Open-world, co-op, hoverboard FPS Echo Point Nova has just received a surprise free update that adds two new weapons to the game, rebalances an existing one, and expands the shooter's stunning world of floating islands.Last October, PC Gamer staff writer Morgan Park declared Echo Point Nova "the best FPS of 2024 so far," with the overall crown snatched away a month later by STRAFTAT, the superb (and free) 1v1 arena...

Age of Empires 2 simply cannot be stopped. 26 years on from the game's original launch, and six years since the release of its almighty Definitive Edition, real-time strategy's most benevolent tyrant is still getting the kind of support that would put most live-service games to shame.Only last month, developer Forgotten Empires unleashed a patch so colossal it has already entered the annals of the series' history. Now, the studio's...

I had not realised that carkour—the theoretical act of performing parkour with a car—was something I wanted to exist until approximately 40 minutes ago, and now it has somersaulted to the summit of my own hierarchy of needs. Stuff all that nonsense about esteem and self-actualisation. I want to do backflips in a hot-rod.You could argue that carkour tacitly exists in games like Rocket League and Trackmania already. But they...

Bethesda and Nightdive Studios' remaster of Doom + Doom 2 was not just an excellent overhaul of the legendary FPS and its sequel, it brought together all of vanilla Doom's additional adventures under one cracked, pentagram-scrawled roof. Alongside the two base games, it included the master levels for Doom II, the two halves of Final Doom, and a new official campaign developed by MachineGames, the furiously challenging Legacy of Rust.Yet...

It is a tradition well-regarded that PC gaming's long-standing FPS Doom be ported to every new piece of hardware that could, even vaguely conceivably, run it.Last year, id Software surprise-dropped an updated Doom and Doom 2 as a collection, one that runs on modern hardware and has been pretty well-received. To wit, Limited Run Games is going to make a physical release of Doom + Doom 2. When it goes...

In mid-February, the pretty dang buggy PC port of Marvel's Spider-Man 2 got upgraded to Verified status on the Steam Deck. It was a few weeks after its first major patch, which brought some badly-needed stability and UI fixes, as well as auto-save backups.Players were skeptical, to put it simply, because it just barely worked on the Steam Deck in the first place. You could hover around 30 fps, but...

You want a sassy pitch for an upcoming game? Heroes of Valor is, per publisher Iceberg Interactive's press release, "the Battlefield Heroes you can actually play."Clearly, it kind of is: It wears its inspiration on its sleeve as a spiritual successor to the now decade-dead free-to-play shooter. It also has a (free) playtest running right now on Steam, where it's "coming soon" into early access.The third-person shooter takes place in...

Take a look at today's Wordle clue if you'd like to give your puzzle solving a bit of direction without spoiling all of your fun. Bring it out early to get your game off to a great start, or save it for later when those yellow letters might feel more like a problem than part of the solution. The answer to the April 13 (1394) Wordle's here too, just in...

As reported by AV Club, actor Nicky Katt has died at age 54 of an unspecified cause. While he's better-known to most for a portfolio full of character actor roles, often as a jerk or bully or outright villain in movies like Dazed and Confused, Strange Days, SubUrbia, Boiler Room, School of Rock, The Limey, and Way of the Gun, Katt will probably be known to readers of PC Gamer...

Apple TV's comedy series about a videogame studio making an MMO has been canceled after four seasons and an expansion pack—the four-episode spin-off Side Quest—as reported by Variety. After spending so long parodying the videogame industry, the show will get a send-off that sounds like the equivalent of a Dota patch."Endings are hard. But after four incredible seasons, 'Mythic Quest' is coming to a close," executive producers Megan Ganz, David...