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During the holidays, the kids are off from school, so they might be enjoying some extra screentime. It’s a reality many parents begrudgingly accept. But is time spent playing online games always a ...

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Actually, it was on my radar prior to this year, because Killing Floor is a series of games very close to my heart. The original wasn't the first game I played on PC—that award goes to either Call of ...

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From "A Minecraft Movie" to "The Last of Us" Season 2, some of the year's biggest hits were based on video games. And yet, the medium feels stuck.

Either way, here's our average stats: The average PC Gamer writer has played 72 games this year—though with a pretty interesting discrepancy between our highest and lowest gamers. Our highest ...

Discover how gamification enhances engagement in non-game environments, its benefits in business, potential pitfalls, and why it connects with innate human psychology.