Tag: OVERFLOW

Before we sing Auld Lang Syne to celebrate the end of the year, there are two gorgeous games I need to give their flowers. Alan Wake 2 and Avatar: Frontiers of Pandora have made my year for PC graphics. Both games arrived at the tail-end of 2023, and thank goodness they did, for otherwise we…

I love everything about boomer shooters except for the fact that a better name hasn’t managed to stick. I’ve taken to calling them “good FPS games with health packs and keycards” in protest, but naming conventions aside, this loosely related group of show-stopping shooters hasn’t let off the gas for years now, and there’s no…

This piece was originally published on October 19th this year and we are republishing it today in a series celebrating our favourite articles of the year. Most times I plug in a USB stick, external SSD, or camera, Windows pops up with a notice that nothing works, everything has gone to hell, and I must…

Thermaltake isn’t the first brand that pops into your head when you’re thinking gaming monitors. So, it’s perhaps no surprise that the brand is playing to pretty safe with its first two gaming panels, which are both medium-spec 1440p models. Specifically, we’re taking the Thermaltake TGM-I27FQ for a spin here, which is the new 27-inch…

Personal Pick (Image credit: Future) In addition to our main Game of the Year Awards 2023, 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. I’m not a big fan of scary…

The Quersus Icos 1.1 is a bit of an odd beast. Upon looking at the promotional pictures on the website I was struck by two things: Firstly, despite its striking good looks and Darth Vader vibes it didn’t appear to have a whole lot of cushioning, so I wondered how comfortable it would be once…

The Dough Spectrum One has been one of my favourite high-refresh 4K gaming monitors since it first launched onto the market under the original Eve brand. Since then we’ve seen a second version with a glossy coating over the panel, sharpening the contrast and making its colours pop and enhancing its HDR experience. Now we’ve…

See that beautiful fight stick? It’s not just a controller: it’s a symbol. A symbol of me running out of excuses to git gud (or at least crawl my way out of scrubhood) in Street Fighter 6. Earlier this year I was so excited for the new Street Fighter that I decided to build my…

Lenovo has almost made a hypocrite of me. Since this latest generation of gaming laptops rocking Nvidia RTX 40-series graphics chips first landed I’ve been saying only a fool would buy a notebook with an RTX 4090 in it. And yet, here I am, coveting the Lenovo Legion 9i with precisely that GPU inside it,…

Intel has taken the wraps off its new Meteor Lake-based Core Ultra laptop CPUs, and it’s aiming these low-power chips squarely at my favourite AMD chip of all time—the Ryzen 7 7840U. That’s the similarly low-power Zen 4 processor at the heart of the latest Framework 13 mainboard, but also every single non-Valve handheld gaming…