This weekend, the Stop Killing Games movement reached a critical milestone to become a European Citizens’ Initiative, but not everyone is on board. Video Games Europe, a trade association representing game developers and publishers in the EU, released a statement on Friday pushing back against Stop Killing Games. Video Games Europe said in its statement,…
The best gaming laptops in 2025 can finally be the do-anything notebooks we’ve always wanted them to be. As well as being just as capable 3D rendering in Blender, or thrashing the GPU with generative AI, now they’re not just frame rate-chewing gaming monsters when plugged into the power socket, they’re machines that can game…
First reported by Eurogamer, former Forza content coordinator Fred Russell has stated on Facebook that the Forza Motorsport series has been effectively killed by Microsoft’s most recent wave of mass layoffs, but that the Horizon spinoff series will continue. Russell left Forza developer Turn 10 in 2016, but appears to still have inside contacts at…
The PC Gamer team and I have spent many a long day parking our posteriors on the finest seats around—and have also twisted our spines in many of the worst—to bring you the definitive list of the best gaming chairs you can buy in 2025. We’ve also spoken to a team of experts to help…
Almost four years after its initial release, Windows 11 has finally overtaken Windows 10 as the most popular Microsoft operating system. That’s not much of a surprise with only a few months left before Windows 10 officially loses support on October 14, 2025. Even so, it’s a crucial turning point for Microsoft, which has seen…
Players new to Dune: Awakening should watch their backs in the Hagga Basin starting area—or risk getting swallowed by a sandworm thanks to griefers. After the Dune: Awakening devs significantly increased the PVE area in the Deep Desert region last month, rowdy players looking for more unsuspecting targets have relocated to the PVE, beginner-friendly Hagga…
Recently, I was struck by an overwhelming urge to play Gunman Chronicles, the 2000 FPS developed by Valve and Rewolf Software. There was no real trigger for it—this sort of thing happens when you’re nearing 40 and grew up on a diet of nineties’ shooters. But if I had to identify the origin of this…
“The handheld market is growing right now”. One company that backed the Switch throughout its life was the port specialist Virtuos – working on games like Dark Souls and The Outer Worlds for the hybrid platform. It might just be the beginning of the Switch 2’s life, but the same team is already sounding confident…
It’s hard to pinpoint when exactly in the history of videogames we all decided that gold coins weren’t enough for us. What is certain is that for a very long time now we’ve been merrily shopping at merchants with a purse jangling with everything from bottle caps, to raw meat, to live bullets. And yet…
City-building smash hit Manor Lords received relatively frequent updates after it launched into early access last year, but the pace of patches has slowed considerably since the start of 2025. While there have been plenty of previews for new features planned by developer Slavic Magic, actual, tangible changes to the game are thin on the…