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Dungeon Master Welcome to Dungeon Master, PC Gamer’s regular RPG column, where Online Editor Fraser Brown (and guests) delves into PC gaming’s most beloved and enduring genre. Grab a seat in our badly-lit tavern and please ignore the goblin puke. The journey made by the RPG genre over the last few decades is yet more…
While Cities: Skylines 2 has been sucking up all the oxygen with its bungled launch, severely delayed updates, and developer switcheroo, Colossal Order’s original city-builder has been enjoying the quiet life. An update here, a community pack there, the odd free weekend away. It’s like a retired middle-manager thriving in its dotage while its replacement…
Roguelike FPS Abyssus was one of the more interesting games to embed itself in my Steam library last year. Generally, I am of the belief that first-person shooting and roguelike randomisation should never meet, as it generally results in mushy combat and poorly paced levels. But Abyssus beat the odds, successfully infusing the power-curve of…
Last month, the developers of the Tainted Grail: The Fall of Avalon revealed that its impressive, Elder Scrolls-inspired RPG would receive a major update in March, one that gives its weaker final act a lick of paint. But it left out key details, such as what colour of paint they’d use, whether it’d have a…
American McGee, the Quake alumnus famed for his eponymous action-adventure series based on Alice in Wonderland, is returning to game development with a spiritual successor inspired by his line of plushies. McGee retired from game development in 2023 after a pitch for a third Alice game was rejected by EA. But nearly three years since…
Dave James, EIC Hardware (Image credit: Future) This month I’ve been… on the terminal tip. With Linux finally playing nice with gaming laptops, and sweet-talking our IT team to give me access to my work accounts, the move away from Windows has been a joy. I’m a computer nerd and learning how a new computer…
Welcome back runners. Are we calling each other runners? Honestly, let’s not. What’s up people playing Marathon. I’ve sunk 10 hours into this dang extraction shooter so far and the deeper I dig this hole, the more I’m into it. I’m still having a blast with PvP, especially when playing trios. During the day, when…
Get to know Sandy (Image credit: ConcernedApe) Birthday: Fall 15Occupation: Oasis shop ownerLocation: The Desert, inside the OasisLoves: Crocus, Daffodil, Sweet PeaHates: Holly, Red Mushrooms, Void Eggs It’s official—You’ll be able to romance Sandy in Stardew Valley after the 1.7 update, when she joins Clint as one of two new marriage candidates. But before then,…
It came to light in 2025 that Bungie had stolen work from artist Antireal and used it in Marathon—and I don’t mean in the “borrowed ideas from” way, I mean in the straight-up “copied and pasted” way. The situation was made doubly awkward because this had happened previously, in Bungie’s other game Destiny 2—and more…
If there was any doubt that Marathon would be Bungie’s new canvas for community puzzles and ARGs, let it go, because the community has already stumbled into a doozy. Terminals linked to Marathon (the ship) on Perimeter have suddenly awoken, and they’re pointing toward a spooky audio log seemingly left by Durandal, the rampant AI…