PC Gaming
You may think getting locked out of your account because you’ve forgotten the password is annoying, but have you ever gotten locked out and lost almost half a million dollars in the process? That’s what happened to X user @cprkrn, when they stored five bitcoin ($402k at the time of writing) in an account in…
Asus Asus Asus Asus Even though Asus is doing its very best to let us all know that this year marks the 20th anniversary of its Republic of Gamers (ROG) branding, you may well not have picked up on the fact that it’s releasing all kinds of one-off goodies to celebrate two decades of high-end…
Working out how to investigate the Tadpole Pens in Subnautica 2 is the game’s first proper puzzle, as you venture into the area’s Hot Caves to recover the door code that’ll let you inside. NOA doesn’t seem to send you to the Tadpole Pens until you’ve found the other black boxes, at least that’s how…
Mouse mats, or mouse pads, or slippy slidy slabs, whatever you want to call them, are an integral part of a seriously competitive PC gamer’s arsenal. Don’t believe me? Just watch that video above and see how passionate some people, such as our Jacob, can get about them. Or, as he says: “the most pressing,…
Early access pirate sim Windrose has hit two million sales, pretty much exactly a month after its April 14 release date. That’s a big number, and to contextualize it with another sales milestone announced this week, it took Silent Hill f more than six months to sell the same amount. These games are obviously very…
Earlier today, Brazilian tech outlet Tecnoblog published images of two unannounced Xbox controllers reportedly obtained from the country’s telecommunications regulator. One is a small form factor gamepad designed for cloud gaming, resembling similar third-party gamepads by the likes of 8bitDo. The other is the successor to the Xbox Elite Controller 2. I’ve been looking forward…
Marathon director Joe Ziegler has laid out Bungie’s vision for the next few seasons of Marathon. If you’re looking for a statement that confronts all the doomerism around the extraction shooter’s Steam numbers or a followup on Sony’s writedown of the studio’s value, you won’t find in Ziegler’s latest communiqué. What you will find is…
The United States Library of Congress got a little cooler today by inducting the soundtrack of the original Doom into its National Recording Registry. The Doom soundtrack, by composer Bobby Prince, is one of 25 recordings now designated as “audio treasures worthy of preservation for all time based on their cultural, historical or aesthetic importance…
The Subnautica 2 early access launch that spawned so much recrimination (and so many billable hours) is finally here, and all that sweat and anger seems kind of funny in hindsight—because after all that drama, Subnautica 2 is good, and it’s a hit, too. Subnautica 2 launched like a rocket on Steam, surging to more…
PC Gamer has been around for a long time now, and boy do we have the magazine archive to show for it. When you start sifting through the pile, some years stand out for their historical leaps in technology or gauntlet of big releases—looking at you, Baldur’s Gate 3 summer—and then there’s 2011. A lot…