Bungie just wrapped up a showcase in which it pulled the curtain back on The Final Shape, the concluding expansion in the saga that has been running since Destiny launched way back in 2014. Last week, game director Joe Blackburn was at pains to point out that this livestream was intended to appeal to as broad an audience as possible, but when you’ve got developers giddily dropping lines like: “The Witness wants to use the Pale Heart of The Traveller to enact the Final Shape”, I think it’s fair to say that there’s still quite a lot to unpick, even for veteran players like me. Having watched the showcase, here’s the stuff that stood out.

The Pale Heart of the Traveller is The Final Shape’s new destination 

As expected, The Final Shape takes place inside …

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A Starfield Q&A has dropped to celebrate the RPG’s pre-launch gold status, first taking place in a Discord server, and later kindly transcribed by user ninjabell on the Starfield subreddit. While it has some juicy revelations, such as the fact there’ll be no full pacifist runs, I’m far more fascinated by its brief look into the game’s main three religions.

While all existing modern-day religions are part of Todd Howard’s space boogaloo, design director Emil Pagliarulo highlighted three new additions to the game’s canon. There’s the Sanctum Universum, a group who think God is waiting to be found in the universe, and The Enlightened, atheists who do community outreach programs. 

These pale in comparison, however, to House Va’ruun, the only one of Star…

Wibbly-wobbly platformer Human: Fall Flat came out in 2016, and its blend of funky physics, dreamlike floating worlds, and multiplayer support saw it quickly find an audience. Those that like this game love it, and it’s a much more freeform and relaxing experience than some of the obvious comparisons one might make (such as Fall Guys).

I played it years ago and liked it well enough, but a new press release from publisher Curve had my jaw dropping. This game was on my radar as a ‘neat indie platformer’ but over the seven years since release Human: Fall Flat has shipped more than 40 million copies worldwide. This is a paid game that usually retails at around $20 across various storefronts, and not on any streaming service I can see, so even allowing for regular sale discounts…

This month PC Gamer gets world-exclusive access to Homeworld 3, the groundbreaking new space-based, sci-fi RTS from Blackbird Interactive. In our authoritative cover feature, which saw PC Gamer fly to Blackbird’s studio in Vancouver, Canada, we hear directly from the game’s developers about the mind-bending new experience the game offers, as well as the studio’s dramatic journey in bringing back the famous Homeworld series today. For Homeworld, RTS and sci-fi fans in general, this is a must-read.

In addition, this issue of PC Gamer also features a fascinating feature on the art of the hardcode sim, with PC Gamer traveling to Dovetail Games in Kent, England, to go hands-on with its brand new rail-based sim experience, Train Sim World 4, and speak to its developers about how they go…

“I’m going to do something ridiculous every day until [x videogame thing happens]” might be a little pat now⁠—hell, there’s probably a sociological paper to be written about gamers performing devotion for companies as if they were implacable deities⁠.

But JPNB on YouTube was a pioneer of the form, fighting secret Elden Ring megaboss Malenia every week (initially every day) over a span of months until we finally got that Shadow of the Erdtree announcement last February. He hung up his spurs after that, but now he’s back once more to tango with the Blade of Miquella.

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During his original run, JPNB started out trying to fight Malenia every day until we got news of an Elden Ring expansion. As the wait dragged on, that quickly became “every few …

It’s a rare thing indeed that a third-party retailer gets to sell a Secretlab gaming chair for less than the direct price from Secretlab itself, but Jeff Amazon has the buying power to secure an exclusive discount. Right now, you can buy the Secretlab Titan Evo for $509 at Amazon, saving $40 on the list price from its creator.

Traditionally, Secretlab will claim a saving from buying direct, and indeed it’s stating that even today, where it claims the non-direct pricing is around the $589 mark because it’s cutting out the “middlemen costs.”

But with a $100 discount coupon available at Amazon, as part of its Big Deal Days promo, you can bring the price down from $609 to that listed $509 price. That’s $40 less than Secretlab, and even with its own $30 discount if you’re a first…

Obsidian Entertainment was founded in 2003 by several employees of the soon-to-be-shuttered Black Isles Studios (best-known for Fallout 1 & 2 and Planescape: Torment). Obsidian’s early years were spent working on sequels to other company’s games, often with spectacular results like Knights of the Old Republic 2: The Sith Lords and Neverwinter Nights 2, before it moved onto original titles like Alpha Protocol, Pillars of Eternity, and the very successful Outer Worlds.

Ask any fan of the studio’s work and they’ll tell you there’s a common thread between these games, a hard-to-grasp quality that makes it feel like an Obsidian joint: Some just put it down to the consistently excellent writing, of course, but it’s much more than that. Following the announcement of the studio’s next…

The National Centre for Gaming Disorders, which is the first of its kind in the UK, has had an unexpected volume of referrals in the 3 years it’s been operating, as written by Prof Henrietta Bowden-Jones. “[We have] had about 800 referrals to a clinic that was expected to see no more than 50 patients a year.”

To be clear, referrals don’t necessarily result in treatment. As a separate Guardian report details, “Of the 855 referrals [to the clinic], 408 were gamers, of whom 227 were under 18.” That’s still a big number, of course. 

“When gaming was not a disorder treated by the NHS, I would frequently, as director of the National Problem Gambling Clinic, be contacted by relatives of young gamers who were desperate for help. I increasingly began to feel that the young peopl…

All the help you could need to win today’s Wordle just the way you want to is right here. Go straight for a guaranteed win with a quick click to today’s answer, give yourself a few pointers with our handy tips, or guided assistance with our clue for the October 27 (860) game.

My second guess today turned out to be almost right in a very wrong way, leaving me with a lot of yellows that in theory could’ve been sorted very quickly, if only I had any idea how to organise them. Let’s just say I took the nail-biting scenic route to today’s Wordle answer, and leave it at that. 

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Wordle today: A hint for Friday, October 27

As a social rank, this word marks someone out as beyond upper class. This is the realm of dukes, princes, and…

Early examples of laptops powered by Nvidia’s upcoming RTX 4060 mobile GPU are now surfacing on Newegg with prices kicking off at $1,100. For now, the laptops are only available to pre-order rather than being immediately available.

Likewise, we’ve yet to directly sample the new RTX 4060 mobile GPU. So, the jury remains out on exactly how it will compare with previous-gen laptop graphics from Nvidia.

That said, Nvidia has released fairly detailed specifications for the new chip. It’ll run 3,072 CUDA cores at up to 2,370MHz alongside 8GB of GDDR6 memory over a 128-bit bus.

For comparison, the old RTX 3060 actually had more CUDA cores at 3,840 but a maximum boost clock of just 1,425MHz. In raw computational terms, that implies a roughly 35% uplift for the new mobile GPU.<…

Stellar Blade was originally introduced in 2019 as Project Eve, after which it fell off our radar until 2021, when we said it looked like a cross between Nier and Bayonetta. A year later it got a new name—Stellar Blade—and became a PlayStation 5 exclusive, and that was pretty much that for us.

But it may not remain that way forever: Developer Shift Up said in its latest financial report, shared on Twitter by Okami13_ (via RPS) that it is now looking into a possible PC release.

The English-language wording of the Google-translated report is a bit wonky in spots, but it specifically notes the importance of the PC market: “The expansion of PC-based gaming platforms such as Steam and the Epic Games Store has made AAA titles more accessible to PC users, pushing them b…

The controversy around AI-generated content for videogames is starting to impact the biggest digital distribution platform on PC: an anonymous developer recently made a post on reddit (first spotted by Simon Carless) about the rejection of their game, claiming that “Valve is not willing to publish AI-generated content anymore.” In a statement to PC Gamer and other publications, Valve elaborated that it is not opposed to generative tools as a concept, but instead takes the copyright concerns around them extremely seriously.

The developer says they tried to get a game approved on Steam about a month ago “with a few assets that were fairly obviously AI generated” and received the following response:

“While we strive to ship most titles submitted to us, we cannot ship games for …