Audio player loading… I’m a big fan of teeny tiny mini-ITX builds (opens in new tab) that hide away your PC, but I also adore a loud and proud RGBehemoth (opens in new tab). The choice between minimalistic style vs bright lights and displayed power is one of the hardest to make, and finding middle ground is sort of besides the point. Or that’s what I thought, but it turns out there are some masters of the middle ground out there, and one such build is this simply beautiful glass desk feature.Kumag1989 posted their glorious new build on the Nvidia…

Audio player loading… City builders typically present you with goals and challenges like balancing your budget, controlling your pollution levels, managing your resources, and keeping your citizens happy (or in the case of survival city builders, keeping them from dying horribly). But sometimes you just want to build for the sake of building without worrying about traffic or logistics or how much things will cost or what bonus a house will get from a nearby park. Sometimes you just want a sandbox city builder with no restrictions, objectives, or headaches.For times like those, there’s a city builder headed your way that…

Last week saw the long-awaited release of Levitation (opens in new tab), an expansion-style mod for Half-Life Alyx. Developed over the past two years by solo mapper Shawn ‘FMPONE’ Snelling, Levitation aims to match Valve’s exceptionally detailed mapping style and deliver around three hours of additional running and gunning through City 17’s crumbling streets. Despite a couple rough edges, I think it nails it, but still leaves me with some complex feelings.Levitation picks up with Alyx shortly after the main game’s end, pushing the young freedom fighter back into the streets of City 17 on another mission for the resistance,…

The Cyber Monday PC gaming deals have probably now peaked: all the live deals are here, and we’re likely to see more deals expire or sell out than new ones arriving, at this point. Remember, our best advice is that you don’t have to buy anything in these mega sales periods. Don’t get too caught up in the mania. Have an idea of what you’re after before you start digging around, make sure you’ve got a budget you will stick to, and for the love of all that is holy, don’t do it with a drink in your hand.Those are…

Cyber Monday has fallen into shadow, and yet there are still plenty of great gaming chair deals. Plenty of the best gaming chairs have stuck around, including a big Secretlab sale that’s been delivering our pick for the best gaming chair (opens in new tab) with a healthy discount.You should be able to find deals on the rest of our recommended gaming chairs for a good part of the holiday period, too and our price searching bots below will help. If you’re still sitting on a creaky old office chair and wincing due to an aching butt or stiff back,…

Audio player loading… Having an absolute beast of a PC is all well and good, until you need to keep it cool. There’s a price to pay for all that power, and often that price comes in the form of heat. In fact, power and heat are synonymous thanks to the laws of physics, and this will unfortunately always be the downfall of overclocking enthusiasts. As much as they like to produce heat, the sensitive components in your PC can only handle so much of it. Keeping a PC cool is serious business for the health and longevity of any…

The PC Gamer team must’ve collectively slain at least 50,000 poxwalkers by now. My Ogryn’s big hands are messy, but once I start swinging his giant combat knife around, it’s hard to stop. We’ve been playing a whole lot of Warhammer 40K: Darktide during its pre-order beta, which ends with the game’s full launch on November 30. And we’ve been having a grand time—but that was to be expected from the follow-up to Vermintide 2, which we praised for its “stellar combat and level design.” Vermintide 2 got even better over the four years Fatshark supported it, through both free and…