January 2025

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Doomguy has been everywhere. He’s been to Mars, he’s been to Hell, he’s been to Thatcher’s England. But what’s he do between monster-murder sprees? He pops down to a museum opening to better himself. In Doom: The Gallery Experience, you walk around a rejigged E1M1 with a cheeky glass of red in hand looking at…

Best of the best (Image credit: Xbox Game Studios) 2025 games: Upcoming releasesBest PC games: All-time favoritesFree PC games: Freebie festBest FPS games: Finest gunplayBest MMOs: Massive worldsBest RPGs: Grand adventures On an average day about a dozen new games are released on Steam. And while we think that’s a good thing, it can be…

If you’ve played SpaceChem, Infinifactory, Opus Magnum, or any of the other engineering puzzles of Zachtronics you’ll be familiar with the Zach-like subgenre—visual programming games where you build a system to turn input into output, every level a lesson in learning the tools, and then realizing there are multiple ways to achieve your goal with…

First reported by GamesRadar, Hideo Kojima revealed in a year-end Twitter post that his upcoming projects OD and Physint have encountered difficulties due to the SAG-AFTRA strike that began last July and remains ongoing. “For OD, we developed the game and had actor and environment scanning,” Kojima wrote as part of his 2024 year-in-review. “In…

We began this year with Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League and ended it with Dragon Age: The Veilguard. Both are new games from beloved institutions of 2010s triple-A single player games, their first outings in many years⁠—a full decade since Arkham Knight and the last Dragon Age game, while it’s been five years since…

Streamer and former pro FPS player Michael “Shroud” Grzesiek has announced a January “Fragathon” for charity, with the main event being a promise to donate $1 (with potential multipliers) for every kill he scores on-stream over the coming month. “Last year, I lost my dad to cancer, and ever since I’ve been looking for ways…