The PC Gamer February digest: the month's best news, reviews and features

News

Remember when that thing was announced? How about when that executive said those words about that stuff? Oh ho ho, how we all laughed. Let's reminisce over February's biggest news via the medium of bullet points on a webpage.

• Rogue Ant Simulator devs blow budget on 'liquor and strippers'.
• And then! The very same Ant Simulator devs respond.
• CCP is still making an Eve FPS, just not the one they'd previously announced.
• David Gaider has joined Beamdog, to work on Baldur's Gate stuff.
• Will Hitman's system requirements—drum roll—MURDER YOUR PC?
• Cookie Clicker was updated, and it was the end of days.
• Frozen Synapse 2 is a real game that will exist!
• A new Call of Duty?! In 2016?! Sacré bleu!
• Quantum Break is coming to PC! But it won't be on Steam¡
• Star Citizen? More like Star Splitizen. Sorry.
• Fallout 4 DLC detailed.
• Warren Spector joins Otherside to lead development on System Shock 3.
• Bethesda is working on three "big and crazy" projects, the teases.
• It's another good STRAFE trailer.
• Would you play a tactical Dragon Age game?
• The HTC Vive costs $800.
• Good news montage makers. It's Farming Simulator 17.
• Bob Ross XCOM 2 voice pack is the most important mod of the month.
• What's going on in the SteamVR Performance Test?
• Does a trademark application for Alan Wake's Return signal Alan Wake's return?
• Ubisoft asks Canada to help them fight off Vivendi. Capitalism is weird.
• SCS Software's Truck Sims are getting Steam Workshop support.
• Battlefield 5 rumoured to be set during World War 1, which sounds unlikely.
• Valve fires Dota 2 Shanghai Major host, and Gabe Newell calls him an "ass."
• Here's some more Total War: Warhammer footage.

Features

If it's on a website, but it's not a news or review, there's a chance it could be a "feature". No, not that, that's an advert. I'm talking about these: a round-up of this month's best arrangements of words and sometimes pictures.

• Phil—that's me—dips into The Age of Decadence, an RPG that lets you play as a pacifist.
• The UK team chat about The Division. Turns out they're divided.
• Andy checks in with GTA 5's UFO hunters and finds a community in turmoil.
• Durante, on why Tales of Symphonia's PC port is unacceptable.
• PC Gamer's most loved and hated characters.
• PC Gamer readers' most loved and hated characters.
• Ben can't stop stealing in Fallout 4.
• Steven Messner looks back to the most disastrous MMO launches.
• I was on holiday when this magazine op-ed went online. When I came back, there were over 450 comments. I'm not going to read a single one of them.
• Struggling with XCOM 2? We got John "Beagle" Teasdale to offer up these soldier builds.
• Andy revisits Kane & Lynch 2.
• These are the best Dota 2 custom games.
• Can you guess the game from these Steam user reviews?
• My hot, hot Firewatch take.
• For PC Gamer Pro, Andi Hamilton explains how to watch professional Street Fighter V.
• As part of his new Overwatch column, Chris T suggests ways the game could encourage players to try new roles.
• Chris L's Enforcer: Police Crime Action diary is a must read. Here's parts one, two and three.
• Jody loves getting drunk... wait for it... and in the game.
• Andy's profile on The Long Dark studio Hinterland.
• Just Cause 2's jet propulsion gun is amazing. Amazing!
• If you like American Truck Simulator, maybe you'll also like these other things...
• James reviews Far Cry Primal's animals.
• Evan's reminder that beta and early access doesn't make you immune from critique.
• More Watchpoint: here's how to improve your Overwatch win rate.
• Finally, game developers tell us how they'd make Half-Life 3.