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The best strategy games on PC
Updated! From real-time classics to modern turn-based favorites, these are the best strategy games on PC.
Tencent says it's not a Chinese military company and is willing to sue the US Department of Defense if it isn't removed from a blacklist
News The conglomerate was one of several Chinese companies given the designation at the start of the year.
Thank Goodness You're Here! review: An anarchic treasure trove of jokes and skits
Taskmaster Welcome to Barnsworth, where everyone's lost their damn mind.
18 games the PC Gamer team can't wait to play in 2025
🕹️ There's lots to look forward to this year.
Call of Duty's $28 Squid Game skins are the perfect crossover for our capitalist dystopia, and Activision knows exactly what it's doing
Squids vs whales We're living in a whale world.
Tencent has been designated a Chinese military company by the US Department of Defense, which the conglomerate calls a 'misunderstanding'
News But several US-based videogame companies, including Microsoft, would be considered US military companies if the same metric was applied to them.
Steam sale dates: When is the next Steam sale?
Bargain Dates, biggest discounts, tips, annual Steam sale dates, and more.
Most of my favourite games of 2024 didn't come out in 2024
Olden path It's been a weird old year.
MMOs had a great year in 2024, with the genre the liveliest it's been in years
They live Big updates, great expansions, and even some new entries.
Best RPG 2024: Metaphor: ReFantazio
🏆 Atlus graduates from high school and brings us its best JRPG yet.
After years of holding out hope, 2024 was the year I finally gave up on BioWare
RIP The Veilguard was the very shiny, very pretty nail in the coffin.
Ubisoft had an absolutely dire 2024 and desperately needs a win
Spiralling And I'm not convinced Assassin's Creed Shadows is going to be it.
OK, I take it back, Marvel Rivals is not an aggressively bad, unsalvageable mess—it might even be good
Hero's journey A Christmas miracle.
Fallout's original designer is fine with the direction of the modern games: 'They're both what they are, and a ton of people like it'
News "I'm the last person to want to yuck other people's yums."
Now that Lucy is somewhere around level 8, what do you want to see in the Fallout show's second season?
Gratz Our hopes and dreams for the second season.
My favourite extraction shooter, The Forever Winter, adds a playable character with a functional gun for a head, tackles its most divisive mechanic and introduces its biggest region yet
News There's a lot going on in the December update.
'Fallout wasn't designed to have other players': Fallout co-creator Tim Cain was extremely wary of turning it into an MMO
News Long before Fallout 76, we almost had Fallout Online, but Cain had serious doubts.
Sins of a Solar Empire 2 makes space exciting again—and it's a brilliant 4X RTS to boot
🏆 Kaleidoscopic battles, colliding empires and a map that never sits still all make for a potent cosmic strategy game.
It's taken 30 years, but my PC has finally made it impossible for me to enjoy console gaming
Rest in PC There's been a murder!
