PC gamers really got the short end of the stick, though. In the vast majority of games, the new crop of Ryzen 9000 CPUs performed identically to their less expensive Ryzen 7000 counterparts.

2024 has been both a fun and maddening year to cover PC games, with some fantastic releases ... Star Wars Outlaws is built on the same technology as Digital Foundry's 2023 graphics of the year ...