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HUNT: SHOWDOWN 1896

I had doubts, but Post Malone's Murder Circus is Crytek's best seasonal event yet. By Morgan Park

VILLAINESSES

I support women's rights, but I also support women's wrongs. By Jess Kinghorn

CLOUDY DAY

FINAL FANTASY VII REBIRTH tries to convince you it's moving

"Indy's shadow provides all the information you need"

INDIANA JONES AND THE GREAT CIRCLE offers fore- and rear-shadowing

SNOW MERCY

LONELY MOUNTAINS: SNOW RIDERS combines tense downhill skiing with icy cosiness

SOFT LAUNCH

Nvidia's 5-SERIES launch placed AI benefits above native rendering. Why?

Life Swap

inZOI is readying up in all its ultra-realistic glory to be the first true rival The Sims series has ever had.

BACK IN BLACK

NINJA GAIDEN 2 BLACK gives a makeover to an action game classic

THE COMPLETE HISTORY OF CIVILIZATION

As the legendary 4X releases its seventh mainline instalment, PCG looks back at the games that made history

MY BROKEN BODY

CITIZEN SLEEPER 2 isn't the perfect sequel – but perfection's overrated

THE BURTON EQUATION

Battle Combine across the 20th century in this Half-Life 2 mod.

CIVI-LITE-ZATION

Lighter and leaner, CIVILIZATION VII sets its sights on assimilating a new audience

HOLD YOUR ORCSES

ORCS MUST DIE!: DEATHTRAP remains a bloody good time despite some growing pains

SEARCHING FOR TRUE FREEDOM AND HIGH FASHION IN DIVINITY: ORIGINAL SIN 2 PART 2

Mister Fibula may be dead, but he's never looked better.

TOTAL WAR: WARHAMMER III

Making the Old World feel young again.

INK. WELL?

Spilling ink in action roguelike INKING

MAGICAL

Big hearts and bigger monsters make ETERNAL STRANDS something special

BOHEMIAN RHAPSODY

KINGDOM COME: DELIVERANCE 2 is huge, ambitious and brilliant

ASSASSIN'S CREED SHADOWS

Ubisoft's latest adventure is making a great first impression

"It's brilliantly effective, but it succeeds by adding complexity"

A new genre works its way back to an old one in HALLS OF TORMENT

"It totally works for the red-stringcorkboard I call a brain"

THE SILVER CASE sees me well on my way to reading more in 2025

SNIPE HUNT

SNIPER ELITE: RESISTANCE continues to deliver pulpy thrills

DOOM: THE DARK AGES

Eternal was all about acrobatics, this wants you to stand and fight

GRAVELORD

Riiiiiiise from your grave. And bash things with a shovel

ELDEN RING NIGHTREIGN

Elden Ring Nightreign clicked the moment I hit level 2. My squad had just dropped into the game’s remixed version of Limgrave. I was a bird man named Guardian, and all I had to know about Guardian is he’s really good at blocking. We dropped 100 feet onto a camp of soldiers, sliced them up in seconds, and bee-lined toward a site of grace to level up.

KUNITSU-GAMI: PATH OF THE GODDESS

Capcom's masterpiece now playable on PC Game Pass

The Spy

BUT WHO WATCHES THE SPY?

HALF-LIGHT

A VALVE engineer had to tell the GPU companies they were wrong

A GHOST OF ITSELF

The once-legendary BIOWARE has lost at least half its staff

REEL GOOD

WEBFISHING is a fantastic throwback to old-school chatroom games