PC Gaming
After weeks of hand-wringing, outrage, ill-advised social media posts, and the sturm und drang of online gamer life, Borderlands 4 preorders are finally live and it is not, as some had feared, an $80 game. But if you want to throw nearly double the regular price at it, there’s an on the table for that,…
The founder of Nexus Mods, Robin ‘Dark0ne’ Scott, has announced he’s stepping back from the day-to-day running of the site, a full 24 years after founding it. “I started this project back in 2001, in my bedroom, with a 56k modem, an excitement for the upcoming release of Morrowind and with no grand ambitions or…
Everyone has a different way of going about their work. Some like to plan meticulously, colour code information and have Excel spreadsheets on Excel spreadsheets, and others, well, others have GDocs. As it turns out, throwing ideas into an ever-growing chaotic GDoc for days on end was actually Philipp Weber’s first job at CD Projekt…
Do you know how long it’s been since we first saw the advent of the humble gaming mouse? 26 years. That’s when Razer first introduced its odd-looking Boomslang for us all to see. Back in a world of ball mice and PS/2 connections, of Microsoft IntelliMouse designs and cruddy free deskpads, the very concept of…
General comfort, physical disabilities, health problems, airconditioner proximity, chance of dog love, potential snuggles, and ability to snack. This is the list of excuses that comes to mind whenever I realise I am once again gaming on the couch. For controller based games, this isn’t such an issue, but for keyboard and mouse based action…
It’s fair to say that Windows Recall has been one of Microsoft’s more controversial ideas in recent times. The AI-powered system routinely captures screenshots of your monitor’s output and stores them in an encrypted local database, allowing you to then search for apps, websites, or even document text and images. With its latest Windows 11…
If you’re dead-set on owning an Intel system and have a Core Ultra 200-series Arrow Lake processor in your sights, as well as a Mini-ITX case, then ASRock has not one, but three motherboards vying for your attention. The Phantom Gaming B860I Lightning Wi-Fi we’re looking at here is the middle of the three in…
Expensive motherboards are all very well, but if you just want a solid base for a decent PC, but still want a few cutting-edge features, then dipping below $200 can be risky. Features are cut from certain areas to lower the price tag, but with Intel and AMD’s mid-range chipset motherboards now a few months…
If you remember the days that you could pick up a relatively high-end motherboard for less than $250, you’re not alone, but even today there are one or two apparent good deals around that offer plenty of premium features and leave you with change from $200. The ASRock B860 Steel Legend Wi-Fi might lack overclocking…
Pillars of Eternity 2: Deadfire, as the RPG sickos on the PC Gamer staff are to be believed, is an RPG that never quite got its time in the sun. While we rated it pretty highly, giving it a solid 88 in our review back in the day, low sales caused Obsidian no shortage of…