Best Hall effect keyboards in 2025: the fastest, most customisable keyboards for competitive gaming

The best Hall effect keyboards offer the speediest switches money can buy. They turn your real-world actions into lightning fast reactions in-game, but there’s more to them than just that. Faster response times are only one feature on what are highly customisable, often analog, switches, and deliver special abilities to gamers not possible on mechanical…

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Asus announces the Raikiri II controller with anti-drift TMR joysticks and 1000 Hz wireless polling, which should make the Razer Wolverine V3 Pro look up from its breakfast

Asus has announced a new version of its Raikiri gaming controller at Gamescom 2025, which to my eyes looks like it’s hot on the heels of one of my favourite models, the Razer Wolverine V3 Pro. While the Razer currently holds the best Hall effect spot in our hearts (and our guide), Asus says the…

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Can you guess the PC game based only on its reticle?

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. Much like the humble health bar, the reticle does not exist to be memorable. It’s the most utilitarian tool of…

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How to unlock Sadness in Disney Dreamlight Valley

The Emotional Valley update introduced Joy and Sadness to Disney Dreamlight Valley, but while Joy is happy to move in right away, Sadness takes a little more convincing. Unlike a lot of character unlocks though, you technically only need to complete one quest before you can welcome Sadness. However, there’s a lot of legwork to…

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Playstack, not content with obliterating my free time via Balatro, is publishing another roguelike about coin pusher machines

I’m not a full-time Balatro player, but I do have occasional spells where Jimbo lunges from my screen and throttles me until I’ve sunk about 50 extra hours into it. My doctors tell me that’s a ‘hallucination’ and a ‘deflection from me avoiding my responsibilities’, but Jimbo tells me they’re lying, so I’m not sure…

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How to unlock Joy in Disney Dreamlight Valley

Inside Out has joined Disney Dreamlight Valley in the Emotional Rescue update, adding two of the movie’s most popular emotions to the game. Both Joy and Sadness can be found and invited to live amongst the villagers, but as always, you need to follow a pretty lengthy process to get there first. Before you can…

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