PC Gaming
12 years on from its initial announcement, work on Star Citizen shows no signs of slowing down (not that it was exactly going at lightspeed in the first place). Developer Cloud Imperium Games has launched an ‘alpha’ for version 4.0 of Star Citizen nb, which is a pretty big deal. For context, version 3.0 of…
In what I have convinced myself is the studio’s Christmas gift to me specifically, GSC Game World has announced that it’s updating Stalker. No not Stalker 2, the old Stalkers: Shadow of Chernobyl, Clear Sky, and Call of Pripyat. In an encyclical on X, “The Everything App,” GSC announced that the classic Stalker games would…
My better judgment tells me that I can’t scoop up every novelty keyboard I clap eyes upon. One only ever has limited funds after all, to say nothing of my increasingly crowded and very much limited space. Alas, every now and then I’m confronted by a keyboard find that overrides such sensible notions, leaving me…
As a child, I was taught to fear the Sun. Don’t look at it, I was told. Cover yourself in suntan lotion to protect against it. Sacrifice small animals to its glory. Okay, the last one was probably just my family. But scientists are about to go deep where all others fear to tread, as…
If your prime years for receiving fun Christmas presents are now behind you, and you’ve been demoted to socks, ties, and tasty chutneys in your adulthood, then you may want to check out Diablo 4’s world of Sanctuary over the festive period. It’s a world where inside every treasure chest, side-quest, and underpowered boss that…
Our favourite survival game of the year wasn’t about fighting zombies or monsters or the bitter cold. Instead it’s about fighting with your car as you explore a strange land full of mysteries. For more awards, check out our Game of the Year 2024 hub. Jacob Ridley, Managing Editor, Hardware: Do you ever get that…
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. I wasn’t sure Bloober Team would stick…
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. We live in the golden age of…
The GPU in the hot new PlayStation 5 Pro is mostly pretty old tech. But it does preview the ray-tracing upgrades that are coming with AMD’s new RDNA 4 graphics chips for PC gamers. That’s the low down from the same PS5 Pro deep dive that also revealed Sony went its own way with AI…
If you’re looking to do a high-performance scratch-build in miniature, the ASRock DeskMini X600 seems like an intriguing foundation. Most mini-PCs come with a pre-soldered mobile APU running the show, but the DeskMini doesn’t ship with a chip. Instead, you can install any desktop AM5 CPU across AMD’s 7th and 8th-gen Ryzen range, provided your…