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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. Nothing I…

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. It’s Christmas, and as custom dictates, I’ve got a present for you! Once you’re done singing carols, roasting chestnuts, kissing…

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’ve spent an awful lot of time testing, using, and benchmarking gaming laptops this year, and we’ve had a bumper crop, too. With Nvidia releasing a whole new generation of graphics chips…

Original story: It’s the day before Christmas and all through the house, nobody is using Steam, not even a mouse—because, you guessed it, Steam is down. It’s unclear what’s going on, but at a little before 2 pm ET on a Wednesday, we’re guessing this not routine maintenance. Steam appears to be completely gone: The…

What’s been your favourite new game this year? You can read all about our choices right here, with our full Game of the Year Awards 2025 list, but I’ve got one more for you. Importantly, this one isn’t quite so subjective as most ‘best of’ collections because it reflects something that’s really important in PC…

Arkane revealed Blade at The Game Awards 2023, PC Gamer associate editor Ted Litchfield lost his gourd, and not a whole lot has happened since then. The silence has gone on long enough to make PCG’s Fraser Brown nervous: Its no-show at Xbox Games Showcase this summer “makes me wonder if there have been some…

Brace yourself for not only a veritable cavalcade of Intel-related leaks, rumours and codenames, but also for the usual caveats and qualifications concerning unconfirmed reports of future products. The news includes Intel’s first joint-venture chip with Nvidia, plus several next-gen CPUs, reportedly with a big boost to per-core performance, plus a return to a unified…

Brace yourself for not only a veritable cavalcade of Intel-related leaks, rumours and codenames, but also for the usual caveats and qualifications concerning unconfirmed reports of future products. The news includes Intel’s first joint-venture chip with Nvidia, plus several next-gen CPUs, reportedly with a big boost to per-core performance, plus a return to a unified…