Jacob Fox, hardware writer (Image credit: Future) This week I’ve been: Trying out a new mouse (a Superlight clone) and finally sacking off CS2’s cheater-ridden Premier matchmaking for FaceIt. I’m known around the PC Gamer streets as a bit of a mouse pad nerd. Though that’s just because I take the surface my little rodent…
Pokémon, Mario Kart and more top the list. We’ve just passed the halfway mark of 2026, and Nintendo has now shared its best-selling eShop games for the Switch 1 & 2 in Japan. Read the full article on nintendolife.com
If you missed out on this year’s Steam summer sale, there are still opportunities to grab great games on the cheap. 2K has paired up with Humble for a 2026 ‘Megahits’ bundle that offers 15 games for $15. I’d quibble with that title slightly, but there are numerous must-haves for your Steam library in this…
As the AI boom gobbles up graphics cards, SSDs, memory sticks and more, building a gaming PC is currently eye-wateringly expensive (and it’s never exactly been cheap). If, like me, you’ve been holding out in the hope that those prices will drop to more sensible levels soon, I’m sorry to say that’s looking unlikely. Earlier…
A Roomfinder with a Viewfinder. We are back, back, back with another edition of What Are You Playing! It was another rather quiet one in the land of Nintendo this time, with the biggest stories feeling a far cry away from the stacked months prior. Square Enix announced new Switch 2 versions for Octopath Traveler…
Bethesda’s gone and done it again. It’s reconfirmed that Fallout 5 is in development even though it’s still years away from Reclamation Day. As we once knew about the next Elder Scrolls’ place in the development pipes relative to Starfield, Fallout 5 will launch after TES6, and this time we’ve not even got a logo…
Returning this September. Square Enix’s role-playing game Dragon Quest XI S: Echoes of an Elusive Age is making its way across to the Switch 2 this September, and more details are beginning to surface. According to the latest update, the Nintendo eShop page for the title now has the estimated game file size listed as…
“Coming soon”. Following the recent reveal of a Stardew Valley crochet book, the popular farming and social sim is now getting a collab with the long-running trading card series Magic: The Gathering. Read the full article on nintendolife.com
Even a few months after it launched, we still haven’t gotten tired of seeing the wild stuff you come up with in Crimson Desert’s sprawling sandbox. That’s why our latest monthly winner of PC Gamer Clips is yet another great Crimson Desert video—and that’s why the person who sent us that clip just won $500…
I was born in the early ’90s, and thanks to a life marked by periodic socioeconomic turmoil, I’ve come to accept—as any reasonable person would—that blatant dysfunction is the hallmark of a healthy and developed economy. The free market doesn’t have seatbelts or brakes, and that’s why it works. If there’s any wreckage that might…