PC Gaming
It had to happen at some point but Valve’s much-loved Steam Deck has been falling down its weekly revenue charts for a little while now. For the past two weeks, though, it’s dropped outside of the top ten, suggesting that competition from ASUS, Ayaneo, OneXPlayer, and Aokzoe has taken a sizeable slice of the handheld…
Tech market analyst Trendforce (via Techpowerup) is predicting a pretty eye-popping 323% growth in OLED monitor sales in 2023, taking the total units sold to over 500,000. For 2024, Trendforce reckons the market will basically double again to over a million units. Impressive stuff, eh? Up to a point, yes. The thing is, the overall…
Trying to decide the best starting class in Lords of the Fallen is a tad troublesome. While the game may feature your favourite Soulslike staples such as “Generic knight” and “Fucked up guy who fights with a bucket”, there are a few classes that have a very similar attribute spread and look to have somewhat…
And just like that, our shared 21-month slog is over. Long live our new, possibly lifelong slog. In a press release today, titled “Microsoft concession a gamechanger that will promote competition,” the UK’s Competition and Market Authority (CMA) has announced that it’s approving Microsoft’s $69 billion acquisition of Activision Blizzard, reversing its April decision to…
As someone who’s been playing tabletop RPGs entirely online ever since the first pandemic lockdown, I’m fascinated by the growth of new platforms and technologies to support that style of play. Digital game aids (such as D&D Beyond) and shared virtual table spaces (such as Roll20) have been around for a while now, but increasingly…
Microsoft cordially invites you to have a crack at tipping its new AI-powered Bing search tools into existential meltdown. And it will pay you up to $15,000 for your trouble. Well, it will if you manage to bait AI Bing in just the right way. Yup, AI Bing has joined Microsoft’s bug bounty program (via…
It’s time. Starfield finally has its most important mod—more important than the script extender, more vital than StarUI—something that changes the game entirely. Thomas the Tank Engine is not, by any means, looming horrifically in the dark corners of my room and forcing me to write this. Ominously titled “Really Useful Starfield“, this mod by…
This month PC Gamer gets world-exclusive access to the biggest ever city building simulator, Cities: Skylines II. The original Cities: Skylines took on and beat the legendary SimCity series, and for the sequel Colossal Order is taking things to the next level, with more of everything. We deliver never-before-seen images as well as authoritative developer insight. Get world-exclusive…
After some earlier rumour-mongering, confirmation has finally been given by Gigabyte that it is to release a new Radeon RX 6750 card, specifically a GRE edition. This will be exclusive to China but this doesn’t mean you won’t be able to pick one up, potentially in a pre-built system as with the RX 7900 GRE,…
The build up to the release of Cities: Skylines 2 has been an intense one. With dev diaries releasing weekly, and content creators teasing us with early code, we would-be mayors have been drip fed the latest offering in this much-loved city builder series. Speaking to the Colossal Order game designers this week, I got…