November 2025
We used to be a society in which PC gamers had little speakers on their desks instead of RGB headsets—here are 2 speaker deals that I like
Remember those beige computer speakers everyone used to have on their desks? It used to be normal to play PC games with speakers, before we got obsessed with positional audio and wanted headsets with microphones so we could yell at each other over TeamSpeak. But you don’t have to shrink your aural experience when you’re…
GTA San Andreas modders tease fully-fledged standalone indie game inspired by Stardew Valley, Graveyard Keeper, Mafia and Schedule I
The creators of Blue & Blood—an ambitious total conversion mod reimagining GTA: San Andreas from the perspective of the LSPD’s notorious CRASH unit—have confirmed they’re developing a brand-new indie game inspired by a strange but intriguing mix of multi-genre-spanning titles. While chatting about the nuts and bolts of their in-development Grand Theft Auto project, modders-turned…
“It Would Have Been A Huge Success” – The Pitch Behind The Sega Handheld That Might Have Rivalled The Game Boy
“In my opinion, there was no chance of failing”. Sega and Nintendo were fierce hardware rivals for much of the ’80s and ’90s, with the latter usually being more commercially successful than the former. One contest that Nintendo won relatively comfortably was in the handheld arena. Its Game Boy portable launched in 1989 and sold…
This Half-Life mod reimagines the game as a boomer shooter—yes, even boomier than the original
Half-Life revolutionized the first-person shooter when it released in 1998, what with its top shelf storytelling and novel puzzles. But who needs any of that crap? What if there was a game that turned the clock back just like, a year or two—same alien menace, some of the same innovations, but it plays a hell…
Debate: What is your objectively correct keybinding setup for your current MMO, and why is everybody else wrong?
Terminally Online (Image credit: Future) This is Terminally Online: PC Gamer’s very own MMO column. Every other week, I’ll be sharing my thoughts on the genre, interviewing fellow MMO-heads like me, taking a deep-dive into mechanics we’ve all taken for granted, and, occasionally, bringing in guest writers to talk about their MMO of choice. Every…
Arc Raiders got a surprise cameo in South Park, and the devs learned about it just two days before the episode aired
You might not know this, but that alarmingly good Paper Mario-inspired RPG, The Stick of Truth, and its sequel, The Fractured But Whole? As it turns out, those are based on what’s referred to as a “television program” called South Park. It might not be a videogame, but mercifully for my attention span, it does…
Can you figure out which Arc Raiders items are the most valuable? Know your worth in our latest quiz!
More quizzes! (Image credit: Larian Studios, PC Gamer) Want to keep testing your knowledge of gaming trivia? We’ve got loads more PC Gamer quizzes, on everything from healthbars to weird currencies to absurd patch notes. When I say Arc Raiders, the first things that probably pop into your mind are arcs and raiding. But a…
This Minecraft map that recreates one of history’s most notorious slums made me reconsider what’s important in 3D level design
Weird Weekend Weird Weekend is our regular Saturday column where we celebrate PC gaming oddities: peculiar games, strange bits of trivia, forgotten history. Pop back every weekend to find out what Jeremy, Josh and Rick have become obsessed with this time, whether it’s the canon height of Thief’s Garrett or that time someone in the…
Sonic Racing: CrossWorlds is the closest thing we have to Mario Kart on PC, and you know what? I might like it even more
Sonic Racing: CrossWorlds is Mario Kart’s far more chaotic, perpetually drunk uncle, but it’s also perhaps the closest we’ll ever get to Nintendo’s flagship racer on our humble PCs. It’s gimmicky and goofy as all hell. Rings fly as I crash and careen into other racers, dodging items takes far more knack than holding a…