Author: Philip Palmer
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The humor and open-ended skill system in this strategy RPG convinced me it isn’t just another Final Fantasy Tactics wannabe
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I’ve conquered a small menagerie of foes in the demo for Guild Saga: Vanished Worlds, which is still available even though Steam Next Fest has come and gone. Shipwrecked on the shores of a faraway land, I’ve had to take on pirates and man-eating terror birds, while my adventurer allies seem convinced that I’ve been…
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Here’s what it’s actually like to play The Day Before, the zombie survival game whose developer folded days after it launched
The Day Before was one of the most-wishlisted games on Steam before it came out in early access last week. Players flooded into the servers—over 38,000 were playing concurrently at its peak—but very quickly began flowing out, either because they were unable to connect to the servers, which featured no login queues, struggled with crashes…
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The PC Gamer 2023 Holiday Gift Guide
Another year is winding towards its end, with the climactic holiday season approaching for the finishing blow to 2023. With the holidays comes the final annual boss fight of capitalism: holiday gift giving. In this savage and merrily decorated arena, the best gift can separate the haves from the have-something-they-wished-to-nots. Arm yourself for the conflict…