Tyler Wilde
@tjcwilde.bsky.social
US Editor-in-Chief, @pcgamer.com | [email protected]
I remember trying out this theme, probably a few times, because I thought it was cool... maybe the colors reminded me of comic books or something. I'm sure I always switched back after a few minutes of experiencing the Hot Dog-verse. www.pcgamer.com/software/win...
Windows 3.1 included a red and yellow 'Hot Dog Stand' color scheme so garish it was long assumed to be a joke, so I tracked down Microsoft's original UI designer to get the true story
Setting the record straight, 33 years later.
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December 9, 2025 at 1:47 AM
I remember trying out this theme, probably a few times, because I thought it was cool... maybe the colors reminded me of comic books or something. I'm sure I always switched back after a few minutes of experiencing the Hot Dog-verse. www.pcgamer.com/software/win...
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My Skate Story review's up: "It's an esoteric art installation and interactive concept album navigated via powerslide and axel grind: a mesmerizing ode to the miserable occupants of an uncannily familiar underworld."
www.pcgamer.com/games/sports...
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Skate Story review
Skate the (under)world.
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December 8, 2025 at 5:03 PM
My Skate Story review's up: "It's an esoteric art installation and interactive concept album navigated via powerslide and axel grind: a mesmerizing ode to the miserable occupants of an uncannily familiar underworld."
www.pcgamer.com/games/sports...
www.pcgamer.com/games/sports...
Since it is a time of year for sharing music we listened to, I discovered the late Ryuichiro Senoh this year. RIP to a real one. Been learning to play this one. www.youtube.com/watch?v=uIRn...
Rockin' Chair
YouTube video by Ryuichiro Senoh - Topic
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December 5, 2025 at 1:03 AM
Since it is a time of year for sharing music we listened to, I discovered the late Ryuichiro Senoh this year. RIP to a real one. Been learning to play this one. www.youtube.com/watch?v=uIRn...
I am excited to Slay the Spire again. www.youtube.com/watch?v=6NgL...
Slay the Spire 2 Developer Interview | PC Gaming Show: Most Wanted 2025
YouTube video by PC Gamer
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December 5, 2025 at 12:20 AM
I am excited to Slay the Spire again. www.youtube.com/watch?v=6NgL...
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PC Gaming Show is live now, my face is in it in a couple of places (sorry) but there's also a load of new games and chat / trailers from people much more talented than myself (not sorry)
Come watch:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=b9DJ...
Come watch:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=b9DJ...
PC Gaming Show: Most Wanted 2025
YouTube video by PC Gamer
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December 4, 2025 at 7:47 PM
PC Gaming Show is live now, my face is in it in a couple of places (sorry) but there's also a load of new games and chat / trailers from people much more talented than myself (not sorry)
Come watch:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=b9DJ...
Come watch:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=b9DJ...
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This week's FOV 90 asks the question: Which FPS do you firmly believe plays better on controller, even when mouse and keyboard is an option? www.pcgamer.com/games/fps/so...
Sometimes, an FPS really is better with a controller
FOV 90: Which FPS do most people play with a mouse, but you swear by on controller?
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December 2, 2025 at 12:09 AM
This week's FOV 90 asks the question: Which FPS do you firmly believe plays better on controller, even when mouse and keyboard is an option? www.pcgamer.com/games/fps/so...
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Don't miss the PC Gaming Show: Most Wanted on Thursday, December 4!!
⏰ 12pm PST / 3pm EST / 8pm GMT / 9pm CET
📺 Join us on X, Twitch, YouTube and Steam
🔢 Countdown the 25 Most Wanted games
✅ Exclusive interviews and announcements
🕹️ Don't miss our 30 min preshow with Midas
Set a reminder below 👇
⏰ 12pm PST / 3pm EST / 8pm GMT / 9pm CET
📺 Join us on X, Twitch, YouTube and Steam
🔢 Countdown the 25 Most Wanted games
✅ Exclusive interviews and announcements
🕹️ Don't miss our 30 min preshow with Midas
Set a reminder below 👇
November 28, 2025 at 3:45 PM
Don't miss the PC Gaming Show: Most Wanted on Thursday, December 4!!
⏰ 12pm PST / 3pm EST / 8pm GMT / 9pm CET
📺 Join us on X, Twitch, YouTube and Steam
🔢 Countdown the 25 Most Wanted games
✅ Exclusive interviews and announcements
🕹️ Don't miss our 30 min preshow with Midas
Set a reminder below 👇
⏰ 12pm PST / 3pm EST / 8pm GMT / 9pm CET
📺 Join us on X, Twitch, YouTube and Steam
🔢 Countdown the 25 Most Wanted games
✅ Exclusive interviews and announcements
🕹️ Don't miss our 30 min preshow with Midas
Set a reminder below 👇
This week I discovered an artist called Freshman Biology who uses busted up folk instruments to make music that specifically sounds like it was made by a band of small, boisterous goblins and other creatures freshmanbiology.bandcamp.com/track/the-je...
The Jesters of Scraprock, by Freshman Biology
track by Freshman Biology
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November 22, 2025 at 3:23 AM
This week I discovered an artist called Freshman Biology who uses busted up folk instruments to make music that specifically sounds like it was made by a band of small, boisterous goblins and other creatures freshmanbiology.bandcamp.com/track/the-je...
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?
Microsoft's head of AI doesn't understand why people don't like AI, and I don't understand why he doesn't understand because it's pretty obvious
Is it really "mindblowing" that people are skeptical of software that consistently doesn't do the things we're told it can do?
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November 21, 2025 at 11:54 PM
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?
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Rebecca was one of the founders of Interplay and programmed & designed for some of the most influential games of my youth, notably Bard's Tale I & III and Wasteland. She will be missed.
November 17, 2025 at 10:18 PM
Rebecca was one of the founders of Interplay and programmed & designed for some of the most influential games of my youth, notably Bard's Tale I & III and Wasteland. She will be missed.
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We're delighted that @frankieward.bsky.social will be joining us to present the PC Gaming Show: Most Wanted on Thursday, December 4. Join us as we unveil the 25 most wanted games coming to PC
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November 18, 2025 at 5:00 PM
We're delighted that @frankieward.bsky.social will be joining us to present the PC Gaming Show: Most Wanted on Thursday, December 4. Join us as we unveil the 25 most wanted games coming to PC
#PCGamingShow
#PCGamingShow
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"I think that each project I make in whatever medium it will be, will largely be unconnected," says Blue Prince developer Tonda Ros.
My favorite game of 2025 won't get a sequel, says its developer: 'Each of my projects will be completely standalone'
"I don't ever plan on making a sequel to Blue Prince," said developer Tonda Ros.
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November 15, 2025 at 12:12 AM
"I think that each project I make in whatever medium it will be, will largely be unconnected," says Blue Prince developer Tonda Ros.
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Oh snap new FOV 90 just dropped (multiple hours ago) www.pcgamer.com/games/fps/bl...
Black Ops 7 has problems, but Call of Duty recognizes where the wind is blowing: The triumphant return of loose SBMM and persistent lobbies in the FPS
FOV 90: Call of Duty's "minimal SBMM" experiment makes a good impression.
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November 15, 2025 at 1:18 AM
Oh snap new FOV 90 just dropped (multiple hours ago) www.pcgamer.com/games/fps/bl...
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Big news from Valve today as it announces the Steam Frame, Steam Machine, and Steam Controller. Details here: www.pcgamer.com/hardware/val...
Valve announces three new products: here's what you need to know
Good things come in threes?
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November 12, 2025 at 6:03 PM
Big news from Valve today as it announces the Steam Frame, Steam Machine, and Steam Controller. Details here: www.pcgamer.com/hardware/val...
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"I'm always trying to push it, always trying to push it more. Like, how heavy can we get it? I'm really exploring the extremes of distortion with this project. How distorted can you get it, where you lose the musicality, and then bring it back."
Mick Gordon is asking 'how heavy can we get it?' in his first full game soundtrack since Doom Eternal: 'The actual feeling I'm trying to capture is from the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles movie'
"It's celebrating that deformity, almost like some form of rebellion."
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November 10, 2025 at 4:27 PM
"I'm always trying to push it, always trying to push it more. Like, how heavy can we get it? I'm really exploring the extremes of distortion with this project. How distorted can you get it, where you lose the musicality, and then bring it back."
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Very spirited @pcgamer.com GOTY meeting this year. Such a variety of games to debate the merits of, not a year where there's a perfect consensus on anything.
November 6, 2025 at 6:22 PM
Very spirited @pcgamer.com GOTY meeting this year. Such a variety of games to debate the merits of, not a year where there's a perfect consensus on anything.
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Here it is. The absolute strategy beast that is Europa Universalis 5. My review:
www.pcgamer.com/games/strate...
www.pcgamer.com/games/strate...
Europa Universalis 5 sets a new bar for historical simulation complexity
Even hardened grand strategy veterans may be startled by the complexity of this historical simulation.
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October 31, 2025 at 5:34 PM
Here it is. The absolute strategy beast that is Europa Universalis 5. My review:
www.pcgamer.com/games/strate...
www.pcgamer.com/games/strate...
I really enjoy our tradition of publishing a new Top 100 list every year. Each year it makes people mad or happy in new ways and reflects something of the state of PC gaming—it's cool that Dwarf Fortress and Caves of Qud are both in the top 10 this year.
The top 100 PC games
Welcome to the 2025 edition of the PC Gamer Top 100—our annual list of the best PC games you can play.
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October 25, 2025 at 12:19 AM
I really enjoy our tradition of publishing a new Top 100 list every year. Each year it makes people mad or happy in new ways and reflects something of the state of PC gaming—it's cool that Dwarf Fortress and Caves of Qud are both in the top 10 this year.
Double Fine and Obsidian appear to be doing well under Microsoft, but it is hard to square talk about nurturing creativity with everything else that has happened in the past five years. www.pcgamer.com/gaming-indus...
Xbox boss Phil Spencer says 'nurturing and protecting creative teams that want to go take risks' is the priority, admits 'we don't always succeed at that'
The Microsoft Gaming CEO spoke about his priorities at an industry event, but contradictions haunt the company's grand strategy.
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October 24, 2025 at 2:13 AM
Double Fine and Obsidian appear to be doing well under Microsoft, but it is hard to square talk about nurturing creativity with everything else that has happened in the past five years. www.pcgamer.com/gaming-indus...
Strange perspective. The audience doesn't define itself, it's defined as whoever consumes the things. If whiners were the problem, publishers could price them out by charging $1,000, and then they would no longer be the audience.
AAA video games should cost $100 on launch. this would still be extremely cheap for the amount of time and enjoyment you get out of them! But an audience of whiny babies has kept them literally at the same price for *two decades* despite both general inflation *and* sector-specific costs rising
October 23, 2025 at 10:46 PM
Strange perspective. The audience doesn't define itself, it's defined as whoever consumes the things. If whiners were the problem, publishers could price them out by charging $1,000, and then they would no longer be the audience.
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lest anyone doubt PC Gamer's serious about the top 100 please find attached this screenshot from the meeting where we all pitched each other on our most-wanted games for the list
October 22, 2025 at 12:23 PM
lest anyone doubt PC Gamer's serious about the top 100 please find attached this screenshot from the meeting where we all pitched each other on our most-wanted games for the list
I've become mesmerized by Erik Satie's Gnossienne No. 1, whose sheet music includes instructions like "wonder about yourself," and spent the week practicing it obsessively. My piano skills are not quite worth sharing yet but here is someone whose performance I like. youtu.be/oOTpQpoHHaw?...
ERIK SATIE Gnossienne 1 - Alessio Nanni, piano
YouTube video by Alessio Nanni
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October 17, 2025 at 6:15 PM
I've become mesmerized by Erik Satie's Gnossienne No. 1, whose sheet music includes instructions like "wonder about yourself," and spent the week practicing it obsessively. My piano skills are not quite worth sharing yet but here is someone whose performance I like. youtu.be/oOTpQpoHHaw?...
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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...
"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...
Battlefield 6 review
The series that once languished in Call of Duty's shadow now has all the juice.
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October 16, 2025 at 10:37 PM
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...
"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...
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For those with good taste in Battlefield modes
October 10, 2025 at 5:47 PM
For those with good taste in Battlefield modes