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Open world games are the ultimate form of gaming escapism. When you're in the mood for a sprawling adventure, there's nothing quite like setting off across a countryside of rolling hills, a huge cityscape, or an alien planet. These days,…

Ask a Final Fantasy 14 player and they will probably tell you that suffering through the first 100 or so hours of the MMO is worth it because eventually it gets good. I've put in that time and let me tell you, that is an exaggeration.…

Sometime soon you'll be able to run around open world Hyrule, visit an entirely new village that wasn't in Nintendo's The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild back in 2017, and delve into a newly unearthed crypt where a fresh boss fight…

Many of the best Witcher 3 mods were bundled into the next-gen update by CD Projekt Red, including the HD Reworked Project, Immersive Real-time Cutscenes, Nitpicker's Patch, World Map Fixes, and HD Monsters Reworked (which is how the…

The best sex games have to overcome a bunch of prejudices. Since Steam began selling uncensored adult games in 2018, there have been so many low-effort puzzle games with recycled hentai art released that it's tempting to toggle the Adult…

Last month, I had the absolute pleasure of being in the same room as Eric Barone, creator of Stardew Valley, and Yasuhiro Wada, creator of the Harvest Moon series and the upcoming Birthdays the Beginning. The two developers had never met…

This article was originally published back in PC Gamer 305 in April 2017. Subscribe (opens in new tab) to the US and UK magazines for more features like this, designed beautifully for print and digital. Reading the reviews of Deus Ex:…

There's a fairly famous story about the creation of Mario 64 that explains how the team at Nintendo figured out 3D movement for its revolutionary platformer. "We were working on something really simple—deceptively simple, even, from the…

Jump scares are often considered cheap scares, and to some extent that reputation is justified. I've played games and seen films where the scares are exhausting rather than exciting, and they're not much more sophisticated than someone…

Dirt, dust, and fingerprint smudges aren't likely to do any long-term damage to your gaming monitor (opens in new tab), but they still suck. Why pay all that money for a nice screen only to have the visual fidelity brought down by smudges…