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PC Gamer

May 01 2026
Magazine

In addition to a great visual design, PC Gamer focuses more on communities, user-made content and of course the big-name games we know and love! Each issue also offers exclusive previews and insightful features to make sure you're at the top of your game. Delivering authoritative, honest, informative and entertaining reviews, PC Gamer is the ultimate buyer’s guide.

****Note: This digital edition does not include the covermount items or supplements you would find with printed copies.****

“THIS IS TRULY THE STUFF THAT PC GAMING DREAMS ARE MADE OF”

MICRON-AGGRESSIONS • The company that KILLED GAMERS’ RAM says RAM is important for gamers

The Spy • BUT WHO WATCHES THE SPY?

BLUR BE GONE • Make retro games look as good in motion as they did in the ’90s

Incoming • THE BIGGEST GAMES ON THE WAY

WARHAMMER 4OK: DARK HERESY • A CRPG that ticks all the right boxes

STARSHIP TROOPERS: ULTIMATE BUG WAR! • A retro shooter from the maker of WH40K: Boltgun

1348 EX VOTO • This has me praying the devs deliver a holy gaming experience

WARHOUNDS • A new contender takes its turn to make a tactics game

TYR • A direct hit, or tanks for nothing?

EX SANGUIS • Aims to extract the vital, tactical heart from Othercide

BRAVE NEW WONDERS • Create a giant factory on the ruins of an older world

DARKHAVEN • Aiming to break new ground in the ARPG genre

MIXTAPE • Can The Artful Escape devs score another hit?

TACTICAL COUP • STAR WARS ZERO COMPANY is a Clone Wars tactics game from former XCOM devs and may become 2026’s biggest surprise

15 BEST PUBS ON PC • Time for a tip-top tipple in one of PC gaming’s boozers

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This month’s infected reviewers…

DEAD GOOD • RESIDENT EVIL REQUIEM is the best of it all

ARTIFICIAL IMPERIUM • Asking, “What if AI was good though?” in HEART OF THE MACHINE

CHILD’S PLAY • REANIMAL further darkens the Little Nightmares format, and it’s a grim sight to behold

EBB AND FLOW • ESOTERIC EBB might be the best RPG of 2026 already

SCOPE CREEP • STYX: BLADES OF GREED expands Cyanide’s infiltration blueprint into open worlds

SQUANCH • HIGH ON LIFE 2 is a creative, funny and chill adventure with nagging problems

NAY-PEX LEGEND • HIGHGUARD is genuinely cool, but it’s overstuffed with FPS trends that lost their shine

CRACKING CODES • Inkle deliver another excellent detective game with TR-49

SINK OR SWIM • Escape your kitchen or die trying in KITCHENED

EYE EYE • Have a gander at GLASSY STARE

END OF DAYS • School’s out, but so’s the world in 15 MINUTES

S-FOILED AGAIN • STAR WARS: SQUADRONS stays on target

BRO WEST • Freedom is the only way in BROFORCE

GRAPPLING HOOKED • Struggling to love GANG BEASTS

PC CASES • Companies are getting creative with their case designs, with ever more flattering ways to display our components

TIME AT THE BAR • Why is Windows so bad at estimating file transfers?

TERROR BYTES • When good storage drives go bad

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BUYER’S GUIDE • Build the best PC for your budget

“If you remember Max Headroom you’ll find it oddly familiar” • BLIPPO+ is a campy FMV transmission from another world.

“One of the funniest games I’ve played” • A superb LOST JUDGEMENT sidequest takes the piss

“I don’t think I’ve ever played a game so intentionally grotesque” • Breed an army of mutated cats to beat the odds in MEWGENICS

“This month I’ve been crunching the numbers to crush my foes” • Game recognises dungeon-crawling game in LABYRINTH OF TOUHOU TRI

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