November 2025

The GTA 6 community is famous for its obsessive detective work—from trailer frame counts to map-sizing spreadsheets—but few fan theories show quite this level of craft. Over on GTAForums, user JohnCGaming has written something that can only be described as a scholarly breakdown of co-protagonist Jason’s military background, and it’s quickly become required reading for…

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 am, what scientists and scholars might call, a big fat crybaby. I’ll cry…

For as long as I can remember, my older sister has had two significant fears: zombies, and Pyramid Head from Silent Hill 2. When I was younger, you couldn’t even mention Pyramid Head to her, and because of how petrified she was of the character, I couldn’t exactly look him up or even play Silent…

November has been an absolutely huge month for games, between AAA staples like Call of Duty: Black Ops 7, ongoing successes like Arc Raiders and Dispatch (both technically released in October, but have each dominated the conversation this month) and indie triumphs like Demonschool. But the game that has hooked me in more than any…

Warhammer—End Times: Vermintide celebrated its tenth birthday in October, a fact that makes me painfully aware of how much closer I am to becoming rat fodder myself. The original Vermintide was a decent stab at Left 4 Dead-style cooperative action by developer Fatshark, but much like Valve’s pioneering shooter, it has long been eclipsed by…

Microsoft has made classic text adventures Zork and its sequels open source. The original trilogy (which is actually one huge game that developer Infocom split into three parts) is now available under an MIT License. Microsoft acquired the licence to Zork when it purchased Activision, which in turn nabbed the IP when it bought Infocom…

While the Mafia series has always been more about telling a linear story than letting players explore fully-realised open worlds (with the possible exception of Mafia 3) Mafia: The Old Country was even more linear than most. Its story ushered players through its slice of Sicilian countryside in a rather impatient manner, and while its…