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...

The PC Gaming Show 2025 has now drawn to a close, leaving a familiar trail of top-quality trailers, announcements, exclusive interviews and world premieres in its wake. Maybe you missed the broadcast on Twitch, YouTube and elsewhere, or maybe you simply want to relive it—whatever your deal is, we've got you covered here with every single game and trailer that aired during the showcase's two-hour-plus runtime.Of course, this year's flagship...

The latest world premiere to grace the stage at the PC Gaming Show 2025 is Wanderburg.In this day and age, there's no shortage of (admittedly fun) rogue-likes, even open-world ones. Like farming sims and deckbuilders, they're a dime a dozen, but I can't say I've ever seen a rogue-like where you cruise around in a castle with an appetite for just about anything.Developed by three-person German indie studio Randwerk, Wanderburg...