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January 2025
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- January 17
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- 'The kid is 100% getting kidnapped': Our 7 best guesses at what the plucky kid in the new Assassin's Creed Shadows art is gonna do in the game
- As a longtime GTA roleplayer, this documentary about actors putting on Hamlet inside GTA Online made me laugh, cry, and wholeheartedly regret ever calling Shakespeare a boring old bastard
- Ancient Egyptian horror game Amenti had everything lined up to make it a stellar scarefest—except it forgot to include some actual horror
- The Best of CES 2025
- 10 essential boomer shooters that every FPS fan should play
- January 16
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- Castlevania: Nocturne Season 2 both rushes and drags, but finally arrives at its best action scenes ever
- Nintendo Switch 2? Nah, I'll take a next-gen handheld gaming PC thanks very much
- I will get a Switch 2 for Pokémon and no handheld gaming PC on Earth can stop me
- Some 20 hours in, I can say that Civilization 7's age transitions are the series' most radical and disruptive mechanic yet
- January 15
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- Brutal survival RTS Age of Darkness kept me up until 4 am this morning as I tried to perfect the formula to halt the end of the world
- Here's how the new RTX 50-series cards perform against the previous generation of GeForce GPUs
- I'll say it: The best thing I saw from Nvidia at CES wasn't its sweet new GPUs, but some tasty AI every RTX gamer can enjoy
- An ode to the RTX 4090 and why high-end GPUs can sometimes be the best value
- MrBeast's YouTube schtick is somehow even worse with the obscene Amazon money being pumped into Beast Games
- January 14
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- Sid Meier's Civilization needs to keep reinventing itself to stay relevant
- The new Sims 4 start screen is by far the best it's had in a decade
- The Sims 4 is getting 2 base game updates to celebrate the series 25th anniversary
- 'The Sims continues to be this kind of funhouse mirror to the world': Sims boss Lyndsay Pearson on 25 years of the series and what's to come in the future
- The high-rise adventure SickWay VR is now available on Steam with a limited-time 10% discount
- Aloft strives to be the next co-op survival crafting game, but its early access version leaves a lot to be desired
- Pantheon: Rise of the Fallen is an aggressively old-school MMO that hates hand-holding so much it won't even give you a map—but a certain type of player might just love it
- This depraved roguelike will turn you into a desperate sociopath… uh, in a fun way
- January 13
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- Hyper Light Breaker has great combat, impeccable vibes, and its ambitious randomized open worlds actually work—the real test is if it goes the distance in early access
- To the dismay of my colleagues, I paid $15 for this Hatsune Miku desktop pet so you don't have to
- Five new Steam games you probably missed (January 13, 2025)
- January 11
- January 10
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- A tabletop RPG designer made a game about the way FromSoft NPCs say cryptic stuff and go 'heh heh heh' all the time, and the result is a love letter to the 'grubby little weirdos'
- World of Warcraft's competitive dungeon mode is struggling
- The best part of Marvel Rivals Season 1 is Mister Fantastic's obnoxiously fun chest-bump attack and his ridiculously OP kit
- It's time for me to admit that AI-accelerated frame generation might actually be the way of the future and that's a good thing
- 20 hours in, Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2 is a mad, systems-driven sandbox that captures some of the best parts of games like Stalker
- Dragonflight got WoW back on its feet, now we get to see if Blizzard can make the Worldsoul Saga run
- January 9
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- This bizarre roguelike has a new take on the Vampire Survivors formula: letting you build your own custom weapons out of brains, eyeballs, and chimpanzee spines
- 18 games the PC Gamer team can't wait to play in 2025
- The Witcher 3's now 2-year-old bonus quest is our first taste of the 'vibe' CD Projekt is going for in The Witcher 4
- 2024 was the year updates for old games beat out all the new ones for me
- January 8
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- 'It's simply impossible to make a difficulty level that's just right for all players': How Final Fantasy 14's lead battle designer has been playing a precarious balancing game for Dawntrail's dungeons and raids
- Please join me in getting super excited for all the cool looking survival games coming in 2025 (and beyond)
- January 7
- January 6
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- These are the 14 biggest upcoming RPGs of 2025—get ready for another amazing year for the genre
- Now D&D's 2024 rules revamp is almost finished, I've been visited by the ghosts of TTRPG past, present, and future to help me predict the next 5-10 years
- Five new Steam games you probably missed (January 6, 2025)
- January 5
- January 3
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- 6 games that could be bigger hits than you're expecting in 2025
- What are your 2025 gaming resolutions?
- The FBI put a $5 million bounty on the 'Cryptoqueen' last year but still hasn't found her, so take your pick: Russia, South Africa, or murdered on a yacht in 2018
- The Witcher season 4: Everything we know about Hemsworth's debut on The Continent
- 8 bold gaming predictions for 2025
- January 2
- January 1
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- 2025 PC hardware preview: This is the tech we want in our gaming rigs from the coming year
- Why do some games get a pass for jank and others don't?
- After a year in its company, I've done a complete 180 on my Steam Deck
- With the next Elder Scrolls and Fallout games still years away, here are 6 upcoming total conversion mods for Skyrim and Fallout 4 to get excited about
