A little over two years ago, I was taking my first run in Vampire Survivors, walking around a barren plain smashing skeletons with my whip. Now it’s 2025, and I’m stitching together a chain of chimpanzee spines and tentacles to connect to my third brain, so I can make it through the next round of…
I’ve had my eye on Astrohaus Freewrite products for a while. The company has made all kinds of keyboard-and-screen devices that are designed to eliminate distractions and allow you to get down to just writing. But I could never quite pull the trigger and get myself away from my usual writing apps, so I never…
Review catch-up (Image credit: Coal Supper) There were a few games last year that we didn’t have time to review, so before 2025 gets too crazy we’re playing review catch-up and rectifying some of these omissions. So if you’re reading this and wondering if you’ve slipped through a wormhole back into 2024, don’t worry, you’ve…
Freedom Wars! Chernobylite Premium Edition! Runny Bunny! The latest Nintendo Download update for North America has arrived! We’re still early on in the year, so don’t expect a ton of big new games, but the eShop is picking up a bit. So let’s see what’s coming! As always, be sure to drop a vote in…
Let me take you down memory lane, back to Overwatch Apex Season 2 in 2017. Specifically, to the match between AF Blue vs. Cloud9. It was first to three over five possible maps, and despite dominating most of their team fights, Cloud9 lost. Badly. Two of their three losses were due to repeatedly pulling a…
Eh, what’s up Dock? When Nintendo released the 3DS, it equipped all new game cartridges with a plastic nub, preventing them from being inserted into your classic clamshell. Why are we bringing this up as ‘Switch 2’ leaks reach fever pitch? Because accessory manufacturer Genki (the talk of the town this week) has claimed that…
For all of the great games released in 2024, it was a year that felt somewhat bereft of major blockbusters. Instead, last year was the perfect time to explore your niche—getting lost inside something new and hyperspecifc. To the point that, when the PC Gamer team came together to decide our Game of the Year…
Once upon a time, a 16:9 laptop screen was enough. Well, at CES 2025 Lenovo posed the question ‘Why settle for enough when you can have height?’ Either with the press of a button or by holding your palm up to the onboard webcam, the screen of the ThinkBook Plus Gen 6 Rollable laptop extends…
Remember when a computer meant something that used traditional, familiar algorithms? Ah, simple times. Now we not only have machine learning—aka, supposed “artificial intelligence”—but also quantum computing, which uses microwaves to get qubits to do wacky and seemingly impossible things. Regarding the latter kinds of computers, though, Nvidia CEO Jen-Hsun Huang reckons we’re quite far…
Comes with 11 indie retro titles. Blaze has just announced a new cartridge collection for its Evercade family of systems. Indie Heroes Collection 4 “brings together an eclectic lineup of games originally created for retro-inspired platforms”. It features 11 “modern retro” releases that have previously been featured as part of Evercade’s time-limited ‘Game of the…