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September 30
- This year's 'COD Next' served up everything wrong with Call of Duty: Nonstop ads, manufactured hype, and a stagnant game
- The Witcher: Crossroads of Ravens book review
- Duskfade is 3D platformer nostalgia wrapped in a contemporary bow, with a demo available for you to try right now
- The Ruin: First Guardian is an action-packed RPG where every boss has a tragic story to tell
- Consume Me is a devastatingly accurate insight into diet culture and how all-consuming it is trying to attain the perfect lifestyle
- Someone please save me from Borderlands 4's horny talking shield: 'This is about my pleasure, not yours'
- The best deals in the 2025 Steam Autumn Sale
September 29
- Battlefield 6 feels more Battlefield, less battle royale, after overhauls to weapon handling
- Slapping screens on absolutely everything is the most unnecessary hardware 'must-have' I've seen to date, and I'm not mad, I'm just disappointed
- I've played every Call of Duty: Black Ops game, and will now attempt the impossible: Explaining all of the lore so you can understand Black Ops 7
- Borderlands 4 has a throwing knife-shaped problem, and a nerf isn't going to cut it
- Five new Steam games you probably missed (September 29, 2025)
September 28
- Every game, trailer, and announcement in the PC Gaming Show Tokyo Direct
- A GTA map modder reinvented the 26-year-old classic GTA 2 with a seemingly simple but actually quite complicated trick
- PC Gaming Show Tokyo Direct live coverage – all the reveals and trailers
- A new Danganronpa game means one thing and one thing only: Getting to hear its excellent soundtrack all over again
September 27
- Whatever happened to They Hunger: Lost Souls, the sequel to one of Half-Life's best mods?
- I played China's 'anime GTA' Ananta and I wasn't surprised to find Spider-Man swinging and Batman punching, but I wasn't quite ready for the vampire who vomits rainbows
September 26
- The more book tracking apps I try, the more I think we as gamers don't realize just how good we've got it with Steam
- Silent Hill f's finicky combat doesn't actually have to be an issue if you follow these cardinal rules
- Tiny Metal 2 is the third game in the turn-based strategy series, and it just so happens to be taking after my favorite Advance Wars
- Baby Steps is funny, but it's also a depressing, confrontational horror game about thwarted modern masculinity
September 25
- An obscure RPG's moral dilemma about the 'ethical' human meat alternative propping up a zombie society is one of the best side quests I've ever played, and Steam achievements show only 13% of its players have even seen it
- Yakuza Kiwami 3 is beautiful and ridiculous, and I'm finally going to actually finish the game this time
September 24
- So far, the Battlefield 6 campaign is satisfied being a Call of Duty cover band
- I just beat Silksong's Act 3, and I'm not just thrilled the game was hard—I'm glad it was mean to me, too
September 23
- Best gaming laptop 2026: I've tested the best laptops for gaming of this generation and here are the ones I recommend
- The keyboard that all other keyboards copied turns 40 this year: here's how the IBM Model M's legacy lives on today
- Face electrifying challenges in The House of Tesla
- Fortnite fans say Epic is 'throwing stuff at the wall' with baffling updates as Battle Royale concurrents dip—and there's some truth to it
- I was almost fooled by Beatblock's deceptively simple style before being floored by what a delightfully brutal rhythm game it is
- The Little Nightmares 3 demo has already convinced me that co-op is the way forward for the series
September 22
- The new Skate feels like it was made by people in suits rather than people with skateboards
- Silent Hill F would be better if the combat was less enjoyable, or if there was just less combat
September 21
- Five new Steam games you probably missed (September 22, 2025)
- Baldur's Gate 2 has great dungeons and epic quests, but my real love is for my fake friends: BioWare's first truly great companions
- BioWare never stopped making Baldur's Gate 2
- 25 years ago today, Baldur's Gate 2 set RPGs on the path to becoming the industry-defining genre they are today: 'We were putting all the fantasies that we had into the game'
September 20
- No MMO will ever have graphics as good as the text MUDs I played for years
- The untold story of SiN Episodes involves freeway chases, electrical cannons, a nude Elexis, and a whole lotta penises: 'It took Walmart saying they would cancel their order in order to get that removed'
September 19
- What's in your FPS rotation?
- Vampire: The Masquerade – Bloodlines 2 is richly authentic, intriguingly written, dripping with brooding atmosphere, and… not very fun to play, unfortunately
- The House of Tesla is a puzzler that takes you to the heart of the iconic Tesla Tower and its lost secrets.
- Nvidia and Intel joining forces could be seen as anti-AMD, but it just serves to highlight AMD's advantage with Ryzen and Radeon under one roof
- Eye-scanning Orb maker says 'there is no world where we are not going to have' biometrics to check we're human and keep games bot-free
September 18
- This metroidvania based on an old Atari 2600 classic had the audacity to release on the same day as Silksong, but it's a nice break from Hornet's hell
- Now that I'm done mourning BioWare, these are the RPG developers I'm expecting to carry the torch for the next decade
- Dying Light: The Beast PC performance analysis: Decent frame rates all round, nice graphics, and stutters only on low VRAM GPUs
- I honestly didn't think Hello Kitty Island Adventure could get any better, but the Wheatflour Wonderland DLC shows a lot of untapped potential
- Even in early access, Endless Legend 2 might already be my favourite 4X game—and I've played a lot of them
September 17
- Exhausted by Silksong? This breezier twin-stick spin on old school Metroid might just be the genre's second best this year
- In the 16 years I've played this series, Borderlands 4 is the first entry that's made me want to do post-game grinding—Gearbox just needs to fix its dang Wildcard Missions first
- This Frankenstein's monster of ARPG and battle royale from a studio founded by a former Blizzard chief creative officer is stitching together pieces of Diablo, Dark Souls, and PUBG into something new
- Stalker's remaster has taught me just how much of a terrible sicko I am for the pop of a Steam achievement
- Best SSD for gaming in 2026: the fastest and the best value solid state drives to perk up your PC
- I have finally played the best version of Battlefield 6, and of course it's big maps with lots of vehicles
September 16
- Borderlands 4 shed its iconic UI and all it got was this stupid live service-y inventory that doesn't let me filter my crap properly
- Are high-end GPUs even worth buying anymore? I'm starting to have my doubts
- Is Borderlands 4 the series at 'its most potent', or 'uninspired' and 'painfully dull'? The PC Gamer team is divided
- I thought the new space factory management sim from the creators of Dorfromantik would be just as cosy, but now I'm panicking over my twisted interplanetary production lines
- Of all that's wireless in this gaming life, gaming keyboards aren't just entirely pointless they're [expletive deleted] annoying
- We challenged two PC gamers to a crossplay racing tournament – here’s what happened
September 15
- Fata Deum is an early access god sim inspired by Black & White, but I wish I was just playing Black & White instead
- Moody and wooden, this PC and I have a lot in common: Asus ProArt Case PA401, Ryzen 7 9800X3D and RX 9070 XT build
- Five new Steam games you probably missed (September 15, 2025)
September 14
- This theme park sim based on a 30-year-old sci-fi movie is so much better than it has a right to be
- How Lies of P turned a rhythm game's hip hop and electronica songs into a gothic, melancholic soundtrack
September 13
- I was ready to be a crab about Silksong in the face of its memetic hype, but the game is simply too good
- The only good Postal game is a spinoff expressionist boomer shooter that takes place entirely in the protagonist's depraved mind
September 12
- When it comes to Borderlands 4 and its '8 cores or equivalent' requirement, it's actually core quality, not core count, that matters the most
September 11
- I've tested Borderlands 4 on a minimum spec PC and a monster RTX 5090 rig, and it runs just as 'Borderlands-at-launch' as you'd expect
- Is it better to be a 'patient gamer' or is playing new games at launch just too enticing?
- After 170 hours of Elden Ring Nightreign its new, increasingly evil Deep of Night mode has managed to hook me in again
- 'It would have damaged us forever': After the calamitous cancellation of Football Manager 25, what does FM26 need to deliver?
- 7 new cozy games with autumnal aesthetics that you won't want to miss this season
- I'm already in love with this eerie low poly delivery game that feels like Silent Hill meets Animal Crossing meets DoorDash
- Why we don't have a Borderlands 4 review yet
- Borderlands 4 live launch coverage: are you ready to loot 30 billion guns?
- Hack 'n' slash action roguelite Morbid Metal instantly hooked me when I played it at Gamescom, and now I can't wait to play more
- Rogue Point is a FPS roguelite that does everything in its power to encourage players to actually work as a team
September 10
- 9 metroidvanias to play if you've realized Hollow Knight: Silksong just isn't for you
- While we wait for Borderlands 4 to unlock, let's make a definitive ranking of the series' many musical cinematic intros
- I'm ranking every Borderlands game ahead of BL4's release from worst to best, because the people love their lists and I'm here to provide
- I've been testing Nvidia GeForce Now's RTX 5080 upgrade against an actual RTX 5080 and the two feel eerily close—although 4K streaming invokes the occasional wobble
- Le Samsung Galaxy S25 est-il recommandé pour le gaming ? Voici toutes les réponses à vos questions
- ¿Es el Samsung Galaxy S25 una buena opción para jugar? Tus preguntas frecuentes respondidas
- If you saw Ruiner and thought it would be cool in first-person, its developer is back with, you guessed it, an FPS
September 9
- I thought we moved on from hellish boss runbacks, but Silksong is here to remind us what it's like to be kicked while you're down
- I'm already dreaming about the Steam Deck 2, and the upgrade at the top of my wishlist is a sleeker, lighter form factor
- If you can't wait for the new Borderlands, I genuinely recommend BL3's solid DLC campaigns—which aren't nearly as obnoxious as the base game
- If you've ever wanted a roguelike with clever autobattler build-crafting that also looks like if Jim Henson had a particularly disturbing cheese dream, Flask is the game for you
- I jumped into the management god game Sintopia, only to have all my devil workers go on strike because I spent too much money on punishing sinners
- Borderlands 4's campaign skips could be a double-edged sword for Gearbox
- Ces 4 fonctionnalités secrètes transforment votre Samsung Galaxy S25 en compagnon de jeu hors pair
- 4 funciones ocultas que convierten tu Samsung Galaxy S25 en el compañero de juegos soñado
September 8
- The death and resurrection of Battlefield: Bad Company 2 is exactly why real server browsers are important
- I spent all weekend playing Hollow Knight Silksong and I'm totally enthralled, but nothing could completely live up to the hype after so many years
- I've taken a proper bargain of a case from Thermaltake and built a gorgeous white PC with it
- 'Our mission is to bring back lost treasures': Nightdive Studios' next remaster project is Outlaws, the cowboy shoot 'em up made on Lucas' Jedi Engine
- If you're having trouble with Silksong's difficulty, keep going—Act 2 is worth the pain, and it does get 'easier'
September 7
- Five new Steam games you probably missed (September 8, 2025)
- Dishonored 'sounded a little bit ridiculous' in the beginning, but came together with the help of the Sweeney Todd musical
- You've all been playing too much Silksong this weekend, have some sleepy videogame soundtracks so you can finally get a little shuteye
- We may never see PS2 classic The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers on PC, but we got the next best thing in Forgotten Realms: Demon Stone
September 6
- I'm mourning the Dragon Age game I missed my opportunity to play
- I spoke to FF14's 'Solo Only', who spent 85 days beating a single raid boss on his own, and I was wrong—that old MMO magic is still alive and well
September 5
- Is Silksong everything we hoped? 5 PC Gamer writers react to the first hours of Team Cherry's extraordinarily hyped sequel
- I would enjoy Everybody's Golf Hot Shots a lot more if everyone stopped YELLING AT ME
- Eye scans and digital IDs to stop online bots in games: It's not quite as Orwellian as you might think but proof-of-human isn't problem-free
- Borderlands 4 devs want to redeem the series' story, which is a tall task, since it's always been all over the place
- Dragon-riding PC exclusive Drakan: Order of the Flame deserves a glorious reawakening—here’s how you can take to the skies today
September 4
- Hollow Knight: Silksong live launch coverage: It's finally here
- I've already spent hours making builds, but I'm worried Borderlands 4's endgame isn't going to give me anything meaningful to do with them at launch
- Active noise cancellation is the latest trend for gaming headsets: here's how a different design philosophy could do much better than half-baked ANC
September 3
- After seeing 30 minutes of the new Bond game, I'm more excited for the shooting than the stealth
- September is absolutely stacked with city builders: Here's 8 releasing this month
- Path of Exile 2's newest update has me thoroughly convinced it's about to have one of the best action RPG campaigns in a long time
- If you're hungry for a co-op Borderlands 4 appetizer, give Big Daddy roguelite Abyssus a try
- The best Hollow Knight lore videos to watch before playing Silksong
- 007 First Light's opening mission was enough to convince me that I have to play this game, if only for IO's newer, younger Bond
- The most exciting new turn-based strategy game of 2025 throws together Jagged Alliance and Warhammer 40,000 in a dark sci-fi sandbox
- Boring, grindy and vindictive to veteran players: Destiny 2's Portal is a complete failure, and Bungie needs to take drastic action if it wants the game to survive
- Helldivers 2's new hive world update is absolutely kicking my ass, and it's just what the game needed
- Les amateurs de gaming auraient tort de sous-estimer le Samsung Galaxy S25
- Por qué es hora de dejar de subestimar al Samsung Galaxy S25 para gaming
September 2
- Wading into Helldivers 2's new Terminid hives to blow up their hearts, all as hordes of bugs swarm you is, unsurprisingly, exactly as cool as it sounds
- Linux almost turned my Gamescom trip into a catastrophic disaster, but a Windows USB came to my rescue
September 1
- Delays to escape the shadow of a launch like Silksong are about way more than just day 1 players: 'Every game has to fight and use whatever edge they've got available to stay visible'
- If you're like me and fell off Valve's other MOBA Deadlock, these last few months of updates are worth coming back for
- One of Roblox's biggest experiences right now is a bizarre Italian Brainrot character-stealing simulator and, lord help me, I now understand why it's so popular
- Total War: Warhammer 3's new random locations can cause a game-ending plague, plant nukes under your settlements, or even buff you in all future campaigns thanks to the power of Tzeentchian time-warpery
- I didn't know I needed dedicated photography lights until this $44 set turned up, but now I'm a convert
- Five new Steam games you probably missed (September 1, 2025)