November 2025

When it’s not equipping little critters with assault rifles or fending off lawsuits for those critters’ resemblance to Pokémon, Palworld studio Pocketpair is stepping in to publish small-scale indies. It’s got a host of upcoming games on the docket, such as pixelated fishing game Normal Fishing and the Hollow Knight-esque Never Grave. The studio’s publishing…

While it was a hard truth to accept while wistfully fiddling with build configurations in my younger years, Alienware and affordability don’t often go hand in hand. For this year’s Cyber Monday festivities, however, Dell’s offering some uncharacteristically respectable discounts on its gaming line, bringing a pair of prebuilt PCs at the lowest prices we’ve…

Over 20 years after Carl “CJ” Johnson first tore through Los Santos dual-wielding uzi submachine guns, two modders are bringing it back to life in a way Rockstar never did. Blue & Blood is an ambitious total conversion mod that reimagines the game from the other side of the law—not as a young gangster clawing…

Soundtrack Sunday Welcome to Soundtrack Sunday, where a member of the PC Gamer team takes a look at a soundtrack from one of their favourite games—or a broader look at videogame music as a whole—offering their thoughts or asking for yours! I was born to do one thing in this life, and that’s to incessantly…

They’ll say they don’t get it, young simmer. They’ll ask, “You do what all day? You work for a living, and then come home to play a videogame where you work a different, more grueling job?” They won’t see the irony in saying that and then queuing for ranked in Street Fighter 6. But take…

I’m sharing conversation over breakfast with an undertaker and a charming widow when a clatter of dishes draws their attention away. This is my chance—I swipe the unattended room key. An anonymous tip has led me to investigate the disappearance of one Evelyn Deane from Blake Manor in Ireland. Luckily for my investigation, it turns…

Videogame merchandise wasn’t a big thing when I was younger, unless you were willing to pay some impressive import fees and wait months for a package to arrive. When I was a teenager, and mostly after the success of Fortnite, themed clothing started appearing in supermarkets and high-street stores, but it was always a bit…

Forget moustaches, novels, and heavily discounted PC components—November this year has been all about pirates. Earlier this month, piratical survival sim Salt 2 weighed its early access anchor and sailed into the 1.0-pen ocean, while this week saw the release of Captain Wayne: Vacation Desperation, a buccaneer-tinged blaster built in the original Doom engine. Then…

While I’m well aware that finished games often rest atop a mountain of cut or heavily revised work, I’m still regularly surprised by how extensively projects can change over the course of their development. A striking example was recently provided by Halo co-creator Marcus Lehto, who revealed that Master Chief’s suit design was revised nine…