PC Gaming
It’s the most wonderful time of the year, and you know what that means: The 2024 Steam Winter Sale has begun. This is the big one—well, one of them, anyway—with deals galore on literally thousands of games, and plenty of Steam stuff to pick up including free stickers for browsing your Discovery Queue (nine of…
I admit it: I’m a coward. The first time I fired up Path of Exile 1, accidentally tabbing over to its sprawling passive skill tree filled me with an instinctual dread, like I was coming face to face with some ancestral human enemy. How could my frail, mortal mind ever hope to make sense of…
I don’t know about you, but I’m starting to think 2025 might be the year of the handheld gaming PC. This recently teased OneXPlayer G1 handheld with a removeable keyboard is a good sign of things to come, anyways. We’ll be embarking fully into the second generation of handheld tech in 2025, and that means…
In the absence of publishers doing what is right and porting their finest games to VR, we have Luke Ross. The modder has taken it upon himself to convert some of the biggest PC games into VR over the years—Elden Ring, Cyberpunk 2077, Far Cry 4-6, Marvel’s Spider-Man, and Star Wars Outlaws, to name a…
Ah, Arrowhead Games, never change—in the continual, eternal cycle of “it’s so over” and “we’re so back”, the Helldivers 2 devs have done a 180-degree turn on their current Killzone collaboration, which was incredibly unpopular for a few important reasons. Namely, because it was a bunch of weirdly expensive kit that’s only available for purchase…
Fallout 76 was not the first attempt to splice the retro post-apocalypse with an MMO. Years before, Fallout’s original owner, Interplay, had taken a crack at it. This was actually after Bethesda had purchased the rights to the series, but the two companies came to an arrangement: one that would ultimately devolve into a lawsuit,…
Personal Pick (Image credit: Future) In addition to our main Game of the Year Awards 2024, 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. To harvest the seals or not harvest…
Personal Pick (Image credit: Future) In addition to our main Game of the Year Awards 2024, 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. Despite being such an enduring videogame setting,…
There’s so much going on in this absurdly ambitious compilation that we’ve given it an award designed to celebrate its sheer dedication to the craft. For more awards, check out our Game of the Year 2024 hub. Evan Lahti, Strategic Director: Imagine the jackpot feeling of stumbling upon, perhaps while excavating some beige office tomb…
With Ghost of Tsushima, Assassin’s Creed Shadows, and the recently announced Ghost of Yotei, the feudal Japanese setting is well accounted for in games these days. But considering the rich mythologies, aesthetics, and customs found throughout Japanese history, it’s a tad surprising that developers haven’t thought to merge that with more traditional RPG mechanics. Enter…