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Avowed succeeds where Dragon Age: The Veilguard failed: An actionized, beginner-friendly entry point to a long-running series that doesn’t sacrifice its identity

Avowed succeeds where Dragon…

I am one of Pillars of Eternity’s strongest soldiers here at PC Gamer, a Sardaukar of Cipher builds, a…
One of BioShock Infinite’s best narrative devices is its music

One of BioShock Infinite’s…

Yes, I know the game is 13 years old at this point and old enough to have a social…
Dev recalls working with David Bowie on Omikron, and the artist’s madcap scheme to buy up a load of old satellites and ‘relaunch Ziggy Stardust from space’

Dev recalls working with…

Music publication Mojo has a new retrospective on Omikron: The Nomad Soul, the 1999 game that marked Davd Cage’s…
We can now pinpoint the exact year videogames turned from God’s light thanks to the discovery of a ‘nude code’ for Smurfette in 1984

We can now pinpoint…

I was a videogame-obsessed teenager in the 1990s and it seemed like every single gaming magazine (and several of…
‘A hellish nightmare’: Remembering the most famous Civilization game ever played, Civ 2’s ‘Eternal War’

‘A hellish nightmare’: Remembering…

When the Modern Age ends in Civilization 7, the game’s over, but it hasn’t always been that way. In…
Fishing minigames are the worst and I’m not afraid to say it

Fishing minigames are the…

Finishing minigames are the worst minigames and I’ve waited too long to say it. Maybe I’ve regressed into an…
The whole Fallout series is at a steep discount on Steam, so if you’ve been waiting 29 years to begin your journey in the wasteland, your time is now

The whole Fallout series…

Every Fallout game is meaningfully different from the last, and the series includes some of the best games you’ll…
Presumably much to Miyazaki’s dismay, Elden Ring Nightreign is decidedly void of poison swamps: ‘Maybe no one wanted to include it’

Presumably much to Miyazaki’s…

As we know all too well at this point, Elden Ring director Hidetaka Miyazaki freaking loves a poison swamp.…
Nightdive’s spent 6 years on its update of System Shock 2, so it’s now the ’25th Anniversary Remaster’ and will finally announce its release date on March 20

Nightdive’s spent 6 years…

Being, as I am, a fashionable man with his finger on the pulse, interested in only the latest and…
Can you guess which game these competitive rank crests are from?

Can you guess which…

More quizzes! (Image credit: Larian Studios, PC Gamer) Want to keep testing your knowledge of gaming trivia We’ve got…