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  1. Lauren Morton

    Have you played a game that failed to launch or quickly un-launched?

    Hey PC gamers and welcome back to the chat log! This week Mollie and I called up Wes Fenlon to talk about the Concord effect. So we've all seen the news recently about how Concord just sort of failed to leave the launch pad. It barely lasted more than a week with poor player numbers and then it...
  2. Lauren Morton

    What's your hidden gem game from 2024 so far?

    Hey PC gamers, I'm here with a little weekend forum post since I missed posting a couple weeks of episodes. A couple weeks ago Mollie and I rounded up some hidden gem picks from PC gaming so far this year. We dug through our own PC Gamer reviews to find some lesser known things our team rated...
  3. Lauren Morton

    Which game have you spent the most on microtransactions in?

    Hey PC Gamers welcome back to the chat log! Apologies for skipping the forum post the last couple weeks. (I'll make it up with a thread about the hidden gems this weekend, at least, because I'd like to hear all of yours.) In this week's intro I'll hint at where I've been for at least one of...
  4. Lauren Morton

    What's the outfit or gear you've spent the most time grinding for in a game?

    Hey PC gamers, welcome back to the Chat Log! This week we brought on first time guest Kara Phillips to talk about our in-game fashion choices. We all know that looking great in new gear is the real endgame to even some of the most hardcore RPGs from Dark Souls to Diablo. Nobody want to get...
  5. Lauren Morton

    Have you caught the gacha game bug? (or, why not?)

    Hey PC gamers, welcome back to another week in the chat log! This week Mollie and I wanted to take stock of the state of gacha games on PC, not least because she can't seem to stop playing one. So we called in Tyler Colp, who also spends lots of time in the grind. Though we know gacha games...
  6. Lauren Morton

    Do you have any of the top 10 most wishlisted Steam games on your own wishlist?

    Hey PC gamers, welcome back to the chat log. This week Mollie and I pulled Robin Valentine on to talk about the top 10 wishlisted games on steam right now and what it say about PC gaming as a whole. Steam isn't the only storefront of course, but what players have on their wishlist on Steam tells...
  7. Lauren Morton

    Has any other game series run unchallenged in its genre as long as The Sims?

    Hey PC gamers, welcome back to the chat log! This week it's just Mollie and me talking about life sims. Specifically life sims like The Sims, which basically don't exist. But some are in development and they're coming out. Soon! Hopefully! I've been keeping track of it all over here in this...
  8. Lauren Morton

    Which game series has the best expansions?

    Hey PC Gamers, welcome back to the Chat Log! This week Mollie and I dragged Wes Fenlon out of The Lands Between to talk about playing the Shadow of the Erdtree expansion for Elden Ring and also lots of other game expansions. He recently pooled some minds on the team to remind us that "expansions...
  9. Lauren Morton

    What's the first game you ever added to your Steam account?

    Hey there PC gamers, welcome back to the Chat Log! This week Mollie and I kicked back and did a little digging through our Steam libraries. We realized that there are actually lot more ways to sort our backlog these days than we'd remembered. You can sort your games by obvious things like time...
  10. Lauren Morton

    Which reveal from this month's gaming showcases are you most psyched about?

    Hey again PC gamers, I hope you're all feeling rested after the showcase weeks earlier this month because it's finally time to talk about everything we saw. This week Mollie and I called in Harvey Randall to talk about our own favorites from all the shows we watched. Mollie got another Fable...
  11. Lauren Morton

    What's your favorite gaming slang phrase to throw around?

    Hey PC gamers, hope we all survived the big showcase weekend! We are once again not talking about it yet—but we did actually just record ourselves talking about it so you'll get to hear that next week—so hang tight on that. For this week Mollie and I called upon Robin Valentine to talk about...
  12. Lauren Morton

    What's your favorite example of a weird brand tie-in from a video game?

    Hey there PC Gamers, are we feeling ready for the impending weekend of gaming showcases and trailers? Well hang tight because we aren't talking about that quite yet (you can listen to our predictions we made last week though). This week we're talking about weird brand tie-ins in videogames...
  13. Lauren Morton

    What's your game reveal prediction for the summer showcase season?

    Welcome back PC gamers to another week in the chat log in which we're all looking at our summer game showcase schedule and trying to sleuth out which games are getting revealed at all the various video events. This year there is of course the Summer Game Fest, our own PC Gaming Show, the...
  14. Lauren Morton

    How many "live service" games are you juggling right now?

    Hey there PC gamers, sorry for being a little late to the forums this week! On this episode, Mollie and I brought back our fellow multiplayer enjoyer Morgan Park to talk about "live service" games. What even counts as a live service game though? Are MMOs always considered "live service"? Is it...
  15. Lauren Morton

    Which game seems most stuck in "development hell" right now?

    Hey PC gamers, welcome back to your regularly scheduled Chat Log podcast! I hope you enjoyed our three weeks of GDC roundtable interviews from Wes and Evan. Now that summer is nearly here, we're starting to think about which games we're expecting to see updates on during showcase season and...
  16. Lauren Morton

    Who's the best side character in the Fallout TV show?

    Hey there PC gamers and welcome back to another week in the chat log! This week Mollie and I talked with our Fallout-enjoyer senior editor Chris Livingston about the Fallout TV show that premiered on Amazon Prime last week. We've got lots of feelings on the pre-war timeline, all the main...
  17. Lauren Morton

    What's your "white whale" game that you may never play?

    Hey PC gamers and welcome back to the chat log! This week Mollie and I dragged in our Tyler Colp to collectively admit to our genre sins. We call ourselves fans and yet we've still never played that one classic deep cut in our catalog. This isn't about the crushing threat of your massive backlog...
  18. Lauren Morton

    What's the first PC game you remember playing?

    Hey PC gamers and welcome back to another week in the chat log. This week Mollie and I decided to take a little stroll back through our childhood to talk about some of the earliest PC games we can remember playing. For us, that means the late '90s and early 2000s, a golden era for edutainment...
  19. Lauren Morton

    Who's your favorite pawn you've hired in Dragon's Dogma 2?

    Welcome back PC gamers to another week in the chat log. It's been a week since Dragon's Dogma 2 launched and it feels like tons of our team, and readers, have been playing. So this was a good week to dedicate to talking with our absolutely dauntless RPG reviewer and online editor Fraser Brown...
  20. Lauren Morton

    Which game launcher are you only using because you have to?

    Hey PC gamers, apologies for the delayed forum post this week—I was away at GDC last week! But while I was gone, last week's episode was all about game launchers. Our senior editor Robin Valentine recently undertook the daunting task of reviewing game launchers for 2024. His conclusion? Yeah...