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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

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