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The first of smash hit roguelike Ball X Pit's three major free updates adds a falconer who fires balls out of her two pet birds
NEWS Two new characters, eight new balls, new passives, and a "surprise we don't want to spoil just yet".
Only diehard XCOM fans will have a chance at beating our latest quiz
CUT CONTENT Dissecting XCOM 2's alien autopsies.
I don't know why everyone's suddenly making games inspired by Spore, but this roguelike twin-stick shooter might be the best attempt yet at realising the lost potential of the cell stage
BUG REPORT You can play a free demo of Pathogenic on Steam right now.
This roguelike deckbuilder may look like edutainment, but its maths-based battles are surprisingly tense and strategic
OUT FOR THE COUNT Talystro flips the usual genre formula on its head.
Some of my favourite ever dungeons feature in this enormous and absurdly cheap tabletop RPG bundle
NEWS Nearly 100 iconic Dungeon Crawl Classics adventures for just $18.
The best RPGs on PC
Updated! Discover your next epic adventure with our list of the most essential RPGs you can play on PC right now.
Dogpile review: Canine charm elevates this bizarre roguelike deckbuilder about chucking pups in a pit
PIT BULL A scruffy but lovable little stray.
What games did you play over the holidays?
HAPPY NEW YEAR One last look back at the Christmas break.
As 2025 draws to a close, test your knowledge of another packed 12 months for PC gaming with our big end of year quiz
2025 See you again in 2026.
We're living in the new golden age of 2D beat-'em-ups—but the best one released this year had one foot in a different genre entirely
🏆 Absolum offers a vision of the future for a 40 year old formula.
Test your knowledge of all 14 games we celebrated in the PC Gamer GOTY awards 2025 with our latest quiz
GOTY 2025 Featuring Clair Obscur: Expedition 33, Hollow Knight: Silksong, Battlefield 6, and more.
PC Gamer's Game of the Year Awards 2025
The Gotys Our favourite PC games of the year.
Get in the mood for the rapidly approaching holidays by identifying gaming's winter wonderlands in our latest quiz
COLD COMFORTS You should find it easy, as long as you don't freeze up.
Is a return to the Divinity series the right move for Larian after Baldur's Gate 3? Our team of RPG fans is divided
BORN AGAIN The studio's newly announced game takes us back to Rivellon.
Total War: Warhammer 40,000 is totally real, so we've created a wishlist to send to the Emperor
Big and weird We have demands.
The new Control game isn't a shooter, it's not set in the Oldest House, and it doesn't star Jesse Faden—but, y'know, otherwise it seems like a faithful follow-up
NEWS You can always count on Remedy to defy expectations, and it's certainly doing that with Control Resonant.
After 2 hours playing this Spore-inspired roguelike, I've evolved into the best possible animal: a giant cow that grows apples on its bottom
DNA-MAZING Everything is Crab is a fascinating genetic adventure.
Celebrate 25 years of one of the best strategy series in gaming with our tricky Total War quiz
LOGS OF WAR Can you name every game in the series in just 3 minutes?
To celebrate Total War's 25th anniversary, 4 of the series' best games are being added to GOG's preservation program—and they're currently available at up to 80% off
NEWS Rome, Shogun, and both Medievals have been added to the store for only a few dollars each.
Ball X Pit is getting not just one but three free updates in 2026, adding new characters, buildings, evolutions, and of course more balls
NEWS But will there be more pit?
Marvel Cosmic Invasion review: This old school beat-'em up boasts perhaps the best roster of playable characters the genre has ever seen—there's just not enough for them to do
TEAM PLAYER More arcade magic from the creators of TMNT: Shredder's Revenge—but perhaps a bit too old school for its own good.
What's the point of being an adult if you can't buy yourself a big Joytoy Warhammer 40,000 action figure to display on your PC gaming desk?
Cyber Monday Walmart's offering discounts on a whole legion of different figures.
