PC Gaming
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. DeathSprint 66 wears its biggest aesthetic influence…
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 would be tempting to assume that, massive PC gaming corp. that it is, Valve would have the entire handheld gaming PC market sewn up. It’s got the affordable end dealt with…
Coal for Christmas? Not to worry—our favourite sandbox of 2024 will let you turn it into an ever-expanding web of useful materials. For more awards, check out our Game of the Year 2024 hub. Wes Fenlon, Senior Editor: Satisfactory is a different game for me depending on the week. Recently I found myself in the…
Switches make a mechanical keyboard. Your chosen plank can have all the extra features and RGB in the world, 15 USB ports at the back and an FM radio built in, but if pushing those keys down feels like stroking the back of a porcupine, it’s not going to become a favoured gaming companion. Lucky,…
Grandiose spectacles of horror are certainly impressive, but those don’t usually keep me up at night. The scariest games I’ve played this year have been from smaller studios and even solo devs who’ve managed to piece together fantastic narratives, disturbing sequences, and spine chilling horror in compact form. Mouthwashing was one of the best games…
Following a rough 2023, which saw Ubisoft wrestling with poor financial results, several cancellations, under-performing games, layoffs, and CEO Yves Guillemot effectively putting all the responsibility on developers rather than looking inwards, the publisher has failed to right the ship. 2024 was an absolutely dire year for Ubisoft. Once a powerhouse publisher, Ubisoft might still…
2024 was a big year for gaming, and so naturally it was also a big year for gaming-related controversies. While hand-wringing over fears that “videogames cause violence” seems to have subsided, at least for now, political and culture wars nonsense is more pronounced than ever. The videogame industry itself, meanwhile, continued to suffer decimation as…
Gear of the Year (Image credit: Future) Check out more of the year’s best tech in our PC Gamer Hardware Awards 2024 coverage. Even though there haven’t been any major advances in solid state storage this year, it’s still been a great 12 months for SSDs. The days of the market being dominated by just…
The answer to today’s Wordle is only a quick click or scroll away now you’re here, ready to either save your game at the very last moment, or just cut straight to a satisfying line of green letters. Of course you may prefer to take your time, but still get a little help if you…
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 have just bought (or more accurately, my partner has allowed me to buy) a Meta Quest 3. That’s because after playing Asgard’s Wrath during the holidays last year I’d wanted to…