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Tabletop wargame BattleTech is getting its first real alternate universe in its 40 year history, and it’s a pretty obvious one: If you have a giant robot, well, why should it not fight a giant monster? BattleTech: Gothic is an alternate timeline for the world of BattleTech, one where endless and unrestricted warfare among the…

Before the disaster that was Stadia, Google demoed its game streaming tech via a free version of Assassin’s Creed: Odyssey you could play in your browser. My fiancée has fond memories of whiling away slow nights at work playing this massive triple-A game on a crummy library OptiPlex. Whatever came after with Stadia and game…

Challenged to a supernatural game by the sultan, you have to fulfill the conditions of a mystical game that demands you commit dreadful sins: Carnality, Bloodshed, Conquest, and Extravagance. You’ll have to desperately scheme, manage your limited resources, and explore the depths and heights of society to win a stay of execution—and to survive the…

Best of the best (Image credit: Xbox Game Studios) 2025 games: Upcoming releasesBest PC games: All-time favoritesFree PC games: Freebie festBest FPS games: Finest gunplayBest MMOs: Massive worldsBest RPGs: Grand adventures On an average day about a dozen new games are released on Steam. And while we think that’s a good thing, it can be…

A couple of months ago PC Gamer’s Joshua Wolens bemoaned the state of this world with regards to how there is not in fact an elaborate remaster or remake of Oblivion available to him. He was consoled, however, by the fact that some indies were making an entire slew of jam games based on Oblivion’s…

Speaking to Nightdive founder Stephen Kick and VP of business development Larry Kuperman at this year’s Game Developers Conference, I was curious about how it felt to be returning to System Shock 2 for the studio’s upcoming remaster. After all, I had a loose understanding that Shock 2 is the game that kicked off Nightdive…

Against the Storm is one of the best city-builders of recent years, taking the SimCity cycle of building cities destined to be destroyed by natural disasters and infusing it with a roguelike structure, such that the death of your city is merely a part of the game, rather than the end of it. Yet alongside…

Rust is, famously, an unforgiving affair, a survival game where someone murdering you and stealing everything you own is also known as ‘Tuesday’. But Facepunch’s open-world cruelty simulator does have at least one merciful bone in its emaciated, battle-scarred body. In 2021, Facepunch added a softcore mode, which mitigates some of the vanilla game’s brutality…

Pacific Drive received its “largest ever free content update” this week, one which introduces a brand new way of playing Ironwood Studios’ vehicular survival game. But you’d better step away from the newswheel, bucko, because I’m hijacking this article for my own devious ends. While the headline addition of the update is some fancy-sounding expeditions,…

Of all the unmade sequels that I’d like to exist, Dishonored 3 is at the top of the list. The original Dishonored ranks among my favourite games ever (especially when you throw in its incredible expansions), while Dishonored 2 is generally regarded as one of the best games of all time. Sadly, a third game…