Don't Starve Together hits new concurrent player count peak a decade after release Don't Starve's eatin' good. PC Gamer · Jun 21
Data analyst finds 'AI stigma' on Steam can reduce the number of reviews a game gets by around 53%—and the reviews it does get are more negative "For high-potential games, the 'AI stigma' is real and severely punishes developers who otherwise would have succeeded." PC Gamer · Jun 21
Bryce Clark, game director of Poppy Playtime, has played 23,000 hours of Steam games: 'I'm a bit obsessed with learning the market' "I'm always playing somewhere between three and six games at a time." PC Gamer · Jun 21
You will never guess who turns up in this video about why you can't build British towns in SimCity 4 Now that's some prime YouTube fodder. PC Gamer · Jun 21
Dishonored review (2012) Playing a magic assassin in Dishonored’s rusty city of Dunwall is as brilliant as it looks. PC Gamer · Jun 21
This gorgeous and ambitious Grand Theft Auto 4 total conversion swaps Liberty City for a Fargo-style slice of rural Wisconsin, featuring backroads and a pizza delivery job gone wrong Shot to the Heartland. PC Gamer · Jun 21
CD Projekt Red boss believes some fans were forever burned by Cyberpunk 2077's disastrous launch: 'I'm convinced that we lost the faith of some people indefinitely' "I'm not 100 per cent convinced we went through the full redemption arc." PC Gamer · Jun 21
Marathon players are amassing way too much loot in Season 2, and the primary cause is a mystery: 'We're still unravelling the source' "Progression and access to power moved much faster than the previous season." PC Gamer · Jun 21
Guild Wars 3 isn't the only new Guild Wars on the way: ArenaNet just announced a Guild Wars card game Mistbound aims to give fans "a new way to play together." PC Gamer · Jun 21
Crysis 2 had problems, but it got one thing right: destruction Fancy a second helping of Crysis 2's big apple crumble? PC Gamer · Jun 20
The team behind bullet hell FPS Luna Abyss just got laid off, less than a month after the game's release Another deluge of layoffs in a year full of them. PC Gamer · Jun 20
The videogame market is as big as ever, with PC leading growth—global games revenue surpassed the $200 billion mark in 2025 Market analyst Michiel Buijsman reckons GTA 6 will be 2026's "defining commercial catalyst." PC Gamer · Jun 20
Former Dragon Age writer says AI could make gamedev 'frustrating as hell': 'How are we going to train up the next generation of devs if we eliminate every entry-level task?' Part of the sales pitch for AI is that it can carve out tedious 'busy work.' Should it? PC Gamer · Jun 20
The best D&D videogame you've never played is one guy's outsider art, personal Baldur's Gate saga Realheads know Swordflight. Sickos love it. PC Gamer · Jun 20
PC Gamer · Jun 20 5 promising games recently cancelled by Microsoft If you wished for more pizazz at this year's Xbox Showcase, there's lots of it buried in an growing graveyard of cancelled Xbox games.
PC Gamer · Jun 20 I spent an entire day with a fan-mod of North Korea's homegrown operating system, and I'm sorry to say it's not a Windows killer yet Not the year of RedStar on the desktop.
PC Gamer · Jun 20 Stellaris celebrates 10 years (and a new DLC) with a free weekend and a 70% discount The sci-fi strategy game is getting on in years, but it's no less active.
PC Gamer · Jun 20 Claude Guillemot, co-founder of Ubisoft, dies in plane crash The chairman and CEO of Guillemot Corporation was 69.
PC Gamer · Jun 20 This GTA 5 filmmaker is livestreaming every step of machinima production, from location scouting to live debugging when the game inevitably crashes The good, the bad and the totally expected.
PC Gamer · Jun 20 WoW's got the right to close private servers—but in this industry layoff hellscape, I also feel like I'm watching the MMO genre's future get snuffed out Private servers are a symptom, not the disease.
PC Gamer · Jun 20 The creator of Ultima is reportedly reclaiming the series' rights back from EA, and it could happen as soon as next year "Every decade or so, I tried to work with EA on a revival of Ultima."
PC Gamer · Jun 20 After losing over 30 pounds exercising in VR for six months, I can say it's worth the effort (and sweaty faceplates) Here's to another six!
PC Gamer · Jun 20 Microsoft researcher builds goat-powered neural network in Age of Empires 2 to show why we should 'stop assuming that LLMs behave like humans just because they were trained with natural language' "I have this tendency to dial up things to 11 when I really think I need to make a point."
PC Gamer · Jun 19 Guild Wars 3 is 'significantly more' of an MMO than the first game, but that doesn't mean it's like GW2: 'All three of our games can coexist as different experiences' GW3 is definitively an MMO, but ArenaNet says it won't play like either of its predecessors.
PC Gamer · Jun 19 Path of Exile 2 director says players exploiting system to become in-game millionaires 'ruined Christmas for me' and joked that he's 'lost all sympathy' for everyone who took advantage of it And then he found out they were doing it again in the middle of the interview.