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IranIan Dev Troubles

Why Mahdi Bahrami believes his beautiful puzzle game ENGARE might be taken down from Steam any day

Surviving in a Niche

How three developers are handling the tricky business of creating adventure games in the modern world 

MMO Mystery Solved

What lies beyond Tibia’s legendary level 999 gate?

Metro Exodus

4A discusses Stalker’s influence on this partly open world sequel

Crackdown 3

Supercops and robbers

The Swords Of Ditto

Swap boomerangs for vinyl records in this Zelda-alike

Life Is Strange: Before The Storm

It’s a surprisingly faithful return to Arcadia Bay in this prequel

John Clark

SEGA EUROPE’S senior VP of commercial publishing talks console ports.

The Domino Effect

How and why games are built from such fragile webs.

Paradox Opens The Floodgates

“This, to me, is like an anniversary, birthday, birth of your firstborn kid all in the same day”

Far Cry 5

Has Ubisoft’s FPS reinvented itself in the American wilderness?

Surviving Mars

Part-survival game, part-Elon Musk simulator

Shadow Of War

Hands-on with Shadow of War’s spider mercs and singing orcs

Xcom2 : War Of The Chosen

New aliens and allies in this massive X-pansion

The PC Gamer - Game Of The Year Awards 2018

Celebrating another great year of PC gaming

World Of Yorecraft

Blizzard is banking heavily on Warcraft nostalgia in 2019

Making Waves

Ark’s developers turn to piracy for their next big project: ATLAS.

Anatomy Of An Explosion

Videogames love a good explosion, but how are these spectacular effects designed?

Hard Cell

Crashing castles in DEAD CELLS.

They Hunger

Reanimating Half-Life’s shambling total conversion.

Hidden Object Puzzle Adventures

Calm and collecting.

Too-Early Adoption

How devs decide to make games for new ecosystems.

The Long Dark

Hinterland has given its survival sim’s story an overhaul.

“Did you often see female police officers or PIs in the '20s?”

Could Phyllis Malone from A CASE OF DISTRUST ever have been a detective?

“He's angry at you, in part because you've left your bedroom in a mess”

Having a hell of a time in HADES.

“I find it tense because my choices are so brutally limited”

Take care of your dog in OVERLAND.

“Not using a microphone is a pretty big crime here”

SQUAD is a large-scale military shooter with added realism.

A Long Time Ago

How Knights of the old Republic stayed true to the Star Wars ‘used universe’.

Vermin Age: Inquisition

Face The Devastation Of 14th Century France In A Plague Tale: Innocence.

World Of Warcraft Classic

More than just a nostalgia trip