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Best of the best (Image credit: Xbox Game Studios) 2025 games: Upcoming releasesBest PC games: All-time favoritesFree PC games: Freebie festBest FPS games: Finest gunplayBest MMOs: Massive worldsBest RPGs: Grand adventures On an average day about a dozen new games are released on Steam. And while we think that’s a good thing, it can be…
At the SXSW conference, Hideo Kojima hosted a 45-minute panel on Death Stranding 2: On the Beach, as well as announcing its release date: June 26, 2025. That’s the PlayStation 5 release date, of course, and we’ll find out when it comes to PC when we find out, just like we did with the first…
Interviewing Doom: The Dark Ages game director Hugo Martin and producer Marty Stratton for PC Gamer’s upcoming print issue 408 (396 in the US), I was curious how the game’s new, robust melee and parries would translate to challenge runs. Could you beat the game with those mechanics alone, never touching the guns? While Martin…
The fertile world of Doom WADs never ceases to amaze me, and Vault 666 is a recent release that really tickled my fancy. Modder Carl Asami’s Vault 666 is a send-up of both Doom and Fallout that asks: What if the Doom Guy had to save the wasteland? It’s a goofy, parodical sort of deal,…
Talking to Doom: The Dark Ages game director Hugo Martin and producer Marty Stratton for the cover story of PC Gamer’s upcoming print issue 408 (396 in the US), I had to ask what they thought about “the prequel problem.” Doom 2016 begins with the Slayer locked in a coffin with all his friends long-dead,…
Path of Exile 2 has been out in early access since December, and now that the initial hype has died down we’re all in kind of a waiting room until they add more content. In the meantime, GGG is running some smaller events to engage the community, and an early frontrunner for the game’s worst…
Video gaming is currently in an arms race (or should that be ‘farms race’) to depict the most delectable virtual food possible. It’s a race variously led by the Yakuza series, Final Fantasy, and most recently, Monster Hunter: Wilds, which features a cheese naan so mouthwatering it caused a sales surge of dairy-filled bread products…
Battlefield: Bad Company 2 remains one of the most beloved of DICE’s multiplayer shooters, thrilling players with its destructible warzones and cementing the Swedish studio’s reputation for incredible audio design. Despite the game’s reputation, DICE never greenlit a third entry in the spinoff series. But that didn’t stop BC2’s director David Goldfarb from making plans…
It’s preposterous to me that Warhammer: Vermintide 2 is seven years old, when that’s so clearly the length of time that has passed since Left4Dead 2 launched. Sadly, Steam, the calendar, and indeed the universe all state that I am wrong, so I suppose I’ll just have to go along with Fatshark’s celebration of its…
Ubisoft is currently running a publisher-wide sale on Steam, offering some pretty nifty discounts like half-price on Star Wars: Outlaws and 75% off The Division 2. But the best deal is a whopping 90% off one of the best modern city builders you can play, Blue Byte’s Anno 1800. Anno 1800 whisks players back to…