The best games from Gamescom 2019

Tyler Wilde, PC Gamer – August 23, 2019 at 10:00 AM

And other big PC gaming stories from the week.

With Gamescom 2019 behind them, Fraser Brown and Andy Kelly have taken over this week's news recap to share the best games they played or saw at the...

The Dark Pictures Anthology: Man of Medan Is a Choose-Your-Own-Adventure Slasher Flick

Staff – August 21, 2019 at 8:00 PM

While gamers have known forever that interactivity is the future entertainment, the rest of the world has been slow to catch on. However, recent successes like Netflix’s homage to...

How the Incredibly Rare, Arcade-Only Killer Queen Made Its Way to PC

Staff – August 8, 2019 at 11:15 AM

Killer Queen is a platforming strategy game with three ways to win and, as its title suggests, two teams of five bees. Its frenzied, deceptively simple gameplay boasts an impressive amount of...

Warhammer: Vermintide 2’s Endgame Just Got Way More Interesting

Staff – August 8, 2019 at 11:15 AM

You’ve probably heard it before: Pretty much any hardcore action-RPG player will tell you that their game of choice only really begins in the endgame. This is when the player’s interest slowly...

Age of Wonders Goes Sci-Fi After 20 Years in Fantasy

Staff – August 8, 2019 at 11:15 AM

Since 1999, Age of Wonders’ turn-based strategy games have always found a comfortable home in high fantasy; dragons, lizardmen, and all sorts of elemental magic abound within the fictional world that...

Remnant: From the Ashes Is a Case of Randomness Done Right

Staff – August 8, 2019 at 11:15 AM

The explosion in popularity of the roguelike over the past few years has slowly and steadily made random generation a familiar element of many games. There’s no denying that randomness provides an...

Total War: THREE KINGDOMS’ New Dynasty Mode Turns Warlords into War-Gods

Staff – August 1, 2019 at 3:38 AM

Total War: THREE KINGDOMS poses the player with a simple question: What if the legends were true? While the game’s “Records” mode presents a more historically accurate portrayal of the THREE KINGDOMS...

5 Things Every Beginner Should Know Before Playing Total War: THREE KINGDOMS

Staff – August 1, 2019 at 2:04 AM

Total War: THREE KINGDOMS is a complex game with many systems, some of which might be new even to seasoned fans of the real-time strategy genre. If this is your first Total War game — or even if you...

Teamfight Tactics vs. Dota Underlords vs. Auto Chess: Which you should play

Jonathan Bolding, PC Gamer – July 23, 2019 at 9:37 AM

The 'autobattler' genre is here, with three versions of Auto Chess to choose from. Here's how they differ.

What are Auto Chess games? Like MOBAs and battle royales before it, auto chess is a new...

Linus Sebastian’s 5 Golden Rules for PC Building

Staff – July 23, 2019 at 9:37 AM

If you’ve spent even a little bit of time researching how to build your own gaming PC, you’ve likely stumbled across a Linus Tech Tips video. With 1000s of videos on PC hardware under his belt, Linus...