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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,…
As usual, January is a fairly quiet month for new PC games and updates, with several of the most notable releases piled up near the end of the month. There’s still plenty to look forward to, including Cairn, the mountain climbing game whose release date was announced at the PC Gaming Show: Most Wanted in…
It was a happy ending for Hytale fans, or at least a happy new beginning, when original co-founder Simon Collins-Laflamme acquired the game from Riot in November 2025 and set about getting it ready for launch. But there are other emotions in play as well: In an X post earlier this week, Collins-Laflamme said he…
Merriam-Webster’s word of the year for 2025 was “slop,” the catch-all term for machine-generated crapola—or, as Merriam-Webster more prosaically (and politely) defines it, “digital content of low quality that is produced usually in quantity by means of artificial intelligence.” Hard to argue with the pick: As PC Gamer’s Lincoln Carpenter said, it was “a year…
Merriam-Webster’s word of the year for 2025 was “slop,” the catch-all term for machine-generated crapola—or, as Merriam-Webster more prosaically (and politely) defines it, “digital content of low quality that is produced usually in quantity by means of artificial intelligence.” Hard to argue with the pick: As PC Gamer’s Lincoln Carpenter said, it was “a year…
With yesterday’s hangover still in the back of their mind, bleary-eyed engineers and product managers sit down to hash out the details and delivery dates for their upcoming products in 2026. The cycle begins again. New hardware is coming, look busy. Look past the dire news of extended memory shortages through this year and into…
With yesterday’s hangover still in the back of their mind, bleary-eyed engineers and product managers sit down to hash out the details and delivery dates for their upcoming products in 2026. The cycle begins again. New hardware is coming, look busy. Look past the dire news of extended memory shortages through this year and into…