PC Gaming
I think you know what I’m talking about here: Far Cry 9 comes out on September 7, but if you shell out an extra $15 for the Premium Deluxe Plus Edition, you can get a five-day head start clearing the bases of whatever caricature of a 20th century revolutionary movement Ubisoft’s cooked up this year….
Choosing a $2,000 gaming monitor as my pick for 2023 isn’t exactly democratic, even if the monstrous Samsung Odyssey Neo G9 G95NC is already $500 cheaper than when I reviewed it earlier this year. But it is one of those rare cases where a premium priced product gives you something genuinely special. At 57 inches,…
I love everything about boomer shooters except for the fact that a better name hasn’t managed to stick. I’ve taken to calling them “good FPS games with health packs and keycards” in protest, but naming conventions aside, this loosely related group of show-stopping shooters hasn’t let off the gas for years now, and there’s no…
80 hours into Baldur’s Gate 3, and I’ve just completed Act Two. I’ve battled through goblin camps, explored the Underdark, and braved the cursed shadowlands around Moonrise Tower. I’ve saved countless lives, and taken almost as many. I’ve broken my Paladin oath and had it restored. I’m even halfway to becoming a psychic squid man….
Before we sing Auld Lang Syne to celebrate the end of the year, there are two gorgeous games I need to give their flowers. Alan Wake 2 and Avatar: Frontiers of Pandora have made my year for PC graphics. Both games arrived at the tail-end of 2023, and thank goodness they did, for otherwise we…
You know when you’re playing The Sims and you’re directing your little person to make improvements to their house or cook a meal or try on some new clothes? Then a neighbor abruptly appears at the front door and suddenly your Sim has a tantrum because they’re a little hungry or sleepy? It’s cute stuff….
A confident sequel that not only improves on every aspect of its predecessor, but takes huge strides forward in both looting and shooting, Remnant 2 was a huge surprise. For more awards, head to our Game of the Year 2023 page. Harvey Randall, Staff Writer: Remnant 2 came at a difficult time, landing in the…
If 2022 was the year OLED finally hit the desktop was 2023 the year OLED went mainstream on the PC? Arguably not, what with pricing that still starts around $700. But we did get a lot more choice when it comes to proper OLED monitors. Several manufacturers joined Alienware in the 34-inch ultrawide OLED segment,…
Any soulslike game—usually characterised by a rigid checkpoint system, weighty combat, punishing deaths, and deep RPG customisation—is going to be compared to Dark Souls. It is what it is. Yet in 2023, something interesting happened. Four big soulslikes—Lords of the Fallen, Lies of P, Star Wars Jedi: Survivor, and Wo Long: Fallen Dynasty—borrowed far more…
If there’s one section of PC gaming hardware that’s impressed us this year it’s been the selection of gaming laptops that have crossed our test benches over the past twelve months. It’s not just all about Nvidia’s RTX 40-series cards getting shrunk down to fit inside a notebook form factor either, as AMD has released…