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Dead by Daylight finally confirms Jason Voorhees after an agonizing 13-hour livestream

It’s finally official: Jason Voorhees is the new Dead by Daylight Killer. One of the most iconic figures in horror history is finally stepping into The Fog to mark the tenth anniversary of DBD. Behaviour Interactive certainly made us wait for it, however. The developer suggested players should “tune in” to its YouTube and Twitch…

A 23-year-old D&D CRPG just got patched to add achievements and fix a bug that stopped you from earning XP

Troika’s Temple of Elemental Evil came out in 2003, adapting an old school tabletop adventure into videogame form while being remarkably true to the then-current third edition of the Dungeons & Dragons rules. It’s pretty good! I like the bits where you doss around the village of Hommlet and the piratical cove of Nulb more…

This popular VPN has been shut down, and I’m glad

Though I champion VPN services as perfectly legitimate privacy tools and totally understand why people use them, I’ve encountered a number of people who think that they’re quite dodgy, or possibly even illegal. It’s services like First VPN which reinforce this negative reputation – so I’m glad it was shut down this week. For those…

Diablo 2 players made nearly 2 million warlocks in a single month

Diablo continues to be a huge deal, and I’m not just talking about the latest entry, even if it is Blizzard’s fastest-selling game ever. Millions of people went straight back to Diablo 3, and as the series’ lead producer Matthew Cederquist told Polygon in a recent interview, Diablo’s 26-year-old sophomore release is still surprisingly active….

A new Deadlock update reworks the Urn into a more chaotic, powerful comeback engine

A new Deadlock update is here, and as ever the Valve MOBA is packing in plenty of changes. This is largely more of a balance pass than anything, but there are a couple of particularly notable extras. The first is an experimental redesign for the Soul Urn, which the developer is eager to hear your…

Survive Homelander codes (May 2026)

Forget to redeem these new Survive Homelander codes like they’re a shot of Compound V, and you won’t stand much of a chance against Vought’s godlike abomination. Survive Homelander is an asymmetric multiplayer Roblox game in which one character gets to strike fear into half a dozen others. Ready to defend against those trying to…

As it rapidly approaches $1 billion in player funding, Star Citizen goes free to play until May 27

While there’s a lot of speculation about when, if ever, Star Citizen will actually be finished, Cloud Imperium Games’ massively ambitious space sim has been in a steadily-growing playable alpha for a long time. And if you want to check out how far along the game is without investing hundreds of dollars in virtual spaceships,…

Slay the Spire 2’s least frightening enemies just got a lot more scary

Mega Crit is now dropping Slay the Spire 2 patch notes every other week, giving it more time between updates to consider possible moves. The first set of changes in this new cycle is now here, and it makes me a lot more terrified. Several notable enemies that I’ve never really been scared to run…

Last Flag studio lays off half its employees as it puts ‘the future of the game in the hands of our players’

The CTF shooter Last Flag initially caught our eye because of the co-founders of developer Night Street Games: Mac and Dan Reynolds, better known to the world as, respectively, the manager and lead singer of Imagine Dragons. But it turned out to be a pretty good shooter too: PC Gamer editor Tyler Wilde, who’s no…

Riot responds to Vanguard “bricking” claims: “We would not, and cannot, impact your PC’s functionality”

May 22 2026, 11:27am PST: Riot has since issued a tweet confirming that Vanguard does not “brick” PCs, clarifying that the devices in its tweet are “cheat hardware devices.” It states that “Vanguard now makes those devices worthless for Valorant, but does not in any way brick PCs or PC components or PC software.” PCGamesN apologizes…