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Specialist in Enormous features Twitter @robinlvalentine This month Ranked everything in his flat. Top 100 unpainted Warhammer models; 50 best plastic bags; 12 Odd Socks That Will Change Your Life. This month, I had the honour of putting together my

Hundreds of members of the games industry have written about their experiences with sexual assault and harassment by peers and colleagues on social media in recent weeks. In many cases, their allegations have quickly been echoed by others with simila

Most games are about one thing hitting another. A bullet and a soldier’s head; a platform and your foot; a sword and a demon’s arm; a jaw and a Shoryuken. And that means a lot of games are all about hitboxes, the invisible geometry which tells them w

There’s an England beyond Piccadilly Circus and the thatched roofs of Everybody’s Gone to the Rapture. A country where the residents wear tracksuit pants rather than tweed, and drink their coffee from enormous Sports Direct mugs. Where unfortunate ni

RELEASE 2021 DEVELOPER Amplitude Studios PUBLISHER Sega LINK humankind.game You start Humankind as a nomadic tribe in the Neolithic era. The wilderness around you holds pockets of treasure: a resource deposit here, a volcanic pool there. As I move my

There have been two Infinity Wards. The first invented Call of Duty; the second saved it from diminishing returns. In the middle was a cataclysmic event in game development, one that played out in public and left a world-famous studio forever changed

RELEASE November 19, 2020 DEVELOPER CD Projekt Red PUBLISHER In-house LINK cyberpunk.net When you create a character in Cyberpunk 2077, you get to choose from one of three life paths, which are basically origin stories. You can be a street kid, a sli

RELEASE August 25, 2020 DEVELOPER Metronomik PUBLISHER Sold-Out Software LINK nostraightroads.com You know the phrase ‘elevator pitch’? An idea streamlined down until it can squeeze into the space between the elevator doors closing and opening again?

Welcome to the official and definitive PC Gamer Top 100 list for 2020. This reflects the tastes and experiences of our entire team, from the big boss man all the way down to the lowliest word-grunt. We’re not claiming these are the best games of all

EXPECT TO PAY $35 DEVELOPER Gato Studio PUBLISHER In-house LINK thewaylanders.com This impressively ambitious fantasy RPG, currently out in Steam Early Access, could be the thing to fill that Dragon Age-shaped hole in your life. That’s not only becau

WHAT IS IT? A real-time stealth tactics game set in the Wild West EXPECT TO PAY $50 DEVELOPER Mimimi Games PUBLISHER THQ Nordic REVIEWED ON GTX 1080Ti, Intel i7-8086K, 16GB RAM MULTIPLAYER No LINK desperadosgame.com There is no dearth of handy tools

WHAT IS IT? A western roguelike twin-stick shooter EXPECT TO PAY $20 DEVELOPER Upstream Arcade PUBLISHER Raw Fury REVIEWED ON i7 9700K, RTX 2080 TI, 16GB RAM MULTIPLAYER No LINK bit.ly/2YeXXxg I’ve never been so pleased to see a witch. Wearing an ant

WHAT IS IT? A port of the enhanced PS Vita version of one of the best PS2-era JRPGs EXPECT TO PAY $20 DEVELOPER Atlus PUBLISHER Atlus REVIEWED ON Intel Core i3-8350K CPU, 12GB RAM, GeForce GTX 1060 MULTIPLAYER No LINK atlus.com/atlus-titles/persona4-

On the face of it, things don’t get much grimmer than Darkest Dungeon. It opens with eldrich horror, suicide, and ruin. It’s darker than a burlap sack of smashed toys. There’s even a warning about how terrible things are likely to get. But in practic

WHAT IS IT? Game of Thrones meets Days of our Lives EXPECT TO PAY Free DEVELOPER Paradox Interactive PUBLISHER In-house REVIEWED ON Intel Core i7-7700 CUP @ 3.60GHz, 16 GB RAM, NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070, Windows 10 MULTIPLAYER Yes LINK bit.ly/2YHSOwH P

Fantasy and deck-building games go together like Magic The Gathering and financial ruin, and that’s one of many reasons Slay the Spire is so wonderful. It doesn’t make sense at first. It’s bacon bits in your banana milkshake. But the elements here ar

It takes around five seconds—enough time to choose the hunter character with a pet corgi—to fall in love with Enter the Gungeon. I could just write ‘corgi’ 100 more times and stick a score on the end. But Devolver’s twin stick shooter is good enough

THIS MONTH Opened up my eyes and saw the signs. ALSO PLAYED Orcs Must Die 2, Murder By Numbers Developers tend to take things too literally. Most games are a pretty direct simulation of the activity they represent. In shooters, you aim and click to s

It feels strange to follow the breathless chaos of Enter the Gungeon with something as glacial as Legend of Grimrock, but such is the breadth and majesty of the underplace-themed distractions available on PC. One minute you’re cartwheeling over waves

THIS MONTH Became versed in the most rural of Irish slang. ALSO PLAYED Umurangi Generation, Children of Morta There’s a clever twist to this indie visual novel: The only way to read the story is to erase it. Taking place within a series of diary page

THIS MONTH Hit the deck-building jackpot. ALSO PLAYED Half-Life: Alyx, Persona 4 Golden In a recent meeting, someone described Monster Train as “a card game for people who’ve already put 200 hours into Slay The Spire”. It’s a good description. Slay t

THIS MONTH Raged against materialism as only a cat can. ALSO PLAYED Astrologaster, Chuchel If you hate bungalows, you’ll love this game. Stupid structures. They’re literally half a house! One bungalow on top of another bungalow, now that’s a legitima

I get sorted into Hufflepuff, because of course I do. I’m 28 years old and playing a Minecraft mod based on a series of children’s books that I loved way too much when I was an actual child, so I guess I just exude Hufflepuff energy. The sorting hat

My fondest gaming memory: Half a dozen boys squeezed tight into a college bedroom, gathered around a monitor watching two boxy men stumble and push each other over, in endless loops. We’re losing our minds, laughing so hard that we gather a crowd fro

RELEASED September 10, 2010 PUBLISHER Carpe Fulgur DEVELOPER EasyGameStation LINK bit.ly/30LzS36 It’s undoubtedly right to assume that Recettear: An Item Shop’s Tale is one of the more important indie games that you’ve never have heard of. You see, i

Storage may not get the blood racing in the same way a CPU or graphics card does, but it’s an increasingly important component of any gaming system. With next-gen consoles looking to make the most of their PCIe SSDs, it seems reasonable their games w

Way back in 2012, you could buy a quad-core/eight thread CPU with a 3.5GHz base clock and a 3.9GHz turbo. In 2018, you could also buy a CPU with a 3.5GHz base clock and a 3.9GHz turbo, but this time it had 16 cores, and processed 32 threads simultane

PC gaming is for everyone. Pick the parts you want to build a new, well-rounded PC for a good price. You want to run every new game at 1080p 60fps. This recommended build will see you through. You’re looking for the best PC on the market and superior

RELEASED 2010 | LAST POSITION 2 Andy: Kane & Lynch 2 is terrible, and I love it. It’s a completely one-note, unimaginative third-person shooter. The two lead characters have no redeeming qualities. The story is thin like wet crêpe paper. But man does