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“This demon-slaying, witch-hunting extraction FPS is damned good”

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Ace Combat 8: Wings of Theve

GRAND THEFT NADA • Hackers try to extort Rockstar for $200,000

HIGHS & LOWS • THE BEST AND WORST IN PC GAMING

The Call of Duty schism: why fans are trapped in a forever war

Crimson Desert’s playable trio might be the worst

Cryptic nonsense and melodrama are ruining videogame storytelling

How BioWare can make a comeback, but won’t

Is real-time with pause RPG combat a sin?

MUST PLAY • GREAT GAMES YOU SHOULD PLAY TODAY

Letters • COMMUNITY CABLES

How do I stabilize GPU performance?

The Expanse: Osiris Reborn • A BioWare-style action-RPG from the Pathfinder: Kingmaker devs

Sudden Strike 5 • The WWII RTS series opens up another front

Road to Vostok • A stealthy sprint to the Finnish line

Metro 2039 • 4A Games’ hyper dark new FPS looks terrifying

Windrose • Pirate survival made me reinstall Sea of Thieves

Shadow Dungeon • An ARPG with a familiar way of doing things

Gun Store Simulator • Making bank selling brass knuckles

JUDAS PRIEST • After ten years, Witchfire begins its ministry

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Review • THE LATEST PC GAMES JUDGED

TURN UP THE HEAT • Diablo IV: Lord of Hatred revolutionizes Blizzard’s tremendous action RPG

GALACTIC BORE • Starship Troopers: Ultimate Bug War just isn’t rated for combat

ET GO HOME • An old-school alien butt-kicking in Xenonauts 2

LUNAR DAD ROCK • Pragmata is a snazzy late-’00s throwback

SAY CHEESE AND DIE • Mouse: PI For Hire is no Mickey Mouse shooter

RED CARD • Vampire Crawlers is a mediocre deckbuilder spin-off

THE COLOR OF MAGIC • Pnoq noq. Who’s there? It’s the delightful Pnoq

A RIGHT KNEES UP • Work for a horrible mannequin in On Thy Knees

PSYCH EVALUATION • Mystery meets history in The Red Pearls of Borneo

LOOK WHO’S WARPING • Playing Warhammer 40,000: Rogue Trader

TROUBLE IN STORE • Stocking up in Recettear: An Item Shop’s Tale

MARS FOR THE TAKING • Everything is for sale in Offworld Trading Company

Ergonomic PC gear • Kinder on your limbs

YASS-TERISER • Nvidia’s DLSS 5 reveal: a disaster

DEEP LEARNINGS • After DLSS 5’s industry-wide kicking, how will Nvidia respond?

FLP02 Silverstone £220/$230 • Rolling things back to a better time

Buyer’s Guide • THE PC COMPONENTS WE RECOMMEND

Star Wars Jedi Knight II: Jedi Outcast • Revisiting the legendary lightsaber master almost 25 years later

“An ultrajank GTA-a-like from the early 2000s that’s fallen through a time portal” • I can’t get enough of broken crime ’em up Samson.

“I discover my favorite feature in the game” • Banquet for Fools is an RPG that refuses to tell you what to do.

“You have to ask yourself how scary birds can really be. As it turns out, quite” • Turning my favorite hobby virtual and horrifying in Birds Watching.

“You absolutely should play this one for yourself—I blitzed through it”...