PC Gaming
Earlier this year researchers at Japan’s National Institutde of Information and Communications Technology (NIICT) hit a record-breaking speed for internet over a standard fibre optic cable: 402 Tbps. With a T. That’s 402,000,000 Mbps, to put it in the speed measurement you’re probably more familiar with. No, I’m not going to try and put it…
Happy New Year everyone! Whether you’re adding to your ongoing Wordle win streak today or just starting out, you’ll find everything you need to succeed right here. We’ve got general tips to help get you in a guessing mindset, a clue for the January 1 (1292) puzzle, and today’s answer ready if you need to…
Here’s an adorable little game in the vein of the much-enjoyed Potion Craft: Alchemist Simulator with the exception, of course, that it is free. And everyone loves free things. In Enscroll you’re a fresh magic academy graduate with hefty loans to repay using your newfound skills—but no prospect of full-time employment. To repay your dues…
Chinese-made action RPG Black Myth: Wukong has cleaned up at this year’s Steam awards, winning not just Game of the Year but two other categories in a community-voted awards event that only has 11 categories total. In addition to Game of the Year Black Myth: Wukong has netted both the Best Game You Suck At…
Gear of the Year (Image credit: Future) Check out more of the past year’s best tech in our PC Gamer Hardware Awards 2024 coverage. It’s that time of year again. No, not the holiday season, we’re over that, but the time when CES 2025 approaches. The Consumer Electronics Show will officially start on January 7…
Baldur’s Gate 3 really is an astonishing game—and I don’t just mean in the sense that it’s quite good (it is). Rather, it’s astonishing because of its sheer longevity. Traditionally-speaking, single player RPGs have their moment in the sun, sure. But they usually only stay there for a handful of months, after which their player…
Sometimes I regret ever accepting the battle pass as a concept. It’s not like there was much of a choice about it—before I’d ever engaged with one myself they were already everywhere. It all happened so fast: After gaming’s last big dust-up with loot boxes in 2017, it was like the entire industry collectively switched…
Factorio is known among the more technical segment of its player base as one of the most, if not the most, well-optimized pieces of software in videogames. Yet its optimization-obsessed fans manage to push the limits of the factory-builder’s simulation anyway… and then use mods surpass them. Thus was born the Eternity Cluster, this year’s…
Once upon a time, HeroQuest was the board game equivalent of a gateway drug, only instead of leading to meth it would lead you into the slightly less financially crippling life of a Warhammer player. Or maybe it would get you into Dungeons & Dragons. Either way, you’d end up a nerd with a collection…
That’s eight terabytes of storage on a single PCIe SSD. Seriously. We’ve come a long way since the conception of M.2 solid state storage, haven’t we? This beautiful, sleek little number from Western Digital pushes the limits of what’s currently possible with just how much storage you can get on a single stick. It’s nothing…