'Just make a very good game': Sloclap dismisses the idea that online games need to be free-to-play

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Par :tyler@pcgamer.com (Tyler Wilde)

12 avril 2025 à 02:16

The studio's new competitive sports game, Rematch, will cost $30 when it releases this summer.

Rematch blew away my expectations: trailers don't do Sloclap's 5v5 football game justice

PC Gamer

12 avril 2025 à 01:04

It's the closest I've come to feeling like I'm actually playing a game of football in a videogame.

GOG's 'Classics Promo' sale rolls into the weekend with deep discounts on more than 1,000 good old games

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

12 avril 2025 à 00:36

If you're looking for something to play this weekend, GOG might be able to help.

'Let's just fail quickly this time': Semiwork took a 'big risk' on REPO after its first game took 6 years to make and didn't sell very well

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

12 avril 2025 à 00:23

Semiwork was in a tough spot after Voidigo failed to catch on, so it took a bit of a different approach to its next game.

Dark and Darker finally gets a PvE-exclusive 'Adventure Mode'

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

11 avril 2025 à 22:31

Early access season 6 has some big changes.

Blue Prince tips: 10 useful tricks for mastering the mysterious mansion

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Par :clivingston@pcgamer.com (Christopher Livingston)

11 avril 2025 à 20:54

Before you set foot in the ever-changing mansion, here's some spoiler-free advice to make things easier.

A young man wearing a backpack in a darkened room

The Talos Principle: Reawakened goes back to the beginning for a touching coda to its musings on what it means to be human

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

11 avril 2025 à 20:44

The remastered edition of Croteam's hit puzzle game is out now, and it's really good.

The Talos Principle: Reawakened launch trailer still - a machine in the garden of Elohim

OpenAI countersues Elon Musk and the gloves come off: 'These antics are just history on repeat—Elon being all about Elon'

PC Gamer

11 avril 2025 à 20:38

"When he didn’t get his way, he stormed off."

LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA - APRIL 13: Elon Musk attends the 2024 Breakthrough Prize Ceremony at Academy Museum of Motion Pictures on April 13, 2024 in Los Angeles, California. (Photo by Taylor Hill/Getty Images)

Brian Eno's Windows 95 startup jingle and the Minecraft OST are now preserved in the USA's Library of Congress

PC Gamer

11 avril 2025 à 20:28

Alongside some bloke called Miles Davis.

The sci-fi puzzle game made by ex-Blizzard devs just got its first trailer, demonstrating intricate puzzles and cool landscapes

PC Gamer

11 avril 2025 à 19:05

These puzzles aren't just your typical obstacles.

Apple reportedly shipped 600 tons of iPhones in rapid time to 'beat the tariff', only for tariffs to see a 90-day pause

PC Gamer

11 avril 2025 à 18:36

This should hold off price rises for a little while.

PCs with Intel's new warranty-backed 'IPO' overclocking feature reportedly go on sale in China with claimed 10% frame-rate uplifts but what about the rest of us?

PC Gamer

11 avril 2025 à 18:29

IPO supposedly makes overlocking all elements of an Arrow Lake CPU simple, effective and safe.

A photo of an Intel Core Ultra 9 285K processor next to an Intel logo

'Every single gamemode is completely broken': Star Wars Battlefront 2 has been unplayable for days on PC as hackers prevent players from spawning on any server

PC Gamer

11 avril 2025 à 18:09

So uncivilized.

This absurdly generous Newegg bundle gives you an AMD Ryzen 5 9600X CPU, 16 GB of DDR5 RAM, AND Monster Hunter Wilds all for just $230

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Par :jessica.kinghorn@futurenet.com (Jess Kinghorn)

11 avril 2025 à 18:07

I've hunted down a bargain for you.

A boxed AMD Ryzen 9000 Series CPU floats in a white-bordered, teal void.

William Roberts, the voice of Vesemir in The Witcher games, has died

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

11 avril 2025 à 18:06

Roberts appeared in dozens of videogames over a long and prolific career, but the grizzled witcher Vesemir is the one that stands out.

Baldur's Gate 3's transformative patch 8, with 12 new subclasses and photo mode, will finally launch next week

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

11 avril 2025 à 17:57

Tuesday, April 15, we're all returning to Faerûn.

My favorite thing about Blue Prince's intricate puzzles is that they're optional—you don't have to solve most of them to finish the game

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Par :clivingston@pcgamer.com (Christopher Livingston)

11 avril 2025 à 17:56

A puzzle in a game is often presented as a brick wall: no passing this point until you solve it. Blue Prince doesn't work that way.

Razer PC Remote Play, a cloud streaming service based on open-source Moonlight, has finally launched and we've put it to the test

PC Gamer

11 avril 2025 à 17:18

And it's free to use.

Razer's PC Game Streaming app live on a desktop

How to get into the antechamber in Blue Prince

PC Gamer

11 avril 2025 à 16:29

It's not a race.

As tariff chaos looms, Nvidia's RTX 5070 GPU is actually available below MSRP in the UK

PC Gamer

11 avril 2025 à 16:28

It's a topsy-turvy time for tech pricing.

Nvidia RTX 5080 Founders Edition graphics card from different angles

Ex-PlayStation exec argues 'only the dog can hear' differences between consoles and gaming PCs: 'They're all quite similar'

PC Gamer

11 avril 2025 à 16:15

"Like, 'we're gonna have 20% more ray tracing'. Okay?"

An image of Kratos from God of War Ragnarok sat in a frigid cave, while his son enters stage left with a deer.

Security researcher claims 35 Chrome extensions with 4,000,000+ installs 'include some kind of spyware or infostealer'

PC Gamer

11 avril 2025 à 16:12

Well, this can't be good.

How to get the basement key in Blue Prince

PC Gamer

11 avril 2025 à 16:10

The final stretch.

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How to solve the parlor puzzle in Blue Prince

PC Gamer

11 avril 2025 à 15:41

Figure out the lies to earn some gems.

FF14's composer, Soken, says doing double time on an MMO and Final Fantasy 16 was 'something beyond your imagination of hell'

PC Gamer

11 avril 2025 à 15:15

Ifrit, Lord of Burnout.

More RTX 50-series supply on the way? Rumours suggest Nvidia may have started to use SK Hynix GDDR7 in potential boost to production

PC Gamer

11 avril 2025 à 13:59

How this interacts with shifting tariffs, I have no idea.

Nvidia RTX 5070 Founders Edition graphics card from various angles

Report estimates AI energy demands will quadruple in the next few years, with some large planned centres estimated to use the equivalent power of 5,000,000 households

PC Gamer

11 avril 2025 à 13:40

It's fairly hopeful about AI's impact on the environment, though.

An operator works at the data centre of French company OVHcloud in Roubaix, northern France on April 3, 2025. (Photo by Sameer Al-DOUMY / AFP) (Photo by SAMEER AL-DOUMY/AFP via Getty Images)

Marvel Rivals Season 2 is fire, mostly thanks to Emma Frost's ability to choke slam other heroes out of their ultimate abilities

PC Gamer

11 avril 2025 à 13:37

Emma Frost is the Vanguard we all deserve.

Reddit has reached a Silksong level of madness over the rumoured Oblivion remake in a fraction of the time

PC Gamer

11 avril 2025 à 13:26

I've heard others say the same.

A moon with the face of the Adoring Fan imposed over it floats in Oblivion's night sky.

Netflix has renewed Devil May Cry for a second season, only one week after its release

PC Gamer

11 avril 2025 à 13:16

Jackpot!

A close-up of Dante from the Devil May Cry anime series on Netflix.

There's hope for the PC market yet: Sales boom before tariff hammer comes down and HP expects 90% of its US PCs will be made outside of China by the end of the year

PC Gamer

11 avril 2025 à 13:05

Is this the peak before the dip?

'It's way too funny': A Minecraft Movie director loves the chaotic chicken jockey trend hitting cinemas

PC Gamer

11 avril 2025 à 13:04

"Jack says it with such passion."

The Windows 95 start-up sound and the Minecraft soundtrack have been added to the US Library of Congress list of nationally significant recordings

PC Gamer

11 avril 2025 à 12:03

One is significant to my childhood, at the very least.

How to complete the Cerebro Database event in Marvel Rivals

PC Gamer

11 avril 2025 à 10:00

Gear up for another stacked season with the Hellfire Gala.

Marvel Rivals Cerebro Database event - A close-up shot of Mantis running with her arms out in front of her.

Today's Wordle answer for Friday, April 11

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11 avril 2025 à 05:00

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

Schedule 1 player follows NPCs around for a week to reveal their surprisingly thoughtful, dynamic lives

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

11 avril 2025 à 02:12

"Dude pulling doubles every day. No wonder he's employee of the month and needs so many drugs."

Developer of 'non-consensual sex' game withdraws it from Steam after it's banned in the UK, Canada, and Australia: 'We don't intend to fight the whole world'

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Par :tyler@pcgamer.com (Tyler Wilde)

11 avril 2025 à 00:48

The developer defended the adult game's content, but withdrew it from Steam following political pressure and public censure.

Lost Ember studio reveals its next game, and dang, it's got some really good snow

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

10 avril 2025 à 23:38

Ikuma promises a haunting journey through the uncharted Arctic for one or two players.

Ikuma: The Frozen Compass screenshot (detail)

Gamble or die in a 'never-ending debt simulator' that plays like Balatro spliced with a demonic slot machine

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Par :clivingston@pcgamer.com (Christopher Livingston)

10 avril 2025 à 23:14

CloverPit combines a slot machine with Balatro-like upgrades and progress, and there's a demo you can try now.

Industry report says Steam users play more noncompetitive games than console players—and our interest in PvE keeps growing

PC Gamer

10 avril 2025 à 23:01

There's more to life than a K/D ratio.

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