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November 2025
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- 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
- November 10
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- PC Gamer's highest review scores of 2025
- If you love Arc Raiders, you really need to try my favourite extraction shooter: The Forever Winter
- 4 reasons why Alienware's advanced cooling tech will unleash your PC gaming potential
- The best PlayStation games on PC
- The dispatching minigame in Dispatch is good enough to be a standalone game
- 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
- The kit filter: The perfect parts for building your first gaming PC
- 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
