Excited about Death Stranding 2: On the Beach? So am I, and so I offer one piece of advice to you: don't bother watching last night's premiere event, which was held in LA's Orpheum Theatre, hosted by Kojima's best bud Geoff Keighley, and featured various Death Stranding 2 actors and creatives coming on-stage to talk about what a wonderful, magical creator Kojima is, and how special it is to be...

In some ways, 007 First Light looks like an easy step sideways for IO Interactive. Agent 47 is basically Bond anyway, minus the hair, turbocharged sex drive, and occasional witty (or groan-worthy) quips, right? So just add those things and you're halfway finished. Except as the studio explained in an exclusive interview with PC Gamer, it's not quite that simple, because 47 and Bond really aren't alike at all.Bond and...

If you paid attention during the PC Gaming Show 2025, you'll have spotted the illustrious Frankie Ward and myself building a gaming PC during the stream. That wasn't merely a prop, it's the real deal, and it could be yours. Yeah, yours.This is no machine for mere casuals. We've teamed up with AMD, GIGABYTE and HAVN to pack it full of the latest and most drool-worthy components. This includes the...

How do you like building your cities? There's real appeal in a godlike, top-down view as you become a sort of all-seeing invisible mayor in a city builder. But there's definitely something engaging about having your boots on the muddy ground as you carve a town out of the wilderness and fill it with citizens you can look right in the eye.Noble Legacy is of the second variety: a medieval...

At the 2025 Xbox Games Showcase, Spiritfarer developer Thunder Lotus announced At Fate's End, "an action-adventure game where you fight the ones you love and your skill tree is your family tree." The reveal trailer is a roughly two-minute fever dream of young women pulling swords made of light out of their throats, dudes ripping their spines out to use as chainblades, and messy demigod family drama.It's got a gorgeous...

I never know what to expect from indie studio 17-Bit, which debuted more than a decade ago with strategy game Skulls of the Shogun and followed it up with the great roguelike Galak-Z, before taking a detour into VR with Song in the Smoke. Well, I do expect one thing: whatever wildly different ideas they tackle from one game to the next, they'll be fueled by whatever founder Jake Kazdal...

Jody Macgregor, Weekend/AU Editor(Image credit: Future)This week: Between obsessing over the trailers for Mandrake and Innkeep, I've been trying to finish Clair Obscur: Expedition 33. And failing.I was watching the Frosty Games Fest, a showcase of upcoming games from Australia and Aotearoa New Zealand—where it's currently cold as balls, hence the "Frosty" part of the name—and realized that, out of more than 50 games I saw there, only two weren't...

Treat yourself to a fantastic start with our hint for today's Wordle. It'll help put you on the right track, without immediately spoiling your word finding fun. You could also save it for later if you like, just in case you're feeling a bit stuck further down the board. Whatever you do or don't do with our clue, the June 9 (1451) answer is here if you need it.I knew...

Developer New Tales has revealed its upcoming action-adventure game Fading Echo, a game where you battle, explore, and puzzle your way across a "desert punk" world using powers of elemental water. The world of Corel is made of surreal landscapes on floating islands and casts you as One, "a young Legend on a quest to discover her past and secure her future."Fading Echo has a pretty distinct visual style, mixing...

Here's the pitch for Blind Descent: Stranded beneath the surface of Mars, in a secretive ecosystem unknown to humanity, you and up to three friends must survive and thrive in an unfamiliar alien environment while figuring out the fate of a missing exploration team."What begins as a desperate search for missing crew members evolves into a journey of symbiosis with a world that resist, adapts, and remembers," said developer Pokuch...