Author: Mollie Taylor
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Monster Hunter: World just hit its highest concurrent player count in over 3 years
Well, it turns out I wasn’t the only person who had a hankering for returning to Monster Hunter: World for the first time in forever this holiday season. The game has seen a resurgence over the last couple of weeks, culminating in a peak concurrent count of 131,964 players on January 1 according to SteamDB.…
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This year I’m finally going to tackle my gaming backlog—please take me seriously, I have a plan and everything
It’s 2024, the beginning of a new year, and you know what? I’m gonna finally get my gaming life in order: Tackle my backlog, tame my cluttered library, and be free from my hoard of unfinished games. Wait, stop laughing at me. I know you’ve heard it all before—from yourself, your loved ones, or your…
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Long games were totally back this year, baby
At the beginning of this year, I said something that I would deeply come to regret: “I’m sick of 100-hour RPGs.” Long-ass games were my entire personality for so much of my life that I don’t know why I ever thought such a thing. Twelve months down the line I’m glad I can eat my…
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If you’ve been enjoying Fortnite Festival—or even if you hate it—you should try my favourite rhythm game to release this year
Pinch me, I must be dreaming: rhythm games are kinda in right now. Fortnite Festival has been blowing up, and I’ve been secretly very giddy seeing so many people on my timeline posting their combo and score achievements with pride. I’m a long-time lover of rhythm games, but also a rather judgemental one (sorry Fortnite…
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We’ve only just recovered from 2023’s wild release schedule, and now the first few weeks of 2024 are going to hit us in the face with even more games
For me, 2023 is separated into the before and after: Before being run over by a gazillion big-hitting game releases, and after being run over by a gazillion big-hitting game releases. While there were some certifiable bangers in the early half of the year—some of which you may have forgotten about, considering 2023 feels like…
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Best Setting 2023: Dredge | PC Gamer
Black Salt’s fishing adventure gets our Best Setting award this year—a sign that there’s surprising depth to be found here. For more awards, head to our Game of the Year 2023 page. Mollie Taylor, Features Producer: Dredge has the most immaculate vibes of any game I’ve played this year. By day it’s a relaxing and…
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2024 is going to be a defining year for Final Fantasy 14, and maybe Square Enix’s last chance to tackle its stagnating formula
The air around Dawntrail, Final Fantasy 14’s upcoming expansion, is decidedly different to how things were in the runup to 2021’s Endwalker. It makes sense, really. We’re not in the throes of a global pandemic, nor are thousands of “WoW refugees” departing from Blizzard’s MMO for greener, more catboy-y pastures. We’re not on the cusp…
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I’m officially exhausted by all the live service games and I want to see way less next year
Oh my god, I am so freaking tired of live service games. I know, I know, they’re a necessary evil. It’s 2023, baby, videogames ain’t what they used to be. They cost way more to make and developers have to continue toiling away on patches and expansions post-release. Money has to be made and, for…
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I played my favourite PC game of the year almost entirely on mobile and I have zero regrets
Forgive me, for I have well and truly let down PC gamers everywhere this year. I’ve come to discover a terrible fact about myself: I thought my favourite PC game of this year was way better on mobile. I know, I know. Why, when I have a great rig, a comfy gaming chair to plonk…
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What the hell Harmonix, you definitely could have done something better than Fortnite Festival
I never imagined that the first time I downloaded Fortnite on my PC would be to play a rhythm game created by the Rock Band folk, but here we are. As a huge rhythm game fiend, my Twitter timeline was saturated with clips from Fortnite Festival over the weekend, where Fry belts out Bad Romance…