PC Gaming
Stalker 2 captured the Sprit of the PC this year—its vibrancy, inventiveness (and, yes, occasional jank). For more awards, visit our Game of the Year 2024 hub. Joshua Wolens, News Writer: This might sound odd, but what I most love about Stalker 2 is how Stalker it is: how far it goes—even in dolled-up 2024…
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. Troy Baker, I owe you an…
Break out the lute, because Manor Lords was our favourite city builder of the year. For more awards, check out our Game of the Year 2024 hub. Elie Gould, News Writer: Manor Lords came out at just the right time for me. Before landing on this medieval city builder/management game, I played quite a few…
There’s a funny thing about monitors. As you progress, from a 14-inch CRT goldfish bowl to a 17-inch screen you can barely lift, to a 19-inch 4:3 LCD, to a 21-inch 16:9 1080p VA model to a 27-inch 4K IPS and eventually a 32-inch 4K with HDR or an OLED, the ‘normal’ setting in your…
Gear of the Year (Image credit: Future) Check out more of the year’s best tech in our PC Gamer Hardware Awards 2024 coverage. If there’s one thing that stands out about 2024, at least as far as gaming monitors are concerned, it’s that this year has without a doubt been the year of the OLED…
The hidden gems of Game Pass (Image credit: Microsoft) We’re checking out the hidden gems of Game Pass over the next few weeks, digging up all the obscure and esoteric games secreted away in our subscription and seeing how they play. You ever play one of those games that seems like it never stops revealing…
Learn how to make the most of every line in today’s Wordle with our general tips. Need more? Then you’ve got more. Our clue for the December 25 (1285) game’s ready to give you a nudge towards your latest win, and today’s answer’s on standby if those green letters just aren’t showing up today. Today’s…
Andy Edser, hardware writer (Image credit: Future) This month I’ve been testing: Gaming laptops, headphones, and the odd mouse or two. I’ve also fallen back into the time sink that is Diablo 4, because the best way to test a gaming mouse is to hammer it repeatedly while swearing. Probably. One of the clichés you…
Modern technical advancements in gaming can feel a bit… underwhelming at times. Ray tracing only seems to exist so I can briefly admire an FPS-tanking reflection or puddle I would have otherwise walked straight past. Chromatic aberration is mostly there to be turned off. My once-spacious SSDs are quickly clogged up by multi-gig patches that…
In 2021, actors Sam Crane and Mark Oosterveen were whiling away the Covid lockdowns in GTA Online when they had an idea: “Why not stage Hamlet inside the game?” They recorded hundreds of hours of in-game attempts to perform Shakespeare amid the chaos of GTA 5 and put together a feature-length documentary, Grand Theft Hamlet,…