PC Gaming
The winners (Image credit: Future) 1. Best gaming laptop Lenovo Legion 7i Pro 2. Best gaming monitor Alienware 34 AW3423DWF 3. Best gaming handheld Steam Deck OLED 4. Best CPU AMD Ryzen 7 7800X3D 5. Best GPU AMD Radeon RX 7800XT 6. Best SSD Lexar NM790 4TB 7. Best motherboard ASRock Z790 Riptide 8. Best…
I and a lot of people who like games tend to break the hobby up into “legendary years.” It’s the ones when so many games come out it’s almost impossible to keep up with them all, and in hindsight you can observe some kind of watershed moment of quality and innovation. 1998 is understandably always…
Here’s what you need to know about me: I’m not well. I’m a kind of thwarted commissar. In a righteous world I’d have been born in the late 1760s, just in time to become some sort of political adjutant in the French Revolution, weighing the loyalties of deposed members of the nobility before meeting my…
Finish your Wordle year with a guaranteed win, however you want to go about it. Keep on scrolling and you’ll find general tips for your daily guesses, as well as a clue just for the December 31 (925) game and of course today’s Wordle answer if you’d rather cut to the chase. Whatever happens, you’re…
After a few years of development teases, retro-style RPG Skald: Against the Black Priory has a release window: spring 2024. The party-based RPG has been touted as an example of marrying a retro aesthetic—Commodore 64 era, in this case—with a more modern style of game and interface design. To go along with the announcement that…
Skul: The Hero Slayer has sold 2 million copies since release, putting the sidescrolling action roguelike in that top tier of multi-million-selling games. Skul’s Dead Cells-esque and Hollow Knight-like action never had a huge single spike in popularity, but has steadily grown in sales since its January 2021 release alongside pretty regular large additions and…
Creator Consumer Softproducts is back, folks, with a creatively upsetting and extremely intriguing idea for another hybrid FPS and Immersive Sim: Psycho Patrol R, a game that has you as a mech-piloting cop with some kind of almost-surely-upsetting superpowers. Like Cruelty Squad, this is an immersive sim, and will emphasize “a wide variety of routes…
As one of PC Gamer’s hardware writers and reviewers, I handle a lot of different PC parts. But there’s one part in particular that manages to irk me every time I use one. I’m referring to M.2 SSDs. In fact, I hate them. They have so many unnecessary drawbacks. I’ll admit the form factor is…
When the bossman asked the PC Gamer hardware team to select our personal picks for hardware of the year, I thought about it, and then thought about it some more. As a reviewer that covers a lot of components, my shortlist came down to five items. The Intel Core i5 14600K, Nvidia RTX 4070, ASRock…
If I’m being entirely honest I found 2023 a largely uninspiring year on the whole. Innovation was in short supply, with the expected and the iterative making up the majority of the year’s hardware releases. That’s not to say we didn’t get some really good tech released over the past 12 months—the Ryzen 7 7800X3D…