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PC Gaming Show 2023 liveblog

Dunno what a "PC Gamer" is but it’s running a NotE3 event

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Welcome to our PC Gaming Show liveblog, where we’ll be bringing you some extremely live coverage of PC Gamer’s contribution to the current NotE3/Summer Game Fest proceedings. If it’s anything like last year’s, the 2023 PC Gaming Show will be a breathless barrage of PC-focused game announcements, reveals, and trailers – and myself and Liam will be on hand to relay them all, one or two lines at a time.

Confirmed appearances range from Baldur's Gate 3 to Dune: Awakening and Frostpunk 2; in fact, a total of 55 games will be on show, including "over 15" brand new reveals. So yes, it should be a busy one. Hopefully we’re not physically wrecked from liveblogging the Xbox Games Showcase and Starfield Direct immediately beforehand, eh?

The PC Gaming Show 2023 kicks off at 9pm BST / 4pm EDT / 1pm PDT, and Starfield willing, we should have this liveblog live a few minutes before. By all means, come on in, follow along, and put all your drollest comments into the box below.


NotE3 and Summer Game Fest 2023 is over for another year. You can find out all the latest news by visiting our E3 2023 hub, or you can catch up with our round-up posts of everything that was announced at Summer Game Fest, the Xbox Games Showcase, the PC Gaming Show, Day Of The Devs, and our top highlights from the Wholesome Direct.

Our live coverage of this event has finished.

Coverage
See you back here on Sunday the 11th, 9pm BST / 4pm EDT / 1pm PDT for our PC Gaming Show 2023 liveblog. PC Gamer? Hardly know 'er.

James Archer

Hello everyone. Judging by the on-screen countdown, the PC Gaming Show is indeed still seven minutes away, though regular host Day9 is already hosting us in his clearly greenscreened mancave,

James Archer

Oh wow, we're already getting announcements. Here's a lil' futuristic farming sim, I Am Future.

James Archer

And another, a sludgy Vampire Survivors-like called Slime 3K.

James Archer

Black Skylands, a top-down aiship combat game, is next on. Launches August 3rd.

James Archer

Punch Club 2: Fast Foward trailer. Hang on, these aren't new games!

James Archer

NOW we're starting.

James Archer

Hello! Hello. I'm here. I didn't realise they'd start revealing stuff before the show. Deary me. Too many announcements!

Liam Richardson

...I don't think even Geoff's scripted banter was this scripted.

James Archer

Is this an AI bit. This is an AI bit, isn't it.

Liam Richardson

Yeah it's an AI bit.

Liam Richardson

We're kicking things off with Frostpunk 2!

Liam Richardson

Another look at Teardown and its new creative mode, where you can almost draw 3D objects (presumably before driving a truck through them). That's coming on June 15th.

James Archer

Huge bits of machinery. A pile of bodies. Hammers. A gruff man talking about opening the doors to hell. This is Frostpunk alright, even if it is just a CGI trailer. That's coming next year, and maybe has a more fire-based twist?

All we can say for certain is that Rachel will be very excited for that one.

Liam Richardson

Another look at life-sim Nivalis, next. This looks properly good. Customise your apartment. Wander around a gorgeous voxel cyberpunk city. Start a noodle bar. Take photographs. Avoid a serial killer. Yes please. Yes please. It's out next year.

Liam Richardson

A hardcore survival sim set in a post-apocylptic border zone is up now. Road To Vostok is its name, and there's a demo available to play on Steam right now. The player walked around for a bit and then died immediately.

Liam Richardson

That was Starlight Odyssey, a starship management (with Saturday morning TV vibes). Got a Steam demo coming soon.

James Archer

Now for a "Metroidvania based on A Christmas Carol".

James Archer

They just announced Citizen Sleeper 2? Like it was nothing???

Liam Richardson

It's 2D, and you play as Scrooge, who both beats up ghosts and can call upon the powers of helpful for combat and platforming.

James Archer

Ebeneezer and the Invisible World, it's called. No release date but there's a demo on Steam right now.

James Archer

"You will never make it through this red keycarded door unless you CHANGE YOUR WAYS"

James Archer

Alright, that Christmas Carol thing has thrown me off a bit. Now it's time for Knights! Knights battering each other about. James thinks this was maybe shown off at Geoff Fest a few days ago?

Warhaven, coming later this year.

Liam Richardson

A new trailer for retro-styled RTS Dorf.

James Archer

Lars Westergren says: Dorf-war, significantly less chill than Dorfromantik.
I did have to double check it wasn't a cynical spinoff aimed at the extremely lucrative lofi RTS market.

James Archer

Be still my beating heart, it's a colourful indie shooter. Looks like you'll be shooting (sort of cute?) demons in a series of caves and dungeons with a variety of weaponry. You'll even meet a few oddballs along the way that will provide you with enchantments for your guns as well as cool new hoodies to wear.

Sulfur. No release date, but I can't wait to see more of that.

Liam Richardson

Here's Saleblazers, an "open world survival shopkeeping" game.

James Archer

Oh this looks delightful actually. Lots of physics-based silliness like sliding down a cliff on a chair then clattering into a foe at the bottom. Out September 24th!

James Archer

Dave L. says: Pretty sure this got announced last year?
Look mate, I'm just the hardware guy.

James Archer

Though to be fair, most of the games so far have been either a long time coming or were shown during Geoff Fest/Day of the Devs a few days ago.

James Archer

OK. So. Eternights is a third person action game that features gorgeous anime visuals. A lad got his arm cut off, but also got a nice kiss? Who's to say what's happening there. Looked good, though.

Out in September.

Liam Richardson

Dave L. says: I was referring to the anime dating sim brawler thing.
...look mate, I'm just-

James Archer

Here are the Pax Dei devs, in a forest, talking about how studying real plants informed its verdant sandbox.

James Archer

Pax Dei does sound like an interesting experiment: a functioning guild will require both adventurous dungeon-diving and manual labour like chopping down trees. Will it work if everyone just wants the 'fun' jobs?

James Archer

Stampede Racing Royale promises to bring Mario Kart antics to PC, eh? Let's see about that.

Liam Richardson

Created by Sumo Digital, the folks behind the most recent Sonic racing game. It looked... fine?

Liam Richardson

Quick look at Mars Horizon 2: The Search for Life. They have a playable alpha "on the horizon".

James Archer

Path of Exile 2 time. We're being shown a character with a staff battering some proper horrible looking flesh monsters. Combat looks a little snappier than it does in Diablo 4?

You can find out more on July 28th.

Liam Richardson

Here's Ferocious, which if you haven't seen it before is a dinosaur-shootin' FPS with a bunch of fancy Unreal Engine graffix.

James Archer

Not much new from Ferocious there, I don't think? Some of the footage is on its Steam page in gif form.

James Archer

Islands of Insight is an "epic shared world puzzle adventure game". I guess it's like The Witness, but you share the world with other players? Solving puzzles together? It looks lovely, but I'm curious how it works. If a puzzle is solved by another player, can you no longer solve it? An intriguing idea.

Liam Richardson

A very speedy check-in on Lords of the Fallen. It's still a Soulslike. The end, apparently!

James Archer

Ah, mate. I'm a sucker for a management game where you build bases for horrible goblins. Not entirely convinced by the tone of this trailer, but I am absolutely on board with anything that's clearly inspired by Dungeon Keeper. Naheulbeuk's Dungeon Master is out this summer. That's soon! It's hot outside right now!

Liam Richardson

Time for a reveal: Mariachi Legends. Seems to be a pixelly, 2D action-adventure with detective elements - no other details.

James Archer

Unless the combat was just a cutscene (it was very quick). It COULD be a point and click. It's mysterious!

James Archer

Something for Citizen Sleeper now!

James Archer

Citizen Sleeper 2, no less.

James Archer

Warhammer Age of Sigmar: Realms of Ruin looks properly good. A real-time strategy title, similar to Relic's excellent Dawn of War series, but set in Warhammer's fantasy universe.

Liam Richardson

Warhammer Age of Sigmar: Realms of Ruin looks properly good. A real-time strategy title, similar to Relic's excellent Dawn of War series, but set in Warhammer's fantasy universe.

Liam Richardson

No in-game footage but looks like you'll have a sharp-dressed crim on your tail from the off.

James Archer

Well, this looks charming. A cute looking crafting game all about building boats and exploring tropical islands. You can make friends with a humanoid cat! The mayor is a rat! Your character has frosted tips! You can build stuff!

Critter Cove. Looks lovely.

Liam Richardson

Oh okay. We're actually going to look at an AI game now. Okay. Okay.

James Archer

Hmm, it's like a tabletop-style group RPG with an AI gamesmaster. Hmmmmm.

James Archer

Dave L. says: "Right now we have this public domain work. Expect more public domain works to be fed into the maw of the AI in the future"

Hahaha

Liam Richardson

It's called Hidden Door btw.

James Archer

I would say more about Hidden Door but the knowledge of it relying on feeding classic works of literature in an AI plagiarismo-bot has withered my body and brain.

James Archer

Turn-based action RPG Miasma Chronicles is on now. Uh, isn't that already on sale?

James Archer

Oh, it's getting a physical edition for consoles.

James Archer

Oh, the new game from Klei is up next! A grungy sci-fi adventure about flying your space truck through hositle environments.

Dread Pilots is coming in 2024. Looks intriguing!

Liam Richardson

Not entirely sure what exactly Undead Inc. is, but that trailer was a lot of fun. An enigmatic CEO shooting zombies in the basement of his research facility. Hoping this is some kind of Resident Evil inspired management sim, but I suspect it might be a shooter?

Liam Richardson

Apologies to commenter Eulrich, but we have a good-looking Metroidvania. Altered Alma, s'called. Very sci-fi and slashy.

James Archer

Invector Rhythm Galaxy looks cool. Flying around in a spaceship, hitting notes in time to the beat. Like a cross between Audiosurf and Amplitude?

Out July 14th.

Liam Richardson

Eulrich says: combination of management sim and arpg/twinstick shooter? i wish some of the announcement trailers were a tad less vague on the concepts

Same.

Liam Richardson

Here's a new look that Firewatch-y walking sim, The Invincible. Lots of glimpses at the dusty planet you'll be stranded on.

James Archer

Some fresh footage for Park Beyond, which is out very soon. It's a theme park sim that lets you create wild rides like a bunch of ferris wheels stacked on top of one another.

Out on June 16th.

Liam Richardson

Another VampSurv-like, Pathfinder: Gallowspire Survivors. As first reported by WarderDragon a few minutes ago!

James Archer

This looks interesting. Diesel Legacy: The Blazing Age is a 2v2 fighting game set in a steampunk world. You can play as a gangly plague doctor.

There's an open beta available to play on Steam right now.

Liam Richardson

Questionable live action aspect to this ParcelCorp reveal, but it looks maybe kinda fun? Extreme bike-courier shenanigans - THPS meets Deliveroo.

James Archer

Ah, a look at Fabledom! This is a fairytale city builder that's out now in early access. I've had my eye on this for ages. Looks grand.

Liam Richardson

There are meant to be 55 games in this show, by the by. I wonder how many we've had.

James Archer

After a Game Pass ad, it's time for 30XX to make an appearance. This 2D shooter has been in early access for a while but it's launching for real on August 9th.

James Archer

A new sci-fi survival game by the creators of Green Hell is up next. The CGI trailer shows a sun exploding, destorying a human colony on a nearby planet. But from the ashes, rebirth! It's called Chimera and is coming soon.

Liam Richardson

The next game from the creators of Exo One is a brutal sci-fi rally game which sounds (and looks) brilliant. Exo Rally Championship.

Liam Richardson

Bit of in-game footage for strategy RPG Shadow Gambit: The Cursed Crew. I like the concept behind this: you command a hexed pirate ship and its all its undead pirates, collecting magic pearls to restore their souls.

James Archer

Out on August 17th!

James Archer

himaji says: Wait, what was the scifi game with the blue lava called again? I didn't catch the name

Whoops, forgot to add it to my post. Chimera!

Liam Richardson

Time for an extended look at Stormgate, Frost Giant Studios' Starcraft spiritual successor. Pre-alpha footage coming up.

James Archer

This looks like an APM-y RTS alright - both players building bases before venturing out for some small skirmishes. Maps will have light forests that allow small units to pass through while blocking off larger armies.

James Archer

Closed beta signups for Stormgate are available now, with the beta itself starting in July.

James Archer

Fortune's Run next - there's an update for the demo ahead of its early access launch on September 1st.

James Archer

Hell Let Loose is getting a new update - titled Devotion To Duty - on July 18th.

Liam Richardson

Atomic Picnic! Anime 3rd-person bug shooter! Okay moving on.

James Archer

I am so excited for Mullet Mad Jack, a retro-inspired FPS with slick anime vibes. I want that game immediately. Cheers.

Liam Richardson

Vampire Survivors is getting a fresh update that seemingly introduces a randomiser as well as twitch chat integration. Looks fun. Out tomorrow.

Liam Richardson

Vampire Survivors is getting a fresh update that seemingly introduces a randomiser as well as twitch chat integration. Looks fun. Out tomorrow.

Liam Richardson

Okay so a bunch of games just went by so quickly that we literally did not have time to type them up. So, retroactively, we've just seen cartoon comedy Jorel's Brother and the Most Important Game of the Galaxy (out June 15th), ranch sim Gaucho and the Grasslands, sci-fi 4X Revival: Recolonization, and cutely pixellated managment/builder Nova Lands (out June 22nd),.

James Archer

Baldur's Gate 3 time. We're kicking things off with an animated sketch.

Liam Richardson

Now here's the actual Baldur's Gate 3.

James Archer

Nice busyness to this city. Lots going on.

James Archer

Did that man just incinerate a child?

James Archer

If he did, we're not dwelling on it. That's that for BG3 - a mostly chill section with lots of dev talking heads.

James Archer

More fantasy now with Ember Knights, a co-op roguelike. It features properly lovely visuals and some delightfully goofy enemy designs. 1.0 launches July 18th.

Liam Richardson

TerraTech gets a sequel: TerraTech Worlds. Lots more, even more complex-looking vehicle and base building on alien planets.

James Archer

Macabre is next, a "stealth extraction horror". It looks very interesting, although I can't tell if it's multiplayer or not? Either way you'll have to explore creepy, shifting buildings while avoiding vicious monsters.

A demo will be available soon.

Liam Richardson

A reveal for Blackbird Interactive's Earthless. Nothing on how it'll play, but you'll be helping a fleet of spaceships find a new home after the Sun melts our current ball of rock.

James Archer

Like Interstellar, perhaps, with less organ.

James Archer

The next game by the developers of Kingdoms and Castles is a city builder set in ancient Rome. Build colosseums! Be smited by the gods! It looks lovely, and it's called Nova Roma.

Liam Richardson

New from Ashborne Games: Last Train Home. It's a snowy RTS set just after WW1, centered around a group of Czech soldiers using an armoured train as a mobile base.

James Archer

Ah, My Friendly Neighbourhood. I've been excited for this for a while. A horror shooter about avoiding felt monstrosities inspired by characters from Sesame Street.

It's out on July 18th! That's soon!

Liam Richardson

New trailer for F1 Manager 23, which is out on July 31st.

James Archer

Breathedge 2. Spaceships! Fixing a car! Explosions! A chicken!

Liam Richardson

That was BloomTown: A Different Story. Gives us the ol' bait and switch, setting up a cheerful life sim before switching to semi-spooky JPG battling in a netherworld.

James Archer

Dave L. says: Was that a corgi werewolf?
A werecorgi, yes.

James Archer

SAND. The Game.

James Archer

The CGI trailer for Sand showed off a bunch of fellas having a laugh on the back of an enormous steam powered mech.

Liam Richardson

Oop, nearly the end of the show. For a finale we're visiting the Funcom team making Dune: Awakening.

James Archer

*Chanting*

WORM! WORM! WORM! WORM!

Liam Richardson

Seen a bit of sandbiking in the desert, though the promised sandworms have only been shown in concept art.

James Archer

Desert sands will shift every week, revealing new places to visit and/or exploit.

James Archer

Some more Dune: Awakening concept art, and we're done!

James Archer

Right. That's it. Five (ish) solid hours of gaming coverage DONE. But James, I have to ask, what was your favourite game from this specific stream? I'm gonna have to go with Mullet Mad Jack, which looks rad as hell.

Liam Richardson

Eulrich says: well, have a good nights rest *waves*
You too! Thanks to everyone for stopping by!

Liam Richardson

Y'know, it might just be ParcelCorp? I've never harboured any secret desires to deliver food to middle class people but bouncing around on an apparently spring-loaded bicycle looked like heaps of fun.

James Archer

Well, that's that for the PC Gaming Show 2023. There's plenty still to come as part of this year's summer of gaming, so make sure to check out our E3 2023 hub for all the latest announcements. Sleep well, folks!

Liam Richardson

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