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BOMBS AWAY • The BORDERLANDS movie is a disastrous flop
TRUMP HITS KICK
WHAT’S MINES IS YOURS
DIY LAPTOP
Highs & Lows
MYTHMAKING • Inside BLACK MYTH: WUKONG’s four-year Journey to the West
PAST JOURNEYS • Four notable adaptations of Sun Wukong in past games
WRITE KNIGHT • Elder Scrolls Online’s lead writer BILL SLAVICSEK on writing in-game literature
BOOKING IT • Other flavor text in games
A NEW DAWN • The rise, fall and rise again of PC GAMING IN JAPAN
JAPANESE PC GAMING PICKS • Cool new merch and events to check out now
SID MEIER’S CIVILIZATION VII • Big changes are coming to the 30-year-old grand strategy series
CLAIR OBSCUR: EXPEDITION 33 • The Belle Époque meets dark fantasy in this new RPG
THE PLUCKY SQUIRE • How many games let you make friends with a MtG card?
SPECTRE DIVIDE • 3v3 Counter-Strike for the aim-down-sights generation
MAKING A SPLASH • How PLANET COASTER 2 is upgrading the themepark sim genre likenever before.
A HAIR-RAISING HERITAGE • Landmark theme park sims that changed the game on PC
SPLASH DOWN • Planet Coaster 2’s new water parks up close
BUILD IT AND THEY WILL COME • Top world-building sims to play on PC today
KING COASTER • Speaking with game director Rich Newbold
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A NEW WORLD • To build his digital planet, PUBG’s Brendan Greene first had to build his own studio.
PLAYER WELL KNOWN • Charting the path of Brendan Greene’s battle royale career
DOWN BY THE RIVER • For the first anniversary of BALDUR’S GATE III, PC Gamer spoke exclusively to SWEN VINCKE about the past, present and future of Larian Studios
TOP LARIAN HITS • Liked Baldur’s Gate III? Then play these, too
LARIAN STUDIOS FACT FILE • A dev with serious heritage
BALDUR’S GATE III BRILLANCE • The astonishing trophy hall
MONKEY TALE • BLACK MYTH: WUKONG is the most delightful Soulslike
TRICKS OF THE TRADE • Black Myth: Wukong’s most satisfying spells
STEAMWORK • STEAMWORLD HEIST 2 is the most ambitious SteamWorld game yet
FUN EMPLOYED • The six jobs bots can take on
BULLET HECK • CYGNI: ALL GUNS BLAZING is an accessible shoot-’em-up with some clever twists
I CAST GUN • TACTICAL BREACH WIZARDS is spellbindingly spectacular—I just want more of it
MEET THE CREW • Four out of five wizards kick serious butt
STARSHIP BLOOPERS • EARTH DEFENSE FORCE 6 elevates B-movie action with a smart time-travel twist
CLASS ACT • EDF 6’s oddball classes, summarized
STICKY BUSINESS • WORLD OF GOO 2 is definitely goo-d enough for two
NEW GAME, GOO THIS? • Some new tricks for an old world
MECH ME OVER • Move over Mario, here’s mech-based platforming in ARMORED SHELL NIGHTJAR
BITING BACK • The tooth is out there in adventure TEETH OF GLASS
SMOKE ALARM • THE INVISIBLE SMOKE...