'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

PC Gamer

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.

GAMAKAY x NaughShark NS68 gaming keyboard on a desk.

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.

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

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.

Microsoft announces new dream team partnership with AMD on a 'portfolio' of next-gen Xbox devices, all with backwards compatibility with existing games

PC Gamer

18 juin 2025 à 14:02

Console, handheld and PC, all based on silicon co-engineered with AMD.

Endgame Gear OP1w 4K review

PC Gamer

18 juin 2025 à 13:53

A mean, lightweight mousing machine.

An Endgame Gear OP1w 4K gaming mouse on a desk.

Endgame Gear XM2w 4K review

PC Gamer

18 juin 2025 à 13:52

Comfortable and powerful!

Endgame Gear XM2w 4K gaming mouse on a mouse pad.

It's time to update Asus Armoury Crate, folks—the latest vulnerability could allow hackers to compromise your Windows OS

PC Gamer

18 juin 2025 à 13:51

In the club, we all care about system security.

Asus Armoury Crate application on a gradient background.

Become John Nightreign with a 1:1 5KG Wylder helmet which Bandai Namco is currently selling for $190

PC Gamer

18 juin 2025 à 13:32

"Now you can feel what it's like to join his quest."

An Elden Ring Nightreign character clad in full armor, rearing back what looks to be a small crossbow before firing.

Steam turbo-charges its performance overlay, shows you how many real and framegen frames you're getting and, oh, Proton is enabled on Linux by default now

PC Gamer

18 juin 2025 à 13:20

A buffet of stats awaits.

TF2 Heavy giving the Bret Rambo thumbs up

You aren't just imagining things: Elden Ring Nightreign player confirms it's 6x harder to revive someone at 3 bars when compared to 1, because FromSoftware's UI is basically lying to you

PC Gamer

18 juin 2025 à 12:32

Damnit, FromSoftware.

Elden Ring Nightreign Wylder build: A close-up of Wylder slumped over in the Roundtable Hold.

An ex-Apple Vision Pro engineer turned a Steam Deck into an all-in-one keyboard for XR, and now you can too

PC Gamer

18 juin 2025 à 12:20

Though I'd still be using it for gaming myself.

Bento project from michaelthatsit, which puts a Steam Deck's hardware inside a keyboard

Today's Wordle answer for Wednesday, June 18

PC Gamer

18 juin 2025 à 05:00

Today's Wordle: Help with the daily puzzle.

No wonder it took so long to rerelease Final Fantasy Tactics—the source code was lost: 'Keeping that kind of data wasn't a normal thing to do at the time'

PC Gamer

18 juin 2025 à 02:50

Creating a problem that had to be solved "by sheer force".

Splitgate 2 review

PC Gamer

18 juin 2025 à 02:40

It doesn't make FPS great again.

Ball hogs and 'wannabe Messis' are already the heels of the Rematch community: 'Coach should run out onto the field and beat them with a stick'

PC Gamer

18 juin 2025 à 00:42

Captain Tsubasa would be disappointed.

Rematch screen - two kneeling soccer players celebrating a goal as other teammates run in behind them

Ubisoft slows free currency gain in Rainbow Six Siege X to a pathetic crawl, then immediately drops its most expensive skin in 10 years

PC Gamer

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

18 juin 2025 à 00:22

It didn't take long for "free-to-play" to also mean "more hostile to your time and wallet."

Just 1 year after raising $340,000 on Kickstarter to make a 'vibrant' new JPRG, Studio Camelia abruptly closes

PC Gamer

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

17 juin 2025 à 23:53

The studio was taking "late pledges" as recently as February.

Hades 2 adds nastier bosses and new weapon variants in its last major update before it leaves early access behind

PC Gamer

17 juin 2025 à 23:47

The Unseen Update also finally gives us a look at Narcissus.

The witch Melinoe holds up her ghostly hand to conjure something magical with her staff in the other hand. A dark blue sky broods in the background with a skeleton man on the right side of the frame.

Dark and Darker will be purged from Epic Games Store libraries later this year, but it's still available on Steam for now

PC Gamer

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

17 juin 2025 à 21:27

Ironmace's dungeon crawler will be removed from Epic Store libraries on November 1.

Dark and Darker concept art - a character opens a chest of gold loot while two others celebrate

'I can't even hit anything': Path of Exile player watches helplessly as his mercenary wipes out screens of enemies before he can even reach them

PC Gamer

17 juin 2025 à 20:46

Action RPG automation.

Three Path of Exile Secrets of the Atlas mercenaries stand together

Turns out that fantasy Factorio is a pretty good idea, and if you doubt me try the MoteMancer demo

PC Gamer

17 juin 2025 à 20:29

Mix and match elemental motes as the raw ingredients for an interplanar factory.

Pre-release screenshot of fantasy factory building game MoteMancer

Marathon is delayed, new release date will be announced in the fall: 'We need more time to craft Marathon into the game that truly reflects your passion'

PC Gamer

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

17 juin 2025 à 20:15

Bungie has a lot of work to do.

Image from Bungie's Marathon reboot. Not for use until after 12 April 2025, 11 PDT.

Everything in GTA Online's Money Fronts update

PC Gamer

17 juin 2025 à 20:06

Here's the full rundown of the new cars, money laundering businesses, and more.

Stellar Blade sold a million units in 3 days on PC and you can mostly thank Chinese players

PC Gamer

17 juin 2025 à 19:06

Stellar results.

FBC: Firebreak doesn't have the eldritch chaos I had hoped for so I'm going back to one of my favourite games that you've never played

PC Gamer

17 juin 2025 à 18:53

Who let the dog out?

John Carmack celebrates Quake's induction in the Videogame Hall of Fame: 'We threw everything we had at it, and it was really a little bit more than we could chew at the time… it was rough'

PC Gamer

17 juin 2025 à 18:49

"The real legacy of Quake is in the metagame rather than the game itself."

Overwatch 2 Season 17 is finally giving power back to the people by introducing map voting for quick play and competitive

PC Gamer

17 juin 2025 à 18:26

Goodbye Numbani and good riddance.

Diablo 4 players are accidentally misclicking their way to being $7.50's worth of platinum poorer, thanks to its reliquary system's crummy UI design

PC Gamer

17 juin 2025 à 17:54

Also, you can lock yourself out of a bundle.

BOE outs 8K 120 Hz monitor and it's not quite as irrelevant for gaming as you think

PC Gamer

17 juin 2025 à 17:42

It's all about integer scaling, peeps...

Keep an eye on Wildgate, a PvP space FPS out later this month: Solo queuing can be rough, but it's still cool as hell to join a ragtag group of scavengers in space

PC Gamer

17 juin 2025 à 17:30

A PvP game built for creating stellar moments held back by its heavy reliance on coordination.

A Wildgate prospector floats in the vacuum between two spaceships in combat.

Nexus Mods' new owners promise they won't monetise the site to death as users panic at the whiff of venture capital: 'The new owners are here… not sitting in a distant tower, remotely directing us all towards some nefarious goals'

PC Gamer

17 juin 2025 à 17:26

"We won’t compromise on what’s made Nexus Mods special."

Several Sims wearing modded footbal jerseys wave while stranded in a pool

How to craft a harness in Minecraft

PC Gamer

17 juin 2025 à 17:11

Get ready to ride a Happy Ghast.

Chase the Skies Minecraft screenshots featuring players on top of a Happy Ghast and a player with a ghastling

How to craft a saddle in Minecraft

PC Gamer

17 juin 2025 à 17:10

Becoming a cowboy just got a whole lot easier.

Minecraft horse outside a stables in Minecraft while a player makes a saddle with leather and iron ingot

Who the heck is Evelyn? Why a custom Baldur's Gate 3 character with millions of TikTok likes keeps getting confused for an actual NPC

PC Gamer

17 juin 2025 à 16:43

Have you seen my cleric Evelyn, dang she's gone and wandered off again.

Evelyn, a popular fanmade character, looks quizzical in Baldur's Gate 3.

Intel's next-gen Nova Lake CPU rumoured to get up to 52 cores, over double the count of Arrow Lake across all segments

PC Gamer

17 juin 2025 à 15:45

Mid-range Nova Lake has more cores than high-end Arrow Lake, natch.

A photo of an Intel Core Ultra 5 245K processor against a dark background

Sony WF-C510 review

PC Gamer

17 juin 2025 à 15:22

Wirefree but not worry-free.

The Sony WF-C510 earbuds on a black desk mat. They are seen here inside their sleek charging case.

Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2 is getting a 'cinematic cut' premiering at a Czech film festival: 'A proud moment for games as a serious storytelling medium'

PC Gamer

17 juin 2025 à 15:18

Which, okay.

kingdom come: deliverance 2 henry looks confused

D&D's Jeremy Crawford and Chris Perkins un-retire, change teams to Critical Role's Darrington Press after a combined 46 years at Wizards of the Coast, leaving jaws dropped

PC Gamer

17 juin 2025 à 13:09

Daggerheart just got two long-time talents.

An image of the Critical Role crew posing with senior designers Jeremy Crawford and Chris Perkins, former employees of Wizards of the Coast.

I tried out some of Elden Ring Nightreign's player-made shortcuts for the Crater event and all I got was fried in lava

PC Gamer

17 juin 2025 à 13:07

It's the eagles, they want to kill me.

Familiar faces, unlockable as cosmetic character skins in Elden Ring Neightreign

Borderlands 4 system requirements demand 8 CPU cores and 8 GB of VRAM but the reality is probably a bit more forgiving than that

PC Gamer

17 juin 2025 à 12:25

An AMD Ryzen 5 9600X will surely run Borderlands 4 just fine.

How to neutralize corrupted items in FBC: Firebreak

PC Gamer

17 juin 2025 à 12:00

Track down a Black Rock Neutralizer and destroy these troublesome relics.

Firebreak corrupted items - Shooting Hiss

What's the best Crisis Kit to pick in FBC: Firebreak?

PC Gamer

17 juin 2025 à 12:00

Try out the Fix Kit, Jump Kit, and Splash Kit when tackling dangerous jobs.

Firebreak best kit - Pushing enemies with Jump Kit

FBC: Firebreak review

PC Gamer

17 juin 2025 à 12:00

A big old mess. Mainly by design, partly by mistake.

FBC Firebreak best kit - A player in the shower

How to destroy sticky notes in FBC: Firebreak

PC Gamer

17 juin 2025 à 12:00

Complete the Paper Chase job and defeat Sticky Ricky.

FBC: Firebreak best weapons tier list

PC Gamer

17 juin 2025 à 12:00

Find out which gun is best for blasting Hiss invaders.

Firebreak best weapons - Aiming at a Hiss

The Communist Manifesto – A Visual Novel review

PC Gamer

17 juin 2025 à 11:19

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