A CRACK IN THE SLAB

“A WHOLE NEW EPIC WOW ADVENTURE IS ABOUT TO BEGIN”

This month Remembered slaying many a boar as

The PC Gamer team

JOSH WOLLENS Twitter @joshuawolens This month Realised he’d

THE PCG INVESTIGATOR

Dick Ray-Tracing is who PC gamers go to for help when no one else will. This month’s case: THE FREEMAN ALWAYS RINGS TWICE

BUT NOT FORGOTTEN

Devs create an SGF tombstone for fallen game studios

The Spy

BUT WHO WATCHES THE SPY?

GOING BANANAS

PCG INVESTIGATES

GENERATION GAME

THE UNSUNG HEROES OF DEVELOPMENT

Incoming

THE BIGGEST GAMES ON THE WAY

STAR WARS OUTLAWS

Star Wars Outlaws

DRAGON AGE: THE VEILGUARD

Dragon Age: The Veilguard

ASSASSIN’S CREED SHADOWS

Assassin’s Creed Shadows

PAX DEI

Pax Dei

GREEDFALL 2

GreedFall 2

GRAY ZONE WARFARE

Gray Zone Warfare

DUSTBORN

Dustborn

GUILD WARS 2: JANTHIR WILDS

Guild Wars 2: Janthir Wilds

DOWN TO EARTH

WORLD OF WARCRAFT: THE WAR WITHIN FORGES A NEW PATH FUELLED BY A 20-YEAR HISTORY

DESIGN MASTER

Speaking with A Crack in the Slab’s expert designer, Thomas Boucher

TIME TRIAL

The gripping flow of A Crack in the Slab

Running rings

So Elden Ring: Shadow of the Erdtree is

ABSOLUTELY DIVINE

SHADOW OF THE ERDTREE masterfully concludes FromSoftware’s glorious action RPG

SPANDEXCOM

CAPES turns superhero combat into a brain-twisting tactical puzzle

STARTING TO FLAG

Another odd in-betweener year for F1 24

TROUBLED WATERS

STILL WAKES THE DEEP is more than the sum of its horror parts

PERFECTLY SHAPED

After a difficult year, Bungie pulls off a miracle with DESTINY 2: THE FINAL SHAPE

HEAVENLY

A garden of diabolical delights make SHIN MEGAMI TENSEI V: VENGEANCE feel fresh

ZAP

Grab a notebook – every answer is a mystery in LORELEI AND THE LASER EYES

OUIJA DOES IT

COOL TITLES FOR NO CASH

CAT POWER

Flash relic DAYMARE CAT gets a welcome glow-up

HOLE NEW WORLD

Falling with style in AGUJERO

INTERNAL BRUCEING

OLD GAMES REVISITED

SADDLE SORE

Nostalgia rides a Raleigh Chopper in KNIGHTS AND BIKES

DUNGEON KEEPER

Grasping onto power at any cost in CRUSADER KINGS II

GAMING LAPTOPS

Bold designs and powerful components – a new wave of gaming laptops arrives

WHEEL LIFE

How real can your sim RACING SETUP get?

HEAVEN SENT

A brief history of graphical TECH DEMOS

BUYER’S GUIDE

Build the best PC for your budget

“The choice to have friendly fire turned on is one of the best decisions”

Dropping into HELLDIVERS 2 with the boys

“She’s covered in blood, I’m loving it”

Reliving a bloody RPG past in DRAGON AGE: ORIGINS

“While I hurl spells as a glass cannon, my pal rolls around jump attacking”

With the Seamless Co-op mod, the once fearsome ELDEN RING is at your mercy

“You feel as though you are being observed, and not just over radio”

FIREWATCH’s treatment of the outdoors means it’s still relevant today

MINECRAFT

Become a heroic explorer in Minecraft 1.21’s trials.

STAR WARS MODS

The best way to bring Star Wars into your favourite games

CONQUER SHADOW OF THE ERDTREE

Blaze a trail through Elden Ring’s new expansion.

HUNTING FOR GOLD IN WRESTLING EMPIRE PART 3

Shark tanks, explosions and shameless shilling in the final part of The Detectorist’s journey

THE SHIVERING ISLES IN OBLIVION

WHAT MAKES GAMES SPECIAL

FALLOUT: NEW VEGAS

OLD GAMES, NEW PERSPECTIVES

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