"Silksanity will truly never end" www.pcgamer.com/games/action...

So very tired, but I couldn't let 2025 end without taking stock of Microsoft's embarrassing treatment of gaming, Windows, and indeed human beings while it chases the AI money train

2025 was bad in all kinds of ways but it was, as ever, a good year for writing about videogames on @pcgamer.com. I spend as much time editing as writing, so here's a short thread of some work I'm proud to have helped shepherd this year! 1. @edgarallanbro.bsky.social on why Virtua Fighter endures

I like video games because they allow me to act out my wildest power fantasies

It's been fascinating to watch Diablo 4 get better and better over the last few years, even if the amount of reworks was starting to get exhausting. That era is over with the latest season, which is easily its best yet. www.pcgamer.com/games/rpg/di...

in the dreglord straight up nunning it w/ @applecider.bsky.social and @foxharper.bsky.social

good nightreign night with @applecider.bsky.social and @tylercolp.bsky.social -- first time dreglord kill for apple, and this incredible triple Undertaker photo from a different run where we offed the dogs in under 2min

I'm glad that the Diablo 4 Lord of Hatred writers agree that Lilith made some good points in the original campaign. www.pcgamer.com/games/rpg/ev...

its genuinely so fucking cool to hear that Last of Us director had the foresight to see the stagnation doing more of the same would lead to and was like "nah fuck this I want to keep making new interesting things" this rules and his new game looks rad as hell store.steampowered.com/app/3041680/...

looks like i beat nightreign 😌

this episode was literally so good, subscribe so you can hear it

Saved a Caligo attempt from disaster by using a Wending Grace and getting over to @tylercolp.bsky.social so we could get @xoxogossipgita.bsky.social their first kill! #nightreign

I cannot imagine a thing I want less than a "live service" Fromsoft game. Jesus christ. That is an extremely "LISTEN to yourselves" moment, to me.

There are many reasons these types of comments are funny, but they mostly make me wonder if gamers can imagine anything that isn’t animated by profit.

The first of the two new bosses in the Nigthreign DLC is already one of the best in the entire game damn

It's impressive how good Elden Ring Nightreign is for a game that even the director admits was mostly reused assets with lots of polish. I hope we get more games at this scale from FromSoftware. www.gamespot.com/articles/eld...

NEW: I spoke to Team Cherry about Silksong DLC, cut content, difficulty settings, storytelling, what they were thinking with Bilewater, the lack of signposting for Act 3, whether they'll do another Hollow Knight game, and much, much more www.bloomberg.com/news/newslet...

found the stoner version of any austin youtu.be/9rRgfQkcKpQ

I was on the latest episode of Button Mash to talk about all the surprise Steam hits of 2025, and how you just can't predict the year in gaming without leaving a few blank spots for the surprise REPOs and Schedule 1s of the world.

Spoke to a number of devs about how, in the face of CEOs claiming gen-AI is the future, their declaration of being genAI free is making waves.

"Our society might have stumbled into the most embarrassing possible cyberpunk dystopia, but—as of today—it's at least one in which wordwizards who can mesmerize the machine mind with canny verse and potent turns of phrase are now a pressing cybersecurity threat." www.pcgamer.com/software/ai/...

The tech industry's smol bean act is so maddening. Gee, all we did is put out products that make frequent errors while telling everyone they're going to lose their jobs to them. How come they don't like that?

Here's why Overwatch 2 is skipping a new tank hero this year. www.pcgamer.com/games/fps/ov...

I consider it my professional obligation to inflict as much collateral psychic damage on passing web designers as possible.

"He's a god, not a goose, respect him." www.pcgamer.com/games/mmo/ke...

This week's FOV 90 (my FPS column at @pcgamer.com) is about a very good mod that recreates Halo 3 multiplayer in Counter-Strike 2. It's also about how badly Valve has squandered Source 2. www.pcgamer.com/games/fps/co...

I can't believe I had to write this story but I guess nobody else was going to give a solid clarification on the new Overwatch hero's role. www.pcgamer.com/games/fps/ov...

I love all the bizarre quirks of video game design, especially when they have the power to bring down a beta. www.pcgamer.com/games/world-...

Death of the Author: An Alan Wake Series Retrospective youtu.be/RRh3r_AhUw0

this nun is about to break my duchess streak

if you don't have a group chat that works together to prove why an entire genre of humor isn't funny you're missing out

they added a villain to peak

Blizzard says a premium currency makes it easier to buy multiple items, but, as Reddit user Pariah points out, "so does a shopping cart." www.pcgamer.com/games/world-...

I'm tired. www.pcgamer.com/gaming-indus...

The Dwarf Fortress Siege Update briefly reintroduced an old bug where dwarf babies pilot their moms like mech suits until they die of dehydration because babies don't know what drinking is.

Elden Ring Nightreign's Duchess for GOTY (girl of the year)

i owe so many video game designers an apology

Damn, did PC Gamer always go this hard? www.pcgamer.com/gaming-indus...

update: 😭😭😭😭

come join me in being angry at that one IKEA lamp ad

mmorpg players of bluesky: hit me with your most memorable experiences where you bit off more than you could chew as a low level newbie. for me, i spent hours fighting an elite yeti 2x my level in dun morogh, complete with farming feathers for slow fall and mountain parkour

I asked Path of Exile 2's director if the game is going to make it out of early access next year. He seems more confident about it than I am. www.pcgamer.com/games/rpg/pa...

I had a wonderful chat with the game director of Path of Exile about its next expansion, which will be the first time in the studio's history that it will rework an old mechanic. I'm a PoE 2 baby but I might give this one a shot. www.pcgamer.com/games/rpg/af...

Double Fine’s Keeper is one of the most gorgeous games I’ve ever played. Here’s my review: www.pcgamer.com/games/advent...

After a week of good times, here's my final Battlefield 6 review. "Battlefield 6 understands that the best FPS is a place, not just a service. The execution isn't perfect, but the heart is there." www.pcgamer.com/games/fps/ba...

thinking about "gaming is waiting" again

WITCHBANE // Sojourn It is very obvious this cosmetic is inspired by Bloodborne so I spent quite a few weeks cobbling this set together from all of the spooky castle/Victorian city places, which is hard in Overwatch! #overwatch #sojourn #gamephotography #virtualphotography

My review-in-progress of Battlefield 6 is live. www.pcgamer.com/games/fps/ba...

The Megabonk patch notes cracked me up lol www.pcgamer.com/games/roguel...

"'The more we try to understand what's going on in the world around us—the more we don't just withdraw into a hermitude of my family and I as a nuclear unit, the more we try to understand our society—I think the more these kinds of games speak to us,' Short said."