The highs and lows of PC gaming in 2017

The highs and lows of PC gaming in 2017

By Dom Reseigh-Lincoln

PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds

Wow, what a year it’s been for PC games. While consoles have busied themselves with incremental hardware upgrades dressed up as generational leaps, the world of overclocked gaming has seen genuine strides that have taken the industry forward in exciting new ways.

We’ve witnessed a new wave of CPUs transforming how we use our PCs and laptops going forward, and watched as PC game ports start to outweigh the bad with the good, but it’s not all been rosy.

Controversy always seems to find its way into the news and 2017 has been no different with its fair share of industry issues. It’s been quite the 12 months, so let’s run down the highs and the lows.

PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds is one of the standout games of 2017

The highs: PUBG rules, shooter communities grow and Steam evolves

Even if you’re a novice gamer in the PC space – or simply a passive lover of Twitch and YouTube Gaming – there’s been one game that’s remained a year-long ‘flavour of the month’: PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds.

The Korean-developed title hasn’t even officially left Early Access yet and it’s accumulated one of the largest and fastest growing users bases with 20 million copies sold (that’s as many …read more

Source:: techradar.com – Gaming

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