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…
1996 game finally gets localised. While the PS1 was blessed with a flood of excellent RPGs, Sega’s Saturn had a more modest (but still excellent) selection to call upon. Not every one was a stone-cold classic, but each is interesting in its own way – and many of them sadly never made it out of…
It’s strange to think that first-person shooters—and arguably the PC’s arrival as a major gaming platform—emerged from an attempt to create the PC’s equivalent of Super Mario Bros 3. John Carmack’s reproduction of the smooth scrolling effect seen in Nintendo’s platformer ultimately led to the founding of id Software and the creation of Commander Keen….
Some developers react to success by going all rock star—like Cliff Bleszinski purchasing a flashy Lamborghini when he was living it up at Epic. Solo dev Feryas Beer is a little bit more grounded after the success of Super Fantasy Kingdom, the Hooded Horse-published roguelite city builder. No cars, no luxury pads, not even a…