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Five new Steam games you probably missed (December 22, 2025)

You might think reimagining Washington DC as a nuclear hellscape for Fallout 3 would have been grim, but it made the lead designer want to set the next game in his hometown: 'It's just kind of fun to blow things up'

There's a Transformers XCOM-like on Steam, and it's on sale for 90% off before it gets delisted

Hideo Kojima's new favorite manga is a must-read for Metal Gear fans

Fallout: New Vegas lead writer worries Caesar's argument for authoritarianism 'was done a little too well,' but still believes 'you can't just make your tyrants cardboard villains'

From Andor to Wicked, 2025's best movies and TV exposed a dark political truth

The process of creating cosplay from scratch is incredibly intimidating to me, but Emily White found a new love for it post-lockdown: 'It can take anywhere from a month to a year to bring a costume to life.'

It's more important than ever to call out developers for egregious AI usage next year if we want videogames to remain interesting

The Elephant reunites Adventure Time's animation dream-time (but there's a catch)

It's about time Final Fantasy 14 retires one of its most divisive, overused songs

D&D needs more improvisation and luck rolls

Indie Game Awards pulls two awards from Clair Obscur over generative AI use: 'We have a hard stance against gen AI in videogames'

Brazil is the weirdest dystopian Christmas film you need to watch

The Sims 4 had its best year in 2025

Warhammer 40,000: Dark Heresy shows off equal helpings of sleuthing and smashing in its new trailer, as its first playable alpha test goes live

Apple M4 iMac at an All-Time Low Is Now Cheap Enough to Rival No-Name Windows Desktops

KPop Demon Hunters' 2025 success is a big boost for tween girl culture

This dystopian free-running sim set in a brutalist megacity is being codeveloped by one of the designers of last year's best FPS

Elden Ring Nightreign is a deeply flawed multiplayer game I've spent over 250 hours in this year

This 2-Pack Govee Smart Light Bulbs Offers 16 Million Colors, Priced Like Basic Bulb on Amazon

The worst games of 2025, including MindsEye, Bubsy 4D, and more

Dishonored co-creator says it was 'a shock' when Microsoft closed Arkane Austin after Redfall's release: 'We were working on something really cool'

MacBook Pro M5 With Max Config Drops Record Low, Amazon Drops Margin While Official Site Stays Full Price

Quake's third Brutalist Jam now has a whopping 75 maps, and its organiser is working on a hub to stitch them all together: 'this is going to be an insane challenge'

3 thriller masterpieces buried on Netflix you need to watch

One Piece's creator teases Laugh Tale will appear in 2026

Darktide asked if we want to be scum, and I was the person who said, 'actually, yes'

Google killed support for the Dreamcast web browser after 25 years

The New Blood-published 'immersive stealth FPS' Blood West is free on Epic—but only for 24 hours

Blizzard's focus is on existing properties, president Johanna Faries says: 'We have iconic IP and in many ways it still has a lot of room to scale'

Great moments in PC gaming: Dark Messiah of Might and Magic's rooftop chase

NordProtect Online Identity Service Covers Up to $10K in Scam Losses, Now Going for Peanuts

Expedition 33's Indie Game Award GOTY rescinded over gen AI use

My Hero Academia's final season delivers a flawless ending for the most important shonen of the past decade

M. Night Shyamalan's The Happening is terrible, but the perfect Christmas movie

One of the internet's top experts on Skyrim minutiae hosted a $10,000 charity competition to guess how many trees there are in the Bethesda classic

Nobody can agree what an 'immersive sim' is, but OG Fallout lead Tim Cain has his own definition: 'The very elements that make something an immsim are the ones that I also think make good RPGs'

Is the hivemind manipulating Carol in Pluribus episode 8? We asked the cast

Final Fantasy 14's latest patch has me hopeful for the MMO's story again—even though Square Enix still has a lot of good will to recover

The 15 best under-the radar indie games of 2025

The best of 2025, from movies to games and more

This Microsoft Excel Easter egg led to a wild conspiracy theory that Bill Gates was the Antichrist

Valve has quietly discontinued the last LCD Steam Deck model

Test your knowledge of all 14 games we celebrated in the PC Gamer GOTY awards 2025 with our latest quiz

One FF7 Magic: The Gathering card proves Universes Beyond can tell meaningful stories

Tales of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles season 2 review: Why did Paramount cancel this show?

Abiotic Factor's 1.2 update invites you to explore the 'Holiday Cryosphere', a festive interdimensional snowglobe where everything's on fire for some reason

Meta Quest 3S Becomes the Cheapest VR Headset as PlayStation VR2 Goes Back to Full Price

Arc Raiders is 2025’s best shooter, so brace yourself for more extraction shooters

I play new games about once every never, but Killing Floor 3 reeled me in this year because it's basically not a new game