Author: [email protected] (Tyler Wilde)
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Our favorite 1440p 165Hz gaming monitor is at its lowest price ever for Black Friday
Our favorite 1440p gaming monitor is on sale for $199.99 from Dell, and it’s a genuine discount: The same 27-inch display is currently over $300 at Walmart, and sold out at Amazon and other retailers I checked. The Dell S2722DGM is the top 1440p 16:9 display we recommend in our guide to the best gaming…
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Black Friday deals on the stuff behind the most popular Twitch streamers
Most of the Black Friday deals we’ve found so far are to do with the stuff that goes in your PC or on your desk, but in this modern world of social media and personal branding, we all know that it’s the stuff behind you that really matters. On Twitch streams or Zoom calls or…
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People are trying to resell Baldur’s Gate 3 Deluxe Editions for a profit even though supplies aren’t limited and there’s plenty of stock
Opportunists are trying to sell Baldur’s Gate 3 Deluxe Edition pre-orders on eBay for as much as $300. It’s always irritating when people snatch up limited edition collectibles and graphics cards to resell them for a profit, but there’s an even bigger problem with this scheme: The Baldur’s Gate 3 Deluxe Edition isn’t a limited…
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Baldur’s Gate 3 won so many Golden Joystick Awards that Swen Vincke can barely hold all of them
Baldur’s Gate 3 gobbled up five awards in London today at The Golden Joystick Awards, an annual event put on by PC Gamer’s publisher. That’s Larian CEO Swen Vincke hugging the haul with a big grin in the photo above, which was posted on X by Larian director of publishing Michael Douse. The D&D RPG,…
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I can’t believe this worked: There’s a Task Manager trick to get into Modern Warfare 3 multiplayer hours before launch on Steam
People say a lot of things on the internet: They say they have screenshots of Half-Life 3. They say it was actually their little brother who said all those terrible things in Fortnite. They say there’s a magic Task Manager ritual you can perform to play Modern Warfare 3 early. You don’t expect them to…
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Warframe developer axes publishing division, will ‘transition full control’ of online action RPG Wayfinder to its developer
At last year’s Game Awards, Warframe maker Digital Extremes revealed that it was publishing Wayfinder, an online action game from Airship Syndicate which released in early access this August. Today, PC Gamer has learned that Digital Extremes is now closing its publishing wing and handing control of Wayfinder over to Airship Syndicate. “We can confirm…
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Nintendo is making a live-action Zelda movie
Is Nintendo finally starting to loosen up? It took the company 30 years to make another big Mario movie after the 1993 live-action flick got two thumbs down from Siskel and Ebert, but hey, it went just fine: Jack Black did a song and lots of money was made. Now Nintendo is really letting loose:…
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Blizzard’s job is to satisfy impatient players who want ‘new stuff every day, every hour,’ says studio head
The Microsoft era of Blizzard has just begun, and it’s not clear yet how the studio will change under the reign of Xbox head Phil Spencer. Maybe it’ll mean more StarCraft, maybe not, but from the sounds of it we shouldn’t expect a radically different approach from Blizzard: It’s gonna keep running on the ol’…
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There’s a cursed way to get a free Game Pass subscription or grind Diablo 4 battle pass tiers: Bing searches
I had no idea that I had Microsoft Rewards points. You probably have some, too: You get them by doing Bing searches and other gratuitous Microsoft web activities and can redeem them for things like Amazon gift cards, Diablo 4 battle pass tiers, and PC Game Pass subscriptions. Be warned, though: To get anything good,…
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Phil Spencer shows up at BlizzCon to address his new subjects
Microsoft Gaming head Phil Spencer popped onto the stage during today’s BlizzCon 2023 Opening Ceremony to greet the fans of his latest conquest. After clearing considerable regulatory resistance, Microsoft closed its landmark acquisition of Activision Blizzard last month. Spencer’s appearance starts near the beginning of the show, at about an hour and a half into…