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April 25
- After 25 hours of the Dune: Awakening beta, I'm sold on it as a survival game but still a bit iffy on the MMO parts
- Getting around in Dune: Awakening is a blast thanks to grappling hooks, suspensors, and the ability to climb literally anything
- Oblivion struggling to nail 60 fps on my RTX 5090 was not on my 2025 bingo card, but without frame gen Oblivion Remastered's top settings bring the card to its knees
- RuneScape: Dragonwilds has finally made me realise that, actually, maybe the skill grind isn't so bad
- Here are the best deals you can pick up in Fanatical's ongoing Level Up sale
April 24
- Credit where it's due: Bethesda is being admirably normal by letting modders carry on with their competing Oblivion remaster
- F1 25 aims to make up for its lacklustre predecessor with an improved handling model and the return of the Braking Point story mode
- I've tested Intel's new 200S Boost mode for its Arrow Lake chips and the verdict is simple: You should enable it immediately
- Oblivion Remastered is 'verified' for Steam Deck, but the original with mods is a far superior handheld experience
April 23
- A graphical history of Far Cry: 17 years of huge maps, epic vistas, and fast food fighting fun
- Fallout 3 Remastered seems almost inevitable now, but still a long way off
- Bugaboo Pocket is a Tamagotchi full of creepy crawlies
- Gigabyte's new gaming laptops and monitors are refreshingly elegant, while still packing elite specs
April 22
- Burden of Command is the World War 2 visual novel I didn't know I needed
- Get your game online-ready in hours with Planetary Processing
- How excited are we to replay a shinier version of Oblivion 19 years later?
April 21
- I thought I knew my keyboard until I played the Initial D typing game, which somehow takes touch typing even more seriously than drifting
- 5 years out from its last hero release, Heroes of the Storm is looking awfully spry for a 'dead game'
April 20
- Last Epoch's excellent new update proves we're in a golden age of ARPGs, and there's something here for everyone
April 19
- This subreddit dedicated to the worst computer setups on Earth makes me weirdly proud to be a PC gamer
- You don't see the Havok logo much anymore, but the legendary physics middleware used in Half-Life 2 never went away—just the splash screens
- When a game's identity becomes wrapped up in its rarity, what happens when it's re-released on Steam for 20 bucks?
- Yes, Zero Company really is Star Wars XCOM, and it's got the permadeath to prove it
April 18
- Thank you for ruining my life, Larian: Even after 900 hours and a dozen playthroughs, Baldur's Gate 3's Patch 8 has me obsessed all over again
- I hope they didn't make the Oblivion NPCs hot
April 17
- Rivals Hover League is the new standard for vehicular arena-based combat
- Path of Exile 2's 0.2 update wasn't all bad: The endgame finally feels like it's headed in the right direction
- RuneScape: Dragonwilds has fixed the classic survival crafting trope of endlessly chopping down trees thanks to an excellent spell system that does the hard work for you
- Forget Dress to Impress and Blue Lock Rivals, my new favourite Roblox experience is literally driving around Dorset
April 16
- While World of Warcraft players wait for bad-loot-luck protection, I have a humble suggestion for Blizzard
- I'm declaring 2025 the year of the ninja: we're being spoiled with one glorious assassination game after another
- Is Dawntrail the FF14 equivalent of WoW's Shadowlands expansion? No, it's more boring than that
- The new side-scroller from the developer of Blasphemous isn't as brutal as you might expect—but it is a seriously satisfying slice of retro ninja action
- Nvidia RTX 5060 Ti launch day: Where to buy the new mainstream GeForce RTX 50-series graphics card, including all those at MSRP
April 15
- The best REPO mods: add more monsters, Mimics, and fashion to the creepy co-op company sim
- RuneScape: Dragonwilds' build mode is easily the best I've played since Valheim
- My favourite part of Overwatch 2 Stadium is all the wacky ways you can make Soldier 76 the most annoying hero to walk this planet
- As games become ever more multithreaded, Intel's hybrid CPU design might start to lag behind AMD's simpler but more effective architecture
- This tabletop RPG is like Cyberpunk 2077 but with gods and mythology running rampant—and we've created an exclusive character you can play as
April 14
- My biggest pleasant surprise of 2025 so far has been the free prequel to one of my favorite indie RPGs, made with FromSoft's 25-year-old game making toolset
- How Bethesda turned the radioactive lemon that was Fallout 76 into endless lemonade: 'It taught me a lot, as pain does'
- After 6 years of hype, can Hollow Knight: Silksong really live up to the sky-high expectations?
- Five new Steam games you probably missed (April 14, 2025)
April 13
- Fallout and Skyrim show us that talented developers make great games when you leave them alone
April 12
- Marathon: Everything we know about Bungie's sci-fi extraction shooter
- After thousands of hours in Destiny I had serious concerns about Bungie's Marathon reboot, but now I've played it my worry isn't whether or not it will be good
April 11
- Rematch blew away my expectations—trailers don't do Sloclap's 5v5 football game justice
- My favorite thing about Blue Prince's intricate puzzles is that they're optional—you don't have to solve most of them to finish the game
- Marvel Rivals Season 2 is fire, mostly thanks to Emma Frost's ability to choke slam other heroes out of their ultimate abilities
April 10
- The next game from the creator of Hyper Light Drifter is a Toonami-core anime throwback set in one of the most interesting Metroid-style worlds I've seen in a while
- The 5 most historically inaccurate moments in the Assassin's Creed series
- Crimson Desert is an unrestrained feast of violence, with a toolkit of moves that's like a fusion of every action RPG protagonist of the past decade rolled into one
- It took me 25 hours to 'finish' puzzle strategy game Blue Prince—and 15 hours after that I'm still uncovering new mysteries
- After years of historical 4X games, Endless Legend 2 is a much-needed flight of fantasy for the genre
April 9
- Schedule 1 is the kind of instant Steam hit that was only ever going to come from a complete rando
- EOFY sales 2025: the next best opportunity to pick up cheap PC gaming gear
April 8
- At last: Monster Hunter Wilds is willing to kick my ass
- ROG Ally X, Legion Go, and now the Nintendo Switch 2 are missing one important thing: Why don't more handhelds have OLED screens?
- The Last of Us Part 2 proves that 8 GB of VRAM can be enough, even at 4K with maximum settings, so why aren't more games using the same clever asset-streaming trick?
- Nobody told me that Old School RuneScape was home to a perfect time capsule of mid 2000s cybersecurity
April 7
- I never actually looked up what Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 is about, and there's some bonkers RPG lore behind the title
- Path of Exile 2's disastrous new update reveals the core tension at the heart of its design: How do you make a game with meaningful combat when everyone just wants to blast monsters?
- AMD RX 9070 XT vs Nvidia RTX 5070 Ti: This is 2025's graphics card battle royale
- Dawn of the Hunt is Path of Exile 2's most contentious update, but it's also the most fun I've had with ARPG necromancy, well… ever
- Five new Steam games you probably missed (April 7, 2025)
April 5
- Assassin's Creed Shadows fixes Valhalla's biggest mistakes
April 4
- We haven't even gotten over the sting of $70 games and now Nintendo's asking people to pay $80 for Mario Kart
- I loved the Nintendo Switch, but the Switch 2 looks like every other console now: A worse PC with a few exclusive games
- The 'Stardew Valley-like' genre desperately needs a real name and I have the perfect answer
- Repose's demo is short, but this 2D horror game is already feeling like something out of Severance
- Assassin's Creed Shadows' huge but shallow open world is proof that we've lost the Nemesis System just when we need it most
- Razer Blade 16 vs Asus Zephyrus G16 2025 edition: We're potentially picking the best gaming laptop of this generation
- Build guns that can bathe entire cities in nuclear fire using the power of math in this explosive roguelike
- Nintendo should have cribbed from Valve on how to make a good handheld tech demo
April 3
- I don't know if Sunderfolk can replace tabletop RPGs, but its smartphone controls feel like a great alternative if your DM's too exhausted to run a campaign
- The Last of Us Part 2 Remastered isn't perfect on PC but it's a million times better than Part 1
April 2
- Schedule 1 is my favourite co-op game of the year because it lets me bully my friends into doing the hard parts for me
- The first Radeon was superior to Nvidia's GeForce2 in almost every way but it set the tone for how AMD would fair against the jolly green giant for the next 25 years
- It's clear Hasbro, the custodians of D&D, have no idea what to do with Baldur's Gate 3's success—but that's nothing new, it's spent the past 10 years fumbling the bag
- The MSI Modern 15 F13M: the modern laptop for modern life
April 1
- The PC game releases we're most excited about in April
- I expected a Genshin clone before playing this upcoming MMO spinoff of a massive Chinese MOBA, but the depth of its hot-swappable combat styles proved me wrong
- The good, the bad, and the fugly: April Fool's day in gaming
- After playing a Den of Wolves heist, I have high hopes for the cyberpunk take on Payday 2
- This nearly budget gaming PC build made me realise availability is just as important as affordability when building a cheap machine
- Assassin’s Creed Shadows forgets to make learning history fun