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“Mechwarrior Has Always Been A Big Part Of PC Gaming”
MechWarrior is one of those series that I feel has always been a big part of PC gaming. From the moment it first offered PC gamers the chance to enter the cockpit of a hundred-tonne BattleMech in 1989 and pilot it to commit acts of explosive, stompy
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Bear Does Damage
Min-maxers are terrifying. You think you know everything there is to know about a game, and then someone cooks up a build that launches a 5,000kg owlbear from 100ft on some poor sod, dealing enough damage to one-shot an adult dragon with no saving th
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Which Witcher?
Former Gerlat Henry Cavill has made a point of saying he “pushed really, really hard” to stay true to the Witcher books, while also claiming that some of the writers on the show “actively disliked” them. Some aspects of Andrzej Sapkowski’s novels hav
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Highs & Lows
Nightdive is remaking 1995’s Star Wars: Dark Forces. Valve has once again done a Valve, and you can buy a refurbished Steam Deck. Obsidian has been celebrating 25 years of its predecessor Black Isle, one of the greatest RPG studios. Salut, you beauti
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Snake’s Return
Metal Gear Solid: The Master Collection Vol 1 arrives in October, and having gone hands-on it’s looking like these ports are as basic as you get: how does 240p output and 30fps grab you? Konami’s also tying itself up in knots about mouse and keyboard
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No Kissing For Gnomes
Playing a gnome or halfling in Baldur’s Gate III? Better buy a stepladder. Players of the pint-sized races have been having a little trouble on the romance front recently, finding themselves unable to lock lips with NPCs like Karlach and kissing air
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The Spy
The Spy is at home in the world of darkness. After all, covert operations work best under the cover of night. One consequence of these nocturnal wanderings, though, is that The Spy has become rather familiar with rubbing shoulders with the undead, an
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Wizardry’s Legacy
The name Wizardry still carries weight, which is probably why the recent announcement of Eternal Crypt: Wizardry BC – a blockchain-based clicker game and NFT platform – went down like a lead balloon. A sad sign of the times, perhaps, but a good excus
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Trailer Swift
James McGregor got his start in video editing when, as a member of Rooster Teeth’s Achievement Hunter community, he became a part-time contractor managing and moderating their community video submissions. This helped him develop his editing style whi
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Warhammer Aos: Realms Of Ruin
RELEASE November 17 DEVELOPER Frontier Developments PUBLISHER In-house LINK aosrealmsofruin.com I n Shyish, the Realm of Death, Nagash the Great Necromancer moulds the souls of the deceased into his personal army. Cursed with new forms that refl
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Incoming
RELEASE October 12, 2023 | PUBLISHER Ubisoft Montreal The series returns to its roots, with a stealth-orientated game taking you back to ninth-century Baghdad. You play as thief-turned-assassin Basim. RELEASE October 17, 2023 | PUBLISHER Remedy Enter
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Stalker 2: Heart Of Chornobyl
RELEASE TBA DEVELOPER GSC Game World PUBLISHER In-house LINK shorturl.at/iqFT8 T he demo starts, and my health is already draining. Welcome to STALKER 2, I guess. This Gamescom, for the first time, GSC Game World’s long awaited sequel is availab
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Earthless
RELEASE 2024 in Early Access DEVELOPER Blackbird Interactive PUBLISHER Team17 LINK earthlessgame.com I ’m the first journalist in the world who’s laid hands on the new sci-fi strategy game from the studio behind Hardspace: Shipbreaker and Homewo
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Lords Of The Fallen
RELEASE October 13, 2023 DEVELOPER Hexworks PUBLISHER CI Games LINK lordsofthefallen.com A lot of studios have tried to jury-rig their own-brand Dark Souls. I’m happy to report that, after four hours with Lords of the Fallen’s 2023 reboot, Hexw
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Warhammer 40k: Space Marine 2
RELEASE 2023 DEVELOPER Saber Interactive PUBLISHER Focus Entertainment LINK shorturl.at/ehmxA I n the year 2011, men were men and the terrible affliction of ‘Unreal Engine 3 Neck’ raged unabated. At this time of peak Xbox, we got the original Wa
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Homeworld 3
RELEASE February 2024 DEVELOPER Blackbird Interactive PUBLISHER Gearbox Publishing LINK homeworlduniverse.com W ith Homeworld 3, Relic’s classic space RTS looks set to join the pantheon of returning PC gaming gods. Blackbird Interactive (the new
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The Best Mech Games On PC
W hether you like hardcore simulation and strategy or the explosive thrill of mecha anime, games about big stompy robots have always had a home on PC. With the upcoming Armored Core 6 and MechWarrior 5: Clans on the horizon, it’s definitely a good ti
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Mech My Day
M echWarrior’s Clans are weird. If the Inner Sphere constitutes the rump remains of an interstellar Rome, then the Clans are the gene-splicing frontier techno-barbarians at the gate. Honourbound and fanatical, the Clans have their own notion of how t
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Bhaal’s Spawn
Two months ago we boldly stated that Baldur’s Gate III was going to be the “fantasy RPG of the decade” and that “RPGs are about to be changed forever”. And, as our full Baldur’s Gate III review shows this issue, those statements were far from hyperbo
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This Month’s Sushi-eating Reviewers…
Specialist in Losing his life Currently playing Baldur’s Gate III This month Went a little mad trying to review BG III. Started talking to a hamster named Boo. Specialist in Jumping in portals Currently playing Ratchet & Clank: Rift Apart This
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Pure Magic
After spending 160 hours unravelling conspiracies, setting fire to monsters and finding increasingly fancy hats for my Bard, I can now confidently say that Baldur’s Gate III is the greatest RPG I’ve ever played. If I wasn’t writing this review, I’d b
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Pieces Of Great
I am a space ninja, carving up robot sentinels on an artificial planet stranded in time. A few hours ago, I was blasting cockney elves off a dilapidated clocktower with a gun that fires cubes. Before that, I was having my life drained by a cursed boa
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Foiled Again
In En Garde! 17th century Spain is slathered with a sense of nostalgia. Not for the setting itself, of course – I’m not that old – although it is an enticing reimagining, with its piñata colour palette and kitsch flamenco soundtrack. Rather, because
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MARLEY & ME
Mimimi is a studio that understands its niche. Shadow Tactics, Desperados 3 and now Shadow Gambit: The Cursed Crew are fundamentally the same game; tactical squad stealth where players must quicksave and load until they can pull off a flawless heist.
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Gord Stiff
Gord opens with a disclaimer that it “explores mature scenarios and themes”, including among its list of triggering material “sacrifice” and “child sacrifice”. What it means by this is it lets you witness Mortal Kombat fatalities being performed on c
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Riveting
This action adventure is the quintessential console exclusive. Released for the PlayStation 5 in 2021, it takes a beloved duo of Sony mascots and sends them on a journey designed to show off the capabilities of that hardware – particularly its fast-l
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ARMORED & DANGEROUS
After FromSoftware’s incredible run from Souls to Sekiro to Elden Ring, Armored Core VI is a near-radical departure: short, relentlessly paced missions, forgiving retries, and an empowering arsenal that makes it clear you are a one mech army instead
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Demolition Man
Swirling red sands batter a group of rebels, hunkered down against a building. One turns to another, eyes wide with fear. “We can’t win this fight! We need help. We need… a demolition specialist.” Cut to Alec Mason, polishing his sledgehammer as he l
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God Is Dead
Dune is an obvious influence on striking sci-fi adventure Shards of God, with you playing as a space nun in a medieval-flavoured setting. Along with your mother superior, you’ve suddenly been summoned to the god-emperor’s temple, but when your spaces
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Monkey See
The tale of the wish-granting monkey’s paw is brought into the future in The Third Wish, a point-and-click made for the Adventure Game Jam. Despite being made in just two weeks, the game is fully voice-acted, which really helps to emphasise the obvio
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Truffle Shuffle
Shroom and Gloom takes the deckbuilding roguelike and bungs in a big load of mushrooms. Your enemies are murderous fungus people, and most of the cards are mycology-themed. On top of that, it’s all exquisitely hand-drawn. You know the basics by now:
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Serkis Act
You want to know what true versatility looks like? Richard Ridings. He’s the voice actor who played the narrator from Dungeon Keeper, High King Thorgrim Grudgebearer from Total War: Warhammer and, of direct relevance, Pigsy from Enslaved: Odyssey to
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Pounding Head
Most rhythm-based action games don’t wholly work. There’s a danger of them being the worst of both worlds: out-of-time music accompanying stressful action. For every crisp Crypt of the Necrodancer, there are a dozen clones with the grace and finesse
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Wireless Gaming Mice
Wireless technology has come a long way in a short period of time. Slipstream, HyperSpeed, Lightspeed, Stellar, Quantum – call it what you like, but you can pretty much consider a stable and robust connection as a given with any wireless gaming mouse
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Blue Dawn
We all love a plucky underdog story, and Intel’s entry to the discrete graphics card market felt like just that in 2022. Strange as it sound to describe a semiconductor behemoth with a $140bn market cap as the Mighty Ducks to Nvidia’s Hawks, it does
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“My Main’s The Cowboy, And My Favourite Gambit Is Impale”
I’m not good at fighting games. I have a cursed combination of great reflexes and god-awful fine motor control. This makes the Dragon Punch motion catastrophically hard in my sweaty hands. If I want to learn a combo, I have to plug in hours in traini
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Cosmetic Items
There comes a time in everyone’s life when they look upon their gaming setup with fresh eyes. Usually that time comes when an outsider catches sight of your grinding dungeon. It’s a similar phenomenon to that of moving house, seeing intensely persona
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“That The Dead Drow Did Know”
The drow raider lies mangled in a pool of his own blood, his limbs twisted and broken, the consequence of a bad end in a savage battle. Evidence as to why this drow, along with a pack of goblins, had attacked a coaching inn is sparse, and aside from
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Buyer’s Guide
PC gaming is for everyone. Pick these parts if 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 sup
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“Unlike A Typical Life Or Farm Sim, I’m Not Tracking Days Or Energy Use”
Cosiness and MMOs are my two main vices, so Palia feels like it’s being made specifically for me. I’ve got a bit of emotional investment in its success, I’ll admit, so I voluntarily played a good bit more of Palia’s alpha than I really needed to for
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“I Explore The Rural Village, Scavenge For Ammo And Push Past The Ganados”
Capcom has been knocking it out of the park in recent years. The Resident Evil series in particular has gone on from strength to strength, beginning its resurgence with Resident Evil 7: Biohazard in 2017. The latest – the remake of Resident Evil 4 –
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Blood Bowl 3 Season 1
At the end of 2022, it was announced Blood Bowl 3 would have season passes. Every three months, a new ladder to climb and a new trail of cosmetics to earn, then a whole new team if you make it to level 50 before the season ends. Of course, that’s onl
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Get Started In Baldur’s Gate III
As you’d expect from a game based on Dungeons & Dragons, Baldur’s Gate III puts a lot of emphasis on roleplaying a character. While it might make the game a little harder, try not to min-max everything, and instead just lean into doing what you want.
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Doom (e1m1)
Amnesia: The Bunker is the latest entry – and genuinely the greatest entry – in a long series of excellent first-person survival horror adventures from Frictional Games. But even though I’ve played several of them, I have to admit… the Amnesia games
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Cracking The Case In Shadows Of Doubt Part 2
The dead woman’s name is Margaret McCoy, 31, brunette, face like a freshly excavated Roman mosaic. A sales executive at Scarlet Management, she was shot to death earlier this morning in her own apartment, 703 Adams Terrace. Lying on her back at the f
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Jet Set Radio
“Jet Set Radioooooooo!” yells DJ Profesor K, as the title screen burstes into life with a remix worthy of Fatboy Slim himself. The cel-shaded action skater game with a Y2K aesthetic and a cool electronic, funk and hip-hop soundtrack – that is still d
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Fighting Game Tournaments
I’ve never been much of a sports gal. I never understood football fans who would erupt into ferocious cheers every time a goal was scored, and loudly bemoan the opposition for doing the same. I never appreciated the camaraderie between these people w
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Must Play
lastspell.com This brilliant hybrid of roguelike, RPG, and tower defence launched out of Early Access in March. In command of a party of heroes, you’re charged with keeping hordes of zombies at bay each night through tactical turn-based battles. Ofte
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Lined with posters of Gordon Freeman, water-cooled tower PCs, and PC Gamer magazine spreads to keep moral high. Created by none other than Gabe Newell himself in his Steam Workshop, these allow precise, rapid movement. When a big console gaming exclu

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