The person you spend the most time thinking about in a Fallout game is the build-a-bear murderer you assemble in character creation—an amalgam of traits, facial blemishes and inventory items glued together by a haphazard personality you’ll develop on the fly. Eventually, though, the other voices start to seep in. Preston stops speaking for a […]
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In November a beta build of Fallout: New Vegas that is a whole two gigabytes bigger than the release version was uncovered on an Xbox 360 dev kit. It contained locations, textures, and even whole NPCs that were ultimately cut to get the finished game down to a more workable size. But what was too […]
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The trailer for Divinity, the new Larian joint, was one of the definite highlights of the announcements from this year’s Game Awards. Yes, I will play a Wicker Man folk-horror RPG from the people who brought us that creepy House of Healing monster hospital in Baldur’s Gate 3. The announcement has sent a bunch of […]
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The ubiquity of generative AI is a hard pill to swallow, but even harder is figuring out what’s AI and isn’t. It’s easier than ever now to reach for that low-hanging fruit of critique in saying that something looks like an AI spat it out, especially now that games are claiming they were, in fact, […]
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Soundtrack Sunday Welcome to Soundtrack Sunday, where a member of the PC Gamer team takes a look at a soundtrack from one of their favourite games—or a broader look at videogame music as a whole—offering their thoughts or asking for yours! I honestly don’t know how much further Final Fantasy 14 can go from here, […]
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As reported by Windows Central, Arcanaut Studios co-founder Casey Hudson has taken to Twitter to say that Fate of the Old Republic will release within the next five years. This is almost assuredly a direct response to an assessment from Bloomberg reporter Jason Schreier that a 2030 launch window for FotOR is “optimistic.” “Last night’s […]
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The people (and Geoff Keighley) have spoken: Clair Obscur is a certified zinger, and now the French head of state himself is cheering on Sandfall Interactive. The Final Fantasy-inspired RPG just guzzled an astonishing nine awards at The Game Awards, including Game of the Year, triggering a response from French President Emmanuel Macron himself and […]
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Despite the enormous success of Baldur’s Gate 3, Larian bid adieu to D&D after the completion of its landmark RPG and has opted to go back to its original world: The Divinity series, which includes one of our all-time favorite RPGs, Divinity: Original Sin 2. The new Larian RPG, which is just called Divinity, is […]
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The days of doubt are past us. Larian Studios is officially that girl, the debutante with a stacked dance card who nary an RPG-liker would commit the social gaffe of insulting in public. With all that adoration comes the freedom to do as you please, and for Larian that’s returning from the megabucks success of […]
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The announcement that the next RPG from Baldur’s Gate 3 developer Larian is a new title in the Divinity series didn’t come as a huge surprise. We knew Baldur’s Gate 4 wasn’t on the cards, and a few days ago a trademark filing gave it away. Ultimately, this is a world that Larian has spent […]
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It only took 21 years, but finally we’re getting a new Knights of the Old Republic game in Star Wars: Fate of the Old Republic. While this title appears to be very early in development, judging by the cinematic trailer revealed at the Game Awards and no mention of a release window, it is quite […]
Read MoreStar Wars: Knights of the Old Republic 2 is an unfinished game. Impressively unfinished, really. So unfinished that it doesn’t so much have a final level as it does an idea for one that you just kind of percolate through until you hit credits. I can’t blame Obsidian; the studio had an incredibly short time […]
Read MoreIt is 2019: Larian is announcing its new RPG, Baldur’s Gate 3. The studio releases a short, cinematic teaser with an emphasis on body horror—the ceremorphosis of an unwitting guard rendered in horrible, gory detail. Teeth tumble out of his mouth like popcorn, cheekbones snap, and his thumb goes at all sorts of weird angles […]
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The new Versos Drafts location in Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 isn’t all that hard to find, but you will need to fulfill a couple of requirements to actually access it. This new area was added as part of the Thank You update following The Game Awards, in which Sandfall Interactive won a whopping nine awards—more […]
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Geoff Keighley flytipped a statue in the desert, Larian made some cryptic tweets, there was a brief period where lots of people were saying The Elder Scrolls 6 and Half-Life 3 for some reason, and now it’s all over. We know what Larian’s next game is. It’s Divinity—just Divinity—and I’d bet several dollars it’s a […]
Read MoreClair Obscur: Expedition 33 swept The Game Awards much as expected, thanks to—well, being a blooming good game, all told. A solid turn-based RPG with a modest budget, absolutely swinging for the fences and hitting more home runs than it misses. Developer Sandfall Interactive is so happy, in fact, that it just decided to do […]
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Diablo 4: Lord of Hatred World Premiere Trailer from The Game Awards 2025 – YouTube Watch On Diablo 4 has changed a lot since it came out in 2023. Compared to the game it was back then, the current version practically feels like a sequel. Almost nothing has been left untouched over the course of […]
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The rumors are true: Paladins are coming to Diablo 4. It’s been 25 years since the class first appeared in Diablo 2 in all its holy glory, and now it’s making a return to the series with Diablo 4’s Lord of Hatred expansion. But even though the expansion won’t be out until early next year, […]
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Tonight at The Game Awards, we got our latest look at Exodus, the Matthew McConaughey-starring space RPG from a studio founded by BioWare veterans, which—if we’re being entirely honest—has looked a lot like Mass Effect in previous showings. Tonight’s trailer helps differentiate Exodus by laying out more of its characters and setting, featuring a crew […]
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After a mysterious desert statue and trademark-filing snafu, Larian has officially unveiled its next game after Baldur’s Gate 3 at The Game Awards. Larian is returning to its home-grown fantasy series with a new entry simply titled Divinity. We do not yet have gameplay or a release window, but Geoff Keighley described it as Larian’s […]
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Star Wars: Fate of the Old Republic Teaser Trailer – YouTube Watch On I never would have guessed that we’d get Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic 3 before Half-Life 3, but here we are. At The Game Awards 2025, we got a brief teaser trailer for Fate of the Old Republic, a follow-up […]
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Solasta II – Early Access Date & Cast Reveal – YouTube Watch On The voice acting in Solasa: Crown of the Magister wasn’t its strong point. That was the tactical battles making use of 3D space and terrain, as well as the fidelity to D&D’s rules and vibe. The acting, well, the acting could charitably […]
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Tonight at The Game Awards, we were provided a first look at the latest permutation of the soulslike formula. Created by a former Starbreeze and Avalanche developer, Decrepit calls itself “a dark fantasy first person soulslike.” And based purely on the number of wretched undead being hacked at with medieval weaponry in its debut trailer, […]
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The US edition of PC Gamer magazine liked The Temple of Elemental Evil enough to award it a respectable 79% in 2003, but we still had more than a few monster-sized bones to pick with Troika’s D&D RPG: NPC companions silently loading themselves up with so much worthless loot they become encumbered by it; atrocious […]
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25 major updates later, Fallout 76’s map has expanded its borders, added numerous storylines, and even allowed players to cut off their own noses and bask in the radioactive pools of the Wasteland. It’s certainly something to marvel at now, but it hasn’t always been like this. Fallout 76’s launch has gone down in the […]
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The big mystery of the big Game Awards statue in the desert may be solved, and if the sleuthing is correct it does not herald the announcement of a new Elder Scrolls Online expansion. It looks instead to be a tease for the next game from Baldur’s Gate 3 developer Larian. Before Larian became known […]
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You know a FromSoftware game is going to be good when your first reaction to it is anger, frustration, and utter despair. I’ve had an adverse reaction to the start of every Dark Souls, Elden Ring, and Demon Souls, proclaiming to anyone who’d listen that I’d never touch any of these games again, only to […]
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Jonathan Rogers, one of the co-founders of the studio behind Path of Exile, isn’t afraid to call his own game too old to be the perfect action RPG. The first PoE had its moment and now it lives comfortably on updates made to please its most dedicated fans. It’s not going anywhere, but it’s also […]
Read MoreBaldur’s Gate 3 has dialogue. A LOT of dialogue. Heaping, great stonking helpings of dialogue. This was to be known already, given the sheer volume of NPCs you talk to when you’re running around in the thing—’tis a fact that is self-evident. But did you know exactly how much spoken dialogue, down to the very […]
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Fallout season 2 airs next week, with its weekly episode schedule taking us right through to January. But before we even get the chance to catch up with Lucy and The Ghoul again, Jonathan Nolan, executive producer of the show, has confirmed that its third season will begin shooting next summer, if everything goes well. […]
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Tin foil hats on, everyone. Several clues point to a new class dropping in Diablo 4 right after next week’s Game Awards, where Blizzard is expected to announce the next expansion. I wouldn’t be convinced of this if it weren’t for a preview image on the Diablo 4 website that contains something that wouldn’t exist […]
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