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“PC GAMER HAS BEEN HERE FROM DOOM TO BALDUR’S GATE 3”

PC Gamer (US Edition) • #378 JANUARY 2024

STEAMED UP • VALVE adds new security check after attackers compromise game devs’ Steam accounts

Special Report NVESTIGATES ALL CHROMED UP • CYBERPUNK 2077’s director takes us inside the three-year road to redemption

Secret Level THE UNSUNG HEROES OF DEVELOPMENT COMPOSE YOURSELF • Award-winning composer JASON GRAVES on the process of writing music for games

CALL OF DUTY: MODERN WARFARE 3 • This year, Call of Duty asks: is nostalgia worth $70?

EVE VANGUARD • From the stars… all the way down to the salvage

LAST TRAIN HOME • Historical strategy hybrid is on the right track

CAPES • Edna Mode would not approve

DRAGON’S DOGMA 2 • If strapping a bomb to a troll is wrong, I don’t want to be right

JEDI REMASTERS • NIGHTDIVE STUDIOS is uniting the past and present of PC gaming like no other developer

Star Wars: Dark Forces Remastered • PC Gamer sits down with the developers remastering the now iconic, game-changing ’90s first-person shooter

30 YEARS OF PC GAMING • THE BIGGEST GAMES, MOMENTS, AND HARDWARE FROM THE LAST 30 YEARS OF PC GAMING

SILENT BUT DEADLY • ASSASSIN’S CREED MIRAGE is a fun stepping stone back towards the series’ roots

RIDERS ON THE WORM • Arrakis proves an apt, if overly familiar, 4X setting in DUNE: SPICE WARS

CONSERVATIVE STRATEGY • FORZA MOTORSPORT takes few risks, but snatches simcade supremacy anyway

DEATH ON THE NILE • TOTAL WAR: PHARAOH is the first historical Total War in ages

SLIDES RULE • Revisiting BABBDI to find a city generous with exploration

DIGITAL MONSTERS • Dusting off the cute digital pets of CYBERPET GRAVEYARD

DRIZZLE KICKS • RAINDROP is still an innovative indie arcade game

SPECTACULAR • Another look at the ambitious, freeform SPECTACLE

PHOBOS BABY • The timeless perfection of DOOM

STAUF THIS • The never-ending childhood horror of THE 7TH GUEST

VOODOO CHILD • GABRIEL KNIGHT: SINS OF THE FATHERS is a family affair

UNWRAP THE ULTIMATE EXPERIENCE • SUBSCRIBE or GIVE THE GIFT of gaming today

SUBSCRIBE TODAY • Find your next great read

“I took on the role of DPS while my friend lured Radahn around his arena” • Surviving ELDEN RING with a buddy in co-op

“Suddenly I’m invested in politics”

“I just beat a satanic monk to death with a lavatory seat, and it felt good” • Embracing pixelation and inanimate objects in retro-inspired CULTIC

“The narrative should obscure these systems, but Bethesda drops this ball” • Houston, we have lots of problems, in STARFIELD

BALDUR’S GATE III • Larian has made one of the best RPGs ever even better.

STARFIELD • Bethesda’s RPG has lots of mods.

GET STARTED IN STARFIELD • Take to the skies with these galaxy brain tips.

THE BIGGER THEY ARE, THE BARDER THE Y FALL BALDUR’S GATE III PART 2 • In which Pillius Flenk learns the art of killing with minimal conflict

TRANQUILITY LANE • The best quest in Fallout 3 (not counting...