When a big old tree talks, I listen. He said, "I have a task of great importance," as soon as I opened my eyes, and who was I to turn him down? "Take this note to the King, it should be a short quest," he instructed, and although there is no king in the playtest for A Short Quest, I am eager to fulfill the tree's wishes when the whole...

Like a lot of survival games, Stalker 2 had a long journey from janky larva to playable, easily recommended butterfly. It's tempting to say that these games ought to just stay under wraps until they're done and relatively bug-free—but at Gamescom 2026, GSC Game World CEO and head of game direction Ievgen Grygorovych told PC Gamer's Joshua Wolens that deciding when to release is a more complex consideration than you...

Have you met Valheim 1.0's mountainous menace, the Gammeltroll? If you've made your way to Valheim's final biome, the Deep North, you've probably seen and fought it already: the Gammeltroll is a 30-foot tall rock monster who pelts you with tree trunks from range and stomps you into paste if you get too close.Most interestingly, when you defeat the Gammeltroll, it doesn't fall down. Instead, it turns into a statue...

We all hoped that Inzoi would be the competitor to The Sims 4 that the life sim genre has needed for years. Thus far, though, things haven't quite panned out that way. Life sim expert Mollie Taylor described Inzoi's early access version as a "shallow imitation" of The Sims, while the game's own director Hyungjin "Kjun" Kim conceded that building a life sim has proven much harder than he anticipated.Since...

Ultra-thin and compact, space-conscious minimalists will want to give this keyboard a look.

It's tough out there.

Vincke kicked off an uproar earlier this week when he said that Larian makes use of generative AI "to explore ideas."

Fewer than I thought, but more than one person could feasibly count by hand.

Sorting through every new game on Steam so you don't have to.

I will do that.