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

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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

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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'

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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 it's 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

PC Gamer

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.

Hideo Kojima at Featured Session Hideo Kojima Presents "DEATH STRANDING 2: ON THE BEACH" at Austin Convention Center on March 09, 2025 in Austin, Texas. (Photo by Amy E. Price/SXSW Conference & Festivals via Getty Images)

Passion and power fuel these ready-to-play gaming desktops

PC Gamer

18 juin 2025 à 23:13

For gamers. By gamers.

Raidou Remastered: The Mystery of the Soulless Army review

PC Gamer

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

18 juin 2025 à 22:05

Atlus revamps another of its devilish creature collectors from the PS2 era, but why this one?

A screenshot from Raidou Remastered showing the protagonist, Raidou, dashing down a Tokyo street with his cat companion Gouto

WhatsApp really is good, so Meta's had enough of that and is now 'monetising the periphery' with new ads that try to make it more like Instagram

PC Gamer

18 juin 2025 à 21:55

This Zucks.

Ryan Gosling in Blade Runner: 2049, his face cut up and with a bandage over his nose, bathed in purple light with the blackground a blurry blue

Elon Musk's latest gaming take is ruthlessly mocked by Bioshock fans: 'Probably thinks Andrew Ryan was the hero'

PC Gamer

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

18 juin 2025 à 21:48

Musk is apparently a big Andrew Ryan fan, but also doesn't seem to actually know anything about him.

Elon Musk, chief executive officer of Tesla Inc., wears a "DOGE" hat during a news conference in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, DC, US, on Friday, May 30, 2025. The event gives an opportunity for the president and his largest campaign benefactor to dispel any notion of an acrimonious divorce. Photographer: Francis Chung/Politico/Bloomberg via Getty Images

After 4 years of silence, one of the most disappointing games of 2020 gets a surprise expansion

PC Gamer

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

18 juin 2025 à 21:37

Empire of Sin: Hunt for Aurora introduces a new boss, guns, missions, and more.

Empire of Sin: Hunt for Aurora promo image

Warner Bros Games restructures, all the better to drown us in Batman and Harry Potter games

PC Gamer

18 juin 2025 à 21:23

Focusing on four core games, and that's it.

Batman the superhero standing in front of Arkham Asylum's gates in the rain.

How ranks work in Rematch: What you need to rank up in each league and division

PC Gamer

18 juin 2025 à 21:17

Go for the gold. Then platinum, then diamond, and so on.

Date Everything claims to be a dating sim, but it doesn't love or understand its own genre

PC Gamer

18 juin 2025 à 19:33

I'd do anything for love (but I won't play this).

RuneScape player pulls off a personal Shawshank Redemption: Grinds his way out of one-zone house arrest by grinding a raid 2,000 times over 10,000 hours: 'It was all worth it'

PC Gamer

18 juin 2025 à 18:30

Makes the Moon landing look like a walk in the park.

A low-poly Old School RuneScape man stares ahead, dejected.

Intel has joined Nvidia with its own neural texture compression tech but it probably won't rescue your VRAM-starved 8 GB GPU any time soon

PC Gamer

18 juin 2025 à 18:26

By the time games use this tech, you'll have a different graphics card.

Elden Ring movie director reveals how he's getting through his 7th playthrough, 'It's like monkeys and typewriters—you just keep doing it'

PC Gamer

18 juin 2025 à 18:16

It's a tough lesson to learn, but an important one.

Gamakay x NaughShark NS68 review

PC Gamer

18 juin 2025 à 18:15

More than a surprising price tag.

Our favorite budget wireless gaming mouse has knocked almost $20 off, making it an even more wallet-friendly option

PC Gamer

18 juin 2025 à 18:01

A solid wireless mouse for just over $30? Sign me up.

Logitech G305 Lightspeed wireless gaming mouse on a blue background

Survival game AETHUS sees you rebuilding a sci-fi colony after the ravages of galactic capitalism—and forging a new kind of future from the wreckage

PC Gamer

18 juin 2025 à 18:00

Survival game AETHUS sees you rebuilding a sci-fi colony after the ravages of galactic capitalism—and forging a new kind of future from the wreckage

Key art for Aethus, showing a figure in a space suit standing on top of a large planetary base.

Dune: Awakening patch fixes the ornithopter 'goomba stomp' problem in PvP, just not in the way I expected

PC Gamer

Par :clivingston@pcgamer.com (Christopher Livingston)

18 juin 2025 à 17:28

Ornithopters still don't take damage from collisions—but now neither do players.

An ornithopter landing near people in the desert

This is all the best PC gaming gear we recommend in one techie tier list

PC Gamer

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

18 juin 2025 à 17:11

Here are PC Gamer's hardware picks, based on years of experience and expert knowledge, all in an easily digestible but admittedly big ol' list.

A compact gaming PC on a desk with various parts on show.

Google AI happens to be really bad at playing Pokémon, repeatedly 'panicking' and taking more than 800 hours to beat the Elite Four

PC Gamer

18 juin 2025 à 17:10

Do AI agents dream of Mareep?

Das Keyboard DeltaForce 65 review

PC Gamer

18 juin 2025 à 17:03

Das does different.

A Das Keyboard DeltaForce 65 gaming keyboard with Cherry MX switches and in camo colourway on a desk.

Doom: The Dark Ages gets path tracing for even better graphics but unless you've got an RTX 50 graphics card, it's not worth using

PC Gamer

18 juin 2025 à 17:00

The new built-in benchmarks are pretty neat, though.

A screenshot of the PC version of Doom: The Dark Ages, showing the visual impact of the use of path tracing

'The winds of change are blowing': After 159 days Marvel Rivals has finally nerfed Storm, albeit not by much

PC Gamer

18 juin 2025 à 16:46

At this point, I'll take anything.

This retro sleeper build hides one of the top mini PCs inside and I wish I had the tools and patience to game like it's the '90s

PC Gamer

18 juin 2025 à 16:46

Someone bring me a Dremel.

An Amstrad-ALT286 retro PC with a Minisforum UM890 Pro mini PC inside, on a desk with a retro mouse

Microsoft's exciting multi-year silicon partnership with AMD doesn't actually make it clearer if there's an official Xbox handheld or next-gen console coming

PC Gamer

18 juin 2025 à 16:04

Will next-gen Xbox hardware be made by Microsoft, by someone else, maybe both?

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

I don't believe it, but this Digimon RPG really was the best game I saw at SGF

PC Gamer

18 juin 2025 à 16:01

I was a non-believer, but Digimon Story: Time Stranger made me see the light.

A digimon trainer shoots something out of I don't know what

Dark day for humanity as Gex Trilogy achieves 'huge success,' patches in its cursed EU voices from Red Dwarf's Cat and the 'Ding dong' guy

PC Gamer

18 juin 2025 à 15:40

Or Danny John-Jules and Leslie Philips, if you're a connoisseur.

Elden Ring Nightreign's relic system could learn a lot from MMOs like World of Warcraft, which figured out pure RNG loot sucks years ago

PC Gamer

18 juin 2025 à 15:33

We don't have to stay in gamba purgatory. There's a better way.

Borderlands 4 hands-on: Yeah, it's just 'more Borderlands,' but Gearbox's consistency is respectable and there's a cool hoverbike

PC Gamer

Par :tyler@pcgamer.com (Tyler Wilde)

18 juin 2025 à 15:00

The next big Borderlands game isn't transformative, but on the flip side, it also isn't a live service extraction shooter with survival elements, so that's good.