I know I’ll get rinsed by rising costs somewhere when building a PC but my favorite product this year was one of a few things that didn’t ask for more money

Gear of the Year (Image credit: Future) Check out more of the year’s best tech in our PC Gamer Hardware Awards 2025 coverage. We’ve got most of the big stuff covered with our Gear of the Year awards. Though even I’ll admit we’re missing award categories for cases and coolers. There are many deserving of…

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Baldur’s Gate 3 started on top and kept on climbing: Larian said it wouldn’t make a sequel, then drip fed us an expansion’s worth of free updates into 2025

Two years on and it’s still Baldur’s Gate 3’s world we’re living in. Every new RPG is measured against it, and Larian’s next game, Divinity, is still hotly anticipated even amid criticism of the studio’s admission of experimenting with generative AI. Until Larian unveiled Divinity, we didn’t know what it was doing next—only that it…

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Star Citizen is on course to reach $1 billion in player funding in 2026, and we still might not get to play its singleplayer campaign next year

In 2026, gaming will (almost certainly) reach a huge, seemingly inconceivable milestone. No, I’m not talking about the release of Grand Theft Auto 6 . I’m referring to how Star Citizen‘s ridiculously successful, seemingly unstoppable, ethically debatable funding model is set to surpass $1 billion next year. We last checked in with Star Citizen’s Godzilla-sized…

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Baldur’s Gate 3 started on top and kept on climbing: Larian said it wouldn’t make a sequel, then drip fed us an expansion’s worth of free updates into 2025

Two years on and it’s still Baldur’s Gate 3’s world we’re living in. Every new RPG is measured against it, and Larian’s next game, Divinity, is still hotly anticipated even amid criticism of the studio’s admission of experimenting with generative AI. Until Larian unveiled Divinity, we didn’t know what it was doing next—only that it…

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