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Don’t worry, Battlefield 6 is only putting bots in your matches while the training wheels are on in your ‘Training Grounds’ playlists

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AI bots in shooters—they’re becoming more commonplace, either to trick players into thinking they’ve broken a losing streak or to just, like, fill out matches. After some robot jumpscares worried Battlefield 6 players, however, EA’s come out to clarify that it’s only until the training wheels come off. As posted to X, the Battlefield Comms … Read more

With over 10,500 posts and 3 years of research, this GTA 6 map thread is a hivemind of hot speculation, educated guesses and meticulous analysis on the potential size and scale of Vice City

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For most open-world enthusiasts, few moments rival those first tentative steps into a new and unexplored sandbox. Everything is fresh, unknown and ripe for discovery as we ponder eschewing arbitrary map icons in favour of checking out far-off landmarks simply because we can. GTA 6 will deliver this experience for the vast majority of nomadic … Read more

How much do you know about the universe of Warhammer 40,000? Put your faith in the Emperor to the test with our latest quiz

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More quizzes! (Image credit: Larian Studios, PC Gamer) Want to keep testing your knowledge of gaming trivia? We’ve got loads more PC Gamer quizzes, on everything from healthbars to weird currencies to absurd patch notes. For over two decades now, Warhammer 40,000 facts and lore have been accumulating in my brain like calcium buildup in … Read more

The US Air Force wants to test blowing up Cybertrucks because ‘it is likely the type of vehicles used by the enemy may transition to Tesla Cyber trucks’

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Federal contracting documents freely available online (via Stars and Stripes) show the US Air Force would very much like to purchase two (2) Cybertrucks for the purpose of target practice. As one of the documents explains, “In the operating theatre it is likely the type of vehicles used by the enemy may transition to Tesla … Read more

The follow-up to one of the decade’s best detective games will have you selling cursed antiques to Victorian weirdos next month

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Like a diabolical shopkeeper awaiting his first victim—sorry—customer of the day, I’ve been eagerly anticipating the release of Strange Antiquities since it was announced last year. The follow-up to 2022’s Strange Horticulture lets players get their Needful Things on, selling eldritch antiques to an array of weird townsfolk. And it turns out the Lake District’s … Read more

‘Let’s just kill everyone on the station:’ The videogame audio log was apparently invented to avoid ‘awkward’ RPG dialogue trees

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In a recent episode of Nightdive’s Deep Dive podcast, Looking Glass Studios programmer Marc LeBlanc shared his recollection of how the team came up with the audio logs in System Shock, which are now a ubiquitous game design standby. LeBlanc came to the topic after describing why Shock 1 eschewed RPG stats, unlike Ultima Underworld … Read more

The Battlefield 6 beta has broken Call of Duty’s Steam player count record, surging past half a million concurrents

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First spotted by Battlefield Bulletin on Twitter, Battlefield 6’s open beta is doing spectacularly well on Steam: Around 500,000 concurrent players at the time of writing, down from a peak of 521,079 according to SteamDB. That puts the BF6 beta at 18th place for peak concurrents in Steam history, two spots ahead of the unified … Read more