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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'

'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

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

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

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

PC Gamer Hardware Awards: The best gaming handheld of 2025

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

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

System Shock 2: 25th Anniversary Edition is the absolute gold standard of remasters

Star Citizen is on course to reach $1 billion in player funding in 2026, and we still might not get to play its singleplayer campaign next year

Baldur's Gate 3 started on top and kept on climbing: Larian said it wouldn't make a sequel, then drip fed us an expansion's worth of free updates into 2025

Tavern Keeper is the management sim of my dreams, and the best thing I've played in early access in 2025

PC Gamer Hardware Awards: The best gaming monitor of 2025

Learn more than you ever wanted to know about the weird world of Santa games on Steam in our Christmas quiz!

PC Gamer Hardware Awards: The best gaming laptop of 2025

Steam seems to be back to normal, at least for the moment, but now it looks like the Epic Games Store is getting hammered

Three shining examples of brilliant PC game development in 2025

Blade director reassures suffering fans with soothing words: 'Please be patient, it will be a special game'

Intel's 'Serpent Lake' rumoured to be its first chip developed in collaboration with Nvidia

Fallout Season 2 Episode 2 recap: 'Patrolling the Mojave almost makes you wish for a nuclear winter'

Commander Shepard actors will return for the new Mass Effect game 'with bells on' if BioWare asks them: 'Email the powers-that-be who make these games and say, Give us more Shepard'

In a year where Obsidian released a pair of RPGs, its best game was an early access survival romp

I plugged 12 game names into Google Translate and kept hitting go—how many can you guess the original title of?

2025 saw game developers scrambling to avoid heavy hitters like Grand Theft Auto 6 and Hollow Knight: Silksong

Samsung outs world's first 1,040 Hz and 6K 3D gaming monitors ahead of CES

Uh-oh, I think I'm finally all gacha'd out

Celebrate the holidays the way Saint Nick intended, by blasting through hordes of enemies in the best Christmas-themed FPS mods

Fallout season 2's second episode arrives at the best Wasteland location to date as Todd Howard praises the show for taking 'such amazing care to treat locations with this obsessive authenticity'

Wait, there was a new live-action Witcher movie? Starring Dolph Lundgren? On Netflix? In October?

Polish analyst adds fuel to rumors that The Witcher 3 will get new DLC in 2026 to set up The Witcher 4

Electronic Arts shareholders vote overwhelmingly in favor of Saudi-led takeover

Hollow Knight: Silksong player discovers Hornet's taunt does damage, proceeds to spend hours trying to beat every boss with it: 'This is like watching Sisyphus push the boulder and win'

Like a good ol' southern potluck, South of Midnight had me going back to play for seconds, and then thirds, thanks to all its little details

The games industry pays tribute to the late Vince Zampella: 'Thank you, Vince—You were one of the good ones'

007 First Light, IO Interactive's James Bond game, is delayed 'to ensure the experience meets the level of quality you players deserve on day one'

Microsoft's year of shame

'It's a pretty big deal for me as a human': One of the FGC's most popular commentators is stepping away from future EVO events following its Saudi buyout

Hideo Kojima says Super Mario Bros. 'was the catalyst that brought me to the game industry', and made him realise 'this medium would one day surpass movies'

Grand Theft Auto could have been a globetrotting series like Assassin's Creed, according to former Rockstar technical director: 'We had ideas about GTA games in Rio de Janeiro, Moscow and Istanbul' while 'Tokyo almost actually happened'

Roadtrip RPG Keep Driving teaches you that a hitchhiker is just a friend you haven't met, and that friend might have weed

Fallout 4's lead designer reckons it is the 'most replayable' game in the series thanks to its interweaving quests, which I'm sure will go down swimmingly with New Vegas sickos

Turns out that Fallout: New Vegas beta stuffed with cut content also contains early versions of the DLCs with some big differences

Danganronpa creator says his latest game 'might truly become the last grand, 200-hour game story in human history written entirely without AI'

They survived the MMO massacre of 2025, but 2026 is going to be a tense year for WoW and FF14: And for completely different reasons

If you thought Bloodlines 2 lacked bite, remember that The Witcher 3's director left CD Projekt to make a vampire RPG, and it's out next year

Five Nights at Freddy's 2 is one of the worst-rated movies of the year just like Borderlands was last year