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I’ve spent a few thousand hours of my life living in GTA Online. Well, actually, that’s how long Steam tells me I’ve spent tearing up the streets of Los Santos and Blaine County. This lurching figure does not include my time living myriad Truman Show parallel existences within the bounds of FiveM’s roleplaying scene. In…
Jacob Ridley, Managing Editor, Hardware (Image credit: Future) When I’m not working for the split spacebar tourism board, I’m usually tinkering in Linux (new user, having a good time) or testing out a new liquid cooler with even more screens than the last one. There are countless upgrades you could make to your gaming setup….
Character Select Welcome to Character Select, a weekly column where PC Gamer takes a look at the art and cosplay created by you. Each week, I’ll highlight a few of my favourite pieces, spotlight and interview creators and artists, or generally just chew your ear off about the talents of the gaming community. It doesn’t…
My newest obsession in GTA 5 roleplay is playing hide-and-seek with other players, and allowing the winner to smash up the other’s vehicle because, well, having nice things in this game has never really been the done thing. And so I find myself gunning it down the Los Santos freeway in my banged up Beater…
I thought Timberborn’s early access journey was more or less done and (saw)dusted when I last checked in on it in February. The city-builder that has you oversee a colony of industrious beavers had confirmed its release date for March, and seemingly shared everything that was coming to the launch version. But it turns out…
I was already aware that Project Shadowglass was at least partly inspired by Looking Glass’ stealth masterpiece Thief: The Dark Project. Fellow sneaky bastard Ted Litchfield picked some promising nuggets out of Shadowglass’ purse in January, such as open-ended levels featuring guards and traps and simulated 3D audio inspired by Thief’s pioneering propagation tech. But…
Deep Rock Galactic: Survivor is comfortably the best autoshooter to emerge off the back of Vampire Survivors‘ success. Far from being a cynical cash grab, it deftly blends DRG’s mining mechanic with the almighty power curve of Poncle’s action roguelike. Indeed, aspiring space dwarf Robin Valentine gave it a score of 90 in our Deep…
Restoring the environment is a key theme of Monster Hunter Stories 3, and that includes driving away Invasive Monsters that have taken up residence in the dens of rare Endangered Species. Invasive Monsters are powered-up versions of their standard counterparts, and their new environments have given them special abilities that require very specific tactics to…
Monster Hunter Stories 3 lets you tame the monsters that you’ve spent hundreds of hours farming in the mainline series, but the coolest creatures are endangered species that can only be found in very specific areas. Some quests will point you to endangered species (and the main story will send you after one or two),…
Darktide sure is a dark game. That’s both because it’s set in the dreariest of dreary sci-fi settings, the Warhammer 40,000 universe, and because missions mostly take place in shadowy, industrial environments familiar to anyone well-versed in the tabletop game’s lore or numerous videogame adaptations. If it’s a bit too shadowy and claustrophobic for you,…