Do you know your Doom from your Dune? Put your sci-fi knowledge to the test in our first quiz of 2026!

Do you know your Doom from your Dune? Put your sci-fi knowledge to the test in our first quiz of 2026!

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. Doom sorta sounds like Dune, doesn’t it? The words are quite similar. And… that’s it. That’s the entire basis for…

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I’m brave enough to say it: Linux is good now, and if you want to feel like you actually own your PC, make 2026 the year of Linux on (your) desktop

I’m all-in, baby. I’m committed. If upgrading any distinct component of my PC didn’t require me taking out a loan right now, I’d be seriously considering switching my GPU over to some kind of AMD thing just to make my life slightly, slightly easier. I’ve had it with Windows and ascended to the sunlit uplands…

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Editorial: Happy New Year From Nintendo Life

’26 mix. Good news, everyone! No need to bother with all that GOTY rigmarole next year, as it’s already wrapped and bagged. Commiserations to the losers, and congratulations to Rhythm Heaven Groove! Catch you all again in ’27… Okay, okay. That’s a little premature, but the fact that we’re getting a brand new Rhythm Heaven/Paradise…

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PlayStation Plus Monthly Games for January: Need for Speed Unbound, Disney Epic Mickey: Rebrushed, Core Keeper

PlayStation Plus Monthly Games for January: Need for Speed Unbound, Disney Epic Mickey: Rebrushed, Core Keeper

Enjoy hours of electric, adrenaline-pumping racing action, embark on an epic journey through a realm of forgotten Disney characters and explore a long-forgotten cavern teeming with untold secrets with the PlayStation Plus Monthly Games for January 2026. Need For Speed Unbound, Disney Epic Mickey: Rebrushed and Core Keeper will be available to PlayStation Plus members…

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I enjoy touching all the hardware bits that pass through PCG’s offices, but this bit of kit was all but made for my upsettingly small baby hands

Gear of the Year (Image credit: Future) Check out more of the year’s best tech in our PC Gamer Hardware Awards 2025 coverage. There’s a lot I love about this job—particularly all of the opportunities I now enjoy getting to smear my sticky little mitts all over a wide range of hardware. Looking back on…

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