ConnexionDispatch sold over 3 million copies in 2025, and only around five percent of players beat the game without romancing anyone
Who's got time for romance? I've got a job to do!
Vue lecture
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
Another year, another grab bag of expired copyrights.
CES 2026: From new Intel chips to far too much AI, here's everything we expect to see
CES always starts the year with a bang.
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
Times are hard, but friendslop is here.
Do you know your Doom from your Dune? Put your sci-fi knowledge to the test in our first quiz of 2026!
Test your knowledge of the novels, games, and movies.
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
Now if you don't mind I'm going to delete the root folder and see what happens.
Here are 2025's six highest rated hardware, enjoying tippy-top review scores—plus six dishonorable mentions
From the tippy-top to the flippy-flops, 2025 was a cracking year for hardware.
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
Haters begone, I've got builds to plan.
Can you guess which games these bizarre 2025 patch notes are from?
Put your patch note prowess to the test with a quiz!
PC Gamer Hardware Awards 2025: All the winners from a bumper 12 months of PC gaming tech
We've had our hands on the absolute best PC hardware the industry has had to offer in this bountiful year, and these are the winners.
The most surprising cozy game trend this year was the desktop pet renaissance
Desktop pets are back, bigger than ever, and surprisingly vibrant.
Fallout Season 2 Episode 3 recap: 'All that remains of America is its overwhelming failure'
Every faction's worst enemy is itself.
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'
MonoGame has been used to make all sorts of notable games, including Celeste and Bastion.
This indie WarioWare-like released a teaser just to show off its 'game over' music, and after hearing it, I can see why
Mindwave is shaping up to be just as groovy as its inspirations.
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'
River City Ransom: Underground is dirt cheap until it's gone forever.
I can tell World of Warcraft's player housing is going well by the amount of Star Wars stuff this one player keeps building
Provide the tools and they will build it.
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
Trine's a little long in the tooth now, but its co-op antics are no less enjoyable.
Arc Raiders was Steam's best-selling game the week of Christmas, and Battlefield 6 wasn't far behind
Casual-friendly shooters ruled the roost this holiday season.
Love it or hate it, but frame generation is the one major graphics technology that really needs improving in 2026
Upscaling is almost perfect. Now it's frame gen's time.
'Friendslop' dominated 2025 by proving time and time again that graphics are overrated
The best games of the year probably ran great on whatever PC you have lying around, and that's fantastic.
2025 was Fortnite's most topsy-turvy year ever with soaring peaks, miserable lows, and a raging AI debate
Plenty of reasons to be optimistic—and a few concerns
