PC Gaming
Weird Weekend Weird Weekend is our regular Saturday feature where we celebrate PC gaming oddities: peculiar games, strange bits of trivia, forgotten history. Pop back every weekend to find out what Jeremy, Josh and Rick have become obsessed with this time, whether it’s the canon height of Thief’s Garrett or that time someone in the…
After a bunch of decidedly low-poly character models started leaking from League of Legends’s public test servers, Riot decided to pull the ripcord: League of Legends Classic is real, though when exactly it will harken back to is yet to be seen. The reveal came in the form of a cheeky skit called “200 Years…
Do you know your airbursts from your airstrikes? Your stalwarts from your heavy machine guns? Have you spent hours perfecting your high score in Stratagem Hero just so you can boast to your fellow Divers? More quizzes! (Image credit: Future) Want to keep testing your knowledge of gaming trivia? We’ve got loads more PC Gamer…
In one of the rarest phrases ever uttered, it’s a pretty good time to be a Thief fan right now. Earlier this month, Thief: The Dark Project Remastered was announced at The PC Gaming Show, with the remaster maestros at Nightdive Studios lending their skills to Looking Glass’ revolutionary stealth game. Last month also brought…
Big changes have been happening within Helldivers 2 of late. After tension within the community saw Steam reviews plummet to Mostly Negative, Arrowhead issued a statement promising a whole bunch of alterations to how the game works. Technical improvements! New red stratagems! And most importantly of all, a complete rework of how objectives and player…
Blood West is one of the better indie shooters to emerge in recent years, a dark Western spin on Stalker in which you roam dusty Badlands fighting eldritch horrors. The game’s been well supported since its release in 2023, too, with developer Hyperstrange releasing a bunch of expansions, including the recent roguelike themed Scavengers DLC….
When Operation Flashpoint launched in June 2001, it was one of the most ambitious games I’d ever played. One of the earliest military simulators, for me it was significant for being an open world game before the concept of open world games really existed. Operation Flashpoint’s intensely simulated combined-arms warfare took place across massive, freely…
Good news if you’re one of the die-hards still clinging to Windows 10: Microsoft has added another year to its Extended Security Updates, meaning the axe won’t fall until October 2027. Microsoft announced in 2024 that support for Windows 10 would be wrapped up in October 2025, bringing an effective end to one of the…
Steam is an elephant, and we are all trying to describe it blindfolded. To bring order to this economic chaos, I have curated a list of must-play games—indies, cult hits, no brainer classics, all ones I like personally—that are $5 or cheaper in the 2026 Summer Sale. Five bucks is my threshold for “not a…
If you signed up for a spot in the Steam Machine reservation queue, you might want to take a quick look at your email, because the notices for those who made it into the first wave—and those who did not—have been sent. I did not personally order a Steam Machine for several reasons, which in…