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2025 was the year friendslop reigned, and so many low-cost ways to have fun with your pals couldn't have come at a better time

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Do you know your Doom from your Dune? Put your sci-fi knowledge to the test in our first quiz of 2026!

I'm brave enough to say it: Linux is good now, and if you want to feel like you actually own your PC, make 2026 the year of Linux on (your) desktop

Here are 2025's six highest rated hardware, enjoying tippy-top review scores—plus six dishonorable mentions

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I enjoy touching all the hardware bits that pass through PCG's offices, but this bit of kit was all but made for my upsettingly small baby hands

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I'm not waiting 5 years for everyone to realize The Outer Worlds 2 is another Obsidian classic—I'm giving it its flowers now

Can you guess which games these bizarre 2025 patch notes are from?

As 2025 draws to a close, test your knowledge of another packed 12 months for PC gaming with our big end of year quiz

PC Gamer Hardware Awards 2025: All the winners from a bumper 12 months of PC gaming tech

The most surprising cozy game trend this year was the desktop pet renaissance

Fallout Season 2 Episode 3 recap: 'All that remains of America is its overwhelming failure'

Eric Barone makes $125,000 donation to the C# framework Stardew Valley uses, as well as 'an ongoing monthly commitment' in what the team behind it calls an 'extraordinary show of support'

This indie WarioWare-like released a teaser just to show off its 'game over' music, and after hearing it, I can see why

This sequel to a classic NES beat 'em up is about to be delisted from Steam, but you can get it for a few bucks in the meantime: 'The delisting process is currently underway'

I can tell World of Warcraft's player housing is going well by the amount of Star Wars stuff this one player keeps building

Some of my favorite childhood platformers are free on Epic for today only, and they've all been updated for better crossplay with Steam owners

Arc Raiders was Steam's best-selling game the week of Christmas, and Battlefield 6 wasn't far behind

Love it or hate it, but frame generation is the one major graphics technology that really needs improving in 2026

'Friendslop' dominated 2025 by proving time and time again that graphics are overrated

2025 was Fortnite's most topsy-turvy year ever with soaring peaks, miserable lows, and a raging AI debate

Razer's little Blade has been my ride-or-die throughout the year and is my absolute favourite gaming laptop of 2025

AI, Crysis, lusty argonians, and pinball: These are our most-read news stories of 2025

PC Gamer Hardware Awards: 2025's wildcards—the best of the rest is full of surprises

Can you order the games of 2025 by their release dates? Sort out the year's release calendar in our latest quiz!

PC Gamer Hardware Awards: The best graphics card of 2025

2025's best soulslike wasn't Nightreign, it was a DLC for a game we all dismissed as a Bloodborne clone back in 2022

None of us are at good at action RPGs as the Path of Exile 2 player who beat one of its toughest bosses without any gear: 'What did I just witness?'

Fallen Aces's second episode won't be out this year, but it will feature a first-person car chase with a tommy gun in both hands and a foot-operated steering wheel

Rainbow Six Siege servers are back after hackers randomly doled out bans, unbans, rare skins and 'billions' in in-game currency

GOG crawls out from under CD Projekt Red with a new owner and teases 'ambitious' plans for classic game 'rescue missions' starting next year

Path of Exile 2's new druid class is the most fun you can have being a bear in a videogame right now

Last year I predicted all three of Valve's announcements so now I reckon I have the ability to speak these 2026 prophecies into reality

I played 31 new cozy games this year, and my top 6 picks are all completely different

2025 is the year I discovered I love charging docks, and it's all because of one surprisingly reasonably priced gaming mouse

2025 has been the pinnacle of weird and interesting videogames, and for me, not a single one can define the year as a whole

Peak shows you don't need horror or quirky party games to be one of the best co-ops in years

'A good idea, infinite drive, and lots of Diet Pepsi': How YouTube essayist Majuular's life changed course telling the story of Ultima across 2 years and more than 20 hours of documentaries

We're living in the new golden age of 2D beat-'em-ups—but the best one released this year had one foot in a different genre entirely

PC Gamer Hardware Awards: The best gaming microphone of 2025

How well do you know the videogame movie and TV adaptations of 2025? Test your viewing prowess with some trivia!

PC Gamer Hardware Awards: The best gaming headset of 2025

Well, this year's graphics card launches were a right shitshow, eh?

I hated using oil pastels in school, but this artist has made me want to give them a second chance thanks to their adorable, low-poly video game character paintings

Steam has quietly become the best place to buy videogame soundtracks—even for games that were never released on PC

The Fractal Design Scape feels like a gaming headset from the future, which makes it the best thing I've tested in 2035. I mean, this year

I played more than 20 metroidvanias this year other than Silksong, and these are the ones doing the most creative/experimental things with the genre

The End Times are almost here, but can you name all 105 Legendary Lords in Total War: Warhammer before Nagash consumes their souls?

I'm obsessed with detective games, and I think these 9 prove that 2025 was the best year for the genre ever

Disney's embarrassing AI-generated Star Wars video of scrambled-up animals was the opening salvo in a year full of AI humiliation

2025 was the best year for ninja games ever, but all of them just made it clear that 2008's Ninja Gaiden 2 remains untouchable