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Disk Cleanup Welcome to Disk Cleanup, our regular weekend column delving into the PCs of PC gaming luminaries. Come back every weekend to read a new interview, digging into the important questions, like “How tidy is your desktop?” and “What game will you never uninstall?” “Starting to be able to use a PC was one…

It’s that time of year where everyone says they’re going to sort out the boxes and bags of stuff that have been thrown into storage, and yes, I’m among the crowd who is desperately trying to do the same. But half the fun of deciding to do this is finding things I’ve simply forgotten I…

On the face of it, Altera looks like a typical military survival sandbox. It’s a game about wandering through a massive, vaguely central European landscape in military camo, building a base, crafting useful items, and taking on missions from dead-eyed NPCs to shoot other dead-eyed NPCs in authentic ranged combat. It’s basically DayZ without the…

I’m not sure I’ve entirely got my head around Vaunted, the latest game to emerge from the stable of Hooded Horse, PC gaming’s hottest publisher. Revealed at last week’s Xbox Partner Preview, Vaunted is a sci-fi tactical RPG where you control a motley crew of thieves and mercenaries forced to do the bidding of a…

Move over, Nick Valentine, there’s another synthetic sleuth in town. Revealed at this week’s Xbox Partner Preview, Artificial Detective is a new action adventure game from neophyte studio Vivix, composed of former developers of games like Dead Space, Control, and Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2. Artificial Detective sees you play as a robotic gumshoe…

It’s been nearly thirteen years since we last saw a Splinter Cell game, and there’s little chance of another one appearing any time soon. A remake of the original Splinter Cell is supposedly in the works, but it’s been in development long enough for its original director to leave the project, spend three years doing…