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. As someone who is perpetually anxious…
Green braces. Tan shirt. Blond quiff. That’s the mantra I repeat in my head as I skulk through a smoggy industrial hellscape. Hidden among these brown corridors is someone who looks like this. Someone who looks like me. Someone who wants me dead. The only way to avoid that is to kill them first, a…
The day gaming desks were renamed to battle stations, I knew marketing targeted to my demographic was always going to be just a touch batshit. Now you can get desks complete with RGB lighting, standing desks, desks that are actually a bed and much more. While undeniably cool, that’s not always what a fair chunk…
Gear of the Year (Image credit: Future) Check out more of the year’s best tech in our PC Gamer Hardware Awards 2024 coverage. Mystery has been in the air throughout the PC Gamer offices. Amid a sea of hardware hits, the bizarre case of the disappearing keycaps has put a bit of a dampener on…
“I feel like I made the book almost for him”. Sitting down to speak with Jonathan Traynor, a Glasgow-based artist and writer, about his newly-released book, POCA!, we were expecting a few things. Y’know the sort of stuff: how the Kickstarter went; where the idea for the book came from; hopes for the future; picks…
You’ll need to speak Japanese, though. It’s amazing that secrets can remain hidden in some of the most popular video games of all time, but it does happen – and sometimes for several decades. Take Zelda: Majora’s Mask, for example; it has recently been discovered that the N64 version contains hidden support for the N64’s…
Looking forward ‘2’ the new year. This is it, folks – our final WAYP feature for 2024. 2025 is going to be a pretty huge year for Nintendo fans, with the likes of Metroid Prime 4: Beyond, Pokémon Legends: Z-A, Professor Layton and the New World of Steam, and Xenoblade Chronicles X: Definitive Edition all…
…but it does appear to own the rights to Warp’s games. Sega has been making electronic games since the late 1960s, so it’s a given that the company has a lot of IP stored up. Add in the fact that, over the decades, it has acquired the IP of other companies (such as Technosoft and…
Powered by a Qualcomm Snapdragon chip. We’ve already seen the interesting AYANEO Flip DS imitate Nintendo’s iconic DS handheld, and now rival firm OneXPlayer is getting in on the action. The company has just teased the OneXSugar, an Android-based dual-screen handheld. Details are thin on the ground, but we do know that it will be…
Here’s the full list. It’s the end of the year and as we round up the best games and all sorts of other interesting facts and figures, Weekly Famitsu’s latest issue (released on 26th December 2024) has revealed the “most popular games played in 2024” according to 181 industry figures and “game loving celebrities” in…