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.

Peak devs were ready to go 'into vacation mode' after releasing it, but then it sold 1M copies in the first week: 'That quickly became a pipe dream'

One of 2025's surprise hits was Peak, a co-op climbing game that was created in a mere four months by studios Aggro Crab and ...

PC gaming has a pricing problem, and the memory crisis is compounding it in a way that's utterly heartbreaking for our hobby

All pastimes need a constant supply of fresh blood in order to thrive. If the budget-conscious, entry-level roots of PC ...

'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.

Steam seems to be back to normal, at least for the moment, but now it looks like the Epic Games Store is getting hammered

It's the day before Christmas and all through the house, nobody is using Steam, not even a mouse—because, you guessed it, ...

Intel's 'Serpent Lake' rumoured to be its first chip developed in collaboration with Nvidia

RedGamingtech describes Serpent Lake as an "APU monster" similar in remit to AMD's Strix Halo chip. It's said to sport Nvidia ...

Celebrate the holidays the way Saint Nick intended, by blasting through hordes of enemies in the best Christmas-themed FPS mods

Doom Christmas is a simple yet effective texture pack for Doom 2, introducing a medley of festive sprites to id's shooter ...

Baldur's Gate 3 started on top and kept on climbing: Larian said it wouldn't make a sequel, then drip fed us an expansion's worth of free updates into 2025

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 ...

Microsoft's year of shame

Xbox was clearly setting itself up for the launch of its gaming handheld when it started this campaign in late 2024, and ...

Star Citizen is on course to reach $1 billion in player funding in 2026, and we still might not get to play its singleplayer campaign next year

We last checked in with Star Citizen's Godzilla-sized money magnet in April, at which point the game had just crossed the $800 million mark. But that number has grown substantially in the last eight ...

This neat Windows registry trick boosts NVMe SSD performance up to 80% but it's only officially available for enterprise users

Native NVMe support is an opt-in model, so enterprise users need to enable it via the registry. What some users have found ...

Marvel Rivals wants to go big for 2026, and the team has 'already planned more than a year ahead'

2025 was a pretty incredible year for NetEase's Marvel Rivals. Since dropping right at the end of 2024, it's gone through ...