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Dungeon Master (Image credit: Future) Welcome to Dungeon Master, PC Gamer’s regular RPG column, where Online Editor Fraser Brown delves into PC gaming’s most beloved and enduring genre. Grab a seat in our badly-lit tavern and please ignore the goblin puke. I have occasionally been accused of cynicism. And by occasionally, I mean every damn…
PC games have been foisting tricky decisions on players since back in 1985 when Ultima 4 made us navigate a moral compass with eight different spokes to prove we were Britannia’s best boy. But the Big Decision Era really kicked off in 2003 when Knights of the Old Republic made us pick between the light…
Terminally Online (Image credit: Future) This is Terminally Online: PC Gamer’s very own MMO column. Every other week, I’ll be sharing my thoughts on the genre, interviewing fellow MMO-heads like me, taking a deep-dive into mechanics we’ve all taken for granted, and, occasionally, bringing in guest writers to talk about their MMO of choice. One…
Survival games are obsessed with the grind. Need a better axe? You’ve got to spend an hour collecting stone. Want to build a bigger base? Time to manually ferry hundreds of logs from one storage chest to another. Somewhere along the line, the genre started confusing friction with depth. But there are only so many…
I had completely forgotten that Valve is working on an update for Team Fortress 2‘s cooperative Mann vs. Machine mode, though my defence, it’s been a long time since we last heard about it. The prospective patch was announced in June last year, via a blog post on TF2’s official website that requested map and…
Jacob Fox, hardware writer (Image credit: Future) This week I’ve been: Trying out a new mouse (a Superlight clone) and finally sacking off CS2’s cheater-ridden Premier matchmaking for FaceIt. I’m known around the PC Gamer streets as a bit of a mouse pad nerd. Though that’s just because I take the surface my little rodent…
If you missed out on this year’s Steam summer sale, there are still opportunities to grab great games on the cheap. 2K has paired up with Humble for a 2026 ‘Megahits’ bundle that offers 15 games for $15. I’d quibble with that title slightly, but there are numerous must-haves for your Steam library in this…
As the AI boom gobbles up graphics cards, SSDs, memory sticks and more, building a gaming PC is currently eye-wateringly expensive (and it’s never exactly been cheap). If, like me, you’ve been holding out in the hope that those prices will drop to more sensible levels soon, I’m sorry to say that’s looking unlikely. Earlier…
Bethesda’s gone and done it again. It’s reconfirmed that Fallout 5 is in development even though it’s still years away from Reclamation Day. As we once knew about the next Elder Scrolls’ place in the development pipes relative to Starfield, Fallout 5 will launch after TES6, and this time we’ve not even got a logo…
Even a few months after it launched, we still haven’t gotten tired of seeing the wild stuff you come up with in Crimson Desert’s sprawling sandbox. That’s why our latest monthly winner of PC Gamer Clips is yet another great Crimson Desert video—and that’s why the person who sent us that clip just won $500…