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“DOOM’S MOST HELLISHLY WICKED, ADRENALINE-PUMPING EPISODE YET”
“PRAISE THE PILE!” • FOXHOLE players battle the odds and build a religion around a corpse pile
INPUT LATENCY WOES
CAPCOM’S MOD ALARM
EXPANSION INNOCENCE
Highs & Lows
The Spy • BUT WHO WATCHES THE SPY?
WORLD BUILDING • The MORROWINDmod that’s older than the game itself
BUILDING CHARACTERS • KARINA BASTOS on being a freelance 3D character artist in the game industry
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
ICON 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
THE HISTORY OF DOOM • Charting 30 YEARS of the genre-defining (and redefining) FPS series
GAME OF THE YEAR 2023 • Celebrating the absolute best of the last 12 months of PC gaming
A complex craft
This month’s increasingly mad reviewers…
THINNER CITY • CITIES: SKYLINES II is a lot bigger than the original, but not quite better
TIME IS MONEY • Surviving the grind in PAYDAY 3
A TALE OF TWO GAMES • LORDS OF THE FALLENis a great Souls-like, haunted by some bizarre choices
KILLER COP • ROBOCOP: ROGUE CITY’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 PLATFORMER 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
NEXT-GEN GAMING KEYBOARDS • Move over membrane, make way mechanical: these gaming keyboards use light or magnets to deliver a more rapid and reliable response.
META NARRATIVE • How might gaming level up from Zuckerberg’s photorealistic VR CHAT?
FRAME DROP • Learning to love imperfect framerates again
BUYER’S GUIDE • Build the best PC for your budget
“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!” •...