VILLAINESSES

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

"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

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

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

CIVI-LITE-ZATION

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

MAGICAL

Big hearts and bigger monsters make ETERNAL STRANDS something special

TOTAL WAR: WARHAMMER III

Making the Old World feel young again.

A GHOST OF ITSELF

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

The Spy

BUT WHO WATCHES THE SPY?

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.

THE COMPLETE HISTORY OF CIVILIZATION

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

CLOUDY DAY

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

SOFT LAUNCH

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

KUNITSU-GAMI: PATH OF THE GODDESS

Capcom's masterpiece now playable on PC Game Pass

HALF-LIGHT

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

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.

ASSASSIN'S CREED SHADOWS

Ubisoft's latest adventure is making a great first impression

HOLD YOUR ORCSES

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

THE BURTON EQUATION

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

HUNT: SHOWDOWN 1896

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

Life Swap

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

HEAVY HITTER

Doom looks to the past for its biggest and weightiest iteration yet

Darkest Dungeon II

Having marvelled at Red Hook's leftfield approach to sequel-making in E385's review, Darkest Dungeon II's Kingdoms DLC was always going to pique our interest.

Sludge Life

Peer through the haze to discover a game that makes you ask some surprisingly sharp questions

ASSASSIN'S CREED: SHADOWS

Ubisoft's signature series finds itself at a crossroads. After Valhalla concluded Assassin's Creed's trilogy-length RPG pivot back in 2020, it was three years - which felt like an eternity for this once-annual series - before Mirage arrived, with its promise of a return to the concept's stealthgame roots, and no pretence to the scale of its immediate predecessors.

HENRY HALFHEAD

Where's your head at?

DEATH HOWL

A gloomy deckbuilding odyssey and an accidental Soulslike

Sid Meier's Civilization VII

Anyone who's engaged with Sid Meier's strategy series during its 34-year existence knows that the most exhilarating turns in a game are the initial ones. Sure, the mid-game can be an absorbing juggling act, requiring you to manage diplomatic crises and placate the citizens of a sprawling empire, while choreographing your battalions' advance into enemy territory.

Capital ideas

As it reaches its tenth anniversary, London Games Festival is expanding its horizons

STAINLESS STEEL

From one Extremes to another: how Warframe went from six-month 'Hail Mary' to a decade-plus of success

CROTEAM

How a gaggle of football fans became the self-appointed national dev team of Croatia