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. It takes…
Gear of the Year (Image credit: Future) Check out more of the year’s best tech in our PC Gamer Hardware Awards 2025 coverage. Okay, you got me: It does feel kind of weird to be celebrating our SSD hardware award nominees right as we stare down 2026, and the surging memory prices that will no…
Best ‘squirrel with a gun’ game, most ‘Huh?’ Nintendo moment, and more! Hello, well met stranger, and welcome to Jurassic Park! Nintendo Life’s Alternative Awards 2025! It’s been…well…it’s been a year in which we have all existed, that’s for sure, and as a result games happened. Loads of them, in fact. Of course, and as…
Getting presents nowadays isn’t what it used to be. Mostly because a lot of us retro gamers are now older. Some have families, jobs, responsibilities that take us away from our favorite pastime. Of course with jobs comes the money to buy games we always wanted sooner rather than later. Gone are the days where…
Gear of the Year (Image credit: Future) Check out more of the year’s best tech in our PC Gamer Hardware Awards 2025 coverage. This year has been a bit of a weird one for gaming handhelds. AMD’s mighty Strix Halo chip launched at CES, yet it’s too power hungry and hot to see its inclusion…
Gear of the Year (Image credit: Future) Check out more of the year’s best tech in our PC Gamer Hardware Awards 2025 coverage. This year has been a bit of a weird one for gaming handhelds. AMD’s mighty Strix Halo chip launched at CES, yet it’s too power hungry and hot to see its inclusion…
2025 has probably been the best year for Linux that I can remember, at least from the perspective of general PC users. It’s had tons of publicity as a viable alternative to Windows, even, and perhaps especially for gaming. I switched to it myself earlier this year, but I’m back on Windows and I don’t…
Don’t talk to strangers. Stray Children launched on the Japanese eShop on 26th December 2024. We weren’t able to review it back in October when it arrived in the West, but we’ve now managed to catch up with Onion Games’ latest… Your dad’s missing and some weird “uncle” is at the door, claiming to know…
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…
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…