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The Sims 3 review – PC Gamer issue #202 (UK, July 2009) An exact replica of hte PC Gamer office. (Image credit: EA) My wedding was a disaster, beginning when one of the guests died during the party. We weren’t close, but witnessing his ghost prompted a recurring wish to see more. Soon I was…
We all go through phases of wanting to change up our hair, I’m sure. There’s always the temptation of some drastic change like dying it completely black which you’ll never truly be able to get out, or bleaching it to platinum blonde for a completely blank slate. I’ve never been brave enough to do either,…
Jacob Fox, PhD in Philosophy, hardware writer (Image credit: Future) This week I’ve been: Flitting between a 600 Hz TN, 320 Hz IPS, and 280 Hz OLED monitor to test which is best for competitive gaming in CS2. And pondering philosophical conundrums between rounds, of course. A couple of months ago, I listened to Richard…
I’m a big fan of Two Point Museum, the latest and greatest of Two Point Studios’ revival of the Bullfrog-style management sim. But I am also a fan of how the developer has approached the release of its DLCs. You can pay for expansions like Zooseum and Fantasy Finds to get a big chunk of…
Facepunch Studios may have only just released S&box, but the launch of its spiritual successor to Garry’s Mod has done nothing to slow down its monthly Rust update. It is as predictable as the tide, or having your base raided by your half-naked neighbours. This month’s “Upgrade hard, raid harder” patch brings a major overhaul…
While it’s great to see tabletop RPGs get turned into videogame RPGs—that’s how we got Planescape: Torment and Shadowrun: Dragonfall after all—it’s also interesting to see them be adapted into other forms, shapeshifting like some kind of, I don’t know, werewolf? What I’m saying is the newly announced Werewolf: The Apocalypse – Rageborn takes the…
Fangamer’s videogame tie-ins have drawn our attention multiple times in the past, from the Stardew Valley boxed edition complete with farm-ownership deed, to the angry psychic squid from Into the Breach in huggable plushie form. They recently released a fancy vinyl edition of the soundtrack to Myst sequel Riven, but this time the response has…
There’s still a part of me that thinks of 2016’s Stellaris as one of the “new school” Paradox grand strategy games, even though it turned 10 years old just this week. If you were to add all of its 30+ DLCs to your Steam cart right now, it would run you upwards of $200—and that’s…
Most strategy games that make it to 10 years old have already passed the event horizon of their development cycle and are being pulled apart like spaghetti by the gravity of the thousands of new games released every day. Not so for Stellaris, Paradox’s spacebound grand strategy 4X. How it got to where it is…
Crimson Desert is a solo RPG, but you’d be forgiven if you mistook it for a live service MMO just based on the headlines it generates. It’s morphed and added features rapidly in response to player feedback—as PC Gamer features producer Mollie Taylor put it, “the playerbase says jump, and Pearl Abyss says how high.”…