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18 games the PC Gamer team can't wait to play in 2025
🕹️ There's lots to look forward to this year.
Splash Damage says layoffs are likely as the Transformers game it announced in 2022 is cancelled
news Transformers: Reactivate was first revealed at The Game Awards in 2022, but nothing's been seen of it since.
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang joins the rush to kiss Trump's ring: 'I'd be delighted to go see him and congratulate him'
news Just one problem: He hasn't been invited.
NetEase pulls funding for another studio: Former Halo Infinite design head says Jar of Sparks is 'halting work' while it looks for a new publisher
Jar of Sparks, headed by Halo and Destiny 2 veteran Jerry Hook, was founded in 2022.
Private Division's 'games and franchises,' including Kerbal Space Program, are reportedly being taken over by former Annapurna Interactive employees
news Take-Two sold off Private Division to an unnamed buyer in 2024.
Facebook and Instagram are ditching fact-checkers in favor of a Community Notes system inspired by X: 'Fact-checkers have just been too politically biased,' Zuckerberg says
news Meta founder Mark Zuckerberg said the election of Donald Trump represents a "cultural tipping point" and so it's time to make some changes.
Extraction MOBA Seekers of Skyveil will launch into early access in March, but first, the 'largest playtest' yet is coming later this week
news The new round of playtesting begins on January 10 and is open to all.
Less than 2 years after launch, 2K Games delivers a fatal piledriver to WWE 2K23, taking servers offline and removing it from Steam
news Offline modes will still continue to work, but all online functionality is gone.
Former Starfield lead quest designer says we're seeing a 'resurgence of short games' because people are 'becoming fatigued' with 100-hour monsters
news Will Shen says people already have huge, open-ended games they like, so it's tough for new ones to find room.
Marvel Rivals season 1 starts on January 10 as Dracula and Doctor Doom team up to 'disrupt the moon’s orbit' and unleash an army of vampires on New York City
news Looks like The Fantastic Four showed up just in time.
'Elon is a father who gets lots of sex' somehow leads to renewed claims that Elon Musk superfan Adrian Dittmann is actually Musk himself
news 2025 is three days old and I'm already very tired.
Helldivers 2 director decides to kick off 2025 by wading into a conversation about DEI: 'Make good games, don't make a contemporary political statement'
news Johan Pilestedt tried to clarify his statement by saying he was only talking about things "outside the theme of the game," which doesn't really clarify much at all.
Net neutrality is dead again: US court says the FCC can't bring back Obama-era internet regulations
news The Supreme Court's decision to overturn Chevron deference in 2024 cut the FCC's legs out from under it.
Clobberin' time is confirmed: The Fantastic Four is coming to Marvel Rivals and they're bringing a cute little robot along with them
news A full reveal is coming later this week.
Eternal Strands, the physics-heavy RPG being headed by Dragon Age veteran Mike Laidlaw, will roll out a playable demo a week ahead of its full release
news Laidlaw said Eternal Strands is "a game that benefits from 'feeling' it."
Hi-Fi Rush studio Tango Gameworks is officially reborn for the New Year, with a slightly new name
news New year, new Tango Gameworks.
Morels: The Hunt 2 is a great outdoors vibe when you're stuck indoors
🏆 Sometimes all you want to do is hunt mushrooms, snap photos, and chill out in the forest for a while.
The biggest gaming controversies of 2024
what a mess Layoffs, politics, and the culture wars dominated 2024, but there were plenty of regular, everyday goofs, too.
We learned just how small Valve really is this year, but also how good it is at raking in the cash: It's making more money per employee than Apple
news Valve is actually smaller than Larian, but in terms of pure money-making efficiency there's nobody bigger.
Dredge, the horror-fishing game with immaculate vibes, is free on the Epic Game Store
news It's another 24-hour giveaway, so get it while you can.
The multiplayer shooter with the radioactive bears and moose artillery is holding a holiday playtest with a brand-new game mode
news Striden's holiday playtest pits teams of players against hordes of enemies and an unforgiving game world.
Warner Bros. is delisting games again: a half-dozen Cartoon Network releases have been removed from sale on digital storefronts
news Samurai Jack: Battle Through Time, OK K.O.! Let's Play Heroes, and others are no longer available for purchase.
Starfield is surprisingly absent from Steam's 2024 bestsellers list despite taking a top spot in 2023
news Steam's "Best of 2024" list runs down the top-selling and most-played games of the year.
