PC Gaming

Special commentary on this classic PC Gamer review provided by: Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War 2 review – PC Gamer issue #197 (UK, February 2009) From the archives: The review below appears as originally written, with only minor changes in formatting and presentation. By Tom Francis (Image credit: Relic Entertainment) Here’s something I never thought…

Hatsune Miku is no stranger when it comes to videogames. From her very own desktop mate DLC, to her rather questionable Fall Guys skin, and even the Fortnite collab which actually pulled me back into the battle royale for a brief amount of time, we’ve seen Hatsune Miku in all sorts of games. As a…

For well over a decade, Unity has been one of, if not the primary engine for indie game development, and has powered some massively successful games like Hollow Knight, Among Us, and the original Subnautica. But over the last few years, a growing number of developers have switched to Godot, an open-source engine that is…

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…