CWA union derides Microsoft layoffs when ‘the company is prospering’: 'We are living through a moment of profound corporate consolidation and disruption'

PC Gamer

4 juillet 2025 à 20:34

The media union once touted a positive relationship with Microsoft, but wave after wave of layoffs has changed its tune.

Perfect Dark dev shoots down claim the ace-looking reveal was fake: 'It's probably more real than you think'

PC Gamer

4 juillet 2025 à 19:50

"It was a pretty typical 'vertical slice' I’d say and I don’t think we were particularly deceptive with it."

Joana Dark close up in neon light with gun

Fortnite hints at making its hottest new mode permanent by asking fans what they want next

PC Gamer

4 juillet 2025 à 19:34

Fans have called for Blitz Royale and its rapid-fire rounds to be added permanently, and now Epic has responded.

Out of the blue: How a Quake blog turned PC gaming news site has stayed a haven from 'internet enshittification' for nearly 30 years

PC Gamer

4 juillet 2025 à 19:00

All the carnage that's fit to post. No more, no less.

Michael Madsen, the voice of Dishonored's supernatural assassin Daud, has died

PC Gamer

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

4 juillet 2025 à 18:25

The Hollywood tough guy appeared in numerous games, but his turn as the Knife of Dunwall was especially inspired.

SANTA MONICA, CA - APRIL 21: Michael Madsen attends 'Women Empowering Women' benefiting the Aparecio Foundation at Jeanie Madsen Gallery on April 21, 2014 in Santa Monica, California. (Photo by Jerod Harris/Getty Images)

I don't need 64 GB of RAM but I am tempted when prices are as low as they are right now for genuinely speedy sticks

PC Gamer

4 juillet 2025 à 18:24

It wasn't that long ago that you'd consider 32 GB for $150/£150 to be a good deal.

Marvel Rivals players may soon be able to vote on what heroes they want added: 'We will use them as an important factor in our planning'

PC Gamer

4 juillet 2025 à 18:19

That'll be an enormous voting list.

I may not need a full-blown Logitech streaming light but I'm mighty tempted now that it's 27% off in this early Prime Day deal

PC Gamer

4 juillet 2025 à 18:14

More than just a light discount.

Logitech Litra Glow streaming light on a blue background

Everything you need to know about Blitz Royale, Fortnite's newest mode

PC Gamer

4 juillet 2025 à 18:02

Five-minute rounds, tons of medallions, and mythic weapons galore.

Picking the best GPU of 2025 has been the biggest challenge of my near 20-year PC gaming tech testing career. Now my brain hurts

PC Gamer

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

4 juillet 2025 à 17:53

Why do graphics cards—most especially graphics card prices—have to be such a pain in the posterior?

AMD RX 9070 XT and Nvidia RTX 5070 Ti graphics cards from Asus

Move over Nvidia because AMD RX 9060 XT gaming PCs are absolutely killing it for price in the budget segment before Amazon Prime Day

PC Gamer

4 juillet 2025 à 17:44

RX 9060 XT builds are getting that pre-Prime Day pump on.

Two RX 9060 XT gaming PCs on a green/blue background

I've kept CPUs cool through the summer with the help of these two affordable coolers: a 360 mm AIO for $90 and Arctic's finest for $38

PC Gamer

4 juillet 2025 à 17:41

Obviously, I didn't use them at the same time.

An Arctic air cooler and Cooler Master liquid cooler on a blue background.

You could buy the worst budget gaming headset I've ever tested for $19, or one of the best for $40 in the early Amazon Prime Day sales

PC Gamer

4 juillet 2025 à 17:39

My, what a difficult conundrum.

The Bengoo G9000 and Razer BlackShark V2 X gaming headsets on a teal deals background

The Silksong subreddit is conducting elaborate ritual ban sacrifices in an attempt to cure 'silksanity' and secure the game's release

PC Gamer

4 juillet 2025 à 17:28

Good lord, what is happening in there?

An image of Hornet from Silksong engulfed with rage.

You can buy (almost) my entire gaming accessory setup in the early Amazon Prime Day sales

PC Gamer

4 juillet 2025 à 17:24

You can buy (almost) my entire gaming accessory setup in the early Amazon Prime Day sales

A blue background with a Logitech mouse, Obsbot webcam, Turtle Beach headset, 8BitDo keyboard, and NZXT Headset and accessory on it.

Once you're above a certain speed, it's all about CAS latency with your RAM and there are my top early Prime Day picks so far

PC Gamer

4 juillet 2025 à 17:22

Make your gaming PC responsive and slick with a great set of low-latency DDR5.

A composite image of Klevv and TeamGroup DDR5-RAM kits against a teal background with a white border.

Valve's reported profit-per-head from Steam commissions is out there, and at $3.5 million per employee it makes Apple and Facebook look like a lemonade stand

PC Gamer

4 juillet 2025 à 17:06

No wonder Gabe Newell can afford all those boats.

You too can get Miku Hatsune to dance around the inside of your rig for less, with $60 off my favorite CPU cooler with a screen

PC Gamer

4 juillet 2025 à 17:05

You could also use it to display your CPU temps—I'm not judging!

NZXT Kraken Elite 280 RGB 2024 CPU cooler floats within the PC Gamer teal-gradient deal void. This is the smaller two-fan model, though it still comes with the same 2-inch IPS LCD screen included with the larger, three-fan models.

A 'little educational game for middle-schoolers' left DayZ's creators obsessed, inspired, and embroiled in a contentious presidential campaign: 'It's 4.5 years later, and I'm still talking about this story'

PC Gamer

4 juillet 2025 à 16:20

DayZ's former creative director thinks the survival genre needs to take a leaf out of Eco's book.

Turn your gaming PC's cables about face with this 750 W Corsair Shift PSU and save $65 at the same time

PC Gamer

4 juillet 2025 à 15:55

I have the 1000 W version and it's a cracking power supply.

An image of a Corsair RMx Shift 750W PSU against a teal background with a white border.

This RTX 5050 gaming laptop is... ah you know what, forget it, this RTX 5080 machine with $700 off is worth considering this Prime Day

PC Gamer

4 juillet 2025 à 15:55

Call me indecisive if you must.

Two HP Omen RTX 50-series laptops on a teal background, the left with a big red cross through it

Phoenix's terrifying team-up in Marvel Rivals Season 3 has me starting a campaign to get Wolverine banned in all my matches

PC Gamer

4 juillet 2025 à 15:38

My worst nightmare just got worse.

Marvel Rivals Wolverine and Phoenix team-up in Season 3: Wolverine gritting his teeth as he gets ready to leap. His claws glow orange and are covered in a red haze.

Open-source Morrowind project just got an update 3 years in the making that might have me saying bye to the vanilla game for good—oh, and you can load Skyrim in it now

PC Gamer

4 juillet 2025 à 15:28

Sure, why not.

An Ordinator stands with a torch on the highest level of a canton in Vivec.

Tech billionaires including Palmer Luckey set up dumb new bank for those who didn't get burned enough in the 2022 crypto crash

PC Gamer

4 juillet 2025 à 15:25

It's all about the stablecoins baby.

Rematch plans to add an in-game report system, punish own-goal griefers with 3 days in the slammer, and slap cheaters with indefinite bans

PC Gamer

4 juillet 2025 à 15:21

"We take these matters extremely seriously."

Peak re-releases its next update aimed at improving stability and reassures players 'we don't have any issue with sharing video content, including modded stuff'

PC Gamer

4 juillet 2025 à 14:49

You can now reconnect to games that you've been disconnected from.

OLED is the must-have gaming monitor tech and I've got some great early Prime Day deals for you

PC Gamer

4 juillet 2025 à 14:39

Ole, ole, ole, OLED.

Xbox exec suffers bout of terminal LinkedIn brain, suggests folks laid off by Microsoft use AI to 'reduce the emotional and cognitive load that comes with job loss'

PC Gamer

4 juillet 2025 à 12:50

An avocado toast for a new era.

Ryan Gosling in Blade Runner: 2049, his face cut up and with a bandage over his nose, bathed in purple light with the blackground a blurry blue

Steam's Hardware Survey continues to prove gamers don't have much free storage, and I am unfortunately among them

PC Gamer

4 juillet 2025 à 10:58

Make some room.

A Crucial P510 SSD installed in a gaming PC.

Today's Wordle answer for Friday, July 4

PC Gamer

4 juillet 2025 à 05:00

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

Call of Duty: Black Ops 7 – All the key details on the next Call of Duty

PC Gamer

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

4 juillet 2025 à 01:14

Activision is double-dipping on Black Ops in 2025.

Surprise! The Anthem servers are still running—but they won't be after January 12

PC Gamer

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

4 juillet 2025 à 00:22

Now it's really over.

I played 10 free Steam demos this week: here are the 5 games that made it onto my wishlist

PC Gamer

Par :clivingston@pcgamer.com (Christopher Livingston)

4 juillet 2025 à 00:08

Load up your wishlist—a lot of great games are headed your way.

Stop Killing Games surges past its goals, but a possible signature spoofing campaign could cause trouble: 'This is not a Change.org petition. This is a government process'

PC Gamer

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

3 juillet 2025 à 23:40

Initiative founder Ross Scott says he's "in a complete fog" about how many signatures the Stop Killing Games petitions really have.

Before cancelling ZeniMax's Destiny-style MMO shooter, Xbox executives reportedly enjoyed early demos so much that the controller had to be pulled from Phil Spencer's hands

PC Gamer

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

3 juillet 2025 à 23:11

At Xbox, success doesn't mean security.

Phil Spencer, chief executive officer of gaming at Microsoft Corp., arrives to court in San Francisco, California, US, on Wednesday, June 28, 2023. Microsoft and Activision Blizzard CEOs are expected to testify to persuade a federal judge in California to reject the Federal Trade Commission's effort to block their $69 billion deal. Photographer: Philip Pacheco/Bloomberg via Getty Images

'There has to be a better way than this': Game developers call Microsoft's latest layoffs 'a colossal waste of talent' from a publisher that seems like it's in 'a death spiral'

PC Gamer

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

3 juillet 2025 à 21:53

In response to "heartbreaking" turmoil, devs share grim humor, frustration, and fears for the industry's future.

MindsEye boss reportedly blames its failure on 'saboteurs' and says a re-launch is in the works, even as the entire development studio is at risk of layoff

PC Gamer

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

3 juillet 2025 à 21:42

The weirdness continues.

MindsEye launch trailer still - close-up of a guy standing in spectral light

Brace yourself: Hades 2 just got what 'will likely be our final patch' before full release

PC Gamer

3 juillet 2025 à 20:39

Brace yourself: Hades 2 just got what 'will likely be our final patch' before full release

The witch Melinoe holds up her ghostly hand to conjure something magical with her staff in the other hand. A dark blue sky broods in the background with a skeleton man on the right side of the frame.

All active Anime Vanguards codes in July 2025 and how to redeem them

PC Gamer

3 juillet 2025 à 19:22

You’re gonna need them to collect the 200+ anime characters on the roster.

Anime Vanguards banner showing a Roblox version of an anime character

NZXT N7 Z890 review

PC Gamer

3 juillet 2025 à 19:17

A good-looking motherboard that's a bit expensive compared to the competition.

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