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PC Gamer Hardware Awards: The best gaming mouse of 2025

A game about giant, helpless teddy bears fleeing a dying world may be a bit on the nose right now, but it's also my favorite game of 2025

PC Gamer Hardware Awards: The best gaming keyboard of 2025

Slay the Spire gets the best Christmas present a deckbuilder could ask for: a new all-time concurrent player peak on Steam nearly 7 years after release

PC gaming on Arm chips didn't quite happen in 2025, but the die is cast for an epic battle with x86 CPUs in the next few years

The best indie Pokémon-like on PC is free on Epic for a limited time

Welcome to the FPS vibe shift

It was a good year for survival crafting sickos, and I'll be playing some of these well into 2026

Out of all the new hardware that has passed through my hands in 2025, nothing has made an impact like a certain Wi-Fi 7 router has

Are these Arc Raiders myths true or false? You tell me

PC Gamer Hardware Awards: The best gaming motherboard of 2025

Counterfeit Monkey is so magnificent a text adventure that I'm convinced the puzzle genre went wrong when it added graphics

A psychic baby and whacky control scheme undersell the mundane brilliance of one of my favourite games this year

PC Gamer Hardware Awards: The best gaming CPU of 2025

Action RPG players will exploit anything in the name of efficiency, which is why Path of Exile 2 players are locking themselves in the campaign for profit

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'

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

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

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