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05-01-26 (20:08)   League of Legends players worldwide couldn't login for hours because Riot forgot to renew the client's SSL certificate—just like it did 10 years ago
05-01-26 (19:08)   Cherry may be down but it isn't out with two new 'more than magnetic' TMR gaming keyboards
05-01-26 (18:54)   Thermaltake's collaboration PC case with a French artist is so lovely it makes me want to finally start that mini PC build
05-01-26 (18:54)   CES 2026: all the upcoming releases and announcements a PC gamer should know about
05-01-26 (18:54)   I don't care that there are no big new games in January because all I need now is Ball x Pit, the most underrated roguelike pinball game that I could spend all 744 hours of the month playing
05-01-26 (18:25)   Sega's American co-founder David Rosen dies at 95 years of age
05-01-26 (17:54)   Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2 nearly had a San-Andreas-like Fat Henry system that would have let you create Bohemia's chunkiest boy, and forced you to wear clothes that fit to boot
05-01-26 (17:08)   The names of some of the most popular SSDs are changing so their new owner Sandisk gets the glory
05-01-26 (16:39)   'There is a bit of pressure': Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 devs will stay true to themselves for their next game despite expectations—'we need to trust our instincts'
05-01-26 (16:39)   Asus unveils 240 Hz Micro-OLED gaming glasses capable of a virtual 171-inch screen, but the resolution feels like a whiff
05-01-26 (16:08)   In 2025, Monster Hunter fell prey to profit
05-01-26 (15:39)   Not only does Todd Howard not hate Obsidian, it was his 'only choice' to take up Fallout's reins in the wake of Fallout 3
05-01-26 (15:08)   Playing Code Vein 2 made me wonder why more soulslikes don't have guns, even if I could do with a bit less anime melodrama
05-01-26 (14:54)   No Rest for the Wicked lead spends New Year's Eve picking a fight with former Blizzard president Mike Ybarra over Diablo 4, who points out: 'You need to chill'
05-01-26 (13:39)   If you're looking for a way to fill the Stranger Things-shaped hole in your heart, the new Minecraft DLC has you covered
05-01-26 (13:25)   You've got 1 week left to play Anthem, the game that mortally wounded the one-time king of RPG studios
04-01-26 (22:25)   Arc Raiders dev says it uses 'aggression-based matchmaking' to pair bloodthirsty, PvP-minded players with each other
04-01-26 (20:39)   Quake modders banded together to release the third Brutalist Map Jam, with two campaigns' worth of FPS goodness in 'a megalithic community project more than a year in the making'
04-01-26 (19:08)   'Yeah, that didn't suck. That was good': Fallout: New Vegas lead writer says the Survivalist's journal in Honest Hearts is 'one of my favorite bits of content that I've written in a game'
04-01-26 (19:08)   'Fine, I'll do it myself': Cybertsu had never seen a King of All Cosmos cosplay, so decided to pull off one of the most elaborate headpiece designs, and it's the best I've ever seen
04-01-26 (09:25)   MSI's brilliant new QD-OLED screen fixes one of the biggest issues with OLED gaming monitors
04-01-26 (09:08)   MSI MPG 341CQR QD-OLED X36 review
04-01-26 (01:25)   An entire intro where you play as Ashley was cut from the Resident Evil 4 remake
04-01-26 (00:54)   Fallout: New Vegas lead writer 'loved writing' Yes Man, but thinks his questline may have been a mistake: 'It lets you get through the game without getting your hands dirty'
04-01-26 (00:25)   My favorite Fallout fan artist paints New Vegas how you imagine it, and he refuses to touch AI tools: 'I believe it's innate in humanity to appreciate real human-made art'
03-01-26 (22:08)   Steam Awards 2025 give Game of the Year to Hollow Knight: Silksong
03-01-26 (18:25)   2025 was so stacked with great games I missed the free, ass-kicking Christmas update to its best singleplayer shooter
03-01-26 (17:08)   Medieval 3 may be on the way, but how many characters can you name in Creative Assembly's masterpiece, Total War: Three Kingdoms?
02-01-26 (23:25)   'It's a damn miracle we were able to salvage Hytale,' original co-founder and new owner Simon Collins-Laflamme says: After years in development at Riot, 'it was barely playable'
02-01-26 (21:54)   Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella says it's time to stop talking about AI 'slop' and start talking about a 'theory of the mind that accounts for humans being equipped with these new cognitive amplifier tools'
02-01-26 (19:08)   Forget what you heard, there's plenty of PC hardware to be excited about in 2026
02-01-26 (19:08)   Silent Hill 2 Remake dev Bloober Team kicks off 2026 by giving us 45 days to figure out what 'RemoSdNeulSerore-hsoOvamCeyerd' is
02-01-26 (18:08)   30 hidden gems from 2025 to grab before the Steam Winter Sale ends
02-01-26 (17:54)   Former Elder Scrolls Online chief confirms Microsoft's 2025 bloodbath drove his departure from ZeniMax: 'Project Blackbird was the game I had waited my entire career to create'
02-01-26 (16:39)   Baba is News: One of the best puzzle games of the last decade just got a major update seven years after release
02-01-26 (12:08)   Kill the algorithm in your head: Let's set up RSS readers and get news we actually want in 2026
02-01-26 (12:08)   The city builders of 2026 will let us build in some wild places, including a Pokémon-style world filled with collectible creatures
02-01-26 (11:08)   PC Gamer magazine's new issue is on sale now: Fallout Special
02-01-26 (06:25)   All Genshin Impact 6.3 livestream codes
02-01-26 (05:54)   Tabletop Simulator announces a free 2.0 update that includes a UI overhaul and a marketplace for paid mods
01-01-26 (23:08)   'Happy Gloom Year!': The new Gloomwood update is out, and it includes the game's 'largest, most vertical open area' yet
01-01-26 (21:39)   Pluribus lead Rhea Seehorn's career began as the 'tutorial sorceress' in a Magic The Gathering PC game from 1997
01-01-26 (20:25)   Dispatch sold over 3 million copies in 2025, and only around five percent of players beat the game without romancing anyone
01-01-26 (20:08)   Betty Boop, Blondie, and a slew of Mickey Mouse cartoons are entering the public domain, so let's hope for something better than bargain bin horror games
01-01-26 (19:08)   CES 2026: From new Intel chips to far too much AI, here's everything we expect to see
01-01-26 (16:08)   2025 was the year friendslop reigned, and so many low-cost ways to have fun with your pals couldn't have come at a better time
01-01-26 (15:08)   Do you know your Doom from your Dune? Put your sci-fi knowledge to the test in our first quiz of 2026!
01-01-26 (14:08)   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
31-12-25 (19:08)   Here are 2025's six highest rated hardware, enjoying tippy-top review scores—plus six dishonorable mentions
31-12-25 (17:08)   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
31-12-25 (16:08)   I'm not waiting 5 years for everyone to realize The Outer Worlds 2 is another Obsidian classic—I'm giving it its flowers now
31-12-25 (15:08)   Can you guess which games these bizarre 2025 patch notes are from?
31-12-25 (15:08)   As 2025 draws to a close, test your knowledge of another packed 12 months for PC gaming with our big end of year quiz
31-12-25 (13:08)   PC Gamer Hardware Awards 2025: All the winners from a bumper 12 months of PC gaming tech
31-12-25 (11:08)   The most surprising cozy game trend this year was the desktop pet renaissance
31-12-25 (09:08)   Fallout Season 2 Episode 3 recap: 'All that remains of America is its overwhelming failure'
30-12-25 (22:39)   Eric Barone makes $125,000 donation to the C# framework Stardew Valley uses, as well as 'an ongoing monthly commitment' in what the team behind it calls an 'extraordinary show of support'
30-12-25 (22:39)   This indie WarioWare-like released a teaser just to show off its 'game over' music, and after hearing it, I can see why
30-12-25 (21:25)   This sequel to a classic NES beat 'em up is about to be delisted from Steam, but you can get it for a few bucks in the meantime: 'The delisting process is currently underway'
30-12-25 (21:25)   I can tell World of Warcraft's player housing is going well by the amount of Star Wars stuff this one player keeps building
30-12-25 (19:25)   Some of my favorite childhood platformers are free on Epic for today only, and they've all been updated for better crossplay with Steam owners
30-12-25 (19:25)   Arc Raiders was Steam's best-selling game the week of Christmas, and Battlefield 6 wasn't far behind
30-12-25 (19:08)   Love it or hate it, but frame generation is the one major graphics technology that really needs improving in 2026
30-12-25 (18:39)   'Friendslop' dominated 2025 by proving time and time again that graphics are overrated
30-12-25 (18:08)   2025 was Fortnite's most topsy-turvy year ever with soaring peaks, miserable lows, and a raging AI debate
30-12-25 (17:54)   Can you order the games of 2025 by their release dates? Sort out the year's release calendar in our latest quiz!
30-12-25 (17:08)   Razer's little Blade has been my ride-or-die throughout the year and is my absolute favourite gaming laptop of 2025
30-12-25 (16:08)   AI, Crysis, lusty argonians, and pinball: These are our most-read news stories of 2025
30-12-25 (15:08)   PC Gamer Hardware Awards: 2025's wildcards—the best of the rest is full of surprises
30-12-25 (13:08)   PC Gamer Hardware Awards: The best graphics card of 2025
30-12-25 (12:25)   2025's best soulslike wasn't Nightreign, it was a DLC for a game we all dismissed as a Bloodborne clone back in 2022
30-12-25 (00:39)   None of us are at good at action RPGs as the Path of Exile 2 player who beat one of its toughest bosses without any gear: 'What did I just witness?'
30-12-25 (00:25)   Fallen Aces's second episode won't be out this year, but it will feature a first-person car chase with a tommy gun in both hands and a foot-operated steering wheel
29-12-25 (22:39)   Rainbow Six Siege servers are back after hackers randomly doled out bans, unbans, rare skins and 'billions' in in-game currency
29-12-25 (20:08)   GOG crawls out from under CD Projekt Red with a new owner and teases 'ambitious' plans for classic game 'rescue missions' starting next year
29-12-25 (19:39)   Path of Exile 2's new druid class is the most fun you can have being a bear in a videogame right now
29-12-25 (19:08)   Last year I predicted all three of Valve's announcements so now I reckon I have the ability to speak these 2026 prophecies into reality
29-12-25 (17:08)   2025 is the year I discovered I love charging docks, and it's all because of one surprisingly reasonably priced gaming mouse
29-12-25 (17:08)   I played 31 new cozy games this year, and my top 6 picks are all completely different
29-12-25 (17:08)   2025 has been the pinnacle of weird and interesting videogames, and for me, not a single one can define the year as a whole
29-12-25 (16:08)   Peak shows you don't need horror or quirky party games to be one of the best co-ops in years
29-12-25 (16:08)   'A good idea, infinite drive, and lots of Diet Pepsi': How YouTube essayist Majuular's life changed course telling the story of Ultima across 2 years and more than 20 hours of documentaries
29-12-25 (15:08)   How well do you know the videogame movie and TV adaptations of 2025? Test your viewing prowess with some trivia!
29-12-25 (15:08)   We're living in the new golden age of 2D beat-'em-ups—but the best one released this year had one foot in a different genre entirely
29-12-25 (15:08)   PC Gamer Hardware Awards: The best gaming microphone of 2025
29-12-25 (13:08)   PC Gamer Hardware Awards: The best gaming headset of 2025
28-12-25 (19:08)   Well, this year's graphics card launches were a right shitshow, eh?
28-12-25 (19:08)   I hated using oil pastels in school, but this artist has made me want to give them a second chance thanks to their adorable, low-poly video game character paintings
28-12-25 (18:08)   Steam has quietly become the best place to buy videogame soundtracks—even for games that were never released on PC
28-12-25 (18:08)   Disney's embarrassing AI-generated Star Wars video of scrambled-up animals was the opening salvo in a year full of AI humiliation
28-12-25 (17:08)   The Fractal Design Scape feels like a gaming headset from the future, which makes it the best thing I've tested in 2035. I mean, this year
28-12-25 (16:39)   I played more than 20 metroidvanias this year other than Silksong, and these are the ones doing the most creative/experimental things with the genre
28-12-25 (16:08)   I'm obsessed with detective games, and I think these 9 prove that 2025 was the best year for the genre ever
28-12-25 (16:08)   The End Times are almost here, but can you name all 105 Legendary Lords in Total War: Warhammer before Nagash consumes their souls?
28-12-25 (16:08)   2025 was the best year for ninja games ever, but all of them just made it clear that 2008's Ninja Gaiden 2 remains untouchable
28-12-25 (15:08)   A game about giant, helpless teddy bears fleeing a dying world may be a bit on the nose right now, but it's also my favorite game of 2025
28-12-25 (15:08)   PC Gamer Hardware Awards: The best gaming mouse of 2025
28-12-25 (13:08)   PC Gamer Hardware Awards: The best gaming keyboard of 2025
27-12-25 (19:54)   Slay the Spire gets the best Christmas present a deckbuilder could ask for: a new all-time concurrent player peak on Steam nearly 7 years after release
27-12-25 (19:08)   PC gaming on Arm chips didn't quite happen in 2025, but the die is cast for an epic battle with x86 CPUs in the next few years