Elie Gould

1 week ago | pcgamer.com | Elie Gould |Andrea Shearon

When Larian Studios' CEO Swen Vincke took the stage at The Game Awards to present Game of the Year he also relayed a bit of advice to other studios: Make a game that you want to play yourself, and your game will do well. Something that Daniel Knight, CEO of Kinetic Games and lead developer, did years ago with Phasmophobia. "I don't think there's any main inspiration [for Phasmophobia]," Knight says in an interview with Andrea Shearon at Summer Game Fest.

2 weeks ago | pcgamer.com | Elie Gould |Andrea Shearon

I'll never forget the first time my friends and I played Phasmophobia. It was like nothing I'd ever played before, absolutely hilarious, and surprisingly terrifying—it still is. So it's rather funny to me that not only does Phasmo's creator not really play horror games but he didn't intend to make one either. "I failed to make a co-op puzzle game," director and lead developer Daniel Knight told my colleague Andrea Shearon during an interview at Summer Game Fest. "Or a co-op puzzle horror game.

2 weeks ago | pcgamer.com | Elie Gould

PlayFusion's newest trailer for Ascendant has arrived at the PC Gaming Show 2025, and it gives us a quick look at what we can expect from the chaotic multiplayer shooter—with tanks, weapons, and some funky hairdos all making an appearance. After waking up from a thousand-year cryo-nap, players will dive straight into what the devs call a "neon-drenched PvPvE fever dream", coming up against ruthless opponents and some killer local wildlife.

2 weeks ago | pcgamer.com | Elie Gould

Co-op horror games have been going from strength to strength as of late, with Lethal Company, REPO, and The Outlast Trials going strong for some time now. But as is the case when any genre is doing well, there's much more where that came from: Enter Blumhouse Games' newest multiplayer horror game, Eyes of Hellfire. Announced during the PC Gaming Show 2025, this horror game is in the Hellfire club, an abandoned gothic lodge.

2 weeks ago | pcgamer.com | Elie Gould

It can be really hard to make pixel art look scary because, simply, a few blocks on a screen can only do so much. But Ysbryd Games' upcoming psychological horror platformer Love Eternal, shown at the PC Gaming Show 2025, manages to nail 2D terror in its trailer, mostly thanks to some really unsettling images. Instead of relying on graphic gore, hyper-realistic monsters, or an eerily detailed location, Love Eternal uses creepy music, sound effects, and scenes to scare the player.