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Europa Universalis wasn’t always a household name in strategy gaming. Like the company behind it, EU has had a fraught journey over the years—and as EU lead Johan Andersson explained in an interview with PC Gamer news writer Joshua Wolens, the early days were spent trying to keep the lights on. Europa Universalis 2, for…

It’s Oct. 26—the day Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas came out, and also Helldivers 2’s in-universe holiday Liberty Day, celebrating all the times we spent together splattering the stars with blood and burying any dissent beneath busted-up robot parts. It’s enough to make a man shed a tear into his liber-tea, and if you can…

Paradox has always dabbled in a smorgasbord of styles, especially when you consider all its published games, but its in-house efforts are almost all grand strategy games where you paint real-world provinces your favorite color. But before it had solidified that reputation, it was trying to make a name in other genres. Trying, and failing…

Soundtrack Sunday Welcome to Soundtrack Sunday, where a member of the PC Gamer team takes a look at a soundtrack from one of their favourite games—or a broader look at videogame music as a whole—offering a little backstory and recommendations for tracks you should be adding to your playlist. No videogame genre has birthed more…

It’s fair to say that The Outer Worlds 2 loves its weird weapons. From the first moment you step foot on Paradise Island, you’ll start discovering all sorts of strange murder contraptions, from a sniper rifle that fires sneaky explosive bolts you detonate when you reload, to a pistol that infects enemies with a contagious…

We’ve cooked up a fresh batch of hints for today’s Wordle if you need them, as well as a clue that can either help you get started, or save the day when you’re wondering what the heck to do with a few yellow letters that don’t seem to fit in anywhere. Try them out and…

When Darktide’s Arbites Class DLC arrived, it came alongside a free update called The Battle for Tertium, which added a campaign mode at long last. Rather than the story coming to a halt once the prologue ended, players had the option to be guided through missions with bespoke voiceover, cutscenes, even unique enemy spawns to…

It’s a landmark year for the proximity-based voice chat party game. Mage Arena and R.E.P.O. have joined the likes of Lethal Company and Content Warning as wildly successful entrants into the nascent style—and genre superlative Peak made it comfortably into PC Gamer’s Top 100 this year. Players are clearly itching for more, as evidenced by…

Whenever we see a major internet outage like this past week’s multi-billion dollar Amazon Web Services debacle, I like to come into work and crack wise: “Bumped into a server rack with my big ass and unplugged it this morning, hope nobody notices!” I may have been closer to the mark this time: As reported…

If you’ve played a Paradox game before, you know the deal. The studios’ 4X and grand strategy games in particular tend to have very long lives supplemented by constant infusions of paid DLC, ranging from piecemeal addons to full-on expansions. It doesn’t always go to plan, and the execution was particularly spotty with Europa Universalis…