PC Gaming
Earlier in the year, I got a look at what I called the ideal GPU physique in the form of the Asus ROG Matrix GeForce RTX 5090. This card was announced as a celebration of the company’s 30th anniversary of selling graphics cards, and it’s now officially launched at a price of, er, $4,000. To…
The Communication Hideout quest in Arc Raiders has a few tricky steps, one of which involves locating a missing battery cell around the Red Tower, while another involves tracking down a terminal concealed around the outside of the building. On the plus side, though, this quest doesn’t require you to extract anything, so you can…
Confirmed best PC game Baldur’s Gate 3 brought CRPG stylings back into the spotlight, and more than that, proved the enduring appeal of an exceptionally reactive, player-driven story with emergent narratives and shenanigans aplenty. But while the game’s success was “an inspiration” according to CD Projekt’s joint CEO Michał Nowakowski, it’s not necessarily the direction…
Great moments in PC gaming are bite-sized celebrations of some of our favorite gaming memories. Plants vs. Zombies (Image credit: PopCap) Developer: PopcapYear: 2009 Plants vs. Zombies is a cute game unless you really take a close look at what’s happening. My melon-pult flings a watermelon across the screen where it collides with a zombie,…
The Steam Machine might remind you of a console—it’s a cute little box instead of a monolith of noisy fans, it’s well-suited to play on a TV, and you don’t have to build the damn thing yourself. It’s like the Steam Deck in that way, but it might cost quite a bit more than Valve’s…
Neon Inferno looks like a lot of new games that gleefully throw back to the golden age of the run and gun side scroller—delights like Blazing Chrome and Huntdown. Cyberpunk city, dirty cops, laser sword-wielding Yakuza, and just enough slugs to send ’em all to hell; it’s all pretty by the numbers on the surface,…
The GTA 6 community is famous for its obsessive detective work—from trailer frame counts to map-sizing spreadsheets—but few fan theories show quite this level of craft. Over on GTAForums, user JohnCGaming has written something that can only be described as a scholarly breakdown of co-protagonist Jason’s military background, and it’s quickly become required reading for…
Soundtrack Sunday Welcome to Soundtrack Sunday, where a member of the PC Gamer team takes a look at a soundtrack from one of their favourite games—or a broader look at videogame music as a whole—offering their thoughts or asking for yours! I am, what scientists and scholars might call, a big fat crybaby. I’ll cry…
For as long as I can remember, my older sister has had two significant fears: zombies, and Pyramid Head from Silent Hill 2. When I was younger, you couldn’t even mention Pyramid Head to her, and because of how petrified she was of the character, I couldn’t exactly look him up or even play Silent…
November has been an absolutely huge month for games, between AAA staples like Call of Duty: Black Ops 7, ongoing successes like Arc Raiders and Dispatch (both technically released in October, but have each dominated the conversation this month) and indie triumphs like Demonschool. But the game that has hooked me in more than any…