A classic Daedalic adventure is free on GOG, and it’s not one I particularly like but you can’t beat the price

GOG’s Summer Sale is winding down, but there’s one more freebie you can grab before it’s over. Silence, the 2016 point-and-click adventure from Daedalic, is yours for the taking until Friday. I’ll be blunt: I did not care for Silence. I quite like Daedalic adventures in general, and Silence certainly looked the part, with lush … Read more

Obsession star Inde Navarrette built her gaming PC just like you and me: By watching Henry Cavill do it first

Readers! Exciting news about the future direction of PC Gamer, heretofore your number one destination for news about things Henry Cavill is doing. We are now also your number one destination for news about things Obsession star Inde Navarrette is doing. Come with me as we march boldly into this new era. It turns out, … Read more

A nasty Windows 11 bug is taking upwards of 500 GB worth of storage, and is surprisingly difficult to spot, but there’s a fix

If you’ve found yourself with much less storage than you otherwise anticipated, to the tune of hundreds of missing gigabytes, there’s a chance you’ve fallen victim to a new Windows 11 bug. That, or you’re not very good at managing your storage (same). As spotted by Windows Latest, this new bug involves the CapabilityAccessManager. This … Read more

It looks like Blizzard’s escaped Xbox’s grim reset scythe for now, though there’s still time to be caught in the second 1600-strong layoff wave coming 2027

The Xbox reset is afoot, and while there aren’t strictly speaking any studio closures yet, with multiple developers in the process of moving elsewhere, the shockwaves from its impact are still being felt across Xbox’s continually-shrinking staff. All in the service of a mathematically improbable 1 billion daily player count, or something. It’s hard to … Read more

Kingdom Come: Deliverance star says it didn’t lead to work in other games: ‘The industry at large has never really given a f***’

Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2 is a game of many excellent parts, and some of its most excellent are lead characters Henry of Skalitz and Lord Hans Capon. That’s in no small part down to the fact that both of them have great voice actors: Tom McKay for Henry and Luke Dale for Capon, who both … Read more

After buying up between $1m and $5m in Dell stock this year, Trump tells everyone to ‘go out and buy a Dell computer’. Again.

At the start of May, president Donald Trump thanked Michael and Susan Dell (yes, those Dells) for donating over $6 billion to ‘Trump Accounts,’ reportedly going toward at least 25 million children in America. In that thank-you speech, he urged listeners to “go out and buy a Dell.” That was after Trump filed that he … Read more

How do you reconcile your lore-heavy, dark sci-fi MMO with mod tools that might let people get way too goofy? ‘Everything’s canon,’ say the developers of EVE Frontier

Two of the most interesting aspects of early access space survival MMO EVE Frontier always seemed to exist in opposition to me: Its striking, deliberately crafted vision of a dark future, and its uniquely freeform modding ecosystem. How are you supposed to get in the mood of the former if you’re at risk of stumbling … Read more

Would you look at that… an RTX 5060 Ti well under MSRP and cheaper than any RTX 5060 or RX 9060 XT we can find

It’s getting hard to take the tech world seriously these days, not least the PC gaming hardware market. Prices have become so utterly ludicrous across the board—from the soaring cost of RAM and SSDs, to the spiking GPU and system prices—that it’s hard to get your head around when something actually becomes more affordable. Like, … Read more

Bethesda Game Studios and ZeniMax hit hard by Xbox layoffs, says union

Today’s Xbox layoffs may have hit Bethesda and ZeniMax particularly hard, as reports of “significant” cuts have begun to surface and the Bethesda Game Workers Union says that “many” employees at Bethesda Game Studios have been let go. Today’s announcement of major layoffs at Xbox and the spinoff of four studios—Compulsion Games, Double Fine, Ninja … Read more