Latest articles by Christopher Livingston
If an NPC hates you in this adventure from the makers of Road 96, it's probably because another player was mean to them earlier
News Tides of Tomorrow's asynchronous multiplayer system lets other players' choices impact your own game. And vice versa.
The best indie games on PC
Small but mighty These are the best indie games you can play on PC.
Here's when Dune: Awakening pre-loads and unlocks in your time zone
News When you can begin preloading Dune: Awakening, and when the "head start" and full launch happens on Steam.
Surprise! Dune: Awakening will have private servers at launch after all, where players can disable taxes and enable 'free-for-all' PvP
News One of the most-requested Dune: Awakening features is now a reality.
Dune: Awakening's player guilds will be able to some pretty OP server-wide laws—including one that means you'll lose everything when defeated in deep desert PvP
News Get ready for players to make big changes to the world of Dune: Awakening.
If you're 'scared of PvP', don't worry: Dune: Awakening's endgame deep desert area has a PvE zone, too
news You can explore a 24km portion of the deep desert without worrying about fighting other players.
To a T review: Not just wholesome, but wonderfully weird
Sweet T Explore a strange little town as a teenager who can only T-pose.
Great moments in PC gaming: Getting so badly stuck on an adventure game puzzle I called the developer for a hint
Call Now Need help? Pick up the phone. Just 95 cents per minute.
Light No Fire: Everything we know about Hello Games' planet-sized survival game
Warm-Up Sean Murray's follow-up to an infinite sci-fi universe is a single planet—but it's a big one.
'We hear you': RoadCraft dev will address early negative with hotfixes, free new vehicles, and a 'Hard Mode' with systems like fuel management
News It's been a bit of a bumpy road for the new game from the SnowRunner dev.
In this new medieval city builder that launched on Steam today, build a sprawling town with the help of companions who level up and train their own apprentices
News City Tales: Medieval Era is in early access but already has some refreshing differences from other builders.
The 20 best cozy games on PC that aren't farm sims
Cozy Games If you need more chill in your game library, these are the best cozy games you can play on PC.
Which version of Nicolas Cage will we get in the Madden movie? Boy, I hope it's the unhinged one
Uncaged Throw in hothead Christian Bale and controversial director David O. Russell, and we'll hopefully see some fireworks in the Madden biopic.
Don't worry, they're not just adapting blockbusters: this trippy Japanese walking simulator you can get for $4 on Steam has been made into a movie, too
News The Exit 8 is a short backrooms-style game from 2023, and it's already gotten the movie treatment.
This hardcore driving sim about rebuilding towns after natural disasters is, surprisingly, a super-chill hangout game for up to 4 friends
DIG IN There's a lot of work to do, but RoadCraft never feels like a stick-in-the-mud.
Dune: Awakening beta players extracted nearly 9 million liters of blood last weekend, enough to fill 3 Olympic-size, extremely gross swimming pools
News Meanwhile, 107,000 players ed through Shai-Hulud's digestive system.
Today's Wordle is the 5th toughest ever, ending streaks for 50% of players
News It took pretty much everyone at PC Gamer all of our guesses to get it.
These 5 roguelike deckbuilders caught my eye because they have big twists on the usual formula
cardplay It's a golden age for creative deckbuilders.
Ubisoft's extreme sports game is being turned into a movie… and honestly, I'd watch 90 minutes of people doing snowboard stunts and wingsuit flights in the Alps
The Riders Republic movie will feature "spectacular stunts on the snowy slopes of the Alps," says Ubisoft.
This looks fungi: a first-person roguelike 'double deckbuilder' where you use a separate deck for exploring, smash locked doors open with your head, and feast on the corpses of mushroom monsters
News A demo for Shroom and Gloom is available on Steam now.
A Minecraft Movie is out on digital so now your kid can throw popcorn around the living room instead of the theater when the chicken jockey shows up
News You can now rent the blockbuster (haha, blocks, get it) on Prime Video or Apple TV.
'Too many games let their players succeed' says developer of notoriously tough survival RPG Kenshi, and 'that's mind-numbingly boring to me'
News "A writer's job is to torment their protagonist," says Chris Hunt of Lo-Fi Games. "So I just adapted that."
Dune: Awakening's stabby stunlock PvP exploit is being fixed, says Funcom: 'We've got this covered'
News Being endlessly staggered by a human opponent isn't a heck of a lot of fun.
