CRUSADER KINGS III
Can it live up to its smash hit predecessor? We’ve gone hands-on to find out.

THE 50 BEST FREE GAMES
Our top picks for the best indie gems and retro classics you can pick up for nothing.

GAMING MICE REVIEWED
Looking for a new gaming mouse? Check out our guide to the six best on the market..

Cyber Punk 2077
The Cutting Edge Tech Bringing Night City To Life...

WORLD OF WARCRAFT: SHADOWLANDS We exploret the new expansion.

CRUSADER KINGS III
A strategy epic so sprawling and chaotic that our reviewer died of stress. Er, in the game that is.

A TOTAL WAR SAGA: TROY
Should you buy the new Total War game? Oh, wait, you all got it for free on the Epic store already.

STAR WARS: SQUADRONS
Snappy space dogfighting that lives up to the legacy of X-Wing vs TIE Fighter.

HORIZON ZERO DAWN
Sony takes a bold step on to PC with a port of Guerrilla’s robot dinosaur epic.

MOD SPOTLIGHT
The best custom classes you can download to spice up your next run through of Divinity Original Sin II – from bards, to vampires, to ‘gravewalkers’.

CYBERPUNK 2077
We finally go hands-on with the most anticipated game in years. Can it live up to the hype?

DEATH STRANDING
Hideo Kojima’s post-Konami epic comes to PC – and already it feels right at home.

DESPERADOS III
Yee-haw, pardner – it’s time for some rootin’ tootin’ real-time-withpause stealth strategy, in this guntotin’ spiritual successor to Shadow Tactics..

EVERSPACE 2
This ambitious space sim sequel reaches for the stars. We’ve gone hands-on and chatted to the developer to see if it can live up to its interstellar dreams.

ESCAPE YOUR WORLD
We take a trip through PC gaming’s most incredible worlds. Join us, why don’t you?

GRAPHICS CARDS RATED
Is now the time to pick up a new graphics card? Or should you wait for better cards to come?

EMPIRE OF SIN
From casinos to Capone, Brenda Romero gives us a tour of 1920s Chicago’s seedy underworld, and lets us run our own mob. Murder, betrayal, and explosions abound.

THE LONG GOODBYE
Exploring the DLCs that brought us closure – and talking to the minds behind them..

HALF-LIFE
Valve’s Dario Casali offers his thoughts on the enduring influence of the ground-breaking original Half-Life, and its new fan remake Black Mesa.

HALF-LIFE: ALYX
Yes, a new Half-Life game came out. This is not a drill. But is it essential enough to be worth buying a VR headset for? Find out in our review..

BALDUR’S GATE III
A modern sequel to the beloved series, from perhaps the best RPG developer of 2020.

SOKPOP COLLECTIVE
Meet the team of developers putting out two new games every single month.

KEYBOARDS RATED
Switch to a mechanical keyboard today – and find the perfect one for your gaming needs...

SPECIAL REPORT
Parties, politics, and poisonings on gaming’s most lively Discord server.

2020 Preview
The year’s hottest upcoming games.

Indies in China
The developers building a community under threat..

THE TOP STORY
Valve really, genuinely announced a new Half-Life game.

GAMES OF THE DECADE
Let our 22 page mega-feature take you on a journey back through a momentous ten years.

DARKSIDERS GENESIS REVIEW
The remarkably enduring series returns with a top-down spin-off starring the fourth horseman..

POSITIVE INFLUENCE
The inspirations and connections behind your favourite games.

THE GAME OF THE YEAR 2019
If it was great this year, you’ll find it here. Join us as we run down the only GOTY list you need.

THE OUTER WORLDS DIARY
Our diarist explores the colonies as a penny-pinching, capitalismloving company man..

THE TOP STORY 
Blizzard makes a blunder.

CRUSADER KINGS III
The game’s director lets us in on the sequels grand plans – from dynasties to cannibalism.

SQUAD
We go behind-the-scenes on a shooter so realistic that it recreates not just the action but the logistics of war. Who knew hauling ammo could be fun?.

Microsoft Flight Simulator After four hours with the plane game, we couldn’t be more impressed.

MOTION TWIN The Dead Cells developer has no job titles, no bosses, and everyone has an equal stake – and now it has to decide what its next game is going to be.

Humankind Jeremy talks to Amplitude about its ambitious competitor to Civilization.

The SIMS celebration - Family, fan fiction and laundry. Here's stories about how the SIMS changed pc gaming.

We get hit by an avalanche of exciting new PC games

BORDERLANDS 3 hands -on Phil has played Gearbox’s shooter sequel. Does it do enough to stand out from its predecessors?

Planet Zoo Andy explores Frontier’s new management sim. 42 Path of Exile Jeremy Peel looks at how Grinding Gear created the beloved ARPG.

Hidden depths David Stevenson, lead artist at casual gaming specialist Big Fish, on how hidden object game scenarios are composed. By Philippa Warr

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FINAL
FANTASY XIV
Why players are moving to the
dark side for the next chapter of
Final Fantasy XIV’s story.

VERMINTIDE II
ex pansi on
Phil visits Fatshark to learn about
the co-op action game’s first
expansion, Winds of Magic.

RAGE 2
Hands-on
Phil explores the new, more
colourful, more ridiculous
wasteland of this FPS sequel.

Aliens: Colonial Marines, Pineapple Smash Crew, Crazy Machine ElementsJagged Alliance: Rage, JARGON BUSTER...

The massive pirate MMO from the makers of ARK: SURVIVAL EVOLVED,Fallout: New California 2018's best fallout game is a mod...

THE HISTORY OF STRATEGY: The second half of our guide to the strategy genre details the rise of turn-based tactics, THE LEGACY OF THIEF: To celebrate Thief’s 20th birthday, Rick Lane looks back at this enduring stealth masterpiece, Reinstall WORLD OF GOO: Pip revisits the endearingly cute puzzling of World of Goo. Is it still an indie classic?...

SOLID STATE DRIVES RATED: As prices continue to drop, Ed Chester investigates the fastest storage solutions for your PC, THE HISTORY OF Strategy: The first part of our feature on the history of commanding and
conquering on PC, FORZA Horizon 4 : Playground Games’ latest racer isn’t an accurate reflection of the
UK, but is it any good? Find out...

THE TOP STORY
A surprising win at The International.

INCOMING
The month ahead in PC gaming.

THE SPY
What are Microsoft up to now?

STEEL
DIVISION 2
Fraser investigates the grand RTS
sequel, as Eugen Systems
marches on the Eastern Front.

METRO
EXODUS
Tom heads to the great outdoors
to talk to 4A Games about the
wildest Metro yet

CYBERPUNK
2077
Phil has seen CD Projekt Red’s
long-awaited RPG in action.
Here’s what happened at E3.


WORLD OF
WARCRAFT
From booze to the Barrens, our six
part mega-feature looks at what
made WoW so good.

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