We cover a lot of news here at PC Gamer, running the gamut from new game announcements and trailers to reports on layoffs, crime, NFTs, workplace misconduct, and the latest and greatest in hardware development. It's a lot, and we have a lot of people reading, so as 2023 draws to a close we thought it would be fun to look back on our biggest—that is, most-read—news stories of the year.
It's quite a mix, and notably a number of our biggest stories are about gaming rather than games: Men lying about what they did in The Sims (presumably to preserve a veneer of machismo), or the risks of getting tattoos in Baldur's Gate 3 without being fluent in Barazhad. Our biggest news story of the year isn't really about games at all, but rather the looming end of humanity, so that's fun.
So with 2023 quickly winding down, let's take a moment to cast our eyes back on the year that was:
20. That time Bill Gates got so obsessed with Minesweeper high scores that Microsoft staff had to conjure up one he couldn't beat
