Brace yourself for not only a veritable cavalcade of Intel-related leaks, rumours and codenames, but also for the usual caveats and qualifications concerning unconfirmed reports of future products. The news includes Intel’s first joint-venture chip with Nvidia, plus several next-gen CPUs, reportedly with a big boost to per-core performance, plus a return to a unified…
Please note: major spoilers for Fallout Season 2 Episode 2! I praised the continuing use of flashbacks in my Fallout Season 2 review, and this episode opens with a perfect example. We’ve seen Shady Sands at its peak in Lucy’s memory, as she realized her childhood recollection of an idealized cornfield actually took place during…
Please note: major spoilers for Fallout Season 2 Episode 2! I praised the continuing use of flashbacks in my Fallout Season 2 review, and this episode opens with a perfect example. We’ve seen Shady Sands at its peak in Lucy’s memory, as she realized her childhood recollection of an idealized cornfield actually took place during…
We don’t know much about the next Mass Effect game in development at BioWare except that it’s happening, and even that feels a little soft right now, what with all the layoffs and looming sale of Electronic Arts to Saudi Arabia. But one thing we do now know, thanks to a Fall Damage interview on…
Get your Switch GOTYs here. 2025 was filled with brilliant games, large and small, launching every single month. It’s the year that both Switch 2 and Silksong finally came out. Wowzers. The quality has been exceptionally high for both the original Switch and the newer console. Below we present the top 50 best games of…
One good turn deserves 19 more . Tactical RPGs, or strategy RPGs, offer a completely different flavour of role-playing game, well-suited to those of us who like our RPGs to feel a little bit more like board games, or prefer games you can take your time over, with a nice cup of hot coffee in one…
More quizzes! (Image credit: Larian Studios, PC Gamer) Want to keep testing your knowledge of gaming trivia? We’ve got loads more PC Gamer quizzes, on everything from healthbars to weird currencies to absurd patch notes. I think one of my favourite things—just, generally—are the old Soviet film posters for Star Wars. There’s something fascinating about…
Once upon a time, choosing when to release your videogame was simple. If you were a major publisher, you put your game on shelves between one and three months before Christmas. If you were a midsize or indie developer, by contrast, you released your game anywhere that wasn’t the holiday season. Anywhere except for summer,…
Obsidian has been one of my go-to RPG studios ever since its first game, Knights of the Old Republic 2, came out in 2004. And between 2004 and 2018, it released 12 games, eight of which absolutely belong in every RPG lover’s library. We’re talking Alpha Protocol, Neverwinter Nights 2, New Vegas, Pillars of Eternity…
Once upon a time, choosing when to release your videogame was simple. If you were a major publisher, you put your game on shelves between one and three months before Christmas. If you were a midsize or indie developer, by contrast, you released your game anywhere that wasn’t the holiday season. Anywhere except for summer,…