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. I play far too many games with a competitive ranked mode. I’m not sure why I subject myself to the…
Unfortunately, you can’t tell the story of Rust without including its “cheat community,” which Facepunch COO Alistair McFarlane once said routinely harasses and threatens the game’s developers when it’s not, you know, cheating. The latest measure the studio is taking to keep up with cheat makers is one you’ll find familiar if you’ve tried to…
Yes, I know the game is 13 years old at this point and old enough to have a social media account, but just in case: spoilers for BioShock Infinite’s story below. You’ve been warned! It’s been a hot sec since I played BioShock Infinite now, but I’ll never forget hearing the crooning of “I may…
Super by name, super by nature. In the introduction to Super Nintendo: How One Japanese Company Helped the World Have Fun, Keza MacDonald makes a simple promise: over the course of the next 12 chapters, you’ll read something you didn’t already know. It’s the kind of gauntlet-laying that would have any self-respecting Nintendo fan click…
Combining two successful, but strikingly different cult franchises, Nintendo’s free-to-try 3DS game ends up a winner, but only if you have enough space in your gaming heart for both of them. Adding Pokemon to the Picross formula adds a much-needed layer of depth to the usual puzzle fare and with a ton to do and…
Character Select Welcome to Character Select, a weekly column where PC Gamer takes a look at the art and cosplay created by you. Each week, I’ll highlight a few of my favourite pieces, spotlight and interview creators and artists, or generally just chew your ear off about the talents of the gaming community. I’ve always…
Our picks for the best eShop games on Switch 1 & 2 in January. You’ve got through one month of 2026, and what’s your reward? Ah yes, another dose of eShop Selects! The Switch 2 has kicked off the year in relatively calm fashion, but before the mad Spring rush hits us, let’s look at…
It’s a testament to Sid Meier’s institutional status that we never pause to consider how profoundly unusual it is for a game creator to put his own name in the title. Even Hideo Kojima stops short of calling his games “Hideo’s Kojima’s Death Stranding” or whatever, instead settling for prefacing every title with “A Hideo…
It’s a testament to Sid Meier’s institutional status that we never pause to consider how profoundly unusual it is for a game creator to put his own name in the title. Even Hideo Kojima stops short of calling his games “Hideo’s Kojima’s Death Stranding” or whatever, instead settling for prefacing every title with “A Hideo…
Alongside first-person shooters and real-time strategy games, the ’90s was also the golden era of space combat simulators. From Star Wars: X-Wing to Freespace 2, whipping out your joystick to blow up spaceships in nausea-inducing 3D spaceflight was a formative experience for every first-generation PC gamer. Among those space sims jostling for supremacy was Star…