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Turning a new PC into a personal computer is one of our hobby’s great pleasures

Much to my bank account's dismay, nothing beats that new PC feeling. A clean SSD free from the detritus of years worth of installs, uninstalls, reinstalls, updates, panicked emergency restores,…

Fox News June 8, 2023

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I never get tired of Hitman: Blood Money’s inventiveness

We're digging into the PC Gamer archives to publish pieces from years gone by. This article was originally published in 2007.There's something on my mind. This being a Hitman retrospective,…

Fox News June 4, 2023

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Great moments in PC gaming: Giving up on a pacifist run

Great moments in PC gaming are bite-sized celebrations of some of our favorite gaming memories.DishonoredYear: 2012 Developer: Arkane StudiosI've never fully understood the appeal of pacifist runs in games. I've…

Fox News May 28, 2023

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Have you ever made a friend through a videogame?

THE PCG Q&AFind all previous editions of the PCG Q&A here. Some highlights: - Have you learned a real-world skill from a game?-Number keys or scroll wheel weapon switching?-Worst PC-building…

Fox News May 27, 2023

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Enough with the cyberpunk aesthetic, bring back retrofuturism

It's cool and all, and the cyberpunk resurgence must have added something to the world of speculative fiction, but game designers really need to switch things up. We need to…

Fox News May 22, 2023

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Peter Molyneux’s Magic Carpet was a game of violent chess, and a true one-off

We're digging into the PC Gamer archives to publish pieces from years gone by. This article was originally published in PC Gamer issue 206, November 2009.Combining designer Peter Molyneux's twin…

Fox News May 21, 2023

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I can’t stop playing this autobattling strategy masterpiece

It's the seventh round of the match, and my survival is balanced on a hair. My infantry are being mopped up by napalm artillery; infantry I bought to screen my…

Fox News May 11, 2023

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If you’re planning to upgrade to an ultrawide gaming monitor, don’t overlook the one critical mistake I made

Why have two or even three gaming monitors on your desk when you could have one, seamless, curved, 49-inch beauty? That’s the rationale I had when upgrading to one of…

Fox News May 10, 2023

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I was going to rant about film grain in games but then I remembered chromatic aberration exists

Raise your hand if you've ever looked at a game and thought to yourself, 'This could do with some chromatic aberration'. Anyone with their hand up: put your hand down,…

Fox News April 28, 2023

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I’ve played over 2,500 hours of Path of Exile, and these are my biggest concerns about Diablo 4

For over 15 years, at least to my mind, nothing came close to matching Diablo 2 at the top of the action RPG heap, including Diablo 3. Then, in 2017,…

Fox News April 14, 2023