After conquering ChatGPT, Atari 2600 Video Chess destroys Microsoft Copilot: 'The vintage silicon mastermind bested me fair and square'

PC Gamer

7 juillet 2025 à 19:41

I got one more in me!

Ousted Subnautica studio co-founder says it was a 'shock' to get fired, Subnautica 2 is 'ready' for early access release, and no longer working 'at the company I started stings'

PC Gamer

7 juillet 2025 à 19:25

Sounds utterly brutal.

Cyberpunk: Edgerunners was a depression-fest because its writer is 'from Poland and people in Poland are sad. They are born sad, they die sad, so I just wanted to make the whole world sad'

PC Gamer

7 juillet 2025 à 19:00

This is also why all English media is stultifyingly dull.

I'm fed up tightening screws with my wrists like some sort of commoner, so I'm thinking of buying this Worx electric screwdriver set for $30

PC Gamer

7 juillet 2025 à 18:24

You spin me right round, baby right round.

A Worx electric screwdriver on a teal deals background

The new Rimworld expansion adds therapy pandas, tameable insect hive queens, nanotech-enhanced alligators, prehistoric beasts, giant toads, flamingos, and something called a 'bog hound'

PC Gamer

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

7 juillet 2025 à 18:13

Odyssey is packed with animal magic.

I'm ashamed to say that this Razer mouse has made me actually take a shine to RGB, and now you can be persuaded too for almost 50% off

PC Gamer

7 juillet 2025 à 18:09

Yes, a snake (Basilisk) got me to try the forbidden fruit of RGB.

Razer Basilisk V3 Pro gaming mouse on a blue background

I own over 10 smart lights, here are the three I'd actually buy in the early Amazon Prime Day sales

PC Gamer

7 juillet 2025 à 18:08

Let there be (smart) light.

Nanoleaf and Govee smart lighting on a blue background

Obsidian stuck to some fantasy conventions for Pillars of Eternity and Avowed because that's what people want: ''I didn't want to completely flip it and say, oh you want to play an elf? F**k you, this isn't your daddy's elf'

PC Gamer

7 juillet 2025 à 17:58

At least the team still gave us orlans.

I convinced myself that I could easily win Squid Game, but after putting myself through the Roblox version it's clear that I absolutely would not walk away champion

PC Gamer

7 juillet 2025 à 17:43

Because why wouldn't you want to recreate Netflix's most popular, and most morally questionable show?

Two players playing tug of war in Roblox Squid Games X

Call of Duty: WW2 pulled from PC following reports of remote code exploit trolling players with 'Notepad pop-ups, PC shutdowns' and desktop wallpaper of a lawyer

PC Gamer

7 juillet 2025 à 17:31

RCE attacks are among the nastiest out there, though this hacker seems to be in it for the memes.

Monster Hunter Wilds' poor post-launch reception bubbles up to the surface in shareholder meetings, though Capcom says it's 'committed' to fixing performance and content woes

PC Gamer

7 juillet 2025 à 17:25

As the Steam reviews continue to rage, Capcom's putting out fires.

Mizutsune, a fox-like leviathan monster, in Monster Hunter Wilds.

I wouldn't have believed it either, but RTX 50-series gaming laptops are leading the charge in the early Prime Day deals and there's something for almost every budget

PC Gamer

7 juillet 2025 à 17:22

Apart from sub-$1,000. Close, though.

Five gaming laptops on a teal deals background

EA Japan exec laments Microsoft's crushing layoffs, and the demands shareholders make for 'short-term results from large-scale investments'

PC Gamer

7 juillet 2025 à 17:11

"In Japan, 'restructures' are very directly perceived as 'layoffs'."

Chinese FMV game about getting 'revenge on gold diggers' plunges the country into online gender tumult

PC Gamer

7 juillet 2025 à 17:10

Pretty much like we do on the anglophone internet all the time.

A woman in a floral dress extends her bare foot to a kneeling man, in a screenshot from Chinese FMV game Revenge on Gold Diggers.

These three RX 9070 XT gaming PCs show AMD builds really are killing it for value right now

PC Gamer

7 juillet 2025 à 17:06

Prime Day starts tomorrow—time to step up your game, Nvidia.

The best gaming mouse I've ever tested is just $85 for Prime week but Jeff's going to be upset when he gets back off honeymoon to see the better Razer gaming mouse is only 98 cents more at GameStop

PC Gamer

7 juillet 2025 à 17:04

The choice between the Pro and the Hyperspeed used to be an easy one. It still is, but it used to be, too.

An image of a Razer DeathAdder V3 Pro wireless gaming mouse against a teal background with a white border.

I'm on a tight budget this year, so join me as I track down the best Amazon Prime Day PC gaming deals under $100

PC Gamer

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

7 juillet 2025 à 16:33

Money might be too tight to mention, but there are already great deals out there if you know where to look.

Selection of budget PC gaming hardware composited on a teal background

At about only $0.06 per GB, my favourite itty-bitty external SSD is both light in terms of form factor and now even lighter on price

PC Gamer

7 juillet 2025 à 16:24

You won't need deep pockets for this drive—in any sense!

The standard version of the Crucial X9 external SSD floats in the teal-PC-Gamer-deal gradient void.

The latest and greatest games are more core-hungry than ever, so here are the cheapest 8-core CPUs you can drop into your gaming rig

PC Gamer

7 juillet 2025 à 15:51

Don't let some cheapo console beat your lovely gaming PC on core count.

A collage of AMD and Intel CPU retail packaging images against a teal background with a white border

'Night City lives on'—Cyberpunk: Edgerunners season 2 teaser trailer may give us our first glimpse at the series' next protagonist

PC Gamer

7 juillet 2025 à 15:45

Bringing back some sad memories with this one.

Summer Games Done Quick 2025 is now live—kicking off a full week of speedruns and goofs to raise money for Doctors Without Borders

PC Gamer

7 juillet 2025 à 15:08

We're barely off to the races, and SGDQ has already raised over $124,000.

Mario from Super Mario 64 gets a star, flashing the peace sign.

I hit one of Australia's biggest retro fares and PC gaming was nowhere to be seen, though collectors told me that's down to one of its major retro strengths

PC Gamer

7 juillet 2025 à 14:40

Because you can still play most retro PC games on current-gen hardware.

The cutest 4K webcam I've ever used has finally dropped below $100 for the first time ever ahead of the Amazon Prime Day deals

PC Gamer

7 juillet 2025 à 14:34

Seriously, just look at it.

Three Obsbot Meet 2 webcams on a blue background

Unlimited powaaaah: Get practically infinite battery life for $140 with this SteelSeries gaming headset in the Prime Day sales

PC Gamer

7 juillet 2025 à 14:03

Break out the lightning bolts.

The SteelSeries Arctis Pro Wireless gaming headset, DAC and batteries on a teal deal background

I'm using every picosecond of my 20-year PC tech journo career to bring you the best Prime Day PC gaming deals on the internet tubes

PC Gamer

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

7 juillet 2025 à 13:20

It's all been leading up to this.

Lenovo Legion Pro 7i gaming laptop and Secretlab Titan Evo gaming chair

Baldur's Gate 3 actor Samantha Béart says people don't realise how awful Karlach was before the events of the game: 'I think she was a piece of work in hell'

PC Gamer

7 juillet 2025 à 12:59

Béart says they imagine Karlach as someone who was forced to do awful things to survive in a kind of interplanar supermax prison.

Rematch players are still crashing out over 'self-absorbed' ball hogs, and while I do get it, I can't help but wonder if some zen is in order

PC Gamer

7 juillet 2025 à 12:54

Pass! To me! Back post!

Grow a Garden has added new pets, mutations, and a seed even better than the Candy Blossom as part of its newest update

PC Gamer

7 juillet 2025 à 12:35

Time to get your hands (virtually) dirty.

Character avatar in front of an Overgrown garden in Roblox Grow a Garden

Today's Wordle answer for Monday, July 7

PC Gamer

7 juillet 2025 à 05:00

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

At the request of South Korea, Valve pulled a mod from Steam that glorified the country's military dictatorship

PC Gamer

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

7 juillet 2025 à 04:14

Gross mod, troubling precedent?

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

'The transfer of user data by DeepSeek to China is unlawful': Germany calls for Google and Apple to remove the AI app from their stores

PC Gamer

6 juillet 2025 à 23:42

Berlin's Commissioner for Data Protection is taking a stand against AI app DeepSeek

SUQIAN, CHINA - JANUARY 27, 2025 - An illustration photo shows the logo of DeepSeek and ChatGPT in Suqian, Jiangsu province, China, January 27, 2025. (Photo credit should read CFOTO/Future Publishing via Getty Images)

Romero Games reportedly met with Microsoft just a day before the publisher pulled funding for the studio, and there was 'no mention' of the decision that put over 100 people out of work

PC Gamer

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

6 juillet 2025 à 21:05

Romero Games is pursuing alternate sources of funding, but for the time being, it sounds like the dream is dead.

John Romero and Brenda Romero Audi Arrival, British Academy Games Awards.Venue: Tobacco Dock, London.Date: 6 April 2017.Host: Danny Wallace .-.Area: Audi Arrivals

'There are no plans to drop support for SteamOS': The Finals devs commit to Steam Deck and Linux players despite new kernel-level anti-cheat

PC Gamer

6 juillet 2025 à 20:30

Embark Studios may be embracing kernel-level anti-cheat, but they're not abandoning their Linux players.

Arkane Studios founder slams Microsoft for its Game Pass focus: 'At some point reality has to hit'

PC Gamer

6 juillet 2025 à 18:39

Former Dishonored and Prey developer Raphael Colantonio has a warning about Game Pass

Warren Spector was so desperate to make Deus Ex that it almost became a Command & Conquer RPG: 'I was going to find a way to make it one way or another, even if it meant making another damn sci-fi game!'

PC Gamer

6 juillet 2025 à 16:00

PC gaming history could have been very different.

Deep Rock Galactic Survivor is gearing up for launch, literally—adding a fully-fledged gear system when it hits 1.0 in September

PC Gamer

6 juillet 2025 à 15:00

Gear of Dwarves.

A dwarf shooting bugs in Deep Rock Galactic: Survivor.

Preservationists discover a 'nearly complete' build of a lost Animaniacs game 22 years after it was cancelled, and you can play it right now

PC Gamer

6 juillet 2025 à 14:00

Animaniacs: Hollywood Hypnotics hasn't been seen since 2003.

Brain from Pinky and the Brain glares toward the camera on a backdrop of yellow and blue concentric circles.

Rust's developer is overhauling the survival sim's mission system so it can create in-game quests faster and more easily: 'The process to create new missions internally is quite cumbersome and error prone'

PC Gamer

6 juillet 2025 à 13:00

Latest update also adds a party system and "improved erosion".

A Rust NPC dressed in a blue hazmat suit monitors the air with a Geiger counter in Rust.

Today's Wordle answer for Sunday, July 6

PC Gamer

6 juillet 2025 à 05:00

Help with solving Sunday's puzzle.

Mount & Blade 2's naval expansion will have complex sailing with wind, currents, and respect for a boat's draft

PC Gamer

6 juillet 2025 à 02:04

Say it with me: boats rule.

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