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Turn-based strategy game Rising Lords will release on January 18, 2024 after nearly three years in Early Access. The hybrid of PC turn-based strategy with more traditional board game and card game design focuses around strategically expanding a medieval fiefdom’s economy while raising armies to defend yourself against—or conquer—your neighbors. Writing in the magazine back…
It’s hard to argue with a game that sprays particles all over your screen, if you are me, and recently-released indie incremental idler The Gnorp Apologue sprays some particles right good. Starring little things called gnorps, it’s about how they smash a rock and bits come off the rock, and then they use those bits…
Extraction shooter Escape from Tarkov dropped a big new update this week, bringing a new urban area, new weapons, a new boss, and a rework of the shoreline area. The big new region is Ground Zero, a major downtown filled with skyscrapers that also includes urban infrastructure like “banks, cafes, restaurants, stores, pharmacies, and so…
There’s been lots of great new hardware this year, from gaming CPUs to awesome SSDs and outstanding OLED monitors. Equally, there’s been a fair amount of disappointment, especially in the GPU sector. But for me, there’s one piece of PC tech that’s stood out from the rest. It doesn’t boast jaw-dropping specifications nor does any…
How do you celebrate the end of another year? By looking back to see how far you’ve come and what you’ve learned? By looking forward at the road ahead and thinking about everything you want to accomplish? By reflecting on the fact it’s all meaningless and we’re really just microbes riding a wet grain of…
Well, we’ve made it. Another year has gone by and it’s been as busy as ever, with constant changes in the world of PC hardware and software. So much has happened that it wouldn’t make sense to try and cover it all in a single article, but we don’t need to. That’s because it’s our…
The all singing, all dancing Alan Wake 2 told our favourite story of the year—progressing Remedy’s shared universe in myriad weird and wonderful ways. For more awards, head to our Game of the Year 2023 page. Jacob Ridley, Senior Hardware Editor: A blend of entertaining horror and surreal scenes, Alan Wake 2 manages to keep…
If you were asked to name the most-successful game on Steam at the start of 2023, Counter-Strike: Global Offensive’s 30 million monthly players would have made that a good pick. Now we’re at the end of the year and, if you want to play Counter-Strike: Global Offensive, you can only do so through obscure means….
Personal Pick (Image credit: Future) In addition to our main Game of the Year Awards 2023, 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. Everybody knows you have to go back…
The motherboard is one of the most integral pieces of the PC building puzzle because your choice of board answers a ton of questions for you before you even get started with anything else. It determines which processor generation and from which manufacturer you’re going to be picking from, it determines what kind of storage…