Are you a proper Sims buff? See if you can name all 97 expansion, game, and stuff packs in our quiz!

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…

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An innocuous video about how FromSoft protagonists are 5 feet 7 inches tall led to me becoming weirdly fixated about videogame character height this year

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…

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I know I’ll get rinsed by rising costs somewhere when building a PC but my favorite product this year was one of a few things that didn’t ask for more money

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’ve got most of the big stuff covered with our Gear of the Year awards. Though even I’ll admit we’re missing award categories for cases and coolers. There are many deserving of…

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Baldur’s Gate 3 started on top and kept on climbing: Larian said it wouldn’t make a sequel, then drip fed us an expansion’s worth of free updates into 2025

Two years on and it’s still Baldur’s Gate 3’s world we’re living in. Every new RPG is measured against it, and Larian’s next game, Divinity, is still hotly anticipated even amid criticism of the studio’s admission of experimenting with generative AI. Until Larian unveiled Divinity, we didn’t know what it was doing next—only that it…

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