PC Gaming
Between Baldur’s Gate 3’s reception deservedly snowballing into an award-sweeping phenomenon and Phantom Liberty bringing a fresh dose of sci-fi spying to Cyberpunk 2077, one of the oldest and often the very nerdiest gaming genres has had a truly impressive year. Whether your personal preference leans more towards swords and sorcery or hot hacking action,…
No surprises here. Baldur’s Gate 3 is the best game of the year. For the rest of the awards, visit our Game of the Year 2023 list. Phil Savage, UK Editor-in-Chief: It wasn’t even close. Of the 26 people who submitted nominations for our GOTY awards this year, 23 of them included Baldur’s Gate 3….
The humble gaming keyboard is no longer quite so humble. We’ve come a long way from the bad old days of nought but rubber dome switches as far as the eye could see, or single colour LED backlights, or complete Cherry switch dominance. Today sees a vibrant keyboard market that has seen high-end mechanical switches become…
When Baldur’s Gate 3 bumped up its PC release date to avoid Starfield, it didn’t occur to me that Starfield was the game that should be worried. Wes was the most prescient among us at PC Gamer, wondering at the time if Baldur’s Gate 3 would be so good that Starfield would suffer from the…
When you buy a new gaming mouse you’re likely to stick with it for a very long time. I review these things for a living and I’ve stuck with the same shape Logitech mouse for years now. Creature of habit, I guess. That’s why it’s of the utmost important (utmost!) that you pick the right…
Need some help with Wordle today? Don’t worry if you’re on your last row with not enough green letters for comfort, the answer to today’s puzzle is right here. You’ll also find a great selection of general tips on this page, as well as a clue for the December 30 (924) Wordle if you’d just…
The modernized and remade PC version of tactical shoot ’em up R-Type Tactics 1 and 2 is clearly not coming this year as previously listed. Developer Granzella has announced that R-Type Tactics I – II Cosmos is in fact coming in fall 2024, instead, during a recent livestream. Kind of a shame, because we had…
Factorio’s upcoming Space Age expansion and the free Factorio 2.0 update that goes with it means a lot for the factory-building game, especially because the effort on developer Wube Software’s part to update many game systems and the underlying code base have made huge changes to what’s possible inside Factorio. Elevated trains, for example. A…
Playing Soulslikes is a pretty standard experience for FromSoftware fans at this point. You spend your first few hours puzzling out the new names for the Estus Flask, Bonfires, Boss Souls, Titanite, and all the well-known mechanics you’ve come to expect from a familiar genre. But perhaps due to the fact that their formula is…
An upcoming city builder asks the hard, important questions we all like to ask sometimes: What if penguins built a city? Wouldn’t that be cool? United Penguin Kingdom says that yes, in fact, that would be pretty cool. You can try it for free, today, via a demo version on Steam called United Penguin Kingdom:…