The PC gaming highs of 2017#BWIA

The PC gaming highs of 2017 Every week, we produce our Highs and Lows feature, rounding up the week in news, games and whatever else is drifting through our heads when we write it on a Friday afternoon. Here something I never would have predicted at the start of 2017: Microsoft bringing back Age of Empires. Andy Kelly: Paint it black Okami is one of my all-time favourite games, but for years I had no easy, convenient way to play it. This year Ive been cheered by the gentle, ongoing presence of strategy games on PC. Tyler Wilde: Major players None of my favorite games this year came from Activision Blizzard, Ubisoft, Bethesda, EA, Microsoft Game Studios, Capcom, Take-Two, Warner Bros, or Sega. This is a weird one for me, because among the PC Gamer staff Ive perhaps been the most skeptical of VR . Wes Fenlon: Japanese games had a hell of a year Japanese game companies have been struggling for years, having to spend more and more money to developer big games that bring in less and less cash as their players switch over to mobile. This year has been insane on the CPU front, and while we didnt award AMDs Ryzen our Best CPU of the Year, its chiefly thanks to AMD that Intel has pulled out the stops and actually released some compelling upgrades. Tim Clark: Finally winning something When we moved into our new office our bosses decided to liven up the place with some motivational slogans on the walls.