PC Gaming
Gear of the Year (Image credit: Future) Check out more of the year’s best tech in our PC Gamer Hardware Awards 2025 coverage. Every year, vendors fill the market with a veritable mass of new motherboards, all vying for your attention and wallet. There are so many that it would be almost impossible for anyone…
Weird Weekend Weird Weekend is our regular Saturday column where we celebrate PC gaming oddities: peculiar games, strange bits of trivia, forgotten history. Pop back every weekend to find out what Jeremy, Josh and Rick have become obsessed with this time, whether it’s the canon height of Thief’s Garrett or that time someone in 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. As unfair…
Gear of the Year (Image credit: Future) Check out more of the year’s best tech in our PC Gamer Hardware Awards 2025 coverage. It’s been a relatively quiet year for new gaming CPUs, as AMD and Intel launched the bulk of their latest processors back in 2024. Ryzen 9000-series chips first appeared in the summer,…
In a lot of ways, action RPGs like Diablo are an open invitation by the developers for players to find all the things they didn’t expect you could do. Ideally, that is limited to powerful skill interactions and builds, but it’s often the case that it includes somewhat game-breaking exploits that go against the spirit…
One of 2025’s surprise hits was Peak, a co-op climbing game that was created in a mere four months by studios Aggro Crab and Landfall. It caught fire on Twitch and in every friend group hooked on so-called “friendslop” since 2023’s Lethal Company. Even though there has been a strong trend of co-op games in…
Balatro was PC Gamer’s 2024 game of the year. But that was in a more innocent age before we had to endure wave after wave of imitators. Seemingly every casino classic has been plundered at this point, with Balatro-fied spins on blackjack, roulette, and even those coin-pusher machines that haunt crap arcades (to be fair,…
Pasokon Retro is our look back at the early years of Japanese PC gaming, encompassing everything from specialist ’80s computers to the happy days of Windows XP. (Image credit: Compile) The exhausting whirl of festive treats, family visits, and the lie I keep telling myself about having just one more chocolate tends to put me…
Occasionally, on one of my rare jaunts out into the real world, someone will ask me what I do for a living. “I write for PC Gamer,” I invariably respond. “Oh that’s cool,” comes the reply. “I’d like to buy a gaming PC, but I looked at the prices recently and…” You get the idea….
The Subway Slammer is the first baddie in gacha spinoff Persona 5: The Phantom X. He is also a total clown show—at least in the Western world, anyway. Despite representing Japan’s very serious butsukari otoko problem—an ongoing violence against women that usually involves men intentionally bodychecking women in crowded spaces like train stations—his English localised…