January 3, 2026

There are no squeaky-clean factions in Fallout: New Vegas. Caesar’s Legion is outright authoritarian and psychopathic, Mr. House‘s ruthlessness and egomania make him hard to trust, and while the New California Republic is comparatively easier to live with, it’s far from heroic. As lead writer John Gonzales told PC Gamer in an interview with associate…

Artist Deimos’ Fallout: New Vegas-inspired work is so good, it’s been highlighted by the game’s director, Josh Sawyer, as well as actor Danny Trejo, who voiced ghoul vaquero Raul Alfonso Tejada and seems to have taken a special shine to how Deimos portrayed the gunslinger’s early exploits in Mexico. I’m not a huge fan art…

Valve’s publicly voted Steam Awards are announced early in the New Year, which is the most sensible time to announce annual awards while also guaranteeing hardly anybody actually cares about them. If you’re not sick of hearing about how much other people like Clair Obscur by January, you must have the patience of a saint….

Tim Cain, designer and lead programmer on the original Fallout, hears a particular sort of question a lot these days—why not make a new, original RPG? Better yet, why not return to Fallout or make a sequel to one of his other classic games like Arcanum: Of Steamworks and Magick Obscura or Temple of Elemental…

The boomer shooter renaissance continues to ferment and flourish with great new games each year, and a particular highlight of last year was Cultic. PC Gamer associate editor Ted Litchfield called it “one of the best shooters of 2025” that, even among the Dusks and Turbo Overkills of the world, “distinguishes itself by executing everything…

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. Us Total War fans are eating good at the moment; we’ve got Total War: Medieval 3, Total War: Warhammer 40,000,…