Rust's latest patch may not be as dramatic as its recent jungle update, which added a huge rainforest biome to explore, but it nonetheless makes some important changes to Facepunch's survival sim. The headline update is a party system allowing players to join servers as a group. This makes playing with your friends slightly easier, not only from an organisational perspective, but also because it spawns you into a map...

Blaze through your daily Wordle game with our fantastic help. We've got a few quick tips to warm you up, a clue for todays' Wordle ready to go whenever you feel you need something extra, as well as the July 6 (1478) Wordle answer if you need a hand. However you want to win, we can help make it happen.Four yellow letters—fantastic. That's almost the full set, just like that....

This year will see the release of the first major expansion for Mount & Blade 2: Bannerlord, following three years of updates since its 2022 release. Previously delayed from summer to fall, the War Sails expansion will take your medieval fantasy adventures and conquest to the high seas, adding ownership of ships and naval combat to the detailed land battles.War Sails will also add the Nord civilization and expand the...

Developer Unknown Worlds has shared a letter asking for patience from Subnautica fans after publisher Krafton announced the departure of its senior leadership⁠—including studio co-founder Max McGuire⁠—and the installation of Dead Space producer and Striking Distance (The Callisto Protocol) CEO, Steve Papoutsis, as the new studio head.The news prompted a backlash from fans, including a popular post calling for a boycott of the upcoming Subnautica 2 on the PC gaming...

It's sometimes weird to see what academics make of videogames, coming to the medium as they do with a very different set of principles and goals than most gamers and critics. One recent paper in the Journal of Rural Studies is about a game that's a phenomenon in its own right: Farming Simulator. Specifically, Farming Simulator 22.In the paper "Agricultural videogames and 'good farming,'" authors Simon Foureaux and Thomas Daum...

I don't remember a time when picking the best graphics card was such a tough decision. In previous years we've maybe made it easier on ourselves by going on essentially a sliding performance scale, with a nod to price banding, but this year I want to be a bit more definitive about the actual GPUs we recommend rather than just giving you a big ol' list of graphics cards to...

This weekend, the Stop Killing Games movement reached a critical milestone to become a European Citizens' Initiative, but not everyone is on board. Video Games Europe, a trade association representing game developers and publishers in the EU, released a statement on Friday pushing back against Stop Killing Games.Video Games Europe said in its statement, "We appreciate the passion of our community; however, the decision to discontinue online services is multi-faceted,...

The best gaming laptops in 2025 can finally be the do-anything notebooks we've always wanted them to be. As well as being just as capable 3D rendering in Blender, or thrashing the GPU with generative AI, now they're not just frame rate-chewing gaming monsters when plugged into the power socket, they're machines that can game when running on battery, too.The new Nvidia GPUs paired up with either AMD's mighty Strix...

First reported by Eurogamer, former Forza content coordinator Fred Russell has stated on Facebook that the Forza Motorsport series has been effectively killed by Microsoft's most recent wave of mass layoffs, but that the Horizon spinoff series will continue. Russell left Forza developer Turn 10 in 2016, but appears to still have inside contacts at the company."Turn 10 Studios has shuttered the Forza Motorsport space and the team is no...

The PC Gamer team and I have spent many a long day parking our posteriors on the finest seats around—and have also twisted our spines in many of the worst—to bring you the definitive list of the best gaming chairs you can buy in 2025. We've also spoken to a team of experts to help guide us in what to look for in terms of proper ergonomics, too, so we're...