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The Steam Deck seems like a lovely machine for tackling retro games, since they tend not to guzzle storage space. That doesn’t mean their Steam versions are always deck verified, though—if you’ve hit this wall trying to replay Capcom classics like Dino Crisis or the OG Resident Evil games, you’ll be pleased to hear better…
Dungeon Master Welcome to Dungeon Master, PC Gamer’s regular RPG column, where Online Editor Fraser Brown delves into PC gaming’s most beloved and enduring genre. Grab a seat in our badly-lit tavern and please ignore the goblin puke. At the end of 2024, I resigned myself to the fact that BioWare was no longer capable,…
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…
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 don’t know what compels me to keep forcing you all to confront the ugly history of videogame movies in…
Have you ever thought to yourself, “Boy, I wish I could play the third person, Nintendo 64-exclusive Duke Nukem: Zero Hour, but on my PC and in first person”? What’s that? You don’t think anybody has thought that before in the history of humankind? Well, I can assure you that at least four people have,…
Jacob Fox, hardware writer (Image credit: Future) This week I’ve been: Trying out some seriously fast gaming monitors, including a 600 Hz TN panel. My Counter-Strike gaming has never been so buttery smooth. Over the past year, I’ve found myself falling head over heels for a couple of different competitive gaming mice for vastly different…
Rockstar Games’ cancelled open world game Agent is one of the more mysterious elements of the Grand Theft Auto 6 developer’s history. Originally revealed back in 2007, Agent was a relatively high-profile project for years, but never showed much beyond the odd bit of concept art, eventually vanishing from Rockstar’s website in 2021. More information…
Steam is flooded with all manner of weird and wonderful city-builders these days. Yet few of these newer games have laid their foundations in the true heartland of the genre. If you want to build a vast, modern cityscape with intensely simulated traffic and three types of zoning, you’re pretty much stuck with Cities: Skylines…
It always bugged me that you couldn’t save the scientists in Half-Life. You’d be trundling through some grey corridor in the bowels of Black Mesa, with one or two or maybe even three lab coat wearing boffins behind you, when they’d suddenly stop for no obvious reason, announcing: “This is as far as I go!”…
If there’s one thing that the now-defunct World Championship Wrestling was known for in the 1990s, it was wasting absolutely colossal amounts of billionaire Ted Turner’s cash. You could say that the media mogul could afford it, but WCW’s spendthrift ways were because it was always something of a vanity project: Turner made his name…