CIVI-LITE-ZATION

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

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.

Life Swap

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

"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

SNIPE HUNT

SNIPER ELITE: RESISTANCE continues to deliver pulpy thrills

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

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

A GHOST OF ITSELF

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

LOVE'S LABORS LIBRARY

Building a library with BALDUR'S GATE III'S foremost librarian

GRAVELORD

Riiiiiiise from your grave. And hit things with a shovel

MAGICAL

Big hearts and bigger monsters make ETERNAL STRANDS something special

THE BURTON EQUATION

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

ELDEN RING NIGHTREIGN

Three hours with this helped me accept it's not co-op Elden Ring

ASSASSIN'S CREED SHADOWS

Ubisoft's latest adventure is making a great first impression

HALF-LIGHT

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

SATISFACTORY'S FACTORY CART

Why build factories when you could be doing sick wheelies?

HALF-LIFE 2: SWELTER

Swelter is a Resistance romp through Half-Life 2’s sun-scorched Kazakhstan.

EMBRACE THE CHAOS

SONIC X SHADOW GENERATIONS is a blast from the recent past

IT'S HIT THE FAN

The mistakes every PC gamer has made during an upgrade project

"An unforgettable experience that leaves you lying awake at night"

| thought I'd hung up my hat and pistol, but RED DEAD REDEMPTION changed that

IN THE ZONE

STALKER 2: HEART OF CHORNOBYL is beautiful, brilliant, but a bit busted

REMA KING HISTORY

Over 30 years after the original, CIVILIZATION VII proves Firaxis ain't out of ideas yet

JET STREAM

MICROSOFT FLIGHT SIMULATOR 2024 goes higher, further, and faster

PIXEL PUSHERS

When was the last game worth upgrading your PC for?

AVOWED

Obsidian’s RPG is plenty familiar, but hits the finer details

SNIPER ELITE RESISTANCE

Sniper rounds and Nazi testicles, together again

CALL OF DUTY 2

How Call of Duty felt before Modern Warfare

PARADISE FROST

The making of CRYSIS, PC gaming's most notorious rig-killer

"The War Within itself has kept me coming back most evenings too"

WORLD OF WARCRAFT remains my jailer, and I couldn't be more pleased about it

OK BUILDER

SATISFACTORY is the new titan in building and crafting games

HELL YES

DIABLO IV: VESSEL OF HATRED is a transformative expansion