Come September, you won’t need a single Total War: Warhammer game to play its colossal, trilogy-spanning Immortal Empires campaign

Yesterday we finally got to see a full reveal for everything arriving in Total War: Warhammer 3‘s Lords of the End Times expansion and it’s a whole heap of content. We’ve got Nagash and his undead legions, a fully-fleshed out Boris Todbringer and Middenland, plus the Glottkin’s putrid hordes, and the greatest of Grey Seers,…

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Why I love my gaming notebooks

From the archives: This article originally ran in PC Gamer #326 (UK, January 2019). Something I miss when I play digital games is the tactile side of play. It’s why videogames and board games coexist in my life so beautifully. One allows for complexity beyond what a pen-and-paper can track, and the other offers tokens…

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Shoutout to this particular skeleton, who researchers believe is the first confirmed case of being totally obliterated by a trebuchet

One of the special pleasures in any medieval game is getting to field a trebuchet. In an era where warfare was largely a contest of who can keep people swinging their unfriendliest sticks around the longest before they get hungry enough to leave, there’s a sort of giddiness that comes with being the guy who’s…

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Netflix closes Oxenfree developer Night School, just a month after praising its new game as one of the company’s ‘most successful cloud game debuts’

Less than two months after the release of its latest game, Unhinged, Netflix is closing developer Night School Studios, as well as its Moonloot studio in Helsinki. Netflix confirmed the closures, first reported by Game File, in a statement provided to PC Gamer. “Games continue to be an opportunity for us to expand the variety…

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Beast of Reincarnation director apologizes for not providing ‘a sufficiently enjoyable experience,’ but promises Game Freak is working on it

Game Freak’s Beast of Reincarnation arrived earlier this month, and the reaction has been a little iffy. It holds a respectable 73/100 aggregate score on Metacritic—lining up quite nicely with our own 73% review—but the response on Steam is “mixed,” with many user reviews expressing some variation of “close, but not quite.” And for that,…

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