PC Gaming
Even though SSDs have been around for years, steadily improving in speed, reliability, and capacity, the good old hard disk drive is still worth considering for your gaming PC. That’s because when it comes to outright storage per buck, there’s nothing that beats an HDD. And in the current situation where DRAM and flash memory…
After you build the Wharf and Ketch, it’s time to start collecting materials to build your next Windrose ship and accompanying gear upgrades. It’s not a hard process, but since ship plans are so pricey, I get the desire to feel out your options before making any commitments. That’s where I come in, having misspent…
In November 2025, a team of DexAI Icaro Lab, Sapienza University of Rome, and Sant’Anna School of Advanced Studies researchers published a study in which they were able to circumvent the safety guardrails of major LLMs by rephrasing harmful prompts as “adversarial” poems. This week, those same researchers have published a new paper presenting their…
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. Indie survival game Windrose is one of the biggest hits of 2026. Assassin’s Creed 4: Black Flag is getting a…
American McGee’s Alice wasn’t a big hit, but it has proven to be one of those enduring cult classics: 26 years after its release, there’s still demand for a new one. In a recent post on X, McGee shared some insights into one of the inspirations for that game—which was also his first real signal…
The last thing you want in a game mode where players disguise themselves as furniture in a World of Warcraft city is free access to x-ray vision. There’s no fun to be had when you’re just chasing after dots on your minimap instead of studying a suspicious table that you could’ve sworn moved a little….
Dead by Daylight developer Behaviour Interactive has confirmed the layoff of an undisclosed number of employees, telling Game Developer the cuts were made as a result of reduced demand for external development partnerships. “A portion of Behaviour Interactive’s business has traditionally focused on external development partnerships. In recent months, demand for mobile and casual external…
Would you pay a quarter to leave a comment on PCGamer.com? Before you scream “no” at me in the comments for the bargain price of free, consider that the PC Gamer magazine readers of yesteryear were Built Different. Once upon a time, folks were so eager to mail their letters into the magazine that they’d…
New Xbox boss Asha Sharma had some good and bad news for Game Pass subscribers yesterday: the service is now cheaper, but new Call of Duty games will no longer be included with the service at release. They’ll now arrive a year later, around the time that they’re inevitably replaced by the next Call of…
Jack Buser is Google Cloud global director for games, a role in which he “enable[s] transformation of game industry developers, publishers and platforms with AI and cloud solutions.” And from that lofty perch he has devised a solution for the woes plaguing the videogame business. Can you guess what it is? I’ll tell you: It’s…