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Helldivers 2 wears the over-the-top brutality of Starship Troopers on its fascistic sleeves. Soldiers bark propaganda slogans dynamically, missions are labeled “Restore Liberty” with no further elaboration on the alien genocide you’re committing, and the opening cinematic is pure Verhoeven. But I didn’t expect that same brutality to make friendly fire a source of fun.…

PC gamers sit in front of 108 buttons, traditionally. It’s a fractured slab of inputs compared to the simple set of controls our friends on PlayStation or Switch are used to. And Microsoft, hot with AI fever, is dead set on adding another key to the next generation of keyboards. More than ever, it helps…

You could sum it up with: So a gator walks into a gas station… Arriving earlier than expected, the GTA 6 trailer (embedded above) implies a lot in its brief 1 minute 16 seconds of in-game footage: sprawling urban life and mixed with rural recreation and everglades wildlife, several varieties of Florida Man and gator,…

We all have that one lynchpin of our gaming setup, that vital component that makes the place where we play not just functional but habitable. On the last day of Dealsmas across the web, I asked PC Gamer’s worldwide team: what’s a less-than-obvious thing you rely on every day at your desk? www.pcgamer.com

[ad_1] The sports genre has had a rocky relationship with PC gaming, with Madden only returning to PC in 2018 and PC versions of major series like FIFA usually not including every feature from that year’s console edition. But among these underserved sports fans, PC gamers who like hockey have been the most deprived, having…

[ad_1] In December we did something that PC Gamer hadn’t done in its three-decade history. We handed out a runner-up Game of the Year award.  The silver medal went to Marvel’s Midnight Suns (on sale at Steam for $40), the strategy-card-RPG-campaign game from Firaxis, otherwise known as the folks that made XCOM. Why’d we hand…

[ad_1] In our second-favorite game of 2022, Firaxis’ turn-based pedigree matched well with a party-based RPG to deliver a surprisingly big singleplayer game, one that took 70+ hours to complete. Visit our GOTY 2022 hub for more awards, revealed throughout December. Evan Lahti, Global Editor-in-Chief: Five years since the disappointment of Mass Effect: Andromeda, Firaxis…

[ad_1] Personal Picks (Image credit: Future) In addition to our main Game of the Year Awards 2022, each member of the PC Gamer team is shining a spotlight on a game they loved this year. We’ll post new personal picks, alongside our main awards, throughout the rest of the month. When we scored Into the…