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October 18
- Can you find the 10 real games in this jumble of 30 fake ones? Try to see through my lies in our latest quiz
- I played communist Germany's only arcade cabinet and you can too, comrade
- Every MMO I play in 2025, I end up with a bag filled with trash—but that won't change any time soon, if at all
- 2027 is shaping up to be the biggest year for videogame movies yet, with the live-action Zelda movie, A Minecraft Movie sequel, Death Stranding, and more heavy-hitters planned
October 16
- These indie devs ditched AAA studios to make a co-op RPG with endless MMO-style dungeons, and after 7 years it's finally here
- How does Warhammer 40,000's first edition hold up today?
- I tested the beta version of MSI's beginner-friendly, AI-powered EZ PC Builder, and it told me the 9800X3D was the perfect chip for a budget gaming PC
- 'I'm as surprised as you are': After 7 years, Quantic Dream is taking a 'huge swing' with its first competitive MOBA, Spellcasters Chronicles
- Every Final Fantasy Tactics job, rated
- Borderlands 4's endgame modifiers make me irrationally angry while I replay old campaign missions on repeat
- If Battlefield 6's gear grind is this slow, I worry what its battle pass will be like
October 15
- It's our biggest quiz yet: how many Steam game genres and sub-genres can you name?
- Now it's in my hands the new Xbox Ally X is a far better handheld than I expected, but it's still got a lot of work to do to convince me it's a) worth $1,000 or b) that it's an Xbox
- The next great co-op horror game has arrived, and you can play it for free in this Steam Next Fest
- Between mail delivery, minigames, and BMX tricks, the demo of Tanuki: Pon's Summer feels like it was made specifically for me
October 14
- When will the AI bubble burst? As OpenAI signs yet another megabucks deal with Broadcom, can anyone make sense of the trillions of dollars involved?
October 13
- World of Warcraft director admits it's too hard without combat mods and explains how bosses will change in Midnight: 'We're not looking to turn all our raid encounters into giant puzzles for people to solve'
- Final Fantasy 14's latest patch finally has me excited to log into Dawntrail again—I just wish it didn't take Square Enix 15 months to get here
- Blumhouse's latest horror game Sleep Awake is the first psychological horror I've enjoyed in a hot minute
October 12
- Five new Steam games you probably missed (October 13, 2025)
- 'Rockstar keeps us on our toes': Will we get another GTA 6 trailer before launch, and if so, what can we expect?
- The Bramble: The Mountain King soundtrack has been designed to trigger more emotion than just scaring the pants off you
October 11
- The bold and futile attempt to fix the disastrous Aliens: Colonial Marines
- Can you identify these 20 games just from seeing one of their cards? Our latest quiz puts your deck knowledge to the test
- Windows 10's greatest achievement was not being Windows 8, and I think we can all be thankful for that
October 10
- Battlefield 6 live launch coverage: All the news, updates, and reactions as the most-anticipated FPS of the year goes live
- Rufus is a free tool that gets rid of most of Windows 11's installation nonsense and I'll show you exactly how to use it
- Battlefield 6: This is what a well-optimised game looks like in 2025
October 9
- World of Warcraft: Midnight has some of Blizzard's most controversial changes yet, but playing the alpha still has me hopeful it'll figure them out in the next few months
- Battlefield 6's bots tea-bag when they're scared, sacrifice themselves, and are so blissfully unaware they couldn't kill me while I was AFK texting
- Want an ergonomic keyboard unlike any other? Experience peak performance with the ROG Falcata
- It's a great year for Battlefield 6 multiplayer, but the campaign's a misfire
- Panther Lake revealed: Intel's pocket powerhouse is a big step up from Lunar Lake, with performance and efficiency gains all around
- The Windows 10 era is over and with it, the last time I felt my PC was truly my own
- PC Gamer magazine's new issue is on sale now: Battlefield 6
October 8
- Can you ID these videogames just from their food? Take our latest, tastiest quiz!
- This retro turn-based horror game reminded me just how scary classic survival horror was
- Absolum interview: How the beat 'em up's developers created four fabulous characters
October 7
- Enginefall asks 'What if Snowpiercer was Rust and DayZ' in a game with great vision and so-so execution
- Starfinder: Afterlight could become one of my favourite CRPGs—even if the studio's co-founders are 'more scared about huge success than a bit of failure' when it comes to their big Kickstarter debut
- Secretlab's new InfinitePrecision pro-gamer armrests aren't what I thought they were going to be. Nor as precise as I expected
- As someone who actively avoids FPS games, the demo of Don't Stop Girlypop might be the answer to my prayers
October 6
- Point and click horror game Endacopia is carrying on Petscop's legacy of serving up unnerving and confusing adventures
- Guild Wars 2 exclusive: ArenaNet breaks down the changes coming to all 9 new elite specs in the next expansion
- MMO players just don't want a rigid casual/hardcore divide anymore—and all the big games know it
October 5
- After years of being criticized as old-fashioned, turn-based RPGs are absolutely crushing it with new ideas
- Trails in the Sky 1st Chapter is one of the best JRPG remakes I've ever played—it's also now the best way to get started with the beloved series
- Rockstar has launched 2 low-key partnerships for GTA 6, but with a splash of the Fortnite formula they could have a transformative effect on both Vice City and videogames
- It's been 20 years and I still have no idea how The Sims has managed to convince so many artists to rerecord their biggest hits in a gibberish language
October 4
- Inside the astonishing development of 1999's The Wheel of Time FPS: 'The fact that we shipped anything at all is kind of a miracle'
- Call of Duty was saved against the odds when Infinity Ward imploded
- How many roguelikes can you identify in five minutes? Our latest quiz is harder than a no-hit run
October 3
- A slot machine for gags disguised as a Vampire Survivors-like is taking over Steam, and I'm just as addicted to pulling the lever as the other 90K people playing it
- Dressmaker is my new favourite cosy game, even if my clients give me absolutely nothing to work with
- Buckle up, five of the most wishlisted games on Steam are all coming out this month
- I've become obsessed with building tiny houses for singing villagers in cosy decorating sim Twinkleby, which includes getting rid of the difficult ones by throwing their bags into the void
- The new My Hero Academia game will finally let you live out the fantasy of playing through the anime's big moments, but I'm still waiting for the Persona-style school sim
- Warhammer doesn't need to be an expensive hobby: Poorhammer is here to save your wallet
October 2
- The most anticipated FPS of the year is scoring points by recognizing a simple truth: people want performance more than ray tracing
- Goblin Cleanup manages to nail the art of unintentional yet hilarious co-op hijinks, making it a must-play for anyone looking for a new reason to yell at their friends
- The PC game releases we're most excited about in October
- Time is nearly up for Windows 10—but is your Windows 10 PC screwed?
- Monster Hunter Wilds may be on hard times, but the Pokémon-inspired Monster Hunter Stories 3 seems like it's checking every box RPG players want
October 1
- Can you guess the game based only on a blurb from a Steam review? Take our quiz and see if you score a thumbs up!
- EA's $55 billion acquisition is the biggest leveraged buyout in private equity history. Here's why it has everyone terrified
- Management sim sequel Jurassic World Evolution 3 offers more park customisation than ever for hardcore fans—but there's no dinosaur-driven chaos left to be found