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. There’s a…
I’ve thought about Fallout 4 in a lot of different ways since first playing it ten years ago. On its release, I thought it was the weakest Fallout game, lacking the roleplaying depth of its forebears. But a recent replay helped me see its strengths as a survivalist shooter. There’s a lot to love about…
PCG recently reported on what our own Jody Macgregor called a “humdinger” of a Fallout: New Vegas discovery: a pre-release build of the game from a month before it went on-sale. The find was made by a new YouTube channel called Games’ Past, and is two gigabytes larger than the release version of New Vegas…
Danganronpa creator Kazutaka Kodaka reckons his latest game might be the last one with a 100% human-created story. Listen, I know you’re probably sick of reading about AI by now—I’m sick of reading about it, hearing about it, writing about it. Unfortunately it seems that it’s very much here to stay, at least for the…
Another ZX Spectrum game worth checking out is the recent release of Jtpl’s fast-paced first-person action game for the classic ZX Spectrum 48K called ‘World of Spells’. A game that the creator says “you can watch in amazement as our silly rubber wonder pumps out a Wolfenstein 3D-like, full 360 freedom of movement action, with…
2025 finally brought us Vampire: The Masquerade—Bloodlines 2, but whether you liked or loathed The Chinese Room’s follow-up to Troika’s wildly ambitious and deeply flawed RPG, it’s safe to say that it wasn’t the follow-up most fans expected. On a personal level, what I wanted from Bloodlines 2 was basically ‘Bloodlines 1, but fixed’, an…
Sigh. We were so close, y’all. For a moment, I was sure that videogame movies were finally capable of being not terrible—then I remembered that 2023 cursed us with that Gran Turismo movie, but you know. Unfortunately, the last 12 months seems to have thrown us straight back to the ’90s with terrible silver screen…
EVE Online developer CCP Games just released its end-of-year statistics for its ruthless space sandbox, in celebration of what has been a big year for the veteran Icelandic MMO. The game received two new expansions which introduced player-created freelance missions and an overhauled mining experience, as five new ships. CCP’s stats suggest these expansions went…
Celebrating the small(er). 2025 has been a bit of a loud, bonkers year for video games. Big title after big title, a brand new console in the Switch 2, and a new GOTY contender almost every other week. It’s been breathless, but not without industry struggles, mass layoffs, cancellations, and closures. Which is why now,…
Users have discovered a registry tweak that can improve NVMe SSD performance on Windows 11, namely those all-important random 4k speeds. Windows treats most drives as SCSI (Small Computer System Interface), which has been used for decades now and largely intended for hard drives. As such, NVMe drives that offer higher parallel performance than a…