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- March 31
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- March 29
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- Obsidian snuck goodies and secrets around every corner to make exploring Avowed feel worthwhile: 'If you have a lot of dead ends that lead nowhere, you learn the lesson as a player: This game doesn't have much to offer me'
- I've finally seen gameplay from ZA/UM's follow-up to Disco Elyisum, and it looks a lot like Disco Elysium. It will have to be spectacular to win back a hostile fanbase
- I played the 21 worst Thief missions in existence and had a far better time than I expected
- It still makes me uneasy that my hundreds of Steam games can't be passed on when I die, at least not without violating the EULA
- March 28
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- There's barely more than a demo in Wreckfest 2's early access debut, but I can't stop playing it
- The focus on GPU efficiency over fps means this year's gaming laptops are capable of something they've never been good at
- I laughed, I fell, I ragequit: Baby Steps is a hilarious walking simulator I can't wait to watch speedrunners try to defeat
- 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
- Inzoi lets you customize your entire house down to the last thread, which is great in theory but doesn't feel good in practice
- March 27
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- Chinese action game Phantom Blade Zero didn't click for me until I realized its deep commitment to wuxia film authenticity meant I had to relearn how swords work
- Final Fantasy 14's latest raids have me fully convinced that Square Enix can still cook, even as job design lags behind
- Nvidia RTX 5090 mobile tested: The needle hasn't moved on performance but this is the first time I'd consider ditching my desktop for a gaming laptop
- March 26
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- Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2's masterful quest design can be summed up by one wonderfully weird search for a magic stone
- What will we do at the end of the world? If MMOs are any indication: mostly what we already do, plus a lot of dancing
- Age of Mythology Retold's new Chinese pantheon expansion takes a bold stance on updating an old game: Just make good new stuff
- MSI Claw 8 AI+ A2VM: the greatest gaming machine you can take anywhere
- Become Dragonforged, achieve dominance
- I'm not yelling 'we're so back!' yet, but Final Fantasy 14's patch 7.2 story could be the first sign the MMO is returning to what made it so critically-acclaimed
- March 25
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- One year later, City of Heroes' officially recognized fan server has me praying it's the future of dead MMOs
- After punishing my graphics card with Monster Hunter Wilds, I've returned to the rock-solid frame rates of my old hunting grounds: Windows XP
- I'm convinced being a ghoul in Fallout 76 is the best way to vibe in West Virginia, thanks to these powerful perk cards and my new true love: Radiation
- Playing a few hours of Vampire: The Masquerade – Bloodlines 2 has put a lot of my worries to rest
- Steel Hunters is like a more tactical Titanfall, but as an extraction shooter it's undermined by boring loot
- With Nvidia Ace taking up 1 GB of VRAM in Inzoi, Team Green will need to up its memory game if AI NPCs take off in PC gaming
- While Waiting is a game all about chugging through life's most mundane tasks with a heaping side order of whimsy
- Magic: The Gathering's Tarkir: Dragonstorm set isn't just about dragons
- March 24
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- March 21
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- Somebody finally figured out casual Counter-Strike
- Outer space inspired DayZ's Dean Hall to become a modder and game developer, and now he's making a Kerbal successor called Kitten Space Agency
- Getting to level 50 in Fallout 76 to become a ghoul actually isn't as daunting as it seems, which is why I created a new character
- Look Outside is a survival horror RPG where you absolutely should not look outside
- March 20
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- Electrified sticky notes and spontaneous combustion: Remedy's new co-op shooter FBC: Firebreak is built for chaos and 'joyful discoveries'
- Assassin's Creed Shadows has convinced me that Ubisoft will never make a good RPG
- Inzoi's attempt to do everything has left it a shallow imitation of The Sims, and I'm not sure it understands what makes those games so special in the first place
- March 19
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- March 14
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- Monster Hunter Wilds' new gyro controls are a fantastic option for disabled and able-bodied players alike
- The Bazaar could be the future of autobattlers, if it stops strangling itself to death with its own microtransactions
- Marvel Rivals' growing roster of heroes scares me, but the game's director seems sure that all is under control: 'Everything is progressing smoothly'
- March 13
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- The best deals in the 2025 Steam Spring Sale
- 'Siege 2 was never on the table': Rainbow Six Siege X director explains why the 10-year-old FPS doesn't need a sequel
- The best Monster Hunter Wilds mods
- Monster Hunter Wilds weapon tier list
- Winning $2.6 billion in this poker videogame has completely ruined fake poker for me
- Monster Hunter Wilds' best change is to its layered armor, letting me finally run amok with dressup the way I should have always been able to
- Ranking AMD Radeon RX 9070 XT graphics cards by their visual design, cuz, you know, I can't buy one for MSRP so have to kill my time somehow
- As a real life museum employee, I'm a bit confused by the amount of pirate ghosts in Two Point Museum—but it's not going to stop me trying to make the most realistic exhibits I can
- This gaming PC build smashes together the very latest components but if I did it again, I'd do it differently
- I just played Half-Life 2 RTX, a fully ray-traced overhaul of the original, and its meaty headcrabs have me hankering for more
- In a world of WoW Classics and Old School RuneScapes… could Final Fantasy 14 ever do the same?
- March 12
- March 11
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- We need to decide on a genre name for Vampire Survivors-like games before a really terrible one sticks
- I wish Monster Hunter Wilds wasn't so afraid of letting me play Monster Hunter
- The SteelSeries QcK Performance series has reignited my excitement over the simple pleasure of a quality mouse pad… and trying to click skulls with pinpoint accuracy
- Assassin's Creed: Shadows is just around the corner, so come and see the last 17 years of the series' PC graphics at max 4K settings
- March 10
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- I’m not sure what’s weirder: that someone made a sequel to a completely forgettable 37-year-old game I played as a kid, or that it was actually worth the wait
- I never thought a handheld PC bloated with Windows could replace my Steam Deck, but after gaming on an old OneXPlayer 2 Pro I can see now I judged it too harshly
- March 9
- March 8
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- Silent Hill gets a soccer league in FEAR FA 98, and you can play the demo now
- This brutalist life sim gave me a free tenement block to renovate, but my mushroom addiction kept getting in the way
- Blood Typers is a budget-priced fusion of Typing of the Dead and co-op survival horror
- The best part of The Sims 4 Businesses & Hobbies expansion is just coming up with fun small business ideas
- March 7
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- We all deserve better than this
- Hearthstone card reveal: If it's wrong to love a magic blue owl, I don't want to be right
- REPO is my new favourite co-op horror game, which combines Lethal Company's looting loop with Content Warning's zany monsters
- Capcom cooked up some extremely cursed Palico outfits in Monster Hunter Wilds
- Grand Theft Auto 5 Enhanced is a bitter-sweet return to Rockstar's money-making machine
- GTA 5 Enhanced performance analysis: Forget max settings, my advice is to enable Very High RT and enjoy the show
- As a Stalker sicko, the 2 hours I just spent with Atomfall have made it one of my most-anticipated games this year
- March 6
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- Monster Hunter Wilds' true difficulty isn't the battles: it's navigating the horrible menus
- 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
- Capcom is punishing me for wanting to play Monster Hunter Wilds with my friends
- I don't care about being able to kill everybody and steal the Mayor's pants in an RPG like Avowed, and I'm tired of pretending it's mandatory
- March 5
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- Why did Monster Hunter Wilds dedicate so much effort to its environments, only to completely drop the actual 'hunting' from Monster Hunter?
- After a run of RTX 50-series launches with seemingly little availability and mega price tags, I'm left wondering 'is that it?'
- D&D's new virtual tabletop is a glossy and cool idea that's already struggling with its identity in a world where jpegs and imagination are free
- When PC RPGs were at their crunchiest and most hardcore in the 1990s, Farland Story set itself apart by… being cute?
- The unofficial Civilization 7 manual: everything Civ 7 doesn't tell you about its rules and systems
- March 4
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- Monster Hunter Wilds feels easy at launch—but after a decade of fighting post-release elder dragons and Master Rank monsters, I'm not worried about the light warmup
- Civilization 7 needs some big expansions to feel complete, and I'd start with one that adds the years after 1950
- Kingdom Come 2 and Avowed have revealed to me the grand unified theory of game design: A good game is when you can steal back the money you just spent at a shop, a bad game is when you can't
- This mash-up of side-scrolling beat-'em-up and fantasy roguelike feels like it could be the future of a classic genre
- We need a better name for AI, or we risk talking past each other until actually intelligent AGI comes home mooing
- This Yu-Gi-Oh! retro collection transported me to a simpler time in TCGs, before Pot of Greed was banned and the Avengers were in Magic: The Gathering
- March 3
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- The PC game releases we're most excited about in March
- I'm as excited as the next guy for AMD's 9070-series launch but the lack of reference cards has me worried about how real its MSRP will be
- Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 feels like a French Persona, with an impressive combat system that I should love, but which I actually hate
- After AMD's RX 9070 XT presentation, I can safely say even this Nvidia die-hard believes the hype
- March 2
- March 1
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- I wrote one-sentence reviews of over 70 Steam demos to help you decide which to try before Next Fest ends
- What's the biggest game on your computer, and is it really worth the space?
- Monster Hunter Wilds' Seikret makes travelling easier than ever, but I had a much better time when I dared to explore the old fashioned way: On foot
- There's one reason I come back to this one rapid trigger gaming keyboard over the rest, and that's great software
- I'm so desperate to play Grand Theft Auto 6 that I downloaded this unfinished open-world game set in 1990s Slovakia
- Nvidia RTX 5070 hands-on preview: a sneak peek at my unreleased RTX Blackwell card hitting triple digit frame rates in Cyberpunk 2077 at 1440p and Avowed at 4K