CATEGORIES
THE MOST APOCALYPTIC GAMES ON PC
Charting PC gaming’s radioactive history.
IMMORTALS OF AVEUM
Fight a magewar with first-person spell shooting
MOTOGP 23
You’ll want to pop a helmet on for this one
EXOPRIMAL
A throwback to experimental Capcom action games
YOUR DESKTOP PAL
Tracking down JOHNNY CASTAWAY, the forefather of virtual pets
The Spy
BUT WHO WATCHES THE SPY?
THE FALLOUT FALLOUT
FALLOUT's co-creator dropping bombs about the nascent days of CRPGs
GOING VIRAL
Diary of a disastrous MALWARE ATTACK, 2006 style
GIANT STEPS
What will PC GRAPHICS look like in ten years?
TRIALS AND EVISCERATIONS
Whether they like it or not, THE OUTLAST TRIALS will test its patients
CLASSIFIED: FRANCE '44
Wage war on Nazis in this densely layered turn-based strategy game
ROAD WARRIORS
BROKEN ROADS brings the end of the world back home
WONDROUS
AGE OF WONDERS 4 makes conquering worlds with magic a joy
TAKING ON THE CHOSEN IN XCOM 2 PART I
Facing up to elite aliens makes XCOM 2 a whole new game.
KESTIS RUN
STAR WARS JEDI: SURVIVOR is a grand sequel with Souls-like action
JAGGED ALLIANCE 3
Embrace the mess as all of your plans go up in flames
SHADOWS OF DOUBT
An endless Deus Ex that could become a stone-cold classic
RISING STEAM
September 2003 – one week that changed PC gaming forever
LOST IN TRANSLATION
Why is it still difficult to port console games to PC?
STEALING MY ENEMIES' CLOTHES IN FALLOUT
My appetite for Fallout fashion is a real killer
PRINCE OF PERSIA
An attempt to find a path for the Prince
CULTURE WAR
Why did the PC gaming community learn to hate prebuilt computers?
The Spy
BUT WHO WATCHES THE SPY?
CRACKING THE CODE
The designers of some of the BIGGEST RPGs think more complex tech is making things harder
THE MOST CONTROVERSIAL GAMES ON PC
From trainwreck ports and moral panics to lootbox disasters
THE HISTORY OF STAR WARS GAMES
The unstoppable sci-fi franchise has spawned a legion of interactive experiences, including some of the PC’s most important games
A STORM APPROACHES
WARHAMMER AGE OF SIGMAR: REALMS OF RUIN is a fast, accessible RTS – and a grand introduction for Games Workshop’s mythic setting
Captain's Log
Star Trek: Resurgence is more game, but not like we know it, captain
"I explode another SinTEK goon's head"
Revelling in SiN
TRANSLATION GAME
JEREMY BLAUSTEIN and SAM BURTON on what it takes to localise a game