All bark and no mic. If there were a trophy for missing open goals, Nintendo would have a fair few in the cabinet. For example, why didn’t we get a new Donkey Kong game back when the Super Mario Bros. movie launched last year? Why wasn’t the Wii U called ‘Wii 2’? And why, for…
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. We live in the golden age of…
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 wasn’t sure Bloober Team would stick…
Our favourite survival game of the year wasn’t about fighting zombies or monsters or the bitter cold. Instead it’s about fighting with your car as you explore a strange land full of mysteries. For more awards, check out our Game of the Year 2024 hub. Jacob Ridley, Managing Editor, Hardware: Do you ever get that…
The GPU in the hot new PlayStation 5 Pro is mostly pretty old tech. But it does preview the ray-tracing upgrades that are coming with AMD’s new RDNA 4 graphics chips for PC gamers. That’s the low down from the same PS5 Pro deep dive that also revealed Sony went its own way with AI…
If you’re looking to do a high-performance scratch-build in miniature, the ASRock DeskMini X600 seems like an intriguing foundation. Most mini-PCs come with a pre-soldered mobile APU running the show, but the DeskMini doesn’t ship with a chip. Instead, you can install any desktop AM5 CPU across AMD’s 7th and 8th-gen Ryzen range, provided your…
Update: New footage released for Christmas. Pigsy, the developer behind the Genesis / Mega Drive port of Castlevania: Symphony of the Night, has teased another Castlevania-related project – but before you get too excited, it won’t be a full remake of the game. Instead, Pigsy has shared a mocked-up screen of Castlevania III: Dracula’s Curse…
The Illuminate have been terrorising the galaxy and, for the most part, have sort of been sucking at it so far. At the time of writing, Super Earth’s finest have won their first major order against the squid scum, and are on track to win the second, punting them out of the Galaxy whenever they…
So you’ve rolled up your character, battled past innumerable horrifying monsters, and thrashed Doryani’s machine. Twice. You’ve got your free waystone, clicked on the map device, and opened up the Atlas of Worlds. Now what? Path of Exile 2‘s mapping can be intimidating, but after reading this you’ll have all the information you need to…
The now-ancient Commodore 64 should hold a place in the heart of every computing enthusiast, as it’s technically the highest-selling single computer model of all time. Several of them also appear to be in use in a doughnut shop in Indiana, showing that there’s still some (probably sticky) life left in the old dog yet….