Hideo Kojima has chosen to cap-off 2025 by doing an interview with Wired, as part of the publication’s Tech Support series: where the great and the good answer quickfire questions submitted by the public. Much of it is stuff that any seasoned Kojima-liker will be familiar with, such as praising 2001: A Space Odyssey to…
Despite being blissfully unaware of what frotting was until earlier today (cheers for that Fortnite), I am more knowledgeable in the ways of the omegaverse—the subgenre of speculative fiction built around the idea of a human dominance hierarchy similar to that often attributed to pack animals like wolves—than I would like. The style kickstarted back…
Before generative AI became the all-consuming omni-topic upon which we must all opine, everyone was weighing in on the lighter-shaded talking point of developers using yellow paint as a directional tool. Games like Stellar Blade, Final Fantasy 7: Rebirth and Star Wars Outlaws reignited the debate about splashing liquid sunshine too liberally across platforms and…
Our personal picks for the best Switch (2) games of the year. Every year in December, Team Nintendo Life puts our heads together and we combine our personal Top 5s into an uber, unranked GOTY list encompassing all the Switch games that got us hottest under the collar throughout the year. 2025 brought us Switch…
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. Over the…
“One too many hits on your rider or bike may end your race”. Out of all the classic ’90s racing franchises that never managed to stick around, Road Rash’s absence from modern-day release schedules is perhaps the most disappointing. Combining racing with hand-to-hand combat, Road Rash was a smash hit on Genesis / Mega Drive,…
2025 has been a rather heated year for genAI and its ever-increasing use in videogames. Most recently, the year’s awards darling Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 was disqualified from the Indie Game Awards for making use of generative AI during development and Larian’s admission of using genAI “to explore ideas” at the studio has caused ripples…
2025 has been a rather heated year for genAI and its ever-increasing use in videogames. Most recently, the year’s awards darling Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 was disqualified from the Indie Game Awards for making use of generative AI during development and Larian’s admission of using genAI “to explore ideas” at the studio has caused ripples…
Hello everyone! I’m Takashi Ishihara, the Game Director and Art Director for Lumines Arise at Enhance. It’s been a little over a month since we released Lumines Arise, a reimagining of the Lumines puzzle game series originally introduced in 2004, on PlayStation 5 with optional PS VR2 support. Hopefully, you’ve been enjoying playing through the…
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. I submit…