ConnexionPC Gamer Hardware Awards: 2025's wildcards—the best of the rest is full of surprises
Wildcards keep us guessing every year, shedding light on the hardware hits that don't easily fit into a neat category elsewhere.
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Can you order the games of 2025 by their release dates? Sort out the year's release calendar in out latest quiz!
Let's see how well you remember the last 12 months.
PC Gamer Hardware Awards: The best graphics card of 2025
A whole new generation of graphics cards dropped this year, but which can take the crown?
2025's best soulslike wasn't Nightreign, it was a DLC for a game we all dismissed as a Bloodborne clone back in 2022
Lies of P: Overture is a game no longer held down by its own strings.
None of us are at good at action RPGs as the Path of Exile 2 player who beat one of its toughest bosses without any gear: 'What did I just witness?'
No weapons, no armor, and no healing flasks.
Rainbow Six Siege servers are back after hackers randomly doled out bans, unbans, rare skins and 'billions' in in-game currency
Any transactions made with the sudden influx of credits have been rolled back.
GOG crawls out from under CD Projekt Red with a new owner and teases 'ambitious' plans for classic game 'rescue missions' starting next year
Don't worry: Your library of games is safe.
Path of Exile 2's new druid class is the most fun you can have being a bear in a videogame right now
I can bearly contain myself.
Last year I predicted all three of Valve's announcements so now I reckon I have the ability to speak these 2026 prophecies into reality
I predict a near-perfect year for PC gaming hardware, mark my words.
I played 31 new cozy games this year, and my top 6 picks are all completely different
Sometimes you just have to try something new.
2025 has been the pinnacle of weird and interesting videogames, and for me, not a single one can define the year as a whole
A verifiable pick 'n' mix of cool videogames leaves me struggling to define 2025 by just one.
We're living in the new golden age of 2D beat-'em-ups—but the best one released this year had one foot in a different genre entirely
Absolum offers a vision of the future for a 40 year old formula.
PC Gamer Hardware Awards: The best gaming microphone of 2025
Join me for a look back at the microphone movers of 2025.
How well do you know the videogame movie and TV adaptations of 2025? Test your viewing prowess with some trivia!
Did you stop playing games long enough this year to see some movies and shows based on games?
PC Gamer Hardware Awards: The best gaming headset of 2025
It's been a helluva year for gaming headsets, but which of our three contenders will take the ultimate prize?
Well, this year's graphics card launches were a right shitshow, eh?
This year saw the worst launch of any GPU generation I can remember in all my 20 years as a tech journo.
Steam has quietly become the best place to buy videogame soundtracks—even for games that were never released on PC
5 games I played this year made me rush out and buy their soundtracks, and each was rewarding to own in a different way.
The Fractal Design Scape feels like a gaming headset from the future, which makes it the best thing I've tested in 2035. I mean, this year
I've seen the light, and I don't want to go back.
I played more than 20 metroidvanias this year other than Silksong, and these are the ones doing the most creative/experimental things with the genre
Already unspooled Silksong? Here's six other platformers exploring new concepts.
