PC Gamer Annual - UK (2022)

ABOVE RIGHT: Splash Damage, developers of Dirty Bomb, strove for transparency to prevent community toxicity. RIGHT: The Sims com ...

Groups of Wrath FE ATURE BEING FACED WITH EXTREME NEGATIVITY AND HARASSMENT CAN TAKE A TOLL being infiltrated by non-white, non- ...

Gamenamexxxx FE ATURE ALISON LAMONT Lecturer in sociology and criminology at the University of Roehampton. PROFILE because they ...

Eight games that have defined PC gaming – and defined us as PC gamers 88 LEMMINGS 90 EVE ONLINE 92 SIMCITY 2000 94 LEFT 4 DEAD 9 ...

P lenty of games can claim greatness whether acclaimed hits, or cult classics. Only a handful can claim to have changed the ind ...

T he magic of Half- Life 2 lies in how it tells its story. In most games developed in the early 2000s you’re forced to endure en ...

BIG CITY Key locations in City 17 TRAIN STATION Freeman arrives in City 17 by train, meeting oppressed citizens and enslaved Vor ...

FAR LEFT: The game began life as a single animated sprite created by DMA’s Mike Dailly. LEF T: Lemmings is one inspiration for a ...

WHITE WILDERNESS Four of the absolute worst Lemming’s levels T he medieval historian St Bede – aka The Venerable Bede, which rea ...

I ’ll never forget my first real fight against another player in EVE Online – it had taken me, a fresh-faced noobie at the time, ...

LIFE IN SPACE Five career paths you can take in EVE Online PIR ATE Pros An exciting life of crime Fly fast, extremely powerful s ...

I don’t think city- building games, despite the perspective of looking down on all the tiny people and making decisions that can ...

SIM-OFFS SimCity 2000’s many spin-offs SIMCOPTER Players could import SimCity 2000 cities into the game and fly around in them – ...

L eft 4 Dead represented a turning point in how I socialise through games. In 2008, LAN parties were still around and I had a go ...

LORE 4 READ Some of the best comics based on Valve’s excellent games everything nearly went to shit in Blood Harvest’s cornfield ...

I have no idea where we’d be without Sid Meier’s Civilization. Its influence has been an overwhelming constant for decades, defi ...

WHEN YOU’RE PLAYING CIV VI, YOU’RE ALSO PLAYING EVERY CIV THAT CAME BEFORE IT ...

ABOVE: Even in a fantasy world, TVs in the ’90s were bulky. LEF T: The ugly clothing patterns probably looked better on a CRT di ...

T oday’s PC gamers are constantly feeding YouTube and Twitch with game footage, but back in 1995, capturing our screens was hard ...

C onquests of Camelot introduced me to the merciless difficulty of old Sierra point-and- click adventures just a few minutes in. ...