2019-03-01_PC_Gamer

60 is the new Rebuilding a 1998 rig just to play Half-Life. By Phil Iwaniuk FEATURE ...

I mean to say, it all started withBlack Mesa, the Source Engine reworking of Half-Life by Crowbar Collective. When it appeared o ...

IN WITH THE OLD My shopping list Packard Bell tower PC (PII 350, 16MB RAM, Voodoo 2) £100 Original keyboard £10 Microsoft Intell ...

with a CRT’s characteristic display. Good CRTs are hard to find now – most have either been chucked, broken, or taken to recycli ...

INTERVIEW ...

I nteractive storytelling is nothing new, but something as mainstream as Netflix embracing the concept is a big deal. Bandersnat ...

INTERVIEW there’s a little gap. So I was a bit worried about Bandersnatch being like that. Even in more up-to-date games like He ...

the idea of interactive storytelling, it might lead them to try something like a Telltale game. What has the reaction to Banders ...

REVIEW HOWWEREVIEW Werevieweachgameonitsownmerits,andtrytomatchit to a reviewer who’s a passionate expert in the field. The main ...

IAN BIRNBAUM Specialist in Homages Currently playing Dusk This month Bunny-hopped so hard he now travels at lightspeed through a ...

Shoot a leg off and they keep coming, dragging themselves along the floor, reaching at you with pale, clawing hands. Turn a corn ...

The zombies have come a long way since 1998. Raccoon City is not tourist friendly. Exploding heads like this are, oddly, rare. T ...

Dark areas are super stressful. The character models are extremely good. I don’t think he wants to shake Leon’s hand. One of a v ...

minor inconvenience. At certain points in the game this merciless, invincible killing machine will hunt you around the station w ...

None of these events were part of questlines. There’s no such regimentation in Kenshi, no tangible sense of scripted behaviour, ...

Dialogue is well written and choice-driven. My mercs ponder the irony of a farmer getting eaten by herbivorous beasts. It’s not ...

This unscripted moment from one of Insurgency: Sandstorm’s eight-player co-op matches against waves of AI forces really does spe ...

Right in the upper thighs, just like they teach you at boot camp. The flaming insurgent at checkpoint C. The horror. There was a ...

Grisis a 2D platforming mood piece about navigating grief. You play as a nimble, blue-haired girl and you must gradually bring c ...

Shifts in palette accompany shifts in mood. Collect stars to make constellation bridges. Grand Designs is getting more extreme. ...