PC Gamer Annual - UK (2022)

Let’s Kill Crunch FE ATURE Meet the game makers determined to stop development from ruining lives. By Jeremy Peel ...

LEF T: Hinterland is only beholden to its players, “We’re fortunate to have this.” RIGHT: Auroch has a long history with Games W ...

“We didn’t at all associate these things with poor management or poor planning practices,” van Lierop says. “We believed crunch ...

averaging ten hours a day, seven days a week. “We still really romanticise the solo dev working in their basement for years who ...

and crunching into a discussion,” Collins says. “Their stress levels go to the max. And the problem is that they don’t view meet ...

are all reviewed as ‘Very Positive’ on Steam – the highest honour in the field of player satisfaction. Developers may worry that ...

more, AAA studios are often beholden to shareholders – who can be much less understanding than players. “Hitting quarterly reven ...

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5050 M AY 2 02 1 Genshin Impact COVER FEATURE hen Genshin Impact launched in September 2020, no one saw its huge success coming. ...

ABOVE: There’s even the option to play co-op, though it’s relatively limited. Gamenamexxxx FE ATURE and we wanted to share this ...

personable enough, players will pay out the nose to unlock them. But as MiHoYo grew and took on more ambitious games, Cai said t ...

liberally swipes ideas from a variety of beloved genres and games. Honkai Impact 3rd, which released on PC in 2019, is literally ...

5454 M AY 2 02 1 Genshin Impact COVER FEATURE JRPGs. MiHoYo also studied The Elder Scrolls for how to design good open-world que ...

ABOVE: Genshin’s combat is fast and vicious, so you’ll need a good party. Gamenamexxxx FE ATURE “We believe that the virtual wor ...

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M E E T T H E DEVELOPERS MAKING BUGS AND GLITCHES ON PURPOSE By Edwin Evans-Thirlwell FE ATURE ...

CRASH COURSE Some of the best ‘glitch games’ can be found on itch.io F J O R D S By Kyle Reimergartin Purely and simply a game a ...

terrain, or The Cursed Pickle of Shireton, a raucous faux-MMO that runs in text-based debug mode thanks to a ‘malfunctioning’ gr ...

the colour scheme on the Northern Lights and incorporated Norse runes into the interface. This blended aesthetic is governed by ...