VGC’s first book releases later this month
VGC gets physical with our first anthology, VGC: The 2025 Guide to Video Games
VGC: The 2025 Guide to Video Games will be released later this month.
As initially revealed last year, VGC’s first physical book was compiled throughout 2024, and the final product has now arrived at the publisher’s warehouse.
The book was supposed to be released in late February, but following a cyber-attack last month at the UK’s leading book printer CPI, production lines were delayed, affecting numerous books including ours.
However, the book is now finally arriving at the warehouse of our publisher Pen & Sword books and should be rolling out soon, both to customers who ordered directly from Pen & Sword, and those who pre-ordered from other book stores like Amazon.
VGC: The 2025 Guide to Video Games offers a compendium of our best work from 2024, presented as a physical, hardcover book designed to be collected and kept.
Inspired by classic gaming magazines of the past, the book features separate News, Previews and Reviews sections, along with special cover art by Wil Overton, the much-loved illustrator of countless iconic British magazines such as Super Play and N64 Magazine.
Our News section consists of a lengthy feature breaking down all the year’s biggest stories month-by-month, with a more light-hearted tone than you would usually get on the main VGC site (those signed up for our weekly newsletter on Patreon will have an idea of what to expect).
This is followed by our Previews section, featuring a series of two-page previews covering all the biggest games of 2025.
Our huge Reviews section consists of specially repurposed versions of all of our game reviews from 2024, with each re-edited and redesigned in the style of a ’90s-era video game magazine like Computer & Video Games.
Finally, since no ‘magazine’ would be complete without one, we end with a Letters section consisting of emails sent to us from VGC readers and Patreon subscribers.
Although most will know VGC for its online news, many of our writers came from a print background, in the days when game magazines packed newsagent shelves, writing for the likes of CVG, Official Nintendo Magazine, and PC Zone.
Physical media is something dear to our hearts, so when we were presented with the opportunity to create a VGC book by publisher Pen & Sword, naturally, we jumped at the chance.
You can still pre-order VGC: The 2025 Guide to Video Games directly from its publisher Pen & Sword Books, or from other online book sellers including, but not limited to, Amazon UK and Amazon US (where it’s currently planned for a May release).
