2025
Great moments in PC gaming: Dark Messiah of Might and Magic’s rooftop chase
Great moments in PC gaming are bite-sized celebrations of some of our favorite gaming memories. Dark Messiah of Might and Magic (Image credit: Ubisoft) Developer: ArkaneYear: 2006 I’ve praised Dark Messiah’s open sandboxes designed for brawling in before, but its linear sections are great as well. Early on there’s one where you’re hurled into a…
One of the internet’s top experts on Skyrim minutiae hosted a $10,000 charity competition to guess how many trees there are in the Bethesda classic
YouTuber AnyAustin‘s playful, yet exacting style of videogame investigation has really taken off in the past year, garnering well over a million views per video. Whether he’s investigating the hydrology of The Elder Scrolls or taking Grand Theft Auto to task for its lax standards of airport realism, you’re in for a good time, and…
Nobody can agree what an ‘immersive sim’ is, but OG Fallout lead Tim Cain has his own definition: ‘The very elements that make something an immsim are the ones that I also think make good RPGs’
Immersive simulation games—immersive sims for short and “immsims” if you’re a true freak—are a lot like sandwiches, soups, or pornography in that it’s easier to give an example than a watertight definition. Dishonored, for instance, is definitely an immsim; it simulates a lot of factors that respond to the player, boasts open-ended levels, and encourages…
Final Fantasy 14’s latest patch has me hopeful for the MMO’s story again—even though Square Enix still has a lot of good will to recover
Terminally Online (Image credit: Future) This is Terminally Online: PC Gamer’s very own MMO column. Every week, I’ll be sharing my thoughts on the genre, interviewing fellow MMO-heads like me, taking a deep-dive into mechanics we’ve all taken for granted, and, occasionally, bringing in guest writers to talk about their MMO of choice. I didn’t…
This Microsoft Excel Easter egg led to a wild conspiracy theory that Bill Gates was the Antichrist
Weird Weekend Weird Weekend is our regular Saturday column where we celebrate PC gaming oddities: peculiar games, strange bits of trivia, forgotten history. Pop back every weekend to find out what Jeremy, Josh and Rick have become obsessed with this time, whether it’s the canon height of Thief’s Garrett or that time someone in the…
Valve has quietly discontinued the last LCD Steam Deck model
If you were hoping to get in on that Steam Deck hype without splurging on the newer model with the OLED screen, well, it’s whatever you’d call the opposite of a Christmas miracle: They’re sold out, and Valve isn’t going to make any more. As Liam Dawe wrote for GamingOnLinux, a disclaimer was snuck onto…
Test your knowledge of all 14 games we celebrated in the PC Gamer GOTY awards 2025 with our latest quiz
More quizzes! (Image credit: Larian Studios, PC Gamer) Want to keep testing your knowledge of gaming trivia? We’ve got loads more PC Gamer quizzes, on everything from healthbars to weird currencies to absurd patch notes. You may have already seen that this week here at PC Gamer we announced our Game of the Year awards…
Test your knowledge of all 14 games we celebrated in the PC Gamer GOTY awards 2025 with our latest quiz
More quizzes! (Image credit: Larian Studios, PC Gamer) Want to keep testing your knowledge of gaming trivia? We’ve got loads more PC Gamer quizzes, on everything from healthbars to weird currencies to absurd patch notes. You may have already seen that this week here at PC Gamer we announced our Game of the Year awards…
Abiotic Factor’s 1.2 update invites you to explore the ‘Holiday Cryosphere’, a festive interdimensional snowglobe where everything’s on fire for some reason
Abiotic Factor is the best survival game I played this year for many reasons, but one of those is how stupefyingly extra Deep Field Games’ Half-Life-inspired adventure is. Its Black Mesa-esque research facility is so much larger and stranger than it needs to be, and that’s before you get all the strange pocket dimensions you…