VGC: The 2025 Information to Video Video games can be launched later this month.
As initially revealed final yr, VGC’s first bodily guide was compiled all through 2024, and the ultimate product has now arrived on the writer’s warehouse.
The guide was alleged to be launched in late February, however following a cyber-attack final month on the UK’s main guide printer CPI, manufacturing traces had been delayed, affecting quite a few books together with ours.
Nevertheless, the guide is now lastly arriving on the warehouse of our writer Pen & Sword books and ought to be rolling out quickly, each to prospects who ordered instantly from Pen & Sword, and those that pre-ordered from different guide shops like Amazon.
VGC: The 2025 Information to Video Video games gives a compendium of our greatest work from 2024, introduced as a bodily, hardcover guide designed to be collected and stored.
Impressed by basic gaming magazines of the previous, the guide options separate Information, Previews and Critiques sections, together with particular cowl artwork by Wil Overton, the much-loved illustrator of numerous iconic British magazines corresponding to Tremendous Play and N64 Journal.
Our Information part consists of a prolonged function breaking down all of the yr’s largest tales month-by-month, with a extra light-hearted tone than you’d often get on the primary VGC website (these signed up for our weekly publication on Patreon could have an concept of what to anticipate).
That is adopted by our Previews part, that includes a collection of two-page previews masking all the largest video games of 2025.
Our large Critiques part consists of specifically repurposed variations of all of our sport critiques from 2024, with every re-edited and redesigned within the fashion of a ’90s-era online game journal like Laptop & Video Video games.
Lastly, since no ‘journal’ can be full with out one, we finish with a Letters part consisting of emails despatched to us from VGC readers and Patreon subscribers.
Though most will know VGC for its on-line information, lots of our writers got here from a print background, within the days when sport magazines packed newsagent cabinets, writing for the likes of CVG, Official Nintendo Journal, and PC Zone.
Bodily media is one thing pricey to our hearts, so once we had been introduced with the chance to create a VGC guide by writer Pen & Sword, naturally, we jumped on the probability.
You’ll be able to nonetheless pre-order VGC: The 2025 Information to Video Video games instantly from its writer Pen & Sword Books, or from different on-line guide sellers together with, however not restricted to, Amazon UK and Amazon US (the place it’s at present deliberate for a Could launch).
