PC Gaming
Grandiose spectacles of horror are certainly impressive, but those don’t usually keep me up at night. The scariest games I’ve played this year have been from smaller studios and even solo devs who’ve managed to piece together fantastic narratives, disturbing sequences, and spine chilling horror in compact form. Mouthwashing was one of the best games…
Following a rough 2023, which saw Ubisoft wrestling with poor financial results, several cancellations, under-performing games, layoffs, and CEO Yves Guillemot effectively putting all the responsibility on developers rather than looking inwards, the publisher has failed to right the ship. 2024 was an absolutely dire year for Ubisoft. Once a powerhouse publisher, Ubisoft might still…
2024 was a big year for gaming, and so naturally it was also a big year for gaming-related controversies. While hand-wringing over fears that “videogames cause violence” seems to have subsided, at least for now, political and culture wars nonsense is more pronounced than ever. The videogame industry itself, meanwhile, continued to suffer decimation as…
Gear of the Year (Image credit: Future) Check out more of the year’s best tech in our PC Gamer Hardware Awards 2024 coverage. Even though there haven’t been any major advances in solid state storage this year, it’s still been a great 12 months for SSDs. The days of the market being dominated by just…
The answer to today’s Wordle is only a quick click or scroll away now you’re here, ready to either save your game at the very last moment, or just cut straight to a satisfying line of green letters. Of course you may prefer to take your time, but still get a little help if you…
Gear of the Year (Image credit: Future) Check out more of the year’s best tech in our PC Gamer Hardware Awards 2024 coverage. I have just bought (or more accurately, my partner has allowed me to buy) a Meta Quest 3. That’s because after playing Asgard’s Wrath during the holidays last year I’d wanted to…
What a violent year Helldivers 2 has had. The unexpected hit shooter released way back in February, but the galactic war at the center of its narrative doesn’t feel like it’s been raging for ten whole months. Time flies when you’re having fun exterminating bugs. To commemorate Helldivers 2’s mostly incredible year, I’ve recorded an…
Gear of the Year (Image credit: Future) Check out more of the year’s best tech in our PC Gamer Hardware Awards 2024 coverage. Earlier in the year, PC Gamer packed me up and shipped me off to Denmark to take a look at some new SteelSeries gear. After filing into a SteelSeries office with a…
We in the PC gaming-o-sphere tend to view Valve as a behemoth. Its iron-fisted dominance of the space is unquestioned and unchallenged, and even the mightiest of videogame publishers sooner or later come to kiss the ring. But in terms of actual size, it’s not really so: One of the very interesting things we learned…
As pointed out by our own Evan Lahti earlier this year, PC gaming is mainstream now. No longer is it a niche corner of the industry—PC is a serious rival to consoles, and some of the biggest hits in recent years have been PC-first games, such as Baldur’s Gate 3. One thing was undeniable: PC…