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Valve announces Team Fortress 2 is getting 'a much-needed update' focused on Mann vs. Machine: 'A chilling cautionary tale where an artificial consciousness tried to take all our jobs'

PC Gamer

24 juin 2025 à 20:37

The king of ancient Greece also turns up at one point.

In Crimson Desert, the true boss battle is wrangling its controls to unlock the cool combat within

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

24 juin 2025 à 20:13

Crimson Desert continues to look strong, but unwieldy.

Crimson Desert - Kliff crosses blades with an enemy, looking strained, while wearing another sword and shield on his back

Peak developers react to selling 1M copies after suffering 'a lot of burnout' from making bigger games: 'The realization that smaller projects like this can work has set our studio in a new direction'

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

24 juin 2025 à 20:01

"We want to mostly make smaller projects moving forward, with clearer scopes and shorter development times."

Poisoned and dying

War Thunder players have done it again: Yet another restricted document is leaked to win a forum argument

PC Gamer

24 juin 2025 à 19:40

"We all know the Harriers are terribly incorrect."

War Thunder

Here's our very first look at the Rogue Trooper movie Warcraft director Duncan Jones said he was doing 7 years ago

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

24 juin 2025 à 19:19

The film was announced not long after Rebellion's 2017 shooter Rogue Trooper Redux fizzled out, and work has continued ever since.

Rogue Trooper movie promo image - Rogue Trooper

Who needs Bethesda? Oblivion Remastered modders have cooked up FO4-style settlement placing even without official support

PC Gamer

24 juin 2025 à 18:34

If you build it, they will come.

Hirtel, an elf, looks shocked

Biwin Black Opal X570 Pro 2 TB review

PC Gamer

24 juin 2025 à 18:25

Taking the fight to Phison, the drive that may or may not exist.

Biwin Black Opal X570 Pro loaded into a gaming PC.

Tiny anime girl cyberprison billing itself as a 'customizable 3D digital soulmate' reaches its Kickstarter funding goal in minutes

PC Gamer

24 juin 2025 à 18:21

Do androids dream of electric weebs?

The Dipal D1 pod displaying Dipal's AI assistant mascot, Pearl.

Overwatch 2 Season 17 is 'all about giving you more customisation' as 3 new heroes are added to Stadium with some pretty busted abilities

PC Gamer

24 juin 2025 à 18:11

Lord help us all, here comes Junkrat.

Junkrat screaming

British regulator takes aim at Google's dominance with 'targeted measures to address specific aspects of how Google operates'

PC Gamer

24 juin 2025 à 18:05

These include measures for data transparency around AI and 'fair ranking principles'.

Google campus sign

Security mitigations in Intel's GPUs rob up to 20% of their compute performance but it's unlikely to be a problem in games

PC Gamer

24 juin 2025 à 17:58

If you're an OpenCL coder on Linux, though, you might want to consider disabling them.

Intel Arc Alchemist

Peak devs say the hit comedy climber was pitched in a Swedish hot tub and developed in a frantic 4-week Korean game jam: 'We brought our computers to an Airbnb in Hongdae and locked tf in for a month'

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

24 juin 2025 à 17:38

"While it was pretty intense, it was also the most fun I’ve ever had working on a game."

Four scouts saluting near a downed plane in Peak.

The 'Stop Killing Games' initiative is close to its final deadline, and after that, its leader is understandably done: 'Either the frog hops out of the pot, or it's dead'

PC Gamer

24 juin 2025 à 17:26

"Companies just started taking away your purchases, nobody stopped them, and it slowly got normalised."

New chip industry roadmap predicts true 10 nm silicon won't arrive until 2039 and yet Moore's Law is, actually, alive and kicking

PC Gamer

24 juin 2025 à 17:25

Except, of course, it won't really be 0.2 nm or anything even close to that.

Intel 18A wafer

This $1,199 Lenovo OLED gaming laptop is the cheapest RTX 50-series machine I've found to date

PC Gamer

24 juin 2025 à 17:18

Downright reasonable, in every respect.

The Lenovo Legion 5i Gen 10 gaming laptop on a teal deals background

16 of the best landing spots in Fortnite

PC Gamer

24 juin 2025 à 17:07

Get a head start and glide your way to victory with some of the best drop spots on the map.

Fortnite Chapter 6 Season 3 best landing spots marked on the map.

Türkiye's answer to Disco Elysium just broke cover, featuring more lawyers, fewer cops, an indeterminate amount of communism and twin fistfuls of guilt and regret

PC Gamer

24 juin 2025 à 17:00

Pera Coda swaps Revachol for Istanbul, but don't worry: there's still plenty of anguish.

A man stands illuminated by a streetlamp on a pier at night, gazing into the distance.

Nvidia surprise-launches the GeForce RTX 5050 graphics card, starting at $249 for what's basically a slower RTX 4060 with DLSS 4

PC Gamer

24 juin 2025 à 16:58

The launch might have come out of nowhere, but there's nothing here that's really a surprise.

A promotional image created by Nvidia for the launch of its GeForce RTX 5050 desktop graphics cards

Asus ROG Zephyrus G14 (2025) review

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

24 juin 2025 à 16:57

Still a great compact gaming laptop, but the grating fan noise and sharper Blade 14 relegate it into second place.

Asus ROG Zephyrus G14, 2025 edition.

Razer Blade 14 (2025) review

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

24 juin 2025 à 16:57

The 2025 update for Razer's micro machine has pretty much made it my ideal gaming laptop.

Razer Blade 14 (2025) gaming laptop

System Shock 2's remaster is delayed for everyone but you and me

PC Gamer

24 juin 2025 à 16:52

Call an ambulance. But not for me.

Encountering SHODAN in System Shock 2.

'There are big-ass tanky guys': Cronos: The New Dawn devs discuss the gruelling combat and beg players to not let the enemies merge, 'You will suffer'

PC Gamer

24 juin 2025 à 16:26

A fast tanky guy is just what I wanted to see.

Traveller looking at a corpse

You might be surprised to learn that while robots and other machines are vital for making a top-end CPU air cooler, there's still a lot of it that's handmade

PC Gamer

24 juin 2025 à 16:19

In fact, a great deal of your gaming PC has been made by hundreds of people.

A screenshot of a SatisFactory Process video of DeepCool's production facility in Beijing, China

Where to find the Scoutmaster in Peak

PC Gamer

24 juin 2025 à 16:10

Not an encounter you'd particularly like to have up a mountain.

Three players in front of a volcano in Peak

Just when you thought Intel's branding couldn't get any worse, a report says the company plans to outsource marketing to a consultancy using AI

PC Gamer

24 juin 2025 à 15:33

Hard to see how you could better 'Intel Core Ultra 9 285K'...

Intel Core Ultra chip render

Someone at Valve got their unit prefixes a bit muddled but a quick update for the latest Steam beta has fixed your slower-than-normal CPU reading

PC Gamer

24 juin 2025 à 14:19

Mega, mebi, giga, gibi. It's all giving me the heebie-jeebies.

A screenshot of the PC version of Cyberpunk 2077, with the Steam performance overlay showing at the top of the screen

Software engineer creates a real-life ad block using Snapchat's AR smart glasses, but ultimately ends up making something far more distracting than ads

PC Gamer

24 juin 2025 à 14:02

Begone, brand!

A demonstration of Stijn Spanhove's AR ad block app for use with Snap's Spectacles smart glasses. Marketing material displayed on a roadside billboard is covered by a floating, translucent red box.

After about a bazillion user requests, Windows finally lets you move the audio volume pop-up

PC Gamer

24 juin 2025 à 13:46

...oh, and Microsoft is still plugging away at Recall.

Windows 11

You will soon be able to open non-Xbox games from the Xbox app, which could be a great way to further avoid the Epic Games Store

PC Gamer

24 juin 2025 à 13:35

Though you will still need EGS to install games.

The Xbox app on the ROG Xbox Ally X, in front of a gradient

I've just wrapped up testing with the best new PC fan I've used in a long time: Noctua's NF-A12x25 G2

PC Gamer

24 juin 2025 à 13:32

This fan shreds (in a good way).

A set of Noctua NF-A12x25 G2 PC fans on a desk with packaging.

How to revive your friends in Peak

PC Gamer

24 juin 2025 à 13:20

An essential skill for any mountaineer.

Poisoned and dying

Marvel Rivals Season 3 release date, potential characters, and more

PC Gamer

24 juin 2025 à 13:01

The pace is picking up as NetEase steps on the gas.

Marvel Rivals Season 3: An extreme close-up shot of Blade with a pained expression.

'Why did this stupid jam game sell more': Climbing game Peak has sold 1 million copies in under a week, outperforming its developer's most popular game

PC Gamer

24 juin 2025 à 12:58

Peak is one of the year's biggest surprise hits.

Poisoned and dying

Goodbye 12VHPWR meltgate? Asus shows its cable-hiding BTF tech is capable of handling more power than an RTX 5090 will ever use

PC Gamer

24 juin 2025 à 12:55

Mind you, the power cables at 1,300 W do get a tad on the glowy-glowy side

A screenshot of a Bilibili video by Asus' Tony Yu, demonstrating the company's BTF 2.5 connector for graphics cards

Modders put the Executor into Elden Ring because if FromSoftware won't give us Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice 2, we'll do it ourselves

PC Gamer

24 juin 2025 à 12:43

Who needs a tear?

The Executor in Elden Ring: Nightreign stands poised with his blade at the ready.

What happens if you choose 'I won't do it' in Death Stranding 2?

PC Gamer

24 juin 2025 à 12:21

Well, that was a short game.

Death Stranding 2 I won't do it choice - Fragile

Researchers develop a new technique to bond GaN transistors to a silicon chip, with the ultimate goal of having more powerful and efficient wireless transmitters

PC Gamer

24 juin 2025 à 11:17

Maybe, just maybe, the end is in sight for rubbish Bluetooth connections.

Intel CPU wafer

Windows 11 gets a fresh new Start menu and it's one of the most useful changes to the UI in yonks

PC Gamer

24 juin 2025 à 11:05

You can test it out now, if you're lucky.

Microsoft Windows 11

Today's Wordle answer for Tuesday, June 24

PC Gamer

24 juin 2025 à 05:00

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

Today's Wordle being played on a phone

This NBN provider is offering a blisteringly fast NBN 1000 connection for just AU$85 a month, which demolishes the competiton

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

24 juin 2025 à 01:33

Superloop is not messing around.

Warhammer 40K: Speed Freeks