I thought I was out.I'd had my fill of Baldur's Gate 3—in a good way, mind you—and was finally free to play something else without feeling like I was shamefully neglecting what is surely the RPG of the decade. I'd made all the Tavs and Durges I'd ever wanted to play as, and then a few more just for good measure. I'd conquered honour mode with ease. I'd "accidentally" triggered...

I was excited when the Painkiller reboot was formally revealed back in March, but also apprehensive. Anshar Studios' revival of People Can Fly's 2004 shooter looks exactly how I imagined a modern take on the game would. But it also has a co-operative emphasis, and I'm uncertain how this will mix with the series' brutal simplicity.To be fair, the reveal trailer only provided a brief snapshot of the game. Now...

Path of Exile 2's recent 0.2.0 update did not go down well with players. The update unleashed nerf-a-geddon unto numerous classes and abilities, while also making monsters tougher by fattening their health bars. The purported aim of the update was to make the later game more challenging. But the effect, at least according to players, was that it made the game feel way too slow, denying them that sense of...

Here at PC Gamer we'd basically given up all hope of ever seeing new Western Digital SSD's. After waiting patiently for what felt like an age to witness the birth of the brand's Gen 5 Black SSDs we were hit by the news that SanDisk was taking over the reins earlier this year. This wasn't exactly bad news, as it was still likely SanDisk would put out a killer drive,...

It's no secret that thanks to capitalism things tend to look a bit boring. Products, especially in the tech space, are generally produced en masse to eek out the most profit. With half the stuff coming from the same few factories, peripherals can wind up looking mighty homogenous. Once again thanks to capitalism, tie-ins with fandom are often one of the few reprieves from this bland landscape. One of the...

If you want to hear PC gamers get really particular, ask them about what switches they prefer in their keyboards. Some will go all in on clacky actuation punchers while others may prefer a lighter, softer approach. Those little pieces of engineering that sit between our fingers and the gaming world can make all the difference in dictating how we experience our fictional on screen universes. One of the best...

We first heard that Ubisoft's Star Wars Outlaws would be getting a pirate-themed expansion as the second story pack in the season pass, following the Lando-themed Wild Card DLC. Now, at Star Wars Celebration Japan, a release date has been announced, along with the trailer above.A Pirate's Fortune will see Kay Vess working with the pirate Hondo Ohnaka, who you may know from The Clone Wars or the Smuggler's Run...

Star Wars Celebration Japan has just begun, and during a panel about the upcoming Mandalorian movie spin-off, director Shawn Levy and actor Ryan Gosling popped up to announce a new Star Wars movie coming in 2027."One of several theatrical projects still in development from Lucasfilm," says starwars.com, "including films by Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy, James Mangold, Taika Waititi and a new trilogy by Simon Kinberg, Levy's film — Star Wars: Starfighter —...

Yellow letters causing trouble on today's Wordle? Or maybe—nightmare scenario—they're not turning up at all? That's why we're here to help. Take a quick tour of our tips to sharpen your puzzle solving mind, and then use that knowledge to help you make the most of today's hint. Still not working out? No problem. The April 18 (1399) answer is just below.Seeing one letter turn up in the wrong place...

The 0.2.0 update for Path of Exile 2 has not been well-received, to put it lightly. A heavy hand on the nerf hammer has driven away a significant chunk of those players who like action RPGs for the monster-blasting action, revealing a core tension at the heart of Path of Exile 2's design, as Russell Adderson put it.Eleventh Hour Games, the studio behind competing action RPG Last Epoch, accidentally put...