Ninjas and samurai have always been a staple of video games, but even with their perennial popularity, 2025 has been an exceptionally good year for titles about deadly Japanese warriors. A bunch of ninja- and samurai-themed games hit PlayStation 5 this year, offering a huge variety of takes on the idea of becoming a sneaky,…
I am sure for many, 2025 will go down as the year of Clair Obscur: Expedition 33. It utterly swept the Game Awards, becoming the highest winner in the show’s 11-year history and being the first studio debut to nab the coveted Game of the Year award. We love to look back on years by…
Gear of the Year (Image credit: Future) Check out more of the year’s best tech in our PC Gamer Hardware Awards 2025 coverage. Okay, I’ll admit it. I’ve always liked the idea of a charging dock conceptually, but I’ve never quite committed to getting a bit of gaming gear with one for a specific reason:…
At the end of every year I always feel impressed by just how many cozy games launched, and more specifically how many I actually found the time to play. Looking back, 2025 was a year where cozy games really broke the mold and appealed to a wider audience. Notably though, I found that I didn’t…
Gear of the Year (Image credit: Future) Check out more of the year’s best tech in our PC Gamer Hardware Awards 2025 coverage. Okay, I’ll admit it. I’ve always liked the idea of a charging dock conceptually, but I’ve never quite committed to getting a bit of gaming gear with one for a specific reason:…
At the end of every year I always feel impressed by just how many cozy games launched, and more specifically how many I actually found the time to play. Looking back, 2025 was a year where cozy games really broke the mold and appealed to a wider audience. Notably though, I found that I didn’t…
If you were a huge fan of Taito’s Bubble Bobble in the Arcades or at home, then you’ll be pleased to know that as of right now, you can download Dave Retro Forge’s graphically superior version of ‘Bubble Bobble Remastered’ for the Commodore 64. A new version which is getting great viewer feedback such as…
The monsters in Akalabeth: World of Doom—the precursor to the Ultima series, sometimes called “Ultima 0” by fans and series creator Richard Garriott himself—look ridiculous. The thief is just a floating cloak, the mimic is a featureless cube, and the final monster (straight-up called a Balrog) looks a bit like Firebrand if he was crushed…
Personal Pick (Image credit: Future) In addition to our main Game of the Year Awards 2025, each member of the PC Gamer team is shining a spotlight on a game they loved this year. We’ll post new personal picks each day throughout the rest of the month. You can find them all here. When I…
Mario Kart cleans up (again) while Metroid drops. The last full week of 2025 UK charts data is in, and for the most part, it’s a minor reshuffle of the usual suspects, with EA SPORTS FC 26 sitting pretty at #1 and Mario Kart cleaning up twice over and first-party Nintendo (published) games taking up…