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While I joke plenty about Balatro being a secret psychic prison that’s claimed the minds, heart, and souls of about half of PC Gamer’s staff, it’s only in jest. Balatro is, up and down, exceedingly solid value for money—a modestly-priced indie game without microtransactions or paid DLC and, despite its poker aesthetic, zero interest in…

For a long time, PC gamers fitting an SSD to their rig would have used a 2.5-inch drive with a SATA interface. The best one to get was a Crucial MX500 and it was so good that it topped the charts for almost seven years. However, all good things must eventually end, and parent company…

Hold on to your hats, Apple fans—the Apple Magic Mouse is rumoured to be getting a redesign, hopefully ending the tyranny of what is surely the worst port placement on any peripheral, ever. Bloomberg reports that there’s a new model in the works, and the design team is “aiming to devise something that better fits…

Use our hint for today’s Wordle to get Monday’s game off to a winning start, and then give every guess after a quick boost with our general tips. Still need something more, or just not ready to fight the alphabet today? No problem. The answer to the December 16 (1276) Wordle is only a click…

Some mods fill obvious gaps. Others, you don’t know you need until you discover they exist. For instance, I had no idea I needed a mod that gave me a randomized psychedelic experience every time I drank skooma until I learned it existed, and now it’s an essential part of every playthrough. The Dragonborn’s Bestiary…

As part of a larger interview and preview of OtherSide Entertainment’s upcoming multiplayer sneaker Thick as Thieves with PC Gamer strategic director Evan Lahti, company co-founder and immersive sim OG Warren Spector explained some of the studio’s reasoning for splicing the classically single-player genre into a live service PvPvE multiplayer game. “For years, I’ve been…

If you, like me, love to get together with your friends and scream, have I got a game for you. Murky Divers follows the vein of Lethal Company to deliver a bit of co-op horror that you’ll enjoy very much (while doing some screaming). Murky Divers has been hanging around in early access for about…

Medeival city builder Foundation will exit nearly five years of early access development when it releases on January 31, 2025. To celebrate, the developers have released a free demo that lets you check out the game’s unique gridless playstyle that has you zone areas for your villagers to make their own choices in and forge…

In an interview with ScreenRant ahead of the release of Sonic the Hedgehog 3, Idris Elba expressed a desire to return to Night City with his Cyberpunk 2077: Phantom Liberty co-star, Keanu Reeves, ideally for a live-action project. When asked if he had any interest in such a project, Elba said that “I think if…

Have you heard of Forever Skies, the game where you’re trawling above a ruined earth swathed in poison fog in a tricked-out airship? Where you fish for giant moths and deconstruct the ruin-tops of skyscrapers for parts? Where “we salvage every scrap and make every drop of water count?” Well, with its recent World Evolved…