2025 was a year of highs and lows for me. Not for personal or professional reasons, but rather because I got weirdly obsessed with the height of videogame characters. It started with the surprising revelation that every FromSoftware protagonist outside of Elden Ring Nightreign is exactly 5’7″, a fact I learned from a YouTube investigation…
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. Nothing says “dollhouse simulation game that doubles as a satire on capitalism” quite like 97 paid expansion, game, and stuff…
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. It takes…
Gear of the Year (Image credit: Future) Check out more of the year’s best tech in our PC Gamer Hardware Awards 2025 coverage. Okay, you got me: It does feel kind of weird to be celebrating our SSD hardware award nominees right as we stare down 2026, and the surging memory prices that will no…
Best ‘squirrel with a gun’ game, most ‘Huh?’ Nintendo moment, and more! Hello, well met stranger, and welcome to Jurassic Park! Nintendo Life’s Alternative Awards 2025! It’s been…well…it’s been a year in which we have all existed, that’s for sure, and as a result games happened. Loads of them, in fact. Of course, and as…
Getting presents nowadays isn’t what it used to be. Mostly because a lot of us retro gamers are now older. Some have families, jobs, responsibilities that take us away from our favorite pastime. Of course with jobs comes the money to buy games we always wanted sooner rather than later. Gone are the days where…
Gear of the Year (Image credit: Future) Check out more of the year’s best tech in our PC Gamer Hardware Awards 2025 coverage. This year has been a bit of a weird one for gaming handhelds. AMD’s mighty Strix Halo chip launched at CES, yet it’s too power hungry and hot to see its inclusion…
Gear of the Year (Image credit: Future) Check out more of the year’s best tech in our PC Gamer Hardware Awards 2025 coverage. This year has been a bit of a weird one for gaming handhelds. AMD’s mighty Strix Halo chip launched at CES, yet it’s too power hungry and hot to see its inclusion…
2025 has probably been the best year for Linux that I can remember, at least from the perspective of general PC users. It’s had tons of publicity as a viable alternative to Windows, even, and perhaps especially for gaming. I switched to it myself earlier this year, but I’m back on Windows and I don’t…
Don’t talk to strangers. Stray Children launched on the Japanese eShop on 26th December 2024. We weren’t able to review it back in October when it arrived in the West, but we’ve now managed to catch up with Onion Games’ latest… Your dad’s missing and some weird “uncle” is at the door, claiming to know…