CATEGORIES
QUAKE
The blueprint for 3D shooters has lots to teach in 2021.
LORD OF CHAOS
How XCOM’s JULIAN GOLLOP improved on the board games he loved
Unreal World
Two years on, EPIC GAMES STORE is still a golden ticket for developers and irresistible bait for gamers.
LEADING A PEASANT REVOLT IN BATTLE BROTHERS PART II
We return to the Darklands for a grim conclusion.
THE GREATEST INFLUENCER
PC gaming would look very different without CIVILIZATION.
RICE FARMING IN SAKUNA: OF RICE AND RUIN
I planted 100 individual seedlings and loved every second.
RAISING THE BAR
The subtle, hands-off storytelling of HALF-LIFE 2 is still hard to beat.
COOL RUNNINGS
What if advances in PC cooling change the PC beyond recognition?
BUILD ME UP
The joys of creation and destruction in SIMCITY 2000
Breaking Ground
Meet the developers making bugs and glitches on purpose
Ghost Town
I am dead is a playful exploration of life in limbo.
LEADING A PEASANT REVOLT IN BATTLE BROTHERS PART I
Can low borns forge their own path in a grim fantasy world?
NEUROJANK
CYBERPUNK 2077 delivers an incredible setting undermined by an onslaught of bugs.
SIM SETTLEMENTS 2
Tune up Fallout 4’s settlement system.
GREEK CHIC
A puny mortal embarks on a quest to save the gods in IMMORTALS FENYX RISING, and finds yet another massive Ubisoft open world game.
GLASS CANNON
How Obsidian built its reputation for masterful, yet buggy, RPGs
HOBBIT FORMING
This team dedicated ten years to building Middle-earth in MINECRAFT
CRIME DOESN'T PAY
EMPIRE OF SIN is ambitious, but undermined by a mountain of issues.
DEVIL'S ADVOCATE
The questing is tedious, but WORLD OF WARCRAFT: SHADOWLANDS is another great WoW expansion.
COMEBACK KING
Hunt down a legend as his arch-nemesis in KING ARTHUR: KNIGHT’S TALE
SCOOBY GANG
LITTLE HOPE is a ghost tour that's better with friends.
STUCK IN THE MUD
DIRT 5 ventures down a well-travelled track.
MIND READING
Brain-computer interfaces could revolutionize the way we live
SECOND EXTINCTION
For anyone who thought Muldoon was the hero of Jurassic Park
PRESSING X TO COMFORT MY UNBORN CHILD IN AMNESIA: REBIRTH
We’ve come a long way from pressing F to pay respects.
FALLOUT: NEW VEGAS
Mods to remaster the Mojave in 2021.
FAR OUT
How THE SIMS shaped the career of Far Cry director Alex Hutchinson
GOODBYE VOLCANO HIGH
It’s time to play triceratops trumps
DRAGON QUEST
YAKUZA: LIKE A DRAGON doubles down on the series’ RPG elements with a brave new turn-based battle system.
CARD MODE
What links Thomas Was Alone to an ancient solo game?