PC Gaming
In looking back over 2024 I am compelled to note that in May of this year John Romero, he of making Doom and helping cement the very genre of the first person shooter fame, said that “gib” is pronounced with a “soft ‘g’” like in “giblets.” Giblets, of course, being the little chunks of people…
At this point in my internet life, I’ve been conditioned to just assume that everything I see is fundamentally “fake” in some way, either made up by some guy or computer generated in any number of ethically or practically dubious ways. But Windows 10’s desktop background, with the blue light bursting out of a Windows…
Personal Pick (Image credit: Future) In addition to our main Game of the Year Awards 2024, each member of the PC Gamer team is shining a spotlight on a game they loved this year. We’ll post new personal picks, alongside our main awards, throughout the rest of the month. I can’t remember a single game…
Settle in for a tale of hardship, hope and a big airship with legs. Atlus trades high school for high fantasy, and the result is the best RPG of the year. For more awards, check out our Game of the Year 2024 hub. Mollie Taylor, Features Producer: As I’ve grown older and found myself with…
Gear of the Year (Image credit: Future) Check out more of the year’s best tech in our PC Gamer Hardware Awards 2024 coverage. It’s been a busy year for motherboard vendors, thanks to new AM5 socket chipsets from AMD and a completely new platform (LGA1851 and Z890) from Intel. In many cases, manufacturers just took…
Personal Pick (Image credit: Future) In addition to our main Game of the Year Awards 2024, each member of the PC Gamer team is shining a spotlight on a game they loved this year. We’ll post new personal picks, alongside our main awards, throughout the rest of the month. If Moore’s Law predicts that the…
The ROG Harpe Ace Mini is the cousin of the carbon fiber ROG Harpe Ace Extreme, only far less extra. It’s just 2 grams heavier than the 47 gram Ace Extreme, though rather than carbon fiber it uses its minimal size to stay light and easily flingable. Marketed toward pro FPS players, and anyone who…
There is a saying, somewhat applicable to our current circumstances, that is spoken only as a curse: “May you live in interesting times.” Helldivers 2 is a triumph by most metrics, but it also happens to be the perfect distillation of that sentiment: “May you develop an interesting game.” Looking back over 2024, I wouldn’t…
After BioWare bid farewell to the Forgotten Realms following the modders’ playground that was Neverwinter Nights, I—a fantasy-obsessed 19-year-old—was beyond excited to hear that it was building its own fantasy realm. The first screenshots of Dragon Age—which bore no resemblance to the game we eventually got—instantly became my desktop wallpaper. It took a long ass…
Gear of the Year (Image credit: Future) Check out more of the year’s best tech in our PC Gamer Hardware Awards 2024 coverage. This year, there has been a glut of fresh CPUs from AMD and Intel for desktop PCs, with both vendors launching new processor architectures and model variants of older designs. Over in…