Tag: games

The world’s busiest toilet temporarily made detective sim Shadows of Doubt a murder-free zone: ‘You can’t always legislate for the fact that everyone’s going to need a wee at midnight’

The world’s busiest toilet…

Since the earliest days of humanity’s experiments with legal systems, we’ve been trying to find a way to make…
Baldur’s Gate 3 is ‘an inspiration’ for CD Projekt, but it’s all-in on big open worlds: ‘We are definitely not going to make a game like Larian did’

Baldur’s Gate 3 is…

Confirmed best PC game Baldur’s Gate 3 brought CRPG stylings back into the spotlight, and more than that, proved…
Great moments in PC gaming: Chilling in my Zen Garden in Plants Vs

Great moments in PC…

Great moments in PC gaming are bite-sized celebrations of some of our favorite gaming memories. Plants vs. Zombies (Image…
This absurdly stylish side scroller feels like playing two different genres of retro shooter at the same time, and I love it

This absurdly stylish side…

Neon Inferno looks like a lot of new games that gleefully throw back to the golden age of the…
This GTA 6 fan’s fascinating deep-dive into co-protagonist Jason’s military background is a must-read for all you lore heads out there

This GTA 6 fan’s…

The GTA 6 community is famous for its obsessive detective work—from trailer frame counts to map-sizing spreadsheets—but few fan…
Confession time: Which game soundtrack actually made you cry?

Confession time: Which game…

Soundtrack Sunday Welcome to Soundtrack Sunday, where a member of the PC Gamer team takes a look at a…
This roguelike take on Geometry Wars is the best game I’ve played this month, and the latest to become a permanent fixture on my Steam Deck

This roguelike take on…

November has been an absolutely huge month for games, between AAA staples like Call of Duty: Black Ops 7,…
Fatshark celebrates 10 years of rat-bashing by adding one of Vermintide’s ‘most popular’ maps into Vermintide 2, but ‘things are not as before’

Fatshark celebrates 10 years…

Warhammer—End Times: Vermintide celebrated its tenth birthday in October, a fact that makes me painfully aware of how much…
Classic text adventure Zork is going open source, but I’m side-eyeing Microsoft’s announcement about it hard

Classic text adventure Zork…

Microsoft has made classic text adventures Zork and its sequels open source. The original trilogy (which is actually one…
Mafia: The Old Country’s Free Ride update is out now, replacing its empty open world with an extremely basic one

Mafia: The Old Country’s…

While the Mafia series has always been more about telling a linear story than letting players explore fully-realised open…