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The year is 2013. Minecraft is still in its infancy. I was 17 years old, regularly joining multiplayer servers for a niche community and game mode called “ultra hardcore” (UHC), and having a great time on TeamSpeak with friends I’d…
Weird Weekend Weird Weekend is our regular Saturday column where we celebrate PC gaming oddities: peculiar games, strange bits of trivia, forgotten history. Pop back every weekend to find out what Jeremy, Josh and Rick have become obsessed with this…
Personal Pick (Image credit: Future) In addition to our main Game of the Year Awards 2025, each member of the PC Gamer team is shining a spotlight on a game they loved this year. We’ll post new personal picks each…
Gear of the Year (Image credit: Future) Check out more of the year’s best tech in our PC Gamer Hardware Awards 2025 coverage. Every year, vendors fill the market with a veritable mass of new motherboards, all vying for your…
In November 2017, Bethesda Softworks and port specialists Panic Button performed what seemed like a miracle: They released a Switch port for id Software’s recent reboot of Doom. The game, a famously fast-paced, intense shooter with modern graphics, seemed ill-suited…
2025 was a fantastic year for gaming, from horror juggernauts like Silent Hill f to beloved indie titles like Hades 2 and Hollow Knight: Silksong. But while many of 2025’s best games have gotten their accolades via The Game Awards,…
“There’s pride in it for me”. Over the holiday season, we’re republishing some of the best articles from Nintendo Life writers and contributors from 2025. This article was originally published in March. Enjoy! Jeff Minter is, perhaps quite rightly, referred…
Gear of the Year (Image credit: Future) Check out more of the year’s best tech in our PC Gamer Hardware Awards 2025 coverage. It’s been a relatively quiet year for new gaming CPUs, as AMD and Intel launched the bulk…
“In this age of diversity, the manufacturer itself has stubbornly refused”. Nintendo may have originated the concept of the cross D-Pad, but the company has practically abandoned this control method on both the Switch and Switch 2 (although thankfully not…