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Ironclad Games has kept Sins of a Solar Empire 2 fans well fed since the release of the space strategy sequel late last year, providing a frequent influx of updates and DLC. In the last twelve months, Ironclad has introduced features like new scenarios, population mechanics, better tutorials and improved debris visuals for prettier battle […]

It’s official, Total War: Warhammer 40k is real, and at some point in the next few years, we’ll be dropping into the Imperium of Man to fight and conquer our way across the stars. It’s been a long-time coming, frankly, as people have speculated about this combo of strategy titans for years at this point. […]

It was inevitable: following its successful Warhammer trilogy, Creative Assembly is now working on a 40k game. But that inevitability doesn’t make the announcement and the potential for massive grimdark wars any less exciting. The reveal has left us thirsty for more information, but while we wait for Creative Assembly to spill, we’ve been busy […]

Total War: WARHAMMER 40,000 – Announce Trailer – YouTube Watch On Since last year we’ve been speculating about the possibility of Creative Assembly following up its Total War: Warhammer series with a take on the endless science-fantasy grimness factory that is Warhammer 40,000. And what do you know, at The Game Awards we finally got […]

More quizzes! (Image credit: Larian Studios, PC Gamer) Want to keep testing your knowledge of gaming trivia? We’ve got loads more PC Gamer quizzes, on everything from healthbars to weird currencies to absurd patch notes. Last week, developer Creative Assembly marked 25 years since the release of the first game in its iconic Total War […]

The recent history of real-time strategy has been more dark age than golden era, but there have been a few bright spots over the last decade. One of those is Northgard, a Viking-themed RTS that was released in 2018. Built on traditional strategy foundations, Northgard added novel ideas like game-altering weather systems and a region-based […]

Tempest Rising developer Slipgate Ironworks has officially introduced superweapons into its action-packed RTS, adding massively powerful instruments of destruction for each of its factions. But when Slipgate revealed its digital WMD’s last week, it also hinted there was more big news on the horizon for its Command & Conquer tribute. At the time, I speculated […]

Ever felt lost at sea in the first days of a new job? I’ll admit it—my first weeks at PC Gamer, I had no idea what I was doing (some might say that’s still the case). I was just trying to keep my head above water and not publish anything libellous, or at least nothing […]

A love of the battles of the past has been the foundation of developer Creative Assembly’s success, so it’s nice to see that the studio is taking care of its own history too. As part of the 25th anniversary celebrations for Total War, four classic games in the series have joined the GOG Preservation Program, […]

It’s taken a long time for TV adaptations of videogames to get, you know, actually good. Now we’ve got The Last of Us, Arcane and Fallout all showing off. Back in 2005, though, we just had Time Commanders. BBC’s Time Commanders was an exciting prospect for any strategy nerd who could drag themselves away from […]

Strip away the impressive tech and Ashes of the Singularity’s main hook is that it’s big. Big wars, big battles, big weapons. Ashes of the Singularity 2‘s hook is that it’s even bigger, with planet-wide wars featuring thousands of machines and humans—split into three factions—duking it out across multiple fronts. Cast your eyes above and […]

Every character is somebody’s favorite. You make fun of the least interesting dude in a superhero team and you find out there’s a whole community on the internet who read every comic he’s ever been in. So I hesitate to point out that I thought Creative Assembly was employing a scraping tool somewhere near the […]

I’m just going to come out and say it: I think Sea Lord Aislinn’s campaign is the weakest of all three in the new Tides of Torment expansion. I know, I know, I was expecting the High Elves finally getting their naval treatment to appeal to the sea-faring sicko in me, after all, I did […]

Throwback RTS Tempest Rising doesn’t exactly skimp on large-scale destruction, but the booms are about to get a whole lot bigger in Slipgate Ironworks’ Command & Conquer tribute. Its next patch will introduce two new superweapons to its near-future conflict—one for each faction—each with the potential to reshape the battlefield. Introduced to Tempest Rising “by […]

There was a particular flavour to the Flash games era of the 2000s. Sites like Newgrounds overflowed with weird and wonderful experiments, hacking together new styles and genres. Some found ways to survive and live on in modern gaming, but most simply withered away, too strongly tied to that time and place. War Rats could […]

I got too greedy. My clone marines had purged the xeno hive, taking minimal damage, and were ready to extract. But as a faceless desk jockey working for a corporation in a grim capitalist retro-future, I wouldn’t let them. No, not when there was more loot to be found. On the bulbous screen of my […]

Great moments in PC gaming are bite-sized celebrations of some of our favorite gaming memories. Plants vs. Zombies (Image credit: PopCap) Developer: PopcapYear: 2009 Plants vs. Zombies is a cute game unless you really take a close look at what’s happening. My melon-pult flings a watermelon across the screen where it collides with a zombie, […]

In the deep, dark mists of 2023, Crypt of the Necrodancer developer Brace Yourself Games released a mech-themed, simultaneous turn-based tactics game called Phantom Brigade. It sounded like an instant winner, and it certainly had potential. “There’s so many little aspects that Phantom Brigade gets right,” Dominic Tarason wrote in his Phantom Brigade review, praising […]

As part of Total War’s 25th anniversary, Creative Assembly is giving away its best campaign to everyone who already owns Total War: Warhammer 1 or 2, previously only available to players of Total War: Warhammer 3. On December 4, if you own either of the first two games, you’ll notice a new addition in your […]

While players weren’t happy with things being left out of EA’s remaster of Plants vs. Zombies, post-launch support has since restored the dynamic audio and made a few other improvements. In the most recent update, which brings it to version 1.4, the sun vacuum from the console versions finally arrives on PC—as do more hotkeys, […]

You heard it here first: Mario Party is for scrubs, and Jackbox, well, Jackbox is pretty fun. But Worms is where it’s at—the 2D tactics game might have started on the Amiga, but it’s long been a multiplayer standard on PC where Team17 has pumped out sequels for three decades as of 2025. It’s celebrating […]

Every game is a roguelike now. And if it isn’t a roguelike, then it’s a roguelite. The beat ’em up is a roguelike. The FPS is a roguelike. Poker is a roguelike. Breakout is a roguelike. Even the flippin’ city-builder is a roguelike. It’s overwhelming. They’re all around us, man. They’re coming out of the […]

Total War: Warhammer III – Tides of Torment coming December 4th – YouTube Watch On Total War: Warhammer 3’s long-awaited Tides of Torment DLC is finally due on December 4, and like other recent expansions it’ll be available as three separate add-ons—each containing a new legendary lord and army—and as a bundle combining all three […]

Plants vs. Zombies: Replanted rolled out in October, and I thought it was pretty good: Really just a higher-resolution (and more expensive) version of the original PvZ phenomenon, sure, but fine overall, and of particular benefit for people who want to play the game on a Steam Deck. Serious fans were unhappy, though, for a […]

Firaxis’ attempt to right the ailing vessel that is Civilization VII continues, with its latest update bringing a major balance pass for all civs, plus a bunch of new systems designed to enhance oceanic play. And if you’ve already picked up Firaxis’ latest and most divisive entry in the series, you have the opportunity to […]

Dwarf Fortress’ Siege Update has finally arrived, representing the first major evolution of Bay 12 Games’ inimitable management sim since its triumphant arrival on Steam. Up until February this year, the focus of brothers Tarn and Zach Adams was on catching up with the ASCII version features-wise, culminating with the launch of Adventure Mode. Now […]