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Circa 2018, found on the PC Master Race Facebook page. All that’s missing is a free copy of Norton Antivirus. Circa 2015. A downright ancient meme in the catalog. There is no indignity quite like being a 15-year-old PC gamer. Found on Build-Gaming-Co

Modding for the Valve classic is still going strong. Counter-Strike itself started as a Half-Life mod. Hey, it worked for Hüll. Why can’t it work for you? Enjoys an active mapmaking community. People have been doing interesting things with New Vegas

This trilogy is about as loving and authentic a tribute as the original Warhammer Fantasy setting could receive—as well as some of the most expansive and rich grand strategy you can play on PC today. This XCOM-like, about cyborg weirdos excavating an

Stormgate is a spiritual successor to StarCraft II, developed by ex-Blizzard veterans, set in an apocalyptic world where sci-fi and fantasy collide. This unexpected revival is shaping up to be wonderfully faithful to its predecessors, while adding ne

By far the most famous canceled Star Wars game—1313 would have seen players exploring the subterranean slums of Coruscant as a young Boba Fett in a game that was heavily inspired by Uncharted. 1313 was killed when Disney acquired Star Wars and shut d

The Jedi Knight series is not canon, meaning Kyle Katarn did not in fact steal the Death Star plans. Weirdly, Dark Troopers were reintroduced into canon in The Mandalorian. Darth Revan was re-established into the canon in The Rise of Skywalker as the

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Anakin goes evil, the Jedi are wiped out, Luke and Leia are born. Cal Kestis joins forces with Greez and Cere to find force-sensitive children. Han Solo steals stuff, earns the Falcon, and becomes a bounty hunter. Cal Kestis searches for a planet in

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Increases weapon damage by 75%, arguably the most crucial card in the early game. Increases stagger impact by 100%, making it that much easier to interrupt enemy attacks. Increases your critical damage by 220%. Enemies die faster, if you can hit them

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Triumph’s last game took the AoW formula to space and features plenty of exotic factions and great unit customisation. Amplitude’s greatest 4X contains faction design at its best, where each is an elaborate and singular superpower overflowing with un

Nestled inside tomes are spells that can physically and mechanically evolve your race. Enchant weapons with elemental effects, making them more effective. Turn them into an astral army who can walk through walls—sneaky and handy for sieges! And who c

In World of Warcraft, this companion is part goat, part demon, but 100% adorable. Rarely in the world of Monster Hunter do you find a creature who will never do you harm. They produce milk and horns, they ram mobs (and players), and they scream their

This Far Cry hero spends half his time burning down drug fields and the other half tripping. I’m not sure if Bioshock Infinite’s Vigors are really drugs, but it feels that way sometimes. In Assassin’s Creed Unity, he gains entrance to the Brotherhood

Focused on stealth and close-quarters combat, the Assassin is the nemesis of the Skirmisher faction and is the first Chosen a new XCOM commander will encounter. A sniper who pursues the Reaper faction, the Hunter’s appearance coincided with the loss

Annoyingly, the game has a DLC epilogue that has never been made available on PC. Not much happens in it though, other than Elika being annoyed at the Prince for, y’know, dooming the world to darkness for her. A sequel was released the same year for

residentevil.com This remake could have been 30% worse and it’d still be a stone cold classic from its new Sekiro parry alone. Seriously, I feel like Brock Sampson out here, the man in the arena deflecting Spaniards’ hay forks with his silly little k

Consoles favour an APU design where rendering happens on-die instead of on a discrete card. Consoles don’t need a hardware abstraction layer like drivers because they know what hardware they have. Console operating systems need to interface with a ti

2020 A mid-pandemic ransomware attack revealed Street Fighter 6, Dragon’s Dogma 2 and more to the world against Capcom’s wishes. Stop hacking stuff please, hackers. 2007-PRESENT Ubisoft has had a harder time keeping the stab sim under wraps than an N

MSI $180 This MSI board delivers everything we need in a compact package and allows us to use much cheaper DDR4 memory. Intel $196 Yes, this is the same CPU as the budget build. It’s simply too good value to miss and perfect for high fps gaming. AMD