Silent Hill: Townfall has a different kind of resonance if you grew up in the UK. Its Scottish island of St Amelia is already my favourite video game environment of the year for how it evokes the atmosphere and time of a place—specifically 1996—and captures the specific details of small town life. From the video rental shop to the bunting sadly hanging from the buildings, it's the kind of run-down...

A few months ago I made the case that a 360 Hz refresh rate on your monitor is the sweet spot for competitive FPS before diminishing returns kick in. I had nothing but my own testing and a big bottle of 'trust me bro' back then, but I've now spoken to a couple of Counter-Strike 2 pros and I remain convinced I was right.At Logitech's G Play event (featuring a...

Despite its surprise announcement at BlizzCon earlier this month, Diablo 5 is a whole three years away. Blizzard's brief teaser trailer had zero gameplay in it, which means the action RPG sequel is still mostly a mystery.But director Joe Shely helped paint a picture of what the real thing might look like during a recent group interview with PC Gamer.One of the somewhat controversial aspects of the last couple Diablo...

You can play the first several hours of World of Warcraft: Forever and miss a lot of the changes Blizzard slipped into the early leveling experience. There are new quests and NPCs, but they barely stand out if you don't have encyclopedic knowledge of the MMO.Now that players have had enough time to hit the beta's level 20 cap, they're starting to find what makes WoW: Forever different from a...

If you've ever wanted to play a cozy life sim where you craft, farm, build, cook, and complete quests for villagers, and also make products from human corpses, Graveyard Keeper 2 is out today.I'm only about 13 hours into it and it's got that same immediately engrossing crafting loop as the original. Gotta chop wood, gotta mine ores, gotta cook food, gotta level up skills and earn points and unlock...

Los Santos CustomsI'm modding GTA 5 every day in a quest to either transform it into a PC version of GTA 6 or break it entirely. Come back tomorrow to find out what new horrible thing I've done to Rockstar's baby, or check out what I got up to earlier.Have you heard? Crazy Taxi is coming back. As a game, yes (with some rather off-putting gen-AI mixed in there), and...

I'm a thoroughly average gamer. And in first-person shooters, I reckon I am ever so slightly above average at aiming—If aim-tester software, Aimlabs, is anything to go by, at least (top 38%, baby). But as a hardware tester, I have access to all kinds of gaming gear, and that includes competitive-level specs. I wanted to see if the average gamer would benefit from a better polling rate and, as the...

I have my own separate issues with the Steam marketplace and points shop, but I can't lie: I love collecting themes that make my Steam profile look like a relic of the early 2000s. It's not quite as satisfying as the complex Dragon Ball Z profiles I styled back in the day on Neopets or LiveJournal, but it may be the closest thing I have to simulating the feeling.(Image credit:...

I realize it's poor form of me, but I can't mind my own business, and I'm about to yuck some of y'all's yum. Why does every game need a series of mods turning their respective worlds into smooth-faced dystopias? It's like there's an unwritten rule somewhere that the first batch of fanmade downloads in every game's modding scene must include 'fixes' for no pores, no freckles, no scars, and no...

A common early World of Warcraft experience was to stumble into a series of corpses lying on the ground that, when looked at from the right angle, spelled out a URL for a site where you can pay real money for in-game gold.Gold was scarce back then, which spawned an entire market for buying it instead of grinding for it. Even if you never touched one of those sites, it...