Steam week in review: Pragmata and Windrose face off, with sad sci-fi dads proving no match for tree-chopping pirates

Philips and AOC's upcoming 5th-gen OLED gaming monitors were a feast for my eyes and a dire threat to my wallet

If you want to remember feeling hopeful for the future, you can read over 200 issues of the legendary Byte magazine for free on the Internet Archive

The Internet Archive has preserved 758 old PC Gamer demo discs you can download and play

I never want to play a Cleric in D&D, but 2026's best RPG stars one for a simple reason: 'I'm sorry to say they are just overpowered'

Windrose sails past 1 million copies sold in six days as it hits 200,000 concurrent players

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What is the best licensed music to make its way into videogames?

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Space-obsessed Pragmata actor was so wary of breaking embargo that he refused to post about Artemis 2: 'I know so much about the f**king moon'

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Dave Oshry, CEO of New Blood Interactive, will never uninstall Doom from his PC, and has over 488 hours in Fallout 76: 'It's the best cryptid hunting game'

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The sequel to flying city-builder Airborne Kingdom just hit 1.0 with a huge update and a 50% discount

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The coolest in-game art is in Arthur Morgan's journal in Red Dead Redemption 2, and no you can't convince me otherwise

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A YouTuber has unearthed Dark Souls 2's enormous cut sewers map, and it's another fascinating insight into the design of FromSoftware's most divisive work

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Mirror's Edge review (2009)

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This hugely impressive Minecraft mod lets you build all manner of functioning vehicles, including planes, combine harvesters, and even airships

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Marathon's most popular shotgun is getting nerfed a second time, as Bungie worries it is 'eclipsing a lot of the other short range options that exist in the game'

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Almost 28 years later, the mystery of what's under women's skirts in Elder Scrolls spin-off Redguard has finally been solved

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Owlcat reveals two new 40K companions, one for Rogue Trader and one for the upcoming Dark Heresy

'Are monitors anti-inflation?': AOC argues monitors are a better upgrade than graphics cards or memory right now, which seems like the kind of thing a monitor manufacturer would say

Philips is bringing its 5K dual-mode gaming monitor to the West, and it comes in a neat white shell

Turtle WoW classic server announces shutdown after Blizzard wins injunction

We owe Fallout's existence to an admiral and his officers teaching its designer to play D&D in 1979

Portal 2: Community Edition promises to take the game's modding potential to new heights, and it's out in open beta now

A ludicrous Doom mod which adds 28 pilotable mechs just released after 2 years in development

'I've read your reviews': AOC says its software is 'one of the most highlighted' problems and it's 'finally, finally' updating its OSD

BAFTA pulls game trailer over 'themes that may be a trigger' even after developer revision

This wildly ambitious total conversion mod for Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas lets you explore the setting of 2003's Manhunt

Help! The Millennium Bug made all the robots in my mansion go berserk, and only Homer Simpson can save the day

Dedicated nature watchers are combing every millisecond of GTA 6 trailer footage to exhaustively catalogue all of its animals

After 23 years, CCP is about to do the unthinkable: add a non-PvP zone to EVE Online

I've already raced through Pragmata 3 times, and it's cemented Capcom's mastery of the modern action game speedrun

I found out the hard way that Linux is not a dad-friendly gaming OS, and maybe neither is the PC

Here's that free fan remake of 1999's PlayStation-exclusive Medal of Honor you were looking for

Last Flag, the debut game from the studio founded by Imagine Dragons' lead singer, becomes the latest multiplayer shooter struggling to find an audience

Windrose Discoveries: Every item you're missing from the Coastal Jungle, Foothills, and Cursed Swamps

Slay the Spire 2 dev rejects the concept of deadlines: 'I don't want Sloppy Spire 2'

Windrose: If you can't find the buyer for the People of Tortuga, it's because he's not on Tortuga

After the death of Dragon Age, it's a megaton bummer to go back and hear BioWare's founders talk about the series' bright future

Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 wins Best Game at the BAFTAs, but this time some other games got to win awards, too

US may force operating systems to have mandatory age verification, share info with third parties

I've always wanted to fire the infinite cannons of a giant anime battleship, and this solo dev's giving me a chance on Steam later this year

Stop Killing Games delivers 'absolutely incredible' hearing in European Parliament: 'There was no [parliament member] that wasn't responding positively'

Former BioWare producer Mark Darrah says it's valuable to have 'an idiot at the table' during game development—but only if they can remember who the experts are

Embark admits 'grinding for monetary value' isn't fun, so future Arc Raiders Expeditions will reward you for smashing bots instead

Iron Galaxy lays off more people, says it still had too many employees even after 2025's 'last resort' cuts

How many of these videogame horses can you name? (Or tell us what game they're from because they're just named 'Horse')

Battlefield 6 'seasons' should be big moments, but they're not, and it's because EA keeps drip-feeding us like hamsters in a cage

Apparently the name of one of the most famous RPG series of all time was a last-minute band-aid: 'I don't think he knew what it meant any more than we did'

I know all you pirates are busy with Windrose, but you should drop anchor and check out this new pirate-themed city builder

Alexander Morton, the voice of Geralt's pal Zoltan in The Witcher games, has died

Last year's best climbing game was also a horror game, and it gets a big anniversary update today