Warhammer 40,000: Space Marine 2 made millions for Games Workshop, and now it wants more hit videogames: “Clearly we are looking for the next one”

Warhammer videogames have been pretty hit-and-miss over the years, to put it mildly—but Saber Interactive’s Space Marine 2 was firmly on the ‘hit’ side of the fence last year, reaching a player count of 4.5 million a month after launch and drawing more interest to the world’s most grimdark sci-fi setting than ever. Unsurprisingly, Games…

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WoW’s Plunderstorm mode is back, and it just lets you buy what you want with your in-game dubloons instead of having to grind

World of Warcraft’s Plunderstorm is back for another go from January 14 to February 18. If you’ve got no idea what I’m talking about, let me explain—Blizzard put a pirate Fortnite in their MMO. Why? Well, for the most part, the company’s making an attempt at branching out and evolving its existing game systems—having a…

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GTA 5 mod recreating GTA 4’s map nuked after 6 years of work because people noticed, and Rockstar insisted on a ‘friendly takedown’, if you know what I mean

The GTA 5 Liberty City Preservation Project (LCPP) was released this month after six years of work, recreating GTA 4’s unforgettable Liberty City within GTA 5’s game world. This was a seriously impressive piece of work, managing to bring over the entirety of Rockstar’s skewed New York and show it all off with GTA 5’s…

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Some 20 hours in, I can say that Civilization 7’s age transitions are the series’ most radical and disruptive mechanic yet

It’s judgement day for Charlemagne of the Roman Empire (not ‘Holy’ Roman Empire, I hasten to add, as leaders are no longer attached to their historical civilisations in Civilization 7). I’m playing the grand strategy game for PC Gamer’s forthcoming review—it’s out February 11—and after several millennia of strained diplomacy with Charlemagne, throughout which I’d…

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Obsidian vet Josh Sawyer says that while ‘it’s not that important’ if players never finish an RPG—after all, who finishes Skyrim—’we can kind of chill out’ on size

Obsidian head honcho and all around RPG veteran Josh Sawyer did another Tumblr Q&A earlier this week (seen above), wherein he dispensed some more of his design wisdom. For the uninitiated, Sawyer is a seasoned developer—having worked on games like Icewind Dale, Neverwinter Nights 2, Fallout: New Vegas, and the Pillars of Eternity series—as well…

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Razer BlackWidow V4 Pro 75% review

The Razer BlackWidow V4 Pro 75% takes the old V3 Pro model, chops it down into a condensed 75% layout, adds a few interesting extras, and whacks the price up into the stratosphere. The key question is whether it’s worth a significant chunk of your hard-earned cash. As with any keyboard, the most important aspect…

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