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September 15
- Fata Deum is an early access god sim inspired by Black & White, but I wish I was just playing Black & White instead
- Moody and wooden, this PC and I have a lot in common: Asus ProArt Case PA401, Ryzen 7 9800X3D and RX 9070 XT build
- Five new Steam games you probably missed (September 15, 2025)
September 14
- This theme park sim based on a 30-year-old sci-fi movie is so much better than it has a right to be
- How Lies of P turned a rhythm game's hip hop and electronica songs into a gothic, melancholic soundtrack
September 13
- I was ready to be a crab about Silksong in the face of its memetic hype, but the game is simply too good
- The only good Postal game is a spinoff expressionist boomer shooter that takes place entirely in the protagonist's depraved mind
- Lights! Camera! Quiz time! How well do you know the weird and not-so-wonderful world of videogame movies?
September 12
- When it comes to Borderlands 4 and its '8 cores or equivalent' requirement, it's actually core quality, not core count, that matters the most
September 11
- I've tested Borderlands 4 on a minimum spec PC and a monster RTX 5090 rig, and it runs just as 'Borderlands-at-launch' as you'd expect
- Is it better to be a 'patient gamer' or is playing new games at launch just too enticing?
- After 170 hours of Elden Ring Nightreign its new, increasingly evil Deep of Night mode has managed to hook me in again
- 'It would have damaged us forever': After the calamitous cancellation of Football Manager 25, what does FM26 need to deliver?
- 7 new cozy games with autumnal aesthetics that you won't want to miss this season
- I'm already in love with this eerie low poly delivery game that feels like Silent Hill meets Animal Crossing meets DoorDash
- Why we don't have a Borderlands 4 review yet
- Borderlands 4 live launch coverage: are you ready to loot 30 billion guns?
- Hack 'n' slash action roguelite Morbid Metal instantly hooked me when I played it at Gamescom, and now I can't wait to play more
- Rogue Point is a FPS roguelite that does everything in its power to encourage players to actually work as a team
September 10
- 9 metroidvanias to play if you've realized Hollow Knight: Silksong just isn't for you
- Oh, you like Call of Duty? Name every Call of Duty game in under 3 minutes in our latest timed quiz
- While we wait for Borderlands 4 to unlock, let's make a definitive ranking of the series' many musical cinematic intros
- I'm ranking every Borderlands game ahead of BL4's release from worst to best, because the people love their lists and I'm here to provide
- I've been testing Nvidia GeForce Now's RTX 5080 upgrade against an actual RTX 5080 and the two feel eerily close—although 4K streaming invokes the occasional wobble
- If you saw Ruiner and thought it would be cool in first-person, its developer is back with, you guessed it, an FPS
September 9
- I thought we moved on from hellish boss runbacks, but Silksong is here to remind us what it's like to be kicked while you're down
- I'm already dreaming about the Steam Deck 2, and the upgrade at the top of my wishlist is a sleeker, lighter form factor
- If you can't wait for the new Borderlands, I genuinely recommend BL3's solid DLC campaigns—which aren't nearly as obnoxious as the base game
- If you've ever wanted a roguelike with clever autobattler build-crafting that also looks like if Jim Henson had a particularly disturbing cheese dream, Flask is the game for you
- I jumped into the management god game Sintopia, only to have all my devil workers go on strike because I spent too much money on punishing sinners
- Borderlands 4's campaign skips could be a double-edged sword for Gearbox
September 8
- The death and resurrection of Battlefield: Bad Company 2 is exactly why real server browsers are important
- I spent all weekend playing Hollow Knight Silksong and I'm totally enthralled, but nothing could completely live up to the hype after so many years
- I've taken a proper bargain of a case from Thermaltake and built a gorgeous white PC with it
- 'Our mission is to bring back lost treasures': Nightdive Studios' next remaster project is Outlaws, the cowboy shoot 'em up made on Lucas' Jedi Engine
- If you're having trouble with Silksong's difficulty, keep going—Act 2 is worth the pain, and it does get 'easier'
September 7
- Five new Steam games you probably missed (September 8, 2025)
- Dishonored 'sounded a little bit ridiculous' in the beginning, but came together with the help of the Sweeney Todd musical
- You've all been playing too much Silksong this weekend, have some sleepy videogame soundtracks so you can finally get a little shuteye
- We may never see PS2 classic The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers on PC, but we got the next best thing in Forgotten Realms: Demon Stone
September 6
- I'm mourning the Dragon Age game I missed my opportunity to play
- I spoke to FF14's 'Solo Only', who spent 85 days beating a single raid boss on his own, and I was wrong—that old MMO magic is still alive and well
- Can you identify these videogame factions from just one screenshot? Grind some rep with our latest quiz
September 5
- Is Silksong everything we hoped? 5 PC Gamer writers react to the first hours of Team Cherry's extraordinarily hyped sequel
- I would enjoy Everybody's Golf Hot Shots a lot more if everyone stopped YELLING AT ME
- Eye scans and digital IDs to stop online bots in games: It's not quite as Orwellian as you might think but proof-of-human isn't problem-free
- Borderlands 4 devs want to redeem the series' story, which is a tall task, since it's always been all over the place
- Dragon-riding PC exclusive Drakan: Order of the Flame deserves a glorious reawakening—here’s how you can take to the skies today
September 4
- How well do you know Baldur's Gate 3's first act? See how hopeless of an RPG restarter you are with this quiz
- Hollow Knight: Silksong live launch coverage: It's finally here
- I've already spent hours making builds, but I'm worried Borderlands 4's endgame isn't going to give me anything meaningful to do with them at launch
- Active noise cancellation is the latest trend for gaming headsets: here's how a different design philosophy could do much better than half-baked ANC
September 3
- After seeing 30 minutes of the new Bond game, I'm more excited for the shooting than the stealth
- September is absolutely stacked with city builders: Here's 8 releasing this month
- Path of Exile 2's newest update has me thoroughly convinced it's about to have one of the best action RPG campaigns in a long time
- If you're hungry for a co-op Borderlands 4 appetizer, give Big Daddy roguelite Abyssus a try
- The best Hollow Knight lore videos to watch before playing Silksong
- 007 First Light's opening mission was enough to convince me that I have to play this game, if only for IO's newer, younger Bond
- The most exciting new turn-based strategy game of 2025 throws together Jagged Alliance and Warhammer 40,000 in a dark sci-fi sandbox
- Boring, grindy and vindictive to veteran players: Destiny 2's Portal is a complete failure, and Bungie needs to take drastic action if it wants the game to survive
- Helldivers 2's new hive world update is absolutely kicking my ass, and it's just what the game needed
September 2
- Wading into Helldivers 2's new Terminid hives to blow up their hearts, all as hordes of bugs swarm you is, unsurprisingly, exactly as cool as it sounds
- Linux almost turned my Gamescom trip into a catastrophic disaster, but a Windows USB came to my rescue
September 1
- Delays to escape the shadow of a launch like Silksong are about way more than just day 1 players: 'Every game has to fight and use whatever edge they've got available to stay visible'
- If you're like me and fell off Valve's other MOBA Deadlock, these last few months of updates are worth coming back for
- One of Roblox's biggest experiences right now is a bizarre Italian Brainrot character-stealing simulator and, lord help me, I now understand why it's so popular
- Total War: Warhammer 3's new random locations can cause a game-ending plague, plant nukes under your settlements, or even buff you in all future campaigns thanks to the power of Tzeentchian time-warpery
- I didn't know I needed dedicated photography lights until this $44 set turned up, but now I'm a convert
- Five new Steam games you probably missed (September 1, 2025)