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- November 30
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- Inside the GTA mod that was so well-written its creators axed it to make their own game—and then returned to finish the job due to public demand
- Confession time: What's that one videogame song that always gets stuck in your head?
- The Seance of Blake Manor is a folk horror detective game, but I've been too busy digging through my fellow hotel guests' drawers to solve its supernatural mystery
- Gone are the days of buying Minecraft clothing from supermarkets, Very Cool have released a collaboration to save us all from getting another low-quality printed tee
- November 29
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- Debate: What is your objectively correct keybinding setup for your current MMO, and why is everybody else wrong?
- This Minecraft map that recreates one of history's most notorious slums made me reconsider what's important in 3D level design
- Sonic Racing: CrossWorlds is the closest thing we have to Mario Kart on PC, and you know what? I might like it even more
- November 28
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- Warframe's next big, WWI-inspired story update happened because a developer wrote the words 'Trench Warframe' on a whiteboard
- Darktide's new Hive Scum class can transform into a nigh-on immortal John Wick with infinite bullets—it's no wonder Fatshark's nerfed it before release
- Ex Sanguis is a blood-soaked tactics roguelite RPG where you'll bleed the world back to life
- Staying connected no matter where you are
- November 27
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- I ranked Arc Raiders skins based on how likely I am to shoot them on sight, and I've become the thing I swore to destroy
- This rat-obsessed strategy shooter makes you look at a pair of furry testicles before every mission, and you've got to respect that
- Arc Raiders players want to condemn free loadouters to a life of late spawns, but I don't think anyone should arrive midway through a match ever
- This lo-fi roguelike deckbuilder is like if someone made a version of Slay the Spire for when you've got a hangover
- Poll: Should RPGs always provide a transmog system, or should we be forced to live with our fashion crimes?
- Fortnite's The Simpsons season is one of the best in ages—here are 4 things Epic should learn from it
- November 26
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- I'm impatiently waiting for Fallout Season 2 by calculating the odds of my favorite New Vegas characters making an appearance
- Explainer: The RAMpocalypse is making memory, SSDs, and even GPUs much more expensive, and it's all down to AI
- Xenopurge turns Aliens into a stressful desk job and somehow manages to capture the movie perfectly
- November 25
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- Despite Battlefield 6's server browser utterly failing at its one job, good things are happening in Portal
- Enormous mod Elden Ring Reforged refreshes and rebalances every inch of the game, works with Seamless Co-op, and even throws in a Crackdown orb-style scavenger hunt
- The PC Gamer handheld gaming PC gift guide
- Moonlighter 2 made me reckon with how 'cozy' a shopkeeping roguelite with a heavy helping of Hades can get
- Spellcasters Chronicles is my kind of MOBA, where I can summon skyscraper-sized titans, create an army of lizards, and just live happily in the chaos
- This Balatro-inspired stock-trading roguelike marks the first time I've ever screwed up in a deckbuilder by making my deck too good
- iCame, iSaw, iConquered: With its new M5 chip, the Apple MacBook Pro is now a gaming PC. Just, y'know, without the games
- November 24
- November 23
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- Great moments in PC gaming: Chilling in my Zen Garden in Plants Vs. Zombies
- Confession time: Which game soundtrack actually made you cry?
- I grew up thinking Pyramid Head was one of the scariest video game villains ever, but thanks to cosplay, I no longer have to hide in fear
- Constance is a metroidvania that wants its monsters to mean something
- The League of Legends trading card game is surprisingly good because it embraces the best trends in card games
- Why I love Injustice 2's story mode
- November 22
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- GTA 5's character-swapping system was a stroke of genius that was supposed to feature in San Andreas 9 years earlier—this masterclass mod makes that dream a reality
- Skyrim's hardest quest is raising my Fat Idiot Son
- Tavern Keeper's early access is already a crunchy management sim, a cosy blanket, an interior decor game, and a furniture designer all at once
- November 21
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- Microsoft's head of AI doesn't understand why people don't like AI, and I don't understand why he doesn't understand because it's pretty obvious
- 25 great Steam games you probably missed in 2025—from freebies to $40
- This brilliantly strategic roguelike challenges you to build a whole city on wheels and keep it one step ahead of an unending horde of monsters
- Guild Wars 2: Visions of Eternity is the MMO's best annual expansion yet, but the real test is going to be whether it can keep up the momentum
- I'm going gaga for this rhythm game where a psychotic anime girl is trying to convert me to the ways of her 2D waifu one deranged song at a time
- November 20
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- I switched to zero sugar energy drinks in 2025 and now tracking down Call of Duty double XP is more annoying and less tasty
- There's a difference between hard games and hardcore ones, and the distinction matters
- 'Out of all the 40k options, they picked this?': Fans are furious about the reveal of Darktide's new class—and they might have a point this time
- I build loads of gaming PCs and this is the first to make me regret my decisions with my own personal rig—here's what you need to build it yourself
- This is all the best PC gaming gear we recommend in one techie tier list
- I became a full-time paramedic for strangers in Arc Raiders, and ended up showered with more rare loot than I could carry
- November 19
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- This cozy multiplayer co-working game is like going to an office in Animal Crossing and somehow it's actually made me more productive
- Arc Raiders players are already impatient for more content. Here's 8 things we think the game could do to expand
- No amount of money can buy being goated with the sauce
- Disney Dreamlight Valley's Wishblossom Ranch DLC is the most fun I've had since I started playing the game three years ago
- I've been a roguelike fan for 15 years and this is probably the most confusing one I've ever played
- Five things I always tell people before they buy their first gaming chair
- Five things I always tell people before they buy their first graphics card
- Five things I always tell people before they buy a new gaming CPU
- Five things I always tell people before they buy their first gaming mouse
- November 18
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- Rust's 'Pivot or Die' update was meant to shake up the meta, but it's a nightmare for solo survivors that leaves me no choice but to die
- Counter-Strike 2 modders surprise drop an excellent Halo 3 multiplayer pack, accidentally proving how badly Valve has squandered Source 2
- Stella Montis condenses everything I love about Arc Raiders by cramming it all into a cramped facility of pure chaos
- I might just play more News Tower instead of going to therapy
- OK, for real though, what's the chance of a Half-Life 3 announcement happening soon? Here's what we know
- The '80s and '90s PC games unbelievably still being updated today
- November 17
- November 16
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- Five new Steam games you probably missed (November 17, 2025)
- Hear me out: GTA Online has always worked best as a singleplayer game, and whatever shape GTA 6's multiplayer off-shoot takes needs to follow suit
- No wardrobe space, no money? No problem: I've just discovered in-game cosplay and now I'll never look at character creators in the same way
- Debate: Are videogame concerts worth the money?
- Black Ops 7's biggest improvement is its most simple, finally giving us upgrades for its unique scorestreaks and equipment
- November 15
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- In defense of tab-targeting: MMO devs have been trying to put dodge rolls in their games for 10+ years to avoid WoW, and it's never worked
- The life and death of Call of Duty's most controversial mechanic, the boost jump: 'They almost threw me out of the room'
- GTA: San Andreas is full of legends, and it's got me chasing ghost ships and urban myths like a schoolkid in 2004
- November 14
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- Black Ops 7 has problems, but Call of Duty recognizes where the wind is blowing: The triumphant return of loose SBMM and persistent lobbies in the FPS
- We should all just take a moment to appreciate Valve announcing new Steam hardware in 2025 and NOT ONCE MENTIONING AI
- The Steam Frame's vision is only black and white and that could be a real miss
- How much is that Steam Machine in the window? Let's talk potential pricing for Valve's new living room gaming box
- Valve's Steam Machine may look a bit like the Borg Cube, but it's still the friendliest face of PC gaming I've seen yet
- November 13
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- I can't live without the Steam Deck's trackpads anymore, and I hope the Steam Controller forces the competition to adopt them
- 6 of the most popular apps on Steam that aren't games
- I just finished my Expedition project in Arc Raiders and, honestly, it wasn't worth it
- Seriously people, it's fine the Steam Machine has just 8 GB of VRAM, but Valve ought to chill out on the 'play every game at 4K60' chat
- I reported on the failure of Valve's first Steam Machines 8 years ago—this time I think they have it right
- You can beat Arc Raiders' first event in just 45 clicks, and I wish I could tell you that was good
- While we eagerly await the second coming of Steam Machines, it's worth remembering what a gloriously awful mess Valve got itself in over a decade ago
- November 12
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- Valve just quietly redefined what PC gaming can be all while an increasingly delusional Microsoft desperately tries to tell everyone their PC is an Xbox now
- I've tried the Steam Frame and I'm now ready to ditch cables from my virtual reality set-up forever
- I thought this roguelike was just about playing a coin pusher machine, but now I'm breeding herds of rabbits and turning wolf poo into tree fertiliser
- November 11
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- November 9
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- Five new Steam games you probably missed (November 10, 2025)
- Minecraft cosplays have come a long way since I started playing over a decade ago, and this year has shown the most creativity I've seen yet
- Debate: Which Grand Theft Auto radio station has the best tunes?
- Why I love driving around oddball Japan in Promise Mascot Agency
- November 8
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- 'The human body is equivalent in mass to 50,000 crickets': In city builder Generation Exile, humanity's last hope for sustenance is cricket mush
- How a former NASA employee became the world's foremost author of videogame cookbooks: 'It can't look like you're eating a Pokémon'
- Finally, Arc Raiders is the extraction shooter for people with jobs, and it's all the better for it
- My return to Rust is going well, other than my freakish Guns N' Roses-loving neighbor shooting me every time I try to hang string lights on my roof
- November 7
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- The life sim revolution was supposed to happen this year but it completely evaporated
- Surviving Mars: Relaunched is a solid but inessential remaster for one of the best city builders around, but I'm extremely excited about what comes next
- Right, that's it, I've already had enough of Arc Raiders' terrifying tumbleweeds
- The memory price crisis has foiled my penny pinching patience and made me regret not upgrading my gaming PC sooner
- I love Scrappy, but charging $10 for a new hat on a glorified menu in Arc Raiders doesn't sit right
- November 6
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- Get ready to do the Silksong release date shuffle all over again: GTA 6's delay just blew up the whole game industry's holiday 2026 plans
- Even in early access, Tavern Keeper already feels like the fantasy pub sim of my dreams
- I think this $23 Amazon Basics USB desktop microphone should make more expensive models a little nervous
- I'm not here to make friends: I will fill you with bullets if I see you in Arc Raiders
- PC Gamer magazine's new issue is on sale now: Heroes of Might and Magic: Olden Era
- November 5
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- Firefighters don't actually use the 'fireman's carry' anymore, and other things I've learned from the Steam reviews for simulator games
- New World proved that the hunger for a modern MMO is clearly there—but the only studios with enough cash to make them are too shareholder-brained to try
- Arc Raiders finally addresses the worst part of winning in an extraction shooter: sorting your inventory
- November 4
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- The tech industry came for Steam and whiffed so hard that it's had to admit that it didn't even really like making games in the first place
- Arc Raiders and Battlefield 6 prove that great performance and low system requirements are king for multiplayer PC games in 2025
- As if being a gas station attendant in Roadside Research wasn't stressful enough, I'm also an alien who has to research humans while trying not to poop goop everywhere
- The Mailroom is a scarier version of Papers, Please, set in the Devil's corporate office that's full of frogs and toilet paper
- After being inspired by Toby Fox to make his first RPG in decades, cult developer Yoshiro Kimura couldn't help but make it weird: 'Some people are going to look at it and go that's kind of odd, but that's just the way my games turn out'
- November 3
- November 2
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- Five new Steam games you probably missed (November 3, 2025)
- Final Fantasy 14 and World of Warcraft are starting to meet in the middle on modding, and it's a strange new world for MMOs and their AddOn communities
- Debate: What is the greatest boss theme of all time?
- MCM Comic Con cosplayers never fail to amaze me with their outfits, and hopefully next year my inspiration manifests into my own weekend pass
- November 1
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- The Dwarf Fortress of survival gaming has been in continual development for 33 years, and its creator doesn't think he'll ever stop updating it: 'When I accomplish one feature, I always have two more waiting'
- The PC game releases we're most excited about in November
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