Latest articles by Robert Zak
Deus Ex devs say they weren't trying to make a statement when they made one of the most political games of all time: 'What I think is the right future for humanity is irrelevant. It's all about what each player thinks'
News A cabal of billionaires unleashing an artificial plague to further immiserate and exploit the underclass, but not in a political way.
The game that would become Deus Ex originally starred Jake Shooter, supercop
News Come on, that's just funny.
Deus Ex was a hard sell because, among other things, the Thief devs thought 'if you give players a gun, they won't sneak'
News Give someone a gun, and everything starts to look like a nail you can shoot with a gun.
After years of historical 4X games, Endless Legend 2 is a much-needed flight of fantasy for the genre
High tide My hands-on reveals a return to Amplitude doing what it does best.
Grand Theft Auto 5 Enhanced is a bitter-sweet return to Rockstar's money-making machine
Last hurrah A reminder of everything good and bad about the vast criminal caper.
Undisputed has added Jake Paul DLC and given the YouTube grandad-basher a rating equivalent to two-time world champion Ricky Hatton
News The new DLC comes alongside a free update with new arenas and improvements to the career mode.
Avowed's inert cities remind me just how good we had it in Skyrim and Oblivion
The Unliving Lands Without reactivity, there can be no immersion.
A long-awaited RPG release hits PC Game Pass Day One this month
Presented by Microsoft
Plus what else we're playing in the great February gaming glut, as nobody else is calling it.
How to find and use lockpicks in Avowed
Picking You'll never have to worry about running out of 'picks again.
My respec in Avowed turned the combat from Skyrim into Dishonored, and now I'm having a blast as an invisible parkour sword-mage
DISAVOWED Finally, a game has broken me of my phobia of do-overs.
This month's PC Game Pass offering features sweet RPGs and brutal actioners from the Far East
It's time to get Persona-l.
Civilization 7 review: Lighter and leaner
Civ-lite Lighter and leaner, Civilization 7 sets its sights on assimilating a new audience.
Some 20 hours in, I can say that Civilization 7's age transitions are the series' most radical and disruptive mechanic yet
New age Entering a new age feels like a soft reset of the game, which may be just what the series needed.
11 years and $750 million later, Star Citizen now has a new star system and MMO-scale server sizes
News Version 4.0 brings big changes, but it still feels like there's a long way to go.
Diablo 4 is free until January and lets you play as its most busted class, so go on a rampage before Blizzard nerfs it
News Give yourself the gift of endless loot this holiday season.
The maddest shooters of 2024 and 2020 join forces, as Ultrakill crosses over into Mullet Madjack
News As if Mullet Madjack could get any more hectic, it now has a Boss Rush Mode with Ultrakill's toughest enemy.
XDefiant's closing-down content dump is enormous, unprecedented, and bleak
News It turns out that the game criticised for lack of content had tons of content all along.
Ubisoft releases new Blood Dragon game... with NFTs
News Not the video game debut Captain Laserhawk would've hoped for.
Only 15% of all Steam users' time was spent playing games released in 2024
News Steam's end-of-year review of what we play and how we play makes for some interesting reading.
PC VR wizard is gearing up to weave his magic on Ubisoft's 2023 open-world adventure
News Bringing the total number of Luke Ross' VR conversions of PC games up to 26.
This upcoming RPG is injecting a healthy dose of magic, demons, and steampunk gizmos into 19th-century Japan
News The publisher of Pathfinder and Rogue Trader is adding to its solid RPG library.
Skull and Bones is reportedly going to remain supported for Year 2, despite no one playing it
News Ubisoft's naval online game looks like it's staying afloat for now, but the numbers don't look good.
