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IMMORTALS OF AVEUM

Fight a magewar with first-person spell shooting

EXOPRIMAL

A throwback to experimental Capcom action games

F1 MANAGER 2023

Is this year's competitor a pacesetter packed with upgrades?

CLASSIFIED: FRANCE '44

Wage war on Nazis in this densely layered turn-based strategy game

WHAT'S UP HOLMES?

Frogwares founder WAËL AMR on designing puzzles for the Sherlock games

YOUR DESKTOP PAL

Tracking down JOHNNY CASTAWAY, the forefather of virtual pets

THE FALLOUT FALLOUT

FALLOUT's co-creator dropping bombs about the nascent days of CRPGs

HUMANITY

You got some Lemmings in my 20th century minimalism

HYPERVIOLENT

System Shock seeks Doom for old-school shooter shenanigans

FOLLOW DESIGNS

MICHAEL HÜLL on being a level designer, and how he got there

RISING STEAM

September 2003 – one week that changed PC gaming forever

LOST IN TRANSLATION

Why is it still difficult to port console games to PC?

APRIL FOOL'S SLAY

Less jumping in THE MURDER OF SONIC THE HEDGEHOG

WONDROUS

AGE OF WONDERS 4 makes conquering worlds with magic a joy

KESTIS RUN

STAR WARS JEDI: SURVIVOR is a grand sequel with Souls-like action

JAGGED ALLIANCE 3

Embrace the mess as all of your plans go up in flames

THE MOST CONTROVERSIAL GAMES ON PC

From trainwreck ports and moral panics to lootbox disasters

THE HISTORY OF STAR WARS GAMES

The unstoppable sci-fi franchise has spawned a legion of interactive experiences, including some of the PC’s most important games

STORM APPROACHES

WARHAMMER AGE OF SIGMAR: REALMS OF RUIN is a fast, accessible RTS – and a grand introduction for Games Workshop’s mythic setting

SHADOWS OF DOUBT

An endless Deus Ex that could become a stone-cold classic

CULTURE WAR

Why did the PC gaming community learn to hate prebuilt computers?

CRACKING THE CODE

The designers of some of the BIGGEST RPGs think more complex tech is making things harder

CLOUDED

After the highs of The Witch Queen, DESTINY 2: LIGHTFALL doesn’t stick the landing

ALL A-BOAT IT

DREDGE is a near-perfect Lovecraftian fishing experience

HEART AND SOUL

Explore a beautiful tropical island using magic powers in TCHIA

INNOCUOUS SETTINGS IN HORROR GAMES

Ordinary places made extraordinarily Scary

PURPLE PATCH

BONZ! BUDDY, the desktop companion who did $1bn of damage

CHARGE DEPLETED

PORTABLE GAMING’s a broader church than ever—are laptops still relevant?

SPEAKERS AND SOUNDBARS

Let's test some tweeters and woofers to see which deliver bone-rattling, Earth-shattering audio.

OUTCAST

A cinematic action adventure that reaches for the stars.