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April 2024

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April 30
- 5 beginner's tips for Echoes of the Plum Grove to help you survive your first season in Honeywood
- At one with the machine—How sim racing has helped me practise mindfulness
- PCIe 5.0 is nearly four years old and it's still virtually worthless in gaming PCs
April 29
- Bethesda beefing it with a calamitous 'next-gen' Fallout 4 update just as everyone's falling in love with Fallout again is the most Bethesda thing imaginable
- 'Cozy game with consequences' Echoes of the Plum Grove is constantly threatening me with death, taxes, and mean neighbors
- The tech I'm most psyched to see this year is anything but traditional PC silicon, and certainly isn't x86
- Total War: Warhammer 3's Thrones of Decay is a gunpowder and steel adventure that puts the Empire and Dwarfs back on top
- How Escape From Tarkov wiped out years of goodwill in one catastrophic week
- Hit sandbox MMO Albion Online braces for launch in Europe
- Five new Steam games you probably missed (April 29, 2024)
April 28
- Remembering the weird HeroQuest novel that combined Beowulf, Discworld, Dying Earth, and American Psycho
April 26
- The wild successes of Helldivers 2 and Baldur's Gate 3 send a clear message: Let devs cook
- Metro Exodus is the perfect post apocalyptic game to play if you're tired of Fallout's wasteland
- The Divinity: Original Sin board game took 6 years to make because Larian was determined to do right by the series: 'We're not going to do a piss poor job with a game that's part of an IP that we care about'
- The Divinity: Original Sin board game is like a huge new Larian RPG in a box, and it's one of the coolest games I've ever played
- Celebrating the 20th birthday of City of Heroes: an MMO resurrected by the people who loved it enough to 'bring the game back for good'
- I tried to make a medieval paradise in Manor Lords but now it's just full of eggs and corpses
- Idle farming sim Rusty's Retirement allows you to pour hours into farmwork whilst still doing other things
April 25
- Manor Lords release date and launch times: here's when the medieval city building gates open
- My quest to find one of Stardew Valley's rarest items left me as a social outcast, but that won't stop my early-morning rummages
- Get a superb Star Wars game and multiple Day One releases on PC Game Pass this April
- Fallout 76 was kicking my butt until I respecced into an indestructible tank
- Manor Lords won't let me get away with my usual survival city builder cheese strats, so I guess I'm actually gonna have to become a competent mayor
- This co-op Viking survival game is a lot different than Valheim because you can recruit NPCs, assign them jobs, and occasionally devour their souls
April 24
- Dark Roast Cafè is an adorably satanic, cozy game where you employ quirky demons to help run your business
April 23
- Why games are still full of fetch quests in 2024
- I almost quit Fallout 76 until I realized Bethesda still hides its most important setting in a config file
- Of course Fallout fans are thirsty for The Ghoul—this isn't the first time everyone's fallen for an irradiated guy
- 18 times the Fallout show was exactly like a videogame
- I have become obsessed with a goat in Lovecraftian dating sim Sucker for Love: Date to Die For
April 22
- Rewatching the iconic Crysis 2 'Ultra Upgrade' graphics trailer today in 2024, a bombastic tech showcase that changed how we talk about PC gaming forever
- Magic: The Gathering's latest set gives you a good excuse to dig out those old cards
- Five new Steam games you probably missed (April 22, 2024)
April 21
- Boasting economist lobstermen, gas mask aliens with 120 sexes, and the best space dogfights 2003 has to offer, Underspace is a sci-fi RPG well worth your time
- If you want more Fallout in these trying times, have you considered playing Wasteland 3?
April 20
- No Rest for the Wicked isn't a Diablo, but it might be one of the smartest soulslikes I've played in a long time
April 19
- What we want to see in Fallout season 2: Deathclaw fights, aliens and a lot more Norm
- If Fallout games were films, who'd direct them and which one would be best?
April 18
- All this Fallout TV show buzz and no new Fallout game to play—but so what?
- The new Helldivers 2 gun that everyone immediately declared 'garbage' is actually a misunderstood masterpiece
- How to have a good time with Fallout 76 in 2024 (or technically speaking, the year 2105)
- Superheroes and XCOM collide in this brilliantly tense and tactical turn-based strategy game
- Best RAM for gaming in 2024: I've tested the best DDR4 and DDR5 RAM to find the right kits for you
- Action-packed Strike Rush brings the hero shooter straight to your MetaQuest headset
- Oh no, Hades 2 is already sick as hell to play and it hasn't even entered early access yet
- Yes, I'm abducting my neighbors and sawing them up in a series of ritual murders, but I have a really good reason you guys
April 17
- Fallout 4 isn't the best Fallout game, but it's the best one to play today
- Morels: The Hunt 2, an intensely chill game about gathering mushrooms and taking pictures of animals, is my unexpected new obsession
- I'm so sick of games that shoot themselves in the foot just to boost phoney player engagement numbers
- I loved the Fallout TV show, but I did it in spite of Bethesda's stifling take on the wasteland
- World of Warcraft: The War Within alpha's first zone is beautiful, melancholy, and surprisingly polished
- Gaming PCs with no visible cables are the boldest design change I've seen in a decade of building computers
- Deathtroopers is the Star Wars zombie horror game I never knew I needed
April 16
- I swore I wouldn't use child labor in Frostpunk 2… but then the kids went feral, formed gangs, and started having deadly knife fights in the streets
- Early '90s sci-fi adventure Hamlet was innovating on the survival horror genre before it even existed
- It's weird that the Fallout TV show glosses over one of the series' biggest antagonists
- My new roguelike obsession is a turn-based strategy game that makes you feel like a samurai John Wick
April 15
- The Fallout show's loser Squire Thaddeus is the most quintessential game sidequest character
- 'Just the right kind of weird:' How the secret weapon of a /pizza command let EverQuest 2 slice into WoW and accidentally end up topping Pizza Hut on Google
- Great Scott! Asus' Back to the Future cable-hiding system is no gimmick, it's the future of gaming and enthusiast PCs
- World of Warcraft's Plunderstorm event proves we'll put up with anything for cool transmogs
- Five new Steam games you probably missed (April 15, 2024)
April 12
- Gigantic: Rampage Edition is a slightly shaky but mostly thrilling revival of my favorite dead game
- Heading Out is a stylish, narrative-focused driving game inspired by classic road flicks of the '70s and '80s
- How to have the best Fallout New Vegas experience today
- MMOs still have so much room to grow
- I tried two demos of machine learning AI NPCs, and they didn't convince me AI will lead to anything that immersive sims like Deus Ex haven't already done better
- Fallout's Vaults, ranked from worst to best
- Shelly 'Bombshell' Harrison is back, as 2000s-inspired FPS Phantom Fury hits Steam soon
- This love letter to classic JRPGs takes an hour to get going, but then you're off on a time-travelling '90s joyride
- 4 things I hope RPGs and open world games learn from Dragon's Dogma 2
- Dead Space meets Half-Life, only its a 3-way co-op horror Sci-Fi game
- Which is the best $700 AMD Ryzen gaming PC: a handheld or desktop PC?
- I tried to figure out the builds and perks of the Fallout TV show's protagonists
April 11
- In which I (mostly) debunk the latest Fallout controversy that claims Todd Howard used the Fallout show to 'retcon' non-Bethesda Fallout games
- 5 ridiculously broken Diablo 4 season 4 PTR builds that we may never see again
- The best way to watch the Fallout TV show is to play this building and management sim alongside it
- 7 big ways the Fallout show adds new lore to the Fallout universe
- PUBG has dramatically transformed over the years, swapping grittiness for cartoon outfits, but it's still as ruthless and chaotic as ever
- Just like the games, the Fallout show works best when it ignores the main quest and gets sidetracked
- How Coupons Work at PC Gamer
April 10
- Yellow Taxi Goes Vroom delivers imaginative 3D platforming without a jump button
- Fallout TV show review: The best Fallout since New Vegas
- This Hunt: Showdown-inspired sci-fi extraction shooter is already giving me the F.E.A.R.
- This sidescrolling horror RPG about being trapped in a nightmare is like Amnesia crossed with Deathloop
April 9
- Reminder: There's already a Fallout TV series you can watch now for free, and it's pretty darn good
- Helldivers 2's new mission type is the glorious Helm's Deep holdout defense that I've dreamed of for months
- Helldivers 2's dynamism and constant evolution is incredible, and I'm utterly sick of it
- The starry-eyed protagonist of Amazon's Fallout TV show is brave, not naive, says her actress: 'She's tough, she can handle herself'
- This slick and experimental soulslike takes about 15 seconds to get you feeling empathy for a triangle
April 8
- You can't explore the Wasteland like you used to, but the Fallout TV show is still trying to represent the gamers with 'three archetypal main characters'
- Jonathan Nolan explains some of the best parts of filming the Fallout series, 'we stuck human fingers in the mouth of the Gulper'
- Dragon's Dogma 2's true ending is a high point for RPG climaxes
- Five new Steam games you probably missed (April 8, 2024)
April 6
- WoW Classic devs on the changes they've liked most in Season of Discovery so far: 'It just sounds like utter chaos, but I've just been having a blast'
April 5
- How the WoW Classic team decides what to change in the 20-year-old game
- 'I can't think of another space like that in Fallout 76': there's more to see in Atlantic City now part two of the Expedition is here
- With a near-unprecedented official license for its fan server, one of PC gaming's great MMOs has a vibrant future: 'Let it be shouted far and wide: City of Heroes lives again'
- I've spent hundreds of hours to become one of just 0.13% of Warcraft players who have Dragonflight's ultra-rare meta achievement, and WoW did it suck
- Devs on the upcoming Star Wars strategy game want to make a good first impression: 'We're gonna develop our own language that fits within Star Wars, but also feels unique to this game'
- The black sheep of the Thief series is free on Epic Games Store, and at that price, it deserves a second chance
- The best community clips from The Finals Season 2
- Cuba's 'first major indie game' is a gorgeous platformer about bad decisions and environmental catastrophe, so long as you can get over the checkpoints
April 4
- Diablo 4's next season unshackles so many ridiculous builds it feels like you're breaking it
- Battahl in Dragon's Dogma 2 is an utter nightmare, but it's taught me that sometimes, giving up is also the best way to keep going
April 3
- The Elder Scrolls Online's ingenious housebuilders are creating impossible Frankenstein wonders out of game assets and duct tape, and they took me on a tour
- Content Warning is no longer free, but it's still worth getting if only to experience running terrified from the snail man
- Building a rig with MSI's Project Zero is a glimpse into the (almost) cable-less future of PC gaming
- The new roguelite from the developers of Dead Cells has one big goal: matching the intensity of Japanese action games like Devil May Cry, but with online co-op
- The winners and losers of today's Helldivers 2 patch: Snipers rule, Sluggers drool
April 2
- MechWarrior 5: Clans is bringing an RTS-style tactical camera, love for gamepad players, and a new focus on storytelling to the long-running mech sim series
- April is a monster month for city builders and colony sims
- The PC game releases we're most excited about in April
- Vtubers are doing 'next level stuff' on Twitch, says streamer who invites viewers to help break his Helldivers 2 streams
- My first look at Monaco 2 made me think that maybe crime could pay
- Co-op space game Jump Ship just shot to the top of my 2024 wishlist
April 1
- How I turned my MIDI instruments into the ultimate rhythm game controllers
- This year's best April Fools' Day gaming gags: Bears, bugs, and 97,000 floppy disks
- 1998's Unreal was a big deal, but its free editing tool was the true game changer—and the origin of countless careers
- Final Fantasy 14's newest class has inspired this buff Bob Ross to spread good vibes and turn the party into happy little clouds
- Shadow of Mordor is worth revisiting for the nemesis system alone
- Having built 500+ PCs in my time I can say this with confidence: Building is fun and rewarding but ironing out those inevitable BIOS, CPU, memory kinks is unbearable