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“AT THE VERY LEAST, THIS YEAR’S LOOKING GREAT FOR PC GAMING”

The PC Gamer team

SUB STANDARD • Sci-fi sex game teams up with racist YouTuber, apologises, then backtracks

MULTIBOXERS BANNED

RINGS MMO REVIVED

CHRISTMAS JUMPER

Highs & Lows

The Spy • BUT WHO WATCHES THE SPY?

This month in… 2010

HOBBIT FORMING • This team dedicated ten years to building Middle-earth in MINECRAFT

New build

VIRTUAL TOUR • My top four must-see locations to visit in Minecraft Middle-earth

SMALL FRY • How OVERCOOKED’s tiny team took over our living rooms

OVEN READY • The best games inspired by Overcooked

GLASS CANNON • How Obsidian built its reputation for masterful, yet buggy, RPGs

ART IMITATES LIFE • Times Obsidian’s battle for survival was reflected in its games

BRANCHING PATHS • Obsidian’s history at the epicentre of the RPG

FIGHTS IN TIGHT SPACES • Finally, a deckbuilding game to make Jason Statham proud

SCAVENGERS • Battle royale meets survival game, to fight it out in the snow

GODS WILL FALL • God is dead. And you have killed him

HAMMERTING • Building a well-oiled machine deep beneath the earth

PHANTOM BRIGADE • A time-twisting tactics game that mechs a big impression

COMEBACK KING • Hunt down a legend as his arch-nemesis in KING ARTHUR: KNIGHT’S TALE

KNIGHT SCHOOL • Three of the classes joining the new Round Table

WHO’S WHO • Avalon’s big names

BREAKING GROUND • MEET THE DEVELOPERS MAKING BUGS AND GLITCHES ON PURPOSE

CRASH COURSE • Some of the best ‘glitch games’ can be found on itch.io

ERROR MESSAGES • How to make your own glitch art pieces

2021 PREVIEW • Looking forward to a whole new year of excellent PC gaming.

HOW WE REVIEW

OUR SCORING SYSTEM EXPLAINED

Ghosts in the machine

This month’s juiced up, jacked-in reviewers…

NEUROJANK • CYBERPUNK 2077 delivers an incredible setting undermined by an onslaught of bugs.

V WHO YOU WANNA V • Five looks from rad to bad

OUT AND ABOUT • Night City sightseeing

DEVIL’S ADVOCATE • The questing is tedious, but WORLD OF WARCRAFT: SHADOWLANDS is another great WoWexpansion.

LIFE AFTER DEATH • Shadowlands’ four Covenants

COLD CASE • TWIN MIRROR is a psychological mystery game that fails to go deeper than the surface.

COMPANION CLUB • Every detective needs a Watson, and luckily for Sam he has three sidekicks helping him

CRIME DOESN’T PAY • EMPIRE OF SIN is ambitious, but undermined by a mountain of issues.

VICE CITY • Your gangsters will develop lots of habits, not all good

THE EXPANDS • Terraforming Mars and making friends in PER ASPERA.

GLOBAL WARMING • But it’s on purpose this time!

GREEK CHIC • A puny mortal embarks on a quest to save the gods in IMMORTALS FENYX RISING, and finds yet another massive Ubisoft open world game.

GODS AND MONSTERS • How...