PC Gaming
It’s the era of the comeback. No Man’s Sky, Cyberpunk 2077, Fallout 76, on and on the list goes: games that had god-awful launches but pulled it back from the brink over the course of patches and expansions. Games that started out as player-repelling PR disasters end up beloved golden boys. In some cases, the…
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. I did not expect a game…
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. As someone who is perpetually anxious…
How do you improve on one of the best games of 2022? This is how. For more awards, check out our Game of the Year 2024 hub. Tyler Colp, Associate Editor: My favorite expansions don’t just answer questions or continue the plot from the original game, they stretch your imagination for what is even possible…
Gear of the Year (Image credit: Future) Check out more of the year’s best tech in our PC Gamer Hardware Awards 2024 coverage. You don’t tend to buy a gaming mouse every year (unless you’re particularly clumsy) so it can be easy to ignore the miasma of tech coming out. Yet this year has produced…
The day gaming desks were renamed to battle stations, I knew marketing targeted to my demographic was always going to be just a touch batshit. Now you can get desks complete with RGB lighting, standing desks, desks that are actually a bed and much more. While undeniably cool, that’s not always what a fair chunk…
Green braces. Tan shirt. Blond quiff. That’s the mantra I repeat in my head as I skulk through a smoggy industrial hellscape. Hidden among these brown corridors is someone who looks like this. Someone who looks like me. Someone who wants me dead. The only way to avoid that is to kill them first, a…
Gear of the Year (Image credit: Future) Check out more of the year’s best tech in our PC Gamer Hardware Awards 2024 coverage. Mystery has been in the air throughout the PC Gamer offices. Amid a sea of hardware hits, the bizarre case of the disappearing keycaps has put a bit of a dampener on…
Get your first Wordle of the weekend off to a flying start with a quick peek at today’s hint. It’s been written especially for Saturday’s puzzle, and is meant to give you a bit of something useful to work with, while still leaving the fun letter searching up to you. And if you need more…
Back in 2005 World of Warcraft was ravaged by a digital plague that once removed from the raid dungeon it spawned in infected some four million players, spread across servers as how to give it to others was discovered, and left cities barren, skeleton-littered wastelands for a month before developers Blizzard were able to fix…