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This is the cheapest gaming PC deal I'd actually recommend right now
19+ min ago (504+ words) I've scoured retailers for something cheaper and I'm yet to find anything as modern as this machine for the same price or less. The CPU in this gaming PC isn't ideal, but it should get you by for some budget…...
Youtuber builds titanium-tubed, liquid-cooled gaming PC: 'Would I do it again? Most definitely not."
29+ min ago (580+ words) "Titanium tubing. Questionable. Would I do it again? Most definitely not." YouTuber Jakkuh (previously a member of Linus Tech Tips) has spent two months designing a high-spec gaming PC kitted with an RTX 5090 and $1,300 worth of RAM to test out…...
FTL-like Void War was DMCAed by Games Workshop due to 'oversized convex shoulder pads with a metallic rim"
6+ hour, 32+ min ago (592+ words) Jody's first computer was a Commodore 64, so he remembers having to use a code wheel to play Pool of Radiance. A former music journalist who interviewed everyone from Giorgio Moroder to Trent Reznor, Jody also co-hosted Australia's first radio show…...
Fallout was a 'B-tier product' that lost both the licenses it was banking on and had its lead dev joking, 'In a week, we’re going to be asking whether people want fries with their meal,' but now he thinks those trials 'turned out to be positives"
12+ hour, 8+ min ago (370+ words) The little post-apocalyptic roleplaying game that could. Fallout's everywhere now, with half a dozen games and two seasons of television under its belt, but it used to be "a B-tier product," as series co-creator Tim Cain recently told Game Informer....
'They have effectively ghosted us:' publisher of delisted art game Horses lambasts Epic Games Store after executive claims 'we love that studio"
12+ hour, 36+ min ago (669+ words) Speaking to Game File, Allison said that "[Santa Ragione] went through the self-publishing process and [Horses] went through," referring to how the studio filled out an International Age Rating Coalition (IARC) form to determine it had an M-rating'and thus, was…...
Just in time for Hollow Knight's 9th birthday, Team Cherry rolled out its first update in years, including better support for ultrawide monitors and the Steam Deck screen
12+ hour, 58+ min ago (244+ words) No more black bars, baby. As reported by GamingOnLinux, Team Cherry delivered its promised ultrawide update to the original Hollow Knight on February 5. The patch is Hollow Knight's first since 2022, and also comes just a few weeks before the ninth…...
Overwatch creeps past Battlefield 6 and Call of Duty's concurrent players on Steam, hitting its biggest peak in years
13+ hour, 25+ min ago (407+ words) Justin first became enamored with PC gaming when World of Warcraft and Neverwinter Nights 2 rewired his brain as a wide-eyed kid. As time has passed, he's amassed a hefty backlog of retro shooters, CRPGs, and janky '90s esoterica. Whether he's extolling…...
Stronghold Crusader: Definitive Edition gets a massive update introducing Steam Workshop support, 10 new maps, and a 10-mission cooperative campaign
17+ hour, 6+ min ago (313+ words) It proved a successful makeover, with the Definitive Edition garnering itself a 'Very Positive' rating on Steam. Now, Firefly's stalwart RTS is getting additional reinforcements in its Winter Update, bringing a bunch of vital supplies to the game. The headline…...
Debate: Who is the best videogame composer of all time?
17+ hour, 28+ min ago (192+ words) Who is our digital, modern-day Bach? Welcome to Soundtrack Sunday, where a member of the PC Gamer team takes a look at a soundtrack from one of their favourite games'or a broader look at videogame music as a whole'offering their…...
Thanks to one mad modder, we can now play Doom on an in-game computer inside another FPS
19+ hour ago (177+ words) Escalating levels of FPS turducken. Doom can run on so many weird devices now, it's easier to tally up the things that don't support id's 1993 masterpiece. But running a game inside another game always tickles my lizard brain, and Squaresweets…...