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…
In 2026, gaming will (almost certainly) reach a huge, seemingly inconceivable milestone. No, I’m not talking about the release of Grand Theft Auto 6 . I’m referring to how Star Citizen‘s ridiculously successful, seemingly unstoppable, ethically debatable funding model is set to surpass $1 billion next year. We last checked in with Star Citizen’s Godzilla-sized…
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. You ever…
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…
Gear of the Year (Image credit: Future) Check out more of the year’s best tech in our PC Gamer Hardware Awards 2025 coverage. In 2025, as graphics cards, memory, and storage have become harder to find at reasonable prices, monitors have only become better value. So, should you have the rig to run it, there…
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. Nothing I…