PC Gaming
Are goofy crossover skins a net negative for multiplayer shooters? That’s the question I posed to Rainbow Six Siege X creative director Alex Karpazis in an interview following the launch of its Siege X update. He took the pointed question in stride, but I knew before asking that I’d never get the response I was…
Out of all the changes Blizzard has made to Diablo 4 since it was released two years ago, its most basic dungeons have gone largely untouched. A few things have been tweaked here and there, but they’ve largely taken a back seat to all the new dungeon types introduced after launch. In Diablo 4’s next…
Despite what we are told as children, cheaters do sometimes prosper—fairly often, in fact. Every now and then, though, cheaters push their luck a little too far and their bad deeds come around to bite them in the ass. Such is the case of Sebastian Araujo, who won more than $6,800 in Fortnite tournaments after…
Pasokon Retro is our regular look back at the early years of Japanese PC gaming, encompassing everything from specialist ’80s computers to the happy days of Windows XP. Seven floppy disks. Seven. Seven. Illusion City (Image credit: Micro Cabin) Dev: Micro Cabin Released: 1991 PCs: PC-98, MSX Turbo R, PC-88VA, X68000, FM-Towns That’s a lot…
Borderlands 3 is 95% off on Steam right now, dropping it to just $3—its lowest price ever, and one of the best deals in the 2025 Steam Summer Sale. And somehow, that screamingly good price has turned into yet another opportunity for Gearbox boss Randy Pitchford to annoy Borderlands fans on social media. “Sales like…
Helldivers 2 has, generally speaking, been a massive success for Arrowhead Game Studios and publisher Sony. But it did have one early and notable misstep. Shortly after release Sony made a PSN account a requirement to play, and removed Helldivers 2 from sale in 177 countries and territories that didn’t have access to PSN: sparking…
Dark Souls 2 is the black sheep of the Fromsoft herd, beloved only by those rare, intelligent, and cultured individuals who understand that, as Miyazaki himself says, much of what made Elden Ring so great can be traced back to changes the ill-loved sequel made to the Dark Souls formula. But even its most devoted…
Looks like things are heating up in DayZ: a new map has just been announced for the ruthless open world survival game, and it’s going to be a hot one. In contrast to DayZ’s last expansion, Frostline, which plunged players into a frigid archipelago called Sakhal, the new Badlands map, coming in 2026, is set…
Gaming on the go has become big business in recent years, but lugging around your full-size mechanical keyboard and chunky gaming mouse isn’t the most practical way to do it. Razer reckons it’s found the answer in the form of the Joro keyboard and Basilisk Mobile mouse, but I’ve got some serious reservations about both…
One of the purest pleasures of this job is the fact that we get to play around with all kinds of different PC kit. But that also means the hardware team’s PCs are ships of Theseus and are regularly stripped and rebuilt from parts we’re testing or bits left around the PC Gamer offices. And…