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The winners (Image credit: Future) 1. Best laptop: Asus ROG Zephyrus G16 (2024) GA6052. Best monitor: LG UltraGear 32GS95UE3. Best handheld: Asus ROG Ally X4. Best CPU: AMD Ryzen 7 9800X3D5. Best GPU: Nvidia RTX 4070 Ti Super6. Best SSD: Team Group MP44 4 TB7. Best motherboard: Asus ROG Strix X670E-I Gaming8. Best headset: Beyerdynamic…
2024 has been a year of incredible videogames. It’s also been bloody: just like 2023 before it, there have been thousands of layoffs, dozens of studio closures, failures from companies that we once assumed were too big to fail. GameStop shut down Game Informer, the only other surviving gaming magazine in the US, as its…
One of the best things I did in a game this year was spend ten minutes riding an oxcart from one city to another in Dragon’s Dogma 2 because its fast travel system is so limited (intentionally) as to functionally not exist. The second best thing was turning off the wayfinding settings, quest log, and…
There’s a freshly written clue for the New Year’s Eve Wordle right here and ready to help if you need it. Don’t be afraid to take a look if you get stuck—today’s clue is designed to help, not instantly give the game away. And if the thought of an instant win does sound appealing, click…
Cult classic capitalism JRPG and shop-running simulator Recettear: An Item Shop’s Tale will be getting an HD remaster in 2025, says the game’s developer and publisher. The announcement was made during day 2 of Tokyo’s Comiket convention—a surprise venue for a videogame announce, but why not? “In 2025… prepare to re-open the item shop,” said…
I’m always on the lookout for an odd little roguelike, so imagine my surprise when I see one that’s years old and I’d never spotted before, and it’s the oft-ignored space roguelike to boot? Well, that’s Approaching Infinity, a sci-fi dungeon crawler that’s looking pretty interesting after a few years of solo developer toil in…
The ever-flowing open world fashion torrent of Infinity Nikki flows on, friends: As of yesterday they’ve released an update to Version 1.1 “Shooting Star Season” with a lot of new stuff to do (and a few doors shut on old stuff you didn’t finish yet.) New events include the Celestial Wishes resonance event, with the…
Gear of the Year (Image credit: Future) Check out more of the year’s best tech in our PC Gamer Hardware Awards 2024 coverage. Who won 2024? I can think of a few contenders for the crown, both companies and individuals, able to lay a stake to having a bumper year in PC hardware land. But…
Just like last year, 2024 was a busy year for city builders. Some of the most anticipated city builders finally arrived—Manor Lords and Frostpunk 2—but there were plenty of other great examples of the genre released this year as well, plus a bunch that launched into 1.0 after spending some time in early access. Counting…
Our choice for the overall game of 2024 is the poker roguelike that played its cards right all year. It held them, it felled them, and it skipped straight past the competition—Balatro was the game the PC Gamer team just kept coming back to. For the best of the rest, check out our Game of…