Should you play Rematch with a mouse or a controller? It's a harder decision than you might think

PC Gamer

21 juin 2025 à 01:52

A controller might seem like the obvious choice, but there is one reason to try the mouse and keyboard controls, too.

Elden Ring Nightreign player completes their 'solo gremlin challenge', clearing every boss in a row as its squishiest character

PC Gamer

21 juin 2025 à 00:45

This place reeks of success.

A doll character in white from Elden Ring Nightreign with one arm holding the other and a castle in the background

Rematch surpasses 1 million players in its first day of full release

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

21 juin 2025 à 00:40

Despite some bug issues and a lack of crossplay, Sloclap's 5v5 soccer game seems to be doing very well for itself.

David Cronenberg says eXistenZ wasn't about predicting modern gaming, but if the 1999 sci-fi thriller did do that, 'that's lovely'

PC Gamer

Par :tyler@pcgamer.com (Tyler Wilde)

21 juin 2025 à 00:11

The movie sees Jude Law and Jennifer Jason Leigh question reality in a surreal VR game.

Baldur's Gate 3 Karlach actor Samantha Béart was initially turned down for roles like 'Goblin 49,' but 2 years later they were hired 'within a day' of their audition as 'the muscle mummy we know and love'

PC Gamer

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

20 juin 2025 à 23:38

Béart also had a day job as an IT consultant during the long recording process.

Monster Hunter Wilds has been hit by over 2,000 negative Steam reviews in the last week as players lose hope that Capcom will fix its egregious performance issues

PC Gamer

20 juin 2025 à 23:14

The game has dropped to an "overwhelmingly negative" rating in the last week.

FBC: Firebreak patch aims to improve the game's early hours, which 'do not provide a good experience,' Remedy admits

PC Gamer

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

20 juin 2025 à 23:01

The 1.2 patch released today makes a range of balance changes, makes Lost Assets harder to miss, and cuts back on the Clearance grind.

Two players wearing gas masks wield raised shotguns

Oblivion is a very funny game but the Skyblivion remake may not be, and you can blame the quality of Skyrim's 'streamlined' engine for that

PC Gamer

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

20 juin 2025 à 22:49

Much of the jank that gave Oblivion such great comedic potential was smoothed out in Skyrim, and Skyblivion lead dev Rebelzize says intentionally recreating it in the remake just isn't feasible.

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

A Duke Nukem TV series may be coming from the producer of the Devil May Cry and Castlevania animated shows on Netflix

PC Gamer

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

20 juin 2025 à 22:09

Adi Shankar says he's acquired the rights to Duke Nukem from Gearbox.

Duke Nukem with arm outstretched, pistol in hand, aiming at the screen

007 First Light: All the key details on IO Interactive's upcoming stealth action game

PC Gamer

20 juin 2025 à 19:52

Agent 47 walked so 007 could run.

A close-up shot of James Bone in 007 First Light wearing dark sunglasses and a pink shirt in a tropical location

Grounded 2: All the key details on the shrunken survival-crafter

PC Gamer

20 juin 2025 à 19:49

From release date to ant riding and new crafting, here’s everything we know about Grounded 2.

Balatro creator gets 'a taste of my own medicine' as he struggles in vain to score the game's hardest achievement

PC Gamer

20 juin 2025 à 19:43

"Well well well if it isn’t the consequences of my actions."

A joker card with other cards in the background

Trump extends TikTok sale deadline in the US yet again, leaving the whole situation feeling 'less like a ticking clock and more like a looped ringtone… political Groundhog Day'

PC Gamer

20 juin 2025 à 18:48

Trump has previously said "I have a warm spot in my heart for TikTok."

The TikTok app with Donald Trump ranting behind it.

I've already found the best fishing game in Steam's Fishing Fest, Scale the Depths, which lets you feed fish to Nessie in Loch Ness and hunt for the mythic Beithir

PC Gamer

20 juin 2025 à 18:42

The otter is friendly, the Keplie is not.

Lenovo might have just leaked the more powerful Legion Go 2's release date for September

PC Gamer

20 juin 2025 à 18:21

The release date for the proper sequel to the Legion Go has come from its own social channels, though it might've said something it shouldn't.

Lenovo Legion Go 2 prototype render on a colourful background.

SanDisk Extreme Pro 2 TB external SSD review

PC Gamer

20 juin 2025 à 17:39

Bringing blistering USB4 speeds into the mainstream.

SanDisk Extreme Pro 2 TB USB4 external SSD

The Lenovo Legion Go is now $20 cheaper than when I last wrote about it, which was a day after the Nintendo Switch 2 launched

PC Gamer

20 juin 2025 à 17:35

It's definitely not the Switch 2—but that's no bad thing at all.

Design your perfect battle car block by block, then watch a legion of alien robots blow it up because you suck at 3 point turns, in this explosive Vampire Survivors-like

PC Gamer

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

20 juin 2025 à 17:27

You can try out TerraTech Legion now with a free demo.

A car firing a large amount of lasers in TerraTech Legion.

No, 16 billion passwords didn't just get exposed in a mega-hack, but you should get with the program and stop reusing passwords anyways

PC Gamer

20 juin 2025 à 17:14

This supposed breach might not be what it seems but don't let that deter you from getting yourself a password manager and turning on 2FA.

A screenshot of the Proton Pass dark web monitoring service window.

AMD just mentioned an as yet unreleased Ryzen X3D chip that could become the budget gaming CPU of champions

PC Gamer

20 juin 2025 à 14:59

Come on, AMD, let's see this chip on shelves around the world.

A photo of an AMD Ryzen 9 9900X processor resting on a CPU cooling unit in a motherboard

Final Fantasy 14 is making it easier to enter its latest dungeon so you can stop spending half an hour playing 'instance gacha'

PC Gamer

20 juin 2025 à 14:57

Occult Crescent makes it mighty difficult to get 48 players in one room.

Final Fantasy 14 Dawntrail Occult Crescent questline

Despite bankrolling Square Enix, 'cost' is somehow the reason Final Fantasy 14's newest raid (which has only been cleared 400 times in 23 days) wasn't given an easier version

PC Gamer

20 juin 2025 à 14:57

CS3's got its priorities all backwards.

A viper in Final Fantasy 14: Dawntrail looking utterly perplexed, hood down, while stood on a beautiful sunrise overlooking a crystal blue sea.

GOG says it won't repeat its ill-fated Daggerfall GOG Cut with its new one-click modding program, not least because it can send more than one message a day to modders now

PC Gamer

20 juin 2025 à 13:56

GOG won't be assuming personal responsibility over updates this time round.

GOG one-clicking modding announcement image, showing Bloodlines, Doom 3, Fallout London, and Heroes of Might and Magic 3.

'We just kept geeking out': Skyblivion devs were invited to Bethesda HQ and ended up spending the whole day talking about modding with the team and Todd Howard

PC Gamer

20 juin 2025 à 13:32

"There's a lot of passion and love in that company."

Oblivion's dungeons suck, Skyblivion is making them better: 'That's where the power of a proper remake comes from'

PC Gamer

20 juin 2025 à 12:38

"We still have something to offer in that we have more or less redesigned every aspect of the game."

FF14 'stalker plugin' PlayerScope shut down after creator says they were sent a cease & desist—though that's not quite the end of it

PC Gamer

20 juin 2025 à 12:36

As long as the vulnerability exists, there's a problem.

These 7 games need a remaster, and they need it now

PC Gamer

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

20 juin 2025 à 12:31

Neglected classics that deserve a second chance.

A collage of characters from Black & White, Fallout: New Vegas, Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodlines, Knights of the Old Republic 2, No One Lives Forever, Dragon Age: Origins, and Freedom Force.

A battle over air quality between Musk's xAI and the citizens of Memphis now looks to be heading towards the courts

PC Gamer

20 juin 2025 à 12:18

Fighting giants.

WASHINGTON, DC - NOVEMBER 13: Elon Musk listens as U.S. President-elect Donald Trump addresses a House Republicans Conference meeting at the Hyatt Regency on Capitol Hill on November 13, 2024 in Washington, DC. As is tradition with incoming presidents, Trump is traveling to Washington, DC to meet with U.S. President Joe Biden at the White House as well as meet with Republican congressmen on Capitol Hill. (Photo by Andrew Harnik/Getty Images)

Today's Wordle answer for Friday, June 20

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20 juin 2025 à 05:00

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

8 minutes of footage from an unfinished open world D&D game has leaked

PC Gamer

20 juin 2025 à 03:58

Hidden Path's Project Dante wasn't aiming to be the next Baldur's Gate, but had potential.

Art of Dungeons & Dragons adventurers fighting a dragon.

Stellaris updates are going to start coming more slowly, because new patches are causing new problems and QA testers can't keep up

PC Gamer

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

19 juin 2025 à 23:49

Stellaris 4.0 still needs work, but the current pace of fixes is apparently causing trouble.

Art of a man gazing into an astral rift in Stellaris.

Rematch launched without crossplay because of 'unforeseen technical complexities' and Sloclap is sorry, but it's a hit on Steam anyway

PC Gamer

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

19 juin 2025 à 23:45

Sloclap apologized for not admitting the game wouldn't have crossplay at launch until just before it went live.

World of Warcraft dataminers dug up its biggest boss ever: A new 3,806-foot-tall horror who could crush its capital cities in one step

PC Gamer

19 juin 2025 à 23:08

Big boy.

A World of Warcraft model viewer screenshot from Wowhead of the Dimensius boss who looks like a gigantic purple creature with a galaxy in its center. He's standing over the capital city of Stormwind.

Daemon X Machina: Titanic Scion is adding a card game as the mecha sequel targets an increasingly specific type of guy

PC Gamer

Par :lincoln.carpenter@futurenet.com (Lincoln Carpenter)

19 juin 2025 à 22:00

It'll also have a mouse cursor on PC this time.

A dashing Arsenal suit in Daemon X Machina: Titanic Scion.

As war looms in the Middle East, clips of Arma 3 and War Thunder are being used as propaganda, and even the Israeli military's having to clarify 'the footage is fake'

PC Gamer

19 juin 2025 à 21:34

Not the first time these games have been mis-used in such a manner.

After a disastrous patch day, Hunt: Showdown 1896's 2.4 update is live for real now

PC Gamer

19 juin 2025 à 21:22

Crytek says everything should be working smoothly again.

A female druidic figure clutches a heart riven with thorns in Hunt: Showdown

Dune: Awakening AMA promises changes coming to PvP: 'We want the experience to be reliable, responsive, and clearly understood'

PC Gamer

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

19 juin 2025 à 20:15

Funcom is still nailing down the details, but developers in the AMA did commit to one thing: There's no plan to defang ornithopters in the deep desert.

Dune: Awakening Eighth Trial of Aql guide

OpenAI supremo Sam Altman says he 'doesn't know how' he would have taken care of his baby without the help of ChatGPT

PC Gamer

19 juin 2025 à 18:36

His Royal Altness is apparently entirely dependent on chatbots.

SAN FRANCISCO, CALIFORNIA - NOVEMBER 06: OpenAI CEO Sam Altman speaks during the OpenAI DevDay event on November 06, 2023 in San Francisco, California. Altman delivered the keynote address at the first-ever Open AI DevDay conference.(Photo by Justin Sullivan/Getty Images)

Believe it or not Death Stranding is getting another movie, screenwriter puffs on the Kojima pipe and says he can't wait to 'birth new stories into this fertile, mind-bending universe'

PC Gamer

19 juin 2025 à 18:33

From animation studio Line Mileage.

Ah, crap: Nightreign players have discovered there's a relic inventory cap, and you can't play once you've hit the limit

PC Gamer

Par :lincoln.carpenter@futurenet.com (Lincoln Carpenter)

19 juin 2025 à 18:22

The real Nightlord is inventory management.

A bird man character from Elden Ring reads a book in a library

GOG now accepts donations when you buy a game, like it's a charity or something

PC Gamer

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

19 juin 2025 à 18:09

Sure, some people think games cost too much these days. But what if you think they don't cost enough?

Turtle Beach Stealth 600 (Gen 3) review

PC Gamer

19 juin 2025 à 17:54

A great everyday headset that's certainly worth the price tag.

The Turtle Beach Stealth 600 gaming headset outside with the microphone and buttons on show.

My new favorite budget gaming keyboard proves the best gaming keebs don't have to be $200 enthusiast slabs of switches

PC Gamer

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

19 juin 2025 à 17:52

The Gamakay x NaughShark NS68, with its super low price and powerful Hall effect switches walked straight into our best gaming keyboard guide.

GAMAKAY x NaughShark NS68 gaming keyboard on a desk.

Steam adds more accessibility features and Valve says it's just the start, wants players with disabilities to provide more feedback and suggestions

PC Gamer

19 juin 2025 à 17:51

Part of a wider push that began earlier this year.

Valve logo with a man with a steam valve for an eye.

Here's another RTX 50-series graphics card with Noctua fans, proving once again they are catnip for PC hardware engineers

PC Gamer

19 juin 2025 à 17:36

Looks like this one's not for the western market, though, booooo.

Sycom Silent Master RTX 5070 Ti with Noctua fans on a brown and cream background

Calling AI a threat to 'human dignity, justice and labor,' Pope Leo XIV of all people takes on Big Tech

PC Gamer

19 juin 2025 à 17:27

I'm definitely not looking to convert, but I'm listening.

Newly elected Pope Leo XIV, Robert Prevost addresses the crowd on the main central loggia balcony of the St Peter's Basilica for the first time, after the cardinals ended the conclave, in The Vatican, on May 8, 2025. Robert Francis Prevost was on Thursday elected the first pope from the United States, the Vatican announced. A moderate who was close to Pope Francis and spent years as a missionary in Peru, he becomes the Catholic Church's 267th pontiff, taking the papal name Leo XIV. (Photo by TIZIANA FABI/AFP via Getty Images)

'Exciting' Red Dead Redemption news less exciting than previously thought, says John Marston actor: 'Rockstar Games makes announcements for Rockstar Games'

PC Gamer

19 juin 2025 à 17:11

"I possibly misled some people."

A screenshot of the PC port of Red Dead Redemption, taken using maximum quality settings

Gamakay TK75HE V2 review

PC Gamer

19 juin 2025 à 17:08

A surprisingly excellent Hall effect option.

A Gamakay TK75HE gaming keyboard in white on a black and grey mouse pad with RGB lighting enabled.

North Korea's only Steam user disappeared yesterday, but not to worry: They're back and gaming harder than ever

PC Gamer

19 juin 2025 à 17:00

Probably ragequit a CS match. Been there, man.

This undated picture, released from Korean Central News Agency on January 6, 2008 shows North Korean leader Kim Jong Il (C) inspects the newly built Wonsan Youth Power Station in Kangwon province in North Korea. AFP PHOTO / KCNA via KNS

By all that's holy, here are two GeForce RTX 5060 Ti cards that are genuinely being sold at MSRP

PC Gamer

19 juin 2025 à 16:53

Though only one of them is kinda worth buying.

An image of a Gigabyte and PNY RTX 5060 Ti graphics card together on a teal background, with a white border

A player-made Libra deals cheat sheet for Elden Ring Nightreign reveals when you should and shouldn't make a deal with the goat devil

PC Gamer

19 juin 2025 à 16:16

Trade deal: You get everything and I get nothing, trust me, bro.

A cloaked Elden Ring Nightreign character looking downward in a dark room

The 50 most-played demos of Steam Next Fest include musical martial arts, a Stalker-inspired MMO, a superhero management sim, and at least 2 games that are basically Sea of Thieves in space

PC Gamer

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

19 juin 2025 à 16:07

Time to double the length of your Steam wishlist.

A warrior fighting a monster in Vindictus: Defying Fate.

Oh no, I've been playing a tutorial for 55 hours: Elden Ring Nightreign's Everdark Sovereigns aren't just a health and damage boost, the Gaping Jaw's got all-new mechanics to lay us flat

PC Gamer

19 juin 2025 à 16:06

The night has just begun.

Elden Ring Nightreign Adel boss Gaping Jaw guide: Guardian and Wylder running towards Adel as it charges a massive lightning attack.

Fake Minecraft mods that steal all your personal data including crypto wallets are being distributed via GitHub accounts

PC Gamer

19 juin 2025 à 15:14

Be very careful of your mods and tools.

Two players in the cherry tree biome in Minecraft

Intel claims 18A, the node Pat bet the company on, is either 25% faster or 38% more efficient than Intel 3. Though that's a node Intel didn't have enough faith in to release for desktops or laptops

PC Gamer

19 juin 2025 à 13:33

A tricky comparison, given there are no Intel 3 chips in PCs.

Return to Silent Hill finally has a release date, and there's not long left to wait now

PC Gamer

19 juin 2025 à 13:29

Where does the time go?

How to unlock Peter Pan in Disney Dreamlight Valley

PC Gamer

19 juin 2025 à 12:41

Let's go on another character hunt.

Disney Dreamlight Valley peter pan in front of the dream castle

XCOM 2 is $2.40, and its excellent DLC War of the Chosen ain't far off—making the all-time tactical strategy great cheaper than takeout

PC Gamer

19 juin 2025 à 12:36

Other entries in the series are also cheap as chips, too.

One of the Chosen in XCOM 2: War of the Chosen.

'Couldn't afford a PC so I drew one' says one Redditor after drawing a God-tier cel shaded case mod for his kids to play Minecraft on

PC Gamer

19 juin 2025 à 10:36

Now install that cel shaded graphics mod and you're golden.

SuccessfulHost6375's cel shaded, hand-drawn PC case on a desk with a green background

PC Gamer magazine's new issue is on sale now: Painkiller

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Par :robert.jones@futurenet.com (Robert Jones)

19 juin 2025 à 09:33

Plus: Anno 117: Pax Romana, Blacksmith Master, Eriksholm: The Stolen Dream, The Alters, Elden Ring Nightreign, Redneck Rampage, air coolers tested, and much more!

Elden Ring Nightreign's first enhanced boss just dropped out of nowhere, and there's an extremely useful new NPC too

PC Gamer

19 juin 2025 à 05:27

FromSoftware just shadow-dropped a big update.

Today's Wordle answer for Thursday, June 19

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19 juin 2025 à 05:00

Help with today's Wordle if you need it.

PlayStation's attempt to summarize the plot of Death Stranding in six minutes is heroic and doomed

PC Gamer

19 juin 2025 à 03:49

It's a wilfully obtuse 60-hour game. You'd probably need at least seven minutes.

Green toy soldiers led by a man in a skull mask

10 years later, no one has replicated Rocket League's mojo

PC Gamer

Par :tyler@pcgamer.com (Tyler Wilde)

19 juin 2025 à 02:20

Happy birthday, car soccer! You're not old, you're just a classic.

An orange Rocket League car with flaming horns on the top.

How to maximize Money Fronts profits in GTA Online

PC Gamer

19 juin 2025 à 01:53

Money Fronts in GTA Online's new update can provide a steady stream of passive income.

Sword of the Sea fuses Journey with Tony Hawk to make a pro skater game that feels as good as it looks

PC Gamer

19 juin 2025 à 01:53

I've got the training wheels on, even when I don't look the part.

Sword of the Sea's opening cutscene, just showing a close up of the Wraith's eyes. They're glowing bright blue behind the character's gold and ornate mask.

World of Warcraft players are convinced Blizzard is dropping hints about a major update to a 9-year-old class

PC Gamer

19 juin 2025 à 01:32

Players spotted something very curious in the preview for patch 11.2 Ghosts of K'aresh.

Hunt: Showdown 1896 goes offline for a day after its latest update caused so many problems Crytek had to remove it completely

PC Gamer

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

19 juin 2025 à 00:25

It took more than eight hours for Crytek to bring Hunt back to Steam, and it's still not playable on consoles.

Hunt: Showdown 1896 Judgment of the Fool header image

Hideo Kojima says the Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 development team is his 'ideal' size: 'They only have like 33 team members and a dog'

PC Gamer

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

19 juin 2025 à 00:06

Many more people worked on the popular RPG, as established after a recent dust up over who's counted in the word 'team,' but in terms of studio employees, Kojima prefers a quieter building.