Low-Budget Repairs is like House Flipper but you're trying to cut every corner you can as the scummiest handyman in '90s Poland

With the holidays approaching, everyone is focused on the new games we want, but in this special post, we detail games that deserve to be remembered. Endless Midnight: Zombie Swarm: Jordan Trudgett’s independent game on the 360 Live Arcade was from a different era. In 2011, it just felt like everyone was making their own…

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A Baldur’s Gate 3-style early access period wouldn’t have done much for Deadfire, the secret best CRPG of the last decade, per its director Josh Sawyer

Pillars of Eternity 2: Deadfire is, you may have heard, the 40th best videogame you can play right now. Ask certain incredibly cool members of the PC Gamer team and they might even tell you it’s actually higher than that. But it’s also not a super difficult game—it’s fairly easy to assemble a party that…

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Thief designer thinks the graphics arms race should have ended with 2010’s Alan Wake: ‘The fidelity curve has become outrageous’

Thief designer Randy Smith Evergreen, whose credits also include System Shock 2 and Dark Messiah: Might and Magic, thinks we need to chill out a bit when it comes to the graphics arms race. Specifically, he reckons the race should have stopped 16 years ago with Remedy’s original Alan Wake, which was quite a looker…

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