The Ancestral Forge mission in Doom: The Dark Ages returns you to the more open level design once again, which gives you much more ground to cover. The Ancestral Forge secrets are tricky because you'll need to find a purple key for a few of them, and the wolf statue puzzle from Siege Part 1 reappears.Don't worry though, I'll guide you through all the Doom: The Dark Ages secrets and...

Though it takes place in the same setting as Control, it could not be any clearer in Remedy's new co-op shooter that you are no Jesse Faden.Forget telekinetic superpowers and shape-shifting weaponry—this time you're just an expendable grunt, sent out to do jobs so dangerous that your objectives are more likely to kill you than the hordes of Hiss-possessed ghouls. (Image credit: Remedy Entertainment) During my two-and-a-half-hour hands-on with FBC:...

As the world looks ahead to the fast approaching June 5 release date for the Switch 2, I can't help but look back. Beyond my Animal Crossing Switch (and, uh, my Animal Crossing 3DS XL), I perhaps spend too much time still considering Nintendo's fetching purple lunch box. Yes, it's true—I'm one of those wearying GameCube fans wistfully sighing through every Direct hoping against hope for another Skies of Arcadia...

At time of writing, the Oblivion remaster has generated enough money to buy France. Across the world, the gears of business churn inevitably: someone at Microsoft emails someone at Bethesda to ask, a little forcefully, which classic game they'll be making a quadrillion dollars on next.The answer is almost certainly Fallout 3, and who knows how distant that could be. But once we've found Liam Neeson in Unreal Engine 5,...

Let me start off this review with something that became immediately obvious when I pulled this laptop from the box: The MSI Raider 18 HX AI is a hefty boi. A chungus. A honking, chonking, slab of a gaming laptop.In a world where laptops like the Razer Blade 16 and the Asus ROG Zephyrus G16 are redefining what it means to own a portable powerhouse of a gaming machine, the...

In a recent episode of Hideo Kojima's podcast KOJI10, the Metal Gear and Death Stranding creator discussed some of the game ideas he's had relating to time. These should be taken with a pinch of salt, because Kojima's always loved spieling about how certain concepts would work in videogames, but at least one was almost part of Death Stranding 2: On the Beach (both spotted and translated by IGN).Time-based mechanics...

The internet is famous for two things, weird stuff, and bringing people together. It's especially good when it hits both those pillars at once. with a positive result There's just such a wonderful sense of community in watching a million people collectively consult the helix fossil, or if you want to go really old school, watch and turn on a coffee pot. Today's group activity on the world wide webberverse...

In a sentence that reads like something out of a very derivative sci-fi novella, peers in the House of Lords have pushed back against the United Kingdom government's bill around training AIs. Yes, this is exactly the kind of future I imagined living in. Not the cool one with flying electric vehicles.As the Guardian reports, the UK is looking to make it legal to train AI on copy-write protected materials,...

Audeze's Maxwell series of headsets are one of our favourite pieces of audio equipment here at PC Gamer. These cans regularly feature in our best of lists, delivering audiophile quality sound thanks to those excellent planar magnetic drivers. As an extra special treat, once a year the brand partners with Xbox to release a special themed headset, and this years is a shocking floral delight.The Maxwell Flora edition is the...

Click your way down to our hint for today's Wordle if you'd like a bit of inspiration, the chance to give your brain a bit of a nudge, or just want to see a second opinion without spoiling all your fun. It'll help, promise. And if you're looking for something a little stronger, the answer to the May 14 (1425) Wordle is right here and happy to show you the...