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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.

A new California law says all operating systems, including Linux, need to have some form of age verification at account setup

That's likely no big deal for Windows, which already requires you to enter your date of birth during the Microsoft Account setup procedure. However, the idea that all operating system providers need ...

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 ...

Capcom's RE Engine is the gift that keeps on giving: Resident Evil Requiem runs surprisingly well on the Steam Deck

I didn't expect a big budget 2026 game to be this playable on the Deck.

'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 ...