PC Gaming
All of us in the hardware team at PC Gamer love a good handheld gaming PC, be it a Valve Steam Deck, Asus ROG Ally X, or an MSI Claw 8 AI. Whether you want long-life portable playability or outright performance, there’s something for everyone in the market. Nearly all of them use an AMD…
With a whole three seconds of footage, this month’s Nintendo Direct put a new release window on Hollow Knight: Silksong: 2025. The game has blown past announced release windows before, of course, but this does feel a bit more concrete—brief though the appearance was, this was still Nintendo announcing the lineup for its brand new…
On Friday, the Trump administration exempted smartphones and a load of other computing related hardware from the monstrous 145% tariffs being applied to goods from China. But by Sunday, the President already seemed to be winding back on the winding back, explaining on Truth Social that there were no exemptions, it’s just those product classes…
Citizens from several Silicon Valley communities have been capturing videos of crosswalk buttons that appear to have been hacked in an unusual way. Rather than the usual messages warning about traffic safety, the buttons instead appear to play satirical messages from Elon Musk and Mark Zuckerberg soundalikes. One Zuckerberg-a-like infected crosswalk reportedly told would-be traffic…
There’s been a ton of updates for Marvel Rivals Season 2. Emma Frost is the new Vanguard, there are new team-up abilities, and there’s a new experimental feature to help ease performance issues. But it seems like there are more enhancements going around, as players have now fixated on Magik and Psylocke’s new costumes, which…
Blue Prince, a mind-bending mix of roguelike, deckbuilder, and puzzler—one where you draft the rooms of an enormous mansion and assemble them piece-by-piece, to be slotted together like riddle LEGO—has been claiming the minds of PC Gamer’s more intellectually inclined staff. I’ve yet to give it a go myself, but it really does seem like…
Web browsers aren’t the most exciting pieces of software we use on a daily basis but if you use one for work, how fast and snappy they are makes the difference between a stress-free day and one that results in a foot through a monitor. So it’s good news that Microsoft has given its Edge…
David Fincher was a music video director with clips like Madonna’s Vogue to his name before he became a feature film director in the 1990s, responsible for movies like Seven, Fight Club, and The Social Network. His new commercial for Xbox and Samsung called Wake Up, co-directed with Romain Chassaing, will probably end up somewhere…
Give your puzzle solving week a perfect start with our hint for today’s Wordle. Take a look at it any time you need a bit of a push, it’ll definitely help you out. Same goes for our more general tips too. And if all else fails or you’re just not in the mood for some…
Best of the best (Image credit: Xbox Game Studios) 2025 games: Upcoming releasesBest PC games: All-time favoritesFree PC games: Freebie festBest FPS games: Finest gunplayBest MMOs: Massive worldsBest RPGs: Grand adventures On an average day about a dozen new games are released on Steam. And while we think that’s a good thing, it can be…