Latest articles by Robin Valentine
The sexiest thing in Cult of the Lamb's big 'sex update' is a demonic blunderbuss
FLOCK TEASE Wham bam thank you lamb.
Legendary D&D and videogame designer Jennell Jaquays is getting a memorial megadungeon built in her honour
NEWS Return to Perinthos will be a crowdfunded book of dungeon adventuring, with profits benefiting Jaquays' family and the charity Trans Lifeline.
The 5 most ridiculously broken builds in D&D history
BUILD ME UP From chicken summoners to psionic sandwiches.
The new tabletop RPG from the creators of City of Mist is 'rustic fantasy' but 'not another D&D clone'
NEWS Legend in the Mist will be designed for Lord of the Rings-inspired narrative-first adventure, with a Kickstarter launching February.
The biggest PC gaming trends of 2023: 3 that need to stop, and 3 I hope continue into 2024
AROUND THE TRENDS The good, the bad, and a lot of ugly PC ports.
A new teaser for Arcane season 2 gives us a glimpse at Vander's dark fate
NEWS And there's going to be a lot more Arcane content coming to League of Legends this year.
You can now play the most infuriating game of all time in your browser, and for some reason I'm hopelessly addicted
NEWS Monster Sniper Season 3 is an absolute nightmare, and that's very much intentional.
What are your 2024 gaming resolutions?
HI RES Maybe this is the year you clear that backlog...
What games did everyone play over the holidays?
happy new year 'Tis the season to be gaming.
A TikToker is trying to deliberately make the worst videogame of all time—and now they're trapped in a hell of their own making
NEWS Unskippable dialogue, an auto-scrolling escort mission, and a dog that explodes into ants when you pet it.
Steam's 2023 GOTY nominations are extremely weird, and I guess that's your fault
NEWS Maybe democracy doesn't work after all.
Best Adventure 2023: Star Wars Jedi – Survivor
The Gotys Respawn improves on Fallen Order in almost every way.
Best Design 2023: Dave the Diver
The Gotys An absurd chocolate box of systems—it shouldn't work, but in Dave the Diver it does.
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.
