Peak boss doesn't mind us calling it friendslop: 'Why not make a game where the point is to hang out with your friends?'

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Forza Horizon 6 speeds into Steam's top 5 most played games with over 300k concurrent players

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I'm not ashamed to admit that The Sims 2 got me into house music, especially since its devs hired the best DJs in the biz to score it

Comedian Alasdair Beckett-King was a die-hard adventure gamer until he discovered Morrowind: 'The first time I loaded it up, I walked straight into a little pond and was killed by a fish'

Dawn of War 2 review (2009)

We live in a world where every single Hatsune Miku is canon, which means that includes Helldivers Miku and Pyramid Head Miku

The design lead of Half-Life's biggest competitor says that its publisher was so 'pissed off' by the time the game launched that it didn't bother testing it properly: 'We got trashed in the press because of bugs'

A game developer compared Godot and Unity by making the same game in both engines, and he's found a clear winner

Space Marine 2 gets a steep discount, a free trial and an update that adds a 'major revamp' of Siege Mode, as its multiplayer continues to outpace games like Marathon

I can't wait to get murdered by flowers in this rad-looking survival horror game

Keep your GTA 6, the news I can finally play the console-exclusive DLC for Saints Row 2 from 2009 on PC is what I've been waiting for

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Jackbox's first externally published game looks like the shot in the arm the stealth genre needs, and it'll be out this year

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A 23-year-old D&D CRPG just got patched to add achievements and fix a bug that stopped you from earning XP

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Great moments in PC gaming: Stealing and selling someone else's treasure in Sea of Thieves

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Our readers are clear: They want Destiny 3, which is awkward, because Bungie reportedly isn't making Destiny 3

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Kickstarter rolls back new mature content guidelines after week of backlash

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14 years ago we published our Elder Scrolls 6 wishlist, and honestly? It still holds up

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Diablo 2 players made nearly 2 million warlocks in a single month

I'll never love another RPG like I loved Neverwinter Nights

The best birding board game on PC is getting a sequel about dragons, which are like cooler birds

Deadlock's latest 'small update' yet again remixes basic mechanics and rebalances most of the roster

PC Gamer's MMO readers are, according to you, fashion-forward healers who like your keybinds, and I couldn't be more proud

As the UK plunges once more into political chaos, I’ve found the roguelike deckbuilder that can help me process it

A Broken Sword movie is in the works, aiming to move the adventure game classics into 'the next medium it deserves'

You can help save the whales by buying this reef-building game written by the scribe of the Tomb Raider reboot

The Steam Controller's main competition isn't from Microsoft or Sony: It's from third-party vendors

As it rapidly approaches $1 billion in player funding, Star Citizen goes free to play until May 27

The director of the best Splinter Cell game reckons that modern lighting engines are making stealth games 'so much harder to read'

Shock, tears, and relief: How Destiny 2's most popular creators reacted to the end of the legendary shooter

Last Flag studio lays off half its employees as it puts 'the future of the game in the hands of our players'

Former Bungie dev says 'you'd be surprised how many times' expansions were pitched for a fan-favorite Destiny archvillain who's now left hanging

Fallout lead Tim Cain argues games industry crisis hasn't reached the level of the 1983 crash: 'I don't think there's ever been a worse time in the games industry'

Why play Wordle when you could be playing this new word puzzle game that rewards you with frogs?

Four years later, Microsoft finally finishes fighting over the Activision acquisition

EU politician says killing games is bad, but 'wokeness' and the Black samurai Yasuke are the real problem

Alright, so maybe Zohran Mamdani isn't New York's first gamer mayor

Apple legend Steve Wozniak makes history again: Actually gets applause talking about AI at commencement speech

How to find a Stunt Party event in Forza Horizon 6

The EFortune Cookie is an adorable e-paper fortune-telling device and I really want to give it a bite

It's Lenovo a-go-go as the company is responsible for nearly 1 in 4 of all PCs shipped worldwide

An Arc Raiders player who's 'sick of hearing about PvE' has come up with a 'Rival Gangs' PvP mode, and it sounds sick

How to earn Speed Skills in Forza Horizon 6

Where to find the Hakone Nanamagari touge race in Forza Horizon 6, and my tips to win it

Riot taunts would-be hackers using physical hardware to cheat: 'congrats to the owners of a brand new $6k paperweight'

Subnautica 2 could become a chilling horror game, if only it would shut up

'What we’re building is grounded in consent, credit, and compensation for the artists and songwriters that take part': Planned Spotify AI tool can generate remixes and covers

3 years on from laying off over 1,000 people, Hasbro and Wizards of the Coast are sending daily emails and physical letters encouraging the survivors to not unionise

Dying Light's former director believes devs are obligated 'to focus and listen to the players' because as soon as a game's released 'it stops being only your game'

Intel's freshly leaked roadmap for desktop and laptop CPUs is so complicated that it's given me a headache, but at least it all looks very promising on the Core Ultra processor front