PC Gaming

I have no idea what to make of this, but more than two years after it was folded into Counter-Strike 2, Counter-Strike: Global Offensive is back on Steam. CS:GO was never fully scrubbed out of existence: Committed diehards could continue accessing the OG GO through a CS2 beta build, unceremoniously named “csgo_demo_viewer.” Online matchmaking was…

Deus Ex: Invisible War has its defenders, including PC Gamer’s own Joshua Wolens, but even the most stout-hearted of them would never go as far as saying it was a worthy sequel to the original. Where Deus Ex ripped up the rulebook and set an example that the immsim genre has struggled to replicate ever…

When World of Warcraft: Midnight players saw an NPC with an expensive painting for sale, they took it as a challenge. Blizzard developers love to sneak in secrets for people to try to solve and a 9,999,999 gold painting—the maximum amount of gold a single character can even have—was a clear tease for anyone who…

As my dapple grey Mongolian trudges through a foot of snow up the last hill into a remote mountain village, my character Naraa lifts her forearm to block the glare of the setting sun. For a moment, the shadows on the trails my horse’s hooves leave in the powder remind me of the same beautiful…

The long-rumored, many times-leaked Assassin’s Creed 4: Black Flag remake is official. Ubisoft dropped the confirmation in an email to press laying out the future of the Assassin’s Creed series, sandwiched between sparse details about a future co-op AC game and the upcoming Netflix show. “Speculation around Assassin’s Creed is not new, but it’s worth…

For nearly four years, my author bio on this website has informed you that Deus Ex: Invisible War was pretty good, actually. The much-maligned sequel to one of the greatest games of all time had its flaws in spades, I don’t deny that, but it kept enough of a beating imsim heart that my 13-year-old…

Qualcomm’s new second-gen Snapdragon X2 CPU has appeared in the Geekbench results browser for the first time (via Notebookcheck) and posted some pretty impressive numbers. In terms of single-core performance, it’s over 30% faster than the best laptop CPUs from AMD and Intel. Geekbench is but one metric and obviously not a real-world application. But…

It’s all over but the crying, as the song famously goes: After 37 days of existence, Wildlight Entertainment pulled the plug on Highguard yesterday, declaring the game unsustainable. Not long after, studio head Chad Grenier shared some insights into how the game actually performed, and it really doesn’t sound quite as catastrophic as the game’s…

Ahead of a stream on March 20, Ubisoft has confirmed Assassin’s Creed Shadows is moving “into its final phase of support”. The publisher’s focus will move to three previously announced Assassin’s Creed projects, including the “darker, narrative driven” Codename Hexe. “We’re winding things down with smaller, less frequent updates… but still a few surprises!” Ubisoft…

Even if you’ve sufficiently managed your expectations and aren’t going for the flashiest bit of kit, hardware is still expensive. Full desktop rigs are bad enough, but even mid-range gaming laptops can come at an eye-watering premium—and don’t even get me started on just how much an Apple alternative would set you back by. MacBooks…