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Our Verdict Boltgun is stupendously fun—a treat for Warhammer players and a worthy member of the growing legion of retro shooters. PC Gamer’s got your backOur experienced team dedicates many hours to every review, to really get to the heart of what matters most to you.Find out more about how we evaluate games and hardware. Boltgun is the first truly exceptional Warhammer 40,000 game sinceDawn of War19 years ago. An intense, retro-themed FPS in the stylings of Doom and Quake, Boltgun follows the “Sternguard Veteran,” a nameless, faceless soldier of the Ultramarines requisitioned by the conniving Inquisition and let loose on the traitorous Black Legion and their daemons....

Activision Blizzard says it’s ‘committed to the Chinese market’ following China’s approval of Microsoft acquisition Activision Blizzard gets a little good news from China for the first time in a while. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission.Here’s how it works. Following theEU’s approval last week, China’s State Administration for Market Regulation has given its blessing to the proposed union between Microsoft andActivisionBlizzard. The decision was reported bySeeking Alphalate last week, and confirmed by Activision Blizzard today in a statement sent to PC Gamer....

Activision nukes another Call of Duty fan project from orbit: ‘Thank you all for your support over the years’ The modders behind the “IW4X” Call of Duty client have closed up shop. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission.Here’s how it works. It’s a bad time to be a Call of Duty modder asActivisionhas cracked down on its second PC fan project in as many weeks....

Alan Wake himself says Alan Wake 2 is ‘supposed to come out in October’ Remedy hasn’t commented. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission.Here’s how it works. Remedy has previously said that Alan Wake 2 will release sometime this year, but it looks like Alan Wake himself may have let the cat out of the bag. The voice actor for the eponymous protagonist is Matthew Poretta and, appearing on theMonsters, Madness, and Magic podcast(thanks IGN), dated the game as coming out this October....

California takes big step in bringing right to repair to Silicon Valley The bill just needs to pass the state senate. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission.Here’s how it works. Personal electronic devices are a huge part of our daily lives from phones to laptops and beyond. But the unfortunate truth is as these devices get more and more advanced they also tend to become more complicated....

CliffyB might not be done with making games after all, says ‘my LA lawyer’ is on the case for a LawBreakers revival Also has a bit of a moan about Microsoft not backing his dragon game. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission.Here’s how it works. Clifford Bleszinski occupies an odd space in the games industry at the moment. The artist formerly known as Cliffy B is a big-budget director of substantial talent who’s worked on some best-in-class titles and is still relatively young, but breaking off from Epic Games and setting up on his own didn’t go quite as planned:LawBreakers was great, but didn’t sell, while Radical Heights was a hail Mary that didn’t quite come off either....

Diablo 4 players have started calling people who didn’t earn the horse cosmetic in the beta ‘bare-mares’ The community has split into haves and have-nots over the Cry of Ashava. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission.Here’s how it works. Did you beat the world boss Ashava in theDiablo 4"Server Slam" beta? The answer’s important: it will decide your standing in the upcoming game’s social order....