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Square Enix promises 'short but sweet' update on Final Fantasy 7 next week

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It's been 25 years since the original Final Fantasy 7 was released, which is a fact I'm still not fully ready to come to terms with quite yet. To celebrate Cloud and the crew turning a quarter-century old, Square Enix…

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Best gaming keyboards in 2022

3 weeks ago PC Gamer

The best gaming keyboard makes gaming a breeze and typing a pleasure. There's something so satisfying about a slick mechanical gaming keyboard, whether laden with RGB lights or playing it sensible without. Ultimately, aside from your gaming mouse, your gaming…

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'Improve your brain and systemic wellness' while looking like a giant dork

3 weeks ago PC Gamer

Who knew that blasting your nasal capillaries with light could make you a better gamer? At least, this is what Vielight appears to be claiming in its marketing material. The transcranial-intranasal photobiomodulation (PBM) device comes in a few different forms,…

Redux 'Good' tier PC

3 weeks ago PC Gamer

You did it. You set some money aside for a new gaming PC but then realized you didn't know where to start. You sort of have an idea of what you want, but the thought of hunting down parts and…

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MSI Radeon RX 6750 XT Gaming X Trio

3 weeks ago PC Gamer

In a sign that AMD’s next generation of GPUs are still many months away from release, it's time for a refresh! Much like the RX 6650 XT and RX 6950 XT, the RX 6750 XT is a refresh of the…

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Today's Wordle answer #356: Friday, June 10

3 weeks ago PC Gamer

It's Friday, so take it easy: here's the answer to the June 10 (356) Wordle. I made the mistake of trying to multitask when I played today's Wordle, which led to four yellow letters and no clue where they were…

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AMD teases its next gen chiplet-based RDNA 3 architecture

3 weeks ago PC Gamer

CPU’s weren’t the only thing discussed at AMD’s Financial Analyst Day. AMD definitely wants to impress everyone with its upcoming Zen 4 CPUs, but a gaming rig is useless without a capable graphics card, and early indicators are that AMD’s…

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AMD provides new Zen 4 details and touts a greater than 25% performance-per-watt gain

3 weeks ago PC Gamer

AMD's latest financial analyst presentation took place today, and in it we got some juicy information about the company’s upcoming Ryzen 7000 Zen 4 CPUs and RDNA 3 GPUs. I’ll go over the GPU announcements in another post, and focus…

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Magic: The Gathering's Baldur's Gate set brings familiar faces to its most fun format

3 weeks ago PC Gamer

Crossovers between the two fantasy multiverses owned by Wizards of the Coast have mostly gone in one direction, with Dungeons & Dragons 5th edition receiving books about Magic: The Gathering settings like wizard college Strixhaven, city-planet Ravnica, and Greek mythology…

Street Fighter 2 is free on Steam to celebrate a new trove of Capcom reissues

3 weeks ago PC Gamer

Before there was Street Fighter 6, 5, 4, and 3, there was Street Fighter 2. It was an astonishing success on its arcade release in 1991, and is arguably the reason the series still exists today. If you're not among…

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Forget guns, just kick the crap out of everyone in FPS Anger Foot

3 weeks ago PC Gamer

This article was originally published on April 14, 2022, but has been updated with a new trailer and links. Kicking enemies is great. Kicking down doors? Also great. Using that math, kicking down doors so hard they fly into enemies…

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The Plucky Squire managed to melt my E3-hardened heart

3 weeks ago PC Gamer

I gotta be honest: when the trailer for the Plucky Squire opened with a view of a Toy Story-esque child's room, softly lit in the afternoon light, I was prepared to check out. “This is probably not for me,” I…

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You're a skateboarding demon made of glass on a mission to swallow the moon

3 weeks ago PC Gamer

“You're a demon made of glass and pain.” I feel like that's a pretty good pitch for a game on its own, but it only gets more intriguing when the demon picks up a skateboard and starts shredding through the…

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The Grammy Awards adds a dedicated videogame category

3 weeks ago PC Gamer

The Grammy Awards, presented by the Recording Academy to recognize outstanding achievement in the music industry, has added a new category for its 2023 event dedicated solely to videogames. The Best Score Soundtrack For Video Games And Other Interactive Media,…

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David Harbour says World of Warcraft 'ruined my life'

3 weeks ago PC Gamer

Henry Cavill, star of The Witcher on Netflix, is beloved in our hearts as a unique blend of suave chat, Olympian physique, and true-blue PC gamer cred. During a Geeked Week livestream for another hit Netflix show, Stranger Things, we…

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Genshin Impact's developer is making too many new gacha games, but they all look sick

3 weeks ago PC Gamer

HoYoverse dropped two trailers for its upcoming games Honkai: Star Rail and Zenless Zone Zero, and there's a rumor that's its got yet another one coming soon. Both of its newest games look like third-person action RPGs featuring a bunch…

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Why are there so many sci-fi horror games all of a sudden, anyway?

3 weeks ago PC Gamer

Was it just us, or were there a load of sci-fi horror trailers at the Summer Games Fest this year? There were so many that it became a little difficult at the start of the show to tell the difference…

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Every Summer Game Fest trailer and announcement from the 2022 show

3 weeks ago PC Gamer

With E3 cancelled this year, Geoff Keighley's Summer Game Fest has once again attempted to fill the expo's shoes by collecting a bunch of big game announcements into one handy livestream. This year's showcase didn't really have any big studio…

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Waiting for Hollow Knight: Silksong is the new waiting for Elden Ring

3 weeks ago PC Gamer

I fell for it again, dammit. I should know better than to get psyched up for any particular game to show up at a big press conference like today's Summer Game Fest, but I did it anyway. After a Twitter…

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Xbox Game Pass is bringing console-less game streaming to Samsung Smart TVs

3 weeks ago PC Gamer

Who says you need something silly like a console or PC to enjoy playing games on your TV? Microsoft announced a partnership with Samsung that will bring Xbox Cloud Gaming to select models of Samsung smart TVs. This means you'll…

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Goodbye World's hazy nostalgia looks set to break my heart

3 weeks ago PC Gamer

It's been a hot sec since I've been absolutely floored by how beautiful a videogame's graphics are. Modern graphics are an amazing landmark of how far gaming has come technologically in such a short amount of time, but it takes…

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A Little to the Left is like Unpacking if there was a cat messing with you

3 weeks ago PC Gamer

Not-E3 is well underway and while many are sure to be excited by reveals like The Callisto Protocol gameplay and Aliens Dark Descent, I'm more interested in what is perhaps the first Unpacking-like: A Little to the Left. One of…

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Be a water nymph and befriend ducks in chillout game Naiad

3 weeks ago PC Gamer

There's a certain kind of indie game that's all about chill. You explore a slice of the natural world at your own pace, with a little puzzle-solving thrown in, but rarely anything likely to disrupt your meditative flow. The archetype…

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Schim is an adorable platformer about hopping from shadow to shadow

3 weeks ago PC Gamer

This year's Day of the Devs is packed with indie games that I very much want to play, but Schim might be at the top of that list. Developed by Ewoud van der Werf, Schim is an environmental platformer about…

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Keep your guests comfy in this bed and breakfast sim, and also you are a bear

3 weeks ago PC Gamer

I know we're not even halfway through this big summer gaming glut, but can we just stop right here? I've found the game I want to play and I don't need to see any more games. Let's just shut things…

Will the The Last of Us multiplayer game come to PC?

3 weeks ago PC Gamer

Earlier today a long-rumoured remake of The Last Of Us leaked shortly before the official announcement, with the big news being that it's in development for PC. But Naughty Dog wasn't finished there, and during Geoff Keighley's game jamboree it…

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Choo-Choo Charles is coming to get you this year

3 weeks ago PC Gamer

Sometimes you're scavenging equipment from abandoned camps in the forest and then a train with a clown face and spider legs races toward you. We've all been there. In Choo-Choo Charles, you can fight back, and developer Two Star Games…

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In Time Flies, you play as a fly that lives one second for every year of your life expectancy

3 weeks ago PC Gamer

A trailer for indie game Time Flies appeared at Summer Game Fest's Day of the Devs segment today, and shows a little fly trundling through a home in stark, 1-bit visuals. Old timey jazz crackles through a record player in…

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Take a deep dive into dangerous realms in co-op survival game Nightingale

3 weeks ago PC Gamer

Shared world survival game Nightingale takes place in an alt-history of the Victorian era, where human beings discovered magic and started messing around with portals to strange new worlds. But as tends to happen when visiting other dimensions, something goes…

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Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Shredder's Revenge reveals Casey Jones, launches next week

3 weeks ago PC Gamer

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Shredders Revenge promises that same magic you felt at a pizza parlor arcade in the '90s, and we won't have to wait for it much longer: the game is releasing June 16 and features fan-favorite, Casey…

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Of course we tried to make Geralt in the new Saints Row character creator

3 weeks ago PC Gamer

The Saints Row character creator always ensures that I'll spend about a third of my time just recreating my Boss. In Saints Row 4, with its superhero conceit, it was probably more like half. In the Saints Row reboot, you'll…

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Layers of Fears is a 'psychological horror chronicle' coming in 2023

3 weeks ago PC Gamer

Following a week of not exactly subtle teasers, Bloober Team announced at the Summer Game Fest today that its next big horror project will be Layers of Fears, “a psychological horror chronicle built upon the foundations of the original Layers…

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Here's 2 minutes of gleeful carnage in Warhammer 40K: Darktide

3 weeks ago PC Gamer

There's a moment in this Warhammer 40,000: Darktide trailer that I think succinctly sums up this videogame. The player holds their chainsaw sword in front of them to block an incoming strike from a mutant-looking dude dressed like he's about…

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Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 looks like it's out of ideas

3 weeks ago PC Gamer

Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 is having itself a reveal week. Yesterday, Activision debuted a new trailer and announced that Call of Duty would be returning to Steam this year at a new price of $70. Today, we got…

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Speedrunning FPS game Neon White finally gets a release date

3 weeks ago PC Gamer

Neon White is mostly about being an assassin from hell with the chance to get to heaven by performing incredible move combinations at a lightning pace. But it's also about looking great and flirting which, come on, is a hell…

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American Arcadia is like a reality show, but if your ratings drop, they kill you

3 weeks ago PC Gamer

In the movie The Truman Show, Truman was an average guy who unbeknownst to him was the lead character in a reality show built around his life. He lived in a fake city, was surrounded by cameras, and had no…

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Goat Simulator 3 announced, thinks we won't notice there wasn't a Goat Simulator 2

3 weeks ago PC Gamer

In a masterful bait-and-switch, Goat Simulator developer Coffee Stain North made the entire Summer Game Fest audience think they were watching a new Dead Island 2 trailer… before the script flipped. The sequel to Goat Simulator, which was something of…

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Outriders is still a thing apparently and it's getting an expansion this month

3 weeks ago PC Gamer

Outriders is a game I definitely remember coming out last year. Apparently, the third-person looter shooter is getting an expansion called Worldslayer and it'll be out really soon. There's a new trailer from the Summer Game Fest that features a…

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How Marvel's Midnight Suns is 'the complete opposite' of XCOM

3 weeks ago PC Gamer

It's kind of preposterous to say that Marvel's Midnight Suns is “the complete opposite” of XCOM 2. They're both turn-based tactics games. And yet, I have a hard time completely disagreeing with that claim from creative director Jake Solomon. They…

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Midnight Suns director didn't get a heads up about plot similarities in the new Doctor Strange movie

3 weeks ago PC Gamer

Midnight Suns, the upcoming Marvel RPG from Firaxis, is based on the occult 'Midnight Sons' run of comics from the '90s. It's heavy on magic, ghosts, and demons, which creative director Jake Solomon thought would set it apart from the…

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Midnight Suns release date and leaked heroes confirmed

3 weeks ago PC Gamer

The release date for Marvel's Midnight Suns, the turn-based tactical RPG from XCOM developer Firaxis, was made official during today's Summer Game Fest stream: Midnight Suns will be out on October 7. I had a confidential heads-up on that fact,…

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Witchfire will hopefully be the long-awaited Painkiller followup that doesn't suck

3 weeks ago PC Gamer

I'm a big fan of Painkiller, so when The Astronauts—a studio founded by veterans of Painkiller developer People Can Fly—announced a return to the form in 2017 with Witchfire, I was very interested. We got a fresh look at the…

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After a decade of silence, Routine is back in development

3 weeks ago PC Gamer

Back in 2013, a gameplay trailer for a small, sci-fi take on Amnesia made one hell of an impact on me. Taking cues from Alien, it was sterile, analogue, a retrofuturist nightmare station that felt oppressively lonely, right up until…

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Classic '90s platformer Flashback is getting (another) sequel

3 weeks ago PC Gamer

In a blink-and-you'll-miss-it trailer from the Summer Game Fest, developer Microids announced a sequel to the cult classic platformer, Flashback. Developed by Delphine Software of Another World fame, Flashback presented a moody, cyberpunk caper with rotoscoped visuals and slower-paced, realistic…

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StarCraft 2's veterans left Blizzard to make Stormgate, the co-op RTS of their dreams

3 weeks ago PC Gamer

There's a world in which Stormgate never exists. In that world, Blizzard never merged with Activision or discovered just how lucrative Overwatch's loot boxes could be. Bizarro Blizzard decided that StarCraft 2, one of the finest real-time strategy games ever…

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The Callisto Protocol's first gameplay trailer tore us apart, literally

3 weeks ago PC Gamer

The Callisto Project looks flipping terrifying if I'm being honest. A new gameplay trailer shown at the Summer Game Fest has me scared silly. From gore to jumpscares, the team at Striking Distance have absolutely followed up on their promise…

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Guile gives us a glimpse of his hair care routine in new Street Fighter 6 trailer

3 weeks ago PC Gamer

The new Street Fighter 6 Guile trailer shown during the Summer Game Fest stream (embedded above) looks exactly like what I expect a new Street Fighter game to look like, which belies that there are some surprising features in this…

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Aliens: Dark Descent is a top-down cooperative bug blaster, coming 2023

3 weeks ago PC Gamer

You're all spoilt for choice when it comes to blasting Giger's bugs with your pals. Not a year since the release of Aliens: Fireteam Elite, the franchise returns with a top-down take on team xenomorph hunts with the newly announced…

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How to watch the 2022 Devolver Direct showcase

3 weeks ago PC Gamer

In all this week and weekend's not-exactly-E3 schedule, don't forget about Devolver Direct—the summer showcase that will make you feel like you've slept over at a friend's house in 2003, fallen asleep to Cartoon Network, and woken up in the…

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Among Us officially crosses over with Fortnite

3 weeks ago PC Gamer

Epic's decision to add an overtly Among Us-like mode to Fortnite last year generated a little bit of friction with Innersloth, developer of the actual Among Us. The studio acknowledged that the mechanics of the game aren't new and “shouldn't…

The Last of Us remake is coming to PC

3 weeks ago PC Gamer

This is a megaton: The Last Of Us, perhaps PlayStation's most iconic modern classic, is coming to PC. This is in the form of the long-rumoured remake of the game (which doesn't really need it, but whatever). The funniest thing…

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