PC Gamer Chat Log

On this week's Chat Log, Lauren and Mollie talk with Jody Macgregor about developers we're keeping a close eye on in 2024. Who's working on secret new projects we're anticipating announcements of and who's got some great trailers that are making us hungry for gameplay? Who's promising to shake up their genre in the new year?

In this week's Chat Log, Lauren and Mollie talk with Robin Valentine about gaming trends and industry trends from the year that we think will end (or continue) into 2024. What on earth is 2024's release calendar going to look like after this year of big surprises? Aesthetic peripherals are finally in for real but we really need to stop using the words "early access" wrong.

On this week's Chat Log, Mollie and Lauren quiz each other on their own biggest gaming victories and failures. What's your biggest L? When did you clinch the win?

On this week's Chat Log, Mollie and Lauren talk with Robin Valentine about the old days of physical game discs, manuals, and other gaming media. Do we have fond memories of multi-disc installations or are we happy to be all downloads? Digital ownership is very convenient, but are we worried about not owning our games anymore?

On this week's Chat log podcast, Lauren and Mollie talk with Josh Wolens about game achievement hunting. Do you care about your perfect games and do achievements still feel worth chasing? What's the hardest we've tried to score a platinum trophy?

We live in a strange time, where ports are a coin flip between a new masterpiece and garbage - but what does the phrase 'PC Port' even mean? Today we discuss what the future of this concept could be, and where it leaves us.

On this week's Chat Log, Mollie and Lauren welcome fellow MMO-enjoyer Harvey Randall to discuss the tried and true RPG hotbar combat that still has every MMO in its grasp. Is it time for MMOs to adapt? Or are we trying to fix a thing that isn't broken?

On this week's Chat Log, Mollie and Lauren talk with Fraser Brown about keeping a spreadsheet of his games, which is way more common than we thought. How deep does the spreadsheet sorting go? Does the superior organization solve shame or compound it?

On this week's Chat Log, Lauren and Mollie talk with Morgan Park about the history and future of battle royale games. Where did they come from and where are they headed? Which 100-player free-for-alls did we lose too soon and which subgenre is poised to replace them?

On this week's Chat Log, Lauren and Mollie talk with Tyler Wilde and Robert Jones about this year's PC Gamer Top 100 list. How did our process for choosing the top 100 games change this year? Which victories are we celebrating and what game grudges are being saved for next year?

In this week's Chat Log, Lauren and Mollie quiz each other with their own gaming "Am I The A-hole?" posts. How many domestic cooking crises can we invent? How many of these game protagonists are in fact YTA?

On this week's Chat Log podcast, Lauren and Mollie each attempt to cast their dream game to film adaptation. Can we come up with an entire ensemble cast? What about a game without any established characters at all? How did we manage to make this simple assignment so difficult?

On this week's Chat Log, Mollie and Lauren talk with Wes Fenlon about the emminently important topic of game HUDs. Are minimaps or compasses better? Are diegetic HUDs still cool? Which weirdly obscure objective marker will Wes champion?

On this week's Chat Log, Lauren and Mollie talk with Chris Livingston about our time in Starfield since launch. How are we feeling about Bethesda's newest universe? Which traits have been the best to grab and which factions are we eyeing to join?

On this week's Chat Log, Lauren and Mollie each pick games they think are overhyped, underhyped, and just-right-hyped. Which games from our own personal favorite series are we willing to drag and which long-time favorites really do deserve all the hype?

On this week's Chat Log, Lauren and Mollie both try to draft their ideal RPG party pulling characters from any game they've played. Who's the ideal fighter class, and which game has the healer we'd die to recruit?

On this week's Chat Log, Mollie and Lauren welcome special guest Adam Smith from Larian Studios, the lead writer on Baldur's Gate 3. What's the weirdest and coolest D&D lore that Larian injected into Baldur's Gate 3, what actually makes a good RPG romance, and what weird class/background combo is Adam playing?

On this week's Chat Log, Lauren and Mollie talk with Ted Litchfield about our first 10-ish hours with Baldur's Gate 3. What sandbox hijinx have we gotten into? Which fights are absolutely trashing us? And which party member does everyone on the team want to date?

On this week's Chat Log, Lauren and Mollie talk with Chris Livingston about the small side of Skyrim modding. What's the littlest texture mod we've ever installed, the most useless tweak? Can Lauren and Mollie tell which mods really exist and which ones Chris dreamed up?

On this week's Chat Log, Mollie and Lauren talk with Jody Macgregor about their favorite game soundtracks and theme songs. Which title screens give us goosebumps and what was our childhood repeat song?

On this week's Chat Log, Mollie and Lauren talk with Fraser Brown about the state of MMOs and also some of the weird MMOMs of their childhood. Which genres deserve to be massive that aren't yet and what MMO trends should we really do away with this decade?

On this week's Chat Log, Mollie and Lauren talk with Morgan Park about what it's like gaming with their significant others. Do co-op life partners actually make good co-op game partners? Which games do we always share and which are strictly solo?

On this week's Chat Log, Lauren and Mollie talk with PC Gamer's resident The Witcher fan and lore fiend Lauren Aitken about the first volume of season 3 episodes. How is Geralt's little found family surviving all this season's intrigue and what Witcher stories are we looking forward to yet to come?

On this week's Chat Log, Lauren and Mollie own up to the games they've put down and never returned to. Which games got rage quit and which were simply too long? How many JRPGs have we actually finished, seriously?