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What is the best VR headset? While we still wait to see whether the Steam Frame is truly going to be the best VR headset for PC gamers, there are still plenty of great choices available right now. Whether you’re after a headset mostly for watching video, playing games tethered to your PC, or for playing free-roaming games while standing up, our guide to the top VR headsets has a recommendation for you. We’ve tested dozens of options to find the right ones, whatever your needs. Our top choice overall remains the Meta Quest 3, as it combines decent image…
Even by gacha standards, progression and monetization in Arknights: Endfield is pretty confusing. Before and at launch, the newly released action RPG spin on Hypergryph’s Arknights drew criticism for convoluted currencies, opaque character drop rates and “pity” maximums, and a rotating banner system that obscures how your investment is tracked. In an interview with GamesRadar+ at GDC, lead developer Ryan (his preferred name for press) discussed the response to Endfield’s gacha system and some plans to refine it, as well as the impact of these systems on games as a whole.Ryan acknowledges different responses to gacha systems between Asian and…
The latest Steam hardware survey cites Linux as accounting for over 5% of the install base. That’s not a lot, and comes with the caveat of Valve’s info gathering not being bulletproof, but it ia a good chunk higher than the OS’s mark for the first two months of 2026.
As the news editor of a gaming publication, April 1 may, perhaps, be my least favorite day of the year. Sorting through the flood of utter bs to try and find actual news is no easy task, especially when the USA comes online and the cycle begins anew. But, in my far too many years doing this job, I’ve noticed that, generally, April Fool’s isn’t quite what it used to be. I remember the Valorant dating sim that kickstarted a movement – hell, I interviewed the team that’s making a real one. Then, I remember the Smite dating sim. Then,…
Six years ago, Animal Crossing: New Horizons became a global sanctuary amidst the Covid-19 pandemic, offering players a safe, predictable escape from uncertainty and a means to stay connected to loved ones. In the years since, it’s become something even more profound: a place to memorialize, and even visit, loved ones who’ve passed on.Last November, I lost someone very close to me. I had never suffered such a significant loss before, and so naturally I did what anyone experiencing capital-G Grief for the first time does: I shut down. I stopped exercising, stopped trying to quit bad habits, and cut…
I’ve not had a punt at Slay the Spire 2 myself yet, I’ve been too busy coming up with an excuse for not having played the first one, but the general read I’ve got on it is “it’s more Slay the Spire!” This can be interpreted much the same as a vote for Bart being a vote for anarchy, as far as I can tell too. There is multiplayer now too, of course, changing things up in a notable way through this mode, but so far, so generally familiar. In a new interview with Mega Crit co-founder Casey Yano…
I have ridiculously fond memories of Subnautica. Mark ‘Markiplier’ Fishbach and Seán ‘Jacksepticeye’ McLoughlin’s playthroughs remain some of my all-time favorite pieces of gaming content, enhanced by the fact developer-publisher Unknown Worlds Entertainment cooked with the gas on full. The Subnautica 2 pre-release content cycle has really ramped up in recent months, and now is the perfect time to delve into the hit survival game series if you haven’t already. ‘Why is that?’, you may ask. Well, starting today, you’ll be able to play Subnautica for free all weekend long, and both the OG and its 2021 follow-up, Subnautica Below…
This month’s wave of ‘free’ PC games have been confirmed for Amazon Luna, formerly known as Prime Gaming.This month’s games include XCOM: Enemy Unknown Complete Pack and Total War: Pharaoh Dynasties.Although the service is now part of Amazon’s Luna gaming service – which mostly deals with streaming games – the offer here remains the same as it was when the service was known as Prime Gaming.This means, as part of an Amazon Prime subscription, players are given a selection of PC games every month to claim, download and keep.While other services – such as PlayStation Plus and Xbox Game Pass…
Slay the Spire 2 feels a lot like the original hit roguelike deckbuilder, but among the new cards and classes, it did make an enormous change: multiplayer. And studio Mega Crit, as co-founder Casey Yano tells PC Gamer, is already feeling out some other new game modes that could be equally impactful.Right now, we have standard (and Ascension), daily, and custom runs, obviously with multiplayer slotted in. Yano teases “three specific things that I have in mind” for new modes, which he generally keeps close to his chest to avoid spoilers and, seemingly, to avoid setting hopes too high for…
I’ve never really been able to wrap myself around raising sim games such as the Princess Maker series. The framing of them feels like it could quite easily teeter over the edge into something uncomfortable, and in more modern entries such as Umamusume outright parasocial (and often exploitative). But lo and behold, a game enters my consciousness that fits within this very genre that looks absurdist enough to quell some of those concerns: Tomak: Save the Earth Regeneration, a rerelease of the 25-year-old game that sees you caring for the goddess of love who’s lost her body and is…