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'Dude no joke looks like Hugh Jackman now': The internet is swooning over Gabe Newell's svelte new look at The International
Valve honcho Gabe Newell recorded a video to kick off The International 2026, the latest edition of Valve's annual Dota 2 championship tournament, and as noticed by GamesRadar, the reaction to it is pleasingly wholesome. Plenty of esports fans are thrilled to see the return of one of the world's premiere tourneys, natu...
Take-Two's former AI guy is, in a twist, skeptical about AI now: 'The guy should be selling you the gold if he's actually got the gold'
Take-Two Interactive, the publisher who oversees studios like Rockstar and Gearbox, had an AI guy. 'Had' being the operative word, seeing as he, and a decent chunk of its then-AI team, were laid off around a year after he took on the role. Dicken was previously a data scientist at Zynga, before becoming its director of...
EverQuest Legends is the only MMO that could hook me in 2026
Terminally Online(Image credit: Future)This is Terminally Online: PC Gamer's very own MMO column. Every other week, I'll be sharing my thoughts on the genre, interviewing fellow MMO-heads like me, taking a deep-dive into mechanics we've all taken for granted, and, occasionally, bringing in guest writers to talk about t...
Why I love my gaming notebooks
From the archives: This article originally ran in PC Gamer #326 (UK, January 2019).Something I miss when I play digital games is the tactile side of play. It’s why videogames and board games coexist in my life so beautifully. One allows for complexity beyond what a pen-and-paper can track, and the other offers tokens t...
Failed DotA Card Game Artifact Mysteriously Has 10,000 Players
Some among you may remember Artifact, Valve's oft-maligned attempt to enter the digital trading card game market using the DotA IP. The game's announcement in 2017 was met with groans from the live audience assembled at The International, DotA's premier esports competition, which proved a portent of the game's fate.
Palworld barges Dota 2 aside as PC player counts skyrocket following the game's 1.0 release
After a long wait, Palworld has finally hit 1.0 on PC and consoles, and while it hasn't managed to replicate its massive 2.1m concurrent player peak from early 2024, it's currently one of the most played games on Steam. Read more
Microsoft filing shows total ZeniMax layoffs at 379, with over half coming from Elder Scrolls Online studio that's lost at least 60% of its staff in the past year
As reported by MMORPG, we now know the full scope of the layoffs at ZeniMax Online Studios (The Elder Scrolls Online) and ZeniMax Media, parent company of Bethesda Game Studios. A Maryland WARN Act notice shows 213 employees laid off from ZeniMax Online, and 166 from ZeniMax Media, for a total of 379.ZeniMax Media and...
Security researchers have leveraged bad maths to get around AI safety guardrails, naming the attack method after one of 2007's best PC games
LLMs can be most simply understood as sycophantic, 'yes, and' machines. To the surprise of very few, that's gotten AI companies in hot water when LLM-based chatbots and AI agents attempt to answer users' more unsavoury requests. So, AI companies have implemented safety guardrails that make fulfilling certain requests o...
Dawn of War 2’s The Last Stand mode is still the best co-op MOBA that never was
Have you ever played 'comp stomp?' When I want to arrange an RTS playdate with a mix of casual and hardcore friends with wide gaps in skill level, it's the only way to play without someone (or perhaps everyone except the guy who can time his build order) getting smoked. Load into a map against a bunch of AI opponents,...
Riot teases League of Legends Classic, with a full reveal coming in two weeks
After a bunch of decidedly low-poly character models started leaking from League of Legends's public test servers, Riot decided to pull the ripcord: League of Legends Classic is real, though when exactly it will harken back to is yet to be seen.The reveal came in the form of a cheeky skit called "200 Years of Experienc...
Dota 2's Dark Carnival has begun, with a huge story chapter and five automaton hero personas
At last, weeks of speculation and mystery can finally be put to bed: the Dota 2 Dark Carnival has begun. Valve's latest big event is here, and as many were hoping (myself included), it's a full-scale story campaign in a similar format to 2024's Crownfall. This time, the tale opens with Legion Commander and Hoodwink tra...
Team Fortress Leak Found In Dota 2 Update
Last year, Valve dataminers uncovered references to a new project simply labeled 'TF.' Given the initials, it's widely believed to be a new Team Fortress project—though whether it's a sequel or a Source 2 port of TF2 remains unclear.