Rematch passes 100K Steam concurrents in open beta as 'Rocket League but with feet' turns out to be a winning idea

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Par :tyler@pcgamer.com (Tyler Wilde)

18 avril 2025 à 23:56

The soccer game from Sifu developer Sloclap might be a winner.

Rematch screen - two kneeling soccer players celebrating a goal as other teammates run in behind them

It looks like Tempest Rising accidentally launched early on Steam for everyone, despite withholding advanced access as a Deluxe Edition pre-order bonus

PC Gamer

18 avril 2025 à 23:47

Tactical genius, meet the ever-triumphant whoopsie.

Marvel Rivals players annoyed and confused by 'misleading' $25 Doctor Strange skin that's missing the coolest part when worn in-game

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

18 avril 2025 à 23:09

Maybe don't buy this expensive Doctor Strange skin.

The new trailer for The Fantastic Four: First Steps finally shows us stretchy Pedro Pascal (but only for about two seconds)

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Par :clivingston@pcgamer.com (Christopher Livingston)

18 avril 2025 à 22:20

C'mon, Marvel, we know Mr. Fantastic's rubbery noodle body looks goofy as hell. You can't hide it forever.

Pedro Pascal as Reed Richards write math on a chalkboard

Capcom says it has 'already taken and will continue to take action' to ban Monster Hunter Wilds cheaters as it begins a '1-to-2 week review' of the challenge quest leaderboard

PC Gamer

18 avril 2025 à 21:03

It's dark times when Monster Hunter starts its own inquisition.

Alma, the guild handler, clenches a vengeful fist in Monster Hunter Wilds.

Thank you for ruining my life, Larian: Even after 900 hours and a dozen playthroughs, Baldur's Gate 3's Patch 8 has me obsessed all over again

PC Gamer

18 avril 2025 à 20:03

Baldur's Gate 3's new subclasses make my latest run feel as fresh as my first.

Astarion takes a selfie over a dead enemy in Baldur's Gate 3

I hope they didn't make the Oblivion NPCs hot

PC Gamer

Par :tyler@pcgamer.com (Tyler Wilde)

18 avril 2025 à 18:50

Oblivion is a game about weirdos. How will they look in the remaster?

The new trailer for Remedy's co-op FPS features explosive pink goop and flying desk chairs, so it's still looking like the silliest thing they've made

PC Gamer

18 avril 2025 à 18:29

FBC: Firebreak is looking just as surreal as the game it's spun off from, with none of the seriousness.

Rebellion's CEO says 'it looks like we want to do more Atomfall' but it will depend on whether the studio can 'find the resources to do it'

PC Gamer

18 avril 2025 à 18:22

"It's nice when marketing comes back to you and says 'yep, we underestimated our high-level success.'"

The Forever Winter's April update introduces a 'devastating' railgun you'll need to build with buds, DLC skins and more to my favourite extraction shooter

PC Gamer

18 avril 2025 à 18:20

Despite the huge March update, it's not slowing down this month.

Nintendo confirms the Switch 2 price is staying at $450 in the US despite tariff turmoil, with preorders starting April 24

PC Gamer

18 avril 2025 à 16:54

Accessories will be more pricey "due to changes in market conditions," however.

Phil Spencer is 'really happy' with Indiana Jones and the Great Circle, hinting there might be more Nazi punching adventures in the future: 'We do think there's life in that franchise'

PC Gamer

18 avril 2025 à 16:53

But he also wants Microsoft "to do our own games and our own franchises".

Hero art for Indiana Jones and the Great Circle, echoing the pulpy aesthetic of the Indiana Jones movie posters.

Painkiller's new weapons trailer gives us a good look at the reboot's guns, and I'm delighted to see that its iconic stake launcher still skewers enemies to walls

PC Gamer

18 avril 2025 à 15:22

Stake out.

After a disastrous recent update and a flurry of attempts to fix it, Path of Exile 2's next patch will bring 'two highly sought after improvements'

PC Gamer

18 avril 2025 à 12:11

Grinding Gear Games will launch update 0.2.0g "as soon as we can".

A Path of Exile 2 sorceress wearing robes and conjuring hourglasses with her hands on a purple and blue background

Looks like PCIe 5.0 WD Black SSDs are hopefully definitely maybe possibly on the way, at long last

PC Gamer

18 avril 2025 à 10:33

We've got whispers of rumours and taken down listings, all with those big WD letters on the side.

Corsair's custom shop Drop announces possibly the best thing to come out of Starfield

PC Gamer

18 avril 2025 à 10:26

The collab focusses on the very customisable CSTM80 ten-keyless mechanical board, but that means you can get most of it separately too.

Shots of the keyboard, keys, cable, and deskmat included in the Drop x Starfield collab

Cherry's new MX Northern Light is its 'most refined linear switch to date' and a 'love letter to the keyboard community'

PC Gamer

18 avril 2025 à 10:19

The company is aiming to deliver the smoothest linear switch in town.

Cherry's limited edition Northern Lights keyboard

Star Wars Outlaws DLC A Pirate's Fortune announced for May 15

PC Gamer

18 avril 2025 à 05:40

Yo ho ho and a season pass for me.

Hondo Ohnaka aims a blaster in Star Wars Outlaws: A Pirate's Fortune

Shawn Levy of Deadpool & Wolverine fame is directing Star Wars: Starfighter, a standalone movie starring Ryan Gosling

PC Gamer

18 avril 2025 à 05:06

Set after the events of Rise of the Skywalker.

Ryan Gosling looking worse for wear looking up lit by purple light

Today's Wordle answer for Friday, April 18

PC Gamer

18 avril 2025 à 05:00

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

Path of Exile 2 backlash gives Last Epoch a 150,000-player boost as the competing action RPG launches a major update

PC Gamer

18 avril 2025 à 02:56

As one action RPG stumbles, another accelerates past it.

I don't know why early 2000s internet is suddenly back, but both Ask a Ninja and Homestar Runner have just uploaded new videos

PC Gamer

Par :wesley@pcgamer.com (Wes Fenlon)

18 avril 2025 à 01:37

What's going on?

Co-op submarine survival simulator Barotrauma has a free weekend on Steam, so dive in with friends and experience the most comically horrifying deaths you can imagine

PC Gamer

Par :clivingston@pcgamer.com (Christopher Livingston)

18 avril 2025 à 00:48

It's the first free weekend for the submarine horror game since it went 1.0 in 2023.

Some strange looking submarine occupants including a skeleton in a diving suit

Thanks to Baldur's Gate 3's new Swashbuckler subclass, it no longer sucks to be a pure Rogue

PC Gamer

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

18 avril 2025 à 00:22

A three-level dip no longer.

Half Orc in Baldur's Gate 3 crouched down and looking devious with new photo mode.

Rematch, the soccer game from the maker of Sifu and Absolver, is holding an open beta this weekend

PC Gamer

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

17 avril 2025 à 23:37

Here's your chance to see what it's all about.

Rivals Hover League is the new standard for vehicular arena-based combat

PC Gamer

17 avril 2025 à 22:04

A high-octane experience like nothing you've ever seen before: hover hard, hit harder.

Hover League Rivals vehicles in action. Hovering. Being rivals.

22-year-old MMO MapleStory is getting the 'old school' treatment with the original lead game designer in charge of new classic servers

PC Gamer

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

17 avril 2025 à 21:50

MapleStory Classic World was revealed as part of the game's 20th anniversary.

MapleStory Classic Worlds image taken from MapleStory 20th anniversary video

Forget Baldur's Gate 3's new subclasses: Patch 8's most disgusting power gamer combo is the Rock That Makes You Stupid paired with a sneakily revamped level 2 spell

PC Gamer

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

17 avril 2025 à 21:49

Resonance Stone + Shadow Blade = Sicko Mode.

Astarion looking quizzical in Baldur's Gate 3

Path of Exile 2's 0.2 update wasn't all bad: The endgame finally feels like it's headed in the right direction

PC Gamer

17 avril 2025 à 21:37

Path of Exile 2's 0.2 update wasn't all bad: The endgame finally feels like it's headed in the right direction

Path of Exile 2 early access class key art

You should buy our favorite co-op survival game of 2024 on sale now for $20—because the price goes up to $35 in May

PC Gamer

Par :clivingston@pcgamer.com (Christopher Livingston)

17 avril 2025 à 21:34

Abiotic Factor is getting a $10 price increase just before it's 1.0 launch, but you can save $15 if you grab it in April.

Eugh: Discord is scanning some users' faces and IDs to 'experiment' with age verification features

PC Gamer

17 avril 2025 à 20:02

Don't like it.

The Discord mascot sitting on a floating Discord text entry bar.

RuneScape: Dragonwilds skill trees and levelling guide

PC Gamer

17 avril 2025 à 19:49

All the special unlocks in each skill tree and how to grind all your skills just a little faster.

The brilliant insect adventure Botanicula is free on the Epic Store for the first time

PC Gamer

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

17 avril 2025 à 19:28

Don't miss this one.

MSI RTX 5060 Ti 16G Gaming Trio OC review

PC Gamer

17 avril 2025 à 18:24

The best of the lot but its price tag might be insurmountable.

An MSI RTX 5060 Ti on top of a PC case and with the rear backplate removed.

'It unfortunately won't be happening in the foreseeable future': Fortnite's Arcane skins continue to be in crossover jail as Riot boss confirms they won't be back anytime soon

PC Gamer

17 avril 2025 à 18:23

A real shame for new Fortnite and Arcane fans.

Roblox's latest legal entanglement is with the creator of the viral 'Apple' dance who took TikTok by storm: 'Kelley is an independent creator who should be compensated fairly for her work'

PC Gamer

17 avril 2025 à 18:11

Kelley Heyer is taking the behemoth platform to court.

NEW YORK, NEW YORK - OCTOBER 10: Kelley Heyer attends the 2024 Hudson River Park Friends Gala at Pier Sixty at Chelsea Piers on October 10, 2024 in New York City. (Photo by Santiago Felipe/Getty Images)

'I kept trying to talk to them': Marvel Rivals players are finding their friends' names are being used by bots

PC Gamer

17 avril 2025 à 18:10

It's not me, it's my bot.

Venom looks at his hand with sinister intent in Marvel Rivals.

We called its first cyberpunk setting 'cooler than Night City,' and now the studio behind The Ascent says it's making 'the kind of game that every developer wants to work on'

PC Gamer

Par :tyler@pcgamer.com (Tyler Wilde)

17 avril 2025 à 18:01

Details are sparse, but Neon Giant says its next game is "ludicrously ambitious", first-person, and focused on "player agency and creativity."

A screenshot from Project Impact, the codename for the second game from Neon Giant.

Ultrakill publisher co-founder throws up hands, jokes 'Tarkov has done irreparable f*cking damage to the game industry' because even FromSoftware games are extraction shooters now

PC Gamer

17 avril 2025 à 17:54

Honestly, I kinda get it.

A giant, eldritch moon with horrifying wings looms ominously.

There's no two ways about it—I love the Lumon blue, retro styling of this Severance-inspired keyboard

PC Gamer

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

17 avril 2025 à 17:44

A trackball? In MY keyboard? I'll roll with it.

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