PC Gaming

In 1997, two young hobbyists released two pieces of software that more or less prompted a new wave of interest in “retro” games—which were, at that point, really just a few years old. The first punch was Nesticle, a Nintendo Entertainment System emulator that quite suddenly made it free and easy to play Nintendo’s ’80s…

13 solid years ago, when PC Gamer global editor-in-chief Phil Savage was still grinding away as a lowly news guy, Crytek—which had purchased and rebranded Free Radical Design a few years earlier—gave a group of modders the official okay to make a “TimeSplitters CryEngine mod.” And like so many such projects, it floundered, popping up…

Chances are you’ve played a battle royale before (or even an extraction shooter) and know that higher rarity weapons are better—you’d pick a yellow over a grey any day. Naturally, you’d assume your goal in the Battlefield 6 battle royale, Redsec, is to swap your guns almost constantly to climb up the gear tiers as…

I’m crouching in a dimly-lit stairwell, eavesdropping on the garbled barks of a squad of FEAR’s enemy clone soldiers below. They’re holed up in an office at the foot of the stairs as I plot my attack. There’s a door to the left side of the office I could try to sneak up to, but…

Today saw the launch of Battlefield 6 Season 1, bringing a new map, a battle pass, a store stuffed with cosmetic bundle cognitohazards, and a fresh free-to-play battle royale mode with Redsec—or as fresh as a battle royale mode can be in 2025. But for a specific flavor of Battlefield veteran, the most exciting feature…

Steam’s rustled up an Indie Horror Showcase, which means a lot of great games are on sale. I’m not a horror aficionado myself (I am allergic to jumpscares, and also a big baby) but I have played The Walking Dead series by Telltale, because everyone has, and also there aren’t that many ooga-boogas in it…

Darkwood is a top-down survival horror game, and if you’re wondering how horrific a top-down videogame could possibly be, let me assure you the answer is probably more than you think. I called Darkwood “wretched and pestilent” not long after it launched in 2017, and while I haven’t touched the game in years, I stand…

When it comes to PC monitors, I’ve been a high-DPI aficionado—OK, a high-DPI bore—since forever. So, forgive me for feeling just a touch of triumphant as I report on new research that entirely vindicates my personal peccadilloes when it comes to pixel density. It turns out really high-res PC monitors are worth it, after all….

Over the last few years, Sony has been trying to get lift-off on its big live service plans, with ambitions to release 12 live service games by 2025. But after the twin bombs of Concord and Marathon (which,to be fair, is still in development) , it’s now been spending the last year or so going…

Earlier today, Amazon sent an email to all its employees to explain why it needed to make “organizational changes” that would result in 14,000 corporate roles being laid off. The message carried the usual phrases one sees in missives from senior management: more leanly, fewer layers, more ownership, move as quickly as possible. The reason…