Latest articles by Jake Tucker
‘We could go from a shooter to a platformer to a horror theme’: How stepping away from Payday 2’s real-world framing has helped Den of Wolves turn high-stakes heisting on its head
PCGS 2025 The PC Gaming Show went behind the scenes with 10 Chambers for an exclusive chat at its Stockholm HQ
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.
The first PUBG spinoff with real promise is a top-down take on Rainbow Six Siege
DEATH FROM ABOVE When I wasn't getting ganked by Krafton devs, Project Arc was great fun.
DayZ's Frostline DLC makes the brutal survival game even more inhospitable
DayZed & Confused Hell frozen over.
The 8 most heartbreaking cuts from this year's PC Gamer Top 100
Top 100 We only have 100 spots to list. Not every game is going to make it.
The top 100 PC games
Class of 2024 Welcome to the 2024 edition of the PC Gamer Top 100—our annual list of the best PC games around.
Gray Zone Warfare's first big update is coming and it feels like a game-changer
Night and Day The Night Ops update is doing more than adding 24 hours to the day.
Cairn might be the best climbing game I've ever played, and I wish it was released already
Ascended Do sweat the technique.
Orcs Must Die! Deathtrap proves slaughtering orcs is like riding a bike, but way more fun
Gnome mercy Orcs Must Die!'s roguelite return is more than just a nostalgia hit.
Arena Breakout: Infinite is a snack-sized Tarkov I can't stop playing, but has some awful monetisation
Storage Wars Arena Breakout is full of interesting ideas, if you can stomach the free-to-play systems.
