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Monster Mash

MONSTER HUNTER: WORLD sets up a reverse Jurassic Park scenario and adds high fashion to make dragon murder infinitely entertaining.

Hard Cell

Crashing castles in dead cells.

Scrotal Recall

Dick jokes and repetition in Far Cry 5: Lost On Mars

Wake Up, Sheeple

Cheat On Your Partner And Pay The Price In Catherine Classic’s Offbeat Mix Of Puzzle Game And Life Sim.

Undead King

RESIDENT EVIL 2, a remake of the PlayStation classic, is a masterclass in making an old game feel fresh again.

Beige is The New Black

Rebuilding a 1998 rig just to play Half-Life.

Rage 2

Avalanche attempts to bring new life to id’s wasteland

WoW Classic Is The Time Machine That Every Fan Should Play

More than just a nostalgia trip

Simulation Complete

It’s Always Worth Double-checking In Frozen Synapse 2.

Half-life: Echoes

Relive the Black Mesa incident all over again in this expansion-quality story mod.

Silly Season

Playground Games Plays The Long Game In Forza Horizon 4.

Beyond Blue

Jump forward a decade with this stunning underwater mystery

Opus Magnum's Alchemical Gifs

It’s the gifs which made me fall in love with Opus magnum. Without them it’s reliably good Zach Barth fare—an alchemy-themed option from his assembly line programming puzzle oeuvre where you move different reagents around a board in order to create compounds.

Cyberpunk 2077 - Everything There Is To Know About The RPG Of The Decade

How choice , freedom and Keanu Reeves make Cyberpunk 2077 the most exciting game of E3

Vermintide II: Winds Of Magic

Warhammer: Vermintide II was so successful that it took its small swedish developer by surprise.After the strong sales and critical acclaim came bug reports and complaints, missteps, and demands.Its community is hungry for more, and—after a year of making adjustments and laying infrastructure— fatshark is ready to deliver.With Vermintide II: Winds Of Magic, the endgame has arrived.

Ping Pong

APEX LEGENDS is the best version of battle royale so far, a cooperative shooter that reinvigorates the genre and reinvents how we communicate in games.

Off The Rails

METRO EXODUS leaves the grimy tunnels of Moscow behind and takes you on a whirlwind tour of post-apocalyptic Russia.

Heating Up

CIVILIZATION VI: GATHERING STORM is a great expansion full of disasters and politicking that stumbles at the end.

Chuffing Great

Enjoy a train ride into madness in the disturbing, unforgettable SUNLESS SKIES.

Cry Again

FAR CRY NEW DAWN is Far Cry 5 again, but with a post-apocalyptic paint job.

Fan Subbing

How localization makes games enjoyable for everyone, everywhere

The History Of The Strategy Game

Some of strategy gaming’s most influential titles were developed for consoles, but by 2000 the genre had been synonymous with PC for a decade.

Lost At Sea

Discover the fate of a stricken merchant ship in supremely clever maritime mystery Return Of The Obra Dinn.

No Bard Feelings

Dance Like Nobody’s Watching In Wandersong.

World Of Goo

Dealing with a load of balls.

Artifact

Valve are making a card game

Blow By Blow

Hacking and slashing away at the highly skill-dependent medieval melee in Mordhau.

Dune 2000

Celebrating Westwood Studios’ forgotten RTS.

How EverQuest Changed Online Gaming

How a group of nobodies made EverQuest and forever changed online gaming.

The Secrets Of Runescape's Rise

PC Gamer learns about the 16-year-old MMO’s allure from its venerable community of adventurers.