If you’ve ever grumbled about a terrible user interface, now’s the time to take a step back and be thankful this lot aren’t left to their own devices to design the UI for your favourite apps. 

We’re admittedly late to the party, but we’ve just come across an old trend on the ProgrammerHumor (opens in new tab) subreddit from about six years ago that’s had us laughing our collective butts off in the office—yeah, I know it’s old but it’s still news to us (via UXDesign (opens in new tab)). Sometimes falling under the BadUI tag, there’s an entire sea of programmers up in here, designing the worst volume controls imaginable.



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This month we celebrate the epic action RPG MMO Warframe with not only an incredible feature on its all-new dimension-jumping, roguelike expansion, The Duviri Paradox, but also with another huge feature on the full history of the game, which marks its 10-year anniversary this year. We’ve got 16 whole pages of Warframe goodness locked and loaded with exclusive dev commentary, screenshots and everything you need to know about jumping into its wild online world today.

The Duviri Paradox is Warframe’s exciting new roguelike expansion, and we’ve got the exclusive inside scoop. (Image credit: Future)

Meanwhile, over in previews land we’ve got a superb selection of games to get hyped for, with authoritative early looks at soul-stealing explore-‘em-up, Tchia, as well as Inkulinati, King of the Castle, Havendock and Sherlock Holmes: The Awakened. We’ve also got an exciting preview of Shadow Gambit: The Cursed Crew, a stealth strategy game set during the Golden Age of Piracy where gamers get to assemble and command an undead pirate crew. Shiver me timbers!PC Gamer magazine issue 381

Shadow Gambit: The Cursed Crew, which is previewed this issue, is a stealth strategy game with a cast of undead pirates. (Image credit: Future)

Setting sail on the good ship Review, meanwhile, is another undead horror in the form of Dead Space, with the much-anticipated remake getting a full PC Gamer verdict. We’ve also got reviews of the new Persona 3 Portable PC port, One Piece Odyssey, Colossal Cave, Forspoken, Mahokenshi, Power Chord, Aquatico and Season: A letter to the future. Plus our glowing review of Pizza Tower, which sees you play as a portly Italian chef as he fights his way through a skyscraper made of, well, pizza. Yes, you heard it right. This cheesy adventure is definitely not to be missed!PC Gamer magazine issue 381

We celebrate 10 years of Warframe with a huge special feature with exclusive, unprecedented dev access and commentary. (Image credit: Future)

All that plus a definitive guide to the best new mods for Cyberpunk 2077, a deep dive into the importance of a good shooting range in first person shooters, a detailed roundup of the best compact mechanical keyboards on the market, the first instalment of a unique Prey playthrough whereby enemies cannot be killed directly, an analysis of Lost Ark’s The Witcher crossover and a retrospective review of The Witcher 2: Assassins of Kings. And that’s far from all in this issue, either.PC Gamer magazine issue 381

This month we’ve tested the six best mechanical keyboards on the market, and ranked and rated them all. (Image credit: Future)

Issue 381 is on shelves now and available on all your digital devices from the App Store (opens in new tab) and Zinio. You can also order directly from Magazines Direct (opens in new tab) or purchase a subscription (opens in new tab) to save yourself some cash, receive monthly deliveries, and get incredibly stylish subscriber-only covers.

Enjoy the issue!PC Gamer magazine issue 381

Grab 16 pages of incredible Warframe goodness, as well as the very latest opinion, previews, reviews, and hardware tips in issue 381 of PC Gamer. (Image credit: Future)

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The traditional view has always been that games consoles were a useful but relatively petite contribution to AMD’s overall revenues. Turns out that’s not entirely true. In fact, Sony’s PS5 alone represented fully 16% of AMD’s revenues in 2022 and likely a quarter of revenues came from Sony and Microsoft consoles combined.

That’s according to an official AMD filing (opens in new tab) (via Tom’s Hardware (opens in new tab)). “One customer accounted for 16% of our consolidated net revenue for the year ended December 31, 2022. Sales to this customer consisted of sales of products from our Gaming segment,” the filing revealed.



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Turn those unruly yellows into winning green letters with our daily Wordle (opens in new tab) help. Keep scrolling, and you’ll find everything from general advice designed to help you squeeze the most use out of every guess, a helpful clue for the March 2 (621) puzzle, and if you’re out of ideas, time, or patience, you’ll find the answer to today’s Wordle just below that.

I had an unremarkable but not worthless open today, only to make a total mess of things on my third guess—that’ll teach me to attempt Wordle first thing in the morning. Luckily I did pull it back in the end, but that was a lot closer than it had to be.

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A Wordle hint for Thursday, March 2



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We’ve come a long way from the first at-home Oculus Rift, which was an exercise in motion sickness and screen-dooring. Now we have great no-strings-attached portable headsets like the Quest 2, full field of view high-res offerings like the Pimax 8k (opens in new tab), and even cool VR treadmills to use them on like the Kat VR C2+ (opens in new tab). There’s always something new coming in VR, be it headsets, glasses, or a rumour that Meta and Apple are working together.

As reported by The Verge (opens in new tab), a new roadmap was shared by Meta’s Reality Labs division laying out the planned future of AR and VR at the company. With the Meta Quest Pro (opens in new tab) not really being a gaming device, and the strong push towards the metaverse workplace, even if it loses Meta $4 billion a quarter (opens in new tab), it’s nice to see the company’s future of VR has room for games in it.



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Babylon’s Fall was not a good game by most accounts: we gave the co-op action RPG a 45% in our review, and the best it could muster on Steam was 482 “Mostly Negative” user reviews. Still, its final update is a heartbreaker.

Just six months after Babylon’s Fall came out, developer Platinum Games (one of our favorites, usually) canceled plans for large-scale updates and announced that, although it received many “enthusiastic messages of support,” it couldn’t keep the live service game online. 



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It’s March, which means many of us will soon turn our clocks forward and lose an hour of sleep just so the sun can hang around later. Feels like our schedules are always revolving around the sun, doesn’t it? So annoying.

Anyway, here’s what we’re excited to play and see this month. For a more comprehensive list of games coming this month and year, head to our guide to 2023’s new games.

Upcoming PC beta tests

March releases we’re looking forward to

March gaming events



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There was a time when the most complicated device in Rainbow Six Siege was an iPad that detects heartbeats. I imagine all of the CS:GO players who bounced off of Siege after getting spotted through a wall in 2015 would run for the hills if they knew what was possible in 2023. Thanks to Siege’s newest attacker, Brava, you can’t even trust your own claymores not to kill you.

Case in point: this downright absurd clip (opens in new tab) from Reddit user DansomeWoja, in which they manage to kill an enemy without ever firing a gun or being in the same room as them. DansomeWoja, who is playing the defender Mozzie, kills the opposing Brava player with a drone. Except the drone itself doesn’t deal the killing blow: Mozzie uses it to hack and detonate a claymore. And that drone? It doesn’t even belong to Mozzie. That’s actually Brava’s drone! 

a_bravas_worst_nightmare from r/Rainbow6


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Cannibalism is a choice, and I’m not here to judge anyone on their choices. We all get hungry, we all love trying new things, and human flesh may well be delicious. There’s only one way to find out, but please, talk to your doctor to see if cannibalism is right for you.

Cannibalism is a feature in Sons of the Forest (opens in new tab), but you should still be able to choose for yourself whether or not you want to indulge. Thing is, a little bug in yesterday’s hotfix (opens in new tab) was turning some players into cannibals without their say-so.



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A post on the FTC’s Business Blog with the tile Keep your AI claims in check (opens in new tab) offers a warning to companies working in AI. It’s a politely worded, business-friendly note from a lawyer at the USA’s top trade regulator. The warning? When it comes to making claims, they need to check themselves before they wreck themselves.

The FTC acknowledges that artificial intelligence or AI has no fixed meaning in tech. It’s nothing but marketing. That said, the FTC goes on to warn tech companies they need to take care when exaggerating their product’s capabilities, ensure they’re not saying it’s better than a non-AI product, and be sure that they’re aware of the risks in letting a program make calls the company will be liable for.



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