Philippa Warr
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Rogue Company is Hi-Rez's grungy take on a co-op PVP shooter
Former Halo world champion, Scott Lussier, is the lead designer. → Read More
The best free PC games
Free computer games you should play, including great strategy, adventure and exploration games. → Read More
Heaven's Vault review
Unravel the past in this ace archaeology adventure. → Read More
Baba is You review
Pushing and shoving the rules in the wonderful Baba is You. → Read More
Why I love hidden object puzzle adventures
There’s a specific kind of relaxation that I associate with hidden object puzzle adventures. HOPAs are that endless stream of games, often aimed more at tablet than browser, about collecting and using objects. They get their name from the way the player is repeatedly given a cluttered scene and is tasked with finding particular objects within it, like a visual wordsearch. But they can also… → Read More
Revisiting Audiosurf reminds me that no one owns music in 2019
This article was originally published in PC Gamer UK 327 back in January. Consider subscribing to get our long-running magazine sent to your door. I had not considered that in this, the sixth Year of Luigi, finding music to play in Audiosurf would be a problem. Turns out I stream everything. The only CD I actually own is Bette Midler’s It’s The Girls album and even then I’d need to stream the… → Read More
Hi-Rez and Emory University team up to launch academic study of esports
The partnership aims to tackle basic assumptions about how esports scenes work. → Read More
Eastshade review
A first-person art game that makes screenshotting an intrinsic part of play. → Read More
Let's explore the art of these five gorgeous games
The studios behind five gorgeous games kindly opened up their sketchbooks and discussed inspirations, how each game's art style was formulated. This article was originally published in PC Gamer UK issue 327. For more quality articles about all things PC gaming, you can subscribe now in the UK and the US. The games featured are Apotheon, Haiku Adventure, Gris, The Collage Atlas and Luna (pictured… → Read More
Dota Auto Chess: The joyful deck-based Dota 2 game that Artifact isn’t
It's not really like Dota or Chess, but it is brilliant. → Read More
Subnautica: Below Zero is already a tantalising new twist on the original game
200m away is an Interesting Hole. I know this because I put a beacon in it and labelled it “Interesting Hole”. This is because when I found the interesting hole—actually a promising series of openings leading further into in a biome of beautifully twisting rock formations—I was low on food, water, and health. I needed to swim back to the safety of my little survival pod and sort myself out… → Read More
My Time At Portia review
My Time At Portia is slow. Achingly slow at times. So slow, in fact, that it sometimes feels like it should be an idle game and I have to fight the urge to tab away and check back later. The game is a sandboxy life sim in the mould of Stardew Valley or Animal Crossing. It sees you take over your dad’s dilapidated workshop and attempt to restore it to prosperity, one commission at a time. So far… → Read More
Pikuniku review
Bouncing into Pikuniku’s colourful dystopian deep state scheme. → Read More
World of Goo is still magnificent 10 years on
Having long since forgotten the plot of world of goo but not its glorious, weird jelly Meccano physics, I think I was expecting this reinstall to be a mainly sensory experience. Something like Peggle—great music, appealing cartoonish aesthetic—but with a slippery puzzle element instead of pinball, and a streak of black humour involving some goo balls going through a mincer. I had forgotten the… → Read More
Megaquarium is a beautifully absorbing game about making tiny changes
I was in a dollar store in Vancouver when a piece of music came on the store radio which I immediately recognised. Not in that usual way where a pop song starts up and you’re absent-mindedly humming along, but in the way where you hear a piece of music so deeply associated with a completely different context that reality feels a bit wobbly. It’s like your dad’s voice coming out of a cat, or… → Read More
Gris review
What is it 2D platforming journey through grief.Expect to pay $17/£14.49Developer Nomada StudioPublisher Devolver DigitalReviewed on Windows 10, 16GB RAM, Intel Core i7-5820k, GeForce GTX 970Release date 13 Dec 2018Multiplayer No → Read More
2018 in silly back page jokes
Every month, after the staff has worked tirelessly to fill the magazine full of fun, interesting features, exciting new games, and never-at-all-controversial review scores, we remember we also need to make the page. The joke page.Called 'All Over', the page is usually written the day before deadline—generally in a desperate panic as we try to to come up with a hilarious idea about something that… → Read More
Here's the Atlas map and everything we know about it
As the launch of Atlas, Grapeshot Games/Studio Wildcard’s piratical MMO game is pushed back again, it felt like a good opportunity to answer questions that interested players have sent about the Atlas map which you can find in our magazine cover feature. Here’s the map—click for the full size version: → Read More
Katamari Damacy Reroll review
Katamari Damacy is ridiculous. It’s a vast amount of ridiculous, with a smattering of bad ridiculous which serves to remind you that it’s very much from a previous console era. You, the minuscule Prince of the Cosmos, must help your father, the incredibly buff King of the Cosmos (also unsubtly well-endowed thanks to a pair of spray-on trousers) repair the night sky. There is no prophesy to… → Read More
Why I love Opus Magnum's alchemical gifs
It's the gifs which made me fall in love with Opus Magnum. Without them it's reliably good Zach Barth fare—an alchemy-themed option from his assembly line programming puzzle oeuvre where you move different reagents around a board in order to create compounds. With them it's a puzzle game which has the capacity to take hours of concentrated, messy tinkering and present it back to you as an… → Read More