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Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella says it's time to stop talking about AI 'slop' and start talking about a 'theory of the mind that accounts for humans being equipped with these new cognitive amplifier tools'

Forget what you heard, there's plenty of PC hardware to be excited about in 2026

Silent Hill 2 Remake dev Bloober Team kicks off 2026 by giving us 45 days to figure out what 'RemoSdNeulSerore-hsoOvamCeyerd' is

'There's a lot of cool things that, if you think too hard about it, they should never have worked': Fallout 3's pathfinding system had to be completely reworked over several months to account for Liberty Prime, but it was worth it because he's 'awesome'

30 hidden gems from 2025 to grab before the Steam Winter Sale ends

Former Elder Scrolls Online chief confirms Microsoft's 2025 bloodbath drove his departure from ZeniMax: 'Project Blackbird was the game I had waited my entire career to create'

Baba is News: One of the best puzzle games of the last decade just got a major update seven years after release

The city builders of 2026 will let us build in some wild places, including a Pokémon-style world filled with collectible creatures

Kill the algorithm in your head: Let's set up RSS readers and get news we actually want in 2026

PC Gamer magazine's new issue is on sale now: Fallout Special

All Genshin Impact 6.3 livestream codes

Tabletop Simulator announces a free 2.0 update that includes a UI overhaul and a marketplace for paid mods

'Happy Gloom Year!': The new Gloomwood update is out, and it includes the game's 'largest, most vertical open area' yet

Pluribus lead Rhea Seehorn's career began as the 'tutorial sorceress' in a Magic The Gathering PC game from 1997

Dispatch sold over 3 million copies in 2025, and only around five percent of players beat the game without romancing anyone

Betty Boop, Blondie, and a slew of Mickey Mouse cartoons are entering the public domain, so let's hope for something better than bargain bin horror games

CES 2026: From new Intel chips to far too much AI, here's everything we expect to see

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

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

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

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

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