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Discussing 20 years of Company of Heroes with the team carrying its torch into the future

Discussing 20 years of Company of Heroes with the team carrying its torch into the future "I'm really pleased that we're here, able to support the games, and able to celebrate this 20th anniversary." I still remember the PC Gamer cover from October 2006 featuring Company of Heroes as the vanguard of the "RTS Revolution." This was back in the day that I would walk down to the local grocery store to grab each new physical issue off of the news stand. I was already failing trigonometry. After the announcement that Dawn of War 4 was being developed by German studio King Art Games—I was later told Relic passed on it as they simply didn't have the bandwidth to take it on alongside other ongoing projects, mostly related to Company of Heroes—I was wondering if there even would be a Relic anymore.But in the meantime, they have split from Sega and become independent again. 2026 games: All the upcoming games Best PC games: Our all-time favorites Free PC games: Freebie fest Best FPS games: Finest gunplay Best RPGs: Grand adventures Best co-op games: Better together Leana Hafer is a freelancer and lifelong PC gamer with a specialty in strategy, RPGs, horror, and survival games.

PC Gamer9/13/2026release

Gears Of War: E-Day Has A Smash Mouth-Inspired Achievement, And That’s Fantastic

Following the big Steam leak that revealed achievement lists and more for upcoming games, Microsoft has officially released the list of Achievements for Gears of War: E-Day, and there is a Shrek/Smash Mouth-inspired one among them. Players can unlock an achievement called "HEY NOW, YOU'RE AN ALL STAR..." by accumulating 25,000 kills in the Versus multiplayer mode. For anyone just catching up, 2001's Shrek famously featured the Smash Mouth song, "All Star," The most difficult Achievement to unlock appears to be "Dead Serious," which requires players to 100% the campaign on the highest difficulty, Insane, reach 25,000 kills in Versus, achieve max player level, and max out four classes. 75 Dead Serious 100% Campaign on Insane, 25,000 kills in Versus, max Player Level, and max 4 classes.

GameSpot9/9/2026release

Влияние: 68/100

The 25 best platform games of all time

Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time - Release date: November 2003 - Developer: Ubisoft Montreal - Platforms: PS2, Xbox, GameCube, PC What is it: Prince of Persia made the leap from 2D to 3D with The Sands of Time, transforming the series into an acrobatic adventure built around running across walls, swinging from poles, vaulting over obstacles and avoiding elaborate death traps. Super Meat Boy - Release date: October 2010 - Developer: Team Meat - Platforms: Xbox 360, PC, PS4, PS Vita, Wii U, Nintendo Switch What is it: Meat Boy is a small red cube of exposed flesh trying to rescue his girlfriend Bandage Girl from the evil Dr. Shovel Knight - Release date: June 2014 - Developer: Yacht Club Games - Platforms: PC, Nintendo 3DS, Wii U, PS3, PS4, PS Vita, Xbox One, Nintendo Switch What is it: He’s a knight. Rayman Origins - Release date: November 2011 - Developer: Ubisoft Montpellier - Platforms: PS3, Xbox 360, Wii, PC, PS Vita, Nintendo 3DS What is it: Rayman and his best mate Globox set off across the Glade of Dreams after their snoring annoys the undead inhabitants of the Land of the Livid Dead.

Dexerto9/9/2026release

Rock Paper Shotgun9/8/2026release

"20 players is the sweet spot": Guild Wars 3's action game combat is a first for MMOs, but it doesn't work at traditional raid scale

"20 players is the sweet spot": Guild Wars 3's action game combat is a first for MMOs, but it doesn't work at traditional raid scale A more intimate MMO Arenanet are keeping a lot of Guild Wars 3 hidden away. Throughout the short presentation of their new fantasy MMO, the refrain is 'We're not talking about that yet'. "We've been talking about it for ages and we started this project with that in mind: we wanted to make something that's more like a visceral action game." Johanson adds that he and Stocker started talking about implementing this combination of free movement and combat in an MMO back in 2015, when the team were making Guild Wars 2's Heart of Thorns expansion – "This has been a very long journey to that point." Stocker jumps into a different part of Orr, leaving behind the bright greenery for a gloomy, fog-filled valley. Read this next - Many live service games are just an MMO subscription "hidden inside of a neat 'optional' package", argue Guild Wars 3 devs in a post about the new game's monetisation - The Guild Wars games have always been set in a world abandoned by the gods, in new MMO Guild Wars 3, you'll see why they left - Summer Game Fest 2026 everything announced for PC

Rock Paper Shotgun9/3/2026release

Experiencing some day one Blood of Dawnwalker issues? Its devs know, and have some temporary solutions to help get you bloodsucking

Experiencing some day one Blood of Dawnwalker issues? Its devs know, and have some temporary solutions to help get you bloodsucking It happens! Known Issues – fixes & workarounds (03/09/2026) 🔸 Game stuttering when in Windowed / Borderless mode – please try launching the game in Full Screen 🔸 Game crashing on compiling shaders – please update your BIOS, that should fix it https://t.co/8Bk08Ns4FD 🔸 Missing option of… As is often the case for PC releases, there's no button mapping option, albeit specifically on PS5 controllers. Warren had to say of the game: "All in all, I’ve emerged from my first battle with Brencis with the belief that Dawnwalker’s thoroughly worthy of a seat at the table of elite modern RPGs alongside its CDPR-made cousins… It works to ensure the more busywork-esque tasks attached to angering Brencis and his Boyars never make Vale Sangora feel home to a string of boring boxes to tick." Read this next - There's already a The Blood of Dawnwalker mod which triples the length of its main quest timer, ensuring saving your family from vampires isn't stressful - Aiming to supercharge The Blood of Dawnwalker's early mods, Nexus Mods release their own "streamlined" open-source Unreal modding tools - You can trade in your enemy's teeth to "bend" time in vampire RPG The Blood of Dawnwalker, care of some really horrible Tooth Fairies

GamesRadar9/3/2026release

With wall-running and surprisingly weighty combat, Guild Wars 3 is aiming high: "If we hadn't been making MMOs for 26 years I don't think we could have built this"

For the quickest way to join, simply enter your email below and get access. We will send a confirmation and sign you up to our newsletter to keep you updated on all your gaming news. With wall-running and surprisingly weighty combat, Guild Wars 3 is aiming high: "If we hadn't been making MMOs for 26 years I don't think we could have built this" If not for the grass I've spent hours gazing at in Guild Wars 2, I might not have recognized Guild Wars 3. So there's a lot more contextual ways to trigger skills, where we end up with as many options – in some cases even more – that end up feeling better." When I ask if there are plans to bring Guild Wars 3 to more consoles including the Nintendo Switch 2, pointing to Final Fantasy 14's recent port, Johanson says ArenaNet's "focus for launch" is PS5.

TechRaptor9/3/2026regulation

Stupid Never Dies Preview - A Promising and Unabashedly Quirky ARPG

Zombie games are a dime a dozen, but I guarantee you've never seen one like Stupid Never Dies. See, in most games featuring the living dead, they're the enemy. In Stupid Never Dies, zombies are the star of the show; in particular, a shambling corpse named Davy, who might be a slow-moving and puny individual on the surface, but actually packs a mean punch when push comes to shove. After several looks at Stupid Never Dies throughout the year -- including interviews and a brief hands-on session -- I was still left with plenty of questions regarding both the game's story and gameplay structure.

Guild Wars 3's devs think they've found an answer to one of MMOs' biggest problems, but can ArenaNet pull it off?

Guild Wars 3's devs think they've found an answer to one of MMOs' biggest problems, but can ArenaNet pull it off? One foot in front of the other. Close your eyes and imagine a standard MMORPG. Read this next - More playable species might be coming to Guild Wars 3 later down the line, according to latest developer blog post - Star Wars, Metal Gear, and Halo composer Kazuma Jinnouchi confirmed as lead composer for Guild Wars 3 - A new Guild Wars 3 blog post spills the beans on the game's narrative focus, and perhaps even how magic will work in the upcoming MMORPG

Eurogamer9/3/2026release

Riot cracks down on Valorant stream snipers with 13.05 update patch notes

Riot Games is cracking down on stream snipers and players who instalock Agents, revealing new penalties amongst the 13.05 update patch notes. Even though Valorant fans would love every update to come with some massive changes, there are times when Riot Games just has to push out some quick clean-up of bugs and roll out new security tools. As for other changes, Riot confirmed that the upcoming 13.06 patch will “be revamping the Agent Gear system” and “after Patch 13.06, each piece of gear will be tied directly to how much you play the associated Agent.” Yet, you’ll have to wait on that front. PC ONLY General updates - Default Bot Count in Range Practice Mode - An option for 10, 5, or 1 bot to spawn has been added in the Range practice mode.

Dexerto9/1/2026release

I've spent four months testing control pads in Counter-Strike and I've finally settled on my fave

I've spent four months testing control pads in Counter-Strike and I've finally settled on my fave Most gamers enjoy a speedy or balanced feel to their mouse pad, but there are a few of us out there who have a penchant for stopping power. Razer Gigantus V2 Pro (Control ver.) Static Friction: 4.5/5 Dynamic friction: 4/5 Razer's Gigantus V2 Pro is great if you really have a thing for slow pads and don't much care what you have to sacrifice to get it. (The G-SR III is just the H-SR III but a little smaller.) Steelseries QcK Performance Control Static Friction: 3/5 Dynamic friction: 3/5 Steelseries' QcK Performance Control is a very divisive pad. Wallhack CR-005 Static Friction: 2.5/5 Dynamic friction: 2.5/5 Yes, this is a glass pad on an article about control pads, and glass is usually as far from 'controlled' as you can imagine.

PC Gamer9/1/2026release

Rock Paper Shotgun8/28/2026regulation

I found solace from Silent Hill: Townfall's stealthy horror in the soothing Britishness of its abandoned homes

I found solace from Silent Hill: Townfall's stealthy horror in the soothing Britishness of its abandoned homes Doin' up the house I suppose, in a way, I asked for this. Crouched and cowering behind a garden fence, inches away from the thrashing, cleaver-faced miscreation who’d quite comfortably win in a fight against my splintering plank of rotten wood, I can almost hear Silent Hill: Townfall whisper mocking in my ear: not too much combat now, eh? New protag Simon, through whose eyes I explored Townfall’s forsaken Scottish village of St. Amelia in a Gamescom 2026 demo, is taller, wider, and wearing a far more padded gilet than Silent Hill f’s Hinako.

Влияние: 62/100

The first physical PC game I remember playing shows what Sony is thoughtlessly destroying

The first physical PC game I remember playing shows what Sony is thoughtlessly destroying Me and a bunch of big-box PC games are going to go full boomer or prove a very important point. Weird Weekend is our regular Saturday column where we celebrate PC gaming oddities: peculiar games, strange bits of trivia, forgotten history. Pop back every weekend to find out what Jeremy, Josh and Rick have become obsessed with this time, whether it's the canon height of Thief's Garrett or that time someone in the Vatican pirated Football Manager. You might have caught it in the news: Sony infuriated absolutely everyone recently with a single blog post (usually it's me who does that) announcing that, come the big year 2028, PlayStation owners can wave goodbye to physical media.

PC Gamer8/22/2026other

Влияние: 35/100

Mortal Shell 2 review

Mortal Shell 2 review - a Soulslike with tempo and verve Ovaly impressed. In the increasingly crowded Soulslike genre, a game's opening minutes need to do a lot of work. The good news for Mortal Shell 2 is its opening is superb, starting as well as it continues, and condensing the magic of its next 30-odd hours into a few minutes with aplomb. After getting over 500,000 downloads on Steam, there's a Mortal Shell 2 beta live right now on PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X/S - Mortal Shell 2 sells out of physical Revered Edition PS5 pre-orders as players rush to buy the highly-anticipated game on disc - Brutal Soulslike Mortal Shell 2 chooses violence, sets release date in the 2026 August traffic jam

Eurogamer8/21/2026release

Влияние: 56/100

Changing From 3 Players To 4 Was A Bigger Challenge For Aliens Fireteam Elite 2 Than You Might Expect

Aliens Fireteam Elite 2 (AFE 2) is a bigger sequel to its 2021 original. That may go without saying in the video game world: "More" is often the TLDR version of any sequel's intended scope. But AFE 2 is doing more in a way we don't often see, by revising its three-player co-op structure to suit teams of four. It was a lot of work, but it's worth it." Aliens Fireteam Elite launches on August 25 for PC, PS5, and Xbox Series X|S.

GameSpot8/20/2026release

Siliconera8/15/2026release

Step Aside, GTA 6 Leaks, We Have To Talk About Zork

Ongoing GTA 6 leaks might be the biggest gaming news story happening right now, but there's something much more important to discuss: Zork. We finally know what From Software's new Switch 2 exclusive, The Duskbloods, actually is , and among the many details we've gotten is a reveal of some of the game's playable characters, known as Bloodsworn. One, in particular, stands out. I'll let you take a guess who: The Duskbloods' Bloodsworn lineup for the network test That's Zork on the right, a man in an exceedingly pear-like diving suit who wields a hunk of undersea cable as a weapon.

GameSpot8/20/2026other

Влияние: 35/100

Bayani Mode Makes Yasmine Feel Special in Street Fighter 6

The Street Fighter 6 Year 4 Character Pass kicked off with newcomer Yasmine, a Filipino fighter who is all about going on the attack and pressuring her opponent. What makes her feel especially solid for this is her unique Bayani Mode mechanic. It’s an incredibly easy to implement state that can trigger with some of her most common moves and rewards a player by allowing them to deal more damage and worry less about consequences of taking that risk of trying to keep up combos and assaults. Street Fighter 6 is available for the Switch 2, PS4, PS5, Xbox Series X, and PC, and the Yasmine DLC is available now.