January 2025

2007 shooter and part-time meme Crysis is the subject of an in-depth retrospective in the latest issue of PC Gamer magazine, in which Rick Lane sits down with Crytek CEO Cevat Yerli to go over the game’s development. Coming off the back of Far Cry, the studio’s ambition for what its next game would deliver…

Intel has announced the new Core Ultra 200HX and 200H laptop chips here at CES 2025. The HX parts are the most interesting to PC gamers, as the chips most likely to power your next gaming laptop, so let’s get into those first. There are six new HX models, with the top Intel Core Ultra…

Truth be told, I’m not really a handbag enthusiast; with the hardware I’m lugging around, a rucksack usually makes more sense. However, I am very pro weighing a backpack down with cute keyrings and whimsical bag charms. The practically vintage, chunky Pikachu bag charm currently attached to my rucksack is my pride and joy. That…

If there’s one thing every gamer needs it’s a jacket that has massive pockets, for all your gaming goodies, right? Swedish firm DRKN reckons it has the perfect puffer for travelling to LAN parties or a friend’s house because its pockets are so big you can stuff a full-size keyboard and a 15-inch laptop in…

In a post-Baldur’s Gate 3 world, the RPG feels more ascendant than ever on PC. 2025 is shaping up to be an excellent example of that, with a whole raft of huge releases due this year for lovers of levelling and loot to get their teeth into. It’s not easy to keep them all straight—even…

Let me use this introductory paragraph to make two horrible confessions. The first: I am one of perhaps several people worldwide who use Microsoft Edge as my default personal browser. Second: My use of Edge means I sometimes accidentally use Bing, Microsoft’s Google-but-worse, whenever I search for something in the URL bar. I could go…