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'Our presence on PC isn't strong enough,' Xbox bosses admit
news At the same time, the "Microsoft Gaming" name adopted in 2022 has been dropped, and it's all back to Xbox again.
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What's next for Slay the Spire 2: the ending, new character(s), new modes?
We sat down with Mega Crit co-founder Casey Yano for the first Slay the Spire 2 post-launch interview. We dive into the magnitude of the games success, what the ending could look like, character win rates, review bombing, and how player feedback. Plus — new characters, new modes, and what’s next for Slay the Spire 2.
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Star Wars Zero Company: Hands-on preview
Star Wars Zero Company surprised us. When EA invited PC Gamer to be one of the first outlets in the world to play their new game, Ted Litchfield went in with high expectations - a Clone Wars tactics game made by former XCOM and Jedi Survivor devs is a slam drunk - but even these were surpassed. It blends the familiar combat of XCOM with sumptuous third-person action-adventure storytelling, and a healthy dose of Mass Effect style RPG management, and could be a game of the year contender.
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How Arc Raiders was saved from mediocrity
ARC Raiders famously switched focus from a fast, free-to-play PvE game to the tighter, more tactical PvPvE extraction shooter we know today; a move known as "the reset". At GDC, Production Director Caio Braga gave a talk entitled "When your AAA game isn't fun: The ARC Raiders story of starting over with intent". We interviewed him afterwards to delve more deeply into how this pivot happened, what player feedback is teaching Embark about their game, and what plans they have for the future.
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Marathon Ignores Extraction Shooter 'Rules' And Is Better For It
Morgan is here to talk about what Bungie is doing right with Marathon. How does it hold up against other extraction shooters?
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Superstrike: How Logitech is innovating the gaming mouse
The Logitech G Pro X2 Superstrike comes with a few features we've not seen before in a gaming mouse. To get all the details, our resident mouse nerd, Jacob Fox, has spoken with two people that worked closely on it: Logitech's senior mechatronics engineer Frédéric de Goumoëns and chief engineer Regis Croisonnier.
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The best Steam Deck games
Steam On The games everyone should have installed on Valve's gaming handheld.
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Big Tech openly wants to manipulate us with AI. That seems bad to me
Opinion "Hyperpersonalization" is the next frontier for videogame marketing, and it doesn't sound good.
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Unlock these Vampire Crawlers upgrades first to blast through the hardest stages
Fast track The Crawlers, Arcana, and other upgrades to prioritize first.
I thought I was playing a cute little city builder about managing a fairytale town in a tree, but it turns out it's a brutal roguelike and now all my gnomes are getting eaten by ghosts
GNOME INVASION Little Tree Kingdom is not so sweet as it appears.
Best graphics cards in 2026: These are the GPUs worth spending money in right now
Pixel Pushers I've made a career out of prodding graphics cards and this has been the toughest set of recommendations I can remember.
Cheap graphics card deals this week
Deals We've done the hard yards sourcing the best graphics card deals for the GPUs worth putting in your gaming PC.
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Unlock these Vampire Crawlers upgrades first to blast through the hardest stages
Fast track The Crawlers, Arcana, and other upgrades to prioritize first.
Best Schedule 1 mixing station recipes to grow your criminal empire
Cooking Learn all the most profitable recipes in this drug-dealing simulation videogame.
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All the Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2 console commands to gain infinite Groschen, steal horses, and spawn any item
Game changers There's quite a lot of mischief you can make with these KCD2 cheats.
I'm sick of breaking the bank buying AAA releases, so I've hunted down overlooked alternatives to 2026's biggest games
CHEAP SHOW From Resident Evil Requiem-style horror to GTA 6-style open world crime, you can have a lot of the same fun with much cheaper options.
Subnautica 2: All the key details on the survival-crafting sequel's dive into the abyss
Deep Dive And this time you don't have to take the plunge alone.
I was worried Owlcat couldn't pull off Mass Effect-style cinematic action in its big new RPG, but after an hour of blowing stuff up in The Expanse: Osiris Reborn, I'm feeling very reassured
THE EXPLODE The Pathfinder: Kingmaker studio is making a confident leap from isometric to third-person.
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Titanium Court review: An eccentric roguelite that's sometimes too random
So random A clever commingling of match-three and autobattler that's smarter and funnier than it is fun.
Data, not guessing: Looking at Nvidia's past GPUs to predict the specs for its future RTX 60-series graphics cards
Crystal ballin' I've stared at Excel so much, I'm dreaming about spreadsheets now.
Best cheap gaming monitor deals today
Deals We've scoured the internet for the best deals on gaming monitors, so you don't have to.
Diablo 4: Lord of Hatred review — A climactic expansion packed with new toys to play with
flesh out A triumphant expansion that gives the action RPG more depth than it's ever had before.
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Combing through a house full of a dead loved one's possessions to figure out who they were feels like the anti-Unpacking
A Storied Life: Tabitha is a thoughtful insight into learning more about the people we love.
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Think you know gaming? Test your knowledge with PC Gamer's fiendish quizzes
TRIVIA TROVE All our brain-teasers in one place.
Petit Planet is exactly the Animal Crossing clone it looked like, but after 15 hours of it I'm shocked by how many new ideas it has too
Cosy galaxy HoYoverse reaches for the stars with a cozy life sim that's more ambitious than it first appears.
After 15 years and 323 hours, I've finally beaten Fallout: New Vegas, and this game doesn't need mods as much as you think it does
jingle jangle Good enough on its own.
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The new World of Tanks hero shooter is shockingly fun, and the beta is still up for a few days
HEAT Underneath the hero shooter trappings is a surprisingly complex tank combat sim.
