PC Gamer

No more Diablo 4 expansions are planned, but there's 'a lot of room' for more storytelling in the lead-up to Diablo 5

Even if no more expansions are currently planned, the Diablo 4 story isn't over. Given the premise of Diablo 5, Blizzard now has to bring about the apocalypse, and it sounds like we'll see how that ...
PC Gamer

Toss a project at your printer: vibe coded tool allows developer to throw stuff at his 3D printer in VR to begin printing

I trust AI about as far as I can throw it—and I'm definitely not strong enough to lift up a data centre server rack. Flinging a facsimile of the OpenAI logo around VR is a little more realistic for my ...

New StarCraft game is an open world shooter coming in 2030

The rumors were true: A new StarCraft game is incoming. It's just called "StarCraft," it's an open world shooter, and Blizzard doesn't plan to release it until 2030. The game was revealed at BlizzCon ...
PC Gamer

Electronic Arts admits to using AI voices in NHL 27: 'This process allows us to bring more variety to the game'

"This process allows us to bring more variety to the game, react faster to league changes, and incorporate player feedback more quickly. Update 1 is our first step in an ongoing commitment to improve ...

Diablo 5 is coming in 2029

The biggest surprise of BlizzCon might be Diablo 5, which Blizzard announced will release in spring 2029, six years after the 2023 launch of Diablo 4.
PC Gamer

Go grandmaster becomes first human to win series against advanced AI engine in 3-hour match

Shin, 26, is the first human to win an official, three-game series against KataGo, which the Korea Economic Daily described as "the world's premier artificial intelligence Go engine." Shin's odds were ...

Inzoi's director says he is 'very much focused on our core goals' as he announces a multiplayer roleplaying mode designed to be like Ready Player One

This essentially lets players roleplay as a single character in the town, rather than overseeing everyone's lives from a bird's-eye view. "The main goal of Canvastown is to get away from mundane daily ...
PC Gamer

After a massive 2021 office expansion, Bungie is now trying to sublease its 211,000 square foot headquarters

For the quickest way to join, simply enter your email below and get access. We will send a confirmation and sign you up to our newsletter to keep you updated on all your gaming news.
PC Gamer

Steam Week in Review: 54 idle games released on Steam last week, and many look eerily similar

When Cookie Clicker and Candy Box both released in quick succession in 2013, I remember them being received mostly as a joke, or else as an amusing parody of "watch numbers go up" RPG gameplay. Then ...

Civilization 7 will finally enter the atomic age in 2027, via a free update Firaxis says will be 'even bigger in scope' than last year's Test of Time

The update is called Arc of Tomorrow, and Firaxis says that it will be "even bigger in scope" than May's Test of Time patch. Introducing a fourth Act to Civ 7 that extends the game's timeline from ...
PC Gamer

GSC Game World says there's a reason it didn't give Stalker 2 more time in the oven: 'To make something better, you need to receive feedback, and this feedback should be fresh'

As for why the studio didn't just wait to release the game until it was in the state it is now, Grygorovych cited both creative and financial reasons. "To make something better, you need to receive ...
PC Gamer

Ex-BioWare designer says doom and gloom about the next Mass Effect is overstated: 'I think that they can do it'

For the quickest way to join, simply enter your email below and get access. We will send a confirmation and sign you up to our newsletter to keep you updated on all your gaming news.