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The top 100 PC games

PC Gamer's annual list of the 100 best PC games you can play—updated for 2026

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I'm sad that the Like A Dragon creator's new studio is closing, but I wish their now-cancelled debut Gang of Dragon wasn't just LAD again
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I'm sad that the Like A Dragon creator's new studio is closing, but I wish their now-cancelled debut Gang of Dragon wasn't just LAD again

Less than a year after the announcement of their first game, and only four years after the studio's creation, Gang of Dragon developers Nagoshi Studio have been dissolved by a shareholders' resolution (thanks, Gematsu.) That also means a premature end for Gang of Dragon, which was announced at last year's Game Awards with a flashy trailer featuring Like a Dragon-esque realistic visuals, combat and exploration through Kabukicho, a couple new elements like actual gunplay and car chases, as well a

Rock Paper Shotgun vor 4 Tagen
Workers & Resources: Soviet Republic's next DLC is set to expand the city building sim into the one place not corrupted by capitalism: SPACE
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Workers & Resources: Soviet Republic's next DLC is set to expand the city building sim into the one place not corrupted by capitalism: SPACE

Following not the inherent liberal capitalistic framework of city builders like SimCity but instead a revolutionary (sorry) interpretation of planning and logistical simulation that prioritises centralisation and minute detail, Hooded Horse and 3DIVISION's Workers & Resources: Soviet Republic offers a tense, socialist look at what a citybuilder could be. Fellow contributor Sin Vega, in her 1.0 review, described it like this: "You have to build things to demolish things. That might be Workers &

Rock Paper Shotgun vor 4 Tagen
Arc Raiders devs Embark insist that using genAI for voice lines was necessary, as "actors would just go crazy if they had to read all of that"
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Arc Raiders devs Embark insist that using genAI for voice lines was necessary, as "actors would just go crazy if they had to read all of that"

Despite taking the voice performances of actors and feeding them into machines to spurt out AI-generated mimicry, Embark CCO Stefan Strandberg insists that "we are not in the industry of replacing actors." In a new video posted to the Arc Raiders channel focused on audio design, Strandberg refers back to the infamous use of genAI in Arc Raiders to generate voice lines based on real voice actors' performances, something which the game was heavily (and rightly) criticised for before and since its

Rock Paper Shotgun vor 4 Tagen
"There’s always a night when Rome burns": South Of Midnight director says that Xbox funding it was "unsustainable", at least in hindsight
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"There’s always a night when Rome burns": South Of Midnight director says that Xbox funding it was "unsustainable", at least in hindsight

Compulsion Games parted ways with former owners Xbox, having landed on the long list of things Microsoft were determined to ditch as part of multi-round mass cuts this year. Now, South of Midnight creative director David Sears has suggested that an eventual pulling of the rug was something he feared throughout the game's development, to the point where he seemingly doesn't think he'd have funded it if he'd been in the shoes of Xbox execs. Read more

Rock Paper Shotgun vor 4 Tagen
itch.io will soon let you filter games with genAI disclosures out of your search results on the site, after admitting it was previously "critically lacking"
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itch.io will soon let you filter games with genAI disclosures out of your search results on the site, after admitting it was previously "critically lacking"

itch.io has unfortunately, much like Steam, long had an issue with genAI content being uploaded in droves, drowning out perfectly good games made by human hands. The apparent standard method against this, voluntary genAI disclosure, has been itch's primary tool to combat this wave of low-quality slop, but hasn't worked out too well; itch revealed a few days ago that 'the number of game pages being created per-day has doubled in the past two months'. Now, in attempts to further combat this, beyo

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