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Gear of the Year (Image credit: Future) Check out more of the year’s best tech in our PC Gamer Hardware Awards 2025 coverage. 2025 has been a bumper year for gaming headsets. I should know, I’ve been testing loads of them (along with the rest of the PCG hardware team) on a near-weekly basis. We…
Low-poly art has definitely been getting more popular over the last few years, which I only realised after a few of my friends started getting low-poly video game character tattoos. But with that said, the vast majority of the low-poly art I’ve seen has been digital. There’s nothing wrong with that, and I’ve loved scrolling…
It’s 1.55 pm, March 5, 2025. I’m pacing the confines of the home office/wooden shack at the bottom of my garden I’ve been inhabiting fairly solidly for the past two months as I benchmark two whole new generations of GPUs from both Nvidia and AMD, and it’s five minutes before the review embargo drops for…
Low-poly art has definitely been getting more popular over the last few years, which I only realised after a few of my friends started getting low-poly video game character tattoos. But with that said, the vast majority of the low-poly art I’ve seen has been digital. There’s nothing wrong with that, and I’ve loved scrolling…
Soundtrack Sunday Welcome to Soundtrack Sunday, where a member of the PC Gamer team takes a look at a soundtrack from one of their favourite games—or a broader look at videogame music as a whole—offering their thoughts or asking for yours! I love game music. Always have. But it hasn’t always loved me back. In…
Gear of the Year (Image credit: Future) Check out more of the year’s best tech in our PC Gamer Hardware Awards 2025 coverage. I test so many gaming headsets over the course of a year, it’s easy to start blending them into one. After all, the basic archetype for a good one is pretty much…
2025 was the year of the metroidvania, no question. While every genre saw a whole range of gems landing this year, fans of exploration-heavy platformers were positively feasting, with the centerpiece at the table being the long-awaited Hollow Knight: Silksong. A massive, polished, smartly designed and pleasantly familiar game that saw little need to uproot…
There’s just something about solving mysteries in games. Piecing together clues, interrogating suspects, and finally discovering that oh-so-satisfying answer. It’s absolute magic. Needless to say, I’m a bit of a genre obsessive—and particularly this year, I found myself sleuthing through a record number of modern classics. I think 2025 was one of the best detective…
At a TED talk back in April, Lucasfilm senior vice president of creative innovation Rob Bredow presented a demonstration of what he called “a new era of technology.” Across 50 years of legendary innovation in miniature design, practical effects, and computer animation, Lucasfilm and its miracle workers at Industrial Light & Magic have blazed the…
There’s just something about solving mysteries in games. Piecing together clues, interrogating suspects, and finally discovering that oh-so-satisfying answer. It’s absolute magic. Needless to say, I’m a bit of a genre obsessive—and particularly this year, I found myself sleuthing through a record number of modern classics. I think 2025 was one of the best detective…