CRUISE CONTROL

“WITHIN AN EPISODE IT’D BECOME MY NEW FAVOURITE SHOW”

Twitter @robinlvalentine This month Actually cheered at a

The PC Gamer team

STEVEN MESSNER Twitter @stevenmessner This month Fathered both

TWITCH REFLEX

125GB of data from the streaming giant TWITCH was leaked. What’s next?

The Spy

BUT WHO WATCHES THE SPY?

CAR TALK

PCG INVESTIGATES

DANCE OFF

INSPIRATIONS AND CONNECTIONS IN GAMES

SISTER SLEDGE

GAMING’S LINEAGES EXPLORED

CLASH: ARTIFACTS OF CHAOS

ACE Team returns to the weird and wonderful land of Zenozoik

OXENFREE II: LOST SIGNALS

Spooky tech and masked gangs haunt Night School Studio’s sequel

THE GUNK

This game absolutely sucks. But, er, in a good way

TOTAL WAR: WARHAMMER III

Adding a whole new faction to a forty year old setting

FRANK AND DRAKE

Shelley you can’t be serious?

BALDUR’S GATE 3

Shadows and Sorcerers dominate patch six of Larian’s RPG sequel

BOOK OF TRAVELS

Might and Delight is out to create a new kind of MMO

GO ALL OUT

RIOT GAMES’ co-founder talks about its past, present, and ambitious future.

PUNCHING UP

How two co-workers with a wild dream created ARCANE.

TUNING IN

RIOT MUSIC hit big with K/DA – but it’s not stopping there

NEW KIDS ON THE BLOCK

VALORANT is out to forge its own path

THE SECOND DECADE

After ten years at the top, where does LEAGUE OF LEGENDS go from here?

ON THE CARDS

How LEGENDS OF RUNETERRA plans to move past its first design era.

MOBILE MAGIC

WILD RIFT follows in LoL’s footsteps

FULL AUTO

TEAMFIGHT TACTICS continues to innovate

HOW BUILD A BLACK HOLE

How videogames recreate gravity, from Newton and platform games to Einstein and the simulation of galaxies

Looking back

Have you actually played many new games this

GUERRILLA RADIO

FAR CRY 6 demonstrates why the series needs a revolution of its own

FIRE WALK

BONFIRE PEAKS leaves plenty to think about – and to burn

WORLD-WEARY

NEW WORLD tries to do a lot of things, but stumbles frequently

FRESH FACE

BACK 4 BLOOD makes a triumphant return to the genre Turtle Rock created

FP-Chess

Let’s do the time loop again in LEMNIS GATE

THE BEAUTIFUL SAME

FIFA 22’s Jogo Bonito hasn’t changed much, but it’s enough

ROLL PLAYING

THE ETERNAL CYLINDER is a unique but limited vision of evolution and apocalypse

DECKED OUT

Cyberpunk card game VESPIARY puts the deck in Deckard

HP SOURCE

DAGON is a slick Lovecraft adaptation

STRING EERIE

Collecting spirits in SYMPHONY OF SEVEN SOULS

DIGGY BANK

Wallowing in my avarice in SHOVEL KNIGHT: TREASURE TROVE

BANDIT AID

Learning humility in MOUNT AND BLADE: WARBAND

BROKEN SWORD: SHADOW OF THE TEMPLARS DC

I magine if, instead of an ice-capped mountain

THE CURSED CRUSADE

T he Cursed Crusade is the game I

PENDRAGON

“To die with honour is better than to

GAMING HEADSETS

Treat your ear holes to smooth and responsive audio with one of the top headsets

WINDOWS PAIN

When should you upgrade to WINDOWS 11?

BUYER’S GUIDE

Build the best PC for your budget

“An ambitious game that grapples with tough questions”

TALES OF ARISE is a resplendent JRPG with fantastic characters

“Sean Connery’s just been eaten by a dog”

Conquering a bunker in RED ALERT: REMASTERED

“A world where you use your camera to discover lots of little surprises”

Switching up perspectives in photography game TOEM

“Small children and slapstick go together like a coyote and a cliff ”

Finding felicitous family fun in PHOGS!

STELLARIS

Making old aliens new again

MAFIA TITANIC MOD

Trade larceny for luxury

BUY A NEW WORLD HOUSE

Claim your corner of Aeternum and make Amazon’s MMO home

IN ICE WIND DALE II

I’m banning swords and embracing a mage-only lifestyle

SHOOTING FROM THE HIP

Celebrating the modern shooters that make aim-down-sights optional

PORTAL

The cake is… far more sinister than you remember

MUST PLAY

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