CATEGORIES

“The environments are cluttered, bustling, and convincingly lived-in”

Falling in love with the Arcology, the setting for cyberpunk shooter THE ASCENT

BODY POLITIC

Celebrating the bravery and unbridled intellect of ION STORM AUSTIN

MINECRAFT

A ten-year-old game is still reaching new heights.

EAST MOVES WEST IN - TOTAL WAR: WARHAMMER II

Can stubborn dwarfs colonize the far side of the world?

“Could a quality peripheral turn me into Michael Schumacher?”

Will a fancy wheel bring the Grand Prix, or the booby prize, in F1 2017?

“You'd best beware my energy sword should ye step anywhere near it”

Finishing the fight every weekend in HALO 3

WEIRD WEST

A new perspective on immersive sims

SET AN AI TO MAKE AN AI

GOOGLE is already putting machine learning to work on improving itself

CRUSADER KINKS PART II

Continuing the raunchy reign of King Randy Cockburn.

POKÉMONSTER HUNTER

MONSTER HUNTER STORIES 2: WINGS OF RUIN is an approachable spin-off.

BOYFRIEND DUNGEON

A dating sim where you romance deadly weapons

LIGHTS OUT

In the open-world post-apocalypse of DYING LIGHT 2: STAY HUMAN, the choices you make can change an entire city.

WE ALL PLAY GAMES

From indies to blockbusters, developers are striving to include disabled players now more than ever

HANDS ON

Valve has unveiled its new handheld gaming PC, STEAM DECK

THUGS IN SUITS

The rise, fall, and redemption of Mafia developer ILLUSION SOFTWORKS

BIOSHOCK 2

Revisiting BioShock’s bold, brilliant sequel.

HOT WHEELS UNLEASHED

Hands-on with Milestone’s licensed loop-de-loop-’em-up

CRUSADER KINKS PART I

Spreading the love throughout Paradox’s medieval soap opera, Crusader Kings III

ALPHA STRIKE

MINECRAFT archivists finally uncover the rarest known build of the game

TERRA NIL

An eco-friendly antidote to planet-stripping sims

SLICE AND DICE

Gut goblins galore in DUNGEONS & DRAGONS: DARK ALLIANCE

SHOCK & AWE

COMPANY OF HEROES 3 is coming to wake up the RTS genre.

TREASURED MEMORIES

Celebrating PC gaming’s long love affair with D&D’s FORGOTTEN REALMS.

MARVEL'S GUARDIANS OF THE GALAXY

Banter, ’80s bangers, and not a microtransaction in sight

THE ANACRUSIS

A sci-fi spin on Left 4 Dead, from former Valve and Riot developers

VIDEODAMES

The grandma gamers of the GRAND DAMES

MAKING HISTORY

The story of 1997’s QUAKE AFT—the first-ever all-female professional gaming tournament.

ROGUETRITE

A universe has its PC debut in WARHAMMER AGE OF SIGMAR: STORM GROUND

LONE STRANGER

STRANGELAND lives up to its name, if not its promise

ROLLING IN THE DEEP

Get tactical in authentic D&D roll-player SOLASTA: CROWN OF THE MAGISTER