Latest articles by Robin Valentine
The 5 most historically inaccurate moments in the Assassin's Creed series
ORIGINAL SIN From Pope fights to evil IT managers.
Finally, a news outlet explains the US tariffs in a way even I can understand: with a map covered in Warhammer models
NEWS Space Marines and global economic policy, together at last.
Board game publishers lament the devastating impact of new US tariffs on the tabletop industry: 'There is no silver lining. It is a lose-lose-lose situation for everyone involved'
NEWS The tabletop boom just stopped dead in its tracks.
Assassin's Creed Shadows' huge but shallow open world is proof that we've lost the Nemesis System just when we need it most
ENEMY MINE The games keep getting bigger and more impressive, but the content is stagnating.
Screenshots have seemingly leaked of the new Star Wars game from a team of former XCOM developers, and surprise: it looks like a Star Wars XCOM game
NEWS Featuring Bo Katan and Ahsoka Tano.
Lovecraftian horror detective game The Sinking City's grand redemption arc continues, with a shiny new remaster coming free to all existing owners
NEWS The move to Unreal Engine 5 will bring visual upgrades and a photo mode.
As a Warhammer fan of over 20 years, I've worked out the 3 rules Amazon needs to follow to make a great Warhammer TV show
WARHAMAZON You need more than just Henry Cavill to make this work.
After a not-so-subtle tease 2 months ago, and 4 years since it was originally announced, Grand Cathay from Total War: Warhammer 3 is finally coming to the tabletop wargame
NEWS It's been revealed as a new faction for Warhammer: The Old World, Games Workshop's revival of Warhammer Fantasy.
The best free PC games
Freebies Forever Our frequently updated selection of the best free games right now.
Electrified sticky notes and spontaneous combustion: Remedy's new co-op shooter FBC: Firebreak is built for chaos and 'joyful discoveries'
OUT OF CONTROL "You should expect the unexpected from Remedy!"
The Bazaar could be the future of autobattlers, if it stops strangling itself to death with its own microtransactions
HOW BAZAAR Aggressive monetisation has made the existing community furious—but it also makes the new player experience miserable.
We need to decide on a genre name for Vampire Survivors-like games before a really terrible one sticks
VS No, Steam, they're not "bullet hell action roguelikes".
The best open world games
vast travel Looking to escape into a new open world? Check out our expert recommendations.
Baldur's Gate 3 and Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2 show that the future of RPGs is in games way more ambitious, weird and unexpected than anything Bethesda and BioWare have to offer
ROYAL COUP Dragon Age: The Veilguard and Starfield came and went—meanwhile, a new breed of RPG dominates the conversation.
This mash-up of side-scrolling beat-'em-up and fantasy roguelike feels like it could be the future of a classic genre
SPELL SCROLL Hands-on with Absolum, the latest game from the developer of Streets of Rage 4 and the publisher of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Shredder's Revenge.
The best RPGs on PC
Updated! Discover your next epic adventure with our list of the most essential RPGs you can play on PC right now.
I did not expect the most promising turn-based tactics game of Steam Next Fest to star the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, but here we are
TACTICOOL You can try TMNT: Tactical Takedown for free until March 3.
You probably don't remember Remember Me, but its one brilliantly unforgettable idea lives on
MIND GAMES A melancholy trip down memory lane.
Drop Duchy is an unholy fusion of city builder, roguelike deckbuilder, and Tetris, and you can try it for free right now
DROP IN Check out the demo during Steam Next Fest, ending March 3.
You can get an official Avowed fungus kit that lets you grow a piece of the Dreamscourge in your own home: 'If you don't do anything, eventually the mushrooms will find their way out… They'll just burst out of the box'
NEWS And you can 3D print your own infected bear to grow it in.
RPGs like Avowed need to stop letting me steal everything that isn't nailed down
RPG SPREE When I literally take the bread off a starving man's plate, I feel like I might deserve a telling off.
The best uniques in Avowed that you can grab early in the game
Name brand Don't wait around to have great gear in Avowed—you can grab some pretty cool weapons within the first few hours.
Avowed's huge 66GB update includes major improvements for the game's whole progression system, along with key bug fixes and buffs for companions
NEWS Patch 1.2.2 is surprisingly extensive for a launch day update.
