April 2025

It sure seems like the sun is setting on Dragon Age—with Veilguard falling short of expectations after years in development, EA seemingly learning exactly the wrong lessons, and sweeping layoffs including senior talent, I’m not holding my breath for the future. In my view, Veilguard was a semi-decent action RPG with a fumbled story, which…

So you’ve gone from a motel room to an apartment and a bungalow, and now it’s time for the barn. This building finally gives you enough space to properly play around with fully automated production lines in Schedule 1, letting you make heaps of cash without lifting a finger. You’ll still have to take the…

Our newsfeeds have been dominated by one word over the past few weeks, and that word is “tariff”. President Trump’s favourite word, apparently. His administration’s international trade policies have thrown markets the world over into something of a loop. Still, even among all this pricing turmoil, there’s really no excuse for a $1,371 motherboard, is…

All of us in the hardware team at PC Gamer love a good handheld gaming PC, be it a Valve Steam Deck, Asus ROG Ally X, or an MSI Claw 8 AI. Whether you want long-life portable playability or outright performance, there’s something for everyone in the market. Nearly all of them use an AMD…

With a whole three seconds of footage, this month’s Nintendo Direct put a new release window on Hollow Knight: Silksong: 2025. The game has blown past announced release windows before, of course, but this does feel a bit more concrete—brief though the appearance was, this was still Nintendo announcing the lineup for its brand new…