The NZXT Relay is a flawed set of speakers but it’s also my favourite bit of hardware from 2024 thanks to its ingenious stand
Gear of the Year (Image credit: Future) Check out more of the year’s best tech in our PC Gamer Hardware Awards 2024 coverage. Settling on the score is always the hardest part of writing a review, for me. In my NZXT Relay review earlier this year, (spoiler alert) I gave the speaker set a 75,…
Comparison of 2019 vs. 2024 Pac-Man | Basic Fun Arcade Classics AGAIN in 2024!
Basic Fun’s line of Arcade Classics tabletop video game toys were all the rage in the late teens, but new released evaporated around 2020 – or so we thought! Just in the past week, sightings of a new Pac-Man with a 2024 copyright and updated box art started to appear in Walmart retail stores. Could…
Amid a tidal wave of new games in 2024, these 10 must-play deep cuts are cheap and will run on almost anything
New Year, same game backlog. Only, what if we made it even worse? Forget finally returning to The Witcher 3 or Persona 5, there are weird indie games to play. They’re cheap. They’re short. They’ll probably run on your Steam Deck (and maybe even your Windows 7 PC). They just might surprise you with ambition…
PC Gamer’s biggest hardware stories of 2024: Elon Musk, the rise and rise of AI, brilliant builds, the humbling of big tech giants, orb pondering aplenty, and much more
Gear of the Year (Image credit: Future) Check out more of the year’s best tech in our PC Gamer Hardware Awards 2024 coverage. It’s been one more full revolution around the sun and—guess what—we’re back here again. As we survey a year of ups and downs, it’d be impossible to recount every beat. Instead, we’ve…
Too many games released busted, broken, and basically in early access this year—it’s time for it to stop
It’s the era of the comeback. No Man’s Sky, Cyberpunk 2077, Fallout 76, on and on the list goes: games that had god-awful launches but pulled it back from the brink over the course of patches and expansions. Games that started out as player-repelling PR disasters end up beloved golden boys. In some cases, the…
Morels: The Hunt 2 is a great outdoors vibe when you’re stuck indoors
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. I did not expect a game…
Best Of 2024: How Lemmings, ChuChu Rocket & Nintendo Inspired Unpacking Devs’ Next Game
“When you play it, you feel connected, not judged”. Over the holiday season, we’re republishing some of the best articles from Nintendo Life writers and contributors as part of our Best of 2024 series. This article was originally published in June. Enjoy! Developer Witch Beam isn’t ready to rest on its laurels. After creating two…
PC Gamer Hardware Awards: The best gaming mouse of 2024
Gear of the Year (Image credit: Future) Check out more of the year’s best tech in our PC Gamer Hardware Awards 2024 coverage. You don’t tend to buy a gaming mouse every year (unless you’re particularly clumsy) so it can be easy to ignore the miasma of tech coming out. Yet this year has produced…
Best Expansion 2024: Elden Ring – Shadow of the Erdtree
How do you improve on one of the best games of 2022? This is how. For more awards, check out our Game of the Year 2024 hub. Tyler Colp, Associate Editor: My favorite expansions don’t just answer questions or continue the plot from the original game, they stretch your imagination for what is even possible…