In defense of Assassin’s Creed Unity

You’ve just completed one of Unity’s black box assassination missions, an infiltration with multiple diversions and entrances to find and exploit. The next mission has you meet up with Elise, your templar girlfriend, on the streets of revolutionary Paris. She’s being pursued by a mob of templar thugs—her faction aren’t fans of her or you…

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Train Sim World devs announce Thomas the Tank Engine game ‘powered by Train Sim World’ and the true train sickos are down: ‘It will make 9 trainzillion dollars’

If you were a child at one point, you may remember Thomas the Tank Engine. What started as a series of extremely British children’s books has turned into a venerable, extremely British fixture of pop culture thanks to the beloved TV show—and now, Thomas and co. are getting their very own train sim game from…

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Director Gore Verbinski said he ‘loved’ working on the BioShock movie and ‘was going to dive deeply into the Oedipal aspect’: ‘Every year I hear something about the project, but I’m not sure any studio is quite willing to go where I was headed’

Videogame adaptations to film and television are the new hotness—haven’t you heard? Markiplier’s Iron Lung flick just took the box office by storm, Yoshi’s laying eggs on the silver screen, and the best choice-driven fantasy RPG ever made is getting an HBO show that’ll do all the choosing for you. If you’re a videogame enjoyer…

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The Japan-Exclusive Board Game From Project Justice: Rival Schools 2 Is Finally Playable In English

You can finally understand what’s happening in ‘Nekketsu Nikki’ mode. When Capcom’s Project Justice: Rival Schools 2 was released in Japan as Moero! Justice Gakuen, it came with a bonus board game – called ‘Nekketsu Nikki’ – which allowed you to create bespoke characters. This was similar to the ‘School Life’ mode found in the…

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219 hours of XCOM 2 and 20 minutes of Fallout: Size Five Games’ director Dan Marshall takes us through the games on his PC

Disk Cleanup Welcome to Disk Cleanup, our regular weekend column delving into the PCs of PC gaming luminaries. Come back every Saturday to read a new interview, digging into the important questions, like “how tidy is your desktop?” and “what game will you never uninstall?” Dan Marshall first got into PC gaming at around eight…

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Blitzball is alive and well in Final Fantasy 14, and I spoke to the community of passionate fans who built an entire 140-page D&D-like system to play it: ‘Once you start playing, you just can’t stop’

Terminally Online (Image credit: Future) This is Terminally Online: PC Gamer’s very own MMO column. Every other week, I’ll be sharing my thoughts on the genre, interviewing fellow MMO-heads like me, taking a deep-dive into mechanics we’ve all taken for granted, and, occasionally, bringing in guest writers to talk about their MMO of choice. It’s…

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If you thought Untitled Goose Game had a horrible goose, wait until you play this powerfully unsettling idle clicker where humans give birth to waterfowl

I’m genuinely surprised that there haven’t been more geese-themed games since Untitled Goose Game, or at least more games about dickhead animals violating social norms. House House’s avian bullying simulator was a riotous success when it released in 2020, the kind of phenomenon that normally spawns a legion of imitators. Yet with the possible exception…

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