Author: [email protected] (Wes Fenlon)
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Best RPG 2022: Persona 5 Royal
[ad_1] Finally on PC, and well worth the wait. Persona 5 Royal is our favourite RPG on the year. You can see the rest of our awards over on Game of the Year 2022 (opens in new tab) page. Wes Fenlon, Senior Editor: This is easily the definitive version of Persona 5: 100-hour RPGs don’t…
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Friday stream: Relax with PC Gamer, Geralt, and some lo-fi Christmas jams
[ad_1] Tis the season to get clean. The PC Gamer team is winding down for the year. Come get cozy with us the only way we know how: lo-fi Christmas jams and Tub Geralt’s glistening body. In pursuit of a reason to bring back the Tub Geralt stream after we briefly dominated the “Pools, Hot…
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Square Enix was the surprise Steam Deck champion of the year
[ad_1] I’ve been petitioning Square Enix to put Final Fantasy Tactics on PC for years. It still hasn’t happened, but in 2022 Square did rediscover the tactical RPG, and delivered a bounty of riches to PC players that I sure didn’t see coming at the start of this year. For the first time in ages…
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Future Dwarf Fortress ‘creative mode’ will let you sculpt whole worlds, dream up homemade gods
[ad_1] There is a subset of Dwarf Fortress players who don’t really play Dwarf Fortress. They don’t manage a mini civilization, keeping their dwarves fed or doing battle with elves. They don’t play the Adventure mode, either, to traverse their generated Dwarf Fortress world in a ground-level roguelike. They read. They are archeologists who use…
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Halo Infinite’s terrible, horrible, no good, very bad year
[ad_1] For the first time since December 2021, I played Halo Infinite last week—and somehow, despite loving and playing Halo on-and-off for 20 years, I was still shocked by how much fun I had. The springy movement, the rhythm of shield-stripping body shots followed by a snappy magnum round to the head, the zippy sci-fi…
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Dwarf Fortress now needs about 100 icons for spilled intestines, torn arteries and bruised tendons
[ad_1] Dwarf Fortress has a minor guts problem: right now, it doesn’t do a great job of telling you whether a dwarf’s guts are inside, or outside, of their body. While dwarves have some physiological differences from humans (they live 150+ years, have perfect dark vision, and start vomiting if they hang out in the…
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After spending 20 years simulating reality, the Dwarf Fortress devs have to get used to a new one: being millionaires
[ad_1] Acclaimed indie colony/existence sim Dwarf Fortress launched on Steam (opens in new tab) on December 6, and it’s since been having a bit of a moment. Other game developers gushed about Dwarf Fortress and its influence on launch day. Someone on the Steam forums asked if all the people reviewing the game on Steam…
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Final Fantasy 16 is likely coming to PC next December
[ad_1] During Thursday’s Game Awards ceremony, FF14 & Final Fantasy 16 (opens in new tab) producer Yoshi-P introduced a new trailer for Final Fantasy 16 titled “Revenge.” Most importantly, the trailer ended with a release date that Square has been holding back on announcing for the last year and change. It’s out on June 22, 2023.…
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A single piece of Elden Ring DLC could streamroll most of 2023’s big games
[ad_1] Elden Ring won Game of the Year at the 2022 Game Awards Thursday night, but the more interesting thing happened immediately after. No, not the prankster who took the mic at the very end to shout out his rabbi Bill Clinton—FromSoftware lead Hidetaka Miyazaki’s acceptance speech. After giving his thanks, Miyazaki said that “As…
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Streamers are tricking football fans into thinking FIFA 23 games are pirate World Cup streams
[ad_1] Clever YouTube channels have found a way to tap into World Cup fever, streaming fake football matches that have been simulated in FIFA 23. Some of these videos have racked up tens or even hundreds of thousands of views, most likely tricking people who are searching for live pirate streams of the World Cup…