According to Steam, the average PC Gamer writer played 72 games this year (56% of which were new) and used a controller more than we'd like to admit

According to Steam, the average PC Gamer writer played 72 games this year (56% of which were new) and used a controller more than we’d like to admit

Harvey Randall, Staff Writer (Image credit: Future) This week I’ve been: Defending Hades 2’s honour in the Game of the Year awards, failing. Last week I was: Appreciating player housing in MMORPGs. So—the Steam replay for 2025 debuted recently, giving every Steam user a more granular look at their gaming habits. And I, being a…

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You won’t be able to play Valorant until you update your motherboard BIOS: ‘this is a necessary step in our arms race against hardware cheats’

If you have an Asus, Gigabyte, MSI, or ASRock motherboard, you need to update the BIOS if you want to continue playing Valorant. That’s because a critical flaw was recently found that allows cheaters to bypass hardware-based security checks and potentially inject code before Riot’s Vanguard anti-cheat can wake up. As laid out in the…

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Microsoft celebrates 10 years of DirectX 12: A decade of updates to the low-level graphics API but it’s still not the master of all things rendering

In the late summer of 2014, Microsoft announced that Windows 10 would be rolled out to PC users around the world in the following year. At the same time, it also revealed that the new operating system would be home to another major software release: DirectX 12. It’s been a decade since both were officially…

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Microsoft celebrates 10 years of DirectX 12: A decade of updates to the low-level graphics API but it’s still not the master of all things rendering

In the late summer of 2014, Microsoft announced that Windows 10 would be rolled out to PC users around the world in the following year. At the same time, it also revealed that the new operating system would be home to another major software release: DirectX 12. It’s been a decade since both were officially…

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PowerWash Simulator 2 will kick off the new year with its best collaboration yet—hold onto your BMOs because Adventure Time is coming to powerwash

During its first iteration, PowerWash Simulator had some of the best collaborations in videogames. Seriously, it’s up there with Fortnite, or at least it is in my opinion. But with its sequel comes new chances for crossovers, and it looks like the first stop in 2026 will be in the Land of Ooo, aka Adventure…

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