2025 has been a shockingly great year for games, but as we at PC Gamer began work on our GOTY list, we realized that a lot of us hadn’t enjoyed the same great games. My tastes as a PC gamer tend toward the crusty and obscure, and I always want to celebrate the games whose…
I’m afraid it’s that time again when I have to break out a bowl of genre word salad. Brace yourself. Monsters Are Coming! Rock & Road is a survival, resource-gathering, tower defence, roguelike, city-builder, Vampire Survivors-like. Phew. (Image credit: Ludogram) Ok, now that’s out of the way, we can break down what that actually means….
Hytale is saved, yes, but there’s still a long way to go. The ambitious Minecraft-inspired sandbox RPG was canceled by Riot after developers “couldn’t bring Hytale to life in a way that truly delivered on its promise,” , and its new goal is to deliver “the original vision for Hytale,” from before it turned into…
Category: Xbox Insider November 21, 2025 Starting today, Full Screen Experience for Windows 11 PCs is available for Xbox Insiders! Cassie Chou, Senior Technical Program Manager Today the full screen experience (FSE) is generally available on Windows 11 handhelds currently in market, bringing performance optimizations and the ability to boot directly into Xbox for a smoother, more seamless way to play. Designed to minimize friction…
Coins not required. While we’ve all become accustomed to using fancy analogue controllers these days, there’s still a large sector of the market which loves a good, old-fashioned eight-way digital arcade experience – and to that end, accessory company iMP has produced the Gaming Mini Arcade Pro for Switch and Switch 2. On the surface,…
We learned in 2023 that PUBG was being fitted for an extraction shooter spinoff, referred to at the time as Project Black Budget. It was set to launch in the second half of 2024, but then 2024 came, Project Black Budget didn’t, and frankly we forgot about the whole thing. I did, anyway. Now, as…
Ok, it’s happening, everybody stay calm: Resident Evil Requiem’s producer Masato Kumazawa has said that characters from past series will be making an appearance in the next Resi game, which means the possibility of Leon Kennedy showing up has just skyrocketed. “I would say that yes, there are going to be some characters from the…
Call of Duty: Black Ops 7 Season 1 is only a couple of weeks away, but as we creep closer, the devs are still fine-tuning the multiplayer and campaign experience to ensure they’re both as smooth as possible. We’ve had plenty of patch notes and changes to this end. Treyarch has even changed the requirements…
Helldivers 2 players have exercised their democratic rights by choosing to re-name a destroyed city called York Supreme as New York Supreme. Yes it does sound like a pizza, which is kinda the point. The sad news, however, is they chose this nonsense over the far superior choice of “Bernard.” It does make you wonder…
And how to make your own! Now that Kirby Air Riders is out in the wild (and really very good), players have been creating all manner of unofficial air-riding fun in the game’s surprisingly decent machine customisation mode. Within this mode, you can select any of your unlocked vehicles (so make sure to check out…