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Why I Love This article first appeared in PC Gamer magazine issue 392 in January 2024, as part of our Why I Love series. Every month we talk about our favourite characters, mechanics, moments, and concepts in games—and explain why we adore them so much. My heart will always return to the MMORPG for one…
Jagged Alliance 3, the well-received sequel to the classic mercenary tactics games, infiltrated enemy lines to extract a big new update this week. Going by the unusual alias “Larry”, patch 1.5 added several new ways to explore and expand your adventures in the politically unstable nation of Grand Chien. The biggest of these new features…
I’ve always loved Euro and American Truck Simulator, at least conceptually. But I spent too much of my youth stuck in my parents’ car, driving across Europe, to find the series’ purposefully mundane road trips particularly novel. Space, though? That’s a more thrilling—and crucially dangerous—setting, and the source of Star Trucker’s more thrilling journeys. While…
Nexus Mods, the world’s largest mod site and almost certainly a bookmark in your browser if you’ve ever wanted to fiddle with Skyrim, obliterate yourself in Fallout, or annihilate thugs with cans of soft drink, is celebrating a milestone. Specifically, it’s celebrating the fact that the site will today hit 10 billion total file downloads….
City of Mist has been one of the biggest breakout hits in tabletop roleplaying in recent years—a unique noir-superhero game about people gaining the powers of the heroes and villains of mythology. Now, after two hit Kickstarters and the release of a whole flood of adventures, supplements, and spin-offs, the creators at small independent studio…
World of Warcraft Classic’s wacky Season of Discovery servers has finally hit Phase 2, and with that advance comes an avalanche of new content. WoW players will match up against each other in PVP contests and new dungeons, a new raid and new quests as they move from level 25 to the new cap of…
I have been plagued with bad rolls throughout my many years playing tabletop RPGs, and this curse has now followed me into videogames. But in the case of Lightforge Games’ collaborative RPG, currently known as Project ORCS, the bad rolls often spawn the most entertaining consequences. Case in point: a botched attempt to thwart an…
People are very eager to conquer a couple hundred floors of Tartarus. At least, that’s what the sales figures for Persona 3 Reload suggest. Atlus announced earlier today that its gussied-up remake of the first modern-style Persona game has sold 1,000,000 copies across the world since its release on February 2, making it the fastest…
Clouds. I’ve never trusted them. Floating up there all high and mighty, constantly threatening rain. What makes you think you’re so great, eh? With your posh names like cumulonimbus. You’re just water vapour, you know. You’re not better than me! It’s about time somebody put those fluffy reprobates in their place. Step forward Bethesda Softworks,…
Tracking down some Acacia in Skull and Bones is one of the first quests you’ll find yourself undertaking in the open beta. After you escape your shipwreck and arrive in the pirate port of Sainte-Anne, you’ll be tasked with building your very first ship. But in order to construct your pirate vessel, you’re first going…