Tom Senior
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Which class should you choose in Diablo 2: Resurrected?
What you need to know about each class before putting together a killer Diablo 2 build. → Read More
Ace Combat 7 will receive more classic jets in the Experimental Aircraft Series DLC
The Ace Combat series continues its 25th anniversary celebrations with the announcement of an Experimental Aircraft pack, due "spring 2021". The pack is structured similarly to other 25th anniversary DLC releases, which means three new fighters to fly and a lot of skins to equip. This one will add the F15 S/MTD Short, the FB-22 Strike Raptor and the F-16XL. The F-16 is a new "advanced technical… → Read More
These face recognition games aim to guess your emotions
So obviously we tried it on some videogame characters. → Read More
Faraday Protocol is a first-person puzzle game set on an alien space station
I'm not sure I've ever played as an alien archeologist before, but that's your job in Faraday Protocol, a first-person puzzler that strands you on a weird alien space station called OPIS.All you have are your wits, and a ray gun that can "absorb and redistribute energy". According to the announcement "You can activate and deactivate power lines and devices with orange energy—or bridge and… → Read More
Horizon Zero Dawn: Complete Edition is 40 percent off this week
A good price for one of the best open world games on PC. → Read More
Final Fantasy 14 update 5.5 trailer shows off spectacular raid and boss footage
The Death Unto Dawn expansion drops later this month. → Read More
Action RPG Wolcen receives a huge update
More environments, difficulty levels, and bug fixes. → Read More
Netflix's The Witcher season 2 has wrapped and Geralt is delighted
Henry Cavill still manages to look sort of terrifying. → Read More
Outriders launch issues affect crossplay and DX12 performance
If you're struggling to stay connected to Outriders pals playing on console, you're not alone. Square Enix has posted a message to Reddit asking players not to attempt PC/console crossplay until a fix has been released.The Square statement says that "in preparing the Day 1 builds for PC and Consoles, we discovered a desynchronization between the PC and Console code. This results in a backend… → Read More
Retro-futuristic survival racer Steel Rats is free this weekend
Welcome to the 1940s. America is under siege from giant robots and your four-strong biker gang is poised to fight back. With guns? Of course not! Who needs guns when you have a bike that can drive up walls? Next, simply replace your front wheel with a flaming sawblade and you can carve up Earth's attackers with speed and, more importantly, flair.Steel Rats is a speedy combat sidescroller that… → Read More
Alien: Isolation is still a terrifying audiovisual masterpiece
How Creative Assembly made the scariest Xenomorph yet. → Read More
Destiny 2 Beyond Light story trailer shows old foes with new powers
You're as cold as ice, but are you willing to sacrifice? → Read More
Vote now in the Golden Joystick Awards 2020
Every day we have the opportunity to honk gaming opinions into the ether on PCGamer.com. It's time to turn the tables. Now it's time to tell us what you think about the greatest games of 2020. The Golden Joystick awards are back, and every vote counts.Not only do you get to have a say in the biggest public-voted game awards ceremony on the planet, you also get free stuff for joining in. Everyone… → Read More
Fear Magic: the Gathering's new zombie bat
The next phase of Magic: The Gathering is approaching fast. Zendikar Rising brings a host of new cards to decks of all colours. Today we get to reveal a card for my personal fave deck: black. Who can resist the sweet stench of death?This early-game card should satisfy most players' necromantic urges. The Ghastly Gloomhunter is a two-mana creature with both flying and lifelink, which means you… → Read More
Win access to the Partisans 1941 closed beta
Immerse yourself in some tense WW2 tactical combat. → Read More
The Witcher is getting a Pokemon Go style AR game and it doesn't look terrible
The game should teach us some important life Leshens. → Read More
Remnant: From the Ashes is the co-op game you should be playing right now
Shatter demonic hordes with magic guns and huge hammers. → Read More
By stripping features away, Mortal Shell improves the Dark Souls formula
Videogame genres have cross-pollinated in the last decade. It's hard to find a game that doesn't have at least some RPG elements. Spending XP on skills and stats provides a good sense of progression across a 40 hour experience, even if the systems are just designed to let you raise damage to keep up with enemy health pools. It's a neat psychological trick, but I'm truly bored of it.Mortal Shell… → Read More
When should you give up on a game?
I've been barging through Final Fantasy 14 this week after a massive patch allegedly trimmed a lot of fat out of the early game. If this is the grind-free version, my god, what must it have been like before?FF14 is a very good game, and I like it a lot. The relatively simple class movesets are tailored perfectly to combat roles. As a Marauder tank I delight in shouting at every enemy on the… → Read More
Total War: Three Kingdoms' first expansion takes us to the jungle
The Furious Wild expansion is due out in September. → Read More