PC Gaming
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:…
Several games had to call 2023 their final year as they shut down for good. Some games survived a few years, while others didn’t even make it to one. It’s already hard enough to release a game and now many are expected to be sustainable for several years. But online games don’t last forever, and…
One of my favourite desktop additions over the years has been my high-end audio setup. It’s reasonably high-end, anyways, which I only mention because you can spend about as much money as you would like/can afford to on high-end audio equipment. I’m sure that £50,000 speaker is accurate down to an infinitesimally minute level, but…
Before you scroll down in a flurry of mouse-wheeling to see if Cities: Skylines 2 is on this list… it’s not. Believe me, it feels weird to say that considering how excited I was to play it, and I’m still optimistic that patches and improvements will make it the game we all hoped it would…
The defining mood of this era of gaming is definitely FOMO. Who’s got the time to play all these games? You don’t have to be a professional writer-about-games to feel it: we are bombarded by new releases and meaningful updates. Even years-old games stage meaningful comebacks. The market isn’t saturated, it’s a broken dam flooding…
Call us pedantic, over-critical, picky, fussy, whatever. The simple truth is that everyone at PC Gamer not only has very high standards, but also masses of experience in a host of different fields. So when it comes to reviewing hardware, every piece of kit that passes through our hands gets thoroughly scrutinized. We only give…
Call me cynical if you must, but when a game attempts to tickle my nostalgia receptors my usual reaction is not one of joy, but outright suspicion. Be they boomer shooters, pixel-graphic platformers or otherwise, these attempts to appeal to my childhood can really raise my hackles. My reasoning is simple: Nostalgia can be such…
Personal Pick (Image credit: Future) In addition to our main Game of the Year Awards 2023, 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. In another world, I’m Michael Douglas standing…
In a comeback for the ages, Cyberpunk 2077 is now one of the best RPGs you can play, and enhanced even further with this year’s Phantom Liberty expansion. For more awards, head to our Game of the Year 2023 list. Fraser Brown, Online Editor: CDPR will probably never be able to escape the stink of…
With the continued popularity of streaming, remote-working and voice chat in general, it’s no surprise that so many manufacturers are focussing their efforts on creating great microphones, and this year we’ve had quite a few cross our desks. But when it comes to the best of the best, these three candidates stand out as top…