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Call of Duty could learn a thing or two from Battlefield 6's smallest map

FMV dating sims are booming in Asia, inspired in part by 'micro-dramas' popular on TikTok: 'It's not actually real life, but it feels like real life'

Palworld studio Pocketpair says its new publishing division won't handle games that use generative AI: 'We don't believe in it'

This minimalist platformer's mouseclick parkour is singlehandedly curing my 2D platformer phobia

All Anarch Tag locations in Vampire: The Masquerade – Bloodlines 2

The Sinking City 2 is delayed into 2026 because of the war in Ukraine, but not just that: Making a survival horror game requires 'a completely different kind of design thinking' than adventure games, and that 'definitely makes development slower'

'Controller players are winning slightly more in close-range engagements': Treyarch throws a live grenade into 'controller vs mouse' debate, says aim assist will be less forgiving in Black Ops 7

Where to find Rampaging Scavengers in Escape From Duckov to complete the Hunter's Path quest

How to save in Vampire: The Masquerade – Bloodlines 2

Battlefield 6 officially nerfs XP farming servers into the ground, draining them of nearly all XP

Former Bethesda designer says Starfield fell flat because of its reliance on procgen planets: 'I don't think it's in the same calibre as the other two, Fallout or Skyrim'

RPGs make up more than 30% of PC Gamer's Top 100, so clearly we've settled on a favourite genre

Starbreeze hands off Payday 2 to another developer as it goes all-in on trying to salvage the beleaguered Payday 3

The best gaming laptops we've reviewed in 2025 so far

The Wolverine V3 Pro is no longer the best high-end PC gamepad, because Razer's been indulging in some seriously rabid regicide

MSI MEG Z890 Ace review

It's way easier to extract in Escape From Duckov than your map would have you believe

'The freedom we have with this sci-fi space is a bit terrifying': upcoming FPS Den of Wolves is laid bare in a new studio documentary

This €130 gaming PC in a plastic jug churns out a whole 15 fps in Fortnite and might be the best/worst DIY build I've ever seen

Reports of OLED's death are greatly exaggerated and it's not about to be replaced by RGB mini-LED displays

The ROG Xbox Ally X seems surprisingly repairable and upgradeable judging by iFixit's teardown video, which could be good news for stick drift

Wikipedia says it's getting fewer 'human pageviews' thanks to AI and social media but it's got a plan to deal with it

Former Battlefield 6 campaign boss calls out EA for leaving him and other developers out of the credits after closing his studio in 2024

Brace yourself for yassified Homer Simpson as leaks say an entire Springfield map is headed for Fortnite

Estimates on the financial impact of yesterday's AWS outage range from 'hundreds of billions' to over $75 million per hour, but one thing we can all agree on is it was pretty bad, chief

Vampire: The Masquerade – Bloodlines 2 lets you unlock 24 fancy outfits, so here's my entirely objective ranking, as an expert on wearing clothes

Jackbox Party Pack 11 is the first to not include sequels to earlier Jackbox games, but there's still plenty of familiar DNA in the all-new offerings

Turns out Little Nightmares wasn't scary, Tarsier Studios was saving the horrors for the demo of Reanimal

AMD's dual V-Cache uber CPU gets a (rumoured) name and a high-clocked single-die cousin: Give it up for the Ryzen 9 9950X3D2 and Ryzen 7 9850X3D

MSI MAG Z890 Tomahawk WiFi review

Vampire: The Masquerade – Bloodlines 2's sidequests are terrible, but you can safely skip them all

How to find romance in Vampire: The Masquerade – Bloodlines 2

Congratulations to Victoria 3 players on causing 860,000,000,000,000,000 deaths by famine in a single year, enough to depopulate Earth 107,000,000 times

AdHoc and Critical Role's superhero comedy Dispatch cuts right to the best bits of Telltale's greatest games

Ball-bouncing, city-building, off-the-wall roguelike Ball X Pit is a huge hit, selling 300,000 copies in just its first five days on sale

This new Humble Bundle has one of my favourite TTRPGs in it, alongside a bunch of expansions, for just $15—or $25 for a nest of great Magpie Games books worth $365

This utterly mesmerising beehive PC desk build took six months of painstaking labour and hypnotically simulates the bittersweet rise and fall of bee colonies in real time

Morrowind mega-mod Tamriel Rebuilt is adding 'one of the holy grails' that players have wanted 'for more than 20 years' in its next mammoth expansion

Nier: Automata creator Yoko Taro says 'nearly half' of his autographs 'being resold are actually fake', since he puts 'small unknown features' in them

The first US-made Nvidia Blackwell wafer just came out of TSMC Arizona, but don't get carried away thinking about RTX 50 Supers yet

8BitDo Retro R8 review

All Playground Basketball codes for October 2025: coins

The best modern platformer I've played is getting a huge 10-year anniversary update, and the devs reckon there's 'no way anyone 100%s it'

Former God of War exec says the blockbuster games industry needs to steer away from spectacle and focus on what matters: 'if it's not fun, it's not worth the investment'

Today's Wordle clues, hints and answer for October 21 (#1585)