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Pulsar Feinmann F01 Noctua Edition review

Would you believe me if I told you the Pulsar Feinmann F01 Noctua Edition is actually the second gaming mouse with a fan I've tried? Back in 2021, I had the unique experience of getting my clammy mitts on the Marsback Zephyr Pro, and I was… a fan.But I can comfortably say that Pulsar's Feinmann F01 Noctua Edition is th...

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Steam Week in Review: Games about sorting 1000s of mundane objects onto shelves is the new craze sweeping PC gaming

Games about cleaning are the rage. The recent success of House Flipper, Power Wash Simulator and Unpacking demonstrates there's a mainstream-sized appetite among PC gamers for making messy places neat and tidy. But the micro-genre goes back way further than that. The 1982 arcade game Bubbles was about using a bubble to...

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Steam Week in Review: A torrent of janky retail sims continues to flood Steam, and there's no end in sight

The flood of retail simulators on Steam is nothing new: the trend seemed to land with torrential force in late 2024. But it's fascinating, to me at least, how many of these things are still being released every week, and how many of them seem to actually reach an audience despite their rudimentary appearance.Last week,...

1 month ago πŸ‘ 50
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Asus ROG Azoth Extreme Edition 20 review

After you spend above a certain amount of money on your gaming keyboard, you're not really paying for quality, specs, or competitive edge anymore. I felt this recently while testing out Melgeek's Centauri 80. In my approximation, any more than $200 and you move into bragging rights/centrepiece territory, and by that lo...

1 month ago πŸ‘ 53
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Hot swappable mouse batteries might be the new thing as it looks like Wallhack's first ever mouse will have one

Wallhack (previously SkyPad, if you weren't aware) has teased a gaming mouse that will be announced on July 24. This will be the company's first gaming mouse, having previously stuck to high-performance mouse pads, sleeves, and skates.There must just be something irresistible about hot swappable batteries. This mouse l...

1 month ago πŸ‘ 47
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Steam Week in Review: Take cover, because it looks like more than half of Steam games will have an AI-disclosure by 2027-2028

When Valve launched Steam Direct in June 2017 it marked a huge shift in the storefront's identity. Before Direct, Valve manually decided what did and did not release on Steam, or else it used initiatives like Steam Greenlight to have users decide what games would or would not enjoy placement.Before June 2017, the amoun...

1 month ago πŸ‘ 56
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'The mid-2000s was the golden era of first-person shooters': David Syzmankski, creator of Dusk and Iron Lung, discusses the games on his PC

Disk Cleanup(Image credit: Future)Welcome to Disk Cleanup, our regular weekend feature delving into the PCs of PC gaming luminaries. Come back every weekend to read a new interview, digging into the important questions, like "How tidy is your desktop?" and "What game will you never uninstall?"David Szymanski, creator o...

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Valve reassures Team Fortress 2 players that it's still working on the Mann vs Machine update it announced last year: 'We promise we're making progress'

I had completely forgotten that Valve is working on an update for Team Fortress 2's cooperative Mann vs. Machine mode, though my defence, it's been a long time since we last heard about it. The prospective patch was announced in June last year, via a blog post on TF2's official website that requested map and mission su...

1 month ago πŸ‘ 48
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Glass mouse pads haven't won me over but gamer sleeves are a different story

Jacob Fox, hardware writer(Image credit: Future)This week I've been: Trying out a new mouse (a Superlight clone) and finally sacking off CS2's cheater-ridden Premier matchmaking for FaceIt.I'm known around the PC Gamer streets as a bit of a mouse pad nerd. Though that's just because I take the surface my little rodent...

1 month ago πŸ‘ 37
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We just awarded $500 to the PC gamer who sent us this wild Crimson Desert video, and next month it could be you

Even a few months after it launched, we still haven't gotten tired of seeing the wild stuff you come up with in Crimson Desert's sprawling sandbox. That's why our latest monthly winner of PC Gamer Clips is yet another great Crimson Desert videoβ€”and that's why the person who sent us that clip just won $500 in Amazon gif...

1 month ago πŸ‘ 44
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Asus ROG Strix XG32UQWMS review

Asus isn't the immediately obvious pick when it comes to value-orientated PC hardware. But its mainstream Strix sub-brand does occasionally deliver some pretty sweet deals. Enter, therefore, the new Asus ROG Strix OLED XG32UQWMS.It's a 32-inch, 4K gaming monitor based on LG's latest Tandem Primary RGB OLED panel tech,...

1 month ago πŸ‘ 45
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'Yes, that's Counter-Strike on a PSP!': Modder gets favorite PC FPS working on Sony's 22-year-old handheld console

Admittedly, I've been feeling pretty dour about the whole handheld gaming PC thing lately, but I do still love having the option to take big games on the go. What I love a lot less is just how chunky modern handhelds have to be in order to contain and cool all of their internal hardware. Perhaps I'm just yelling at clo...

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