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Evan's a hardcore FPS enthusiast who joined PC Gamer way back in 2008. After an era spent publishing reviews, news, and cover features, he now oversees editorial operations for PC Gamer worldwide, including setting policy, training, and editing stories written by the wider team. His most-played FPSes are Hunt: Showdown, Team Fortress 2, Team Fortress Classic, Rainbow Six Siege, and Counter-Strike. His first multiplayer FPS was Quake 2, played on serial LAN in his uncle's basement, the ideal conditions for instilling a lifelong fondness for fragging.

Latest articles by Evan Lahti

The top 100 PC games

By Phil Savage Published 20 October 25

Class of 2025 Welcome to the 2025 edition of the PC Gamer Top 100—our annual list of the best PC games you can play.

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Class of 2025

Absolum review: Finally, a beat 'em up with depth

By Evan Lahti Published 9 October 25

D&D beatdown Following in the bootsteps of Golden Axe and Castle Crashers, Absolum places the beat 'em up in a gorgeous fantasy setting.

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D&D beatdown

Absolum interview: How the beat 'em up's developers created four fabulous characters

By Evan Lahti Published 8 October 25

interview The first big beat 'em up in years, Absolum's cast are gorgeously animated.

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Watch The PC Gamer Streamer Showdown live today on Twitch

By Evan Lahti Published 9 September 25

event Eight streamers battle in Street Fighter 6, Peak, and Rocket League this week on our Twitch channel.

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Monster Train 2 update details and Q&A: developers share info on 4 new cards

By Evan Lahti Published 8 September 25

15 new cards are coming to Monster Train 2 Sept 10, along with the game's first significant rebalancing patch.

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Hornet from Hollow Knight: Silksong close-up

Is Silksong everything we hoped? 5 PC Gamer writers react to the first hours of Team Cherry's extraordinarily hyped sequel

By Lincoln Carpenter Published 5 September 25

First notes Were those six years of Silksanity well spent?

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First notes

Announcing The PC Gamer Streamer Showdown, broadcasting Sept 9-12

By Evan Lahti Published 20 August 25

news Tune in next month for a one-of-a-kind triathalon between popular streamers.

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Young man concentrating on playing a video game, using a colorful keyboard and wearing headphones in an internet cafe, with another player visible in the background

Why is logging into anything such a pain in the ass?

By Evan Lahti Published 9 August 25

opinion It's 2025 A.D. We've sequenced the human genome. We wield the power of the atom. Why can't we make logging in an easy task?

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Gia (left) and another character from Aether & Iron, dressed in 1930s clothing with an urban backdrop

This tactics RPG set on a floating New York City could be the next great noir videogame

By Evan Lahti Published 18 July 25

girl noir Aether & Iron is a "decopunk" RPG with characters and factions inspired by New York's actual history.

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Rematch's developers expected players to develop new tech fast, but 'not nearly as fast as it is going right now'

By Harvey Randall Published 3 July 25

News Tekkers!

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Rematch devs talk balls—specifically, how to balance the ball's feel with function: 'It's the basic brick of the game, it's like an atomic component'

By Harvey Randall Published 30 June 25

News Any tweaks need to be done in a "considerate and deliberate way".

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Absolum key art showing a grey-blue character with white hair swinging a sword over their shoulder, another masked character is visible in the background with fists raised

Absolum isn't just the best demo on Steam, it's one of my favorite things I've played in 2025

By Evan Lahti Published 13 June 25

spotlight The best game of Steam Next Fest is a roguelike beat 'em up.

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spotlight

Key art for 14 underappreciated games feature, including characters from SKin Deep, Solium Infernum, 1000xRESIST, MechWarriror 5: Clans, and more

The 14 most underappreciated games of the last year that you shouldn't have ignored

By Dominic Tarason Published 20 May 25

Encore! Roguelike repair, demonic politics and high-caliber pinball. Here’s some of 2024’s best, once more in the spotlight.

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Encore!

Outer space inspired DayZ's Dean Hall to become a modder and game developer, and now he's making a Kerbal successor called Kitten Space Agency

By Evan Lahti Published 21 March 25

Blast off Not even in an alpha state, Kitten Space Agency is inspiring a community of developers to join its mission.

Blast off

The latest big game on Steam is Fragpunk, or as I like to call it, 'kitchen-sink Counter-Strike'

By Evan Lahti Published 13 March 25

FPYES Fragpunk's fun is a reminder that some things are more important than a ruthless devotion to balance.

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Paleontologist says Monster Hunter's monsters are 'a little' realistic, but if a lizard swallowed something that big it would have to sleep for a month

By Evan Lahti Published 1 March 25

News Paleontologist and monster expert Dr. Darren Naish takes a deep dive into the creatures of Monster Hunter, rating their biological plausibility and exploring their real-world inspirations.

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Wayne June, famed narrator of the Darkest Dungeon games, has died

By Andy Chalk Published 30 January 25

news Red Hook Studios said June's work "is nothing short of iconic, and deserves to be recognized and celebrated at the highest levels of our industry."

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