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In the middle of the LA fires, I played a new extraction shooter that challenged me to survive angry robots, other players, and planet-destroying climate change

(Image credit: Sharkmob) I was sitting at the airport waiting for my boarding group to be called when it dawned on me what a distinctly odd moment in time I was living through. I was flying to a preview event for an extraction shooter called Exoborne, all the while checking my phone to see if

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Death Howl is an impossible and brilliant blend of soulslike, turn-based strategy, and deckbuilding, and you can try it for free now

(Image credit: The Outer Zone, 11 bit studios) I’ll admit I rolled my eyes a bit at Death Howl’s self-proclaimed genre, “soulslike deckbuilder”. Reporting on PC games can feel a bit like wading through word salad sometimes, and it’s hard to imagine how two genres so radically different could possibly be combined. But I’m not

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Assassin’s Creed Shadows will be censored in Japan to remove dismemberment and decapitations

(Image credit: Ubisoft) Ubisoft says it will make changes to the Japanese version of Assassin’s Creed Shadows to accommodate requirements of that country’s CERO videogame rating agency. Assassin’s Creed Shadows is rated CERO Z in Japan, meaning its content is “suitable only to 18-year-olds and above.” But even for legal adults, Shadows apparently goes too

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Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth debuts to the highest peak concurrent users of the series on Steam—except for the MMO, naturally

(Image credit: Square Enix) Final Fantasy 7: Rebirth has finally ambled its way over to PC, and it’s landing with—hold your breath—moderate to solid success! Please imagine me firing some party poppers at your leisure. As seen on the game’s SteamDB page, Rebirth has thus far enjoyed a peak concurrent player count of around 40,000

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Larian scrambles to find out who exactly put Patch 8 on the PS5 early, meanwhile I, a PC unfortunate, rattle the bars of my enclosure

(Image credit: Larian Studios) As PC Gamer is wont to do, we’ve been posting a lot about how our device of choice has won the console war. I would like to unilaterally, with authority that I do not have (and have not asked for), state that we’ve lost. Catastrophically, because the PlayStation 5 has randomly

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‘Rocket’s devastated’: Marvel Rivals player who took on the daunting task of rising to GM without doing any damage accidentally fumbles the ball right before Celestial

Last week, a Marvel Rivals player known as NoDmgRocket announced that they managed to climb all the way up to GrandMaster without dealing a single shred of damage. But just before they reached the next rank, Celestial, a tragic accident happened: they dealt damage. The moment in which NoDmgRocket’s pacifist competitive stint came to an