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Stranger Thingsfans are waiting in suspense until New Year’s Eve, when the final episode of the hit Netflix series will be released, bringing an end to the story of the unlikely heroes of Hawkins, Indiana. In a virtual roundtable Polygon…
As we put a bow on 2025, we’ve gladly acknowledged all the good that has emerged out of the games industry and the incredibly creative folks therein. We received unexpected hits, tried-and-true juggernauts, and a follow-up to one of the…
One of 2025’s surprise hits was Peak, a co-op climbing game that was created in a mere four months by studios Aggro Crab and Landfall. It caught fire on Twitch and in every friend group hooked on so-called “friendslop” since…
Balatro was PC Gamer’s 2024 game of the year. But that was in a more innocent age before we had to endure wave after wave of imitators. Seemingly every casino classic has been plundered at this point, with Balatro-fied spins…
“We resolved to move forward with our original vision”. As you’ll know if you’ve read our review, we adored Metroid Prime 4: Beyond, and consider it to be one of the highlights of the Switch 2’s library. However, with a…
As a teenager, I watched my grandma fight and defeat breast cancer. For over a decade, my family smiled through every milestone, whether it was a birthday, an anniversary, or something else, happy my grandma could be a part of…
Pasokon Retro is our look back at the early years of Japanese PC gaming, encompassing everything from specialist ’80s computers to the happy days of Windows XP. (Image credit: Compile) The exhausting whirl of festive treats, family visits, and the…
Avatar: Frontiers of Pandora launched at the end of 2023, after gracing the cover of Game Informer, but developer Massive Entertainment has been hard at work making the game even better. That includes a recent update that added New Game…
From the jump, the hivemind has always seemed a bit obsessed with Carol (Rhea Seehorn), one of about a dozen people across the world who proved immune to the “psychic glue” that enveloped the remaining seven billion into a blissful…
Occasionally, on one of my rare jaunts out into the real world, someone will ask me what I do for a living. “I write for PC Gamer,” I invariably respond. “Oh that’s cool,” comes the reply. “I’d like to buy…