Weird Weekend Weird Weekend is our regular Saturday column where we celebrate PC gaming oddities: peculiar games, strange bits of trivia, forgotten history. Pop back every weekend to find out what Jeremy, Josh and Rick have become obsessed with this time, whether it’s the canon height of Thief’s Garrett or that time someone in the…
Even two years after release, Balatro is one of the biggest and best roguelikes going—there may be no one more keenly aware of that than developer LocalThunk, who’s managed to keep a low profile despite his game selling millions of copies and scoring crossover after crossover. In a recent anniversary blog post titled “Bad Grades,”…
More quizzes! (Image credit: Larian Studios, PC Gamer) Want to keep testing your knowledge of gaming trivia? We’ve got loads more PC Gamer quizzes, on everything from healthbars to weird currencies to absurd patch notes. Love it or hate it, DLC is as core to PC gaming these days as a mouse and keyboard. From…
Galar-vanting. Pokémon turns 30 on 27th February, and in honour of this momentous anniversary, we’re running a series of polls leading up to the big day, asking you to vote for your favourite Pokémon from each generation. The nine winners will then go head-to-head in a final poll at the end of the month. We’re…
Sean Martin, Senior Guides Writer (Image credit: Future) Last week I was: getting roundhouse kicked by Cyborgs. This week I’ve been: impressed by the Automaton’s ability to produce seemingly infinite Vox Engines. Anyone who’s been kickin’ around the milky way for a while in Helldivers 2 will recall quite a few events of note in…
Train survival games are all the rage in PC gaming right now, with Chris Livingston spying six railway-related survival sims arriving at platform PC in 2026. But these life-sustaining locomotives were all pulled onto the tracks by Voidtrain, a survival sim in which you drive an interdimensional train through a vast, eerie cosmos. While it…
One of the many things that annoys me about modern AI technology is if it did somehow destroy the world as its early boosters often (and bizarrely) claimed it might, it’s far more likely to do so by accident than design. There’d be no cannily launching a nuclear attack against Russia knowing that the counterattack…
Jacob Fox, hardware writer (Image credit: Future) This week I’ve been: Spending probably too much time in Counter-Strike 2 deathmatches and aim training maps. It’s all work, not pleasure, I assure you… Okay, maybe a little pleasure. The last couple of weeks have been such a deep breath of fresh air. It’s been nice to…
If you could have one magical power, what would it be? For me, it would be the ability to instantly fix anything. Washing machine broken? Zap! Not anymore. Boiler on the blink? Let’s Fantasia that shit. PC giving you some random error you’ve been struggling to solve all morning? Just point your finger at it…
And we’ve never looked back. We all pulled a ‘Wait, Mario is how old??‘ last year as the prized plumber and the NES celebrated their 40th anniversaries, and what do you know, we’re about to do it all over again for little old Link. Yes, The Legend of Zelda is 40 years old today (in…