The cover's blown on 007 First Light, IO Interactive's stealth action game starring a young James Bond. After some teasing and years of quiet work on "Project 007," we finally know what kind of game the Hitman developer has been cooking up for the iconic character. A short trailer that debuted during Sony's June State of Play gave us a look at 007 First Light's original version of Bond, the...

Grounded 2 is just around the corner, and it’s looking like you can expect big things from this tiny survival-crafter.Five years after its predecessor entered early access, Grounded 2 was announced at the recent Xbox Games Showcase and promised to deliver even wilder miniaturised adventures for fans of the original game. Hey, we’re even wandering beyond the confines of the back yard this time.I’ve brought together all the need-to-know info...

Balatro was PC Gamer's 2024 Game of the Year for many good reasons, but one of them was that no-one on the team could stop playing this thing. We weren't alone either: developers went gaga for the poker roguelike. And now it turns out that even Balatro creator LocalThunk just can't stop banging his head against the wall he created.LocalThunk is pretty good at his own game: last year he...

US President Donald Trump has once again pushed back a deadline requiring TikTok to be sold by its Chinese owner, Bytedance. Last year the US passed a law requiring either a sale or that the app be banned. This marks the third time that Trump has extended the deadline.Trump signed the executive order yesterday, which does raise the question of whether TikTok will ever be forced into the sale: under...

I love a good fishing game, which may be a controversial opinion for the PC Gamer team, but I stand by my convictions. Fishing is a nice, calming experience that gives me a desperately needed break from my regular horrifying and brutal games. But sometimes fishing with Willie in Stardew Valley doesn't quite cut it, and that's where Steam's Fishing Fest (a fishing-themed sale that ends soon), and Scale the...

Give yourself a bit of a break, or just make things a little easier for yourself this Friday with our Wordle help. There's a hint for today's Wordle here for you if you need it, just as useful at pointing the way on your last row as it is your first. And if you'd rather not wait that long for a win, the June 20 (1462) answer is ready for...

Four years ago, Hidden Path Entertainment—the studio behind the Defense Grid series and the codeveloper of Counter-Strike: Global Offensive—posted a bunch of job listings that revealed it was developing a big-budget open world Dungeons & Dragons game. Bad news came in 2024 when its creative director posted on LinkedIn to reveal the studio had spent six months searching for "replacement funding" to continue work on it, but in the absence...

Two days after releasing another update for Stellaris, Paradox says the pace of patches is going to slow down—not because Stellaris 4.0 is in tip-top shape (it's not), but because firing out updates so quickly is causing more headaches than its worth.Released in early May alongside the not-very-popular BioGenesis expansion, the 4.0 update was not in a great state when it went live. "During the lead-up to the release, I...

With the 5v5 soccer game Rematch now in full release, developer Sloclap has issued an apology for waiting until the last minute to tell fans it would not have crossplay at launch—and promising that the feature is coming as soon as possible.Sloclap had previously confirmed that crossplay was in the plan for Rematch, and that it was hoping to have the feature ready for launch: On March 3, for instance,...

If you've got a name like Dimensius, the Void Lord, you probably don't like the fact that everyone remembers you as a pretty normal-sized quest boss during World of Warcraft's 2007 Burning Crusade expansion. You'd want to change that, earn that title of Void Lord, and make them fear you.At about 3,806 feet tall, according to Wowhead, new Dimensius, the Void Lord, has pulled it off. He's gigantic, fully eclipsing...