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November 30
- Great moments in PC gaming: Being hunted by enemies so scary I spent most of Assassin's Creed Origins hiding from them
- Brigand: Oaxaca might be the ugliest game I've ever played, and quietly one of the greatest immersive sims of all time
- Devilated tries to fuse Doom Eternal with Borderlands and loses its mind in the process
November 29
- Why Journey to the Savage Planet is one of the hidden gems of PC Game Pass
- Windows 11 really isn't that bad
November 28
- Japanese RPGs are thriving this decade, so why isn't Final Fantasy?
- It's been a decade since Endless Legend, the 4X genre's most inventive weirdo and the closest thing we've got to a modern Alpha Centauri, launched—we're long overdue another one
November 27
- Deadlock pros are already playing a better version of Deadlock
- 20 years later, World of Warcraft is still on top
- My date with an 'adorable girl who forgives all your awkwardness' went wrong when I realised I was trapped in digital hell
- In Stalker 2's horror-filled Zone, nothing is more terrifying than encountering a small, malnourished dog
- While The Iron's Hot is like a harder, chewier Stardew Valley where you're a blacksmith rather than a farmer
- Somehow this Japanese cult classic brings intense arcade action to… train driving simulators?
November 26
- My new survival game obsession looks like Minecraft but is way more complex—and you won't find it on Steam
- Discord is becoming that overbearing friend that knows absolutely way too much about my life
November 25
- My favorite thing about Avowed might just be how much stuff it lets me turn off
- Sniper Elite: Resistance demonstrates the continued relevance of shooting nazis right between the eyeballs
- Don't try and squeeze too many ideas inside one PC build: For this white gaming PC with an RTX 4080 Super, I very nearly did
- Season 2's ending was peak Arcane—a dense and explosive finale that'll take a while to properly pick out of your teeth
- Five new Steam games you probably missed (November 25, 2024)
November 24
- I'm glad I stuck with Dragon Age: The Veilguard, because it builds to a suicide mission right out of my beloved Mass Effect 2
- Songs of Silence is a gorgeous 4X game for people who don't have time for 4X games
- 5E's original Starter Set, Lost Mine of Phandelver is still a great way to start a D&D campaign
November 23
- Great moments in PC gaming: Successfully pulling off the ultimate healer limit break in Final Fantasy 14
- Hexcraft: Harlequin Fair is a small, bizarre mix of Deus Ex's gameplay, Bloodlines' vibe, and Morrowind's stats, and if that doesn't make you sit bolt upright we're very different people
- Stalker 2: Heart of Chornobyl has almost single-handedly saved 2024 from being an absolutely rubbish year for gaming
November 22
- Every civilization in Civilization 7
- We played Avowed with both first-person and third-person cameras: Here's what we thought
- Even half-finished, Path of Exile 2 is shaping up to be one of 2024's best action RPGs
- Stalker 2's survival systems haven't changed since the last game 15 years ago, and I'm not sure if I'm happy or disappointed
- Typing Stars is meant to be a relaxing 'straightforward game that helps you master typing speed and accuracy,' but it just completely stresses me out
- Gacha games are bigger than ever before—here are the best you can play right now
November 21
- The best Half-Life 2 mods: 20th anniversary edition
- Stardew Valley patch 1.6.9 fixed my ugliest modding habits, and I'm having more fun than ever rediscovering vanilla Pelican Town
- Avowed is a thoroughly old-fashioned RPG adventure, but after the disappointments of Dragon Age: The Veilguard and Starfield, that might be exactly what we need
- Avowed is a jack-of-all-trades action RPG with a rare attention for the little details
- The first bug I saw in Stalker 2: Heart of Chornobyl is the same bug I saw in Stalker: Call of Pripyat 14 years ago, and I find that downright heartwarming
November 20
- Remembering the Corrupted Blood incident: That time WoW was overrun by a virtual plague now referenced by Covid-19 researchers
- 10 tips to help you survive in Stalker 2: Heart of Chornobyl's perilous Zone
- Return To Grace is a smartly written Gone Home-like about piecing together a comatose AI god, and one of those games which doesn't outstay its welcome
- Uh, Dragon Age: The Veilguard—why do your darkspawn look like that?
- Stalker 2: Heart of Chornobyl best graphics settings guide
- Stalker 2: Heart of Chornobyl performance analysis—Everyone gets ray tracing but the entry fee is high
- Five things I want you to think about before you buy your first gaming laptop
November 19
- 'Goodsprings is a real place?': This Fallout fan loved New Vegas so much he actually moved to the Nevada desert
- I just found out you can become a car thief in The Sims 3 and somehow it led to love at first sight with the man who burgled my home
- World of Warcraft: The War Within still hasn't figured out Delves, its mini dungeons desperate for an identity
- November's Game Pass highlights includes both irradiated mutants and complex avionics
- Inzoi's delay into 2025 has officially dashed all hope of this being the year of the Sims killers… what the hell happened?
- Five things I always tell people before they buy their first gaming monitor
- 'My brother and I wanted to shoot at each other': The Lemaitre brothers couldn't find a perfect 1v1 FPS, so they made one of the year's best shooters themselves
November 17
- Five new Steam games you probably missed (November 18, 2024)
- If you spend more time downloading Skyrim mods than actually playing them, 'Vanilla Plus' modding is the excuse you need to dive back in
November 16
- Legally distinct Pokémon and stinky customers: what keeps people coming back to the latest shop sim hit?
- Overwatch: Classic has me reckoning with the fact that OG Overwatch kind of sucks, but also that Blizzard could learn a few lessons from it
- The PC Gamer 2024 Holiday Gift Guide
- Half-Life 2: Deathmatch was the best multiplayer mode ever, or maybe I just think that because it's the only one I was ever good at
- A War Of A Madman's Making is a quietly brilliant, totally free political sim where you have to try to survive as a deranged dictator's henchman
- From extensive lore-friendly research to diabolical wordplay: All the different ways we name our beloved videogame characters
November 15
- Mighty Morphin Power Rangers: Rita's Rewind is a retro throwback to '90s action and the splendor of the brawler genre
- Industry Giant 4.0 is open for business in Steam Early Access
- Five things I always tell people before they buy a new gaming keyboard
- World of Warcraft might not have invented the wheel, but it certainly made it popular—and 20 years on, the MMO titan has fundamentally changed gaming's DNA
- The Veilguard is the first Dragon Age game where my companions don't care enough about anything to argue with me
- Beastieball isn't that dissimilar to Pokémon, but instead of straight-up fighting opponents, you have to best them in a game of volleyball
- Why Dicey Dungeons is one of the hidden gems of PC Game Pass
- Philips Evnia: reinventing the rules of gaming monitors
November 14
- Tetris Forever's playable museum managed to change my perspective on the most familiar game in the world
- World of Warcraft's in-game anniversary event could've been a joyous celebration of the last 20 years, but instead it's a disappointing grind
- Gosh, I think D&D's finally done it—the 2024 Dungeon Master's Guide actually does a decent job of teaching you how to run a game
- Trash Goblin is a cosy shopkeeping game all about amassing giant hoards of dirty trinkets and hoping an adventurer will come by needing at least one of them
- 40 years later, I finally beat the arcade game that financially destroyed me as a child
November 13
- BioWare plays it totally safe with storytelling in Dragon Age: The Veilguard but there's one emotional gut punch that really got me
- Everholm, a 'cosy' farming game where not all is as it seems, is out now
- Dragon Age: The Veilguard's leap forward in trans inclusion comes from a heartfelt place, but its problems left me feeling frustrated, angry, and tired
- Firework is a spooky, hidden horror gem from China, and if you don't have room for another 100+ hour game then does it have an offer for you
- This Gothic-inspired RPG indie is shaping up to be my favourite hidden gem of 2024
November 12
- There's a secret post-credits scene in Dragon Age: The Veilguard that hints at the series' next major villains
- If there's one thing I implore you to do in Metaphor: ReFantazio, it's to play the game in English
- Arc Raiders could be the extraction shooter that finally brings the genre to the masses
- Entropia Universe: the greatest MMO you might never have heard of
November 11
- In a sea of samey copycat hero shooters, Fragpunk is doing it right
- I tried to live out my cosy medieval peasant fantasy in Mirthwood but kept dying from starvation and bandit attacks
- The best way to get into Magic: The Gathering is being handed a shoebox of old cards, but the second-best way is Foundations' Starter Collection
- Five new Steam games you probably missed (November 11, 2024)
November 10
- Riot has been slowly chipping away at build creativity in League of Legends, all in the name of balance, but there are better solutions
November 9
- The Fallout easter egg I want to see in season 2 of the TV show is the Mysterious Stranger
- I desperately hope Dragon Age: The Veilguard, Baldur's Gate 3 and Disco Elysium inspire more RPG devs to reject the traditional drip, drip, drip of DLC and expansions
- How Fish Is Made is the most disgusting horror game I've ever played, and it perfectly captures 2024
November 8
- Vampire Survivors’ Castlevania DLC map is so big that I keep getting lost, but I'd do it all over again just to have Sonia Belmont's sonic whip
- The six best Dragon Age companions ever
- After 105 hours, I'm convinced I've been gaslit by the nudity toggle in Dragon Age: The Veilguard
- The messy queer representation of Dragon Age: Origins was commendable for 2009—and I even miss some of its thorns
- The first PUBG spinoff with real promise is a top-down take on Rainbow Six Siege
November 7
- The best Dragon Age: Origins mods
- Death of the Reprobate's creator drew inspiration from the timeless art of Hieronymous Bosch, Bruegel, and the poop joke
- Brighter Shores is a RuneScape successor with lots of professions and little wonder
- Metaphor: ReFantazio's success is further proof that politics are good in videogames, actually—no matter what reactionaries tell you
- Dragon Age: Origins' Fade level is the sort of funky failed experiment you just wouldn't see in a triple-A RPG these days
- Five things I always tell people before they buy their first SSD
- Crown Gambit, a stylish dark-fantasy card battler where choices matter, now has a demo
- Blizzard veteran David Kim's strategy comeback with Battle Aces is 'very personal:' 'I just can't accept... the end-all peak of RTS is StarCraft 2 and nothing can ever be better'
November 6
- Grab a friend to try these Deadlock duo lane picks and take a bite out of the cursed apple
- It was nuts that BioWare based Dragon Age: Inquisition's story on a DLC nobody played, but that DLC also proved just how close Dragon Age 2 was to perfection
November 5
- Capcom, if you're listening: Monster Hunter Wilds needs its hitstop back
- All the suave assassins in Dragon Age: The Veilguard are actually even cooler in Tevinter Nights
- Red Dead Redemption appeared on consoles 14 years ago—here's the kind of gaming PC it could have been ported to back then
- What is the worst Call of Duty: Black Ops 6 map and why is it Babylon?
- Why Stalker: Shadow of Chornobyl's difficulty modes have divided players for over a decade
- Looking back on 15 years of Dragon Age reviews—including that Dragon Age 2 score we've never stopped defending
- MSI’s huge Black Friday monitor discounts will net you a new screen for less
November 4
- Pro Philosopher 2 is Ace Attorney for our stupid election season, and it really did make me feel better
- From the moody horror of Origins to the gleaming high fantasy of The Veilguard, few series have changed as much as Dragon Age
- On Dragon Age's 15th anniversary, join us in celebrating one of the most iconic RPG series of all time
- Dragon Age: Inquisition's Hinterlands were the closest BioWare got to making an Elder Scrolls-style open world, and everyone agreed you should leave as quickly as possible
- Five new Steam games you probably missed (November 4, 2024)
November 3
- Every origin in Dragon Age: Origins, ranked
November 2
- China: Mao's Legacy is like an absurdly specific Paradox game on a tight budget, and also one of the best sims I've ever played
November 1
- The PC game releases we're most excited about in November
- Black Ops 6 needs to nerf this ludicrously overpowered 'Wallhacks' perk into the ground ASAP
- The biggest hidden gem of the Steam Scream Fest is Labyrinth of the Demon King, a brutal horror game that traps you in the worst place in all of Feudal Japan
- I play way too many indie horror games, and you absolutely shouldn't miss Psychopomp Gold: it's $9 and got 1,000 'overwhelmingly positive' Steam reviews in just 1 week
- The scariest horror game I played this Halloween ended up being Waffle Cone Willie, a game about running away from an evil ice cream truck
- Dragon Age: The Veilguard doesn't care what choices you made in previous Dragon Age games, and that sucks
- Dragon Age: The Veilguard's story does get better, but its clunky script makes such a bad first impression—and those problems never quite go away
- The AMD Ryzen 7 9800X3D might seal Arrow Lake's fate unless Intel cuts prices to compete with the 9000-series