Latest articles by Robin Valentine
It's much easier than you think to become a Dungeon Master for D&D and other tabletop RPGs—and have a blast doing it
DM IT Learning how to DM doesn't need to be a struggle.
Best Ongoing Game 2023: Warhammer 40,000 – Darktide
The Gotys After last year's rocky launch, Fatshark's co-op FPS had a great 2023.
2023's best puzzle game is a delightful box of magic tricks and optical illusions
With a reality-warping camera and a barrage of ingenious strangeness, Viewfinder surprised me like nothing else this year.
Great moments in PC gaming: Reaching the DPS singularity in Vampire Survivors
Thriving Turn the tide on the monsters, and become a god of destruction.
The loop begins again as Alan Wake 2 launches a New Game Plus mode featuring a new difficulty, extra videos and manuscript pages, and a whole new ending
NEWS We're never getting out of the Dark Place.
Our 5 least likely predictions for GTA 6
CRIMES OF THE FUTURE What do you think, will that alligator be playable?
With its new game, Hello Games is literally promising the world. Is the developer of No Man's Sky about to make the same disastrous mistakes all over again?
HELLO AGAIN Sean Murray's grand reveal of follow-up Light No Fire feels like the start of a painful history repeating itself.
Hello Games' grand follow-up to No Man's Sky, Light No Fire, is an open world the size of the actual Earth
NEWS The ambitious pitch for near-endless fantasy adventure is thrilling—but a bit of caution is warranted, to say the least.
A timeline of PC Gamer's favourite Baldur's Gate 3 secrets and rare dialogues—from bad tattoos to vampire tantrums
SEEK YOUR SECRETS In case it's not obvious: spoilers ahead.
Part two of Warhammer 40,000: Darktide's big free expansion comes this month, featuring a new mission, injectable magic potions, and… a foldable shovel?
NEWS One last major update before the holidays.
Deathgrip's take on podracing keeps you riding the line between hyper-speed victory and dying in a fiery explosion
NEWS And there's a free demo you can try right now.
Demonschool's movement-based demon battles are shaping up to be the most interesting turn-based combats of 2024
Persona meets Into the Breach meets… chess?
SteamWorld Build review: A charming but very brief city builder with a clever Dungeon Keeper twist.
LOSING STEAM A clever combination of city building and Dungeon Keeper-like excavation, but just a little too slight and sedate for its own good.
Slay the Princess is 2023's most fascinating horror game, a visual novel that twists itself around every choice you make
DISTRESSING DAMSEL Dozens of horror stories behind one innocent-looking face.
PC Gamer's least accurate predictions of all time
PCG30TH 30 years of getting the future wrong
Finally, a game that combines tower defence, factory automation, and the systematic slaughter of a thousand worms
A MACHINE FOR WORMS Mob Factory is a delightful genre mash-up that demands absolute efficiency.
For just $45 BioWare will now sell you a poster of their teaser for a Mass Effect game they haven't even confirmed the name of yet
NEWS For the price of a full game, you can instead get the vague promise of one to put on your wall.
BioWare's endless cryptic teases for Mass Effect and Dragon Age aren't just frustrating, they're arrogant
DRAGON IT OUT The studio's acting like it's on a victory lap, when it should still be on its apology tour.
I love that new Star Wars games are embracing the franchise's humblest villains
Hey Wait! Return of the battle droids.
Forget the musical numbers and tense battles against evil—the coolest thing in Alan Wake 2 is pinning bits of paper to a wall
PIN CITY Every game from now on should have a big corkboard and a ready supply of thumbtacks.
Alan Wake 2 review: Remedy's boldest experiment yet is a beautiful storm of surreal storytelling and genuinely frightening survival horror
NIGHT TERRORS Developer Remedy's personality shines through more boldly than ever in this wild barrage of creative storytelling and visual flair.
Three great Warhammer tabletop RPGs for under $20 is a deal worthy of the Emperor himself
NEWS Soulbound, Wrath & Glory, and Warhammer Fantasy Roleplay are all included.
