Phasmophobia is one of those games that shows early access at its best. It first released in September 2020 and had the core ghost-hunting experience nailed from the start, but it also felt a little like a proof-of-concept: There weren't too many maps, the environments leaned heavily on asset packs and soon felt a little samey, and there were all sorts of rough edges.The game's success allowed solo developer Kinetic...

Polish up that forklift certification, wolf down one of Tom's hot dogs, and prepare to ask your neighbours about sailors: Shenmue is back. Again. Specifically, Shenmue 3 is getting an enhanced re-release six years after it first came out (via Gematsu) with whizzier graphics and various quality-of-life tweaks.Publisher Inin Games didn't deign to furnish us all with a release date just yet, but Shenmue 3 Enhanced is PC-bound and will...

Look, I wouldn't blame you if you looked at the Asus ROG Astral RTX 5090 Dhabab Edition and thought, hmm, I'm not sure it's worth remortgaging the house for. The Middle East-only card was briefly available for around $7,000, although prices have fluctuated since then and I've seen the odd second-hand model float around for way more than that.The good news is, the Asus ROG Astral RTX 5080 Dhabab Core...

The legendary rapper turned actor Ice Cube is amazing at inhabiting the image he's cultivated over many decades, and is comfortable playing around and sending himself up. And somehow, this is how we've ended up with Ice Cube as a Minecraft claims adjuster.Last year Mr Cube starred in a new take on The War of the Worlds, a production that began around the start of the Covid-19 pandemic and had...

Good news, cats and kittens! If you're the proud owner of a furry cat-themed keyboard, a cat-themed GPU, and a cat-themed Colorful B650 Colorfire motherboard, you can now complete your kitty-based setup by updating the BIOS to feature, you guessed it, a little cat at the bottom of the screen.Also, your family worries about you. Anyway, Colorful has been on a bit of a cat-themed frenzy in recent months with...

The Hugo Awards: they're not just for science-fiction novels that make you think "I should read that one day" and never do. Now they've got an interactive category, so once a year you can be told how excellent one more videogame is, think "I should play that one day," and then never get around to that either.This year the winner of the Best Game or Interactive Work category is Caves...

All the help you need to get your Wordle winning week off to the best kind of start is right here and ready whenever you are. Dip your toe into the waters with our clue for the August 18 (1521) puzzle with confidence, knowing we've got plenty of other hints available if you need something more. We've even got today's Wordle answer at the bottom if you need it. However...

What happens when you put three very silly sketch comedians in a fantastical videogame environment reminiscent of the most frustrating, foolish, and hilarious 1990s point-and-click adventures? You get Aunty Donna's latest sketch, "IRL videogame," which in addition to using the PC Gamer preferred spelling of videogame is pretty funny stuff.In it, comedians Mark Bonanno, Zachary Ruane, and Broden Kelly get dropped into a fantasy world by their producers and have...

Best of the best(Image credit: Xbox Game Studios)2025 games: Upcoming releasesBest PC games: All-time favoritesFree PC games: Freebie festBest FPS games: Finest gunplayBest MMOs: Massive worldsBest RPGs: Grand adventuresOn an average day about a dozen new games are released on Steam. And while we think that's a good thing, it can be understandably hard to keep up with. Potentially exciting gems are sure to be lost in the deluge of...

Wuchang: Fallen Feathers, the game that's like Bloodborne if you took out all the Victorian England and injected a megadose of 14th century China instead, was recently updated to version 1.5. Said update included some uncontroversial quality-of-life improvements, and some story changes that were rather more controversial.As of version 1.5 various historically important bosses and NPCs can no longer be killed, and the dialogue you'd get after defeating them has...