The Spy

“DOOM’S MOST HELLISHLY WICKED, ADRENALINEPUMPING EPISODE YET”

Twitter @rnicholasj This month Discovered a chainsaw behind

“PRAISE THE PILE!”

FOXHOLE players battle the odds and build a religion around a corpse pile

WORLD BUILDING

PCG INVESTIGATES

BUILDING CHARACTERS

THE UNSUNG HEROES OF DEVELOPMENT

Incoming

THE BIGGEST GAMES ON THE WAY

NIGHTINGALE

What’s on the cards for the next big survival game?

THE FRONT

The Front’s ambitions are buried under generic survival cruft

BEAST

This mad grimdark tactical RPG let me become a satanic Wolverine

MOONLIGHT PEAKS

A vampire farm sim that let’s you decorate your property

THE INQUISITOR

Vampires, jesters and pigs in a thoroughly muddy fantasy world

I CO N OF SIN

John Romero is dragging us back to hell in SIGIL II, the original Doom’s brand-new, devilishly devious, unofficial sixth episode

Doom Guy on Doom

On Doom’s 30th, Romero reflects on the iconic FPS

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THE HISTORY OF DOOM

Charting 30 YEARS of the genre-defining (and redefining) FPS series

Doom

RELEASED 1993 DEVELOPER id Software

Doom II

RELEASED 1994 DEVELOPER id Software

Doom 3

RELEASED 2004 DEVELOPER id Software

Doom 4

RELEASED N/A DEVELOPER id Software

Doom (2016)

RELEASED 2016 DEVELOPER id Software

Doom Eternal

RELEASED 2020 DEVELOPER id Software

JACOB RIDLEY

Oxenfree 2

CYBERPUNK 2077: PHANTOM LIBERTY

BEST EXPANSION 2023

MOLLIE TAYLOR

Rhythm Sprout: Sick Beats & Bad Sweets

WARHAMMER 40,000: DARKTIDE

BEST ONGOING GAME 2023

DREDGE

BEST SETTING 2023

ALAN WAKE 2

BEST STORY 2023

STAR WARS JEDI: SURVIVOR

BEST ADVENTURE 2023

TYLER COLP

Honkai Star Rail

EVAN LAHTI

Jagged Alliance 3

JOSHUA WOLENS

STONKS-9800: Stock Market Simulator

ROBIN VALENTINE

Viewfinder

DAVE THE DIVER

BEST DESIGN 2023

REMNANT 2

BEST SHOOTER 2023

TCHIA

BEST OPEN WORLD 2023

ARMORED CORE VI

BEST ACTION 2023

SHADOW GAMBIT: THE CURSED CREW

BEST STEALTH 2023

Dead Space Remake

It’s easy to forget DeadSpace in a year

ANDY CHALK

Atomic Heart

STREET FIGHTER 6

BEST FIGHTING GAME 2023

SYSTEM SHOCK

BEST REMAKE 2023

BALDUR’S GATE III

GAM E OF THE YEAR 2023

THINNER CITY

CITIES: SK YLINES II is a lot bigger than the original, but not quite better

TIME IS MONEY

Surviving the grind in PAY DAY 3

ATALE OF TWO GAMES

LORDS OF THE FALLEN is a great Souls-like, haunted by some bizarre choices

KILLER COP

ROBOCOP: ROGUE CIT Y’s engaging, hyper-violent combat only takes it so far

NIGHT TERRORS

ALAN WAKE 2 is a wild barrage of creative storytelling and visual flair

SECOND CONTACT

STAR TREK: INFINITE is Stellaris, but not as we know it

SHRINK-WRAPPED

Tossed salads and random battles in FRASIER FANTASY

THE LOST LEVELS

MR PL ATFORMER is a sidescroller that really goes places

LOOPER

Live, die, repeat in puzzle game TEST TEST TEST

CITY LICKERS

How your memory betrays you in RESIDENT EVIL 2

MILLINER TO ONE

A HAT IN TIME is a head above other platformers

PENITENT PALS

Suffering in silence with BLASPHEMOUS

HARDWARWE

GET THE PC YQII&GAMES DESERVE

NEXT-GEN GAMING KEYBOARDS

GROUP TEST

META NARRATIVE

How might gaming level up from Zuckerberg’s photorealistic VR CHAT?

FRAME DROP

Learning to love imperfect framerates again

“Playing Baldur’s Gate III as a Bad Dragon is not for the faint of heart”

The unseemly thoughts of a BALDUR’S GATE III Dark Urge player

“OMG his head, literally, exploded!”

ROBOCOP: ROGUE CITY is simple, bloody carnage

“Some say there’s satisfaction in working your way up, but balls to that”

Shopping my way to crafting success in FINAL FANTASY XIV

“Do I want to go fishing? Not really. Tony Stark invited me? OK then!”

Not enough people are talking about MARVEL’S MIDNIGHT SUNS

FINAL FANTASY XIV

Worlds collide as Endwalker draws to a close.

CYBERPUNK 207 7 2.0

The best mods for the freshly updated RPG.

GET STARTED IN LORDS OF THE FALLEN

Triumph over Adyr with these tough tips

BALDUR’S GATE III

BETTER THE DEVIL YOU DON’T K NOW, IN

CY BERPUNK 207 7 2.0’S PHOTO MODE

Admiring the dystopian future through a camera lens. By Tyler Colp

QUAK E II

Revisiting id’s classic in the wake of the remaster.

MUST PLAY

A PERSONAL LIST OF THE BEST GAMES YOU CAN PLAY RIGHT NOW

Designing Generic Doom Clone 367

How not to create an iconic FPS