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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
There's a veritable CPU Arm-y marching towards the PC.
Vue lecture
The best indie Pokémon-like on PC is free on Epic for a limited time
Cassette Beasts may have stiff competition, but it boasts online multiplayer and a unique creature fusion system.
Welcome to the FPS vibe shift
At the end of 2025, it's clear that casual shooters are back in a big way.
It was a good year for survival crafting sickos, and I'll be playing some of these well into 2026
Lego-Dinosaur kids become Ark adults.
Out of all the new hardware that has passed through my hands in 2025, nothing has made an impact like a certain Wi-Fi 7 router has
No joke, it's been the best upgrade I've done in years.
Are these Arc Raiders myths true or false? You tell me
How well do you know the odd intricacies of life Topside?
A psychic baby and whacky control scheme undersell the mundane brilliance of one of my favourite games this year
It's hard to say goodbye to Goodnight Universe.
Counterfeit Monkey is so magnificent a text adventure that I'm convinced the puzzle genre went wrong when it added graphics
The power of the written word can quite literally change nations in this sci-fi masterpiece.
PC Gamer Hardware Awards: The best gaming motherboard of 2025
Motherboards are the only way that Intel stands any chance of winning an award this year.
PC Gamer Hardware Awards: The best gaming CPU of 2025
It's another slam dunk for AMD, of course, but that doesn't mean there's an obvious winner.
Action RPG players will exploit anything in the name of efficiency, which is why Path of Exile 2 players are locking themselves in the campaign for profit
A new limited-time farm strat just dropped.
Relax after a holiday feast by joining us for a nostalgic tour of old Japanese game mags that blurred the lines between analogue and digital
Compile's DiscStation series went far beyond the basic demo disc.
'It was definitely interesting': Persona 5: The Phantom X developer was surprised that people outside of Japan were 'cheering' for the Subway Slammer
The gacha's first villain became a meme earlier this year.
'Our fans have been very passionate': How player feedback has been at the core of the first six months of Persona 5: The Phantom X
Sega and Atlus sat down with PC Gamer to talk all things P5X.
My fave piece of PC gaming tech to launch this year was the softest kind of hardware there is
Yes, a humble mouse pad.
Tiny Bookshop gave me the moment every book lover lives for: recommending the perfect book to a friend and them instantly loving it
I basked in validation as a book-loving gamer getting to recommend my own favorite reads to my fictional customers.
Are you a proper Sims buff? See if you can name all 97 expansion, game, and stuff packs in our quiz!
With 25 years' worth of paid add-ons, just how many of them do you actually remember?
