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Last week, reports began to emerge that Insomniac Games had been the victim of a ransomware attack that had seen details of an upcoming Wolverine game (as well as personal information of several developers) revealed to the public.  Ransomware group Rhysida demanded that Insomniac give them roughly $2 million in BitCoin, or it would release…

(Image credit: THQ Nordic) South Park: Snow Day seems like it would be an ideal Christmas game. A third person cooperative adventure set in Trey Parker and Matt Stone’s fictional Colorado town, it sees you battling through its icy streets, banding together with Cartman & co to save your home from an endless winter. That’d…

Regulators of the Chinese Communist Party have come down hard on several key pieces in the live service model, leading to spiralling shares for major players in the market as investors scramble to assess the damage. According to a Reuters report, “nearly $80 million in market value” has sloughed off Tencent Games and NetEase Games:…

I was maybe a little bit off in my prediction that 2023 would be a landmark year for strategy games. Disappointments, delays and the purgatory of early access meant that it didn’t quite live up to my expectations. Games like Jagged Alliance 3, Age of Wonders 4, Aliens: Dark Descent and Company of Heroes 3,…

FromSoftware’s glorious return to mech combat became our pick for the best action on PC this year. For more awards, head to our Game of the Year 2023  page. Ted Litchfield, Associate Editor: When I fired up Armored Core 6 for the first time, I felt like Milhouse playing Bonestorm in the Simpsons, the protagonist…

I spent half of 2023 being cranky about Avatar: Frontiers of Pandora. I caught a theater demo at Ubisoft Forward in June and came away confused and disappointed that Ubi wasn’t making the Avatar Assassin’s Creed I’d been building up in my head. It seemed so obvious—you could climb up trees, ride an alien horse,…

Personal Pick (Image credit: Future) In addition to our main Game of the Year Awards 2023, each member of the PC Gamer team is shining a spotlight on a game they loved this year. We’ll post new personal picks, alongside our main awards, throughout the rest of the month. I’m not a big fan of scary…