Just days after Valve started reversing bans for those who used AMD’s Anti-Lag+ feature in Counter-Strike 2, players have discovered a reproducible method for triggering a VAC ban on your account: moving your mouse very, very fast. As shared by YouTuber Water CS2 and others (and spotted by PCGamesN), several players have incurred the wrath…
When it’s time to choose a gaming mouse, it’s important to factor in exactly what kind of gaming you want to be doing with it. If you’re aiming to be a pro sniper with pixel perfect flick shots your needs are likely going to be a little different from the MMO gamer maxing their cooldown…
Maybe Dracula’s gotten a bad rap. Conventional wisdom is that he swans around at night looking for virgins to feed on and sneaking on to boats to England. But according to ReVamp, the latest game from Digital Sun, all he really wants to do is to stay in his castle and be left alone. Relatable,…
Welcome back to the kingdom of Ding Dong Dell! You’ve been gone a long time and there is much to discuss! First off, there are many new faces to familiarize you with. Let’s make the proper introductions: Evan Evan Pettiwhisker Tildrum, to be precise. This young man is the ruler of Ding Dong Dell and…
More quizzes! (Image credit: Larian Studios, PC Gamer) Want to keep testing your knowledge of gaming trivia? We’ve got loads more PC Gamer quizzes, on everything from healthbars to weird currencies to absurd patch notes. Not enough respect is given to the humble videogame goblin. More than just a level 1 enemy for you to…
H. R. Giger’s biomechanical nightmares have inspired plenty of videogames. If we go way back, his work was repurposed for baffling puzzle adventure Dark Seed, and more recently there was the fleshy horror of Scorn. Tormentum: Dark Sorrow was more in the vein of the former than the latter, a point-and-click adventure that took Giger’s…
Apparently Sony had the same reaction as the rest of us when Tencent announced a game that looks shockingly similar to Horizon Zero Dawn. It’s suing the Chinese tech company over the open world game, which like Horizon is set in a lush post-apocalypse and stars a woman with a bow who fights and tames…
Last month, we had breakout runaway hits, indie darlings, and a few surprises. Which game spoke to you the most? Some of the big new releases included Blue Prince, Clair Obscur: Expedition 33, Forever Skies, and The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion Remastered. How does it work? At the end of every month, PlayStation Blog will…
We may only be a few months into 2016, but already it’s shaping up to be an incredible year for Call of Duty esports. In January we launched the Call of Duty World League, presented by PlayStation 4 — a new global esports league operated by Activision that takes competitive Call of Duty to a…
I finally got around to watching Severance a couple of weeks ago and absolutely devoured both seasons. So I’m not sure whether I’ve just got Lumon on the brain, but the first thing that I thought of while playing the demo for Repose was how it gave off the same eerie vibes as my new…