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PC gaming in 2021: The hardware highlights and lowlights It’s been a wild ride of a year, and not all of it bad. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission.Here’s how it works. No matter what’s been going on this year, there have been reasons to be cheerful despite the pandemic backdrop, supply crisis, chip shortage, and crypto mining explosion. There is PC gaming hardware to be had, and you can buy a new GPU if you really,reallyput in the hard graft....

The games you forgot released in 2021 Remembering the games that may have flown under the radar this year. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission.Here’s how it works. As we storm through the final days of 2021, surrounded by big releases like Halo: Infinite and Battlefield 2042, plus major updates like Call of Duty: Warzone Pacific, it’s not a bad time to take a look back at the massive flood of games that came earlier in the year....

Toem’s pleasantly whimsical world captivated me most in 2021 Something We Made’s delightful dioramas gently encouraged me to experience them properly, even through the lens of a camera. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission.Here’s how it works. In addition to our mainGame of the Year Awards 2021, each member of the PC Gamer team is shining a spotlight on a game they loved this year....

Best Design 2021: Loop Hero This autorunning RPG deckbuilder swallowed our time. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission.Here’s how it works. We think Loop Hero is the best designed game of the year—that’s why many of our editors put 50+ hours into it. For more of the year’s best games, visit ourGOTY 2021 hub. Evan Lahti, Global Editor-in-Chief:This mighty little RPG got 50 hours out of me over the course of reviewing it....

Garry’s Mod 2 is here, and it’s called Teardown Tuxedo Lab’s smash ‘em up has become a worthy successor to everyone’s favourite physics sandbox. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission.Here’s how it works. Teardown is a bloody great heist game. More than just a showcase of developer Dennis Gustaffson’s impressive destruction and rendering tech, Teardown masterfully frames that carnage in a series of sledgehammer puzzles—forcing you to use limited tools to carve an optimised path through each stage....

Great moments in PC gaming: Making your base look nice in Age of Empires Age of Empires is supposedly a strategy game. But sometimes it’s just about building a really nice castle. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission.Here’s how it works. Great moments in PC gamingare bite-sized celebrations of some of our favorite gaming memories. There’s nothing more inconvenient than the enemy showing up with a big army when you haven’t finished laying out your trade quarter yet....

I suspect 2021’s gaming laptops might be a little too technologically advanced Some tech we’ve tested this year has been pretty out of this world. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission.Here’s how it works. This year has been filled to the brim with super high-end gaming laptops. Checking out machines like theGigabyte Aorus 17X YDhas been fascinating to say the least, but as much as I love to tinker with them, I’m afraid to delve into any more laptop reviews… for fear of what I might become....