Latest articles by Jake Tucker
For years, survival games have convinced us that chopping down 400 trees is somehow part of the fantasy—Palworld proves them wrong
Pallin' around With a little help from my Pals.
Empulse's frantic movement and giant mechs are giving me serious Xbox 360-era FPS nostalgia
news This new wall-running shooter ends its trailer with a man belting a mech with a sledgehammer, and frankly I'm sold
Wind Runners turned me into a wannabe fighter pilot in 30 seconds
News I am a leaf on the wind.
My favourite card-battling action brawler just got a sequel, and you can play it right now
News Join us at the 2027 PC Gaming Show for Tight Spaces: Tokyo Drift.
Poor Gary: Happy Bastards' PC Gaming Show trailer is a masterclass in delegation
news Finally, my first opportunity to use the word "bastard" in a headline.
Company of Heroes is back, and so is my urge to ruin friendships
News Relic's classic World War 2 RTS is getting a remake to celebrate for its 20th birthday
Mechabellum is a conversation you should be having
Fighting Words Them's fighting words.
How to watch the PC Gaming Show: Most Wanted Powered by Xbox Game Pass on December 4
News We're about to show off new information for 70 games, here's how to come along for the ride.
There's a valuable LEDX you can grab in Escape From Tarkov's tutorial—and it's lost forever if you don't
Strong start Make sure not to miss this valuable item your first time around.
EA Sports FC 26 review: A game of two halfs
Hat-trick Truly the beautiful game, but it makes plenty of unforced errors
How To Watch the PC Gaming Show Tokyo Direct 2025
news We're showing off over 30 games, in addition to bringing you interviews from the floor at Tokyo Game Show.
Schedule 1 is my favourite co-op game of the year because it lets me bully my friends into doing the hard parts for me
Joint effort This empire-builder lets everyone do the things they love.
After playing a Den of Wolves heist, I have high hopes for the cyberpunk take on Payday 2
mind heist The kinetic co-op heister comes from GTFO developer 10 Chambers and its former Payday architects.
Venerable browser-based MMO Urban Dead is closing this week after a 20-year run, not with a bang but with a whimper
news "No grand finale. No final catastrophe. No helicopter evac. Make your peace or your final stand."
Killing Floor 3 is an unapologetic throwback to the gory days of the horde shooter
Zed's dead New tech and some cool new additions bulk out a surprisingly old-school blaster.
Sniper Elite: Resistance review – A fun but inessential addition
Punching Nazis Rebellion's stealthy snipe 'em up series continues to deliver pulpy thrills.
The 11 big FPS games of 2025
HERE COMES 2025 2025 could be a landmark year for the FPS.
Best FPS 2024: STRAFTAT
🏆 Our favourite shooter of the year was look all the best custom lobbies rolled into one.
Playing Path of Exile 2 with WASD makes it feel like a true action game, and I'll never be able to go back to my mouse
Keyboard warrior I implore you to give it a try.
Ballistic, Fortnite's new tactical FPS mode, is a deeply unserious Counter-Strike clone that's going to be huge anyway
Where's Ecks? This tactical FPS reinvention will feel familiar to Fortnite and Counter-Strike plans, but right now it's clunky and dull.
Delta Force's large scale combat reminds me of Battlefield's very best
HAWK OPS Delta Force is copying Battlefield's homework, but it's still easy to recommend.
Void Crew review: Lacks long-term depth, but already the best misfits-in-space game in the whole universe
Intergalactic, planetary Berate your friends in the vast nothingness of space in Void Crew.
Arc Raiders could be the extraction shooter that finally brings the genre to the masses
Robot Rock Fun, approachable, and visually stunning, Embark Studios might find a whole new audience of extraction shooter converts.
