The big Netflix showcase isn't the only GTA 6 news coming out today. Some YouTubers and streamers were given a special look at the game by Rockstar, and they learned some interesting things from the studio.Like YouTuber TGG, who says he visited Rockstar North and saw three hours of the game (as spotted by Kotaku). He asked Rockstar about the size of the map and came back with some useful...

You might think making one of the most influential games of this century would be a source of unending happiness for its creator. But for Dean 'Rocket' Hall, founder of RocketWerkz, the relationship with his most famous creation isn't that simple. "When DayZ happened, it was like dying," says Hall of the mod which, alongside Minecraft, helped establish survival games as a cornerstone of the medium. "It ended my old...

CD Projekt has a lot going on these days: The Witcher 4, Cyberpunk 2, a new Witcher 3 expansion and remaster, a remake of the original Witcher, probably some other stuff I've either forgotten or don't know about, and a couple of long-simmering mystery projects that are still only known by their codenames, Sirius and Hadar. You'd be forgiven for forgetting about them, given their low profile and drawn-out development...

The memory crisis may be in full swing, taking numerous PC components with it, but the value of gaming monitors is one of a few hardware things that has actually improved over the last few years. In fact, their price-to-quality ratio is kind of outrageous right now, with even relatively recent QD-OLED screens going for around $300. As such, monitors are one of the few things I check over without...

Exophase, a site dedicated to tracking achievements for games across all major platforms including Steam, appears to have been flooded with a bunch of achievements lists it really shouldn't have yet. These include a huge—and importantly, yet to be unverified—list of major forthcoming games including Persona 6, Deus Ex Remastered, Horizon Hunters Gathering, Judas, Kingdom Hearts 4, and many more.Among those, possibly the biggest surprise is Persona 6. It doesn't...

A fun fact about myself is that I love mushrooms. I love finding them in the wild, I love putting them on pizza (please don't put wild mushrooms on your pizza), but most of all I love seeing them in games. It's quite a niche passion to be sure, but that hasn't stopped me from running around as a little mushroom man in my current DnD campaign. And now, I...

The Witcher 3 is the perfect videogame. Is that hyperbolic? Maybe a bit. But it's unquestionably one of the greatest RPGs of all time, a game that arrived with a 92% review score and somehow got better through years of fixes, upgrades, and expansions, the last of which provided a perfectly satisfying conclusion to the epic of Geralt (and an even higher review score).In his review for that brilliant denouement,...

I'll admit it, I'm normally a bit of a graphics settings snob. 25+ years of PC gaming has conditioned me to think that "Low" is an option to be avoided on everything but the most budget of rigs, or the most demanding of games.But I've just finished my early performance and image quality testing of Control Resonant, and it's remarkable how good the open world looks in motion with everything...

It's been a busy week for prodigious game publisher Hard Shark Games: on September 15 it released an astonishing 29 games on Steam across a huge variety of genres. Not only did Hard Shark Games publish that many games, but the company is also marked as developer for every one of them. All of which, mind you, are early access affairs. "We're launching in Early Access to involve the community...

Causality Chain is a series at PC Gamer exploring the unlikely links between history, culture, and videogames.Every time you cast a meteor spell in Diablo 2 or a cloud of daggers in Baldur's Gate 3, you are taking part in a chain of history—a causality chain, if you will—that dates back to the 18th century, when nobody had thought about taking a "warlock dip" since the Salem witch trials. And...