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Three shining examples of brilliant PC game development in 2025

What’s been your favourite new game this year? You can read all about our choices right here, with our full…

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Twas the day before Christmas and Steam is having some serious issues

Update: As of 2:30 pm ET, after a brief comeback, Steam is down again. Not great! We’ll let you know…

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

Christmas, it is said, is a time for giving. Unless you happen to live in my house, in which case…

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Wait, there was a new live-action Witcher movie? Starring Dolph Lundgren? On Netflix? In October?

I’m not a big Witcher fan but I am a big movie and TV fan, so I try to keep…

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Hollow Knight: Silksong player discovers Hornet’s taunt does damage, proceeds to spend hours trying to beat every boss with it: ‘This is like watching Sisyphus push the boulder and win’

Taunt Only Last Judge (Garama%) – YouTube Watch On I was about halfway through Hollow Knight: Silksong before I realized…

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

Users have discovered a registry tweak that can improve NVMe SSD performance on Windows 11, namely those all-important random 4k…

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I played dozens of retro games this year, and these are the ones I still whole-heartedly recommend going into 2026

One of my favourite things about PCs is that “old” is relative, really. Generations don’t exist in any meaningful capacity.…

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Swen Vincke warns Divinity newcomers that they probably shouldn’t play the early games in the series: ‘They’re a bit outdated by now,’ which is putting it very mildly

Larian dropped a big bomb at The Game Awards earlier this month with the surprise reveal of Divinity, its “biggest…

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Blue Prince is ‘the result of 8 years of development, fuelled my imagination and creativity’ not AI says publisher

2025 has been a rather heated year for genAI and its ever-increasing use in videogames. Most recently, the year’s awards…

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Obsidian’s Josh Sawyer leads the charge of RPG fans playfully roasting Stranger Things for its D&D rule flubs: ‘The oldheads are going to catch all these things’

“Season ruined,” Obsidian studio design director Josh Sawyer (Pentiment, Fallout: New Vegas) declared on BlueSky alongside a clip from Stranger…

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