The Dwarf Fortress of survival gaming has been in continual development for 33 years, and its creator doesn't think he'll ever stop updating it: 'When I accomplish one feature ...

UnReal World has been in development since 1992. Dwarf Fortress has achieved mythical status for its furiously detailed algorithmic worlds, its legendarily long development, and the fact that its ...

GOG's preservation program now includes Splinter Cell, Resident Evil HD and, er, Spore, while you can also get 95% of XCOM 2 in its Autumn Sale

GOG launched the program just under a year ago, with 100 games such as Dungeon Keeper, Theme Hospital and Blade Runner receiving the badge of +1 compatibility. As of now, that number has increased to ...

This wildly ambitious Bully mod adds online multiplayer, racing minigames and even a rat-based deathmatch, but the modders' demand for lunch money has fans worried about ...

The team has a server for Bully Online in place, and from December, will open it up to people who subscribe to the mod's Ko-Fi page. Eventually, the team plans to open the server up to everyone, ...

Condemned: Criminal Origins, the best game about beating people to death with a lead pipe I've ever played, has been delisted from Steam and Xbox, and fans are hoping that ...

Monolith's classic brain-smasher was delisted on Halloween, and yeah, that might be a coincidence but I sure hope not.

Europa Universalis 5 review

Europa Universalis 5 widens the frame again, adding a new wrinkle: People. It's nothing less than an attempt at simulating ...

Deus Ex's OG art director has seen the remaster: 'Oh, what the f***, No. This did not need to happen'

Aspyr's remaster of Deus Ex earned a fair bit of opprobrium ( including from me) when it was revealed in September, and, well ...
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Hyperbeat review

Hyperbeat is brief and a little twee at times, but its lively musical flights are one-of-a-kind. PC Gamer's got your back Our experienced team dedicates many hours to every review, to really get to ...

Corsair announces a Hall effect stick-less fight controller with rapid trigger, in the hopes of button bashing faster than anyone else

I have a main in Street Fighter (add Sakura to 6, please, Capcom) and don't often swoop to the lows of button bashing, but it doesn't take much panic to send me there. Well, luckily, Corsair has ...

You can now twerk enemies to death in Repo thanks to the big new Monster Update—and it's free to play this weekend to celebrate

"Butt physics," for the record, does not actually appear in the Monster Update patch notes: Instead, it's a sort of ...

Arc Raiders technically doesn't have item trading, but there's a way to cheat the system and get missions done with the power of friendship

Loot is almost always plentiful in Arc Raiders —except, it seems, when you need to find something specific. The first few ...

If you're still on the fence like I was, take the plunge and try a lightweight wireless gaming mouse because they're seriously fantastic

I've been pretty exclusively using lightweight wireless gaming mice for the last few years, so I'm always surprised by how many people are still sceptical. Over the years, I've se ...

A bizarre bug in the latest Windows 11 update allows endless copies of Task Manager to run in the background and can even impact system performance

As peculiar Windows bugs go, this one is a doozy. It seems Task Manager in the latest October update for Windows 11 ( update ...