The 25 best Skyrim Mods
Skyrim mods are amazing. In the two months since release, thousands of mods have been released, some of them quite spectacular. It’s not like Skyrim was an ugly game to begin with, but with new high resolution textures and post processing it becomes truly stunning. Not to mention new items, expanded crafting and a full UI overhaul.
With so many mods available, choosing them can be a little daunting, which is why we’ve rounded up the 25 best here for you to enjoy. Check inside for the full list.
The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim – PC Gamer UK’s RPG of the year
The Elder Scrolls games have been brilliant for long time: huge open worlds that let you go wherever you fancy, get wrapped up in hundreds of different stories, and make a life for yourself. But until Skyrim, they weren’t particularly good at one of the most exciting things about other RPGs: levelling up.
Battlefield 3 – PC Gamer UK’s online game of the year
Launch bugs and connection problems can’t dent Battlefield 3’s sense of ambition. Call of Duty might have bagged the ‘modern warfare’ label, but Battlefield 3 shows us what a modern online shooter can really be. Developers DICE have tapped into the potential of modern PCs to create online battles on a massive scale, and with technology that makes its competitors look years out of date.
Ultimate Christmas Giveaway: PC Gamer subscription
Welcome to the PC Gamer Ultimate Christmas Giveaway! This is the biggest competition we’ve ever done: packed with peripherals, games, and exclusive items signed by some very important people. Why are we doing this? Because it’s Christmas! And we love you.
The Ultimate Christmas giveaway will run until Christmas Eve. Every day we’ll be posting about a new prize that’s up for grabs, and you’ll have 24 hours after the time of publishing to enter. Sadly, we’re only able to open this competition to UK residents.
You there! You like reading our words, don’t you? Well why don’t you read them in magazine format too? We’re giving away a subscription to PC Gamer UK on Zinio. That’s a years worth of PC Gamer, available digitally, for free! Because we’re nice like that.
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Ultimate Christmas Giveaway: Win a giant World of Warcraft bundle, including a signed copy of Cataclysm
Welcome to the PC Gamer Ultimate Christmas Giveaway! This is the biggest competition we’ve ever done: packed with peripherals, games, and exclusive items signed by some very important people. Why are we doing this? Because it’s Christmas! And we love you.
Merry Christmas PC Gamers! We’ve finally reached the end of our Christmas giveaway, it’s been a great ride, and we’ve given out some amazing prizes, but all good things must come to an end.
We’re going out with a bang though, giving your the chance to win a copy of World of Warcraft: Cataclysm signed by the dev team. That in itself would be an awesome prize, but we don’t do things by halves, and neither does Blizzard, and they’ve given us a monster bundle of goodies to go with it, including posters, t-shirts, action figures, comics, mousemats and more. It’s an amazing prize, and one lucky reader will win it.
Check inside for full details of what’s included, and a chance to win it.
Ultimate Christmas Giveaway: Win a new PNY graphics card and RAM
Welcome to the PC Gamer Ultimate Christmas Giveaway! This is the biggest competition we’ve ever done: packed with peripherals, games, and exclusive items signed by some very important people. Why are we doing this? Because it’s Christmas! And we love you.
The Ultimate Christmas giveaway will run until Christmas Eve. Every day we’ll be posting about a new prize that’s up for grabs, and you’ll have 24 hours after the time of publishing to enter. Sadly, we’re only able to open this competition to UK residents.
We at PC Gamer understand that not everyone who reads our website has a supercooled doomrig of awesome, we know some of you are gaming on older PCs, which is why we’re giving you the chance to win a new graphics card and some RAM. We’ve got a PNY GeForce 550 and a PNY 4GB DDR3 RAM kit up for grabs, enough to suddenly propel your struggling old PC into the latest generation of gaming.
Check inside for details of how to win.
And in other PC gaming news…
Last night, the PC Gamer Mint Imperials united to celebrate the launch of Star Wars: The Old Republic. Sadly I missed it, but Rich and Owen were in attendance as the guild massed on the steps to the Sith Academy on Korriban and posing dramatically. Afterwards they retired to a lightsaber lit rave in the nearby cantina, before streaking through the academy halls like some sort of terrifying Sith fraternity. Apologies to all those new players scared by our mad naked dash across the planet, here’s a Old Republic beginner’s guide to make up for it.
Check inside for a selection of crazy naked PC gaming news.
Ultimate Christmas Giveaway: Win Men of War Assault Squad and more
This competition is now closed, check out our PNY graphics card giveaway instead.
Welcome to the PC Gamer Ultimate Christmas Giveaway! This is the biggest competition we’ve ever done: packed with peripherals, games, and exclusive items signed by some very important people. Why are we doing this? Because it’s Christmas! And we love you.
The Ultimate Christmas giveaway will run until Christmas Eve. Every day we’ll be posting about a new prize that’s up for grabs, and you’ll have 24 hours after the time of publishing to enter. Sadly, we’re only able to open this competition to UK residents.
Merry Christmas readers! Why not sit down, have fun and pull on a PCG cracker. Wait, what’s this? It seems there was a gift inside, four copies of Men of War: Assault squad! That’s right, we’re offering four special editions of this RTS to you lucky readers.
Check inside for details of what’s on offer and how to win:
And in other PC gaming news…
It’s Christmas soon, and everybody’s getting into the spirit, some more than others. CoasterBP certainly took it to extremes when he covered his house with 7,000 computer controlled Christmas lights, but we’re glad he did, because otherwise he wouldn’t have spent his time carefully synchronising them to the Battlefield 3 theme song. Best BABA BA BABAABA ever.
Check inside for a festively lit selection of PC gaming news:
Ultimate Christmas Giveaway: Win a R.A.T. 7 gaming mouse
This competition is now closed to new entries, check out today’s Men of War giveaway instead.
Welcome to the PC Gamer Ultimate Christmas Giveaway! This is the biggest competition we’ve ever done: packed with peripherals, games, and exclusive items signed by some very important people. Why are we doing this? Because it’s Christmas! And we love you.
The Ultimate Christmas giveaway will run until Christmas Eve. Every day we’ll be posting about a new prize that’s up for grabs, and you’ll have 24 hours after the time of publishing to enter. Sadly, we’re only able to open this competition to UK residents.
Look at your mouse, now look at yours. Does your mouse fully adjust to your hand size? Can your mouse add and remove weights till it feels just right? In today’s Christmas competition, we’re giving away two Cyborg R.A.T. 7 gaming mice, awarded 85% in PC Gamer UK 224, plus some Cyborg amBX gaming lights and a G.L.I.D.E. 7 mousemat to go with them, courtesy of Mad Katz.
Check inside for details of how to win this wondrous frankenmouse.
And in other PC gaming news…
Could Battlefield 2143 be in the works? The hints DICE have left in Back to Karkand are small, but they’ve been known to use similarly cryptic methods before. Of course that means those little toy dinosaurs must be a hint too! We can only assume they’re actually planning to bring us the pictured DLC pack after all. The people have spoken. Dinosaurs must be added.
Check inside for a selection of dino-lovin’, PC gaming news.
Ultimate Christmas Giveaway: Win one of 150 copies of Rift
Welcome to the PC Gamer Ultimate Christmas Giveaway! This is the biggest competition we’ve ever done: packed with peripherals, games, and exclusive items signed by some very important people. Why are we doing this? Because it’s Christmas! And we love you.
The Ultimate Christmas giveaway will run until Christmas Eve. Every day we’ll be posting about a new prize that’s up for grabs, and you’ll have 24 hours after the time of publishing to enter. Sadly, we’re only able to open this competition to UK residents.
Our stockings are stuffed full of prizes today readers, because we have an astonishing 150 copies of Rift to give away. No, that is not a typo, one hundred and fifty lucky readers will win a boxed copy of Rift, complete with 30 days playtime. We gave Rift 86% back in PC Gamer UK 226, and you can read the US team’s Rift review online. If you’re planning to join in, why not check out the PC Gamer Rift Guild to find someone to play with?
Check inside for details of how to enter.
Win one of 10,000 Settlers Online beta keys
The influence of the Settlers series looms large on social games, all of today’s browser based trading and city building games owe a huge debt to Blue Byte’s original games. Which is why it’s no surprise that they’ve decided to launch their own browser based, online version of the classic series, complete with a dynamic player driven economy, where gold is only the currency of choice because market has decided it will be.
If this sounds like your kind of thing, then you’ll be wanting of our beta keys so you can get an advanced look at the game, and you’re in luck! Because we have a whopping 10,000 keys to give away to your lucky readers.
To get a code, simply go to our competition site and fill in your details. First come, first served, so be sure to apply right away. Your beta code will be emailed to you next week when the competition ends, and you can redeem it on the Settlers Online website.
Don’t forget to check out our The Settlers Online preview for more details.
Ultimate Christmas Giveaway: Win one of ten copies of Shogun 2: Total War
Welcome to the PC Gamer Ultimate Christmas Giveaway! This is the biggest competition we’ve ever done: packed with peripherals, games, and exclusive items signed by some very important people. Why are we doing this? Because it’s Christmas! And we love you.
The Ultimate Christmas giveaway will run until Christmas Eve. Every day we’ll be posting about a new prize that’s up for grabs, and you’ll have 24 hours after the time of publishing to enter. Sadly, we’re only able to open this competition to UK residents.
On the tenth day of Christmas PC Gamer gave to me… ten Daimyo’s ruling! Okay, so it isn’t really the tenth day of Christmas, but that doesn’t mean we can’t give away ten copies of Shogun 2: Total War to celebrate the season of goodwill. Because what says Christmas like taking over feudal Japan?
Check inside for details of how to win.
Ultimate Christmas Giveaway: Win a Minecraft poster signed by Notch
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Welcome to the PC Gamer Ultimate Christmas Giveaway! This is the biggest competition we’ve ever done: packed with peripherals, games, and exclusive items signed by some very important people. Why are we doing this? Because it’s Christmas! And we love you.
The Ultimate Christmas giveaway will run until Christmas Eve. Every day we’ll be posting about a new prize that’s up for grabs, and you’ll have 24 hours after the time of publishing to enter. Sadly, we’re only able to open this competition to UK residents.
Our old Minecraft server was a wonderful place, full of amazing constructions. Sadly it was also laggy and unstable, so we were recently forced to hit the big red ‘reset’ button and start over again. Before we did though we created these enormous posters rendering our old spawn area to commemorate it. Better yet, we sent them to Mojang, where Notch and the guys all signed them, just for you. Now here’s your chance to win one!
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