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Review: Mutant Year Zero: Road To Eden (PC)
It’s a brutally hard XCOM-style game with mutant ducks and pigs! Just like you always wanted!
WHY AM I STILL PLAYING FOOTBALL MANAGER 2014?
On the eve of the FA Cup second round, one man looks deep inside himself and wonders why on earth he is so addicted to an ageing parade of spreadsheets.
First Impressions: The Light Keeps Us Safe
I previewed the latest game from the makers of The Signal of Tolva for Kotaku UK. Let’s see how that went.
Can you dig it? Graveyard Keeper Early Access Review
It’s like Stardew Valley, but with more highly suspicious meat products of dubious provenance.
Why I want to set my PC on fire
I got a new gaming PC. And now I want to DESTROY IT UTTERLY.
Resonance of Fate 4K/HD Edition launches today, and it couldn’t have come at a worse time
Who the hell launches a new game a week before Red Dead Redemption 2?
EVE Online: Seven Days In New Eden
EVE Online has a reputation for being a scary place for newcomers. But what’s it actually like to play this venerable MMORPG for the first time?
I think I get why people like building PCs now
After years of avoiding the faff of building your own PC, I’ve had a Road to Damascus moment.
Review: Life Is Strange (PC)
Ahead of the release of Life is Strange 2 this week, James Keen Esq. revisits the original.
Boundless, Minecraft, and not having anywhere near the amount of time a game demands
Boundless is a pretty cool looking Minecraft style MMOG. And frankly I’m never going to have the time to play it.
Review: Phantom Doctrine (PC)
Set in the Cold War, this XCOM-a-like strategy game spins a complicated, sometimes bewildering web of espionage, intrigue and layers of game systems.
I did my first article for PC Gamer!
My preview feature on Night Call is in issue 322 – and I’m very excited to see my words in print.
Review: Unforeseen Incidents (PC)
Funny, clever and utterly gorgeous, Unforeseen Incidents has quickly risen to become my favourite ever point and click adventure.
The full story of the one-letter bug that broke the AI in Aliens: Colonial Marines
I spoke to the modder who discovered this tiny, catastrophic bug in Aliens: Colonial Marines as part of his three-year overhaul of the game.
Review: Lake Ridden (PC)
An intriguing, narrative-driven puzzler, Lake Ridden harks back to the heyday of Myst as protagonist Marie searches for her lost sister.
Review: Frostpunk (PC)
As temperatures plummet in the middle of the Victorian age, you’ll need a heart of ice to decide who lives and who dies.
Disco Elysium is quite fantastically ambitious
It’s Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas: The Video Game, but without the bats. Disco Elysium is shaping up to be a cracking isometric RPG with superb dialogue.
My Thrones of Britannia review for PCGamesN
The latest in the Total War line is a wonderful retelling of the story of Alfred the Great. Although if you’re feeling unpatriotic, you can smite Britons by playing the Vikings as well.
There’s now a video game version of the board game Terraforming Mars – and I played it
Terraforming Mars is coming to a PC near you in 2018, with all of its shonky public-domain artwork intact. Depending on your perspective, this is either a very good thing or a very bad thing.