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“WE’VE GONE BEHIND THE SCENES TO TEST ITS TURN-BASED CHOPS”

ROBIN VALENTINE

The PC Gamer team

SEX DOESN’T SELL • STEAM draws a line on steamy content in games

ELDEN RING

THE SIMS 4

CURSED USB TYPE-C

Highs & Lows

The Spy • BUT WHO WATCHES THE SPY?

This month in… 2011

FACE THE MUSIC • After DMCA takedowns, Twitch has to make peace with the music biz

Synch rights

KEEPING WATCH • Twitch’s troubled history with music copyright

ALTAÏR-NATE PAST • How Assassin’s Creed creator PATRICE DÉSILETS became gaming’scoolteacher

NAME CHECK • Why is Désilets’ studio called Panache?

CROW’S NEST • How Raven Software became kings of COD after vanishing from view

WOLF PACK • Wolfenstein elements that survived the reboot

BIRD’S EYE VIEW • 30 years in the shooting business

CHIVALRY 2 • Tempered steel and temper tantrums on medieval battlefields

THE LORD OF THE RINGS: GOLLUM • A familiar story from a different perspective

AGE OF EMPIRES 4 • Adding a new dimension to wargaming

GAMEDEC • Solve crimes as a virtual Sherlock Holmes

CHICORY: A COLORFUL TALE • An adventure that encourages you to paint outside the lines

A MUSICAL STORY • Are You Experienced (in the ways of the rhythm game)?

ICARUS • Battling a hostile planet in Dean Hall’s next survival game

GRIT • Big ideas for big sky country in this cowboy battle royale

FIGHTS IN TIGHT SPACES • A lack of clarity means these tight spaces have room to grow

REVITA • Much more enjoyable than a rye-based crispbread

ALIVE & KICKING • Playing my first match in BLOOD BOWL 3 – and surviving to tell the tale.

LEAGUE LEGENDS • Star players are cheaper now. So let’s get to know a few of them

BOWLED OVER • There have been more than three Blood Bowl videogames, but who’s counting?

OVER THE YEARS • A timeline of the different versions of Blood Bowl

LET’S KILL CRUNCH • Meet the game makers determined to stop development from ruining lives.

TRIPLE YAY • The big-budget studios changing things for the better

DARK AGES • The most notorious examples of games industry crunch

FREE-RANGE GAMES • The best work of the devs we interviewed

HOW WE REVIEW

OUR SCORING SYSTEM EXPLAINED

Outnow

LET US KNOW WHAT YOU THINK

This month’s lootin’, shootin’ reviewers…

RIDE AND DIE • OUTRIDERS is an inconsistent looter shooter that isn’t worth the ride.

NEED TO KNOW

HEALTH SCARE • Regaining health isn’t as simple as picking up a medkit

PEOPLE CAN FLY • A brief history of the storied shooter studio

DRAGON AGED • YAKUZA 6: THE SONG OF LIFE isn’t a major departure from its predecessors, but still finds its own rhythm.

NEED TO KNOW

ONOMICHI MEMORIES • Kiryu’s coastal holiday, in pictures

SPACE MANAGEMENT • Manage a space station fuelled by nostalgia in...