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Another day, another freebie. There’s been a new free game on the Epic Games Store each day since December 18 for the holidays, and today’s deal is a four-in-one: the Trine Classic Collection. Not only that, but each game in the collection has been updated so a cross-platform co-op game between a Steam user and…

In case you haven’t heard, multiplayer shooters are undergoing a vibe shift—as PC Gamer’s Morgan Park outlined in that article, 2025 met players with a number of games that forego brutal competition in favor of more approachable, chaotic, casual-friendly shooting. It seems like players are eager to embrace the new order, as two decidedly chill…

When it comes to GPUs and graphics technology, I know what I’d like to see in 2026. Super-modern processors that are a substantial leap forward in terms of performance, capabilities, and affordability. We won’t get that, of course, because we didn’t get that this year. Or last year. But there is something GPU-related that can…

If there’s a single throughline for the PC gaming year that was 2025, it’s finally accepting that the pursuit of fancy graphics just doesn’t make sense anymore. Tech has hit a hard graphics plateau: raw generational updates are now nuanced upgrades measured in single-digit frame gains rather than evolutions anyone with eyes can appreciate, and…

For a hearty chunk of 2025, Fortnite was fallow. It’d be an exaggeration to say the game’s subreddit was pure misery between June and November, but there was more than enough gloom to go around: the novelty of a Star Wars cameo quickly wore off and the next two seasons, Super and Shock ‘N Awesome,…

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’m lucky enough to have played with a ton of exciting hardware this year, from the latest graphics cards to interesting new handhelds, PCs, and laptops. And while that’s meant I’ve been…

Day in and day out, we cover a lot of news here at PC Gamer: Politics, AI, crime, moral panics in a capitalist hellscape, and yes, videogames—lots and lots of videogames. We do it all, and with 2025 drawing to a close we’re casting a look back on the year that was, with a selection…

Gear of the Year (Image credit: Future) Check out more of the year’s best tech in our PC Gamer Hardware Awards 2025 coverage. My favourite hardware award category is the wildcard by a wide margin. Each year, all bets are off for what to expect from these nominations, and every now and then you may…

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. Before we slam the door shut on 2025, lets take a moment to see how well we remember it. A…