PC Gaming
I’m all-in, baby. I’m committed. If upgrading any distinct component of my PC didn’t require me taking out a loan right now, I’d be seriously considering switching my GPU over to some kind of AMD thing just to make my life slightly, slightly easier. I’ve had it with Windows and ascended to the sunlit uplands…
Gear of the Year (Image credit: Future) Check out more of the year’s best tech in our PC Gamer Hardware Awards 2025 coverage. We don’t give a score of 90% or more to just any old thing—we’re real hardware sickos with standards to match. And, as real hardware sickos, many a shiny bobbin has received…
Gear of the Year (Image credit: Future) Check out more of the year’s best tech in our PC Gamer Hardware Awards 2025 coverage. There’s a lot I love about this job—particularly all of the opportunities I now enjoy getting to smear my sticky little mitts all over a wide range of hardware. Looking back on…
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. The Outer…
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. That’s pretty much a wrap on 2025, but we’re not letting the year slip away without taking one more fond…
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. Have you been paying attention this year? A lot can happen in 12 months in PC gaming, and frankly if…
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. That’s pretty much a wrap on 2025, but we’re not letting the year slip away without taking one more fond…
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. Have you been paying attention this year? A lot can happen in 12 months in PC gaming, and frankly if…
The winners are… (Image credit: Future) 1. Best gaming laptop: Razer Blade 162. Best gaming monitor: KTC H27T22C-33. Best gaming handheld: Lenovo Legion Go S SteamOS4. Best SSD: WD Black SN8100 2 TB NVMe SSD5. Best CPU: AMD Ryzen 9 9950X3D6. Best motherboard: Gigabyte X870 Aorus Elite Ice7. Best gaming keyboard: Be Quiet! Light Mount8….
Back in February I declared that desktop pets are so back, and then partial-screen idler games (pets and otherwise) wound up being so much more back this year than I had predicted. In a year of increasingly experimental cozy games, they were one of the most identifiable and quintessentially cozy trends. Subgenre trends happen all…