A thing that often happens in this line of work is: a developer or PR person enthusiastically trying to convince you that a not-especially-interesting game is actually incredibly innovative and exciting. The Gamescom demo for Nekome: Nazi Hunter is the first time I have been in the reverse position: I thought the game was interesting, well-timed, and politically bold—the studio was keen to convince me it wasn't. The demo of...

The MSI Crosshair 16 Max HX E2W is in many ways the polar opposite of the other MSI laptop I recently tested, the Stealth 16 AI+ B3W. The latter is an ultra-expensive, sleek and subtle machine that limits its power for the sake of thermals, efficiency, and form factor. Not so with the Crosshair: it's a gaming laptop, and it knows it.I could tell as much as soon as I...

Need to knowWhat is it?: Plague Tale prequel goes full third-person action-adventure.Expect to pay: £44/$50Developer: AsoboPublisher: FrogwaresReviewed on: Windows 11, Intel Core i9, 32GB RAM, Nvidia RTX 4060Multiplayer?: NoSteam Deck: PlayableLink: Official siteThe Plague Tale series were puzzle-stealth games about kids trying to survive a Horrible History version of France during the Hundred Years War, sneaking past soldiers and using light to frighten hordes of rats that could strip them...

Some trailers—like, for instance, a Grand Theft Auto 6 trailer—are meant to be consumed slowly and carefully, dissected and analyzed, until every last bit of information is wrung out of them. Others are about nothing more than kicking back and enjoying the fun. The new promo for the upcoming Street Fighter film is definitely one of the latter, and I'm really starting to think that as videogame movies go, this...

Here at Clanker Watch we're keeping a vigilant eye on the future as we uneasily enter the Age of Robotics. And there's never been a month like August of 2026 to keep that eye occupied with videos of robots breaking down, messing up, and in a few cases, straight-up catching on fire. That's due to the World Robot Humanoid Games in Beijing, a yearly event where robots compete in sporting...

The Blood of Dawnwalker isn't out until tomorrow—September 2—but the reviews are up now, and generally speaking they're pretty good. We gave it an 83% score in our review, calling it "a resolutely miserable horror RPG with some great ideas," and that lines up spot-on with its enviable 83/100 aggregate rating on Metacritic. And that very positive response comes, quite literally, as a great relief to creative director Mateusz Tomaszkiewicz,...

Netflix's exclusivity deal for the Grand Theft Auto 6 reveal in August struck me as a little silly. Sure, it'd probably make "a little pocket change," as PC Gamer's Harvey Randall put it at the time, but a video that would remain exclusive for only six hours? Not days? How much of an impact could that really have?Well, uh, quite a lot, as it turns out. We already knew that...

I don't like waging into gaming romance wars—things got a bit dicey with Ada and Claire—but it seems that I am yet to learn my lesson because here I am again with the news that Geralt's one true love isn't Yennifer or Triss, it's his trusty and talkative bard, Dandelion. At least Geralt's gaming voice actor Doug Cockle believes there's something special between the two. During a chat with PC...

CD Projekt has a lot going on these days: The Witcher 4, Cyberpunk 2, a new Witcher 3 expansion and remaster, a remake of the original Witcher, probably some other stuff I've either forgotten or don't know about, and a couple of long-simmering mystery projects that are still only known by their codenames, Sirius and Hadar. You'd be forgiven for forgetting about them, given their low profile and drawn-out development...

There are few things as exciting as the prospect of a new MMO. And when that new MMO is from ArenaNet, the studio that's been focused on Guild Wars for more than two decades, the excitement is even greater. Having seen Guild Wars 3 in action at Gamescom, and spoken to game director Colin Johanson and lead combat designer Kevin Stocker, my excitement has been justified. Just as Guild Wars...