PC Gaming
As a formerly, frequently disorganised dingbat, I know the fear of a rapidly dwindling battery all too well. While it’s easy enough these days to glance at your phone screen and see clearly just how numbered your minutes of doom scrolling are, the same could not be so easily said of Windows 11 machines—until recently….
Razer is the ‘MacBook’ for gaming laptops. That’s what ‘they’ say. ‘They’ probably being Razer employees diving deep into peoples’ dreams to plant the concept at the core of their very being, but also plenty of other people to be fair. They really are lovely devices. Though much like Apple, Razer hasn’t been afraid to…
Lately, there’s been a bit of a desktop idler wave engulfing the PC Gamer team. It all started with Ropuka’s Idle Island, but after I’d put 20 hours into this little game, I started looking for a new idle game. Luckily, I found my match while scouring through all the Steam Next Fest demos. Cozy…
Founded around 12 years ago in Germany, Thermal Grizzly has grown to become perhaps the name associated with cooling products for overclocked, high performance PC hardware. Co-partnered by Roman Hartung (aka der8auer), it’s never been one to shy away from trying all kinds of things to squeeze a little more from one’s gaming rig, and…
Gamers have been reporting various black screen issues on Nvidia’s latest RTX 50-series graphics cards since release, leaving some staring at their sad selves in the inky darkness of an IPS panel. We were not immune to this issue at PC Gamer, either. One of our RTX 5090 cards for review wouldn’t run unless capped…
Roguelike deckbuilders rampage across Steam. They grow and replicate without impediment, swallowing up every other genre they encounter to spawn new hybrid mutants. We are doomed and all is lost. Or to put it another way: Duchy Drop is a roguelike deckbuilder-meets-city builder-meets-Tetris. Each run consists of a series of battles against… rival duchies, I…
Looks can be deceiving in hardware. The notion that mediocre gear is sometimes propelled forward by pretty RGB or flashy marketing isn’t exactly revelatory so, when I first got a look at the 8BitDo Retro Mechanical Keyboard, I felt equal measures of curiosity and scepticism. Though it has some quirks, I can happily say that…
You ever have those games that it feels like everyone else is kinda lukewarm on but that hits you, specifically, in just the right way to consume a huge part of your life? That’s Elite Dangerous for me. I’ve never felt like there was really much I was interested in doing in the game, but…
Modular laptop maker Framework recently unveiled its new mini PC, the Framework Desktop. This cutesy computer is powered by AMD’s Strix Halo line-up, including the beefy Ryzen AI Max+ 395, which is a chip I’ve longed to see inside a mini PC since at least last week. Now, Framework has ripped one apart (gently) to…
When your data is just too precious for this world, look to the moon for a safe space to store it. Yep, that big rock with very little atmosphere, pock-holed by craters, and a perpetual ‘bad side’. This is where Lonestar, a data center company, is eyeing up for hosting its next super-safe storage service….