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Obsidian's Josh Sawyer leads the charge of RPG fans playfully roasting Stranger Things for its D&D rule flubs: 'The oldheads are going to catch all these things'

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

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'

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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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'

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

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Google killed support for the Dreamcast web browser after 25 years

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

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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'

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

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'

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

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

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

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

Co-op smash hit RV There Yet? gets an 'unplanned content update for an unplanned game' as the comedy vehicle sim surpasses 4.5 million copies sold

Painkiller's creator isn't a fan of its recent co-op reboot: 'I disagreed with every single thing they've done in it'

Stalker 2 gets a new zoning permit in its 'Stories Untold' update, adding 8 missions and 7 locations as you explore what's giving Stalkers 'headaches, nosebleeds, and even hallucinations'

2025 was a monster year for Stephen King movie and TV adaptations… so where are all the games?

FromSoftware just dropped an absolutely busted item in Elden Ring Nightreign that has completely shifted the meta overnight

A major overhaul of League of Legends is reportedly coming in 2027: 'Once we're done, it should be the best time ever to get your friends into League'

Epic ritually humiliates another Fortnite fraudster who was stealing and selling accounts

Where to find the Bard's lost guitar in The Forge

TikTok's US arm has been sold, in a deal that one Senate Democrat says won't do 'a thing to protect the privacy of American users'

3 months before launch, Marathon art director Joseph Cross departs from Bungie: 'I'm incredibly proud of the visual world we built'

Sam Altman says Google is 'still a huge threat' and ChatGPT will be declaring code red 'maybe twice a year for a long time'

Taiwan plans to keep cutting-edge nodes close to home, leaving Intel with the opportunity of a lifetime

Ark 2 is now set to come out in 2028, and it may not have as much Vin Diesel as we were expecting: After years of delays, his involvement is 'an open question'

It's an older node, sir, but it checks out: Samsung appears to have scooped a deal with Intel to make its next generation of motherboard chipsets in its 8 nm fabs

Silent Hill f didn't just give us a superb SH game in the year of our lord 2025, but it offered up one of the best in the series

Dangbei DBOX02 Pro review

Death Howl review

OLED monitors are starting to get their flowers, as 2025 marks a 65% increase in shipments

The likelihood of another Battlefield: Bad Company is slim, but its former lead designer thinks Battlefield boss Vince Zampella could make it happen: 'He knows his sh*t'

Black Ops 7 Dark Ops challenges

Securities firm research suggests that Intel is on track to garner chip manufacturing and packaging orders from Apple, Broadcom, Google, and maybe even Nvidia

Keystroke lag alerts Amazon security staff that recent US-based IT hire was actually in North Korea

According to Steam, the average PC Gamer writer played 72 games this year (56% of which were new) and used a controller more than we'd like to admit