In every Assassin’s Creed game, there is a moment where the assassin clambers up to some high-reaching vista — a tower, a balcony, maybe even a ship’s mast — and briefly focuses their eagle eye on the land below them before bounding forward into a leap of faith. The thrill is usually in the leap,…
A proof of concept, at least. Nintendo threw us a real curveball recently by revealing that Virtual Boy games are coming to Nintendo Switch Online, complete with an authentic-looking accessory which recreates those trademark 3D visuals. While the Virtual Boy accessory certainly looks the part, it’s lacking the Virtual Boy controller – so a modder…
RSS Feed | Apple Podcasts | Spotify | Direct download Hey there gamers, welcome to this week’s episode of the PC Gamer Chat Log Podcast! I hope you’ve all had a great week, whether you’ve been playing a ton of games or taking things a little easier right now. This week we’ve got Staff Writer…
PC upgrades are coming For a long while, the tired narrative from market research firms and analysts was that tablets were replacing the PC. They backed their claims with numbers showing a rapid rise in tablet shipments coinciding with slowed growth among desktop and laptop PCs, but fast forward to today and at least one…
The organizers of GDC have released its 2026 State of the Game Industry Report, detailing the results of its annual self-reported survey of games industry professionals. The data provided by over 2,300 respondents offered a grim image of industry layoffs, as 28% of surveyed games industry workers reported that they had been laid off in…
Buy one for looks, and nothing else These days, keyboards are a dime a dozen. There are scads of options from scads of companies. So, how does one distinguish the good ones from the bad? Unfortunately, much of what makes a keyboard good or bad is a matter of personal preference; a plank that works…
There was once a world in which Rockstar published more than two games a decade. Difficult to believe, I know, but having lived through that halcyon period, I would testify to its existence in court. A game like Manhunt 2 was sandwiched between Vice City Stories and Bully the year before, plus GTA 4 and…
First, the Baldur’s Gate 3 modding community gave Elminster Big Naturals, and then everyone’s favorite dignified corpse Withers too. The Skyrim modding community, not one to be left behind, has finally followed suit. It began with a request to give Ulfric Stormcloak “Big Naturals” on r/skyrimmods. “Does current technology allow this?” someone innocently asked, while…
It’s the end of an outstanding year for PC gamers. Almost every major game release made its way into our corner at the same time as everywhere else. I didn’t have to listen to my console-playing friends gloat about Armored Core 6. I could jump into a mech and get nuked by a helicopter in…
PC Gamer Ranked are our ridiculously comprehensive lists of the best, worst, and everything in-between from every corner of PC gaming. The TIE Fighter: to some, a powerful symbol of the Galactic Empire’s military might. To others, a name that harkens back to the golden age of PC space sims. To me, the source of 2023’s…