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Trains are taking over the survival genre: there are a half-dozen survival base-builders on rails coming in 2026
1+ hour, 48+ min ago (839+ words) It's a great year to live out your Snowpiercer fantasies. What are you doing over there in that survival game? Picking up rocks and gathering twigs, chopping down trees and collecting berries, all so you can" what? Build a little…...
Cryptic rises again? Former CEO Jack Emmert returns to the Neverwinter, Star Trek Online, and Champions Online studio: 'It was just meant to be"
14+ hour, 7+ min ago (417+ words) Cryptic split from Embracer Group last year, and now one of its co-founders is back at the reins. On a call with PC Gamer ahead of the announcement, Emmert said that there's no hard feelings between him and NetEase over…...
The EU officially announces investigation into Elon Musk's Grok and X
1+ day, 11+ hour ago (255+ words) This investigation is in tandem with one put forward into X in December 2023. The European Commission has announced it is investigating Elon Musk's X and Grok, its AI generation tool, for "manipulated sexually explicit images, including content that may amount…...
Can you guess the game by only seeing the letter A from its logo? Take our quiz and see if you get an A+!
6+ day, 1+ hour ago (189+ words) This quiz is brought to you by the letter A. Want to keep testing your knowledge of gaming trivia? We've got loads more PC Gamer quizzes, on everything from healthbars to weird currencies to absurd patch notes. Last year I made…...
Russian government offers big tax breaks for developers who can create a home-grown Call of Duty alternative after politician calls for a possible ban on the Modern Warfare games
1+ week, 9+ hour ago (449+ words) The Russian government says it will support developers working on CoD-style projects with tax breaks and other incentives. The commitment comes from a Gazeta.ru report (Google translated, via Insider Gaming), which quotes the Ministry of Digital Development as saying,…...
One of my most anticipated games for 2026 is a little sandbox puzzle game that plays like the lovechild of Unpacking and PowerWash Simulator
1+ week, 1+ day ago (415+ words) I've finally found an apartment smaller than mine. So you'd best bet that when I heard of a game where I could clean a room up and then decorate it with all sorts of furnishings however I pleased, I had…...
Big Hops is a charming platformer with some great movement and a classic vibe, but most importantly it lets you rotate several bugs for science
1+ week, 1+ day ago (548+ words) A Hop in Time. From the hour and change I've played Big Hops looks to be joining that proud tradition. Developed by Luckshot Games, Big Hops sees you playing as Hop. Who, contrary to the game's title, is just a…...
This dystopian free-running sim is set in a brutalist megacity is being codeveloped by one of the designers of last year's best FPS
1+ mon, 6+ day ago (204+ words) Vholume is Straftat meets Mirror's Edge. Now, one half of Straftat's developers, L'onard Lemaitre, has announced a new game called Vholume, a Mirror's Edge style first-person platformer set in a vast, dystopian city. While Straftat is the easier reference here,…...
French President Emmanuel Macron gives a second public shout-out to Clair Obscur after its Game Awards sweep: 'A source of great pride for Montpellier and for France"
1+ mon, 2+ week ago (399+ words) Justin first became enamored with PC gaming when World of Warcraft and Neverwinter Nights 2 rewired his brain as a wide-eyed kid. As time has passed, he's amassed a hefty backlog of retro shooters, CRPGs, and janky '90s esoterica. Whether he's extolling…...
Jonathan Blow's new game has the most 'Jonathan Blow's new game' pitch imaginable: A 'game design supercollider' that takes 4 puzzle games and jams them together into a 500-hour saga
1+ mon, 2+ week ago (751+ words) Which is quite a lot of puzzles, if you ask me. Nine years on from The Witness, Jonathan Blow would, once again, quite like you to solve his puzzles. He'd like you to solve quite a lot of them, actually....