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The nominees for The Game Awards 2023 have been announced and Alan Wake 2 and Baldur’s Gate 3 are tied for the most nominations, with eight each from 31 total categories. They’re both up for the main Game of the Year award, but are also competing for Best Game Direction, Best Narrative, Best Score and…

Like cutting the red tape on a six-lane gravel highway, the launch of Cities: Skylines 2 has been both huge and rough. While undoubtedly offering an improved core experience over the original, the game’s performance issues were so severe that Colossal Order started warning about them before the game came out. Moreover, certain core features…

I’d like to begin this article by talking about Warhammer 40,000. Orks in 40k are possessed of a collaborative psychic power: If enough Orks believe something is true, with enough fervour, it will become true. This manifests in simplistic examples, such as go-faster stripes on the side of vehicles that actually increase their speed. And,…

PC Gamer 390 (Image credit: Future) This article first appeared as part of a supplement included with our blowout 30th anniversary issue of PC Gamer magazine, issue 390, in November 2023. Pick it up for a look back at the magazine’s own storied history. For PC Gamer’s own 30th anniversary, we’re journeying through three decades…

PC Gamer 390 (Image credit: Future) This article first appeared as part of a supplement included with our blowout 30th anniversary issue of PC Gamer magazine, issue 390, in November 2023. Pick it up for a look back at the magazine’s own storied history. As PC Gamer’s 30th anniversary celebrations continue, we’re taking a trip…

The original DayZ mod was released in 2012 to near-instant popularity and, come December, it’ll be ten years since the standalone game entered early access on Steam. Originally launched in a pretty barebones state, the idea was always to build-out DayZ over the years to come and Bohemia Interactive has done just that: with a…

In November 1993, the first issue of PC Gamer was released with a promise: “This is the future of PC games!” The timing was just right. The issue featured a host of future classics: Theme Park, Sam and Max, Sim City 2000. And, just a month after that issue landed, Doom arrived and transformed everybody’s…

PC Gamer 390 (Image credit: Future) This article first appeared as part of a supplement included with our blowout 30th anniversary issue of PC Gamer magazine, issue 390, in November 2023. Pick it up for even more great content, including a look back at the magazine’s own storied history over the last three decades. If…

Well, here’s an odd one. Last night, hundreds of furious World of Warcraft players took to Blizzard’s forums to voice their complaints about a bug that is making the game all but unplayable, which seems to have emerged from the recent 10.2 update. The twist? All of these players are located in Norway. The issue…

Vanguard, Remedy’s mysterious multiplayer game, is being rebooted. Just a couple weeks after saying that it hoped to have the game’s “proof-of-concept” finished by the end of the year, the studio announced today that it’s decided to take the project in a whole new direction, with a whole new codename. We never really learned anything…