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Alongside being a colossal sales success for Saber Interactive, Warhammer 40,000: Space Marine 2 has demonstrated an impressive amount of sticking power as a multiplayer game. Its most recent daily peak concurrent was over 21,000 players, higher than numerous big-swing multiplayer games released in the last 12 months like Dune Awakening and Marathon. Not a…

Flowers and survival horror might seem like a weird combination, but there’s a surprisingly strong tradition of blending flora with scares in video games. The original Resident Evil had players fight a giant plant monster, and the whole premise of The Last of Us is basically “what if mushrooms were hostile?” The Florist takes things…

In 2009, three DLC packs were released for Saints Row 2. The first two, Ultor Exposed and Corporate Warfare, added a string of missions about taking down Ultor, the evil corporation shared by Saints Row and Volition’s other series, Red Faction. They also added more vehicles, a bunch of clothing and hairstyles, and an NPC…

I played a demo of My Arms Are Longer Now at PAX Australia and it was a real good time. It’s a stealth-comedy game, though not in the sense that you’re surprised to find out it’s funny. It’s funny from the first second you twist your upsettingly wiggly arm across the floor of a train…

Troika’s Temple of Elemental Evil came out in 2003, adapting an old school tabletop adventure into videogame form while being remarkably true to the then-current third edition of the Dungeons & Dragons rules. It’s pretty good! I like the bits where you doss around the village of Hommlet and the piratical cove of Nulb more…

Great moments in PC gaming are bite-sized celebrations of some of our favorite gaming memories. Sea of Thieves (Image credit: Xbox Game Studios) Developer: RareYear: 2018 I like pirate survival game Windrose a lot, but playing it mostly just made me pine for my favorite pirate game of all time: Sea of Thieves. It’s been…

Earlier this month, crowdfunding platform Kickstarter altered its guidelines with regard to adult content. Where before it only prohibited “pornographic” and illegal content, it changed to be more restrictive and almost comically detailed, banning everything from “implied sex acts” to “MILF/DILF” content. Tuesday, the company reverted this change, saying—you guessed it—it was under pressure from…

We’ve been going back through the PC Gamer vault looking for stories to revisit, reassess, or just have an honest “weren’t we naive?” chuckle about, and few have ticked all three boxes as much as our February 2012 “Armchair Designer” column, “Ten things we want to see in Elder Scrolls 6.” It was a scant…

Diablo continues to be a huge deal, and I’m not just talking about the latest entry, even if it is Blizzard’s fastest-selling game ever. Millions of people went straight back to Diablo 3, and as the series’ lead producer Matthew Cederquist told Polygon in a recent interview, Diablo’s 26-year-old sophomore release is still surprisingly active….