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- October 31
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- The proof is undeniable: People will still pay for great shooters
- If you're still on the fence like I was, take the plunge and try a lightweight wireless gaming mouse because they're seriously fantastic
- You can't take the Arcs out of Arc Raiders, and if you want the robots nerfed, you're missing the whole point
- Liam Hemsworth is so cautiously not awful as Geralt of Rivia that he's basically invisible in The Witcher season 4
- The Horus Heresy books reading order: Where to start and where to stop with Warhammer 40,000's massive prequel series
- October 30
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- GDQ's upcoming event, Games Done Queer, has already become a fierce rallying cry of support for LGBT rights in the US: 'We had 450 hours of content submitted for the 36-hour show'
- Forget space marines and orks, the secret best faction in Warhammer 40,000 is a tribe of cannibal chicken aliens—and yes, I will elaborate
- The Witcher season 4 review: Liam Hemsworth becomes Geralt in time for The Witcher to fully become an ensemble show where he's basically supporting cast
- October 29
- October 28
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- Why is Battlefield 6 so afraid of big maps?
- FEAR is turning 20, but Monolith's terrifying shooter hasn't lost its touch
- Duet Night Abyss is shedding its gacha shackles for a true free-to-play action RPG experience
- What I want from Fortnite's Simpsons mini season: a decent sniper rifle, a flying skateboard, and proper comms from Epic
- Reach is like a sci-fi Uncharted that lets you use Captain America's shield
- Surf the web to save the ocean—Wave Browser turns clicks into cleanup
- October 27
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- I stomped this Chinese Hades clone on my fifth attempt, because broken builds are a feature not a bug
- In this era of remasters, I am politely asking for way more Nintendo DS gems to be ported to Steam
- The demo for Warhammer 40,000: Mechanicus 2 is a tantalising slice of what could be the next great Warhammer strategy game
- Like scratching scratchers but don't actually want to blow money on the lotto? Try the demo for Scritchy Scratchy, a ridiculously moreish clicker game
- The Outer Worlds 2's toothless satire of capitalism should be a disappointment to everyone, except Microsoft
- Jurassic World Evolution 3 feels like it forgets that you're raising dinosaurs, not zoo animals
- Best Black Friday PC gaming deals 2025: The best discounts on the best gaming gear
- Black Friday gaming keyboard, mouse, and controller deals 2025: The very best offers on all things clicky
- Black Friday gaming chair deals: The best places to park your posterior for the best prices
- Black Friday gaming laptop deals 2025: The best discounts on laptops at every size and power level
- Black Friday SSD deals 2025: the fastest PC storage at the lowest prices
- Black Friday gaming PC deals 2025: all the prebuilt PC rigs worth your cash
- Black Friday gaming monitor deals 2025: Cheap screens for 4K, ultrawide, 1440p and high refresh 1080p
- October 26
- October 25
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- Dispatch's superheroic efforts have changed my mind about its episodic release schedule
- Battlefield had a messy predecessor, Codename Eagle, that predates even DICE’s involvement in the series
- PowerWash Simulator 2 introduces a new tool that makes washing mud from a billboard more enjoyable than ever
- October 24
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- It breaks our hearts to cut great games from the Top 100 list, but sacrifices must be made—these are some of the omissions that caused us psychic damage this year
- Vampire: The Masquerade – Bloodlines 2's biggest mistake is being called Bloodlines 2
- 25 years of making history: Europa Universalis lead Johan Andersson talks grey hair, running out of ideas for DLC, and only hiring a menus guy after 3 games
- I'm not sure what's scarier in Bye Sweet Carole, the demonic owl or the fact that it rips apart an integral part of my childhood
- Chain smoking and chugging beers are the only ways I can handle being chased by a bear who wants to to tear my ramshackle motor home apart in RV There Yet?
- Forget scary, Borderlands 4's Halloween event is just depressing
- Arc Raiders' 'match journey' feature is the perfect extraction shooter addition, as it charts my inevitable path to defeat, loss, and regret
- I've been trapped on a yacht playing dice with billionaires for two hours now, and I'm already sick of chopping off my own fingers
- October 23
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- The best fish tank PC case in 2026: I've tested heaps of stylish chassis but only a few have earned my recommendation
- My Steam account is now forever tainted with an achievement I got for accidentally upskirting a katana-wielding machine girl
- Everything is an Xbox now, so I see no reason to buy Xbox again
- Star Trek: Voyager – Across the Unknown is a dull, budget survival game, and I swear the show is so much better than this
- Screamer is one of the coolest arcade racers I've played in a hot sec, and I felt like a total badass drifting through its neon-lit cityscapes
- October 22
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- It feels sacrilegious to say it, but Ninja Gaiden 4 is at its best when it goes full Devil May Cry
- Escape From Duckov might look like a parody, but it's a full-fledged, full-featured singleplayer bottling of extraction shooter juice
- Battlefield 6 shouldn't wait 38 days to drop two exciting maps it desperately needs
- PC Gamer's Top 100 didn't have a single MMO in it this year—here are my 3 theories as to why we did that
- Battlefield 6's first batch of soldier skins is more tactical than tacti-cool, but if you thought that one green skin was a step too far, I don't know what to tell you
- Once Upon a Katamari has reignited my love for a series that hasn't released a mainline game in 14 years, and now it's the only game I want to play
- Fine, guess I'll play another 200 hours of Plants Vs Zombies since the remaster is perfect for Steam Deck
- Battlefield 6's new Eastwood map is the large, instantly iconic warzone I've been waiting for, but wait for it I shall
- October 21
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- Call of Duty could learn a thing or two from Battlefield 6's smallest map
- FMV dating sims are booming in Asia, inspired in part by 'micro-dramas' popular on TikTok: 'It's not actually real life, but it feels like real life'
- RPGs make up more than 30% of PC Gamer's Top 100, so clearly we've settled on a favourite genre
- Turns out Little Nightmares wasn't scary, Tarsier Studios was saving the horrors for the demo of Reanimal
- AdHoc and Critical Role's superhero comedy Dispatch cuts right to the best bits of Telltale's greatest games
- Vampire: The Masquerade – Bloodlines 2's sidequests are terrible, but you can safely skip them all
- Purgatory is best enjoyed with company in this vicious reimagining of Painkiller
- October 20
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- The kit filter: We've tracked down the gear pro-gamers use to git gud
- Assetto Corsa Rally is a hardcore sim that proves Dirt Rally 2 was going easy on you
- Confused about what's what in Warhammer? Let me introduce you to the Warhammer 40,000, Age of Sigmar, and Warhammer Fantasy settings in one easy beginner's guide
- The top 100 PC games
- I wouldn't say Little Nightmares 3 is a bad game, but it certainly doesn't feel like a finished one
- October 19
- October 18
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- I played communist Germany's only arcade cabinet and you can too, comrade
- Every MMO I play in 2025, I end up with a bag filled with trash—but that won't change any time soon, if at all
- 2027 is shaping up to be the biggest year for videogame movies yet, with the live-action Zelda movie, A Minecraft Movie sequel, Death Stranding, and more heavy-hitters planned
- October 16
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- These indie devs ditched AAA studios to make a co-op RPG with endless MMO-style dungeons, and after 7 years it's finally here
- How does Warhammer 40,000's first edition hold up today?
- I tested the beta version of MSI's beginner-friendly, AI-powered EZ PC Builder, and it told me the 9800X3D was the perfect chip for a budget gaming PC
- 'I'm as surprised as you are': After 7 years, Quantic Dream is taking a 'huge swing' with its first competitive MOBA, Spellcasters Chronicles
- Every Final Fantasy Tactics job, rated
- Borderlands 4's endgame modifiers make me irrationally angry while I replay old campaign missions on repeat
- If Battlefield 6's gear grind is this slow, I worry what its battle pass will be like
- October 15
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- Now it's in my hands the new Xbox Ally X is a far better handheld than I expected, but it's still got a lot of work to do to convince me it's a) worth $1,000 or b) that it's an Xbox
- The next great co-op horror game has arrived, and you can play it for free in this Steam Next Fest
- Between mail delivery, minigames, and BMX tricks, the demo of Tanuki: Pon's Summer feels like it was made specifically for me
- October 14
- October 13
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- World of Warcraft director admits it's too hard without combat mods and explains how bosses will change in Midnight: 'We're not looking to turn all our raid encounters into giant puzzles for people to solve'
- Final Fantasy 14's latest patch finally has me excited to log into Dawntrail again—I just wish it didn't take Square Enix 15 months to get here
- Blumhouse's latest horror game Sleep Awake is the first psychological horror I've enjoyed in a hot minute
- October 12
- October 11
- October 10
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- Battlefield 6 live launch coverage: All the news, updates, and reactions as the most-anticipated FPS of the year goes live
- Rufus is a free tool that gets rid of most of Windows 11's installation nonsense and I'll show you exactly how to use it
- Battlefield 6: This is what a well-optimised game looks like in 2025
- October 9
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- World of Warcraft: Midnight has some of Blizzard's most controversial changes yet, but playing the alpha still has me hopeful it'll figure them out in the next few months
- Battlefield 6's bots tea-bag when they're scared, sacrifice themselves, and are so blissfully unaware they couldn't kill me while I was AFK texting
- Want an ergonomic keyboard unlike any other? Experience peak performance with the ROG Falcata
- It's a great year for Battlefield 6 multiplayer, but the campaign's a misfire
- Panther Lake revealed: Intel's pocket powerhouse is a big step up from Lunar Lake, with performance and efficiency gains all around
- The Windows 10 era is over and with it, the last time I felt my PC was truly my own
- PC Gamer magazine's new issue is on sale now: Battlefield 6
- October 8
- October 7
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- Enginefall asks 'What if Snowpiercer was Rust and DayZ' in a game with great vision and so-so execution
- Starfinder: Afterlight could become one of my favourite CRPGs—even if the studio's co-founders are 'more scared about huge success than a bit of failure' when it comes to their big Kickstarter debut
- Secretlab's new InfinitePrecision pro-gamer armrests aren't what I thought they were going to be. Nor as precise as I expected
- As someone who actively avoids FPS games, the demo of Don't Stop Girlypop might be the answer to my prayers
- October 6
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- I build multiple gaming PCs a month and this is my favorite so far this year—here's what you'd need to build it yourself
- Point and click horror game Endacopia is carrying on Petscop's legacy of serving up unnerving and confusing adventures
- Guild Wars 2 exclusive: ArenaNet breaks down the changes coming to all 9 new elite specs in the next expansion
- MMO players just don't want a rigid casual/hardcore divide anymore—and all the big games know it
- October 5
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- After years of being criticized as old-fashioned, turn-based RPGs are absolutely crushing it with new ideas
- Trails in the Sky 1st Chapter is one of the best JRPG remakes I've ever played—it's also now the best way to get started with the beloved series
- Rockstar has launched 2 low-key partnerships for GTA 6, but with a splash of the Fortnite formula they could have a transformative effect on both Vice City and videogames
- It's been 20 years and I still have no idea how The Sims has managed to convince so many artists to rerecord their biggest hits in a gibberish language
- October 4
- October 3
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- A slot machine for gags disguised as a Vampire Survivors-like is taking over Steam, and I'm just as addicted to pulling the lever as the other 90K people playing it
- Dressmaker is my new favourite cosy game, even if my clients give me absolutely nothing to work with
- Buckle up, five of the most wishlisted games on Steam are all coming out this month
- I've become obsessed with building tiny houses for singing villagers in cosy decorating sim Twinkleby, which includes getting rid of the difficult ones by throwing their bags into the void
- The new My Hero Academia game will finally let you live out the fantasy of playing through the anime's big moments, but I'm still waiting for the Persona-style school sim
- Warhammer doesn't need to be an expensive hobby: Poorhammer is here to save your wallet
- October 2
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- The most anticipated FPS of the year is scoring points by recognizing a simple truth: people want performance more than ray tracing
- Goblin Cleanup manages to nail the art of unintentional yet hilarious co-op hijinks, making it a must-play for anyone looking for a new reason to yell at their friends
- The PC game releases we're most excited about in October
- Time is nearly up for Windows 10—but is your Windows 10 PC screwed?
- Monster Hunter Wilds may be on hard times, but the Pokémon-inspired Monster Hunter Stories 3 seems like it's checking every box RPG players want
- October 1
