Soundtrack Sunday Welcome to Soundtrack Sunday, where a member of the PC Gamer team takes a look at a soundtrack from one of their favourite games—or a broader look at videogame music as a whole—offering a little backstory and recommendations for tracks you should be adding to your playlist. July 22, 2025 saw metalheads everywhere…
A Minecraft Movie has been plagued by the chicken jockey trend ever since the film entered cinemas. It sees movie-goers erupt in chaotic celebrations as soon as they hear Jack Black utter the sacred words “chicken jockey” towards the end of the movie. The trend has garnered some conflicting viewpoints, as some people think it’s…
It was released last year. Following the release of Pac-Man Mega Tunnel Battle: Chomp Champs on the Switch eShop in May 2024, Bandai Namco has now announced it will be shutting down this second battle royale entry. In an announcement on social media this week, the company revealed sales of the title would end this…
As one of the gaming industry’s most treasured oddities, Nier series creator and masked enigma Yoko Taro contends with the fickle patience of a fanbase that’s eager to know what he’s working on next. As reported by 4Gamer (via Automaton), Yoko said during a G-Con 2025 discussion panel with Bayonetta director Hideki Kamiya that—while his…
Dr. Mario World is receiving a substantial update today which brings with it three new characters. There’s the amusing Dr. Goomba Tower, Dr. Lakitu and Assistant Parabomb. The characters are included as a free update to the free-to-play iOS and Android smartphone game. This new update should be live now, or in a little bit….
Grafaiai-ic tees. Uniqlo is no stranger to a Pokémon collab or two, so it will come as no surprise to hear that it has a collection inspired by the classics up its sleeve for the series’ 30th anniversary. The company’s latest Pokémon range launches in “late March”, and it all circulates around the iconic ‘mon…
AMD’s Strix Halo APU with its outsized integrated graphics is of debatable benefit for PC gaming (more on that in a moment). But apparently Intel still wants to take on AMD in the uber-powerful APU market with a variant of its upcoming Nova Lake generation of chips. So say rumours emerging today. It started with…
Includes taking a bath in an ultrasonic cleaner. Released in 1989, the Japan-only NEC SuperGrafx is one of gaming’s greatest follies. Rushed to market in order to compete with the Sega Mega Drive, it is part of the PC Engine / TurboGrafx-16 family but contains only modest enhancements to the original system, which had arrived…
One last deep dive before the end of the year. SEGA and Ryu Ga Gotoku Studio have announced that they will be airing a Yakuza Kiwami 3 & Dark Ties Direct next week, which launches on Switch 2 on 12th February 2026. The Direct will be a late one for UK and European folks, with…
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…