Windows 3.1 included a red and yellow 'Hot Dog Stand' color scheme so garish it was long assumed to be a joke, so I tracked down the original designer to get the true st…

"The truly funny thing about this color scheme is that all the other Windows 3.1 color schemes are surprisingly rational, ...

Shenmue studio threatens legal action over an apparently faked Shenmue 4 trailer, which it says 'has absolutely no connection to Ys Net'

The purported work-in-progress trailer popped up on YouTube last week.

The Game Awards reveals fan-voted Players' Voice nominees, and I'm sorry to say that Megabonk is once again out of the show

Congrats to our final 5 nominees for #TheGameAwards Players' Voice, a 100% fan voted award.Clair Obscur: Expedition ...

Path of Exile 2 director is on a 'quest to make the perfect action RPG' and isn't afraid to borrow from Path of Exile 1 to pull it off

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 ...

'We're not doing a good enough job [with Portal] right now': Battlefield 6 dev says players are making 'fantastic' creations that nobody is seeing because of a 'technical issue'

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The effort to canonize a Steam tag for the world's Survivorslikes and Bullet Heavens intensifies with a public poll and celebratory sale aiming to finally settle on a name f…

Discoverability remains a massive issue on Steam, and the sale organizers say a dedicated genre tag would both help users ...

YouTube channel discovers a good use case for AI-powered robots: Shooting YouTubers

YouTube channel InsideAI has managed to pull off quite the stunt: encouraging an AI robot to shoot its presenter. The video, titled "ChatGPT in a real robot does what experts warned," is a wider look ...

Humble Bundle is closing out 2025 by bringing back some of its most popular bundles of the year, including one with every Borderlands game ever made for just …

A new mix of game, book, and software bundles is going up for grabs every day, but they'll only be around for a very short ...

The PC Gamer gift guide: Our favorite hardware

We've tested every single one of these, so we know that this list will make your holiday shopping a lot easier.

Looks like the Run dialog box is getting a sleek new look on Windows 11

Maybe I just fit a very particular demographic, but nothing signals Windows 10's true end-of-life (EOL) more than the fact ...

Paramount, backed by Saudi Arabia's Public Investment Fund, launches hostile takeover bid for Warner Bros. Discovery, one day after US president Donald Trump s…

The Paramount bid is also supported by Trump's son-in-law Jared Kushner, so that's probably not great for Netflix's ambitions ...

World of Warcraft players are already discovering new tech with its player housing—turns out, you can sit anywhere as long as you're able to fit a chair inside

While you seem to be able to sit through objects, you can't sit through the floor— however, if there's just the barest hint ...