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“IT’S GOT A HOPEFUL STREAK. WE COULD ALL USE ONE OF THOSE”

The PC Gamer team

THE WINNER IS… • Respawn becomes the first game developer to win an Oscar

MACHINE LEARNING

EYE SEE YOU

CHEEKY GPU GAINS

Highs & Lows

The Spy • BUT WHO WATCHES THE SPY?

This month in… 2011

SEASON PASS • MYTHIC QUEST keeps facing real gaming industry issues with a smile

Real quest

INSIDE GAMING • What have the cast of Mythic Quest been playing during the lockdown?

BOY RACER • How a childhood movie memory brought DRIVER into being

GET AWAY • The problem with today’s film car chases

CHASING THE HARE • How Reflections got over GTA and embraced its own identity

BRAND RECOGNITION • Driver 3’s top three product placements

MIRROR, MIRROR • Deep cuts from the Reflections back catalogue

EXPEDITIONS: ROME • Swords, sandals, and a serious RPG under the toga

DIABLO II: RESURRECTED • The satanic lord of action RPGs returns

LAST STOP • London calling, with sex cults and bickering teenagers

GORD • Make sure your village doesn’t get eaten by spiders

TWELVE MINUTES • Solve a time loop mystery without leaving your flat

PATHFINDER: WRATH OF THE RIGHTEOUS • A fantasy RPG split between two worlds

LET’S BUILD A ZOO • The Island of Dr Moreau, but with more expensive fast food

SKY BENEATH • Oh what a feeling, when we’re puzzling on the ceiling

WAR MONGRELS • Sneak, shoot, and die a lot in this formidable WWII tactics game

KYNSEED • At the mercy of harvest gods and grumpy neighbours

WE ARE THE CARETAKERS • Putting the ‘game’ in ‘game reserve’

DORFROMANTIK • Welcome to the build-a-burg workshop

STAR DYNASTIES • Infidelity is more effective than a Death Star in this strategy game

RIDE OR DIE • DARKEST DUNGEON II CHARTS A NEW PATH THROUGH TERROR IN A ROGUELIKE ROAD TRIP TO SAVE HUMANITY. JUST MIND THE ‘NEXT EXIT: MADNESS’ SIGNS.

RIDE IN STYLE • Upgrade your wagon with parts you collect

WHO’S WHO? • You’ll have nine heroes to choose from at Early Access launch

MEMORIES OF MURDER • Darkest Dungeon II vsDarkest Dungeon

STABBING 2.0 • A peek at some of the unlockable skills in Darkest Dungeon II

FIGHT NIGHT • The MORTAL KOMBAT film wants to be taken seriously, but all you’ll really care about is Scorpion vs Sub-Zero.

WHO WORE IT BETTER? • Movie Mortal Kombat warriors vs their classic depictions

HOW WE REVIEW

OUR SCORING SYSTEM EXPLAINED

M’Lady

LET US KNOW WHAT YOU THINK

This month’s running-for-their-lives reviewers…

LADY KILLER • RESIDENT EVIL VILLAGE is a collection of bizarre, beautiful haunted houses, with some of the scariest moments in the entire series.

FREAK SHOW • The village’s creepiest residents

FLAVOUR TOWN • The Duke’s tastiest stat-boosting recipes

NIER AT HAND • NIER REPLICANT is a welcome second chance for a...