A killswitch has been pitched for the Linux kernel that could shut down vulnerable functions while users wait for patches

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Crimson Desert's latest patch gives the people what they want, which is to tame and ride a random bear with your own two hands—or a goat, if you're freaky

Forza Horizon 6 leaks early, developer responds by banning the IPs of anyone playing it for just under 8 thousand years

'Apple does this and y’all love it': Microsoft defends new Low Latency feature in Windows 11

Turns out you yearn for the return of PC Gamer's two favourite genres just as much as we do

Battlefield 6's first truly big map feels like playing a different, much better Battlefield

You're not paranoid—KCD2's devs gave Henry photo mode voicelines just to stop you abusing it for stealth runs

Mixtape review

Directive 8020 review: One giant leap for sci-fi body horror

After fining Google more money than exists on Earth, Russia demands so little from EA it feels like a weird joke

New Steam update hints at four separate Steam Machine models and a reservation system

How does co-op work in Outbound?

Mortal Kombat 2 redeems itself by fixing the worst thing about the first movie

Elder Scrolls 6 is a ways off, but who needs it? The world's most specific game jam is back with 40 playable entries based off Oblivion's wonderful/awful persuade-o-wheel

Keychron calls this 'the next gen mouse switch' and I believe it: optical and magnetic all-in-one

Drawquarium is one of the most relaxing sandbox games I've played in a hot minute, even if it did remind me I have zero artistic skill

If you've ever had your shoes stolen in Kingdom Come Deliverance 2, that was apparently PC Gamer's fault, sorry

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Roblox wants AI to make its games photorealistic, but the devs making those games aren't sold on the idea: 'I don't think that your average player right now wants to do that'

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Steam week in review: Forza Horizon is the last truly mainstream multiplatform racing series

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Friendslop approaches total cultural victory as co-op hit Gamble With Your Friends sells 1 million copies in one week

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This Team Fortress 2 zombie mod looks so good, we almost thought it was official

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I went back to Grand Theft Auto 4 for a Call of Duty zombie mod mash up and came away wondering how the heck I got this old

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What are the best and worst lyrics you've ever heard in a videogame song?

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Darkest Dungeon studio refuses to AI generate deceased narrator's voice despite his permission: 'I would never, ever erode his incredible and timeless performances'

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An unofficial PC port of The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess just released

Bennett Foddy, designer of QWOP and Baby Steps, is obsessed with friendslop games and won't uninstall Baldur's Gate 3, even though he'll probably never finish it: 'It was too big and so I stopped'

This artist 'brings hair to life' by painting video game scenes on the back of wigs, and yes, it really is as impressive as it sounds

The Sims 3 review (2009)

No, Richard Dawkins, AI is bloody well not conscious

Two Point Museum's latest DLC features a buildable studio where artists can create 'millions' of unique artworks, and there's 'no generative AI involved' whatsoever

Rust's latest update adds mortars but 'no visual guide to help you land shells,' so get ready for some chaos

The next World of Darkness game to be revealed is a Werewolf metroidvania, and I respect the hustle

Riven co-creator defends his use of AI art: 'Any artist can take a brush and, without thinking, an artist can create slop'

Stellaris is 10 years old and still getting DLC, which is impressive

Stellaris is getting space nomads and scenarios for its 10th birthday

Pearl Abyss marketing director says Crimson Desert's rapid 'live service' patch cadence is business as usual for an MMO studio: 'That is not normal in the industry. That is normal here'

Fallout co-creator Tim Cain once proposed a first-person time-travel RPG where you could assassinate historical figures and create paradoxes

Final Fantasy 14 player harnesses the power of furniture slots to make their in-game house look like Pragmata

Double Fine is the latest team at Microsoft to unionize

Debate: Is turn-based or real-time-with-pause better for CRPGs?

Discussion time: Are classic tab-target MMOs with loads of keybinds going out of style?

How a trio of Canadian modders stumbled into making an official Die Hard game: 'I've had projects disappear that had 10 times the promise that this did'

Can you identify 10 games I've turned into pixelated messes?

Gaussian Splatting is my new favourite thing, so I hassled an ex-Epic artist to tell me everything he knows about the low-cost 'photo-real' rendering technique

Europa Universalis 5's 'biggest update yet' expands the Balkans, overhauls the economy, and fixes more than 2,000 bugs

Abiotic Factor just got another massive update that adds better pets, a ludicrously involved chemistry system, and most importantly, a mop for cleaning up all your failed experiments

This very normal Half-Life mod lets you play as 'queen of spacetime' Max Caulfield, and it's convinced me that the next Life is Strange should be a full-on boomer shooter

Conan Exiles whips out a massive Unreal Engine 5 upgrade that includes an 'enhanced endowment slider' to further improve player penises

Immediately after putting The Elder Scrolls in Fallout 4, hero modder gets Fallout 1 working on the Pip-Boy too: 'This was so heavily requested, I couldn't pass it up'

Nobody believes Blizzard meant to give Diablo 4: Lord of Hatred players a 900% gold boost, but that hasn't stopped them from exploiting it until someone sticks a decimal point in there