What time does Honkai: Star Rail 4.3 release in your time zone?

Honkai: Star Rail version 4.3 will be released at a slightly different time than usual. Rather than the usual Tuesday or Wednesday launch day, it’ll drop on Sunday or Monday (depending on your time zone). This update brings out Blade’s new Mortenax version, which is a five-star Fire Nihility character. Below, we explain when Honkai:…

Summer Game Fest Predictions, 007 Review, Mina The Hollower | The Game Informer Show

In this week’s episode of The Game Informer Show, special guest Luis Gutierrez (IGN, GameSpot, Polygon) joins us to share Summer Game Fest predictions (watch with us next Friday) before diving into our recent game reviews of 007 First Light and Mina the Hollower. The crew then discusses developer HoYoverse’s take on the cozy life-simulation…

Great Scifi RPG Stumbles Into Really Dumb Free Upgrade Debacle

It’s not the best choice, it’s Spacer’s Choice. That satirical slogan has been dogging The Outer Worlds: Spacer’s Choice Edition since it arrived with some annoying issues at launch back in 2023. It’s once again become appropriate after the game’s latest unexpected snafu. Players who owned the original version of the game were recently supposed…

Counter-Strike’s co-creator isn’t worried about low player counts: “Those people are never going to play your game.”

It’s difficult to avoid the ongoing discourse surrounding concurrent player numbers on Steam. Hell, we’re guilty of it ourselves. It’s understandable why so many people are so fixated on this metric; it’s one of the only numerical ways to identify how successful a game launch has been, after all. For indie developer Minh ‘Gooseman’ Le,…

PS Store Drops Addictive Free PS5, PS4 Game With Trophies

The PS Store has dropped another free PS4 game (playable on PS5), which comes with easy trophies, including Platinum. It’s time to get your inner artist on, as Diamond Painting ASMR will have you making some fun creations. Free PS5, PS4 game Diamond Painting ASMR offers easy trophies, including Platinum We know what you’re thinking. No – Diamond Painting ASMR…

A conversation with Infinity Ward about Call of Duty

FOV 90 (Image credit: Future) Welcome to FOV 90, an FPS column from staff writer Morgan Park. Every other week, I cover topics relevant to first-person shooter enjoyers, spanning everything from multiplayer and singleplayer to the old and the new. Welcome back to FOV 90, the best and only FPS column at PC Gamer. I’ve…

The Video Games You Should Play This Weekend – May 29

After falling in love with Inscryption and, subsequently, Balatro, I’ve enjoyed experiencing how developers experiment with well-established card games by introducing new mechanics and, in the case of Black Jacket, a story. As a soul navigating the afterlife, you progress through Blackjack battle after Blackjack battle, getting your score as close to 21 without going…

11-Year-Old Selling Pokémon Cards Isn’t A Fan: ‘I Just Flip Cards’

I’ve lived through all of Pokémon’s 30 years, so I’ve watched as the ‘90s Pokémania descended into the modern-day scalper culture that has soured millions of people on the hobby and put those who remain in a constant state of vigilance. Maybe because I was so young when Pokémon was first starting out, I still…

New Fortnite map – All Chapter 7 Season 2 locations

What does the new Fortnite map look like? If you take weekly breaks between sessions of Fortnite, you’ll come to find that the map changes frequently. From POIs being swapped in and out to the entire map being replaced – if you aren’t keeping up to date with all the updates, it can be difficult to…

Nintendo Download: 28th May (North America)

LOLLIPOP CHAINSAW RePOP Nintendo Switch 2 Edition (Dragami Games, 28th May, $44.99) – Using the nimble moves she mastered through cheerleading and wielding a massive chainsaw, Juliet slices through hordes of zombies in exhilarating action. The Chain Hit Hunting system increases chainsaw attack speed as your combo count rises, and the newly added Chainsaw Blaster…