PC Gaming
Truth be told, I’m not really a handbag enthusiast; with the hardware I’m lugging around, a rucksack usually makes more sense. However, I am very pro weighing a backpack down with cute keyrings and whimsical bag charms. The practically vintage, chunky Pikachu bag charm currently attached to my rucksack is my pride and joy. That…
If there’s one thing every gamer needs it’s a jacket that has massive pockets, for all your gaming goodies, right? Swedish firm DRKN reckons it has the perfect puffer for travelling to LAN parties or a friend’s house because its pockets are so big you can stuff a full-size keyboard and a 15-inch laptop in…
In a post-Baldur’s Gate 3 world, the RPG feels more ascendant than ever on PC. 2025 is shaping up to be an excellent example of that, with a whole raft of huge releases due this year for lovers of levelling and loot to get their teeth into. It’s not easy to keep them all straight—even…
Let me use this introductory paragraph to make two horrible confessions. The first: I am one of perhaps several people worldwide who use Microsoft Edge as my default personal browser. Second: My use of Edge means I sometimes accidentally use Bing, Microsoft’s Google-but-worse, whenever I search for something in the URL bar. I could go…
Once, when I was in China, a Danish colleague of mine got invited by a business-type to attend some kind of fancy high-powered conference. Thinking it’d be a novel experience at least, she agreed, only to find herself on-stage, in a suit: a deer in headlights presented to shareholders as an exec from a foreign…
Last year we reported on a phenomenon that, frankly, left PC Gamer’s editorial team a little baffled. We were in one of our morning meetings when someone shared Banana, a free-to-play game available on Steam where you click on an image of a banana, but what was mind-blowing were the player counts. This was in…
Nobody would deny that big tech requires huge investments to kickstart them and keep the ball rolling, but at some point, multi-billion dollar expenditures require some kind of return before they become a lost cause. In the case of Microsoft and AI, that’s not something being considered, as the software giant plans on spending $80…
LocalThunk, the developer behind Balatro, decided to start off this new year by calling out all his 2024 highlights, with the biggest award of all going to Billy Basso for his wonderful pixel art metroidvania Animal Well. “My very prestigious Golden Thunk award for Game of the Year 2024 goes to Animal Well,” LocalThunk says…
Squid Game has only been in Call of Duty: Black Ops 6 for a few days now, and despite my initial thoughts that players would appreciate a new batch of cool skins, it seems that some people aren’t that happy. “Anyone else sick of these damn skins,” Call of Duty player btrosCuPoJoE says. “Not to…
While Intel’s latest Core Ultra 200S series of processors hasn’t been setting records for gaming performance, they were the first chips on the block to support the newest tech in the RAM world, CUDIMMs. And now Corsair has released its first clock driver RAM sticks, with speeds of up to 9,600 MT/s. If you’re wondering…