How survival games get hunger and thirst wrong, and how to fix it By Christopher Livingston how 2 chow It's essential to the genre, yet often flawed.
Fortnite Battle Royale has become a great, arcadey alternative to PUBG's plodding pace By Samuel Horti opinion With each update, Fortnite BR is diverging from PUBG in meaningful ways.
Our game design pet peeves By PC Gamer Design for Strife Ladders, boats, combat music and more things that irritate us more than they probably should.
The real reason Shadow of War's loot boxes are bad: they make the game boring By Evan Lahti opinion It's not that they cost money, it's that they give you dull orcs.
Beyond Good & Evil 2 is making a lot of promises we've heard before By Tom Marks No Pigman's Sky A few reasons to still be skeptical of the long awaited sequel.
We discuss Far Cry 5's new setting, the reaction to it, and the fidelity of its fly-fishing By PC Gamer opinion The PC Gamer staff crowds around the table for a chat about Ubisoft's Montana-based FPS.
More MMOs need to let you be an average joe By T.J. Hafer mmojoe How MMOs can escape their creative slump by embracing what it means to be ordinary.
How a fantasy JRPG addressed the horrors of WW2 better than most war games By Tom Marks opinion Valkyria Chronicles is set in an alternate reality, but that doesn't stop it from tackling very real issues.
Rainbox Six Siege showcases the best and worst types of shooter teammates By Tom Marks Group therapy One team made me never want to play Siege again. Another made me never want to play anything else.
We asked developers how they would fix Early Access By Tom Marks opinions The developers of Rust, Prison Architect, and more tell us what's wrong with Early Access.
The forgotten joys of turtling in strategy games By Jody Macgregor Turtle power Wall mazes. Tesla coils. Those little gates you could open and close. Turtling used to be the *best.*
How Civilization 6 changes war for the better By T.J. Hafer opinion AI leaders are now more an interesting challenge for us to unravel.
Civilization 6's Aztec civ is the least-evil kind of pre-order bonus By Tom Marks pre-sents In a world of day one DLC and pre-order exclusives, Civ 6's is only mostly bad.
What we want from Red Dead Redemption 2 By PC Gamer Dead Ahead You can guess the first one: we want it on PC. Also: online hideouts and more customization for our cowboys.
Earthlock: Festival of Magic is trying to be a bigger RPG than it can manage By Tom Marks west world This western-made JRPG feels like it's just going through the motions.
Sprint meters in open world games suck, and here's how to fix them By Christopher Livingston run don't walk Removing them altogether is one thought. And here are a few others.
The makers of No Man’s Sky need to start talking again By Christopher Livingston hello? games? While there's still a community willing to listen.
What No Man's Sky could learn about exploration from Kerbal Space Program By Steven Messner Final frontier It's not about where you're going, it's about how you get there.
Anyone who uses the C key to crouch is a hopeless degenerate By Evan Lahti shame C is not for crouch, you animals.
How player feedback can make (or break) a work-in-progress game By PC Gamer guest feature Andy Schatz, creative director of Monaco and Tooth and Tail, on authorial intent and Early Access games.
