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PCGamer has a rating of 4.27 stars from 30 reviews, indicating that most customers are generally satisfied with their purchases. PCGamer ranks 74th among Video Games Other sites.

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Top Positive Review

“Nice play to keep up with gaming news”

Brendon R.
11/7/18

Its a cool website to stay up to date with the latest news in the gaming world. Reviews are pretty good, there are a lot of articles about news and random trivia.

Top Critical Review

“Endless click bait and biased reviews.”

Mike N.
1/10/22

1. Almost impossible to view site layout due to the amount of advertising content. 2. The articles are written with personal bias and very little if not zero research into the actual product. PCgamer.com are an illegitimate source of PC and gaming related content.

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Thumbnail of user vishals92
1 review
0 helpful votes
February 12th, 2021

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2 reviews
0 helpful votes
July 27th, 2017

This magazine is really something, I am fun of PC games, not only on pc but on xbox too, in this magazine I've found tons of great stuffs :p

Thumbnail of user jerryc49
4 reviews
8 helpful votes
June 1st, 2015

Best site for all your gaming news! Use it almost daily to get the latest news about games!

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1 review
6 helpful votes
January 10th, 2022

1. Almost impossible to view site layout due to the amount of advertising content.

2. The articles are written with personal bias and very little if not zero research into the actual product.

PCgamer.com are an illegitimate source of PC and gaming related content.

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2 reviews
0 helpful votes
September 20th, 2016

Best pc magazine i saw so far

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1 review
4 helpful votes
June 27th, 2022

Today they published an article on how to help the abortion debate in the USA. How is this gaming related? Why are they using their website as a political soapbox for something that is not even remotely gaming related? Avoid this site at all costs.

This isn't the first time they have done this, they often prattle into "woke" topics and then shut down comments so their readers can't call them out on this terrible practice. They have leaned far into the left-wing politics section. There are a zillion websites out there if you want your mind poisoned by politics, but somehow they think people who visit a website for PC gaming care about their political whining.

The sooner this website goes under the better. They used to be a good print magazine, but like many other businesses, they are slowly being destroyed by left-wing activists.

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1 review
2 helpful votes
January 27th, 2014

I trust their reviews over most websites, they have real reviewers that are unbiased and tell you how the games are good or bad.

Thumbnail of user thomash80
3 reviews
12 helpful votes
June 16th, 2015

Pretty decent games, pretty decent prices and the shipping speed is decent also their selection of games are nice

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1 review
1 helpful vote
November 23rd, 2014

Great magazine and now website for my pc gaming news. Now that consoles have won the war, this is the only magazine and website left really for PC games

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32 reviews
38 helpful votes
November 28th, 2020

WARNING, THIS SITE IS KNOWN TO "SHADOW BAN" USERS. THAT MEANS THAT EVEN THOUGH IT APPEARS TO POST YOUR COMMENT, IT IS ACTUALLY INVISIBLE TO EVERYONE ELSE. SITE IS ORWELLIAN AND AUTHORITARIAN. DO NOT VISIT OR USE THIS SITE.

Reputable news source. However, censors the comments in their article comments sections. "Steven Messner," (twitter (slash) stevenmessner) has a record of removing/censoring at least one comment critical of an article he wrote.

News stories are reliable, but do not expect their comments sections to reflect what people actually think due to their (including Steven Messner's) record of removing any comments that are critical of them or their articles.

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Thumbnail of user brendonr4
3 reviews
0 helpful votes
November 7th, 2018

Its a cool website to stay up to date with the latest news in the gaming world. Reviews are pretty good, there are a lot of articles about news and random trivia.

Thumbnail of user mingiirtx1
1 review
1 helpful vote
July 21st, 2023

A bunch of clowns running that site.
Ads galore, Heavy censorship and nothing but articles with misleading headlines makes this one of the worst gaming related websites to browse. They removed the "dislike" button, They will flag and ban you for stating any opinions even remotely negative. Their website is literally plastered with intrusive video adverts, all while 60% of their articles now feature social news and information sometimes not even related with Computer gaming, ie. Social drama from a corporation where the CEO is now being sued and jailed, energy drinks from a mainstream clown holding questionable amounts of caffeine etc.
This website used to be strictly gaming centric prior to the 2010's, now a site run by loser millennials who were probably bullied in Highschool. Pathetic and almost hilarious.

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Thumbnail of user jamesj2293
1 review
7 helpful votes
October 25th, 2021

From its constant censorship in its comments section to its consistent, out of touch articles that take the "edgy" angle for a gaming website, PCGAMER is the absolute worst. Once, the website was utterly concerned with the goings-on in the world of personal computing. These days they are more interested in "woke" agenda-driven reportage. They are a non NPOV website, packed to the brim with agenda pushing writers who are, for the most part, completely out of touch with their readers.

It's such a shame because they have fallen so far. PC GAMER spends far too much time and effort reviewing non PC related "social" problems going on around the world as of 2021, whilst leaving out the details actual PC gamers want from games reviews such as how the game runs, why it is good/bad and what makes it different from what came before. Their score based review system is also embarrassingly used and without justification. Any website that still uses the percentage system over a single digit out of ten scoring system (or just a good review for that matter rather than either) shows how out of touch it is.

On another note regarding "reviews", some of the scores they have given to great games (i won't mention specifics as too many to count) have created a significant backlash in the comments section. So they promptly lock said comments section to stop any discourse of their reviews by readers. If PCGAMER now rate a game down, you can bet on steam it has a "very positive" review rating.

Last but not least, their overzealous advertising method, with its forced "Please subscribe to use by newsletter or click the "x" before you can carry on reading, along with overzealous placement of advertising, makes the website pretty much unusable. It is like a gamers version of the awful British Daily Mail. (see uploaded picture for how much of a mess it is)

It's become so bad I moved to IGN. That should say it all.

Tip for consumers:
Go to another website.

Products used:
None, because the website is not worth investing money into.

Thumbnail of user jamest154
5 reviews
22 helpful votes
August 15th, 2016

I've been visiting this site for over 5 years. It's reviews and articles are well researched and almost always well reasoned.

The latest layout of the newstream is a bit annoying and they can slavishly follow a trending topic, sometimes to the exclusion of more interesting stories, but all in all its the best place to go for a PC gaming fix!

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