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The Elder Scrolls’ weird relationship with expansions began a full decade before the horse armour DLC, in the form of a 16-quest addon to Daggerfall exclusive to one US retailer

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The Elder Scrolls has a rollercoaster history with expansions and DLC. Bethesda’s fantasy RPG series has produced some of gaming’s most beloved supplementary adventures (such as Bloodmoon and Shivering Isles) and some of its most notorious DLC fiascos (horse armour). But the series’ affiliation with addons stretches farther back in time than any of these … Read more

Total War: Warhammer 3’s siege rework beta is live now and runs into August, letting you have your say on pocket ladder prohibition, battle AI improvements, and more

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Total War: Warhammer 3’s Siege Rework beta has officially begun digging its sapper’s tunnels beneath the walls of the base game. Creative Assembly is currently testing numerous major changes to how sieges function, opening the overhaul up for players to try themselves and provide feedback. “The Proving Grounds Siege Beta is now available to download … Read more

Crash Bandicoot’s original lead programmer reckons the overhauled N. Sane Trilogy ‘got almost everything right’ except for one tiny detail: ‘they completely botched how jumping works’

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Crash Bandicoot’s overhauled N. Sane Trilogy was generally well received when it released back in 2017, and marked the first time that PlayStation’s jorts-clad mascot somersaulted onto PC. But there has long been suspicion that something ain’t right with Crash’s jumping in Vicarious Visions’ remake, with numerous Reddit threads complaining that the game’s platforming is … Read more

After a forgettable launch, Ubisoft’s Avatar game is getting a huge new update later this year, introducing new game plus and a third-person mode

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I liked Avatar: Frontiers of Pandora more than I expected I would when it rumbled into Steam’s digital jungle back in 2023. Despite finding James Cameron’s films about as interesting as picking out the sock fluff from between my toes, Avatar’s remarkable rainforest world was fantastic to explore both visually and mechanically, and I enjoyed … Read more

‘The age of gameplay mechanics has already passed’ says Shadow of The Colossus director as he praises Katamari Damacy creator’s new game for not being systems-driven

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Katamari Damacy creator Keita Takahashi is known for making unusual games, and his latest digital escapade To a T is no different. Players assume the role of a teenager stuck in a T-pose as they try to navigate everyday life via interactive scenes like brushing their teeth and eating breakfast. Speaking at GamesCom LATAM earlier … Read more

Dev insists a glossed-up version of Daggerfall’s aesthetic was ‘invented’ by AI, which is a bit like saying I can invent a new plane by drawing a picture of one

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I normally wouldn’t inform you of a public slapfight between a developer and X users, but unfortunately, given the absolute fury-storm surrounding generative AI technology, and the fact this whole debacle’s an illustrative point as to why all conversations surrounding it are tainted by ragebait, my hands are tied. Tim Soret—who got in deep water … Read more

How well do you know your videogame spells? Put your arcane knowledge 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. With the right words, hand gestures, and offerings, those with an otherworldly talent can pull at the threads of the … Read more

Brits can get around Discord’s age verification thanks to Death Stranding’s photo mode, bypassing the measure introduced with the UK’s Online Safety Act. We tried it and it works—thanks, Kojima

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Today saw the full introduction of the requirements outlined in the Online Safety Act in the UK, requiring “robust” age checks for users to access adult content online. People have already managed to find ways around at least some of these verification requirements after *checks watch* less than 24 hours. Earlier today, our James stumbled … Read more

Gabe Newell says he founded Valve after Doom showed him Microsoft ‘was missing the opportunity’ offered by the internet: ‘I was willing to sort of put my money where my mouth was’

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We all know the story of how Valve was founded. Gabe Newell, born beneath a rainbow on Mt Paektu, was visited by an archangel in his quarters and charged to build Half-Life. Then he was charged to build a Half-Life patch tool called Steam that remains inexplicably popular to this day. In return, he was … Read more

The young Gabe Newell thought he’d be a doctor until he ended up visiting his brother at Microsoft, where ‘Steve Ballmer got mad and said ‘If you’re going to be hanging out here, why don’t you do something useful?”

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Valve co-founder and yacht-loving billionaire Gabe Newell has given a new interview to the YouTuber Zalkar Saliev (TikTok, IG). It’s a wide-ranging chat that covers everything from Newell’s earliest jobs to his current daily routine (“get up, work, go scuba diving”), and it turns out that the young Newell loved programming, but had no thoughts … Read more