PC Gaming
Just in case you were worried you’d miss your chance to unlock Spartan John-117, also known as Halo’s Master Chief, aka John Halo, for use in Fortnite, please worry not: You can still do that into the indefinite and unbidden future simply by playing on an Xbox Series X/S console. So, yes, if you need…
Gear of the Year (Image credit: Future) Check out more of the year’s best tech in our PC Gamer Hardware Awards 2024 coverage. Alan Wake 2 appeared so late last year that you’d be forgiven for thinking that it was a 2024 launch. You’d also be forgiven for believing that its outstanding visual design and…
Gear of the Year (Image credit: Future) Check out more of the year’s best tech in our PC Gamer Hardware Awards 2024 coverage. I, like many of you, have used the bog-standard Xbox Wireless Controller for many moons. And I, like many of you, have realised that it’s practically perfect as far as $50 worth…
It can be easy to get a bit down about the state of the MMO genre these days. I’ve been guilty of it myself, and for good reason—big swings and big successes have been increasingly rare. But while the golden age of MMOs, when countless developers were experimenting in what was still a novel space,…
In looking back over 2024 I am compelled to note that in May of this year John Romero, he of making Doom and helping cement the very genre of the first person shooter fame, said that “gib” is pronounced with a “soft ‘g’” like in “giblets.” Giblets, of course, being the little chunks of people…
At this point in my internet life, I’ve been conditioned to just assume that everything I see is fundamentally “fake” in some way, either made up by some guy or computer generated in any number of ethically or practically dubious ways. But Windows 10’s desktop background, with the blue light bursting out of a Windows…
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 can’t remember a single game…
Settle in for a tale of hardship, hope and a big airship with legs. Atlus trades high school for high fantasy, and the result is the best RPG of the year. For more awards, check out our Game of the Year 2024 hub. Mollie Taylor, Features Producer: As I’ve grown older and found myself with…
Gear of the Year (Image credit: Future) Check out more of the year’s best tech in our PC Gamer Hardware Awards 2024 coverage. It’s been a busy year for motherboard vendors, thanks to new AM5 socket chipsets from AMD and a completely new platform (LGA1851 and Z890) from Intel. In many cases, manufacturers just took…
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. If Moore’s Law predicts that the…