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Dispatch's superheroic efforts have changed my mind about its episodic release schedule
Worth the wait I love instant gratification, but AdHoc and Critical Role's superhero comedy has shown me the value in waiting.
Star Trek: Voyager – Across the Unknown is a dull, budget survival game, and I swear the show is so much better than this
Lost in space Just play the brilliant Elite Force instead.
Vampire: The Masquerade – Bloodlines 2 is sitting at Mixed reviews on Steam: 'It's not a Bloodlines game'
News Players are disappointed by the lack of RPG systems and connections to the original game.
RPGs make up more than 30% of PC Gamer's Top 100, so clearly we've settled on a favourite genre
RPG Gamer We've got a type.
Vampire: The Masquerade – Bloodlines 2 lets you unlock 24 fancy outfits, so here's my entirely objective ranking, as an expert on wearing clothes
Fang fashion Time to hit the catwalk.
Vampire: The Masquerade – Bloodlines 2's sidequests are terrible, but you can safely skip them all
Fangs for nothing Don't waste your evenings on meaningless busywork.
How to find romance in Vampire: The Masquerade – Bloodlines 2
Bloodlust Will you find undead love in Seattle? Probably not.
AdHoc and Critical Role's superhero comedy Dispatch cuts right to the best bits of Telltale's greatest games
Heroes for hire The two-episode premiere converted this sceptic.
The top 100 PC games
Class of 2025 Welcome to the 2025 edition of the PC Gamer Top 100—our annual list of the best PC games you can play.
Vampire: The Masquerade – Bloodlines 2 review: A brilliant undead mystery that never quite gets comfortable in its RPG skin
Twice bitten You get an identity crisis, you get an identity crisis, we all get an identity crisis!
Steam sale dates: When is the next Steam sale?
Bargain Dates, biggest discounts, tips, annual Steam sale dates, and more.
The best strategy games on PC
Updated! From real-time classics to modern turn-based favorites, these are the best strategy games on PC.
Broken Sword 2 is getting a 4K remaster, and this time AI won't be involved: 'I got into a bit of trouble talking about AI last time, but AI didn't really help us very much at all'
News George's second misadventure will arrive early next year.
Vampire Survivors-like Megabonk makes megabucks, selling a million copies in 2 weeks, and currently has more daily players than Borderlands 4 on Steam: 'I'll be eating spaghetti with EXTRA sauce tonight'
News Put some shades on a skateboarding skeleton, sell a million copies.
A TikToker flew all the way to Scotland to harass and yell at Rockstar developers about a non-existent GTA 6 delay: 'I'm sick and tired of waiting for the answers'
News There are so many better reasons to visit my nation's capital—and they don't involve harassment.
World of Warcraft: Midnight's collector's edition lets you own the Dark Heart, but please don't use this void relic to resurrect an all-devouring shadow god
News Seems like a risky collector's item.
The Star Trek: Voyager survival game will let you murder Tuvix all over again—so I don't really care that it looks a little rough
News Can we kill off Neelix too? One can only hope.
Pax Dei, the fantasy alternative to EVE Online, is leaving early access and introducing a subscription model that sounds a lot like paying a landlord
News And a lot of the community doesn't think it's ready.
Code Vein 2's release date reveal means you'll be starting 2026 off by hunting down vampires (but don't call them vampires), which really should be a new year tradition
News Also, there's time travel.
The Xbox TGS stream's most exciting reveal was just a bunch of licence plates, teasing Forza Horizon 6's Japanese setting
News It's coming next year.
Nioh 3 is coming to PC and PS5 in February, according to an Amazon slip up
News We expect it to be officially confirmed during Sony's State of Play at TGS.
X-COM's creator wants to make a sequel to his spiritual successor, despite it being a 'very difficult project'
News Phoenix Point could rise again.
Stalker 2's 1.6 update brings with it nighttime fun and a bit of heat
News Strap on some goggles, but watch out for burning orbs.
Here's what to expect from the World of Warcraft: Midnight alpha, kicking off on October 2
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The Subnautica 2 lawsuit is getting even messier, with Krafton doing a massive U-turn, confusing both the ousted founders' lawyer and the judge: 'This is a little bit bewildering'
News One of its key claims, that the founders were terminated because they wanted to release Subnautica 2 before it was ready, has been dropped.
