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At about only $0.06 per GB, my favourite itty-bitty external SSD is both light in terms of form factor and now even lighter on price

PC Gamer

7 juillet 2025 à 16:24

You won't need deep pockets for this drive—in any sense!

The standard version of the Crucial X9 external SSD floats in the teal-PC-Gamer-deal gradient void.

The latest and greatest games are more core-hungry than ever, so here are the cheapest 8-core CPUs you can drop into your gaming rig

PC Gamer

7 juillet 2025 à 15:51

Don't let some cheapo console beat your lovely gaming PC on core count.

A collage of AMD and Intel CPU retail packaging images against a teal background with a white border

'Night City lives on'—Cyberpunk: Edgerunners season 2 teaser trailer may give us our first glimpse at the series' next protagonist

PC Gamer

7 juillet 2025 à 15:45

Bringing back some sad memories with this one.

Character holding up a camcorder

Summer Games Done Quick 2025 is now live—kicking off a full week of speedruns and goofs to raise money for Doctors Without Borders

PC Gamer

7 juillet 2025 à 15:08

We're barely off to the races, and SGDQ has already raised over $124,000.

Mario from Super Mario 64 gets a star, flashing the peace sign.

I hit one of Australia's biggest retro fares and PC gaming was nowhere to be seen, though collectors told me that's down to one of its major retro strengths

PC Gamer

7 juillet 2025 à 14:40

Because you can still play most retro PC games on current-gen hardware.

Tandy at Collect Fest

The cutest 4K webcam I've ever used has finally dropped below $100 for the first time ever ahead of the Amazon Prime Day deals

PC Gamer

7 juillet 2025 à 14:34

Seriously, just look at it.

Three Obsbot Meet 2 webcams on a blue background

Unlimited powaaaah: Get practically infinite battery life for $140 with this SteelSeries gaming headset in the Prime Day sales

PC Gamer

7 juillet 2025 à 14:03

Break out the lightning bolts.

The SteelSeries Arctis Pro Wireless gaming headset, DAC and batteries on a teal deal background

I'm using every picosecond of my 20-year PC tech journo career to bring you the best Prime Day PC gaming deals on the internet tubes

Par :dave.james@futurenet.com (Dave James)

7 juillet 2025 à 13:20

It's all been leading up to this.

Lenovo Legion Pro 7i gaming laptop and Secretlab Titan Evo gaming chair

Baldur's Gate 3 actor Samantha Béart says people don't realise how awful Karlach was before the events of the game: 'I think she was a piece of work in hell'

PC Gamer

7 juillet 2025 à 12:59

Béart says they imagine Karlach as someone who was forced to do awful things to survive in a kind of interplanar supermax prison.

Karlach lights a cigar and looks cool.

Rematch players are still crashing out over 'self-absorbed' ball hogs, and while I do get it, I can't help but wonder if some zen is in order

PC Gamer

7 juillet 2025 à 12:54

Pass! To me! Back post!

Rematch football game

Grow a Garden has added new pets, mutations, and a seed even better than the Candy Blossom as part of its newest update

PC Gamer

7 juillet 2025 à 12:35

Time to get your hands (virtually) dirty.

Character avatar in front of an Overgrown garden in Roblox Grow a Garden

Today's Wordle answer for Monday, July 7

PC Gamer

7 juillet 2025 à 05:00

Get all the help you need with today's Wordle.

Wordle answers

At the request of South Korea, Valve pulled a mod from Steam that glorified the country's military dictatorship

Par :ted.litchfield@futurenet.com (Ted Litchfield)

7 juillet 2025 à 04:14

Gross mod, troubling precedent?

Valve logo with a man with a steam valve for an eye.

'The transfer of user data by DeepSeek to China is unlawful': Germany calls for Google and Apple to remove the AI app from their stores

PC Gamer

6 juillet 2025 à 23:42

Berlin's Commissioner for Data Protection is taking a stand against AI app DeepSeek

SUQIAN, CHINA - JANUARY 27, 2025 - An illustration photo shows the logo of DeepSeek and ChatGPT in Suqian, Jiangsu province, China, January 27, 2025. (Photo credit should read CFOTO/Future Publishing via Getty Images)

Romero Games reportedly met with Microsoft just a day before the publisher pulled funding for the studio, and there was 'no mention' of the decision that put over 100 people out of work

Par :ted.litchfield@futurenet.com (Ted Litchfield)

6 juillet 2025 à 21:05

Romero Games is pursuing alternate sources of funding, but for the time being, it sounds like the dream is dead.

John Romero and Brenda Romero Audi Arrival, British Academy Games Awards.Venue: Tobacco Dock, London.Date: 6 April 2017.Host: Danny Wallace .-.Area: Audi Arrivals

'There are no plans to drop support for SteamOS': The Finals devs commit to Steam Deck and Linux players despite new kernel-level anti-cheat

PC Gamer

6 juillet 2025 à 20:30

Embark Studios may be embracing kernel-level anti-cheat, but they're not abandoning their Linux players.

the finals open beta

Arkane Studios founder slams Microsoft for its Game Pass focus: 'At some point reality has to hit'

PC Gamer

6 juillet 2025 à 18:39

Former Dishonored and Prey developer Raphael Colantonio has a warning about Game Pass

Dishonored

Warren Spector was so desperate to make Deus Ex that it almost became a Command & Conquer RPG: 'I was going to find a way to make it one way or another, even if it meant making another damn sci-fi game!'

PC Gamer

6 juillet 2025 à 16:00

PC gaming history could have been very different.

JC Denton is surprised

Deep Rock Galactic Survivor is gearing up for launch, literally—adding a fully-fledged gear system when it hits 1.0 in September

PC Gamer

6 juillet 2025 à 15:00

Gear of Dwarves.

A dwarf shooting bugs in Deep Rock Galactic: Survivor.

Preservationists discover a 'nearly complete' build of a lost Animaniacs game 22 years after it was cancelled, and you can play it right now

PC Gamer

6 juillet 2025 à 14:00

Animaniacs: Hollywood Hypnotics hasn't been seen since 2003.

Brain from Pinky and the Brain glares toward the camera on a backdrop of yellow and blue concentric circles.

Rust's developer is overhauling the survival sim's mission system so it can create in-game quests faster and more easily: 'The process to create new missions internally is quite cumbersome and error prone'

PC Gamer

6 juillet 2025 à 13:00

Latest update also adds a party system and "improved erosion".

A Rust NPC dressed in a blue hazmat suit monitors the air with a Geiger counter in Rust.

Today's Wordle answer for Sunday, July 6

PC Gamer

6 juillet 2025 à 05:00

Help with solving Sunday's puzzle.

Wordle today being played on a phone

Mount & Blade 2's naval expansion will have complex sailing with wind, currents, and respect for a boat's draft

PC Gamer

6 juillet 2025 à 02:04

Say it with me: boats rule.

Bannerlord naval expansion reveal

Subnautica 2 studio begs rioting fans for benefit of the doubt after leadership axed by owner Krafton: 'The team that has been working on the game day-to-day over the last few years remains completely unchanged'

Par :ted.litchfield@futurenet.com (Ted Litchfield)

6 juillet 2025 à 00:33

I don't think it's enough to win people back.

Diver looking at a fish

Academics critique Farming Simulator's portrayal of 'good farming' and praise modders for agro-ecology add-ons

PC Gamer

6 juillet 2025 à 00:32

The researchers believe Farming Simulator can influence attitudes about real farming.

Farming Simulator 22 tractor by cows

Best graphics cards in 2025: I've tested pretty much every AMD and Nvidia GPU of the past 20 years and these are today's top cards

Par :dave.james@futurenet.com (Dave James)

6 juillet 2025 à 00:13

I've made a career out of prodding graphics cards and this has been the toughest set of recommendations I can remember.

Nvidia RTX 5090 and XFX RX 9070 graphics cards

European game publisher group responds to Stop Killing Games, claims 'These proposals would curtail developer choice'

PC Gamer

5 juillet 2025 à 23:03

Video Games Europe voices opposition to Stop Killing Games movement as it clears threshold to become an EU Citizens' Initiative.

Belgium, Brussels, European Commission, European flags at Berlaymont building

Best gaming laptop in 2025: I've put the best of this new generation head-to-head and we have a winner

Par :dave.james@futurenet.com (Dave James)

5 juillet 2025 à 22:55

Don't compromise on power or portability with the best gaming laptops.

Asus Zephyrus G14 and Razer Blade 16 gaming laptops

Former Forza dev says original Motorsport series died in Microsoft's cuts, but Forza Horizon lives on

Par :ted.litchfield@futurenet.com (Ted Litchfield)

5 juillet 2025 à 22:52

Developer Fred Russell left the studio in 2016, but presumably still has connections at Turn 10.

Forza Motorsport Porsche close-up

Best gaming chair in 2025: I've tested a ton of gaming chairs and these are the seats I'd suggest for any PC gamer

PC Gamer

5 juillet 2025 à 21:48

Treat your body to one of the best gaming chairs and sit like a royal on your new throne.

The best gaming chairs guide header image with Logitech Herman Miller Embody chair and Secretlab Titan Evo 2022 on a green background with PC Gamer recommend badge.

After nearly 4 years, Windows 11 is finally more popular than Windows 10

PC Gamer

5 juillet 2025 à 21:40

Windows 11 has finally de-throned Windows 10.

Microsoft Windows 10 wallpaper

Even the beginner zone in Dune: Awakening isn't safe from sandworm-manipulating griefers anymore

PC Gamer

5 juillet 2025 à 21:22

The sandworm drama is escalating on Arrakis.

Dune: Awakening worm tooth - Swallowed by a Sandworm

What happened to the creator of Gunman Chronicles, Valve's forgotten FPS? 'My relationship with Gabe didn't really go that great'

PC Gamer

5 juillet 2025 à 19:00

Tracing the history of an ancient Valve artefact.

Gunman Chronicles

Runaway city-building success Manor Lords is getting a major overhaul to its systems: 'It's not just a new feature or two. It's a full rework'

PC Gamer

5 juillet 2025 à 16:00

"Because we're working on all these big changes, we haven't been able to put out smaller patches."

A peaceful and pastoral field with several sheep gathered, as featured in Manor Lords.

Can you guess gaming's weirdest currencies in our latest quiz?

Par :robin.valentine@futurenet.com (Robin Valentine)

5 juillet 2025 à 16:00

Test your knowledge of fictional financials.

A goblin with a crown smiling with a huge pile of money in Hearthstone.

Chaotic destruction sim Teardown breaks cover on its multiplayer update, revealing 8 player team deathmatch and support for modded servers

PC Gamer

5 juillet 2025 à 15:00

Will be available for experimental testing soon.

Shooting rockets at a boat in the forest

RoboCop: Rogue City's expansion will let you play as ED-209, but I'm more excited about having some guns I might use instead of the Auto 9

PC Gamer

5 juillet 2025 à 14:00

Also, what's going on with that voiceover?

RoboCop sits in a diagnostic chair being analysed by a scientist, as a damaged ED-209 stands in a giant hole in the adjacent wall.

Here's a mod that puts Halo's multiplayer into Half-Life, which to me feels like putting tea in your coffee

PC Gamer

5 juillet 2025 à 13:00

Halo Goldsource brings Slayer and Firefight into Valve's classic shooter.

A red Spartan soldier in Halo: Goldsource

Today's Wordle answer for Saturday, July 5

PC Gamer

5 juillet 2025 à 05:00

Get all the help you need with today's Wordle.

Wordle answers

Cyberpunk: Edgerunners, the anime so good it made Cyberpunk 2077 cool again, is getting a sequel

PC Gamer

5 juillet 2025 à 02:00

Cyberpunk: Edgerunners 2 promises "a raw chronicle of redemption and revenge."

Cyberpunk Edgerunners 2 promo image