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Pathologic 3 review

The Pathologic series has a reputation for being mechanically challenging, narratively dense, and positively grim. As you’d expect from games about surviving in a plague-ridden turn-of-the-century Russian steppe town, inspired by the most dour of classical Russian theatre. What I did not expect from Pathologic 3 is how often I would be laughing out loud,…

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Social sandbox MMO Pax Dei is free to play this weekend, which is perfect for solo survival game enjoyers like me who are curious about all the community features

I like survival games because they let me live out my fantasy of leaving the computer behind forever and building a log cabin out in the woods all by my lonesome. No internet, no noisy eaters, just peace. Because isolation is so core to my dream, I rarely partake in MMOs, but Pax Dei’s free…

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A Baldur’s Gate 3-style early access period wouldn’t have done much for Deadfire, the secret best CRPG of the last decade, per its director Josh Sawyer

Pillars of Eternity 2: Deadfire is, you may have heard, the 40th best videogame you can play right now. Ask certain incredibly cool members of the PC Gamer team and they might even tell you it’s actually higher than that. But it’s also not a super difficult game—it’s fairly easy to assemble a party that…

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Cult of the Lamb’s Woolhaven DLC is everything I could’ve wanted and more, with brilliant fights, lethal weather, and of course, heaps of cute little critters

I do not know what Massive Monster puts into Cult of the Lamb. You’d think after over 50 hours, completing the game, and doing absolutely everything possible, I’d get tired and move on. But no, as it turns out, I can never get enough of collecting and fighting little critters. So you can probably imagine…

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Feature: The Best Mistake Nintendo Ever Made? Why 2DS Is The Perfect Embodiment Of Gunpei Yokoi’s Core Principles

Don’t disrespect the door stop. It’s taken me thirteen years to realise that chunky plastic wedge wasn’t a joke. It was a milestone. I finally got my hands on a Nintendo 2DS this week – that slate-shaped, non-folding, non-3D thing everyone mocked when it launched in October 2013. Opinion remains fiercely split: people love it…

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