In a pickle. The 30th anniversary of Pokémon is fast approaching on 27th February 2026, and it seems McDonald’s will be putting Pokémon cards in its Happy Meals in a new promo similar to past events. According to a report from PokéBeach, it will run from February into March, with exact dates depending on the…
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. The Outer…
Thumbnail and I. I love browsing the eShop, and the clicky sounds as you scroll across it. The pleasing crispness of the chick! sound goes so well with the Joy-Con button feel. There’s that camera shutter snap! if you scroll across a game’s gallery in quick succession, and on Switch 2 there’s a thumb-cheek pop!…
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. Have you been paying attention this year? A lot can happen in 12 months in PC gaming, and frankly if…
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. That’s pretty much a wrap on 2025, but we’re not letting the year slip away without taking one more fond…
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. Have you been paying attention this year? A lot can happen in 12 months in PC gaming, and frankly if…
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. That’s pretty much a wrap on 2025, but we’re not letting the year slip away without taking one more fond…
The winners are… (Image credit: Future) 1. Best gaming laptop: Razer Blade 162. Best gaming monitor: KTC H27T22C-33. Best gaming handheld: Lenovo Legion Go S SteamOS4. Best SSD: WD Black SN8100 2 TB NVMe SSD5. Best CPU: AMD Ryzen 9 9950X3D6. Best motherboard: Gigabyte X870 Aorus Elite Ice7. Best gaming keyboard: Be Quiet! Light Mount8….
Back in February I declared that desktop pets are so back, and then partial-screen idler games (pets and otherwise) wound up being so much more back this year than I had predicted. In a year of increasingly experimental cozy games, they were one of the most identifiable and quintessentially cozy trends. Subgenre trends happen all…
Note: Complete spoilers for Fallout Season 2 Episode 3! Good news, wastelanders: Thaddeus is back and he’s all ghouled up! In any other world, he’d probably be a villain—after all, he’s making children (some ghouls, some not) work 22-hour shifts at the Sunset Sarsaparilla bottling plant, where they’re de-bottling the stock to collect all those…