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You may not know this, but there’s an official Excel championship that runs out of Las Vegas with the winner claiming a belt and $5,000. As that belt implies, it’s a theatrical affair, like WWE for spreadsheets. Recently, 2025’s champion Diarmuid Early wrote about his experience for The Guardian, saying, “I have been called the…
This time 10 years ago most of my PC Gamer colleagues were addicted to Devil Daggers, a lo-fi survival FPS whose grimy low-poly art style beat the current early 3D nostalgia wave by at least four years. It’s pretty simple: you stand in a flat and featureless arena and fend off increasingly nasty waves of…
I wasn’t sure it would work. When it falls, a Derelict Fortress damages every enemy in front of it, but I’ve only seen that happen when one dies. Right now, my opponent—a devil with a face like a shivering circle of little wings made of gold—has a bunch of weedy enemies in a row I’d…
Bethesda game director Todd Howard recently emerged blinking into the light of day for an interview with Greg Miller on the Kinda Funny Gamescast. During that interview, he pointed out that Starfield’s next update isn’t going to change your mind on Starfield if you didn’t already love it. The topic of The Elder Scrolls 6…
The ROG Xbox Ally X was already expensive when it launched late in 2025, but its Australian RRP of AU$1,599 has just increased to AU$1,799. That AU$200 increase is pretty significant when you consider that other consoles, like the PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X, usually get price hikes in increments of AU$30 to AU$50….
More quizzes! (Image credit: Larian Studios, PC Gamer) Want to keep testing your knowledge of gaming trivia? We’ve got loads more PC Gamer quizzes, on everything from healthbars to weird currencies to absurd patch notes. It’s almost time for another game from the series that brought you decades of cheeky itchy, tasty references and more…
With less than two weeks until the planned launch of the next major Destiny 2 update, Shadow and Order, it seemed a little odd that no one outside of Bungie had seen or heard a single thing about it. That silence, coupled with the update’s proximity to Marathon—set to launch just two days later—led some…
Increasingly, our digital economies are defined by a contest to capture our attention. A product, service, or platform can get us to keep it on-screen, that’s a gateway to lucrative advertising revenue and monetization opportunities. We’re paying with our attention as much as our money—and according to games industry analyst Matthew Ball, we’re giving less…
There are plenty of superficial similarities between The Mermaid’s Curse and the original Paranormasight, a 2023 visual novel that’s quietly built up a reputation as one of the best mystery games of the last few years. There’s the artistic style, the spooky tone, the use of an ensemble cast who have nothing and everything to…
The concept of ‘Starfield 2.0,’ essentially a major update/overhaul of Bethesda’s less-than-stellar sci-fi RPG, has been kicking around for quite a while now. Fans have been huffing the copium since at least the middle of 2025, and started hitting the pipe extra hard at the end of last year when it came to light that…