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Ben Affleck lost 3 years to Starcraft, has strong Valorant opinions, and mourns RTSes as a genre, so there's solid odds he's one of our regular commenters
Unlike PC Gamer's UK editorial staff, Ben Affleck knows ball. Metaphorically, I mean. Though he probably also knows what the Miami Heat is. Speaking on the October 12 episode of the Happy Sad Confused podcast, Affleck reflected—with a touch of regret—on the time Starcraft swallowed his entire life."There was a game cal...
Valorant player claims to have inherited hardware ban through secondhand CPU, Riot anticheat boss disputes parts of story
User After-Cartoonist-196 on the German-language PCBaumeister subreddit claims to have bought a CPU secondhand, but that it carried the previous owner's Valorant ban.Extreme surveillance measures have been adopted by esports devs in recent years to combat and punish endemic cheating in their games.Riot support allegedl...
Valorant Player Banned Due To Previous GPU Owner’s Cheating Ways
In a wild coincidence a German player was penalized over the playing habits of their Ryzen 7's previous owner, claiming that nothing short of replacing the entire PC will overcome Riot's infamous anti-cheat detection
Metal desks nearly destroyed a Valorant tournament
Wireless gaming mice are great and have only gotten better with time. They're so good, in fact, that I would not go for a wired model unless I was really looking for a budget option. And yet it turns out wired mice were the best choice for the Valorant Champions tournament in Shanghai, where custom desks were apparentl...
Valorant's New Performance Score Could Rewrite How Competitive Shooters Measure Skill
Most fans of tactical shooters can probably agree that there's rarely a more satisfying sight than having your name at the top of that scoreboard. Sometimes, it doesn't even matter whether the match went well; if you have the most kills, you're the king of the world, and that's that. However, ValorantPatch 13.06 seems...
Making our favorite FPS modes 1v1 to decide the greatest of them all
FOV 90(Image credit: Future)Welcome to FOV 90, an FPS column from staff writer Morgan Park. Every other week, I cover topics relevant to first-person shooter enjoyers, spanning everything from multiplayer and singleplayer to the old and the new.Organized FPS scrimmage is a time-honored tradition of PC gaming. Countless...
October Prime Day gaming mouse deals
To paraphrase Wang Chung, we are in our Big Deal Days, love. With prices going crazy on PCs and laptops, because of the price of memory and GPUS, peripherals are one place where there should be good discounts, so we're hoping for some good Prime Day gaming mice deals this season. Amazon's October Prime Day is rolling a...
Razer Reclusa X Mini 65% gaming keyboard review
While Razer makes some excellent headsets, laptops, and gaming mice, I've never been particularly keen on its keyboards. They tend to be decent devices overall, but are usually expensive enough that you can get more bang for your buck from the competition. However, there's a new budget offering in town from the big gre...
I crammed 20 anime figures inside my gaming PC to see how it affects thermal performance. Yes, you can call me a scientist now
During all my time at PC Gamer, there has been but one idea that feels a bit like flying too close to the sun. I am, of course, talking about cramming as many anime figurines as I can into my PC and monitoring the impact on performance. Thankfully, I've got the figurines, a Hyte Y40 PC case with tool-free, pop-off pane...
What's on PC Gamer's desk?
I'm of the opinion that your desk space says a lot about you. Be it that you care more about function than style, or you like Hatsune Miku just a tad too much. I'm also of the opinion that someone's desk space speaks volumes about their real life, like one person may be efficient in other areas, or another must just re...
Riot's Vanguard is coming for League of Legends and Valorant boosters, with nearly 300,000 accounts hit
It doesn't matter what shooter you play, 'smurfing' and cheating will always appear. For me, it's a prevalent issue in Embark Studios' The Finals; for others, it's ruining their Valorant sessions. Riot Games is continuing its crackdown on boosting and rank manipulation in both League of Legends and Valorant, with nearl...
Sony Inzone M10S II review
Until now, every OLED gaming monitor we've reviewed has been rated at 0.03 ms for pixel response. Well, not any more ladies and germs. Give it up for the new Sony Inzone M10S II, which clocks in at a mere 0.02 ms.Is it a bit of a stretch to think the human eye can tell the difference between three one-hundred-thousandt...