The AFK Report

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PC·PC Gamer·about 3 hours ago

FromSoftware temporarily shuts down Dark Souls 2 and 3 multiplayer over 'server issue'

The reason and timeline for restoration were not disclosed.

PC·PC Gamer·about 6 hours ago

Final Fantasy 14: Evercold delayed to February, preorders start next week

Surely, one of these is the actual, no joke, FINAL fantasy?

PC·Kotaku·about 7 hours ago

Cult PC-98 Zombie Gore Fest Re-Animated On Steam With First Official English Port

Dead of the Brain was developer FairyTale’s first foray out of erotica into horror and funnily enough that seems to be the case with its new publisher too

PC·PC Gamer·about 7 hours agoConfirmed

Yacht Club confirms Mina the Hollower was the shot in the arm it needed stay alive—'for now'

Randomizer and speedrunner settings are up next for the spooky Zelda-like.

PC·PC Gamer·about 8 hours ago

The top 10 scariest RPGs I've ever played⁠—and one I'm too afraid to try

Number 6 will SPOOK you (for 1d6 psychic damage).

PC·PC Gamer·about 8 hours ago

The votes are in, and PC Gamer readers have picked the scariest game on PC

The final battle came down to Amnesia: The Dark Descent and Alien: Isolation.

PC·PC Gamer·about 8 hours ago

'Are we going too far with this?': One of the worst scenes in Outlast had its devs debating whether to add it to the game or not

How far is too far in a universe that constantly pushes gore to its limits?

PC·PC Gamer·about 8 hours ago

I spoke to one of the world's only gaming political scientists and he taught me how to avoid getting murdered in Arc Raiders

"Players want to feel like they're powerful and can do something cool."

PC·PC Gamer·about 9 hours ago

Dune: Awakening is getting a free DLC that adds a whole new map and swaps out sand for snow

Funcom will also "continue expanding the game" through 2027.

PC·PC Gamer·about 9 hours ago

How fast do you type, and has playing MMOs improved your typing in any way?

On my touch-type, touch-type telephone.

PC·Kotaku·about 9 hours ago

15 Excellent Horror Games You Can Get On Steam For Less Than $10 Each

Terrors of all genres await

PC·PC Gamer·about 10 hours ago

Anthropic updates Claude to 'steer it away' from letting users clone games following weeks of Steam being inundated with AI slop

Anthropic updates Claude to 'steer it away' from letting users clone other games.

PC·PC Gamer·about 11 hours ago

Red Barrels' co-founder is just as confused as we are as to why no one's tried to replicate Outlast's success: 'Honestly, I don't know'

You'd think someone else would've successfully taken gore to the next level.

PC·PC Gamer·about 12 hours ago

I'm 100% here for a more grounded, realistic GTA 6, one I believe won't come at the expense of its usual haphazard chaos

I hope Rockstar makes us work a little harder to wreak our usual mayhem.

PC·Rock Paper Shotgun·about 13 hours ago

Horror-steeped card game Forbidden Solitaire shows how a strong theme can elevate even decade-old mechanics

Like a tag team of oiled snakes that have entered a wrestling contest, theme is a difficult quality to pin down. A game can be well designed, but…

PC·Rock Paper Shotgun·about 15 hours ago

What are we all playing this weekend?

My scares should have been reserved for today, what with it being All Hallows' Eve and all, but my fright came on Thursday. Read more

PC·PC Gamer·1 day ago

AI-powered game development is 'leading to an explosion of content,' Roblox says, as it brags about 70,000 games published on its platform in the last 5 months alone

Two days after Steam admitted it has an AI slop problem, Roblox basically bragged about the same thing.

PC·PC Gamer·1 day ago

Soulframe opens up for everyone next week as the Warframe devs prepare the fantasy action RPG for one of its 'biggest, most violent' updates ever next month

Verse of the Veilands will radically change the structure of the game so it's easier for new players to follow.

PC·Rock Paper Shotgun·1 day agoConfirmed

Warframe's fantasy-pilled sister Soulframe finally goes open to all this November, though Digital Extremes are "nervous" about certain changes

Warframe creators Digital Extremes have announced that their free-to-play fantasy RPG Soulframe will be available for everyone to download on 6th November, after two years in closed alpha.…

PC·PC Gamer·1 day agoConfirmed

New games in 2027: Fable, Final Fantasy 7, and (maybe) GTA 6 on PC

This is where I'd put the GTA 6 PC release date, if we had one.

PC·PC Gamer·1 day ago

Star Trek Online players are holding public vigils to mourn Patrick Stewart

In orbit and planetside, the MMO's player base is honoring its most-loved captain.

PC·Rock Paper Shotgun·1 day ago

Wooshy wuxia actioner Phantom Blade Zero is sharp enough on the Steam Machine, if blunted on the Steam Deck

It would appear that Phantom Blade Zero (Phantom Blade 0? Zero? Let’s go with Zero) demanding more gigs than a mismanaged stadium is doing little to stop people…

PC·PC Gamer·1 day ago

How to get the True Ending in Phantom Blade Zero

And fight the final, final boss.

PC·PC Gamer·1 day ago

A Daedalic adventure classic is free on GOG

A Daedalic adventure classic is free on GOG

PC·PC Gamer·1 day ago

This brutal Fallout 4 horror mod turns the Commonwealth into Silent Hill

Introduce Pyramid Head and friends to the Boston suburbs in Whispering Hills.

PC·PC Gamer·1 day ago

'We act as if Halloween is ours': The best way to spend spooky season is within The Outlast Trials' Sinyala Facility

What better way to celebrate Halloween than by giving yourself nightmares?

PC·PC Gamer·1 day ago

Edifier G5 Max wireless gaming headset review

Lightweight, long-lasting, but lacking.

PC·PC Gamer·1 day ago

Sam Altman argues that it's bad you want DRAM in your computer and not a data center, actually

Once again, we're all fuming about big tech and AI.

PC·PC Gamer·1 day agoRumor

EA reportedly canned BioWare and Mass Effect 5 to make a new Star Wars: Battlefront instead

One last bitter drop in a chalice of sorrow.

PC·Rock Paper Shotgun·1 day ago

EA execs choosing Star Wars Battlefront 3 over Mass Effect 5 was the main factor in BioWare's demise, according to report

The postmortem on BioWare, following their shuttering by EA this month, points to the publisher's preference to back Star Wars Battlefront 3 over Mass Effect 5 as the…

PC·Rock Paper Shotgun·1 day ago

Splendid Junji Ito-inspired RPG World of Horror is now 20% more horrible, thanks to a free PC update with extra gods, locations, and wounds

Excellent apocalypse RPG World of Horror has just received a sizeable free update, As Below So Above, adding no less than two Old Godly invasions for you to…

PC·PC Gamer·1 day ago

Screw Grand Theft Auto 6's supercars, I'm here for Leonida's robust public transportation system

Apparently they turn up on time and everything.

PC·PC Gamer·1 day ago

Real-world disaster footage in Modern Warfare 4 opening cinematic will be removed following complaints from victims' families

Clips of rescue efforts following a crowd crush in Seoul that killed 160 people in 2022 was used to represent the immediate aftermath of a North Korean invasion.

PC·IGN·1 day ago

RTX 5080 Disappears From Nvidia's Store as Prices Reach $2,000

As the RAM crisis has played out in 2026, graphics cards have been hit particularly hard, due to the high-performance memory that's stapled onto the things. And now…

PC·Rock Paper Shotgun·1 day ago

All the RPS Supporter rewards for October 2026: Hangout game angst, muddy RPGs, and one utterly useless butler

Thanks once again to everyone keeping our lights on, and our pantries full of Mini Cheddars, by being an RPS Supporter. The latest batch of subscription stats came…

PC·Rock Paper Shotgun·1 day agoConfirmed

Rockstar developer union could end up over 1,600 workers strong and encompass nearly all UK staff below senior management, IWGB claim

As we've previously covered, a vote on recognition of a union made up of UK-based Rockstar Games devs is set to take place around GTA 6's console launch…

PC·Rock Paper Shotgun·1 day ago

Helldivers 2 boss can "absolutely see" making a game parody of generative AI, but it would need to be "quirky" rather than "doom-laden"

Arrowhead's chief creative officer Johan Pilestedt can well imagine the Helldivers studio developing a videogame that satirises or parodies today's generative AI technology. The game in question wouldn't…

PC·Rock Paper Shotgun·1 day agoConfirmed

There are no more Assassin's Creed remakes in development, because Ubisoft are focused on Hexe, Invictus and "projects you haven't heard about yet"

Ubisoft have announced that they aren't working on any more Assassin's Creed remakes for the moment, despite learning a "tremendous amount" from Assassin's Creed Black Flag Resynced. Instead,…

PC·PC Gamer·1 day agoRumor

Compromised laptop could be to blame for record $6.3 billion cryptocurrency heist: Binance rushes to freeze stolen assets as experts blame North Korean group

A DevOps engineer's compromised laptop may have been the first domino to fall in this record-breaking heist.

PC·Rock Paper Shotgun·2 days ago

Mouthwashing is getting a feature film adaptation from Sony and I need all of you to be normal about it whenever it comes out

I quite liked that there video game Mouthwashing. It had a lot to say about how corporations take advantage of their workers, it played around with character perspective…

PC·PC Gamer·2 days ago

How to start the Charting the Unknown DLC in Crimson Desert

Unlock requirements for all of the expansion's new content.

PC·PC Gamer·2 days ago

'None of these people have ever made a game,' BioWare co-founder Greg Zeschuk says of game industry executives: 'They just don't know how it works'

In a rare interview, Zeschuk said the closure of BioWare is sad, but his greater concern is for the people put out of work.

PC·Rock Paper Shotgun·2 days agoConfirmed

Phantom Blade Zero kicks off its launch with a day one patch that offers improvements to ray tracing and some bug fixes to boot

If you've been hankering for some video gamey wuxia shenanigans, today seems like a good day for it, given that Phantom Blade Zero has now been released unto…

PC·PC Gamer·2 days ago

Patrick Stewart, Star Trek and Shakespeare legend, has died

Stewart died at age 86 after "a brief and poignant journey with Alzheimer's Disease."

PC·Rock Paper Shotgun·2 days ago

"We didn't want the brooding hero out for revenge": How quiet lulls and a bird-sketching lead make Control Resonant a more introspective kind of action game

Like the repeating pattern effect afflicting its warped Manhattan, Control Resonant threw me for a loop. One minute I would be brutally slashing and smashing my way through…

PC·Rock Paper Shotgun·2 days agoConfirmed

After the rough start that was last year's entry, Football Manager 27 is looking to bring you in with a few free days of play before the game's even out

Football Manager 27 is still a good week and ahead out from launch, but if you're quick you can already get to playing it. That's because developer Sports…

PC·PC Gamer·2 days ago

Donald Glover is heading up a PUBG live action series for Netflix

The award-winning writer, actor, and musician is set to write, direct, produce, and star in the show.

PC·Rock Paper Shotgun·2 days agoRumor

It sounds like you shouldn't expect Destiny 2's campaign unvaulting to be ready until 2028, as Bungie tease their plans for the future of the series

When Bungie announced that they would be ceasing to work on major updates for Destiny 2 earlier this year, it obviously felt like that was the end of…

PC·Rock Paper Shotgun·2 days agoRumor

The Elder Scrolls 6: Sentinel will be an Elder Scrolls game about the infinite mysteries of the Elder Scrolls, report with some plot hintage claims

As Xbox's execs continue to pine for game-related announcements to fill in the gaps between their rounds of mass layoffs, The Elder Scrolls 6 is reportedly set to…

PC·PC Gamer·2 days ago

Destiny 2 unvaulting update: It sure sounds like the original Destiny is finally coming to PC

The actual restoration of vaulting Destiny 2 content is still a long way off, but Bungie has big plans for the future.

PC·PC Gamer·2 days ago

In 2023, an anonymous modder released one of the best horror games of the decade, and they still haven't broken character

MyHouse.wad barrages players with horrible things they've never experienced in a game before.

PC·PC Gamer·2 days agoRumor

Nvidia CEO reportedly targeted by Chinese spy previously under suspicion for AI chip smuggling

Nvidia says Huang would've only spoken about "ordinary business information" with a data center exec anyways.

PC·Rock Paper Shotgun·2 days ago

Queen's Domain is a brilliant King's Field-alike RPG that forces you to walk so you can learn to fly

FromSoftware's elderly King's Field games aren't really celebrated for their feeling of agility. They are glorious first-person trudgefests, a treacle-thick waltz of swinging and spellcraft, with players wobbling…

PC·PC Gamer·2 days ago

'AAA publishers are abusing early access,' Denis Dyack says, and that's making things harder for everyone else

Dyack believes that games like Subnautica 2 are "skewing player expectations" for early access games.

PC·PC Gamer·2 days ago

It's Amnesia vs Amnesia in the 'scariest game' semifinals—vote now!

In round three of our 'scariest game on PC' tournament, two Amnesias face off, and Silent Hill 2 takes on Alien: Isolation.

PC·Rock Paper Shotgun·2 days ago

Don't worry, GTA 6's cars can drive for ages before their fuel tanks need refilling, leaving me wondering why this motor management's been added at all

Right, before you groan too hard, I promise that after I write this I'll take a break of indeterminate length from writing articles which amount to wondering aloud…

PC·Rock Paper Shotgun·2 days ago

Atmosfar is a giddy aerial exploration game after the heart of No Man's Sky, but I'm already trying to escape it

Oh hi there! Why yes, I am free to chat. Please excuse the wind noise, I'm currently tumbling to my doom in Atmosfar, after getting lost in a…

PC·PC Gamer·2 days agoConfirmed

I'm calling it: GTA 6 is officially an immersive sim, based on what you can do with NPCs

If I see a video of Lucia stacking crates to get over a wall I'm gonna lose it.

PC·PC Gamer·2 days ago

Where to find the Hokubo region Treasure Hunt in Forza Horizon 6

Track this chest to some greenhouses.

PC·Kotaku·2 days agoConfirmed

Phantom Blade Zero Just Rocketed Onto Steam With +700,000 Concurrent Players

The debut action-RPG from S-Game is living up to its pre-release hype

PC·PC Gamer·2 days ago

Havn HS 360 review

Stunning simplicity.