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QUAKE

The blueprint for 3D shooters has lots to teach in 2021.

LORD OF CHAOS

How XCOM’s JULIAN GOLLOP improved on the board games he loved

Unreal World

Two years on, EPIC GAMES STORE is still a golden ticket for developers and irresistible bait for gamers.

LEADING A PEASANT REVOLT IN BATTLE BROTHERS PART II

We return to the Darklands for a grim conclusion.

THE GREATEST INFLUENCER

PC gaming would look very different without CIVILIZATION.

RICE FARMING IN SAKUNA: OF RICE AND RUIN

I planted 100 individual seedlings and loved every second.

RAISING THE BAR

The subtle, hands-off storytelling of HALF-LIFE 2 is still hard to beat.

COOL RUNNINGS

What if advances in PC cooling change the PC beyond recognition?

BUILD ME UP

The joys of creation and destruction in SIMCITY 2000

Breaking Ground

Meet the developers making bugs and glitches on purpose

Ghost Town

I am dead is a playful exploration of life in limbo.

LEADING A PEASANT REVOLT IN BATTLE BROTHERS PART I

Can low borns forge their own path in a grim fantasy world?

NEUROJANK

CYBERPUNK 2077 delivers an incredible setting undermined by an onslaught of bugs.

SIM SETTLEMENTS 2

Tune up Fallout 4’s settlement system.

GREEK CHIC

A puny mortal embarks on a quest to save the gods in IMMORTALS FENYX RISING, and finds yet another massive Ubisoft open world game.

GLASS CANNON

How Obsidian built its reputation for masterful, yet buggy, RPGs

HOBBIT FORMING

This team dedicated ten years to building Middle-earth in MINECRAFT

CRIME DOESN'T PAY

EMPIRE OF SIN is ambitious, but undermined by a mountain of issues.

DEVIL'S ADVOCATE

The questing is tedious, but WORLD OF WARCRAFT: SHADOWLANDS is another great WoW expansion.

COMEBACK KING

Hunt down a legend as his arch-nemesis in KING ARTHUR: KNIGHT’S TALE

SCOOBY GANG

LITTLE HOPE is a ghost tour that's better with friends.

STUCK IN THE MUD

DIRT 5 ventures down a well-travelled track.

MIND READING

Brain-computer interfaces could revolutionize the way we live

SECOND EXTINCTION

For anyone who thought Muldoon was the hero of Jurassic Park

PRESSING X TO COMFORT MY UNBORN CHILD IN AMNESIA: REBIRTH

We’ve come a long way from pressing F to pay respects.

FALLOUT: NEW VEGAS

Mods to remaster the Mojave in 2021.

FAR OUT

How THE SIMS shaped the career of Far Cry director Alex Hutchinson

GOODBYE VOLCANO HIGH

It’s time to play triceratops trumps

DRAGON QUEST

YAKUZA: LIKE A DRAGON doubles down on the series’ RPG elements with a brave new turn-based battle system.

CARD MODE

What links Thomas Was Alone to an ancient solo game?