Peak devs were ready to go 'into vacation mode' after releasing it, but then it sold 1M copies in the first week: 'That quickly became a pipe dream'

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I spent 2025 digging through all the word game roguelikes flooding Steam to see if any could capture Balatro’s magic—here are the highly scientific results

Relax after a holiday feast by joining us for a nostalgic tour of old Japanese game mags that blurred the lines between analogue and digital

Pluribus' existential art question, answered by Vince Gilligan and Rhea Seehorn

PC gaming has a pricing problem, and the memory crisis is compounding it in a way that's utterly heartbreaking for our hobby

'It was definitely interesting': Persona 5: The Phantom X developer was surprised that people outside of Japan were 'cheering' for the Subway Slammer

Professor Layton Boss Wants People To Stop Demonizing Generative AI

A Giant Lord Of The Rings Minas Tirith Lego Set Rumored To Cost Over $600

Persona 5: The Phantom X had a hard time doing away with the series' iconic calendar system: 'It was very difficult to convince the team'

Marathon’s Visual Overhaul Has Some Fans Shocked At How Good It Looks While Others Think It’s Lost Its Soul

Iconic Scooby-Doo star Matthew Lillard's advice for the next Shaggy

'Our fans have been very passionate': How player feedback has been at the core of the first six months of Persona 5: The Phantom X

GGMods is a kind of gaming mods platform kicking off with a contest

Nicolas Cage's Madden looks like 2026's best video game movie

Logan Paul auctioning off rare $5.3 million Pikachu card

The 27 Best Games For The Nintendo Switch

Kenneth Shepard’s Top 10 Games Of 2025

Samsung microSD Card Drops to $0.13 per GB Record Low, Practically Free Storage Upgrade for Nintendo Switch, Steam Deck, and More

Ninja games defined the best gaming trend in 2025

My fave piece of PC gaming tech to launch this year was the softest kind of hardware there is

2026 may be year of the horse, but 2025 certainly gave it a good go with the amount of horse-related games, expansions, and updates we've had

Metroid Prime 4 Devs Explain How They Got Stuck With An Open-World Hub

I Think The Mega Dimension DLC Might’ve Made My Pokémon Stupid

Clair Obscur, Avowed, and more games grappled with COVID's impact in 2025

Bose Goes Full Clearance on Noise-Canceling Earbuds as QuietComfort Ultra Earbuds (2nd Gen) Hit an All-Time Low

Stardew Valley Gets Free Upgrade For Switch 2 But There Are Some Issues

The 10 best sci-fi and fantasy movies of 2025, ranked

Tiny Bookshop gave me the moment every book lover lives for: recommending the perfect book to a friend and them instantly loving it

Are you a proper Sims buff? See if you can name all 97 expansion, game, and stuff packs in our quiz!

An innocuous video about how FromSoft protagonists are 5 feet 7 inches tall led to me becoming weirdly fixated about videogame character height this year

DJI Slashes the Osmo Gimbal Stabilizer to a Record Low Following Drone Clearance Deals

Zelda: ToTK on Switch 2 was my 2025 GOTY

Story of Seasons: Grand Bazaar taught me that farming simulators don't have to follow the same routine to be just as fun as Stardew Valley this year

PC Gamer Hardware Awards: The best SSD of 2025

Govee LED Cylinder Floor Lamp Drops to Its Lowest Price to Clear Out Remaining Stock

Stranger Things spinoffs: The Duffer brothers say they're ‘heavily involved’

Apple AirPods Pro 3 Are Now Cheaper Than Pro 2, Clearing Out Latest Stock at Record Low Before 2026

Five Nights at Freddy's 2 and a new Batman are finally streaming this weekend

Google Pixel 10 and 10 Pro Go on Clearance at All-Time Low Prices to Close Out 2025, Despite Being the Latest Smartphones

PC Gamer Hardware Awards: The best gaming handheld of 2025

Wizards vs sorcerers: Stranger Things season 5 hinges on the difference

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The Abyss explained: Stranger Things reveals the true nature of the Upside Down with another D&D reference

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The Revenant at 10: Leonardo Dicaprio's divisive Oscar-winner is better than you remember

2025 might have been the year for Linux gaming, but there's still a way to go until I switch from Windows

Switch 2 games were weird in 2025, and that's what made it great

A massive D&D loot table rewrote my entire campaign

I know I'll get rinsed by rising costs somewhere when building a PC but my favorite product this year was one of a few things that didn't ask for more money

How Anaconda's pee joke came to be: 'This is not a job for adult humans'