Evan Lahti
Evan's a hardcore FPS enthusiast who joined PC Gamer in 2008. After an era spent publishing reviews, news, and cover features, he now oversees editorial operations for PC Gamer worldwide, including setting policy, training, and editing stories written by the wider team. His most-played FPSes are CS:GO, Team Fortress 2, Team Fortress Classic, Rainbow Six Siege, and Arma 2. His first multiplayer FPS was Quake 2, played on serial LAN in his uncle's basement, the ideal conditions for instilling a lifelong fondness for fragging. Evan also leads production of the PC Gaming Show, the annual E3 showcase event dedicated to PC gaming.
Latest articles by Evan Lahti
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The PC Gamer 2022 Holiday Gift Guide
By Jonathan Bolding published
🎁🎁🎁 Gift recommendations to pour joy into the hearts of PC gamers everywhere.
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Buckle up, you're now entering PC gaming's peak for 2022
By Evan Lahti published
📆 World of Warcraft: Dragonflight, Warzone 2.0, the PC Gaming Show: 2023 Preview, multiple Marvel games, and more add up to a stacked couple of weeks.
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Watch the PC Gaming Show: 2023 Preview
By Evan Lahti last updated
big show Look ahead with us to what's shaping up to be an excellent 2023 for PC gamers.
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Here's how to co-stream the PC Gaming Show: 2023 Preview
By Evan Lahti last updated
c'mon in Dozens of 2023 trailers and gameplay footage in a first look at the next year on PC.
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For the first time, Warzone is on Steam
By Evan Lahti last updated
news Call of Duty: Warzone 2.0 Steam page reveals file size, modest GPU requirement.
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Congress just elected its first Kingdom Hearts fan
By Evan Lahti published
news In Goofy We Trust—Americans just made a Kingdom Hearts fan a legislator.
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All the cool Hunt: Showdown players are sending kamikaze beetles to kill their enemies
By Evan Lahti last updated
news The new Stalker Beetle meta is already blowing up on the Hunt test server.
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Hunt: Showdown devs appear to be cooking up some kind of horrible, pilotable bug
By Evan Lahti last updated
news I am gonna sting so many bounty campers with this little guy.
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Send a tip to PC Gamer
By Evan Lahti last updated
contact us How to reach out to us with tips and other information you think that our audience might want to know about.
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The impact of the giant GTA 6 leak: PC Gamer reacts
By Tim Clark last updated
Jury Duty How bad is it and what happens next?
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The best mech games on PC
By Sean Murray last updated
Rock em sock em From anime mecha to rusty 100-ton warmachines, the best mech games for giant robot lovers.
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These simple keyboard shortcuts broke the brains of my Gen Z coworkers
By Evan Lahti last updated
Ctrl + 🤯 As a lowly elder millennial, I truly thought these keyboard commands were known by everyone in 2022 AD.
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Salvaging giant robots made MechCommander magic
By Evan Lahti last updated
Reinstall Reinstall.
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The August PC game releases and updates you should know about
By Tyler Wilde last updated
📆 Saints Row, Immortality, Gloomwood, and other new games and expansions to play in August.
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Jagged Alliance 2 is tactics-RPG perfection, especially with the 1.13 mod
By Evan Lahti last updated
Reinstall.
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Rick and Morty, LeBron James will join MultiVersus soon
By Evan Lahti published
news One week after its effective launch, MultiVersus is getting two new characters.
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The most underrated recent FPS games
By James Davenport last updated
reloading Some shooters to give another shot.
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Help, I care an unhealthy amount about my Steam hours-played data
By Evan Lahti published
click, tock Valve should do more to let players see their hours, days, and years spent in Steam.
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To bring attention to climate change, Ubisoft will burn down virtual forests
By Evan Lahti published
news Sorry to interrupt your playground, Riders Republicans, but the world is on fire.
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POV: This cowboy falls out of the sky with a double-barreled shotgun pointed at you. What do you do?
By Evan Lahti published
friday flashback "Oh no," your brain silently shouts, "A cowboy is unexpectedly descending from the sky. We are in danger."
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The next Hunt: Showdown update is pretty big
By Evan Lahti published
news Weapon rebalance, audio behavior, desync, match length, spawn points among the long list of changes and fixes in the Hunt: Showdown 1.9 patch.
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The most exciting games of not-E3 actually coming out this year
By Jody Macgregor published
SOON The rest of 2022 is looking stacked.
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The Not-E3 Awards: our favorite game and trailer
By Evan Lahti published
awards? Three highlights from a fragmented year of livestreams and announcements.