Games Revealed

PC Gamer7/2/2026

Amnesia studio delays its new game into 2027

Frictional says Ontos is its "most ambitious game to date," and it wants to get it right.

PC Gamer7/2/2026
Former Call of Duty frontman launches new studio with a 'Stop Killing Games'-style mission statement: If the game bombs, it goes open source
After the disastrous end of Midnight Society, Robert Bowling is back to try again.
PC Gamer7/2/2026
Relax, PC Gamers: We're not getting GTA 6 on November 19, but we've got, um... 'Phantom Vice Auto' launching the same day on Steam
That's probably just as good, right?
PC Gamer7/2/2026
World of Warcraft's on the quality-of-life boost warpath, with fixes including an auto-loot setting that's been mildly inconveniencing alt-lovers for years
Helm tipped.
PC Gamer7/2/2026
Ubisoft hires former Take-Two and Amazon vet to head up its Tom Clancy games
Christoph Hartmann is the new boss as Ubisoft's Creative House 2 studio.
PC Gamer7/2/2026
'Meta will need to reduce or possibly stop AI investment in datacenters, as it already has excess capacity': The AI infrastructure bubble feels the heat
This space for rent.
PC Gamer7/2/2026
Intel's mega-core Nova Lake desktop processors look all but confirmed to have sustained full boost power limits at least 220 W higher than Arrow Lake
There's no other reason why a Z990 motherboard would have three CPU power connectors, after all.
PC Gamer7/2/2026
Sony's PlayStation 6 is now estimated to cost over $900 in materials alone, signalling a launch price tag double that of the PS5
That could be a tough sell.
PC Gamer7/2/2026
Where to find the Sotoyama region Treasure Hunt in Forza Horizon 6
Search through the snow for this week's Festival Playlist Treasure Hunt challenge.
PC Gamer7/2/2026
Hideo Kojima's upcoming horror game OD is said to survive Microsoft's culling for the second time now
This is giving me déjà vu.
PC Gamer7/2/2026
WoW's bug-filled April patch was actually from trying to fix too much too fast, says director Ion Hazzikostas—like an elevator from 13 years ago that blew up housing
"This is going to inspire some spaghetti code memes, but…"
PC Gamer7/2/2026
AMD is reportedly bumping the price of its GPU and VRAM bundles to graphics card makers and you can expect to feel the sting soon
AI, you've struck again.
PC Gamer7/2/2026
I'm learning to love autobattlers and it's because this Steam demo let me build a gnarly squad of combat freaks out of weird meat and goblin blood
The goblins started it. I think.
PC Gamer7/2/2026
'A wild testament to the obscene bloat and waste of GenAI': Google's electricity consumption is exponentially increasing
A better, less cooked world is still possible.
PC Gamer7/2/2026
Data centers reportedly targeted by cargo thieves, with over $1 million worth of copper and equipment found in two trucks in Chicago
It seems almost everyone is making a lot of money from the AI boom.
PC Gamer7/2/2026
Even Hideo Kojima is afraid that 'digital data will no longer be owned by individuals' and that access to art that we love 'may suddenly be cut off'
"I would be a have-not. That's what I'm afraid of."
PC Gamer7/2/2026
Rockstar UK employees say the GTA 6 developer's still plagued by gender pay gaps, crunch, and vague bonuses which make them 'as pliable as possible to their boss's whims'
"A fifth of your salary could be withheld without any justification."
PC Gamer7/2/2026
'Meh': Ex-PlayStation president Shuhei Yoshida weighs in on Valve's Steam Machine after a few hours with it
Suppose it does seem like a decent indie machine.
PC Gamer7/2/2026
Onimusha: Way of the Sword is releasing 21 days earlier than expected, possibly cramping The Blood of Dawnwalker's style
Also: it's a little bit further away from GTA 6 splash damage.
PC Gamer7/2/2026
Blood Bowl's videogame rights have been acquired by Slitherine and at this point I'll take any change as a good sign
It's still being developed by Cyanide, but with a new hand at the tiller.
PC Gamer7/2/2026
Valheim will get a 50% price hike when it hits 1.0, and no changes to the ocean biome
Snap it up now while it's $10, in other words.
PC Gamer7/1/2026
July is a little light on the big new game releases, but your co-op horror Discord gang will be feastin'
If you've ever wanted to run a haunted business into the ground with your friends, I have good news.
PC Gamer7/1/2026
'They refuse to offer a meaningful alternative': Game preservation leader agrees that piracy is the only preservation option for a discless future
The future of preservation is, as usual, on the PC.
PC Gamer7/1/2026
Consoles continue their trend of just becoming worst PCs
As prices go up and exclusives dry up, the old "plug-and-play" argument has never been flimsier.
PC Gamer7/1/2026
Windrose might get wind
No word on roses, though.
PC Gamer7/1/2026
'There’s something we’ve been dying to tell you': The best city builder of 2023 is getting a survival game set in the same world
And it looks like it'll be co-op.
PC Gamer7/1/2026
Reinstated Subnautica 2 studio CEO immediately peaces out after Krafton agrees to pay the developer bonuses it went to court to avoid
The publisher's ChatGPT advisor could not be reached for comment.
PC Gamer7/1/2026
Former Unreal Engine director retires after 15 years at Epic
Nicholas Penwarden joins Sjoerd De Jong at the Dunrealin' retirement home.
PC Gamer7/1/2026
Netflix has finally figured out how to get viewers off their phones with its newest horror game, but it doesn't quite stick the landing
The call is coming from inside the house.
PC Gamer7/1/2026
Dragon Age setting creator says AI push is a delusion of the executive class that's a 'virulent plague' on games
"Honestly, what does it help with?"
PC Gamer7/1/2026
French retailer briefly offers the 'Stim Machine,' a Steam Machine competitor made of standard PC components for less than a grand
Making Daft Punks of us all.
PC Gamer7/1/2026
"You are the endgame": Total War: Warhammer's new nightmarish Chaos invasion finally gives Archaon the apocalyptic event he's been waiting 10 years for
The Everchosen is back and means business.
PC Gamer7/1/2026
Xbox reportedly wants to put a stake in Blade and sell off Arkane, even though Todd Howard says development is going well
Eventually we'll just be left with Halo and Call of Duty.
PC Gamer7/1/2026
The cozy game launches of July are absolutely stacked with cats, even more than usual
I've tracked down at least 30 new cozy games launching in July and I lost count of how many have cats.
PC Gamer7/1/2026
The maker calls it the 'world's worst USB drive' but to my eyes, it's far more impressive than any external SSD you can buy right now
So what if it only stores 64 bits? Each one is a little marvel of 1950s science and engineering.
PC Gamer7/1/2026
The ESA quietly starts walking back baffling statements about private servers being 'illegal', though it's still tutting and wagging its finger
I get the sense the ESA still doesn't like them, much.
PC Gamer7/1/2026
Google kills yet another API, shutting out all non-Google platforms from favoured gif database
The face when no gif.
PC Gamer7/1/2026
Battlefield 6 is an FPS where 'the guy obsessed with metas is having the least fun', and it's free-to-play for a week
What about the guy who's obsessed with Metapod?
PC Gamer7/1/2026
'No bloat, no telemetry, no nonsense.' Former Microsoft coding wizard makes an OG Notepad clone that's just 2,686 bytes in size
How about tackling File Explorer next?
PC Gamer7/1/2026
EA accidentally made the right decision twice in one month and reverted it both times, inflicting psychic damage on Battlefield 6 players
If I had a nickel for every time this happened, I'd have two nickels. Which isn't a lot, but it's weird that it happened twice.
PC Gamer7/1/2026
Security researchers have leveraged bad maths to get around AI safety guardrails, naming the attack method after one of 2007's best PC games
'Victory is defeat'.
PC Gamer7/1/2026
'I cannot do my job when Microsoft refuses to do theirs', say Xbox union workers as destructive reset looms from a company that spent over $80 billion on AI last year
"Why would a game developer bother to put forward their best work under these conditions?"
PC Gamer7/1/2026
With 32 GB as a minimum and 64 GB as the recommended amount, Cinder City's RAM requirements are all kinds of wrong in today's AI-mangled memory market
But hey, at least an RTX 4060 is good enough to meet the recommended GPU specs. Wait, what?
PC Gamer7/1/2026
Sure would be great if Oblivion Remastered got patched on PC to coincide with the Switch 2 release
Not that I'm holding my breath.
PC Gamer7/1/2026
Total War: Warhammer 3 is getting new endgames, individual victory conditions, a Vampire Counts rework, and Nurgle's three grossest champions
We can even become an endgame crisis ourselves, which sounds neat.
PC Gamer7/1/2026
Based on Meccha Chameleon's incredibly short 2-month dev cycle, its creators have already earned $1 million per day of work
That's, uh, a lotta money.
PC Gamer6/30/2026
Steam is getting a jockey simulator next month that reimagines umamusume as normal horses
It's an unconventional idea, but I'm willing to withhold judgement.
PC Gamer6/30/2026
Fresh off of dumping on Xbox's flailing, former Sony exec says PlayStation's pullback from PC releases doesn't make any sense either
Shawn Layden is a man with opinions, and now that he's out of the game he doesn't mind sharing them.
PC Gamer6/30/2026
Ahead of next week's expected Xbox bloodbath, IO Interactive loses funding for its online fantasy RPG
The studio says it remains "100% committed" to Project Fantasy, but its future is now very uncertain.
PC Gamer6/30/2026
Open source game engine Godot will no longer accept AI-authored code contributions: 'We can't trust heavy users of AI to understand their code enough to fix it'
At risk of drowning in AI slop code, Godot is firming up its contribution requirements.
PC Gamer6/30/2026
Before his death in 2025, Half-Life 2 art director Viktor Antonov worked on one last game: A Wild West FPS soulslike that's 'coming soon' to Steam
Antonov's bold vision helped define games including Half-Life 2, Dishonored, Weird West, and soon, Guns of Eschaton.
PC Gamer6/30/2026
Valve says it is 'definitely' investigating an Arm-based gaming future on top of its work on FEX
Flexing ahead.
PC Gamer6/30/2026
I can barely afford AMD and Nvidia's current 4 nm chips, so I'm not sure what to make of IBM's new sub-1 nm technology
Moore's Law might not be dead, but it is kinda zombified.
PC Gamer6/30/2026
The latest SteamOS beta update includes a performance boost for GPUs with limited VRAM, though devices with iGPUs probably won't see any gains
But if the device is a certain Machine, then this is definitely good news.
PC Gamer6/30/2026
Russian politician says GTA 6 carries 'the stench of Americanism,' but it's not so bad because the games are all about Americans killing each other
"Any violence in GTA is violence against a potential enemy."
PC Gamer6/30/2026
'We finally have some good news for you': Framework's new 1 TB Gen 5 SSDs are actually cheaper than its old 500 GB drives
Dare we hope this is a sign of things to come...?
PC Gamer6/30/2026
Valve doesn't currently have 'any specific plans' for more Steam Machine faceplates, so you'll have to make them yourself
Seems like a problem a lot of glitter can fix.
PC Gamer6/30/2026
Be Quiet Dark Rock 6 and Dark Rock Pro 6 review
Better, but at what cost?
PC Gamer6/30/2026
Turtle Beach Command Series KB7 TKL review
Turtle Beach puts a screen on another screenless PC mainstay.
PC Gamer6/30/2026
Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2 team reminds you it's got another Kingdom Come and a Middle-earth game on the way as it tops 6,000,000 sales
Radzig Kobyla's sword vs Anduril. It's the fight of the 15th century.
PC Gamer6/30/2026
AMD's next-gen Zen 6 CPU cores will come in a low-power compact flavour, which should help laptop batteries last even longer
Intel's Panther Lake has similar LPE cores, and they work a treat.
PC Gamer6/30/2026
ESA bafflingly declares private Minecraft servers 'illegal' in Stop Killing Games hearing: 'We consider it piracy, we have lawsuits'
Catch me on the corner selling server.jar out of a long trenchcoat.
PC Gamer6/30/2026
'99% of the work was already done in a sense': Valve says it has less to fix with the Steam Machine because they already fixed it on the Steam Deck
Dust yourself off and try again.
PC Gamer6/30/2026
Valve says the memory and storage crisis is so bad, it's not just a problem of pricing, they had to 'negotiate really hard' just to secure supply for the Steam Machine
One day, we'll laugh about all this. Maybe...
PC Gamer6/30/2026
New production runs of Nvidia's much-loved RTX 3060 finally hit the shelves in Europe, but the price just ain't right
Ignore how much VRAM it has; it's simply not worth 333 euros.
PC Gamer6/30/2026
Dragon Age: Origins is 'Unsupported' on Steam Deck, but it runs incredibly and it's currently only $3
After some easy setting up, BioWare's fantasy classic sings on Deck.
PC Gamer6/30/2026
Persona could be getting the Netflix live action treatment, which means, oh no, Americans will be making it
Talent behind Stranger Things, Sonic The Hedgehog and Star Trek: Picard are reportedly involved.
PC Gamer6/30/2026
Hearing about the future of PlayStation from its top dogs made me so depressed I had to go lie down
My life for shareholder value.
PC Gamer6/29/2026
Dawn of War 2’s The Last Stand mode is still the best co-op MOBA that never was
A co-op Warhammer 40K RTS mode so ahead of its time, it's still easy to find a match 17 years later.
PC Gamer6/29/2026
After leading the studio through 2 rounds of layoffs and 1 game release, the CEO of Supermassive is stepping down
He's also stepping down from his role at Supermassive parent Nordisk, so he can spend the summer with his family.
PC Gamer6/29/2026
Xbox marketing takes embarrassing turn with new Call of Duty ads loudly disclaiming 'NOT ON XBOX GAME PASS THIS YEAR'
My 'NOT ON XBOX GAME PASS THIS YEAR' ad has people wondering a lot of things about my business strategy already clarified by my ad.
PC Gamer6/29/2026
Hideki Kamiya thinks there should be a cozy Resident Evil game, where 'retired Leon goes fishing in the countryside'
It's cool if someone else makes it, as long as he gets to play it.
PC Gamer6/29/2026
World's smartest Meccha Chameleon player bamboozles opponents by not disguising themselves at all: 'Hiding is for amateurs'
There is an imposter among us.

Games Revealed

Amnesia studio delays its new game into 2027

Former Call of Duty frontman launches new studio with a 'Stop Killing Games'-style mission statement: If the game bombs, it goes open source

Relax, PC Gamers: We're not getting GTA 6 on November 19, but we've got, um... 'Phantom Vice Auto' launching the same day on Steam

World of Warcraft's on the quality-of-life boost warpath, with fixes including an auto-loot setting that's been mildly inconveniencing alt-lovers for years

Ubisoft hires former Take-Two and Amazon vet to head up its Tom Clancy games

'Meta will need to reduce or possibly stop AI investment in datacenters, as it already has excess capacity': The AI infrastructure bubble feels the heat

Intel's mega-core Nova Lake desktop processors look all but confirmed to have sustained full boost power limits at least 220 W higher than Arrow Lake

Sony's PlayStation 6 is now estimated to cost over $900 in materials alone, signalling a launch price tag double that of the PS5

Where to find the Sotoyama region Treasure Hunt in Forza Horizon 6

Hideo Kojima's upcoming horror game OD is said to survive Microsoft's culling for the second time now

WoW's bug-filled April patch was actually from trying to fix too much too fast, says director Ion Hazzikostas—like an elevator from 13 years ago that blew up housing

AMD is reportedly bumping the price of its GPU and VRAM bundles to graphics card makers and you can expect to feel the sting soon

I'm learning to love autobattlers and it's because this Steam demo let me build a gnarly squad of combat freaks out of weird meat and goblin blood

'A wild testament to the obscene bloat and waste of GenAI': Google's electricity consumption is exponentially increasing

Data centers reportedly targeted by cargo thieves, with over $1 million worth of copper and equipment found in two trucks in Chicago

Even Hideo Kojima is afraid that 'digital data will no longer be owned by individuals' and that access to art that we love 'may suddenly be cut off'

Rockstar UK employees say the GTA 6 developer's still plagued by gender pay gaps, crunch, and vague bonuses which make them 'as pliable as possible to their boss's whims'

'Meh': Ex-PlayStation president Shuhei Yoshida weighs in on Valve's Steam Machine after a few hours with it

Onimusha: Way of the Sword is releasing 21 days earlier than expected, possibly cramping The Blood of Dawnwalker's style

Blood Bowl's videogame rights have been acquired by Slitherine and at this point I'll take any change as a good sign

Valheim will get a 50% price hike when it hits 1.0, and no changes to the ocean biome

July is a little light on the big new game releases, but your co-op horror Discord gang will be feastin'

'They refuse to offer a meaningful alternative': Game preservation leader agrees that piracy is the only preservation option for a discless future

Consoles continue their trend of just becoming worst PCs

Windrose might get wind

'There’s something we’ve been dying to tell you': The best city builder of 2023 is getting a survival game set in the same world

Reinstated Subnautica 2 studio CEO immediately peaces out after Krafton agrees to pay the developer bonuses it went to court to avoid

Former Unreal Engine director retires after 15 years at Epic

Netflix has finally figured out how to get viewers off their phones with its newest horror game, but it doesn't quite stick the landing

Dragon Age setting creator says AI push is a delusion of the executive class that's a 'virulent plague' on games

French retailer briefly offers the 'Stim Machine,' a Steam Machine competitor made of standard PC components for less than a grand

"You are the endgame": Total War: Warhammer's new nightmarish Chaos invasion finally gives Archaon the apocalyptic event he's been waiting 10 years for

Xbox reportedly wants to put a stake in Blade and sell off Arkane, even though Todd Howard says development is going well

The cozy game launches of July are absolutely stacked with cats, even more than usual

The maker calls it the 'world's worst USB drive' but to my eyes, it's far more impressive than any external SSD you can buy right now

The ESA quietly starts walking back baffling statements about private servers being 'illegal', though it's still tutting and wagging its finger

Google kills yet another API, shutting out all non-Google platforms from favoured gif database

Battlefield 6 is an FPS where 'the guy obsessed with metas is having the least fun', and it's free-to-play for a week

'No bloat, no telemetry, no nonsense.' Former Microsoft coding wizard makes an OG Notepad clone that's just 2,686 bytes in size

EA accidentally made the right decision twice in one month and reverted it both times, inflicting psychic damage on Battlefield 6 players

Security researchers have leveraged bad maths to get around AI safety guardrails, naming the attack method after one of 2007's best PC games

'I cannot do my job when Microsoft refuses to do theirs', say Xbox union workers as destructive reset looms from a company that spent over $80 billion on AI last year

With 32 GB as a minimum and 64 GB as the recommended amount, Cinder City's RAM requirements are all kinds of wrong in today's AI-mangled memory market

Sure would be great if Oblivion Remastered got patched on PC to coincide with the Switch 2 release

Total War: Warhammer 3 is getting new endgames, individual victory conditions, a Vampire Counts rework, and Nurgle's three grossest champions

Based on Meccha Chameleon's incredibly short 2-month dev cycle, its creators have already earned $1 million per day of work

Steam is getting a jockey simulator next month that reimagines umamusume as normal horses

Fresh off of dumping on Xbox's flailing, former Sony exec says PlayStation's pullback from PC releases doesn't make any sense either

Ahead of next week's expected Xbox bloodbath, IO Interactive loses funding for its online fantasy RPG

Open source game engine Godot will no longer accept AI-authored code contributions: 'We can't trust heavy users of AI to understand their code enough to fix it'

Before his death in 2025, Half-Life 2 art director Viktor Antonov worked on one last game: A Wild West FPS soulslike that's 'coming soon' to Steam

Valve says it is 'definitely' investigating an Arm-based gaming future on top of its work on FEX

I can barely afford AMD and Nvidia's current 4 nm chips, so I'm not sure what to make of IBM's new sub-1 nm technology

The latest SteamOS beta update includes a performance boost for GPUs with limited VRAM, though devices with iGPUs probably won't see any gains

Russian politician says GTA 6 carries 'the stench of Americanism,' but it's not so bad because the games are all about Americans killing each other

'We finally have some good news for you': Framework's new 1 TB Gen 5 SSDs are actually cheaper than its old 500 GB drives

Valve doesn't currently have 'any specific plans' for more Steam Machine faceplates, so you'll have to make them yourself

Be Quiet Dark Rock 6 and Dark Rock Pro 6 review

Turtle Beach Command Series KB7 TKL review

Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2 team reminds you it's got another Kingdom Come and a Middle-earth game on the way as it tops 6,000,000 sales

AMD's next-gen Zen 6 CPU cores will come in a low-power compact flavour, which should help laptop batteries last even longer

ESA bafflingly declares private Minecraft servers 'illegal' in Stop Killing Games hearing: 'We consider it piracy, we have lawsuits'

'99% of the work was already done in a sense': Valve says it has less to fix with the Steam Machine because they already fixed it on the Steam Deck

Valve says the memory and storage crisis is so bad, it's not just a problem of pricing, they had to 'negotiate really hard' just to secure supply for the Steam Machine

New production runs of Nvidia's much-loved RTX 3060 finally hit the shelves in Europe, but the price just ain't right

Dragon Age: Origins is 'Unsupported' on Steam Deck, but it runs incredibly and it's currently only $3

Persona could be getting the Netflix live action treatment, which means, oh no, Americans will be making it

Hearing about the future of PlayStation from its top dogs made me so depressed I had to go lie down

Dawn of War 2’s The Last Stand mode is still the best co-op MOBA that never was

After leading the studio through 2 rounds of layoffs and 1 game release, the CEO of Supermassive is stepping down

Xbox marketing takes embarrassing turn with new Call of Duty ads loudly disclaiming 'NOT ON XBOX GAME PASS THIS YEAR'

Hideki Kamiya thinks there should be a cozy Resident Evil game, where 'retired Leon goes fishing in the countryside'

World's smartest Meccha Chameleon player bamboozles opponents by not disguising themselves at all: 'Hiding is for amateurs'

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