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IN THE YEAR 2206, humanity left Earth. At least, some humans did. A selection of our civilization's best and brightest piled into a great big colony ship bound for the [...]

RECENTLY I PLAYED Day of the Tentacle (dott.doublefine.com) legally. Those of you who played it back in 1993 understand why this is such a big deal. And the rest of [...]

'THIS IS PROBABLY the first time high-profile scientific journals are publishing screenshots from EVE Online,' said Attila Szantner, cofounder of Massively Multiplayer Online Science (MMOS) (mmos.ch). 'This is going to [...]

CONGRATULATIONS TO BEAMDOG. I'm pretty sure that Baldur's Gate: Siege of Dragonspear (siegeofdragonspear.com) now holds the record for 'Longest Time Between Base Game and Expansion,' at seventeen years. Described somewhat [...]

AFTER YEARS OF teasers and hardware iterations, the Oculus Rift VR headset launches, and it's a magical piece of hardware. But when it comes to splurging on a $600 peripheral-- [...]

This isn't a normal review. How could it be? We mark the cusp of not just an entirely new technology, but also the culmination of three years reporting on virtual [...]

SUPERHOT. IT'S A REAL GAME, FINALLY--nearly three years after the original demo emerged on the Internet (birthed from the 7 Day FPS Challenge game jam) and two years after the [...]

THE RAZER BLACKWIDOW Ultimate 2016 Edition (go.pcworld.com/ blackwidowrazer) gaming keyboard is the epitome of an incremental upgrade--and that's absolutely fine. Take the totally competent keyboard we saw in 2014 (go.pcworld.com/blackwidowrazer2014), [...]

SEVENTEEN INCHES WIDE. More than 10 pounds of heft. A socketed Core i7 Skylake CPU and a desktop GTX 980 card crammed inside. More graphics horsepower than any laptop we've [...]

I WAS READY to read out Hitman's death warrant. 'Here lies Agent 47. Alas, he went episodic.' It's not that I have anything against episodic games in theory, but it [...]

YOU KNOW IF you need a gaming mouse. You're not pushing virtual paper around on your desktop; you're fragging bots and shooting zombies. Seeing how they run It was brutal [...]

UP FRONT: THERE are going to be spoilers in this review. Or, at least, a few of you may deem them spoilers--I am going to actively discuss some of the [...]

I'LL ADMIT: When Samsung first announced it was creating its own virtual reality headset, I rolled my eyes. 'Oh great, another me-too product from Samsung,' I thought, envisioning a future [...]

LAST YEAR I CALLED the HyperX Cloud 'one of the bestsub-$100 gaining headsets I've ever used.' Apparently not content with that, Kingston went ahead and released the HyperX Cloud II [...]

'SO ... WHEN'S THE CONSUMER VERSION of the Rift coming?' I've been asking Oculus that question since the first time I strapped one over my eyes, and every time cofounder [...]

IT'S FUNNY TO THINK of Kerbal Space Program (kerbalspaceprogram. com) as a 'new' game. Thanks to the magic of Steam Early Access, I've been playing the game on and off [...]

I'M NOT DONE with Pillars of Eternity (eternity.obsidian.net). Let's be clear: The only context in which that statement is bad is in the context of writing a review. Do I [...]

OKAY, YOU'VE HEARD of this 'Grim Fandango' game for years and everyone seems pretty excited it's been re-released, but what is it? Any relation to the WWE wrestler? How about [...]

IT FINALLY HAPPENED. After two years of hands-off demos, multiple delays, and et cetera, I finally got my grunny hands on The Witcher 3 (thewitcher.com)--not just for a piddling few [...]

WITH THE RISE of multiplayer voice chat comes the rise of headsets. This once-luxury peripheral is now about as standard as a mouse and keyboard when it comes to the [...]

THERE WAS A time in the late 90s or early 2000s when The Last Tinker: City of Colors (go.pcworld.com/lasttinker) would've been a blockbuster game. It was a time when mascot-driven [...]

WE ALREADY REVIEWED one set of mechanical keyboards, (go.pcworld.com/mk) but believe it or not there have been enough new releases in the months since that we're able to put together [...]

WHY ARE YOU suffering in silence with that generic hunk of plastic you call a mouse? You love games. So don't settle for a tool designed for applications no more [...]

ALTHOUGH THE $170 Matias Secure Pro (go.pcworld.com/matiassecpro) wireless keyboard's number one claim to fame is its 128-bit AES encryption (more about that later), I have to say it's more notable [...]

AT LAST, GAMING laptops are becoming slim and light enough to fit comfortably on your lap. The 2014 Lenovo Y50 (go.pcworld.com/ Ienovoy50). isn't quite as slim as, say, the 0.7-inch-thick [...]

RAZER'S 2014 BLADE Pro seems to be caught between two hardware generations. While its less-professional cousin, the 14-inch Blade, benefits from an enormous bump in graphics horsepower and display resolution [...]

ON A MECHANICAL keyboard, you don't have to push a key until it bottoms out, which reduces the amount of work your fingers and wrists must do. If you use [...]

VIRTUAL REALITY IS starting to feel really real, for real. Sure, we're still months out from the proposed HTC Vive launch and even further out from Oculus's early 2016 consumer-ready [...]

IN EARLY JULY, one month after Sony representatives stood onstage at that company's E3 press conference (go.pcworld.com/e3sony2014) and announced that Grim Fandango would be available for the first time in [...]

BLACKBERRY'S SOLIDLY built Q10 smartphone will please people who've longed for a new physical-keyboard BlackBerry, but its small screen and limited app support will discourage others. The Q10's screen is [...]