With over 7 years of experience with in-depth feature reporting, Steven's mission is to chronicle the fascinating ways that games intersect our lives. Whether it's colossal in-game wars in an MMO, or long-haul truckers who turn to games to protect them from the loneliness of the open road, Steven tries to unearth PC gaming's greatest untold stories. His love of PC gaming started extremely early. Without money to spend, he spent an entire day watching the progress bar on a 25mb download of the Heroes of Might and Magic 2 demo that he then played for at least a hundred hours. It was a good demo.
Latest articles by Steven Messner

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News This lovely pixel art sandbox sim is all about exploration, crafting, and combat.

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News From the developers of Absolver, Sifu is a singleplayer-only martial arts action game.

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News This new Arcane clip teases Jinx's intense sibling rivalry with her sister Vi.

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Chitchat Now that we've seen Elden Ring for real, we have a lot to say.

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News Monster Hunter Stories 2 launches on July 9.

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News The JRPG releases on September 10.

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News Developer Inner Sloth revealed a ton of upcoming features for Among Us.

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News Diablo-style MMO Lost Ark is finally being released in English in 2021.

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Fun with portals The Burning Crusade Classic is an expansion only for hardcore players, but it captures a fascinating period in WoW's history.

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News Yoimiya and Sayu are two new characters coming to Genshin Impact, but not any time soon.

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PSA With so many players flooding quest hubs at launch, running dungeons is a much more fun way to level.

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Fun with portals WoW Classic is going through the Dark Portal later this year. Hopefully this time we're prepared.

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Zone levels Outlands is a scary place, but this guide will help you know where to go and when.

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Stay Vanilla WoW Classic is finally here, letting fans finally go back to the moment where it all started.

By James Davenport, Robin Valentine, Steven Messner, Matt Elliott Published
PCG plays Here are the latest stories and adventures the PCG team has enountered in the realm of videogames.

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Excerpt This exclusive excerpt from Empires of EVE: Volume 2 recounts the 2011 in-game protests that brought CCP Games to its knees.

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News MiHoYo is also teasing its next big expansion and region to explore, Inazuma.

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Epic battles, brutal heists, and one ridiculously longwinded assassination. These are the greatest stories in EVE Online history.

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Why I Love How Steam's latest Early Access creates joy in the simple act of discovery.

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news Yoshida also strongly recommends players replay the main story quests again to prep for Endwalker's big finale.

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News Game director Naoki Yoshida says Square Enix is pulling out all the stops for the big finale to FF14's current story arc.

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News Final Fantasy 14's game director reflects on Berserk's influence on both him personally and Final Fantasy 14's development.

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Open road Each time you die, Unexplored 2's world evolves and moves forward through time.
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