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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.

PC Gamer

Civilization 7 senior historian prays it'll be a 'gateway drug' into textbooks: 'I teach undergraduates in my other life, and my God, man, they don't read'

"I just want people to appreciate the world and the strangeness of the world," says Dr. Andrew Johnson.

PC Gamer

8 bold gaming predictions for 2025

What does the new year have in store for videogames?

PC Gamer

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Most of my favourite games of 2024 didn't come out in 2024

It's been a weird old year.

PC Gamer

Civilization 7 will let you hand the keys to the nukes to Benjamin Franklin and Harriet Tubman, and guess what? America's just showed up

It's a whole new world.

PC Gamer

Civilization 7 fans jealous of old man with wonderful flexibility beg the strategy game's developer to make him stop dancing

Prospector hit the Griddy

GamesRadar

From wealth and success to murder suspect, the life of Luigi Mangione took a hard turn

Luigi Nicholas Mangione was apparently living a charmed one: the grandson of a wealthy real estate developer, valedictorian of his elite Baltimore prep school and with degrees from one of the nation’s top private universities

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Healthcare CEO shooting suspect Luigi Mangione has connections to the videogame industry, claims to have worked on Civilization 6

Luigi Mangione has now been charged with the murder of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson.

PC Gamer

Civilization 7 is officially 2025's Most Wanted PC game, and the creative director told us how he’s going to get you to finally finish a Civ campaign

Civilization 7 aims to keep you invested until the end, even if it means changing sides mid-campaign.

PC Gamer

Exploring the 'twisted road' of Irrational's doomed XCOM game—from fighting aliens 'the size of entire city blocks' to a multiplayer mode where you could be the aliens

Inside the many promising, abortive concepts the BioShock developer came up with.

PC Gamer

The 8 most heartbreaking cuts from this year's PC Gamer Top 100

We only have 100 spots to list. Not every game is going to make it.

PC Gamer

After botching the Cree nation in Civ 6, Firaxis established a partnership with the Shawnee to ensure 'authentic, sincere' representation in Civilization 7

Tecumseh is one of the confirmed leaders in Civ 7, and developers seem pretty determined to get him right.

PC Gamer

Every Civilization 7 leader we know about so far

Who will lead your nation in Sid Meier's Civilization 7?

PC Gamer

Civilization VII recommends 16 cores and 32GB RAM for 4K gameplay — RTX 4070 or RX 7800XT is the minimum

Civ VII wants 32 GB of RAM for a 4K60 gaming experience at Ultra settings.

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Civilization 7 makers work with Shawnee to bring sincere representation of the tribe to the game

The chief of the Shawnee Tribe grew up playing video games, including hundreds of hours colonizing a distant planet in the 1999 title Sid Meier’s Alpha Centauri

GamesRadar

From Maya to Rome, Firaxis reveals Civilization 7's first six civs and there are "many more still to come"

There are just a few months left now

PC Gamer

Sid Meier was apparently baffled by the decision to launch Civilization 5 without Genghis Khan: 'Sid said, What?'

Civilization 7 will include leaders who are considered "critical" to fans, but we don't have a full list yet.

GamesRadar

Civilization 7 lets you "change the course of your own history" between each of its ages, before everything culminates in "sudden death"

"When you get to the end of the modern age, you've got this truly multicultural empire that you've built"

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33 years later, the $10,000 PC that built Civilization 1 is enshrined at Firaxis alongside the leather chair that Sid Meier sat in to make it

It did take some "creative salvage" to get it working

GamesRadar

Civilization 7 director teases "sudden death" wins that will keep you in the game even if you're way behind: "The chance to get that victory is pretty much always there"

Victory from the jaws of defeat

Evening Standard

Civilization VII: 15 things we know so far about the strategy game

Developer Firaxis is making pretty substantial changes to how the game works according to the previews

GamesRadar

After 8 years and multiple expansions, Firaxis had to make Civilization 7 because Civ 6 "was getting too big for its britches"

Civilization 7 is also solving a huge problem by dividing campaigns into three ages

GamesRadar

Civilization 7: Everything you need to know about the new Civ game

Here's a complete guide to the Civilization 7 release date, gameplay, trailer, and more.

PC Gamer

Civilization 7's new features: a revamped three-age structure, towns, navigable rivers, and more

Everything we know right now about the changes in Civilization 7.

PC Gamer

'If you fire it up, there's a build of Civilization 1 on there': The PC that Sid Meier used to make the first Civilization has a whopping 16MB of memory and still works

The Firaxis IT team got the classic Compaq Deskpro 386 running with the help of "some creative salvage."

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