PC Gaming
Europe’s biggest gaming convention is imminent: The Gamescom 2025 festivities will commence on Tuesday, August 19 with Geoff Keighley’s usual Opening Night Live, which will be followed by the Future Games Show and Xbox and Bethesda streams throughout the week. (See our Gamescom 2025 schedule for more on when and where to watch all the…
The multiplayer soccer game Rematch came out strong in June, despite missing one major feature: Crossplay was not enabled because of “unforeseen technical complexities.” Two months later, it’s still not there, but developer Sloclap says it’ll be here soon. Word of the upcoming crossplay functionality came in the notes of the second major patch for…
Pop a Buffout, huff some Ultrajet, and pour yourself a big bowl of Sugar Bombs. Fallout fans may have a long wait before we get any kind of news about Fallout 5, but at least there’s a little irradiated goodness coming our way soon. Quite soon! As in, next week: we’re getting some sort of…
A good microphone doesn’t need to have a million features to make an impact. Wrap a high-quality capsule in a sturdy frame, convert the output to a USB connection, and provide a stand. That’s about all you get with our current favourite budget gaming microphone, the Amazon Basics USB condenser mic, and it works brilliantly….
Marvel Rivals has a reputation for appealing to its players’ baser instincts: It had people saying ‘thick thighs save lives‘ at one point, and Elie recently described the shooter as ‘digging its heels into the gooner dirt’ when it added a cache of new swimsuit skins. Despite my best efforts to escape this discourse, I’ve…
Until very recently, the HyperX Cloud Alpha Wireless was our favourite wireless gaming headset, right up until the magnificent Razer BlackShark V3 ate its lunch. It hasn’t taken HyperX long to strike back, however, with the newly-announced HyperX Cloud Alpha Wireless 2—complete with a fancy RGB-lit base station with a selection of media controls. HyperX…
The year is 2005 and I’m an impressionable 12 year old looking for my next gaming fix on our family PC. I slot in one of our many PC Gamer demo discs for a game called Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War and boom (quite literally), the opening cutscene hits. I can tell you the exact…
Image 1 of 2 (Image credit: HP) Image 2 of 2 The 45L on the left and the Max 45L on the right (Image credit: HP) One thing I’ve noticed recently is that, with the price of RTX 5090 cards being so ludicrously high, even infamously overpriced gaming brands like Alienware have relatively reasonable prebuilts….
Samsung has announced what it claims is the world’s first 500 Hz OLED monitor. Predictably, it’s a 27-inch 1440p model that will likely grab the attention of esports fans. But it’s actually Samsung’s new 40-inch 5K2K gaming monitor that’s got me twitching. First up, let’s cover off the new Samsung Odyssey OLED G6. Just as…
We’re just a month out from the release of Borderlands 4, and Gearbox CEO/magician Randy Pitchford is hitting the media circuit to tell everyone why you should be very excited for the 30 billion guns it apparently contains. But it’s not all about the heaters. Gearbox has promised that—after the less-than-stellar narrative that propped up…