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The state of World of Warcraft in 2022: There’s a lot of work to do It hasn’t been a great year for Blizzard’s MMO. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission.Here’s how it works. To kick off 2022, we’retaking a lookat the major games, genres and platforms that make PC gaming to see where they’re at as we begin a new year. The first full year of World of Warcraft’s Shadowlands expansion has come to a close, and despite a promising start, 2021 was far from a good year for Blizzard’s MMO....

Our Verdict Victrix has taken its esports DNA and birthed a more affordable wireless gaming headset than its Pro AF range. But the end result, while certainly not cheap, has that feel to it. The audio is unspectacular and the design uninspiring. PC Gamer’s got your backOur experienced team dedicates many hours to every review, to really get to the heart of what matters most to you.Find out more about how we evaluate games and hardware....

What happens next for Activision Blizzard’s biggest games? Our report card on the challenges facing WoW, Overwatch, Call of Duty and more as they enter the Microsoft era. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission.Here’s how it works. In March of 2021, Microsoft acquired ZeniMax for $7.5B—a price which, disorientingly, now seems modest. Almost a year on, and with only Deathloop released by Bethesda since, it’s clear that the impact of corporate changes, however dramatic, take a long time to be felt by players....

What to do when a helicopter appears in Project Zomboid Here’s what it means when you hear Project Zomboid’s helicopter overhead and how to avoid getting spotted. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission.Here’s how it works. Trying to figure out what the Project Zomboid helicopter does? When you first start playing Zomboid, every little growl means danger and every thump of an undead hand against a window makes your heart jump....

Xbox Game Pass surprise drops Danganronpa Anniversary Edition and shows Taiko no Tatsujin hitting PC This might be one of the best months for Game Pass to date. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission.Here’s how it works. Amidst all ofyesterday’s acquisition mayhem,Xbox announced its upcoming games coming to Xbox and PC Game Pass for the rest of January and, oh boy, it might be one of my favourite lineups to date....

XCOM 2 art director’s new studio aims to spark ‘a golden age of turn-based games’ Bit Reactor was formally announced today. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission.Here’s how it works. We liked XCOM 2 an awful lot, awarding it a whopping 94% in our2016 review—the kind of score we don’t hand out lightly. So we’ll definitely be keeping an eye on happenings at a new studio called Bit Reactor, announced today by co-founder Greg Foertsch, formerly the art director at XCOM and Civilization studio Firaxis....

Activision Blizzard CEO Bobby Kotick is reportedly planning to step down after Microsoft acquisition Neither Microsoft nor Activision Blizzard have formally commented on Kotick’s possible role following the completion of the takeover. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission.Here’s how it works. One of the big questions left in the wake ofMicrosoft’s $69 billion acquisition of ActivisionBlizzard is: what will become of Bobby Kotick?...