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Reinstall This article first appeared in PC Gamer magazine issue 389 in October 2023, as part of our Reinstall series. Every month we load up a beloved classic—and find out whether it holds up to our modern gaming sensibilities.  A staggering eight years ago, Fallout 4 was released. Its developer, Bethesda, made the swap back…

Diablo 4’s newest season has been its most generous yet and Blizzard just dropped a hotfix that makes it even better. The action RPG’s hardest endgame boss, Echo of Duriel, will now drop the game’s most powerful items, Uber Uniques, at twice the usual rate until the season ends on January 8. As long as…

On the second day of reviewing Redfall, Arkane’s co-op vampire FPS, I logged in and lost all my progress. I made the critical mistake of playing with someone else in a multiplayer game that only remembers what one player does. I wasn’t devastated about losing a few hours of my time,  but disappointed that the…

My Sorceress has one of the rarest items in Diablo 4. Ahavarion, Spear of Lycander is an “Uber” Unique that drops off one of the hardest endgame boss fights. It does absurdly high damage and periodically transforms my character into a god. The spear isn’t technically good for my build, which funnels all my power…

In Diablo 4’s hardest dungeon, you have 10 minutes and one life to kill the hardest enemies in the game. A little over a week after its launch, a Chinese player named Xingluoah was able to conquer the final and most brutal tier of the Abattoir of Zir using a newly discovered exploit, a perfected…

A number of things from the massive Grand Theft Auto 6 leak last year showed up in Rockstar’s first official trailer this week. We know the setting, the main characters, and the overall vibe of the developer’s next crime epic. But there are plenty of things still rumored to show up in GTA 6 that…

Today, Blizzard opened the gates to Diablo 4’s hardest endgame dungeon, a seasonal event called the Abattoir of Zir. Experienced players have been gearing up for this moment for weeks, perfecting their builds to tackle the first tier of a dungeon that the developer teased might be completely impossible at its highest difficulty level. But…

Next week, Diablo 4 will drop a new endgame seasonal event that is so hard you might not be able to finish the last tier of it. Blizzard demonstrated it on stream yesterday and promised that it would challenge the most powerful builds in the game. Possibly out of mercy, Blizzard will make it much…

Diablo 4’s redemption arc isn’t over yet. Speaking on a stream today, Blizzard says it’s heard the criticisms about finding good loot and plans to address it in season 4 next year. The current season, Season 2, radically increased the speed of progression in Diablo 4, practically dumping buckets of XP and loot on players…