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Randy Pitchford asks fans to 'play the game first' before judging Borderlands 4's new minimap-free HUD

Par :tyler@pcgamer.com (Tyler Wilde)

10 mai 2025 à 00:37

There's no minimap in Borderlands 4, the Gearbox CEO confirmed: "We want you to play the game and not play the map."

Borderlands 4 screenshot

Nearly 200 Overwatch developers at Blizzard form a new union: The Overwatch Gamemakers Guild

Par :andy.chalk@pcgamer.com (Andy Chalk)

10 mai 2025 à 00:28

The Communications Workers of America says Microsoft has already recognized the union.

Overwatch's Zarya flexing

Death Stranding 2 sounds like everything I hoped it'd be

Par :morgan.park@futurenet.com (Morgan Park)

10 mai 2025 à 00:28

Kojima let the press play an unbelievable 30 hours of Death Stranding 2. Here's what they think.

death stranding 2

'We heard your feedback': Funcom just reversed course and opened up the Dune: Awakening beta weekend to anyone who preorders the survival MMO

Par :clivingston@pcgamer.com (Christopher Livingston)

9 mai 2025 à 23:27

Seems like that should have been the plan from the beginning?

Dune Awakening

The voice of Disco Elysium's Ancient Reptilian Brian performed the game's famous karaoke scene live and in costume

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

9 mai 2025 à 22:29

The Smallest Church in Saint-Saëns.

UK musician Mikee W. Goodman wearing the green jacket and necktie from RPG Disco Elysium.

Fallout Season 2 filming just wrapped, so now's a good time to check in on any New Vegas sickos you know and make sure they're not getting too worked up

Par :lincoln.carpenter@futurenet.com (Lincoln Carpenter)

9 mai 2025 à 22:18

Unclear how many hours of gecko fight sequences were filmed, but I'm guessing it's a lot.

Lucy smiling while using her pip boy

As Fortnite gears up for an App Store relaunch, Epic is cranking up its Rewards program to encourage people to use its payment system instead of Apple's

Par :andy.chalk@pcgamer.com (Andy Chalk)

9 mai 2025 à 22:11

Gamers who use Epic's payment system for purchases in Fortnite, Rocket League, or Among Us will earn 20% back in Epic Rewards.

Fortnite - Meowscles flexing

Co-founder of crypto platform Celsius, which went bust with a billion-dollar hole in its finances, sentenced to 12 years in federal prison for 'orchestrating one of the biggest frauds in the crypto industry'

PC Gamer

9 mai 2025 à 21:47

Alex Mashinsky was known for characterising traditional banks as untrustworthy.

Alex Mashinsky enters court to be sentenced.

Publisher who resurrected lost pirate game Captain Blood says it's 'a 3 or 4' by today's standards, but that's half the fun: 'All its charms, all its flaws, all the vibes are from that era'

PC Gamer

9 mai 2025 à 21:28

Don't bother with the rose-colored glasses. This is 2011, note for note.

Captain Blood art

Europa Universalis 5's unusual, year-long reveal was a lesson Paradox learned from Imperator's mixed reception: 'I wanted to do it a little bit earlier, but marketing people tend to get panicky when you start talking'

PC Gamer

9 mai 2025 à 18:59

Paradox Tinto released a whopping 62 dev diaries before officially revealing EU5.

EU5 key art

Quake finally makes it into the World Videogame Hall of Fame

Par :andy.chalk@pcgamer.com (Andy Chalk)

9 mai 2025 à 18:45

Whaddaya mean it wasn't already in the Hall of Fame?

Quake remake

Sure, man: The $200 deluxe edition of the Gex Trilogy remaster includes a 3-foot inflatable Gex and box art from legendary illustrator Yoshitaka Amano

Par :lincoln.carpenter@futurenet.com (Lincoln Carpenter)

9 mai 2025 à 18:36

I've never felt so alive.

Box art for the Gex Trilogy Tail Time Edition, illustrated by Yoshitaka Amano.

Rockstar says GTA 6's second trailer is now the biggest video launch of all time, whatever that means

PC Gamer

9 mai 2025 à 18:33

Half a billion views and counting.

Protagonists Jason and Lucia in Grand Theft Auto 6.

32 GB of DDR5 RAM for $83 will see you ready to shield bash your way through Doom: The Dark Ages

PC Gamer

9 mai 2025 à 18:27

That's two sticks of 16 GB DDR5-6000 for a little more than 40 bucks each.

Two of Silicon Power's 16 GB XPower Zenith RAM in white float in the teal gradient PC Gamer deal void.

Mafia: The Old Country system requirements have been revealed, and Unreal Engine 5 continues to be the thorn in your budget build's side

PC Gamer

9 mai 2025 à 18:26

Old Country, new rig.

A man looking worried in 1900s Sicily

'First we do Wordle': Pope Leo XIV plays games like Wordle and Words With Friends with his brother, and did so before the Conclave

PC Gamer

9 mai 2025 à 18:18

We've got a gamer Pope.

Wordle answers

A year later and over six months since the last patch, Intel is STILL releasing updates to fix instability problems with its 13th and 14th Gen Raptor Lake CPUs

PC Gamer

9 mai 2025 à 18:14

These bugs refuse to be squashed...

Intel Core i9 14900K CPU on a box and inside a motherboard socket.

'It was eye-opening': How a WoW documentary inspired Muscular Dystrophy UK's Liam Quinn to raise money and build community in the haven of videogames

PC Gamer

9 mai 2025 à 17:57

Game On.

Ibelin, Mats Steen's World of Warcraft rogue, shares a meal with friends in the Goldshire inn.

I watched one video of Oblivion Remastered on a CRT and now I'm lightly obsessed with the TikTok account that did it

PC Gamer

9 mai 2025 à 17:20

Demaking a remaster, kind of.

Oblivion Remastered

Overwatch 2 remembers it can collab with videogames outside the Blizzard catalogue, bringing Street Fighter 6 to the battlefield

PC Gamer

9 mai 2025 à 16:45

Here comes a new challenger.

Juno as Chun Li

How to play Dune: Awakening multiplayer

PC Gamer

9 mai 2025 à 16:41

Apes together, strong.

Dune: Awakening multiplayer - Riding a sandbike with another player as a sandworm bursts out of the sand in the background.

AMD's upcoming RX 9060 XT GPU listed on Amazon for a depressing $449 for the 8 GB version and $529 for the 16 GB option

PC Gamer

9 mai 2025 à 16:35

A hard pass at these prices.

A collage of Radeon RX 9000 series graphics cards, as shown in AMD's promotional video for the launch of RDNA 4 at CES 2025

We just got our first look at one of Elden Ring: Nightreign's new bosses, Libra Creature of Night

PC Gamer

9 mai 2025 à 16:09

Oh this is going to suck.

An Elden Ring Nightreign character clad in full armor, rearing back what looks to be a small crossbow before firing.

Doom: The Dark Ages PC performance analysis: Always-on ray tracing isn't a problem and even a cheap gaming laptop copes just fine

PC Gamer

9 mai 2025 à 16:00

Though once path tracing makes an appearance, all bets will probably be off.

A screenshot from the PC version of Doom: The Dark Ages, using the Ultra quality preset

Doom: The Dark Ages review

Par :morgan.park@futurenet.com (Morgan Park)

9 mai 2025 à 16:00

The Dark Ages is fun in different ways than its predecessors, but Doom has been better.

Doom: The Dark Ages

HP Omen Max 16 gaming laptop review

PC Gamer

9 mai 2025 à 15:50

A big noisy monster, and that's just fine by us.

HP Omen Max 16 gaming laptop

MIT researchers debunk one of the greatest misconceptions in science: Eggs are stronger at the sides after all

PC Gamer

9 mai 2025 à 14:50

FYI, this doesn't actually apply to cracking an egg for breakfast.

MIT egg research

All Honkai: Star Rail 3.3 livestream codes

PC Gamer

9 mai 2025 à 13:43

Get the latest livestream Stellar Jade before it expires.

Honkai Sta Rail codes - Castorice and Anaxa

Oblivion Remastered mod makes being a stealthy murder king easy, boosting your sneak attack damage modifiers from good to Grim Reaper

Par :robert.jones@futurenet.com (Robert Jones)

9 mai 2025 à 13:11

Strike unseen in Bethesda's visually upgraded RPG with maximum potency

Lucien Lachance, a Dark Brotherhood member in a black hood and robes, gives a rictus grin into the camera.

Clair Obscur: Expedition 33's first patch reveals the sword that was part of a 2 billion nuke build was doubling all damage by mistake

PC Gamer

9 mai 2025 à 13:01

Panda-Medalum.

Expedition 33 tips - Maelle fighting a Nevron

Trucker takes their gaming rig on the road inside their big rig 'and yes, [I] occasionally play Truck Simulator'

PC Gamer

9 mai 2025 à 12:49

It's an immersive setup, at least.

This aluminium keyboard feels like it fell straight out of one of my abandoned sci-fi drafts—but thanks to its onboard word counter, I might just finish it now

PC Gamer

9 mai 2025 à 12:22

Shiny, shiny.

The Freewrite Wordrunner is seen in operation on a white desk. The wordcounter in the centre and the session timer on the left of the keyboard's top edge are ticking up as hands type upon its surface.

Legions of Helldivers 2 players are currently banging their head against a password terminal, as Arrowhead plays coy with a new reveal

PC Gamer

9 mai 2025 à 12:11

"$SATCOM//>PLEASE?"

Helldivers 2

A software engineer taught AI to hunt bugs by interfacing an LLM with debugging tools and has released the open source code: 'It's like going from hunting with a stone spear to using a guided missile'

PC Gamer

9 mai 2025 à 08:55

This LLM "might change crash dump analysis forever."

Valve is using Steam Deck's beta build to test 80% battery limit

PC Gamer

9 mai 2025 à 07:59

Let's see if this 80% charge limitation can help extend battery life for real.

Steam Deck OLED: Limited Edition White

Razer's newest gaming headset goes on your chair instead of your head

PC Gamer

9 mai 2025 à 07:31

Strap a near-field directional speaker mount to the back of your seat and hear the Gs.

Razer Clio

Razer announces travel-sized Basilisk Mobile mouse with dedicated AI prompt key alongside ultra-low-profile portable Joro keyboard

PC Gamer

9 mai 2025 à 06:49

I can't wait to accidentally launch ChatGPT when I'm trying to do my fantasy murders.

Razer Basilisk Mobile and Razer Joro

Today's Wordle answer for Friday, May 9

PC Gamer

9 mai 2025 à 05:00

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

Today's Wordle being played on a phone

D&D's artificers are getting revised for the 2024 rules update in a book that will also let you play a guy who has a magic GPS and knows where everyone is at all times

PC Gamer

9 mai 2025 à 03:18

It's all in Eberron: Forge of the Artificer.

A warforged artificer wearing a backpack

A Chrono Trigger revival seems inevitable at this point, with its creator admitting 'I want to do something' after recent mistranslation incident

Par :shaun.prescott@futurenet.com (Shaun Prescott)

9 mai 2025 à 02:03

A HD-2D remake seems most likely.

Still from a Chrono Trigger cutscene showing a close up of protagonist Crono's face