PC Gaming
My faithful PC lives right next to me, here on top of my desktop. It goes up and down with my sitting/standing desk, without me having to worry about whether the cables are going to stretch and pull the power at any time. And I can gaze lovingly at its carefully crafted insides, and the…
Across the globe, gaming PC and laptop prices are soaring. Price hikes are due to a number of factors, but the memory supply crisis caused by the AI industry’s bottomless appetite for RAM and system storage is one major contributor. For most consumers, that means hoping the hardware you already own doesn’t fail before prices…
If you’ve successfully unlocked Pocahontas in Disney Dreamlight Valley and started working on your friendship level, it won’t be long before you unlock your first friendship quest: The Three Sisters Garden. While you only need to hit level two friendship with Pocahontas to unlock this quest, you also need to have WALL-E in your valley,…
Landfall has been making games for over 10 years now. Recent ventures include the co-op climbing sim Peak and the multiplayer horror game Content Warning, both of which I absolutely loved. But now Landfall is preparing for its next step: publishing games. “We made a publisher to only publish our own games,” Landfall announced on…
Watching paint dry is drab. Tired. Boring. Watching half a dozen virtual lil’ guys chisel away at a big hunk of stone to turn it into a statue? Now that’s entertainment, baby. Crimson Desert is a lot of game, both good and bad—it’s ambition and scale cut with frustration and bizarre design choices. For every…
Minor Microsoft SNAFU detected. Turns out it has been shipping Xbox controllers without batteries for months (via Neowin). Belatedly, Microsoft is now compensating customers by sending out a rechargeable battery kit, plus a USB Type-C cable for free. Xbox controllers are actually a little old school in having a user-accessible compartment that takes plain old…
I’m not one for snap judgments, but when this keyboard first crossed my desk, I couldn’t help but wrinkle my nose. My initial ire centred on the plastic construction and the pricing. To be fair to this 65% gaming keyboard, it’s a sturdy bit of kit with minimal flex that also offers TMR switches. That…
More quizzes! (Image credit: Larian Studios, PC Gamer) Want to keep testing your knowledge of gaming trivia? We’ve got loads more PC Gamer quizzes, on everything from healthbars to weird currencies to absurd patch notes. Is there anything more iconic to a fantasy RPG than spellslinging mages? That often squishy ally in the back who…
If you’re a player of one of the best survival games ever made, Project Zomboid, I’ve got an important news alert for you. Check the list below to see if you downloaded and installed any of the 14 Steam Workshop mods developer The Indie Stone says contain “heavily obfuscated code” that was “creating malicious files…
I’ve never been in a match of Counter-Strike before and I can still recognize Dust 2 when I see it. It’s a testament to the iconic design that it’s just as recognizable when it’s been built with the rudimentary tools of World of Warcraft’s player housing. An incredibly resourceful player recreated the map in the…