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A rising Peak lifts all boats as climbing sim Cairn breaks 500k demo downloads after endorsement from mountaineering megahit Peak's devs

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

29 juin 2025 à 22:18

One of those actual feel-good stories.

Poisoned and dying

The best stealth game of the year just released its source code

PC Gamer

29 juin 2025 à 22:00

It runs on a derivative of WHAT engine?

A woman holding a gun in a sci-fi setting

Don't want to switch to Windows 11? There is one last way to stick with Windows 10 a little longer

PC Gamer

29 juin 2025 à 21:42

Microsoft just made it easier to get one extra year on Windows 10—here's how.

Microsoft Windows Event

The dev behind one of my favorite recent FPSes is making a 'horror game about a trainee metro driver trapped in the dampest subway east of anything that matters' set in a real city that doesn't actually have a subway

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

29 juin 2025 à 20:41

HROT was already a scary shooter, so this feels like a great next step.

first person view of half-eaten sausage roll/hot dog type thing in front of stand selling them, downcast man running the stand in Brno Transit.

'AI is no longer optional': Microsoft is allegedly pressuring employees to use AI tools through manager evaluations

PC Gamer

29 juin 2025 à 20:30

Microsoft's employees might be required to use AI, according to leaked memo.

Microsoft campus

Our favorite RPG from last year is 40% off in the Steam Summer Sale

PC Gamer

29 juin 2025 à 19:56

Metaphor: ReFantazio is a delightful RPG from the creators of the Persona series.

Metaphor: ReFantazio

Wreckfest 2's latest update lets you drive a grotty motorhome that's definitely had meth cooked in it, and ensures that 'realistic damage mode is now more realistic'

PC Gamer

29 juin 2025 à 16:00

New tracks and demolition derby arenas also added.

A graffiti-covered motorhome parked in a field, illuminated by the crepuscular rays of the sun partly shrouded by cloud.

For the first time in three years, Sable is free to keep on the Epic Store

PC Gamer

29 juin 2025 à 14:00

Grab Shedworks' beautiful open-world game gratis for the next week.

sable

The brilliant Half-Life-inspired survival game Abiotic Factor cascades into 1.0 this July

PC Gamer

29 juin 2025 à 13:00

Deep Field Games wraps up early access development next month.

abiotic factor

Owlcat is 'redoing everything from scratch' in Dark Heresy, its next Warhammer 40,000 CRPG, which is the best thing I've heard about it so far

PC Gamer

29 juin 2025 à 07:59

Including "design things, mechanical things, abilities, options, role-playing systems".

An inquisitor surrounded by his retinue, including an ogryn, a kroot, and an aeldari

Gloomwood's latest research update adds the most scientific thing of all: headshots

PC Gamer

29 juin 2025 à 06:09

For science!

A huntsman's head explodes leaving his hat suspended in midair

Space Marine's underwhelming remaster is getting an extended refund window, and a discount for owners of the original

PC Gamer

29 juin 2025 à 02:05

Though only a temporary one.

Ork Stormboyz attacking an aircraft in mid-air in Warhammer 40,000: Space Marine Master Crafted Edition.

The first true 1:1 test we have shows Steam OS getting better performance than Windows in 10 big games, tying in 2 more, and it's got me salivating for a desktop version of Valve's OS

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

28 juin 2025 à 23:55

Liberate me from this prison.

Valve soldier man on a pc.

Despite always preferring turn-based combat in RPGs, Pillars of Eternity designer Josh Sawyer thinks a lack of experience and opportunity meant the studio couldn't pull off a similar swing to Larian taking Baldur's Gate turn-based

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

28 juin 2025 à 19:50

"I guess we did South Park, but other than that, we hadn't done turn-based ever, really."

Eder and Pallegina from Pillars of Eternity looking heroic with mountains and dragon in the background

I played Lovecraftian doctor simulator Do No Harm, and let me tell you, my brother in Cthulhu, I did some serious harm

PC Gamer

28 juin 2025 à 17:00

Doctor Eadful is in the house.

Do No Harm

Dying Light continues celebrating its 10th anniversary with a big graphical facelift, but don't you dare call it a remaster

PC Gamer

28 juin 2025 à 16:00

The Retouched update is "about squeezing out even more from the Dying Light you already love."

Two Point Museum's first DLC adds a fantasy flourish to your exhibitions, letting you display mimic chests, a giant d20, and a chicken statue that turns people into poultry

PC Gamer

28 juin 2025 à 15:00

Fantasy Finds is out this July.

A fantastical exhibit from Two Point Museum's fantasy finds DLC.

Atari's reboot of Mad Max-style racer Fatal Run is coming later this year, and its new trailer shows a hefty dose of Burnout in its irradiated DNA

PC Gamer

28 juin 2025 à 14:00

Mad tracks.

A Max Max lookin' car, headlines trailing through speed, races through a tunnel filled with rotating purple lasers in Fatal Run 2089.

Hellblade 2 is getting an enhanced edition that brings back the fake permadeath system from the first game, but there's every chance it's real this time

PC Gamer

28 juin 2025 à 13:00

Also improves photo mode and adds even more graphics.

Senua looks to the camera, as the dark rot visibly crawls up her arm into her face.

MrBeast scraps AI YouTube thumbnail generator days after announcing it: 'If creators don't want the tools, no worries'

Par :tyler@pcgamer.com (Tyler Wilde)

28 juin 2025 à 02:44

The YouTuber was buried in criticism after announcing the AI tool, which he said "literally feels like cheating."

MrBeast at YouTube BrandCast in May 2025.

This new 'roguelike deckbuilding typing game' is like Mavis Beacon Teaches Balatro, and I'm here for it

Par :clivingston@pcgamer.com (Christopher Livingston)

28 juin 2025 à 01:50

In TypInc. you hammer out paragraphs as quickly and correctly as possible while using perks and multipliers to score big.

A typing game

How to use the Sound Recorder in Phasmophobia

PC Gamer

28 juin 2025 à 01:07

A Deogen's heavy breathing is on the record.

A player character in Phasmophobia standing in the truck, holding a flashlight and other ghost hunting gear.

New Vegas lead Josh Sawyer thinks turn-based combat fell off in the 2000s due to a lack of 'tactical variation': Even Fallout 1 would 'get to the point where you're always doing nut shots and eye shots'

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

28 juin 2025 à 00:53

Real time with pause won the 2000s, but turn-based won the war.

Vault Boy demonstrates how to duck and cover

Dave the Diver In the Jungle DLC is delayed, but the free Godzilla Content Pack is back and Ichiban Kasuga has extended his vacation until the end of 2026

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

28 juin 2025 à 00:22

It's Dave the Diver's second anniversary, and there's a lot going on.

Dave the Diver sushi chef and Godzilla

I asked the man in charge of a major live service game if ugly crossover skins are a problem, and I didn't care for his answer

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

28 juin 2025 à 00:19

"Our goal is to provide as much variety as possible within limits."

rainbow six siege ugly skins

Diablo 4's old and forgotten dungeons will be renovated into loot-packed marathons that culminate with a duel against a familiar boss in its next season

PC Gamer

27 juin 2025 à 23:25

Nightmare Dungeons might be worth your time again.

Diablo 4 demon Astaroth holds a flaming axe aloft as he rides his three-headed dog in a storm of fire.

Fortnite cheater wins $6,850 in competitive tournaments, gets caught, now owes Epic $175,000

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

27 juin 2025 à 22:55

At least he avoided the humiliation of a public apology.

talk to the joneses fortnite

Demonic sci-fi RPG Illusion City is one of those timeless pixel art games that still looks incredible in GIFs 34 years later

PC Gamer

27 juin 2025 à 22:13

The devil's in the details.

Illusion City horror RPG for the PC-98

Randy Pitchford makes people mad again by warning that Borderlands 4 will take even longer to get deep discounts than Borderlands 3 did

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

27 juin 2025 à 20:11

Sometimes not tweeting is the best option, but what fun is that?

Helldivers 2 players celebrate victory over Sony as the 'review bomb' cape finally appears in the game: 'We won the biggest and longest running Major Order in the game to date'

PC Gamer

27 juin 2025 à 20:07

"In honor of their unquestioning commitment to the defense of Managed Democracy."

A squad of helldivers in Helldivers 2 bravely defend Super Earth from the Illuminate menace.

Dark Souls 2 player beats its hardest boss on NG+7 by wearing his clothes and committing seppuku 47 times

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

27 juin 2025 à 19:17

Whatever works, I guess.

An Elite Knight waving toward the camera.

DayZ's biggest map ever is coming next year, where 'Middle Eastern-style cities lie next to Soviet-era military bases'

Par :clivingston@pcgamer.com (Christopher Livingston)

27 juin 2025 à 19:14

The 267x267 km map is called Badlands, set in the Nasdara province of ArmA's fictional country of Takistan.

A person with a rifle wiping their brow

Razer Joro & Basilisk Mobile review

PC Gamer

27 juin 2025 à 18:37

How much would you sacrifice for portability?

A Razer Basilisk Mobile gaming mouse and Razer Joro portable gaming keyboard on a blue background.

Call me Victor Kermit Kiam, cos I liked this mobo so much I built my new gaming PC around it

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

27 juin 2025 à 18:35

If you're going to make a mini Intel build then ASRock's Phantom B860I is just the board to do it with.

ASRock Phantom Gaming B860I Lightning Wi-Fi motherboard on a desk.

Glorious Model O Eternal review

PC Gamer

27 juin 2025 à 18:16

Cheap AND cheerful.

A Glorious Model O Eternal gaming mouse on a mouse mat with the lighting enabled.

'We were super confident in third-person': Overwatch 2 Stadium devs love the new perspective but understand it's not to everyone's liking, 'A decade of muscle memory exists'

PC Gamer

27 juin 2025 à 17:47

Third Person in Stadium is an experience for sure.

Overwatch 2's Kiriko

Developers of Linux distro Fedora propose dropping 32-bit support entirely, but it's being claimed that the change 'would kill off projects like Bazzite entirely'

PC Gamer

27 juin 2025 à 17:38

And the Fedora community seems to be completely split 50-50 on the idea.

The Convergence wallpaper as used in the Linux-based gaming OS, Bazzite

LaCie Rugged Pro 5 SSD review

PC Gamer

27 juin 2025 à 17:28

The fastest, bluest external SSD on the block.

The LaCie Rugged Pro 5 in blue on a laptop and on a white background.

I'm not just blowing hot air—$112 for this Lian Li Lancool 216 case is a cracking deal

PC Gamer

27 juin 2025 à 17:28

Easy breezy.

The white RGB version of the Lian Li Lancool 216 PC case floats in the teal-gradient PC Gamer deal void.

Inzoi's biggest problems right now are overwhelmingly the fact it's 'lacking simulation content' and its painfully awkward social interactions, player survey reveals

PC Gamer

27 juin 2025 à 17:25

Please, no more talking about the K-Pop industry.

Two kids in Inzoi