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Gear of the Year (Image credit: Future) Check out more of the past year’s best tech in our PC Gamer Hardware Awards 2024 coverage. It’s that time of year again. No, not the holiday season, we’re over that, but the time when CES 2025 approaches. The Consumer Electronics Show will officially start on January 7…
Baldur’s Gate 3 really is an astonishing game—and I don’t just mean in the sense that it’s quite good (it is). Rather, it’s astonishing because of its sheer longevity. Traditionally-speaking, single player RPGs have their moment in the sun, sure. But they usually only stay there for a handful of months, after which their player…
Sometimes I regret ever accepting the battle pass as a concept. It’s not like there was much of a choice about it—before I’d ever engaged with one myself they were already everywhere. It all happened so fast: After gaming’s last big dust-up with loot boxes in 2017, it was like the entire industry collectively switched…
Factorio is known among the more technical segment of its player base as one of the most, if not the most, well-optimized pieces of software in videogames. Yet its optimization-obsessed fans manage to push the limits of the factory-builder’s simulation anyway… and then use mods surpass them. Thus was born the Eternity Cluster, this year’s…
Once upon a time, HeroQuest was the board game equivalent of a gateway drug, only instead of leading to meth it would lead you into the slightly less financially crippling life of a Warhammer player. Or maybe it would get you into Dungeons & Dragons. Either way, you’d end up a nerd with a collection…
That’s eight terabytes of storage on a single PCIe SSD. Seriously. We’ve come a long way since the conception of M.2 solid state storage, haven’t we? This beautiful, sleek little number from Western Digital pushes the limits of what’s currently possible with just how much storage you can get on a single stick. It’s nothing…
The winners (Image credit: Future) 1. Best laptop: Asus ROG Zephyrus G16 (2024) GA6052. Best monitor: LG UltraGear 32GS95UE3. Best handheld: Asus ROG Ally X4. Best CPU: AMD Ryzen 7 9800X3D5. Best GPU: Nvidia RTX 4070 Ti Super6. Best SSD: Team Group MP44 4 TB7. Best motherboard: Asus ROG Strix X670E-I Gaming8. Best headset: Beyerdynamic…
2024 has been a year of incredible videogames. It’s also been bloody: just like 2023 before it, there have been thousands of layoffs, dozens of studio closures, failures from companies that we once assumed were too big to fail. GameStop shut down Game Informer, the only other surviving gaming magazine in the US, as its…
One of the best things I did in a game this year was spend ten minutes riding an oxcart from one city to another in Dragon’s Dogma 2 because its fast travel system is so limited (intentionally) as to functionally not exist. The second best thing was turning off the wayfinding settings, quest log, and…
There’s a freshly written clue for the New Year’s Eve Wordle right here and ready to help if you need it. Don’t be afraid to take a look if you get stuck—today’s clue is designed to help, not instantly give the game away. And if the thought of an instant win does sound appealing, click…