Booting up Cursed Halo feels, for a few moments, like any other Halo playthrough. The introductory cutscene rolls, Cortana makes some cheeky comments, the whole thing feels tense and grand. You’ve seen this before. Then the cutscene jumps to the prep

I’ll never forget my first real fight against another player in EVE Online– it had taken me, a fresh-faced noobie at the time, almost a month to scrounge up the ISK to buy a beloved Catalyst destroyer, and now I was about to lose it fighting a player

It’s easy to forget about where we came from in PC gaming, especially when we’re arguing over gigabytes of memory and teraflops of performance. But there’s actually a lot that we can glean from the annals of GPU history – the colossal leaps in power

In December Steam registered its highest-ever number of concurrent players: 24,776,635 PC gamers. WoWplayer DoubleAgent reached the new level cap of 60 purely by picking millions of flowers. Bethesda tweeted an image of a map along with the date, 4E

Back in 2016, for Quake’s 20th birthday, modern Wolfenstein developer MachineGames released a new Quake episode called Dimension of the Past (or DOPA, which is much funnier). The episode includes nine levels, revisiting Quake’s hodgepodge aesthetics

A year after Camelot, Christy Marx wrote and directed a follow-up adventure about Robin Hood and his merry men. Longbow was widely praised as an even better game. It smoothed over some of Camelot’s flaws, like its action scenes, trading them for less

I have no idea where we’d be without Sid Meier’s Civilization. Its influence has been an overwhelming constant for decades, defining generations of strategy games and developers. If Sid Meier and Bruce Shelley hadn’t decided to let Napoleon, Montezum

I thought I was done with Star Wars. I think the last time I really cared about the franchise was when I was still young enough to find Jar Jar Binks funny. But the unbelievably slick The Mandalorian TV show has hooked me back in, and now I’m so far

Sometimes a game will reveal the most unexpected facets of a player’s character. Two of these become apparent to me playing 80 Days. Firstly: being forced to prepare for a long trip in no time at all is like ‘Anxiety Dream: The Game’. Secondly: I’d b

Time travel, international espionage, explosions – not exactly what you expect from a game about the sinking of the Titanic. But Titanic: Adventure Out of Time, a ’90s FMV adventure made by a little studio in Knoxville, Tennessee, isn’t your typical

Traditional wisdom dictates that if you want the best gaming performance there is really only one option: Intel. That thinking is now outdated. With the release of AMD’s Zen 3 architecture and it’s Ryzen 5000 family of chips, there is now nothing bet

Horror reimaginings of Arthurian legend seem to be surprisingly popular at the moment. Between this Early Access roguelike and last issue’s cover star King Arthur: Knight’s Tale, you might start to think that something about recent events has gotten

Plenty of games can claim greatness – whether acclaimed hits, or cult classics. Only a handful can claim to have changed the industry, and players, forever. Over the following pages are eight that hold that honour. Not only have they helped define PC

This bizarre adventure game plays out like a half-remembered episode of He-Man, if it had been recreated by the folks behind Rick and Morty. You’re the heroic Prince Xandar – a gullible beefcake – but also his crotchety wizard pal Maldrek, on whom he

And so, here we are, we’ve finally come to the end of IO Interactive’s so-called World of Assassination trilogy, which began with the Danish developer’s first Hitman reboot back in 2016. These are some of the best systems-driven stealth games on PC,

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