This week in PC games: John Carpenter's Toxic Commando, Fatal Frame 2: Crimson Butterfly Remake, and a myth-inspired match-3 game where you combine three dogs into Cerberus

What we're feeding the Maw

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1 day ago

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New lawsuit wants Valve to repay "billions" earned from "illegal gambling" lootboxes in Counter-Strike, Dota 2 and Team Fortress 2

Who loots the lootboxers

Edwin Evans-Thirlwell

3 hours ago

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Capcom reveal Resident Evil Requiem story DLC and minigame while dangling sweaty carrot of Hot Uncle Kennedy romance sim

"Forbidden Requiem" would sell billions, Capcom

Edwin Evans-Thirlwell

2 hours ago

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“He doesn’t have a heart, but he has heartstrings”: The making of Nick Valentine, Fallout’s best-loved companion

The origins of Fallout 4’s indefatigable gumshoe can be traced back to 1970s Boston

Jeremy Peel

1 day ago

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Regions of Ruin: Runegate is a pleasantly pixelly RPG about rebuilding a lost dwarven kingdom, and it’s out next month

The Moria the merrier

James Archer

2 hours ago

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Jurassic Park, parkour and Five Nights At Freddy's meet in Terrible Lizards, in which you must go faster

They spared no expense

Edwin Evans-Thirlwell

5 hours ago

3
Slay The Spire 2 update fixes some spectacular multiplayer bugs, like the relic that gives infinite block

New roguelike deckbuilder dominates charts despite a few blemishes

Edwin Evans-Thirlwell

1 day ago

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A Nioh 3 boss made me so pissed off that I smashed a hole into my desk

Video games really bring out the repressed anger sometimes, eh?

Jeremy Blum

1 day ago

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Website that let Marvel Rivals players pay each other to throw matches pivots to "transparency initiative" after NetEase get mad

Devs roll out "active server-wide detection system" to stop "malicious idling" and other shenanigans

Edwin Evans-Thirlwell

1 day ago

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A Steam Machine update reignited release date fears, but Valve say the new hardware is still shipping this year

The new Machine, Steam Controller, and Steam Frame all get 2026 commitments

James Archer

1 day ago

5
Xbox Full Screen Experience, Windows 11's gaming UI overhaul, is available to try now on Legion Go handhelds

Ahead of the full Legion Go rollout coming soon

James Archer

1 day ago

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Marathon's story is told like it's a single player game and that's no good when my friends are talking on Discord

Shh. The cinematic is on

Julian Benson

3 days ago

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Slay The Spire 2's placeholder art should be a lesson to all the developers caught up in AI-generated nonsense

Just bodge it

Julian Benson

4 days ago

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News

Epic are hiking Fortnite V-Buck prices to “pay the bills”, because those server farms don't run on peanuts

Battle Passes will cost a little less, and earn fewer V-Bucks

Edwin Evans-Thirlwell

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Regions of Ruin: Runegate is a pleasantly pixelly RPG about rebuilding a lost dwarven kingdom, and it’s out next month

The Moria the merrier

James Archer

2 hours ago

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Capcom reveal Resident Evil Requiem story DLC and minigame while dangling sweaty carrot of Hot Uncle Kennedy romance sim

"Forbidden Requiem" would sell billions, Capcom

Edwin Evans-Thirlwell

2 hours ago

0
New lawsuit wants Valve to repay "billions" earned from "illegal gambling" lootboxes in Counter-Strike, Dota 2 and Team Fortress 2

Who loots the lootboxers

Edwin Evans-Thirlwell

3 hours ago

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Jurassic Park, parkour and Five Nights At Freddy's meet in Terrible Lizards, in which you must go faster

They spared no expense

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5 hours ago

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Battlefield 6 developers face layoffs despite making one of the best-selling games of 2025

EA confirm "select changes within our Battlefield organization"

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Resident Evil director Shinji Mikami has a new studio, Unbound, who are making original games for PC and console

Billed as "AA" but punching upward

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21 hours ago

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Crusader Kings 3 is getting a Roblox adaptation

Oh dear

Edwin Evans-Thirlwell

22 hours ago

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Supporter funded articles

Supporters only: In appreciation of Requiem, the Unfired

I might need it later

James Archer

3 days ago

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Supporters only: Scout Report: A two-year break for Axis Football 2026 BUT REALLY THIS TIME

Posting is Axis

Sin Vega

1 week ago

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Supporters only: I promise I am playing this horny game for the exquisite match-3 mechanics

I just hope my Steam Family Sharing group don't find out

Julian Benson

2 weeks ago

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Supporters only: Scout Report: Ground of Aces is a strangely novel hybrid of familiar genres

Fadge of honour

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3 weeks ago

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Reviews

Review: Planet of Lana 2 review - a grander, more dynamic platformer sequel that keeps hold of its heart

Ghibli as she goes

James Archer

6 days ago

7
Review: Resident Evil Requiem review - a cathartic cross-breed of creeps and carnage

Sing S.T.A.R.S.

Callum Williams

1 week ago

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Review: Reanimal review – the dollhouse horror of Little Nightmares gives way to a grimier tale of war and slaughter

Hey, Tarsier, leave them kids alone

Edwin Evans-Thirlwell

3 weeks ago

13
Review: Romeo is a Dead Man review – an offbeat action game that finds its groovy, gory rhythm

What fight through yonder Windows breaks?

James Archer

1 month ago

12

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Bestest Bests

The best roguelike games on PC

Find chaos and challenge in the best roguelike games on PC

Brendan Caldwell

1 week ago

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The best strategy games to play on PC

The very best strategy games on PC reward those that plan ahead

Graham Smith

1 week ago

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Review: Nioh 3 review - A superb blend of soulslike splendour

Samurai (and ninja) champloo

Jeremy Blum

1 month ago

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The 100 best PC games of all time in 2025

The definitely definitive list as defined by us

Julian Benson

3 months ago

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Hardware

Best CPUs for gaming: our favourite Intel and AMD chips

Our recommended CPU picks

John Loeffler

11 minutes ago

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The 30 best Steam Deck games to play in 2026

Thousands of PC games are playable on the Steam Deck - here are some great ones to try

James Archer

44 minutes ago

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Xbox Full Screen Experience, Windows 11's gaming UI overhaul, is available to try now on Legion Go handhelds

Ahead of the full Legion Go rollout coming soon

James Archer

1 day ago

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A Steam Machine update reignited release date fears, but Valve say the new hardware is still shipping this year

The new Machine, Steam Controller, and Steam Frame all get 2026 commitments

James Archer

1 day ago

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Indiescovery

After trying Subtractive Runemixer, I can't unsee the links between RPG element systems and colour theory

RGBeauty

Edwin Evans-Thirlwell

3 days ago

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If you want nothing more than to hollow out a brutalist alien monolith, then tower defence mining game Iter-8 is for you

I dig this subgenre

Julian Benson

1 month ago

1
The Pale Piper is Silksong with no combat, a wondrous Playdead-style world, and all the hope bleached out

Out now on Steam

Edwin Evans-Thirlwell

1 month ago

5
I knew I'd enjoy Rubato's demo from the moment the Earth blew up and I fell in the toilet

Sonic the Hedgefrog was a better pun, actually

Edwin Evans-Thirlwell

1 month ago

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The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion

Beyond Skyrim: Cyrodiil introduces you to Anvil via a quest about child labour, a shirtless chase, and quick maths

Also, a vaguely Hugh Hefner-inspired fishing magate called Franny

Mark Warren

3 months ago

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Don't assume Skyblivion is getting spellcrafting, as its team say UI lead was consulted on delay video despite post suggesting otherwise

Update: According to the Skyrim mod's comms lead, all of its department heads did get a look at the script outlining the state of the project

Mark Warren

3 months ago

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Skyblivion's release has been delayed to 2026, but you can check out an interactive version of its map

Project lead says the need for more time is "something we have known for a while"

Mark Warren

3 months ago

5
Beyond Skyrim: Cyrodiil, the full Imperial expansion from the devs of Skyrim's massive Bruma mod, gets a bird chatter-heavy teaser

Sometimes you've got to wax lyrical about wren and babble about blue tits

Mark Warren

3 months ago

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Latest articles

Best CPUs for gaming: our favourite Intel and AMD chips

Our recommended CPU picks

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Epic are hiking Fortnite V-Buck prices to “pay the bills”, because those server farms don't run on peanuts

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The 30 best Steam Deck games to play in 2026

Thousands of PC games are playable on the Steam Deck - here are some great ones to try

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Regions of Ruin: Runegate is a pleasantly pixelly RPG about rebuilding a lost dwarven kingdom, and it’s out next month

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New lawsuit wants Valve to repay "billions" earned from "illegal gambling" lootboxes in Counter-Strike, Dota 2 and Team Fortress 2

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Jurassic Park, parkour and Five Nights At Freddy's meet in Terrible Lizards, in which you must go faster

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Deals

An Alienware Area-51 with with an RTX 5090 has a 31% discount for Black Friday

The most powerful GPU around?

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Beat the RAM rush.

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Guides

Latest Universal Tower Defense codes

Need Gems in Universal Tower Defense? Buy some powerful new units using these free codes

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How to get past the Kitchen Chef in Resident Evil Requiem

And how to defeat the Butcher along with the rewards Grace gets

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Anime Paradox codes (March 2026)

Need Trait Rerolls, Gems and Stat Chips in Anime Paradox? Get your hands on some for free using these codes!

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How to kill the Chunk boss in Resident Evil Requiem

And the rewards you get for beating the big baby monster in RE9

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Shindo Life codes

All the latest Shindo Life codes to redeem for free spins

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Dress To Impress codes

Redeem all the latest DTI codes for free outfits and other goodies!

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Resident Evil Requiem (RE9) walkthrough

All of Grace and Leon's sections in RE9's main story

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Drag Drive Simulator codes

Buy the best motorcycle with these codes for free RP

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