If you love Marathon's vectorheart style but not its PvP, get your aesthetic fix from the gorgeously overstimulating demo for this time trial FPS instead

But rather than walking the extraction shooter road that Bungie's taken with Marathon, Cicadamata is more like ...

A medieval MMO that shut down in 2023 after 6 years of early access and less than 1 year of full release is making a surprise comeback

The medieval MMO Gloria Victis shut down in 2023, "mostly due to financial reasons," developer Black Eye Games said at the ...

Steam Next Fest's top demos were packed with gnomeslop hijinks, open world piracy, and vampire card battling, but then—well—Marathon happened

Steam Next Fest has quickly become one of our favorite occasions at PC Gamer as developers of all sizes offer up samplings of ...

Resident Evil Requiem's path tracing is tough on GPUs but it probably won't take as long as ray tracing did to become a mainstream option in games

Path tracing can make a game look absolutely astonishing, and although it will still hammer GPUs like nothing else for a good ...

After deciding to make a MOBA, Quantic Dream also decides to release it at the same time as the Marathon server slam, the first Horizon Hunters Gather playtest, and the Steam ...

You know how some studios delayed their games to avoid Cyberpunk 2077 and Grand Theft Auto 6? Quantic Dream is doing the completely opposite thing.

Resident Evil Requiem pulls in 270,000 players in just 2 hours on Steam, beating Village, Biohazard and the Resident Evil 4 remake

In the last two hours since launch, Requiem has pulled in 267,509 players, with 237,092 still playing at the time of writing.

Sony was ready to approve a Bloodborne remake, but FromSoftware turned it down

A Bloodborne remake has been demanded by fans for so long that Sony's remaster studio, Bluepoint, figured it was inevitable that it would be given the job, especially after its very successful Demon's ...

Is Marathon's time-to-kill too fast, or am I too Arc Raiders-pilled?

I have to grapple with the fact that, when it comes to extraction shooters, I've developed Arc Raiders tunnel vision. In 24 hours with the Marathon server slam, I keep catching myself expecting Bungie ...

The Muri: Wildwoods demo blends cute critters and the same satisfaction of PowerWash Simulator to create what might be my favourite demo from Steam Next Fest

I absolutely adore the satisfaction of virtual cleaning. I love scrubbing grime and dirt from structures in PowerWash Simulator, and especially adored cleaning up the ocean in Loddlenaut. So naturally ...

Space Marine 2 adds a new free class, the Techmarine—an engineer with the unbeatable combo of an automated sentry turret and a gigantic axe

Almost a year and a half on from its hugely successful launch, Space Marine 2 is still going strong with impressive post-release updates. And if there's one thing I love, it's watching developers add ...

'An absolute eyesore': Marathon's biggest issue seems to be its poor UI design that's confusing players, 'I have no idea where I'm at, what I'm looking at'

But Kelski isn't the only one to voice their dislike of Marathon's UI. "This is hands down one of the most complex menus I've ever seen in my life," Ninja says in a clip posted to socials. "I have no ...

Microsoft's update for Direct3D, with opacity micromaps and shader execution reordering now official features, will probably mean little to gamers but graphics devs are going ...

As for the rest of the new bits in the Shader Model/D3D12 update, they're all complex, specific, and mostly about improving coding flexibility and trimming milliseconds off how everything is all ...