While Grand Theft Auto 6 doesn't have a confirmed PC release date yet, we do know it's coming to PS5 and Xbox Series X & S on November 19. Now, we also know that the game file console gamers will need to download is going to be a very big boy indeed, boasting a file size even bigger than Red Dead Redemption 2.Reportedly, Grand Theft Auto VI will clock in...
Presented by(Image credit: Torn Banner)This article is brought to you by No More Room in Hell 2.Last week, I asked PC Gamer readers to nominate the scariest PC games they could think of. I've collected the top 16 submissions from that comment section (with some editorial discretion) and randomly seeded the bracket below. Now it's time to battle them, democracy-style.This is round one, where we'll whittle 16 games down to...
What once would've been a forum or wiki is often now a Discord server, and that's created a problem: valuable information is hidden away deep in the chat logs of big public Discord channels, rather than in easy-to-search forum pages on the web.Discord now aims to solve that problem by making discussions in some of its biggest public servers searchable on the web.The change will only apply to "Discoverable Servers,"...
There is a new game titled "Call of Duty" every year, but it's not every year that Call of Duty is really back. NEED TO KNOWWhat is it The next Call of Duty from the original creators of Call of DutyRelease date October 23, 2026Expect to pay $70/£60Publisher Activision BlizzardDeveloper Infinity WardReviewed on RTX 5090, Ryzen 7 9800X3D 4.7 GHz, 64GB RAMMultiplayer Up to 60 playersSteam Deck UnsupportedLink Official siteThe...
A Variety report says that Walter Koenig, known to the world as Star Trek's Russian hothead Pavel Chekhov, has died. Koenig's big break in show biz came in 1967, when he was cast as Chekhov in the second season of the original Star Trek series. He portrayed the character until the show's cancellation, and then through seven feature films; he had a particularly memorable scene in Star Trek 2: The...
Last week's Steam Next Fest had over 8,000 demos; now Valve has revealed the 50 most-played among them. The results aren't surprising: there's lots of friendsloppy casual co-op, incremental games continue to be popular, and players have by-and-large rejected games with overt generative AI use, with only four of the games among the 50 declaring AI use in development.Here are some other factoids:7 incremental games, including 10 Million Pixels and...
Composer Austin Wintory (Journey, Stray Gods, Assassin's Creed: Syndicate) just shared 20 minutes of music he wrote as a sort of audition/starting point for the score of Mass Effect 5, aka. Mass Effect: Universe. According to Wintory, he had been in "serious conversation" with BioWare and EA to provide the game's soundtrack.To be clear: This was not music that was 100% slated to appear in the game, but it sounds...
Halloween is almost upon us, and if you're looking for some suitably spooky videogame fun then allow me to direct your attention to Playable Archive, a free "micro psychological horror experience" from Darkstone Digital, the solo studio behind The Mortuary Assistant.As you might expect, given the title, Playable Archive bears a number of similarities to PT, the 2014 "playable teaser" for a cancelled game in the Silent Hill series. It...
The more information that dribbles out from BioWare's cancelled Mass Effect game, the sadder I feel about the whole sorry situation. We've already seen an in-engine trailer that introduced a new protagonist and reintroduced Liara T'Soni, and we've heard that the game was set in a 'galactic Cold War' that combined all three of Mass Effect 3's possible endings. Now, it seems the new Mass Effect would also have had...
The development and release of Civilization 7 has been a rollercoaster for both fans of the series and developer Firaxis. The most recent entry in the long-running 4X series shipped with an age-transition mechanic where players would switch between civilisations at multiple points during a game. It was a radical design shift that divided the community, received well by some players, but going down like a glass of cold sick...