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Those of you that were strapped into the back of your parents car when you were younger and taken on the yearly family road trip will remember a marketing technique as old as time itself. Take a regular everyday object, create an obnoxiously large model of one, and plaster billboards everywhere claiming it to be…
In the recent 30th anniversary issue of Edge, various developers shared their thoughts on the future of gaming, with particular emphasis placed on the role of AI. But they also shared more general thoughts on where gaming is at right now, and where it’ll be in the next 30 years. One developer, former Everquest 2…
Elon Musk has announced the launch of a new AI chatbot on the social media platform X, formerly known as Twitter. The bot is developed by xAI, named Grok, and Musk says “In some important respects, it is the best that currently exists,” adding that it “is designed to have a little humor in its…
It’s easy to forget yourself when gaming, but the fact is that sitting for hours and hours in a tense position can be as taxing on your back as late-night sessions are on your ever-drying eyes. While eye-drops can provide relief for the latter issue, the matter of posture and seating is best resolved by…
Need to Know What is it? A Yakuza side-story, set during the events of Yakuza: Like a Dragon. Release date November 8, 2023 Expect to pay $50/£45 Developer Ryu Ga Gotoku Studio Publisher Sega Reviewed on Ryzen 7 3700X, 32GB RAM, RTX 3080Ti Steam Deck TBA Link Official site The Like a Dragon series—Yakuza, as…
Long gone are the days of speedrunning being confined to mere video games. You can gamify anything into speedrun territory these days: Wikipedia, Google Maps and even gamified language learning apps like Duolingo, as proven by one person who managed to blast through the entire Spanish course in 24 hours. Well, sort of. Reddit user…
The gaming laptop space is complex. It’s full of different specs and price points and brand names, and it can be tough to see where a new machine fits in all this. And when Lenovo first announced its LOQ range of affordable laptops I figured it would all be pretty straightforward. Where the Legion machines…
Blizzard recently introduced its 39th Hero to its multiplayer shooter Overwatch 2, in the form of Mauga, a tall, thick-set Samoan tank who, players have noted, looks rather like Pixar’s portrayal of the Polynesian demigod Maui in its animated film Moana. Well, it appears there’s more of a link between the two than just a…
Baldur’s Gate 3 is one of the horniest games of all time and, you know what, that’s just how we like it here at PC Gamer (well, some of us). To play Larian’s fantasy RPG masterpiece and not bump uglies with at least something is probably this game’s true hero run, as there are quite…
Reinstall This article first appeared in PC Gamer magazine issue 387 in August 2023, as part of our Reinstall series. Every month we load up a beloved classic—and find out whether it holds up to our modern gaming sensibilities. As a strongly self-selecting PC gamer, there have been times in my life I’ve tried to…