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A former GameStop exec thought building its Steam competitor would be his 'forever job,' but the retailer bet the house on digital distribution being 'a passing phase'

Mega Crit co-founder says he wasn't bothered by the Steam backlash to Slay the Spire 2's beta balance patch: 'It's difficult for players to feel like they're heard'

The Emperor Protects: A Warhammer 40,000 Musical is a deeply committed April Fool's joke from Games Workshop, and I don't care if it's a day late because it's just that good

Revisiting the last truly great Call of Duty

43% of you have, or will be switching to gaming on Linux this year, but more surprising than that over a quarter of you actually don't mind Windows

An architect of GameStop's long-forgotten Steam competitor explains why he thinks Valve came out on top: 'What Steam did better than anybody else was to create a community'

Warren Spector's multiplayer Thief successor changes direction: Instead of PvPvE, it's now focusing on 2-player co-op and singleplayer

Slay the Spire 2's team is already cooking on 3 ideas for new game modes, each offering 'ways to interact with Slay the Spire that don't exist right now'

Open world crime game Samson had to be pared back mid-development, which led to its unusual structure: 'It's become more unique'

MechWarrior studio Piranha Games lays off 30% of its employees

Marathon game director says Bungie's rebalancing 'god-like' knife damage, buffing Vandal and Recon shells, and knocking bubble shields down a peg

What will Slay the Spire 2's final ending be like? 'I do want it to be more extravagant when you win,' says Mega Crit

The most hardcore Jak & Daxter heads in the world have finished their native PC ports of the entire trilogy

Teamgroup MP44Q 2 TB NVMe SSD review

Nexon CEO admits The First Descendant had 'no staying power,' and that can't be addressed with a quick fix: 'These are design issues that are not fixed with a patch'

Seasonic teases cherry blossom-themed Focus ATX 3.1 'Sakura' power supply

CoreWeave co-founder says even older GPUs are still rising in price and are in demand for AI servers

Xenonauts 2 review

How to pickpocket in Crimson Desert

'It's like having the secret to Coca-Cola': Illumination CEO attributes the success of the Super Mario movies to the 'inclusion of Miyamoto and the Nintendo artists'

Arc Raiders is a 'Trojan Horse' for demonstrating AI tool usage in game development, according to Nexon, after Embark built two hits at 'a fraction of the cost you’d expect'

Crimson Desert's commitment to cleaning up its clunky controls shines the brightest in how satisfying it feels to fly around Pywel now

There's just no good reason why WoW's story mode raids aren't available right away—and I'm saying that as someone who cleared normal just fine last month

Apparently you can't escape Microsoft Outlook issues even in space as Artemis II astronauts ask NASA for help with the software

This new climbing game is a bit like Darkest Dungeon on a mountain: Sometimes you have to cut the rope, and not everyone on the team is going to take it well when you do

I turned my gaming laptop into a PC Gamer bug out kit

Life is Strange: Reunion does its best to give Max and Chloe fans what they want at the expense of almost every other character in the game

Minecraft creator Notch says 'DLSS fundamentally makes no sense', but the X comments say 'um, actually'

How to get the Beehive Club in Crimson Desert

AMD says Intel's 'interesting choices' around multithreading could help Epyc CPUs gain server market share

Mchose G3 V2 review

Cambridge Audio L/R S review

If Gigabyte's original X870E X3D Wood motherboard didn't do it for you, how about this moody 'Dark Wood' respin?

How to beat Beloth the Darksworn in Crimson Desert

Silverstone FLP02 case review

How to complete Last Entry in Arc Raiders

Two high-rated motherboard security vulnerabilities have been identified in Gigabyte Control Center, so come update your software along with me

'Any update is a bonus not a right': Peak devs snap back at ungrateful players demanding more updates, 'Neither us or Aggro Crab are live service studios'

It turns out Crimson Desert has even more mechanics under the hood—like this 'fully-designed food consequence system' that modders have unlocked

How to complete Furtive Meetings in Arc Raiders

Linux installs jump to over 5% of gamers on the latest Steam Hardware Survey while the RTX 5070 reverts to the norm

Dell XPS 14 laptop with a Panther Lake chip manages a staggering 43-hour+ battery life result, thrashing the latest MacBook Air

Thermaltake TH360 V3 Ultra ARGB Sync review

'What's your salary? I told him, and he said no problem, we'll double. And those days are gone:' Listening to game dev legends reminiscing in 1989 about the 'golden days of computer games' already being over is a trip

Blizzard is hiring for an 'open-world shooter' using Unreal Engine, which is more evidence that a new Starcraft game could be on its way

Instead of making a joke, Valve celebrates April Fool's Day by rolling out a Steam storefront 'refresh' that makes it look much nicer

Diablo 4's 'April Fowl's Day' joke is a big chicken boss who drops a cluckton of unique loot, like the 'Cluckonomicon' and the 'Eggcecutioner'

The most baffling apostrophe in gaming history: a PC Gamer investigation

US Patent Office revokes Nintendo's controversial Pokémon battling patent in nonfinal decision

Garry's Mod successor s&box finally arrives on Steam on April 28