Retro Gamer
Split Fiction
If you read last month’s thrilling column, I was about to nip upstairs and play the new game Split Fiction. I wasn't completely sure what to expect but what I'd seen made it look decent.
2 min |
Issue 272
Retro Gamer
Er*Bert
NO WONDER Q*BERT SWEARS
1 min |
Issue 272
Retro Gamer
GOD OF WAR
IN ADDITION TO BEING A BEST-SELLING PS2 GAME, GOD OF WAR IS ALSO REMEMBERED FOR ITS ENVIRONMENT-ORIENTATED SCORE, ADAPTING TO PLAYER MOVEMENTS IN A FASHION RARELY SEEN IN GAMES AT THE TIME. COMPOSER GERARD K MARINO CELEBRATES ITS 20TH ANNIVERSARY
3 min |
Issue 272
Retro Gamer
THE MAKING OF FX FIGHTER
IN THE MID-NINETIES, WHEN 3D FIGHTING GAMES HAD ALREADY TAKEN OVER ARCADES, THE GENRE WAS STILL HEAVILY UNDERREPRESENTED ON THE PC. THAT IS, UNTIL 1995 - THE YEAR ARGONAUT SOFTWARE'S FX FIGHTER MADE ITS DEBUT
8 min |
Issue 272
PC Gamer
WELCOME TO MASQUERADE VAMPIRE: THE BLOODLINES 2
I HAVE WOKEN UP IN AN ABANDONED BUILDING IN SEATTLE, A CENTURIES-OLD VAMPIRE WHO HAS BEEN IN A TORPOR FOR 100 YEARS. WHO FORCED ME INTO A SURPRISE SLUMBER? HOW DID I GET TO SEATTLE? AND WHY THE HECK AM I HEARING ANOTHER VAMPIRE IN MY HEAD? THESE TANTALISING QUESTIONS ARE JUST THE TIP OF THE ICEBERG IN A GAME THAT UNEXPECTEDLY FEELS LIKE A CLASSIC PULP NOIR DETECTIVE YARN.
10+ min |
June 2025
PC Gamer
MEDIUM WELL DONE
GPU upgrades aren't coming soon – time to make peace with average performance
3 min |
June 2025
PC Gamer
GUIDE to the GALAXY
A hitchhiker's guide to Racoon Logic's planethopping, co-op trolling, Metroidvania mission REVENGE OF THE SAVAGE PLANET
5 min |
June 2025
PC Gamer
COUNTER ARGUMENT
AI has made FPS meaningless – we need a new performance metric
4 min |
June 2025
PC Gamer
SCP SECRET LAB'S PROXIMITY CHAT
The art of deception. By Elie Gould
3 min |
June 2025
PC Gamer
CRYSIS
Peering at the screen in a way unbecoming of a serious journalist
5 min |
June 2025
PC Gamer
A CUT ABOVE
There comes a time in everyone's life when you can't just shake off aches and pains anymore. It's around the same time you start needing to say 'hnnnggggh' every time you stand up. I came across this point last year when my doctor's eyebrows furrowed with concern rather than a quick dismissal. A few tests and scans later and I'm on a waiting list for surgery.
8 min |
June 2025
PC Gamer
DUELING BLADES
Does ASSASSIN’S CREED SHADOWS deliver a clean one-cut kill?
9 min |
June 2025
PC Gamer
WASTED
Take-Two nukes a playable GTA VI fan map
2 min |
June 2025
PC Gamer
The Spy
BUT WHO WATCHES THE SPY?
2 min |
June 2025
PC Gamer
CURSED ARTEFACTS
A second Tomb Raider Remastered trilogy tries to redeem LARA'S CURSED ADVENTURE
4 min |
June 2025
PC Gamer
GO BERSERK
Reap bloody Soulslike vengeance in THE FIRST BERSERKER: KHAZAN
3 min |
June 2025
PC Gamer
DEN OF WOLVES
10 Chambers' kinetic co-op heister is a cyberpunk take on Payday 2
6 min |
June 2025
PC Gamer
INZOI
A gorgeous life sim with so many unimportant things to do
9 min |
June 2025
PC Gamer
FBC: FIREBREAK
New co-op shooter is built for chaos and 'joyful discoveries'
4 min |
June 2025
PC Gamer
UN-UNITED KINGDOM
ATOMFALL is a muddled misadventure in need of a stronger identity.
6 min |
June 2025
PC Gamer
SO-SO SUIKO
SUIKODEN's HD remaster is polished to a high shine – in some places
3 min |
June 2025
PC Gamer
BIRDSONG
Energy is hard to come by in VENDRÁN LAS AVES
2 min |
June 2025
PC Gamer
BEING SMOOTH IN VAMPIRE THE MASQUERADE BLOODLINES
Becoming a high-society vampire
8 min |
June 2025
PC Gamer
KINGDOM COME: DELIVERANCE II
Make Henry's medieval adventure a little easier (or harder)
4 min |
June 2025
Edge UK
STEEL HUNTERS
Replacing tanks and warships with the joy of mechs
5 min |
June 2025
Edge UK
FBC: FIREBREAK
Can Remedy go multiplayer without losing Control?
5 min |
June 2025
Edge UK
PATHOLOGIC 3
Terminus Est
5 min |
June 2025
Edge UK
AMNESIA: THE BUNKER
How a gun, a generator and a pocket watch cranked up Frictional's horror
7 min |
June 2025
Edge UK
Half-Life: Alyx
Back to City 17 for Half-Life 2: Episode 3 by another name
6 min |
June 2025
Edge UK
SANTA RAGIONE
An Italian studio's quest to insert unusual stories in unexpected places
7 min |