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5+ hour, 53+ min ago (29+ words) A former GameStop exec thought building its Steam competitor would be his 'forever job,' but the retailer bet the house on digital distribution being 'a passing phase'PC Gamer...
The Emperor Protects: A Warhammer 40,000 Musical is a deeply committed April Fool's joke from Games Workshop, and I don't care if it's a day late because it's just that good
6+ hour, 21+ min ago (437+ words) "Just because there is only war, doesn't mean there can't also be music." This is April 2, which means April Fool's is over and we can put the whole thing behind us until 2027. Except, well, this was just now brought to…...
Mega Crit co-founder says he wasn't bothered by the Steam backlash to Slay the Spire 2's beta balance patch: 'It's difficult for players to feel like they're heard"
2+ hour, 14+ min ago (556+ words) Casey Yano says that, ultimately, reviewers are just using the tools they're given. Last month, Slay the Spire 2's controversial first beta balance patch inspired a massive backlash from its Steam reviewers, drawing over 9,000 negative reviews in the following 24 hours....
Revisiting the last truly great Call of Duty
2+ hour, 14+ min ago (510+ words) Why a lot of people are playing a seven-year-old CoD again. This week: Extracted a purple sniper rifle from a Marathon run, then promptly lost it to a knife rush. When I heard Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2019 was back…...
A lot of PC Gamer readers are switching to Linux, but guess what percentage still like Windows
2+ hour, 14+ min ago (246+ words) Aww bless, Windows is really not that bad after all is it? But Linux is fun. Yes, yes, and probably. But there are other questions, the most pertinent is one that we put to the you, our dear readers over…...
An architect of GameStop's long-forgotten Steam competitor explains why he thinks Valve came out on top: 'What Steam did better than anybody else was to create a community"
4+ hour, 25+ min ago (536+ words) In hindsight, who would have guessed that Valve would win against the likes of Microsoft, EA, or Ubisoft? Larry Kuperman made his mark on the industry as part of the team at Nightdive, the games preservation and remaster specialists, but…...
Warren Spector's multiplayer Thief successor changes direction: Instead of PvPvE, it's now focusing on 2-player co-op and singleplayer
9+ hour, 2+ min ago (486+ words) Andy has been gaming on PCs from the very beginning, starting as a youngster with text adventures and primitive action games on a cassette-based TRS80. From there he graduated to the glory days of Sierra Online adventures and Microprose sims, ran…...
Open world crime game Samson had to be pared back mid-development, which led to its unusual structure: 'It's become more unique"
10+ hour, 36+ min ago (482+ words) After "the reality of the industry hit," the studio pivoted to a new structure and fist-focused combat. Every morning, Samson wakes up with an enormous problem pressing on his skull: a debt he can't afford to pay back. Either he…...
Slay the Spire 2's team is already cooking on 3 ideas for new game modes, each offering 'ways to interact with Slay the Spire that don't exist right now"
10+ hour, 18+ min ago (568+ words) Can you deduce precisely what Mega Crit is working on? In an interview with PC Gamer, Mega Crit co-founder Casey Yano shared three mysterious plans for new modes that Slay the Spire 2 could see during the next year or two…...
Marathon game director says Bungie's rebalancing 'god-like' knife damage, buffing Vandal and Recon shells, and knocking bubble shields down a peg
5+ hour, 24+ min ago (508+ words) Maybe Recon's tracker drone will start terrorizing someone else for once. Amidst yesterday's yearly crop of April Fool's japery, Marathon game director Joe Ziegler broke from seasonal convention on X by sharing an early, fool-free preview of balance adjustments Bungie…...