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Final Fantasy XIV: Stormblood

The warrior of light heads east, picks up katana.

Hevn

An interesting survival/immersive sim crossover.

The Surge

Surging confidently towards a future without Dark Souls.

Battle Princess Madelyn

A passionate homage to an arcade classic.

Gravel

A new, open-world racer... and the spiritual successor to Screamer?

Theme Hospital

Checking back into Bullfrog’s management sim.

Amadeus

An impressive Amnesia: The Dark Descent story.

“The Grey, Misty Gloom Streaking Past Me Is Authentically British”

Recreating the tedium of the railway experience in TRAIN SIMWORLD: GREAT WESTERN EXPRESS

“Rats Pour From The Walls And Floor”

Saying goodbye to VERMINTIDE

All Or nothing

Exploring identity and memory in ALL OUR ASIAS.

Watch Dogs 2

Hands-on with another stylish but unconvincing hacktivist yarn.

Like Clockwork

Supernatural assassin Emily Kaldwin goes up against an evil genius and an army of mechanical soldiers in DISHONORED 2.

Max Payne 3

A quest for vengeance in Brazil.

The 20 Most Spectacular Game Worlds

Beautiful or desolate, intricate or vast, these are the game worlds everyone should explore.

Raphael Colantonio

Raphael is the founder of Arkane Studios, and creative director of Prey. We talked to him about the history of the studio, and the resurgence of the immersive sim.

Concerted Efforts

How The Chinese Room rebuilt DEAR ESTHER for a live tour

Common Conversation

Why a wall of text is hard to build.

Battle Royal

Which king is the kingliest? There’s only one way to find out in TOTAL WAR SAGA: THRONES OF BRITANNIA

Surviving Early Access

 Ark: Survival Evolved is leaving early access transformed from a primitive survival sim to a 1980s power fantasy.

Combat Evolves

The Total War team are bringing Halo Wars 2 to PC. Can they bring something new to RTS multiplayer too?

WATCH DOGS 2

How I hacked a car then ran over a dog that wasn’t watching.

Sniper Elite 4

Rebellion shoots straight for our hearts.

Absolver

A Jedi Knight-infused 3D brawler is E3’s surprise hit.

Surviving In A Niche

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

Return To Morrowind

Back to one of the PC’s greatest RPG settings in The elder ScrollS online: Morrowind.

The Mannequin

Time is seriously broken in this haunted London house

turning things on

an unremarkable action in real life, yet oddly compelling when you do it in a videogame.

How Real Astronomy Shapes Elite's Galaxy

PC Gamer talks to ELITE DANGEROUS creator David Braben about the way Frontier’s simulated galaxy reflects our own.

Prey

The immersive sim that lets you turn into a mug

The Monsters of Silent Hill 2

There’s more to Team Silent’s horrifying creatures than meets the eye.