Deadlock dev teases the community over its favorite hero that was briefly tested and removed: 'We made delicious stock out of his bones and meats' PC Gamer 10 janvier 2026 à 20:49 The curious case of Fathom, Deadlock's missing best boy.
Larian's head writer has a simple answer for how AI-generated text helps development: 'It doesn't,' thanks to its best output being 'a 3/10 at best' worse than his worst drafts PC Gamer Par :ted.litchfield@futurenet.com (Ted Litchfield) 10 janvier 2026 à 19:48 My worst drafts are a 5/10 but I might have lower standards.
'I can finally do the thing I wanted to do in every previous game': Divinity's head of design teases a new mechanic without saying what it is PC Gamer 10 janvier 2026 à 17:53 "It stares you right in the face if you think about it."
If you've got a spare 200 hours, the massively ambitious sci-fi grand strategy from the creators of X-COM: The Long War just launched out of early access PC Gamer 10 janvier 2026 à 16:00 Terra Invicta aims to be the last word in preparing Earth for alien invasion.
Valorant's latest update adds a new pistol to spice up early rounds, as Riot plans to take 'a holistic look' at the shooter's arsenal through 2026 PC Gamer 10 janvier 2026 à 15:00 Riot wants to continue "putting the emphasis back on gunplay".
If for some reason you can't get enough of Stranger Things' Vecna, you can now play as him in Dead by Daylight's latest crossover PC Gamer 10 janvier 2026 à 14:00 Behaviour Interactive's second collab with Netflix lets you play as the series' fleshy villain.
A classic space sim conceived by Star Citizen's creator just got an unofficial sequel after 15 years of development: 'The project was based on the crazy idea that Microsoft "axed" Chris Roberts' Freelancer' PC Gamer 10 janvier 2026 à 13:00 Freelancer: The Nomad Legacy is available now.
Luto is an underappreciated 2025 horror gem with the perfect mixture of Stanley Parable narration and P.T. ambience PC Gamer 10 janvier 2026 à 01:05 The horrors of being held hostage by your own home.
Baldur's Gate 3's lead writer hopes we won't want to save scum in Divinity: 'Our ambition is certainly to make failure more interesting' PC Gamer Par :ted.litchfield@futurenet.com (Ted Litchfield) 9 janvier 2026 à 23:32 F5 + F8, save scummers say "great" / Overwriting autosave, scummers behave!
Valve spent 2025 ripping apart Deadlock and putting it back together, and it delivered better live service than most live service games PC Gamer 9 janvier 2026 à 23:17 Valve's futuristic MOBA has been figuring itself out on the fly, and I kind of prefer that to a carefully considered roadmap.
Baldur's Gate 3 composer Borislav 'Bobby' Slavov is coming back for Divinity: 'We wouldn't be able to stop him even if we wanted to' PC Gamer Par :andy.chalk@pcgamer.com (Andy Chalk) 9 janvier 2026 à 23:05 Slavov's return was confirmed, twice, during today's AMA.
Arc Raiders player ranks 30 common outfits by how likely they are to shoot you in the back, and I have to admit it's right on the money PC Gamer Par :morgan.park@futurenet.com (Morgan Park) 9 janvier 2026 à 23:02 And not just because my go-to outfit is in the nicest tier.
Competitive demon slaying is about to take over Diablo 4 as its next update finally adds official leaderboards PC Gamer 9 janvier 2026 à 22:24 Get your builds ready.
Over half of The Sims development team is working on The Sims 4 and 'the next evolution' so I guess it's time to start speculating again PC Gamer Par :lauren@pcgamer.com (Lauren Morton) 9 janvier 2026 à 21:49 Here we are again trying to divine the future of The Sims from an announcement about the future of The Sims.
Divinity's reveal trailer was brutal and dark for a reason, Larian's writing director says: 'We want to give players the opportunity to be the light in that darkness' PC Gamer Par :andy.chalk@pcgamer.com (Andy Chalk) 9 janvier 2026 à 21:41 But not in the way that those dudes who got burned alive in the trailer were lighting up the darkness, I suppose.
It's not the news we wanted but it's what we expected: EA has finally admitted Project Rene is a 'mobile-first' game PC Gamer Par :lauren@pcgamer.com (Lauren Morton) 9 janvier 2026 à 21:40 After over a year of leaks, getting some answers about the future of the series is better than more silence.
The PvPvE extraction shooter where you build and drive a huge stompy mechanical base across a ruined planet gets a Steam release window PC Gamer Par :clivingston@pcgamer.com (Christopher Livingston) 9 janvier 2026 à 21:26 Sand: Raiders of Sophie is stomping our way soon.
You'll never guess what the 'Random Heart Attacks' mod for Red Dead Redemption 2 does PC Gamer 9 janvier 2026 à 20:05 OK, maybe you will.
For all the Divinity dev details Larian isn't ready to comment on, we got a firm answer about the game's controls: the studio's sticking to its guns on no WASD movement PC Gamer Par :ted.litchfield@futurenet.com (Ted Litchfield) 9 janvier 2026 à 19:52 I can respect it.
Tetris creator says the Rubik's cube is 'the symbol of modern civilisation' and we should send them into space PC Gamer 9 janvier 2026 à 18:41 But Tetris would be "too complicated."
Unfortunately, all of that doomsaying last year was correct and SSD prices are surging as a result of the memory crisis PC Gamer 9 janvier 2026 à 18:35 The best time to buy an SSD? Yesterday.
Panther Lake's gaming chops look solid but the battery life is truly what interests me as a PC gamer on the go PC Gamer 9 janvier 2026 à 18:30 Could Panther Lake be set to make a splash?
Looks like the EU is getting serious about open source, which could eventually spell good news for Linux and hopefully gaming distros PC Gamer 9 janvier 2026 à 18:24 Open all roads to open source software, I say.
Larian's given us a single-word spoiler for Divinity, its next game, and for some reason it's 'alligator' PC Gamer 9 janvier 2026 à 18:22 Spoiler alert for the future.