PC Gaming
In all the maddening volatility of the triple-T era (Trump, Tariffs, Trade war) I have been surprised by just how resilient and stable the laptop market has been. At least so far, anyways. Sure, Razer panicked and pulled down pre-orders temporarily for its new Blade laptops because of the Orange One’s fiscal foibles, but it’s…
Thanks to bots, scalpers, and even more bots, companies have been implementing strange ways to get GPUs into the hands of enthusiasts over the last few months. We’ve seen lotteries to ‘win’ the chance at purchasing cards, we’ve seen customers buying returned GPUs to beat the scalping market, and we’ve seen potential customers purchasing RTX…
When it comes to turn-based tactics, there’s still one undisputed king of the genre: XCOM. If you’ve never experienced its brand of tense, alien-killing strategy before—or if there’s a game or two in the series you skipped—then the good news is that today is a very cheap day to catch up. Humble Bundle’s new XCOM…
If we can all agree that 8 GB ain’t cutting it in 2025 for a proper gaming graphics card and even 12 GB is becoming marginal in the most demanding titles, how to solve that pesky VRAM anxiety for the long term? Well, there’s a rumoured RTX 5070 Super with 18 GB. But why not…
Marvel Contest of Champions, a free-to-play mobile fighting game first released in 2014, is bringing a roster of over 300 Marvel superheroes and villains to PC. Surely that is too many Marvel people for a fighting game, I thought. But then I clicked through all 19 pages of Champion spotlights on the official site, and…
During my time at PC Gamer, I’ve had the pleasure of testing some very expensive flight sim gear. That’s not to start off this review with a brag, more to say that it’s generally a pretty pricey hobby. A satisfying one, no doubt, but I wouldn’t blame you if you looked at some of the…
In terms of complexity, anxiety, and sheer turbidity, launching a videogame seems roughly equivalent to planning a land war on Mars. It’s a constant, 5D chess game with thousands of players and no clear ruleset, where definite victories become humiliating defeats—and vice versa—according to no obvious ruleset. But at least one thing is clear: you’re…
Hello Kitty Island Adventure‘s first major content update is finally here, and there are a plethora of new additions to get stuck into. From welcoming new visitors to the island, to a mass of additional quests to complete, the Friends, Flowers, and Frozen Peaks update has it all. Just as I think I’m done pouring…
The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion Remastered is already an unbelievably huge game, and this new version also comes with all of the original DLC. While Shivering Isles is the Oblivion DLC everyone loves to talk about most, the Knights of the Nine DLC introduces a new faction, new quests, and some sweet new gear to…
Nintendo’s really just been scoring all bummers recently—coming after Palworld, shutting down fan mods and projects, and clamping down on emulators. While it’s all been within its technical legal rights to do so, as PC Gamer’s own Morgan Park pointed out last year, the family-friendly veneer of kindness has well and truly slipped. An almost…