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Phantom Blade Zero's release is almost here, and the reviews are looking pretty positive—I've been playing it the last couple of weeks and it's definitely the best action game of the year, if not the past few years.

Rockstar employees will hold a vote on union recognition over a two-week span in November that will perfectly bracket the studio's launch of the console version of Grand Theft Auto 6.

What once would've been a forum or wiki is often now a Discord server, and that's created a problem: valuable information is hidden away deep in the chat logs of big public Discord channels, rather than in easy-to-search forum pages on the web.

More unofficial but undoubtedly very cool Mass Effect music is on the way: The day after Austin Wintory shared 20 minutes of music he wrote as part of a "serious conversation" with BioWare and Electronic Arts about scoring Mass Effect 5, composer Sam Huli…

Wizards of the Coast and Hasbro Digital Games have a new boss, and it's kind of the old boss.

There is a new game titled "Call of Duty" every year, but it's not every year that Call of Duty is really back.

At just about 15 hours into Phantom Blade Zero, I've changed out my primary weapons more times than I do in an entire Souls campaign.

GamesIndustryWarhammer 40,000: Boltgun developer Auroch Digital appears to be headed toward significant layoffs.

This week both AMD and Nvidia have announced partnerships with Meta, securing both collabs and billions of dollars.

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James Wyatt, the principal game designer and project lead designer of the upcoming Dungeons & Dragons: World of Warcraft book was already running games in Azeroth long before he took on the project.

AI's a touchy subject in the development industry, but in other areas it's a lot less controversial—take Japan, for instance, which is embracing the technology a lot more than audiences in the West are.

We are just three weeks out from the release of Grand Theft Auto 6, which you can tell because it has cleared the release calendar around it like the Chicxulub crater.

Nvidia's RTX 5090 has been a subject of much speculation recently, as it was rumoured to be discontinued last month when it vanished from the company's official marketplace, only for Nvidia to confirm it wasn't discontinued.

I've always thought that I'm a particularly good judge of character, so I was happy to put my theory to the test with Deadline: Afterlife Processing's new demo where you play as some corporate angel judging whether the souls of the recently deceased should

As we've noted before on this very site, there really is just no winning in the videogame industry, particularly under current conditions.

It's been 22 years, 11 months, 28 days and counting since we were first graced with Call of Duty.

Recently, I travelled to Guildford, England, to interview developer Peter Molyneux, the legendary game developer behind Populous, Theme Park, Dungeon Keeper, Black & White and Fable, among others.

Dark Messiah of Might & Magic: Community Edition must be what modders dream about—a big, impactful, community-driven project that enhances a beloved game, with full support from its publisher.

Warhorse Studios, the developer behind Kingdom Come: Deliverance and an upcoming RPG set in JRR Tolkien's Middle-earth, has announced it's been targeted in a cyberattack, the results and details of which are yet to come out.

Playing a show while wearing the Frame from r/SteamFrame If you've ever wanted to know what it's like to be a bassist in a band, one Redditor has shared a video recording from their Steam Frame, and it turns out it's purple and filled with strange costume…

Half-Life: Alyx appeared to be all done and dusted, with no major updates or patches since 2022.

Last week's Steam Next Fest had over 8,000 demos; now Valve has revealed the 50 most-played among them.

The World of Warcraft: Forever min-maxers have been arguing about the pros and cons of each playable race since the throwback MMO was announced.

Literally one day before it was set to launch into early access, the pixel art action RPG Emberville has been delayed so the development team can incorporate feedback from the game's recent Steam Next Fest demo.

Halloween is almost upon us, and if you're looking for some suitably spooky videogame fun then allow me to direct your attention to Playable Archive, a free "micro psychological horror experience" from Darkstone Digital, the solo studio behind The Mortuary

As part of our ongoing coverage and commemoration of the closure of BioWare, we've been reaching out to RPG developers to hear what the studio meant to them.

Composer Austin Wintory (Journey, Stray Gods, Assassin's Creed: Syndicate) just shared 20 minutes of music he wrote as a sort of audition/starting point for the score of Mass Effect 5, aka.

The first new card I found in Forbidden Solitaire's new DLC The Discarded gave me the power to throw a card like a knife at whatever horror was trying to kill me.

A Variety report says that Walter Koenig, known to the world as Star Trek's Russian hothead Pavel Chekhov, has died.

I love the standard farm sim formula.

"We are Mass Effect," the fan group behind a currently 224,000 signature Change.org petition seeking to secure the series' future, has rented out digital billboard space in New York's Times Square to promote the effort.

Today, October 26, is the 19th anniversary of The Witcher, the groundbreaking RPG that introduced Geralt, and CD Projekt, to the world.

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When I started working at PC Gamer in 2014, I began what I didn't realize at the time would become a bit of a ritual.

Microsoft has announced a new "voluntary exit offer" aimed at making drastic cuts to its headcount.

If you are part of the Windows 11 Insider program, you may have finally received the option to test your internet speed directly from Quick Settings in the latest experimental build.

What a time to be alive.

You can truly never anticipate how one might use their tech.

If you've watched as many Sam Altman interviews as I have, you'll know he's not shy when it comes to recounting a previously held opinion.

The Call of Duty movie officially became a thing earlier this year, and aside from making fans of Black Ops cry out in pain it promised "an authentic and exciting" take on the Modern Warfare games.

If you're having trouble logging into Steam today, you're not alone: Significant numbers of users are reporting that they're stuck on a "loading user data" screen that's keeping them from logging into the platform.

World of Warcraft: Forever's beta is now closed, meaning I can no longer appreciate the pretty god rays in Ashenvale.

I think it's obvious and uncontroversial to say that the automobile is a tool of capital to subjugate the worker, to atomise them in their locomoting coffins and alienate them from their fellow human beings.

Phantom Blade Zero, the upcoming action RPG from Chinese studio S-Game, is looking mighty impressive, and the Unreal Engine 5 game even has fairly modest system requirements too.

The Golden Joystick Awards' Ultimate Game of the Year voting is now open—celebrating its 44th consecutive year, the votes will remain open until 8 pm ET / 12 am GMT, October 30.

Consumer RTX 5090 stock in the US (and many other countries) seems to be virtually non-existent at the moment, despite Nvidia's claims that production is still ongoing.

As AI continues to get smarter, the schemes using it have often become more successful.

Valve's mandatory AI disclosures are once again at the centre of the discourse, mostly thanks to Epic Games CEO Tim Sweeney, who has long been vocally against them.

As reported by IGN, veteran actors Jennifer Hale and Mark Meer, who voiced the female and male Commanders Shepard in Mass Effect, respectively, directly addressed fans of the series in an October 21 Instagram Live.