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Todd Howard says Fallout 5 is coming after The Elder Scrolls 6, if we all live that long

3 weeks ago PC Gamer

Hope you like Fallout 76, because it's likely going to be the Fallout game, maybe the only Fallout game, for the next decade. I an interview with IGN, Bethesda's Todd Howard stated that Fallout 5 will follow The Elder Scrolls…

The best mini-ITX PC case in 2022

3 weeks ago PC Gamer

The best mini-ITX PC case is all about doing a lot with very little space. It's a challenge most veteran PC builders are happy to accept. A small chassis means you're saving precious space on your desk while also still…

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Skyrim Grandma Shirley Curry wishes Bethesda would 'hurry up' with The Elder Scrolls 6

3 weeks ago PC Gamer

The no-show wasn't a surprise, but one of the games we'd have loved to see at the Xbox and Bethesda Game Showcase over the weekend is The Elder Scrolls 6. We know Bethesda has bigger fish to fry—Starfield and all…

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Callisto Protocol creator Glen Schofield says: 'We're trying to be even more gross'

3 weeks ago PC Gamer

You know you're in conversation with someone who's serious about the nasty end of the horror spectrum when they namedrop Martyrs. Last week, midway through a call with Glen Schofield, he mentioned the 2008 French New Extreme film as one…

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Photoshop goes free-to-paint on the web

3 weeks ago PC Gamer

Photoshop might finally be as accessible as its many alternatives. Adobe has made its existing web-based version of Photoshop free—or, well, freemium—in Canada, and will hopefully expand availability in the near future. Adobe VP of digital imaging Maria Yap didn't…

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Grand Theft Enterprise: You can steal spaceships in Starfield, Pete Hines says

3 weeks ago PC Gamer

At today's “Extended” Xbox Game Showcase, Xbox communications manager Malik Prince sat down with Bethesda Softworks senior VP of global marketing & communications Pete Hines to chat more about some of the games we saw over the weekend. Bethesda's space…

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The Cycle: Frontier map: What you need to know to survive

3 weeks ago PC Gamer

There are a couple of maps to choose from when you first drop into The Cycle: Frontier. Each one offers resources to scavenge and loot to be claimed. The enemies you encounter will range from hostile creatures, native to the…

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4 months after infamous Super Bowl ad, Coinbase lays off 1,100 staff

3 weeks ago PC Gamer

Cryptocurrencies are having a shocking time right now. The price of Bitcoin (BTC), Ethereum (ETH), and others have all dropped to the lowest they've been in at least the last two years, and the general outlook is grim, too. There…

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How Amplitude is using OpenDev to develop Endless Dungeon

3 weeks ago PC Gamer

Remember when early access meant something? When purchasing an early access game to take an active role in a project's development was something unique and noteworthy? These days, it seems more difficult to find a game that didn't have an…

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Fall Guys gets oddly adorable Halo skins this month

3 weeks ago PC Gamer

The videogames pipe has been springing tiny leaks here there and everywhere recently. This time, it's a collaboration between Fall Guys and Halo. With Fall Guys set to make its debut on Xbox on June 21, it looks like the…

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Wrath of the Lich King gets 'fresh start' servers for its arrival in WoW Classic

3 weeks ago PC Gamer

World of Warcraft Classic will soon be receiving the Wrath of the Lich King expansion, something of a fan-favourite. As part of this the game will open 'Fresh Start' servers for players who haven't yet been tempted back. These realms…

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Acer G550 Nitro gaming projector

3 weeks ago PC Gamer

The Acer G550 Nitro was designed for speed and smooth frames, and while it does manage to hit that particular mark with flying colours—1.07 billion of them to be exact—there's more to gaming on a projector than speed. Imagine going…

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Flying a Halo spaceship in Microsoft Flight Sim shouldn't work this well

3 weeks ago PC Gamer

I've been here before, waiting for takeoff at Edinburgh International. The sky is cloudy, the air buzzing with the sound of jet engines, anticipation building for a quick hop down to London. The cabin lurches, and we take off—not forwards,…

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The best Diablo Immortal builds

3 weeks ago PC Gamer

Looking for a good Diablo Immortal build? Whether you're enjoying the game or refuse to engage with it at all due to monetization, people continue to play and experiment with the series' iconic classes and abilities to create all sorts…

Be Quiet's modular Silent Wings 4 fans want to take over all aspects of your PC's cooling

3 weeks ago PC Gamer

Be Quiet has been quietly working on a new set of fans for our gaming PCs, the Silent Wings 4 and Silent Wings Pro 4. The hope with these units is that they deliver more universally useful performance in all…

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Where to use the Janitor Key in The Cycle: Frontier

3 weeks ago PC Gamer

It's not hard to find the Janitor Key in The Cycle: Frontier, but knowing where to use it might be a little more tricky. There are several different keys to be found on Fortuna III and each one will unlock…

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Cloud gaming will save you money but won't save the planet

3 weeks ago PC Gamer

I’ve never thought about my energy costs as a PC gamer. Sure, if I sit and think about it, running my own gaming PC uses more power than a console like the PS5, Switch or Xbox Series X, but so…

Upcoming Dragon's Dogma celebration video has hopes high for a sequel

3 weeks ago PC Gamer

Not-E3 continues to spill over into the coming weeks. Yesterday saw Capcom take to the stage for a 35-minute presentation, showing off new a playable Lady D in the upcoming Resident Evil Village DLC and ray-tracing updates for Resident Evil…

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Sorry, Skatebird: this frog is the best skateboarding critter

3 weeks ago PC Gamer

For reasons we're still trying to figure out ourselves, there was no shortage of frogs at this year's not-E3. But only one proved it had the chops to take on skateboarding's giants—and if you blinked, you probably missed it. Olliefrog:…

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Dying Light 2 now has a photo mode

3 weeks ago PC Gamer

Dying Light 2 has done rather well since launch, shifting over 5 million copies, and developer Techland is committed to supporting the game for years to come. It recently delayed the first major story DLC for the game until September,…

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File Explorer tabs are one step closer to reality on Windows 11

3 weeks ago PC Gamer

Windows 11 is receiving tabs in File Explorer and the latest Insider Build just received this feature for testing. That means we could see this feature make it into the actual release build of Windows 11 sometime this year. That's…

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Cryptocurrency markets collapse to their lowest levels in years, but it's not all good news for gamers

3 weeks ago PC Gamer

The last few days have seen a cryptocurrency bloodbath, and the declines may not be over. Put simply, the world economy is going to hell, and crypto is coming with it. There are a combination of factors behind the precipitous…

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Today's Wordle answer guide #360: Tuesday, June 14

3 weeks ago PC Gamer

Two days into the week: it's the Tuesday, June 14 (360) Wordle. If you ask me there's nothing better than a Wordle that unfolds beautifully as you play, every guess bringing with it a fresh green box. I can't help…

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Most detailed map of the Milky Way ever released

3 weeks ago PC Gamer

The most detailed map of the Milky Way is still being built, but you can check out its current and most complete iteration yet. Gaia is a mission run by the European Space Agency to catalogue the massive database of…

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UK CMA to investigate Apple and Google over possible cloud gaming dominance

3 weeks ago PC Gamer

In this day and age most people own some kind of smartphone they carry on their person at nearly all times. These devices are woven so deeply into our daily lives that it's almost easy not to really think about…

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Assassin's Creed Celebration Stream confirmed for this week

3 weeks ago PC Gamer

Ubisoft has announced an Assassin's Creed Celebration Livestream for tomorrow, June 14. That date doesn't mark any remarkable milestone or anniversary for the series, but it does coincide vaguely with not-E3, so there's every possibility it will be more than…

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Microsoft reaches 'ground-breaking agreement' with union representing game workers

3 weeks ago PC Gamer

The Communications Workers of America, the parent organization of the Game Workers Alliance union, has entered into a “labor neutrality agreement” with Microsoft over unionizing workers at Activision Blizzard. The “ground-breaking agreement,” which will take effect 60 days after Microsoft…

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Resident Evil 2, 3 and 7 just got their ray tracing updates

3 weeks ago PC Gamer

At its not-E3 showcase earlier today, Capcom shadow dropped the long-promised next-gen versions of Resident Evil 2 Remake, Resident Evil 3 Remake, and Resident Evil 7. These updates are focused on bringing the games natively to PlayStation 5 and Xbox…

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Resident Evil Village is getting playable Lady D and a third-person mode

3 weeks ago PC Gamer

Just when we thought not-E3 was done, Capcom pulled us back into a livestream to announce some cool Resident Evil stuff. During today's Capcom Showcase, Capcom announced that Resident Evil Village is getting a major update to both its story…

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The biggest disappointments of not-E3

3 weeks ago PC Gamer

In the deluge of game announcements during what we at PC Gamer have been referring to as 'not-E3' (mostly because it stuck), there have been a few showings that didn't quite hit. It was definitely a quieter-than-usual year, despite strong…

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Embracer CEO defends taking $1B from Saudi Arabia

3 weeks ago PC Gamer

Embracer Group announced last week that the kingdom of Saudi Arabia, through its Savvy Gaming Group, had made a $1 billion investment in the company, granting it an 8.1% stake in Embracer Group. It was the most recent in a…

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The best demos to play during this week's Steam Next Fest

3 weeks ago PC Gamer

Steam Next Fest is here again, once again cramming a ridiculous amount of free game demos into a single week that is nowhere near long enough to play them all, or even play most of them. A lot of the…

Watch the Capcom showcase here

3 weeks ago PC Gamer

Capcom joined Sony's State of Play last week to roll a trailer for Street Fighter 6 and reveal the Resident Evil 4 Remake, but it isn't finished with E3 season just yet. Today Capcom is running its own 35-minute showcase,…

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Our favorite game, trailer, and absurd claim made by a developer from not-E3

3 weeks ago PC Gamer

Not-E3 is over. Well, wait, it isn't? It's bleeding into the days and weeks to come a bit, with Capcom making a presentation today and Ubisoft still likely to do something in July, we think. Even with the different format…

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Serpent worship, space-parents, and other details hidden in the Starfield trailer

3 weeks ago PC Gamer

Starfield's first gameplay trailer was revealed over the weekend, and it's given rise to a mix of excitement, disappointment, and plenty of speculation. We learned a lot about Bethesda's space RPG, like that it'll contain over a thousand planets to…

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Farthest Frontier trailer reminds us that life sucks when you're a medieval peasant

3 weeks ago PC Gamer

I was immediately intrigued when Farthest Frontier was announced in February because it's a medieval city simulator being made by Crate Entertainment, the studio responsible for Grim Dawn. I very much like Grim Dawn, it's one of the best action-RPGs…

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New Flintlock: The Siege of Dawn gameplay shows intense Soulslike combat, base building, and more

3 weeks ago PC Gamer

Developer A44 Games created one of the most popular Soulslikes ever made with Ashen in 2018, and several years later, the studio is back with its second game, Flintlock: The Siege of Dawn. We haven’t heard much about Flintlock since…

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Frozen Flame is an open-world crafting game that puts exploration first

3 weeks ago PC Gamer

How many times has it happened? You’re wandering outside your base, gathering new resources and materials, and you find something incredible: a new region to explore, some mysterious new enemy, a dungeon that definitely has some wild loot inside. Sadly,…

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Blizzard promises Diablo 4 won't be monetized like Diablo Immortal

3 weeks ago PC Gamer

Prompted by the backlash against the microtransaction-fuelled mobile game Diablo Immortal, Blizzard's Diablo boss Rod Fergusson took to Twitter to reassure fans that the upcoming Diablo 4 “is a full price game” that's designed first and foremost for PC and…

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I'm psyched for Dragon Age: Absolution, I just hope it doesn't steal Tevinter's thunder

3 weeks ago PC Gamer

After the excellence of Netflix's Castlevania series, the triumph of Arcane, and even The Witcher: Nightmare of the Wolf being a lively indulgence, I'm willing to take it as given that the newly-announced animated series Dragon Age: Absolution will be…

This single PCIe 4.0 RAID controller can deliver a ridiculous 28,000 MB/s in SSD bandwidth speeds

3 weeks ago PC Gamer

Have you ever wanted support for eight NVMe SSDs? You're thinking too small. Imagine the possibility of plugging sixteen NVMe SSDs into your PC. You'll never have to think about storage for the rest of your days. Well, Highpoint's new…

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Bethesda confirms your Starfield character will be a silent protagonist

3 weeks ago PC Gamer

We finally got a good long look at Bethesda's space RPG Starfield over the weekend. The meaty, 15-minute Starfield gameplay trailer featured lots of details about how planetary exploration will work, how you're able to build, customize, and fly your…

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Deceive Inc. is a unique take on competitive multiplayer shooters

3 weeks ago PC Gamer

Who wouldn’t love to run around a '70s themed mansion with the coolest spy gadgets as they try to sneak their way into a secured vault to complete a mission objective given by a mysterious spy agency with a total…

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Intel's next-gen Raptor Lake doubles cache sizes and matches AMD's Zen 4 thread count

3 weeks ago PC Gamer

A preview of Intel's next-gen CPU architecture, Raptor Lake, has popped up on the benchmarking site for SiSoftware Sandra (via Videocardz) and it promises some interesting things. First off, you have details about the Core i9 13900, plus there are…

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Project Zomboid mod is Disco Elysium but it's the apocalypse

3 weeks ago PC Gamer

We love a bit of Disco Elysium here at PCG towers, with the game's Final Cut edition currently standing tall at #1 in our list of the best games on PC. Another game we're big fans of is Project Zomboid,…

Holy crap, it's a good time to be a weeb on PC right now

3 weeks ago PC Gamer

Y'all. Persona 5 Royal and Persona 3 Portable are coming to PC. Finally! I feel like it's easy to understate what a big deal this is. Two major top-class JRPGs are getting what should be very solid PC ports, if…

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Stalker 2 delayed until 2023

3 weeks ago PC Gamer

Development on Stalker 2: Heart of Chornobyl recently resumed, after being paused in February following the Russian invasion of Ukraine. Studio GSC Game World was based in Kyiv but has had to help its staff and their families relocate, during…

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How to make a recovery compass in Minecraft

3 weeks ago PC Gamer

Wondering what the Minecraft recovery compass is used for? Or perhaps you just want to know how to make one? The recent 1.19 update introduced the long-awaited Deep Dark biome and the Warden mob, but it's not all doom and…

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Hands-on: Warhammer 40K: Darktide absolutely rules

3 weeks ago PC Gamer

My favorite thing in Warhammer 40,000: Darktide is the skull. OK, let me clarify before anyone gets worried—there's definitely more than one skull in Darktide. This is still Warhammer—skulls for the skull throne, and so on. Some of your enemies…

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Yes, Sonic Frontiers is as bad as it looks, but I want more

3 weeks ago PC Gamer

This weekend at the Summer Game Fest Play Days event, the closest thing to an E3 convention that happened this year, there was one game that came up in conversation more than anything else at the show: Sonic Frontiers, Sega's…

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AMD hero is giving Return to Castle Wolfenstein a path tracing upgrade

3 weeks ago PC Gamer

One Senior Graphics R&D Engineer at AMD, Dihara Wijetunga, has been posting on his Twitter page about a real-time, path traced version of Return to Castle Wolfenstein (RTCW) coming to PC, called Wolf PT. Through his own passion and initiative,…

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