December 30, 2025

Eric Barone, the developer behind all-time great farming sim Stardew Valley, has had his head down working on the upcoming Haunted Chocolatier since it was announced in 2021. But he’s also flirted with a bit of gaming-minded philanthropy, publicly musing about whether he’d save the Minecraft-like Hytale before it was sold back to its original…

There are plenty of upcoming games to be excited about as the new year approaches, and one of my most anticipated games is Mindwave, a madcap indie minigame-fest in the style of WarioWare. There’s no release window yet, but a recent Kickstarter update dropped on Dec. 28 alongside a new trailer that had me perplexed…

River City Ransom is a venerable name in the beat ’em up space, going all the way back to Nintendo Entertainment System, and there have been plenty of River City games (or Kunio-kun, by its original title) in the meantime. Underground may not have been the most popular game in the series, but if you…

World of Warcraft finally has player housing and for the last few weeks my social media feeds have been full of people showing off their creations. People are busy making cave systems and palaces that I would never have the patience to put together. One person is just making Star Wars stuff, because any time…

Another day, another freebie. There’s been a new free game on the Epic Games Store each day since December 18 for the holidays, and today’s deal is a four-in-one: the Trine Classic Collection. Not only that, but each game in the collection has been updated so a cross-platform co-op game between a Steam user and…

In case you haven’t heard, multiplayer shooters are undergoing a vibe shift—as PC Gamer’s Morgan Park outlined in that article, 2025 met players with a number of games that forego brutal competition in favor of more approachable, chaotic, casual-friendly shooting. It seems like players are eager to embrace the new order, as two decidedly chill…

When it comes to GPUs and graphics technology, I know what I’d like to see in 2026. Super-modern processors that are a substantial leap forward in terms of performance, capabilities, and affordability. We won’t get that, of course, because we didn’t get that this year. Or last year. But there is something GPU-related that can…