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Best Design 2022: Card Shark An honest win. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission.Here’s how it works. Card Shark wins our Best Design award—given to the game we think had the most well implemented, enjoyable mechanics this year. For more awards, head to ourGOTY 2022hub. Jody Macgregor, AU/Weekend Editor:Most digital card games teach you things like mana curve or deckbuilding. Card Shark teaches you authentic ways to cheat, simulated with precise tweaks of the controller....

I can’t stop arguing with my bathroom wall in Hell is Others, a bizarre top-down extraction shooter Hell is Others proved it to me: People suck, but the world is more fun when they’re around 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 2022, each member of the PC Gamer team is shining a spotlight on a game they loved this year....

I tried out a bunch of pariah state OSes to find out which is best for gaming Don’t defect to North Korea if you want to keep ahold of your Steam library. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission.Here’s how it works. We do work here at PC Gamer. Good work. We craft the finest guides around, reportessential news, review games, investigate hardware, and generally do our damndest to tell you everything you need to know about the wide, wide world of PC gaming....

Is it weird that I still play games at 1080p? The resolution that I play games at is the new “low resolution,” and I don’t know how to feel about it. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission.Here’s how it works. I have resolution anxiety. Not in the New Year’s sense of a promise to myself I could not keep, but in the total number of pixels sense....

The best and worst walk cycles in PC gaming One step forward, two steps back. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission.Here’s how it works. The humble walk cycle. The way a character moves through the world can say a lot about their personality… for better or worse. While it’s not exactly the most important component of a good game, walk cycles can afford a lot in terms of immersion: a happy-go-lucky protagonist may move with a spring in their step, while someone grumpier may be more heavy-footed and hunched over like Mr....

The ultimate Christmas videogame: Die Hard We’re rerunning Richard Cobbett’s classic Crapshoot column, in which he rolled the dice and took a chance on obscure games—both good and bad. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission.Here’s how it works. From 2010 to 2014Richard Cobbettwrote Crapshoot, a column about rolling the dice to bring random games back into the light. This week, a seasonal game that teaches the world it is better to give than to receive....

This year Warzone 2 DMZ turned me into a key–hoarding weasel Question one: Where’s the key? Question two: Gimme the key. 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 2022, 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....