Sure, the exhilarating thrills of 2025 are close to being loaded onto our screens within moments, but there’s still time to bask in the glories that 2024 brought. From brilliant Bots and a beautifully blocky LEGO world, to epic fantasy adventures and remastered classics, there’s been everything for everyone. A year of expansive RPGs Play…
Gear of the Year (Image credit: Future) Check out more of the year’s best tech in our PC Gamer Hardware Awards 2024 coverage. It would be tempting to assume that, massive PC gaming corp. that it is, Valve would have the entire handheld gaming PC market sewn up. It’s got the affordable end dealt with…
Personal Pick (Image credit: Future) In addition to our main Game of the Year Awards 2024, each member of the PC Gamer team is shining a spotlight on a game they loved this year. We’ll post new personal picks, alongside our main awards, throughout the rest of the month. DeathSprint 66 wears its biggest aesthetic influence…
Personal Pick (Image credit: Future) In addition to our main Game of the Year Awards 2024, each member of the PC Gamer team is shining a spotlight on a game they loved this year. We’ll post new personal picks, alongside our main awards, throughout the rest of the month. Like a lot of kids who…
Coal for Christmas? Not to worry—our favourite sandbox of 2024 will let you turn it into an ever-expanding web of useful materials. For more awards, check out our Game of the Year 2024 hub. Wes Fenlon, Senior Editor: Satisfactory is a different game for me depending on the week. Recently I found myself in the…
This coping mechanism was super effective! Over the holiday season, we’re republishing some of the best articles from Nintendo Life writers and contributors as part of our Best of 2024 series. Enjoy! Read the full article on nintendolife.com
Following a rough 2023, which saw Ubisoft wrestling with poor financial results, several cancellations, under-performing games, layoffs, and CEO Yves Guillemot effectively putting all the responsibility on developers rather than looking inwards, the publisher has failed to right the ship. 2024 was an absolutely dire year for Ubisoft. Once a powerhouse publisher, Ubisoft might still…
Grandiose spectacles of horror are certainly impressive, but those don’t usually keep me up at night. The scariest games I’ve played this year have been from smaller studios and even solo devs who’ve managed to piece together fantastic narratives, disturbing sequences, and spine chilling horror in compact form. Mouthwashing was one of the best games…
Switches make a mechanical keyboard. Your chosen plank can have all the extra features and RGB in the world, 15 USB ports at the back and an FM radio built in, but if pushing those keys down feels like stroking the back of a porcupine, it’s not going to become a favoured gaming companion. Lucky,…
“I may have taken on too much”. Final Fight MD (also known as Mega Final Fight) is one of the most notable homebrew ports coming to Sega’s Genesis / Mega Drive, and promises to give fans the ultimate 16-bit conversion of Capcom’s legendary belt-scrolling coin-op. Sega superfan Mike Rouse – also known as Retro Gamer…