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Kingdom Hearts and Until Dawn actress Hayden Panettiere has died at 36

Hayden Panettiere, an actress with a huge body of work spanning TV, film, and videogames, has died at the age of 36. Her death was announced by her father Alan "Skip" Panettiere in a statement released to ABC News which read: "It is with profound sadness that we share the tragic passing of our beloved Hayden. She was an incredible light and a force of nature who brought immeasurable love and joy to all who knew her??

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Eurogamer / Aug 17, 2026

Fortnite is getting a collaboration with a game made in Roblox, months after Epic boss Tim Sweeney referred to the rival platform as a force that could "grow and eat gaming"

It looks like Fortnite is getting a crossover with a game made in Roblox. In the latest upcoming season of the game - named Fortnite Chapter 7 Season 4: Override - the world's biggest battle royale introduces a wealth of gaming properties to its world. Developer Epic's first trailer for the new season (below) shows off a slew of gaming characters from all eras: you've got Crash Bandicoot, Sonic the Hedgehog and his p

The Elder Scrolls 6 is probably subtitled Sentinel, and there's been an easter egg in Starfield hinting at it this whole time

While union members outside Bethesda's Maryland office celebrated a recent Microsoft visit by positioning a field of red flags representing laid-off workers and a giant inflatable rat on the lawn, inside the building CEO Asha Sharma was apparently having a delightful time watching a playthrough of The Elder Scrolls 6. So that's nice."The scale and grandeur are incredible", Sharma said, referring to the game and not t

Steam Week in Review: Here are the 32 Steam games brave enough to release on GTA 6 day

Lord of Undead is a "grim" third-person RPG about building an army of vicious zombies in order to maliciously raze the villages of mortals. The goal is to defeat peace and innocence, all the better for evil to prevail. You also get to build houses. It sounds pretty fun and, as far as I can tell, it's the second most popular game releasing on November 19 behind GTA 6.Lord of Undead does have some advantages. The most

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Request for comment: Which way did you go when you reached the controversial ending of Mass Effect 3?

At the finale of Deus Ex: Human Revolution you choose which button to press to trigger one of its endings while an AI explains the differences between them. It was not a well-liked way to wrap up the game, and when just over six months later Mass Effect 3 came along with a remarkably similar structure for its ending we were all a bit baffled it came down to this. Three games' worth of agonizing decisions would all be

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League of Legends YouTuber unearths the original investor pitch from when the game was called Onslaught: War of the Immortals

"Built like a brick wall on roids." That's the passive ability Lee Sin—err, Xizun, the blind monk, used to have in League of Legends, which itself used to be a very different-looking game called Onslaught: War of the Immortals. It certainly looks like a game that was pitched the same year Finger Eleven's "Paralyzer" was a charting single, and now we can take a closer look at it than ever thanks to League 'tuber Nec

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Eurogamer / Aug 16, 2026

Saber Interactive finally adds an AI disclaimer to Rideshare Stimulator's Steam page

Amid the row between Saber Interactive CEO Matthew Karch and former writer Stella Sacco after he said he'd have "been happy to replace" her with AI, the studio has finally added the AI disclaimer to Rideshare Stimulator's Steam page that had been conspicuously missing since the game first went live for wishlisting on 30th July. Read more

Where's the weirdest place you've heard videogame music?

Critical Hit(Image credit: Future)Welcome to Critical Hit, where I (or someone else on the PC Gamer team) celebrate and lament all things videogame music, audio design, and the ways our favourite games make our ears tingle.Videogame music is ridiculously good, a behemoth that encompasses just about every damn genre out there. Orchestral, rock, metal, pop, hip-hop—you name it, there's absolutely a composer out there

David Brevik, creator of Diablo, reveals the 'worst ending' to any game he's played: 'But I really love the game. It's amazing'

Disk Cleanup(Image credit: Future)Welcome to Disk Cleanup, our regular weekend feature delving into the PCs of PC gaming luminaries. Come back every weekend to read a new interview, digging into the important questions, like "How tidy is your desktop?" and "What game will you never uninstall?"David Brevik's gaming history began before the arrival of the IBM PC. The veteran designer grew up playing games like Lode Run

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The next big videogame TV adaptation is a Kingdom Hearts anime

I've long held that no RPG is quite as spectacular as Kingdom Hearts, and I'm careful to specifically use the word "spectacular." For every ounce it is great, it's specifically great to gawk at, ideally with a mixture of awe and bewilderment. This is a game series where, if you die at a climactic moment, Mickey Mouse can emerge from your Christian soul and start killing people with a giant stick. It's incredible.A go

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Iron Nest is the best 'Battleship' game I've played in years—and it doesn't even have boats

Who knew that all I needed to be interested in maths was the command of a five-thousand-tonne artillery battery? If only my secondary school teacher had known. Turns out that the ticking clock of exam pressure is a hell of a lot less motivating than the boom of artillery shells growing ever closer, as enemy gunners zero in on your position, trying to blast your colossal cannon to kingdom come before you blast them.Pl

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I played the economic simulator that could 'make a convert out of Karl Marx himself' to see if it could convert me

They called me mad. They called me a fool. They said it would never work—my plan to build a business empire on the back of a single department store that sold three products and a silica mine. 'You'll bankrupt us!' yelled red-faced advisors. They saw no wisdom in my schemes at all.And, frankly, they were correct. Fair play to those guys. We are very bankrupt now.(Image credit: Enlight Softwaer)In 1995, PC Gamer—a

Marvel Tōkon's simple but effective combo trials are an elegant tutorial solution that I wish more fighting games had

The humble combo trial is a time-honoured tradition in fighting games. It's a quick and relatively easy way of trying out a new character, feeling out their general flow and kit in a low-pressure environment.They are, also, fundamentally useless. The combos in question are rarely optimal, and often devolve into simply playing Simon Says a dozen times before throwing yourself to the wolves of online matchmaking and ho

MassivelyOP / Aug 16, 2026

2003-era Korean shooter GunZ: The Duel once again returns to Steam

Bless Online. Hellgate London. Some online titles seem destined to be relaunched ad infinitum. We can add the 2003-era Gunz: The Duel to that category, because this title seems to have more lives than Bugs Bunny in a grudge match against Elmer Fudd. The online PvE and PvP shooter originally died in 2013 but came […]

The Quake community simply cannot stop delivering, having just released a 22-map 'Deathmatch Jam' to celebrate the shooter's 30th birthday

Quake mappers are absolutely killing it in celebration of Quake's 30th birthday. The Quake community has been running map jams of varying themes all year. In the last few months there have been two 'Quickie' speedmapping jams, a 1024 Jam where contributors had to build maps of 1024 units cubed, and a Limits Jam, with the fun restriction that submitted maps had to use the same technical and design limitations as the o

MassivelyOP / Aug 16, 2026

The Daily Grind: Which MMO NPC has the absolute most busted fit?

These days Y’shtola makes her way through Final Fantasy XIV rocking a rather nice dress, but frankly she’s had several glowups from her initial outfit back in the early game. She was out here in a baggy sweatshirt and leggings looking like she had thrown her outfit on during laundry day at all times. At least […]

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You could win a slice of €30,000 by building the best mod for Mount & Blade 2's controversial seafaring expansion

If you've ever fancied giving PC game modding a go but have struggled for motivation, maybe a share of €30,000 will provide the incentive you need. Mount & Blade 2: Bannerlord developer TaleWorlds Entertainment has just announced a modding contest for its War Sails expansion, inviting players to create the best add-on for its nautical DLC.The competition is actually three competitions, with players asked to submit

Kingdom Hearts 4 finally has a release window, and it's sooner than I expected

Four long years after it was announced, we finally have some idea when we'll be able to play Kingdom Hearts 4. At Disney's D23 fan event, Square Enix revealed that the sequel will arrive sometime in late 2027.That isn't everything new that Square Enix had in store for fans either. The reveal was accompanied by a new trailer for Kingdom Hearts 4 that showed off a new world the sequel will take players to—Coco's colo

Poll: Do you turn your PC off at night?

An electrician once told me that turning your computer off and then on again uses more electricity than just leaving it on for hours, an oversimplification if not an outright lie that I believed for years. While it is true that turning your PC off and on puts wear and tear on the components, so does leaving it on for hours and hours.Now that turning a PC on takes an amount of time so miniscule you don't even have a c