“I hope creators and audiences alike can recognize AI as a tool”. Back in June, Level-5 CEO Akihiro Hino acknowledged that, like a great many companies working in the games industry, his firm was exploring the use of Generative AI as “a tool for communication and efficiency improvement.” Fast forward to the end of the…
The N64 got an upgrade this year. After what felt like an eternity, Analogue finally launched its FPGA-powered Analogue 3D system this year, and it didn’t disappoint. Sure, it wasn’t quite as accurate as Analogue’s marketing department might have you believe, but it’s still arguably the best way to experience Nintendo’s 64-bit console in the…
Slay the Spire certainly turned heads when it released, immediately cementing itself as one of the best deckbuilders in town and helping to kick off a trend that persists today. That was nearly seven years ago at this point, but the game is turning even more heads today: it just hit an all-time concurrent player…
Slay the Spire certainly turned heads when it released, immediately cementing itself as one of the best deckbuilders in town and helping to kick off a trend that persists today. That was nearly seven years ago at this point, but the game is turning even more heads today: it just hit an all-time concurrent player…
Arm versus x86 is a battle for the ages. And 2025 was meant to be the year that Arm chips finally made inroads into the PC and indeed PC gaming. That should have been thanks to Qualcomm’s Snapdragon X CPU, which looked very promising at launch and ought to have been getting into its stride…
If you feel like Pokémon lacks any real contenders in the videogame arena, it’s possible you haven’t been paying attention. Monster Hunter Stories is where it’s at if you ask me, but heavy hitters like Shin Megami Tensei and Digimon Story are constantly furnishing creature collector fans with new bangers. If you want to usher…
The FPS is once again in transition. It’s a change that’s been percolating for a while, but 2025 was the year a number of developing trends in PC gaming’s favorite genre finally boiled over. The time of extreme skill ceilings and the pursuit of metallic ranks defining every new multiplayer FPS is behind us. The…
I am the survival crafting menace of my friend group—the person in Discord always suggesting we go play in a new sandbox when we haven’t even finished building castles in the last. It’s like being friends with a sentient Steam Discover, but for some reason I can only recommend games where we’re each given a…
Gear of the Year (Image credit: Future) Check out more of the year’s best tech in our PC Gamer Hardware Awards 2025 coverage. For someone whose daily job is to write about, test, and review PCs, components, and peripherals, you’d think I’d know instantly what my top pick for the best hardware of 2025 is….
Even more Halloween games to get through as looking through the itch io website, we’ve found out that the developer of Haplo. Who was behind games such as Tenebra, Ooze: The Escape, and Nixy and the Seeds of Doom has released the Commodore 64 horror game called ‘P.T’. A game that the developer describes as, an interactive teaser…