Personal Pick (Image credit: Future) In addition to our main Game of the Year Awards 2024, each member of the PC Gamer team is shining a spotlight on a game they loved this year. We’ll post new personal picks, alongside our main awards, throughout the rest of the month. This year I played three 100-hour…
Even going into the final stretch of The Spirit of the Samurai, I was still unsure if I had understood the fundamentals of its combat. Enemies were every bit as twitchy and unpredictable as they had been at the start of the game, but I still had no idea whether my custom combos were good…
Categorically, what is the biggest problem with PCIe 5.0 drives? It’s the heat. At launch, and even now, those early 5.0 units complete with the Phison E26 controller and Micron 232-layer TLC run seriously hot. To the point it was almost impossible to run one without some form of active cooling baked into it. Corsair…
It’s been weeks since I’ve seen any shred of light, trapped down below the surface of a group-modded Skyblock server. My so-called friends all roam the top layer of dirt working on their factory chicken farm, but I haven’t been able to see any progress at all—I’ve just heard of all the wondrous miracles being…
Our personal picks for the best Switch games of 2024. As we head into the final week of 2024, it’s time to slay the GOTY monster that devours the Decembers of many a gamer. While Nintendo itself has been in wind-down mode, with most internal resources focused on the next console and a software lineup…
A gaming laptop must be the complete package. The screen, GPU, CPU, memory, cooling, keyboard, and trackpad are all important. So, when we’re talking about the best gaming laptop in any given year, it has to be a device that offers an extraordinary package, done extraordinarily well. We’re not short of options for this prestigious…
The League of Legends-inspired series Arcane may be the most expensive animated series ever produced, and unfortunately, despite the stellar reception, it didn’t manage to make much of the money spent back. But apparently, Riot doesn’t care too much about that part. Bloomberg reported that the amounts that Netflix and Tencent paid Riot less than…
Anyone who endured Final Fantasy 14: Endwalker as a melee main will know the pain of that expansion’s raids and bosses—gigantic hitboxes, no positionals to hit, and virtually zero downtime to strategise around. Those things sound like a dream, sure, but in practice they kneecapped any semblance of challenge that makes those classes so fun…
A groundbreaking project. It might seem odd for us to award our Best Retro Hardware of the Year award to a product which, under the surface, is the same as the MiSTer FPGA platform – a system which is a good few years old now. The open-source MiSTer FPGA project offers incredibly accurate replication of…
Just in time for its 30th birthday. Sonic fan-game Sonic Robo Blast 2 has been ported to the Sega 32X, which turned 30 this year. The port has been spearheaded by the game’s co-creator, SSNTails, and Saxman, a notable figure in the Sonic ROM hacking community. Read the full article on timeextension.com Just in time…