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While I joke plenty about Balatro being a secret psychic prison that’s claimed the minds, heart, and souls of about half of PC Gamer’s staff, it’s only in jest. Balatro is, up and down, exceedingly solid value for money—a modestly-priced indie game without microtransactions or paid DLC and, despite its poker aesthetic, zero interest in…

Fortnite’s frantic Blitz Royale has been the game’s most popular attraction since it launched as a time-limited mode two weeks ago—and now Epic is hinting that it might become permanent. Blitz Royale drops 32 players into a miniature Fortnite map and turbocharges the match with special powers: invisibility while sprinting, infinite ammo, faster reloads, and…

RSS Feed | Apple Podcasts | Spotify  Hey there PC gamers, welcome back to the PC Gamer Chat Log podcast! I hope everyone’s been well this week and battling all the winter nasties going around right now. I’ve not been so fortunate—most of my week has been spent in bed feeling pretty dang sick.  I…

While I understand the appeal of renovation sims like House Flipper, I simply cannot bring myself to play them. The idea of spending hours fixing up a fake house seems downright perverse when I cannot find time to maintain my own real, increasingly dilapidated abode. You might say the obvious solution is to take some…