim's career spanned decades, and included our first impression of FromSoftware's foundational series.

VAMPIRE ACADEMY -- The Trials Episode 108 -- Pictured: Pik-Sen Lim as Queen

Real-life rally racing is dying and triple-A rally games are dead, but the sport's gotten a second life thanks to these excellent indie racers

PC Gamer

14 juin 2025 à 20:10

For the love of dirt-road racing.

illustration of rally car making jump with blue sky and golden gate bridge in background.

The Outer Worlds 2 director offers the most sympathetic answer I've yet heard for the $80 game question: 'We don't set the prices for our games,' and 'You'd have to honestly talk to the Xbox folks'

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

14 juin 2025 à 18:58

Fair enough.

A large face on a view screen

This massive mod for Mount and Blade 2: Bannerlord not only converts it to Sengoku-era Japan, it adds fully simulated naval battles months ahead of the base game

PC Gamer

14 juin 2025 à 15:00

Shokuho is available to download now.

A samurai archer draws his bow on horseback, trees visible in the background.

Two Point Museum's latest update adds memorial exhibits for staff who vanish on expeditions, which you can put on display or sell for cold, hard profit

PC Gamer

14 juin 2025 à 14:00

The 3.0 update also adds new decorative posters and backpacks for burglars.

A child stands on top of a dinosaur exhibit, hugging the nose of a dinosaur skull.

Satisfactory's biggest patch since launch makes it friendlier for Steam Deck players: 'It's no exaggeration to say this update includes more than a year's worth of work'

PC Gamer

14 juin 2025 à 13:00

The 1.1 update also expands conveyor belt modularity, tidies up your pipework, adds a personnel elevator and overhauls photo mode.

Satisfactory

Today's Wordle answer for Saturday, June 14

PC Gamer

14 juin 2025 à 05:00

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

Wordle answers

The FPS genre is addicted to sprinting and clambering, but Halo just proved we're better off without them

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

14 juin 2025 à 02:05

The "Halo 3 Infinite" throwback mode isn't just a nostalgia play: It's a blueprint for better shooters.

Halo Infinite Mark V armor

Oil rig horror game Still Wakes the Deep is going underwater in a surprise story expansion that arrives next week

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

14 juin 2025 à 00:50

Siren's Rest is set 10 years after the events of The Chinese Room's nautical horror game.

Diving bell going deep in Still Wakes the Deep: Siren's Rest

GTA Online's Money Fronts update is basically Breaking Bad minus the meth

PC Gamer

14 juin 2025 à 00:47

The next GTA Online update is getting three new businesses, refining some old missions and adding even more.

GTA Online Money Fronts

Out of Words features one of the cutest videogame characters I've ever seen, but there's a tinge of Kafkaesque darkness to it, too

PC Gamer

14 juin 2025 à 00:29

Cue the "I would like to see the baby" clip.

The cute, blue manta-like creature from Out of Words, Aleph.

Sony removes regional restrictions on four of its biggest games on Steam

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

14 juin 2025 à 00:28

Slowly but surely, Sony seems to be moving toward a more sensible policy on Steam.

A quarter of Helldivers pose triumphantly after killing a Terminid foe.

Say goodbye to Overwatch hero Bastion and say hello to next season's Cooler Bastion who will be 10% smaller because he was such a bullet magnet

PC Gamer

14 juin 2025 à 00:22

Game balance can take many forms.

A side-by-side screenshot of Overwatch hero Bastion. On the left is his current size as of season 16 and on the right is his size in season 17, which is 10% smaller.

Wuchang: Fallen Feathers made me grapple with the parry vs. dodge conundrum

PC Gamer

13 juin 2025 à 22:45

To dodge, or not to dodge?

Wuchang: Fallen Feathers

A rumor that Nier: Automata's character designs were censored for Western audiences came from a mistranslation, creators say

PC Gamer

13 juin 2025 à 22:39

A mistranslation from a recent live stream caused some confusion.

2B, a playable character from Nier: Automata

Absolum isn't just the best demo on Steam, it's one of my favorite things I've played in 2025

Par :evan@pcgamer.com (Evan Lahti)

13 juin 2025 à 22:08

The best game of Steam Next Fest is a roguelike beat 'em up.

Absolum key art showing a grey-blue character with white hair swinging a sword over their shoulder, another masked character is visible in the background with fists raised

PlayStation Studios boss admits Marathon response has been 'varied' but says Sony is taking steps to ensure it's 'not going to make the same mistakes' it did with Concord

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

13 juin 2025 à 21:45

Herman Hulst says Sony is giving Bungie's extraction shooter "the optimal chance of success."

A Runner from the next Marathon game reveal looking at the screen, her eyes are covered, possibly replaced by biosynthetics

Gooner game of the year Stellar Blade's mods are 41% smut, ensuring gamers will never see the light of heaven

PC Gamer

13 juin 2025 à 20:33

It is, apparently, always possible for there to be less clothing.

Stellar Blade salute

This strategy roguelike is like trying to fight off an alien invasion with a bunch of PCs from the late 1970s

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

13 juin 2025 à 19:48

Xenopurge's free demo is available now on Steam.

Xenopurge old school computer interface

Xbox handheld rumoured to be 'essentially cancelled' but the new Asus Xbox Ally is actually a preview of all future Xbox consoles, not just handhelds

PC Gamer

13 juin 2025 à 18:35

No more dedicated Xbox consoles built by Microsoft, so the story goes...

An ROG Xbox Ally X and Ally shown during Microsoft's Xbox stream in June 2025.

This $40 electric screwdriver is a must-have for fixing tech on the go, or putting together your next PC build in style

PC Gamer

13 juin 2025 à 18:17

Upgrade your desktop AND your tool kit.

The Hoto Nex O1 Pro 3.6V electric screwdriver floats in the teal-gradient, PC Gamer deal void.

'225,000,000,000 attacks per day': Computer users and gamers are significantly more at risk of cybercrime than at any other time in the past

PC Gamer

13 juin 2025 à 17:30

Fortunately, gaming companies and you, the humble PC gamer, can do plenty to help.

Cloudflare headquarters in San Francisco

Some RX 9070 XTs are reportedly slightly slower than others thanks to Samsung GDDR6 memory chips

PC Gamer

13 juin 2025 à 17:27

Very slightly, admittedly.

Asus Prime RX 9070 XT graphics card

Mio: Memories in Orbit has all the wonder of playing Inside for the first time and its devs are working hard to make it even better

PC Gamer

13 juin 2025 à 16:48

Mio has made it onto my "most beautiful games" list.

Mio floating in front of a mural

'No gay, no pay': The RuneScape community is absolutely mauling Jagex's new CEO over his decision to cancel new Pride Month events

PC Gamer

13 juin 2025 à 16:28

Jon Bellamy claimed the choice to dramatically curtail pride was to prevent backlash. That's caused an even bigger backlash.

An adventurer traversing through the Stronghold of Security.

Alienware 34 AW3425DW gaming monitor review

PC Gamer

13 juin 2025 à 16:21

Alienware's ultrawide OLED has a new look, but the gaming experience is mostly familiar.

Alienware 34 AW3425DW

'Originally it was like, no, we are not interested': It apparently took 5.5 hours of hardcore pitching to get Thanos in Fortnite—and as you know, the rest is history

PC Gamer

13 juin 2025 à 16:05

Gateway gauntlet.

Fortnite Thanos Crossover

Imagine how big Nvidia's GB200 AI superchip is in person. Nope, it's even bigger than that

PC Gamer

13 juin 2025 à 16:00

Bow to the might of the super-silicon.

Nvidia's Jensen Huang, his arms wide, at GTC 2024

Intel's mythical Big Battlemage GPU pops up in the MESA Linux driver making a launch later this year that little bit more likely

PC Gamer

13 juin 2025 à 15:38

An RTX 4070 or 5070 beater for a bit less money?

Intel Arc B580 graphics card

'We have people working on fixing the goomba stomping'—Dune: Awakening's PvP is getting dominated by packs of rabid ornithopter pilots squishing their enemies

PC Gamer

13 juin 2025 à 15:15

Orni-stompers.

The eyes of a Dune: Awakening player looking afraid

Wikipedia pauses AI summary experiment after editors say it 'would do immediate and irreversible harm to our readers and to our reputation as a decently trustworthy and serious source'

PC Gamer

13 juin 2025 à 13:57

The Wikipedia community appears less than pleased with AI integration efforts to date.

Logo of Wikipedia is seen in Ankara, Turkey on November 30, 2019.

Cities: Skylines 2's latest patch has introduced quays and piers after seeing players using makeshift substitutes: 'We know how challenging they can be to build'

PC Gamer

13 juin 2025 à 13:36

The patch also introduces bugfixes for cargo transportation.

Beach front properties at sunset.