To this day, I still get emails about a 2016 story I wrote titled PC Gaming Is Still Way Too Hard. Some people write in to agree that the process of picking PC parts, finding the best place to buy ...

It needs work. That’s the first thing I’ll say about PC Building Simulator, now that we’ve spent some time with it. The game’s site calls it a pre-alpha build, but even that’s a pretty generous term.

It never fails that a new simulator-type game appears on the market with a premise that sounds so completely mundane that it could not possibly be entertaining, yet manages to offer a rewarding ...