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Weird Weekend Weird Weekend is our regular Saturday column where we celebrate PC gaming oddities: peculiar games, strange bits of trivia, forgotten history. Pop back every weekend to find out what Jeremy, Josh and Rick have become obsessed with this time, whether it’s the canon height of Thief’s Garrett or that time someone in the […]

I didn’t think it was possible for Doom to become more accessible than it already is. Id Software’s omnipresent FPS is playable on every device imaginable, from pianos to printers to even gut bacteria, while Nightdive released a delicious double-barrelled overhaul of Doom + Doom 2 last year, which exists on top of the fact […]

The Game Awards ended on an odd note last night. Instead of a big, exclamation-point ‘one more thing!’—the prophesied return of Gabe Newell, striding onto center stage with three fingers held high—host Geoff Keighley closed the show with a reveal of a brand new game from an unknown studio: A PvP raid shooter called Highguard. […]

No Law – Reveal Trailer | PS5 Games – YouTube Watch On When Swedish developer Neon Giant got in touch earlier this year to tease its next game, I took the call because of how much we liked its first game, a top-down action RPG whose setting we called “cooler than Night City” in 2021. […]

I loved Cultic Chapter One when it came out in 2022. Now, with the release of its second chapter, the full game is one of the best shooters of 2025. Need to Know What is it? A long awaited boomer shooter with one of the coolest looks in the subgenreExpect to pay: $20 / £17 […]

MORGAN PARK, STAFF WRITER (Image credit: Future) Last week: Finally played FEAR (2005) and adored its amazing slomo, slick guns, and incredible sound work. They should stop making Call of Duty every single year. I realize that’s a reheated take from like, 2014, but when is the last time you heard it said out loud? […]

MORGAN PARK, STAFF WRITER (Image credit: Future) Last week: Finally played FEAR (2005) and adored its amazing slomo, slick guns, and incredible sound work. They should stop making Call of Duty every single year. I realize that’s a reheated take from like, 2014, but when is the last time you heard it said out loud? […]

Battlefield 6‘s Winter Offensive update rolled out today, adding a snowy map variant, winter-themed cosmetics, a balancing pass, and unfortunately a handful of day one bugs. According to the Battlefield Comms X account, players are reporting buggy menus, incorrect ticket counts in Conquest (this has since been corrected), and nonfunctional tier skipping in the Winter […]

When I sat down to chat with Ripple Effect studio design director Justin Wiebe last week, we’d planned to talk RedSec. Wiebe helped lead the charge on Battlefield 6’s battle royale mode developed primarily at the Los Angeles-based Ripple Effect, but on the day, we ended up chatting more about Portal—its expansive feature set, boundless […]

Overwatch 2 has been killing it for a while now, but its latest two updates have, admittedly, been on the smaller side, especially if you’re not a fan of Stadium (how dare you). Luckily, OW2 Season 20 is on the horizon, and it’s time for another new hero—it’s hard to get more exciting than that. […]

The mod formerly known as Team Fortress 2 Classic was always slightly misnamed. It suggested a version of TF2 without the proliferation of cosmetics, a return to the readable silhouettes and basic weapons of its early days, and while it is that it’s also a reimagining of TF2 that adds cut content and abandoned ideas […]

Animator Bo Mathorne, creator of the 2011 animated short, Backwater Gospel, has revealed a new game project alongside developer Thomas Mygind: Skarven, a crunchy, lo-fi (but not too lo-fi) FPS inspired by narrative-heavy late ’90s/early aughts shooters like Half-Life. Skarven’s first trailer is all mood and light on action. The player approaches a lonely country […]

So-called boomer shooters make up a whole FPS subgenre now—but what about their multiplayer counterparts, the arena shooters of old? Most of them are ruled by diehard niches of expert players or straight-up unplayable today. Unreal Tournament 2004 has spent a long time somewhere between those two categories: it boasts a legendary albeit small modding […]

The artist whose work was stolen to develop the look of Marathon, Bungie’s upcoming extraction shooter, says it’s all water under the bridge. “The Marathon art issue has been resolved with Bungie and Sony Interactive Entertainment to my satisfaction,” wrote artist Antireal on X today. The update comes nearly seven months after Antireal posted on […]

I’d always assumed that Escape From Tarkov was just a catchy name and not something anyone could actually do—unless you’re speaking metaphorically, I suppose: The bullet that frees you from the weight and horror of this cold, rotting world, and all that. But no, you can escape from Tarkov, and just over two weeks after […]

The best Darktide Hive Scum build for my money isn’t about melee at all. Just like the Arbites before it, the Hive Scum class can be extremely strong in close-quarters, bashing enemies with his Crowbar or chem-laced Bone Saw to apply DoT effects. But does it feel different? Not really. Where the Hive Scum truly […]

FOV 90 (Image credit: Future) Welcome to FOV 90, an FPS column from staff writer Morgan Park. Every week, I’ll be covering a topic relevant to first-person shooter enjoyers, spanning everything from multiplayer and singleplayer to the old and the new. Greetings from a post-Thanksgiving stupor, FPS enjoyers. I had a nice AFK holiday with […]

Forget moustaches, novels, and heavily discounted PC components—November this year has been all about pirates. Earlier this month, piratical survival sim Salt 2 weighed its early access anchor and sailed into the 1.0-pen ocean, while this week saw the release of Captain Wayne: Vacation Desperation, a buccaneer-tinged blaster built in the original Doom engine. Then […]

While I’m well aware that finished games often rest atop a mountain of cut or heavily revised work, I’m still regularly surprised by how extensively projects can change over the course of their development. A striking example was recently provided by Halo co-creator Marcus Lehto, who revealed that Master Chief’s suit design was revised nine […]

Half-Life revolutionized the first-person shooter when it released in 1998, what with its top shelf storytelling and novel puzzles. But who needs any of that crap? What if there was a game that turned the clock back just like, a year or two—same alien menace, some of the same innovations, but it plays a hell […]

“Why do those guns just look like normal earth glocks?” Our Senior Editor, Robin says, as I show him a video of me blasting enemies with my Hive Scum’s ‘Dual Stub Pistols’. They might not look like the most 40k weapons ever, but they do play to a particular fantasy, i.e. I am John Wick, […]

Captain Wayne – Vacation Desperation is a funky, offbeat shooter made in the Doom engine that I’ve been looking forward to since trying it’s demo over two and a half years ago. Its launch has come with an added pleasant surprise as well: The full game, including a campaign and endless horde mode, is available […]

“Rainbow Six Siege has Steam achievements” may not immediately strike you as the most interesting news ever, but it is interesting for one simple reason: It took 10 years—an entire decade—to happen. The big news was announced in a very low-key fashion: “We are pleased to announce that Steam Achievements are now available for Rainbow […]

Destiny 2‘s had a bad go of it in 2025. I’ve only been watching from the sidelines, but you only have to listen to PC Gamer’s resident D2 enjoyer (well, not so much, recently) Phil Savage in his tear-down of the game’s portal update to get a sense of what’s gone wrong: “The new version […]

Every time I make a kill in Escape from Tarkov, it’s over in a flash. This is not down to skill. Sometimes in Tarkov you’ll be sitting there minding your own business when two players blithely walk by, no idea you’re there, and even with a pop gun it will be the easiest double kill […]

If you haven’t heard, Steam is having a Black Friday sale for the first time ever. Yep, despite hosting nonstop sale events all year along, this is the first one formally branded around post-Thanksgiving consumerism. It’s not one of Steam’s “big” sales of the year—the kind that takes over the entire store page and gives […]