PC Gamer - February 2023

In this issue

RESIDENT EVIL 4
Capcom’s latest remake has a delicate balance to strike between reverence for the classic original, and the evolution necessary to make it feel fresh again in 2023.

WH40K: DARKTIDE
Scraping out a miserable existence in a dystopian mega city has never been so fun..

BLOWING UP

CALL OF DUTY is still huge - and that could stop Microsoft buying Activision

2 mins

GERALT RELOADED

The big new update for THE WITCHER 3 adds to an RPG that's aged beautifully

4 mins

QA Q&A

SCOTTY LODGE of Hyper Luminal Games shines a light on the QA process

3 mins

SOUND GARDEN

The great ghost of LOOKING GLASS hovers over Deus Ex, BioShock and Guitar Hero

4 mins

Starfield

The best bits of Bethesda RPGs don't demo well. At least, that's the self-soothing mantral repeated while watching Starfield's lacklustre summer showcase - 15 minutes of impactless shooting and Todd Howard in a leather jacket. A slight variant on Fallout 3's lockpicking system wasn't enough to shake the sense that it was still 2008.

2 mins

The Great War: Western Front

There's no shortage of war games waving their proverbial arms in your face and screaming \"look at me, I'm realistic\".

1 min

Company of Heroes 3

You've all been waiting very patiently for this grand return - about a decade, at last count. The good news is, it looks like Relic have built a game well worth the wait.

1 min

Stormgate

This year already looks like it'll be bringing some heavy-hitting RTS games with it.

1 min

Street Fighter 6

Street Fighter is back in its best shape in some time, sporting a big roster and tight yet accessible mechanics that should land with series stalwarts and new fans alike.

1 min

Final Fantasy XVI

The latest entry in the never-ending series takes players to a medieval fantasy world where kingdoms use big crystals and the summoning of weird monsters to maintain their power.

1 min

Final Fantasy VII Rebirth

The Final Fantasy VII remake saga continues in Rebirth, following a story that, at this point, has diverged significantly from the path of the original game.

1 min

Resident Evil 4

After the Resident Evil 2 and 3 remakes, the legendary fourth game is getting the same treatment, reimagining the lauded classic as something shinier and faster paced.

2 mins

Assassin's Creed Mirage

MIRAGE IS THE BETTER OPTION: A RETURN TO STEALTH, URBAN PARKOUR. AND THE MIDDLE EAST

1 min

Skull and Bones

Another throwback to an early period in Assassin's Creed's evolution, Skull and Bones has had a much longer and stormier journey than Mirage.

1 min

Flintlock: The Siege of Dawn

The success of Dark Souls and Elden Ring flew in the face of received AAA wisdom - proving that big budget games can be difficult, obtuse, and trusting of their players, yet still find a huge audience.

1 min

Atlas Fallen

The world of Atlas Fallen is ruled over by a cruel god, who demands that its people harvest and offer up 'essence' to it.

1 min

Diablo 4

Regardless of whether you've been looking forward to this for the last three years or not, we can surely all agree that a game where one of the characters can turn into a bear is worth a second look.

1 min

Wild Hearts

Lush environments, fantastical creatures that can be harvested for loot, enormous beasts that are best tackled in a small team... it's easy to compare this to Monster Hunter with good reason.

1 min

Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League

As the Gotham Knights fumbled their catch of the DC team-up ball, it's up to the Suicide Squad to pick up and run with this metaphor that should have ended several words ago. Interestingly, this game follows neither the movies (not the well-received James Gunn one, or the one with Jared Leto's 'Ooh, I'm mad, me' Joker), nor the comics. It's going to tell its own story, with its own version of the Squad.

2 mins

Hollow Knight: Silksong

This sequel to the beloved, hand drawn hack and slash platformer is as highly anticipated as it gets.

1 min

The Invincible

This retro-future science-fiction game, based on a novel of the same name, looks like it could be a serious sleeper hit next year.

1 min

Teslagrad 2

A decade since the first game, this gorgeous looking platformer puts players in the role of Lumina, a young who has been left 'Teslamancer', stranded after her airship crashed.

1 min

Terra Nil

The citybuilder, as first established by Will Wright, was about taking a green Californian field and turning it into a fume-belching industrial hellscape.

1 min

Nightingale

Onetime Bioware boss Aaryn Flynn is the persistent force behind Nightingale, a survival and crafting game that goes unusually deep when it comes to worldbuilding.

1 min

STALKER 2

STALKER was the original open world FPS and once wowed us with its unscripted skirmishes and distinctly Ukrainian brand of horror.

1 min

Bomb Rush Cyberfunk

A blatant spiritual successor to Jet Set Radio, Bomb Rush Cyberfunk embodies the style and pace of the classic skating game, but puts more emphasis on player expression.

1 min

Redfall

Arkane enters the fray of cooperative shooters, with a vampiric twist. The genre has become a little more crowded with 2022 having brought us Back 4 Blood and the sublime Warhammer 40,000 Darktide, but Redfall has a few extra tricks up its sleeves to potentially help it sink its fangs into the competition.

1 min

Hyper Light Breaker

A new game set in the post apocalyptic world of Hyper Light Drifter, taking the series into 3D with a rogue-lite adventure that can be played cooperatively with friends.

1 min

HORDE MODE

Fight hundreds of alien monsters at once in the bigger, meaner SPACE MARINE 2

6 mins

SHOTS IN THE DARK

Bash heretics to save a wonderfully horrible world in WARHAMMER 40K: DARKTIDE

6 mins

RADIOTHERAPY

SIGNALIS is one of the best psychological sci-fi chillers in years

2 mins

IRON MAN MODE

MARVEL’S MIDNIGHT SUNS successfully morphs XCOM into social simulation, somehow

6 mins

ALL GORE

Walk down gaming’s moodiest corridors in THE CALLISTO PROTOCOL

3 mins

DANCES WITH WEREWOLVES

EVIL WEST pits cowboys against vampires in a beefy brawler

3 mins

SINK OR SWIM

Beginning at the end in soggy citybuilder FLOODLAND

3 mins

DEAD ON ARRIVAL

Souls-like Metroidvania meets monotony in GHOST SONG

3 mins

GARBAGE DAY

Bin there, dumped that in SUNSET SHIFT

2 mins

EARTH TO EARTH

MAPFRIEND makes a game out of Google Earth

1 min

FACE OFF

Beating a demon at his own game in FACE DOWN

1 min

PANDORA'S GLOCKS

Grabbing more loot than I'll use in a lifetime in BORDERLANDS

2 mins

GLASS CEILING

Relearning to run in MIRROR’S EDGE

1 min

GLITCHY TASTY

Brilliant backtracking in the depths of AXIOM VERGE

1 min

GROUP TEST: AMD VS INTEL

There's only one way to decide between these gaming CPUs: fight!

5 mins

YOU'VE BEEN FRAMED

GPUs are now 1,000+ investments. How did we get here?

4 mins

AULD LAN SYNE

New year's resolutions for the hardware-obsessed

3 mins

"I did what any other human would do - I razed the thing to the ground"

Trying my damn best to unwind in DISNEY DREAMLIGHT VALLEY

2 mins

Midnight Suns – "It loves to throw supervillains at you"

Making enemies in Marvel’s Midnight Suns

1 min

"See, you don't know for sure that people are, in fact, dead"

Gods, demons, and jazz make Paradise Killer's world a perfect mystery playground

2 mins

CYBERPUNK 2077

Cyberpunk was good, but its biggest issues remain.

3 mins

MASS EFFECT LEGENDARY EDITION

Make your next playthrough the best one ever.

5 mins

TRYING TO BUILD EVERYTHING IN CITIES: SKYLINES

A foolhardy attempt to construct the Se= ultimate virtual metropolis.

7 mins

OVERWATCH'S ZARYA

Putting the hero in hero shooter.

3 mins

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