The Halo remake is decent. But playing Campaign Evolved and the original back-to-back reveals how right Bungie got it back in 2001. Review: www.pcgamer.com/games/halo/h...

I played the Halo: Campaign Evolved remake and original Halo back-to-back, here's my review

A neat, but fundamentally flawed remake that doesn't always understand the appeal of Halo.

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Big overhaul on our list of the best games like Stardew Valley! This is my first stab at making PC Gamer's "best [genre]" lists feel more obviously curated by our very expert freaks. They always have been, but you should FEEL it more soon. You can even vote for what should have made the list!

The best farm sims and games like Stardew Valley

Games like Stardew Valley have fully taken root on PC, so now we're thoroughly spoiled for choice on new games to plant parsnips in.

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been adding these little buddies to all my Paralives builds because I choose to believe they are a This Is How You Lose The Time War reference

One of the premade families in The Sims 2 is just two stray dogs who want to find a place to raise puppies. I love this stupid game.

Summon skeletons, ride dragons, change the weather by shouting at it, sure, no problem. But some concepts are just too ridiculous

Even a fantasy game like Skyrim won't let me be a trillionaire

I can be a werewolf or a vampire, sure, but nothing as far-fetched as a trillionaire.

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Approximately 1 billion embargoes lifted for Summer Game Fest stuff today, so I decided to try something fun: Talk about them all at once and rank them while I'm at it. www.pcgamer.com/gaming-indus...

18 embargoes from Summer Game Fest just lifted, so let's rank everything I saw in LA

A gauntlet of new games.

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Even self-declared anti-hype curmudgeon Fraser is excited about Guild Wars 3 with me.

A new MMO announcement is more exciting than all the other SGF news combined

Thanks, Guild Wars 3.

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I'll be thinking about Guild Wars 2's innovations a lot leading up to Guild Wars 3 beta next year but ultimately I trust Anet to cook. Putting down GW after 6 years for GW2 was like getting the first pair of glasses you hadn't realized you needed so badly. It was ALIVE.

my husband standing on a cliff watching for my sails to reappear on the horizon after Guild Wars 3 launches

Our list of cozy game launches in June went up yesterday! And yes I probably am going to try playing all three of the survival crafting games. I will probably never change.

The cozy game launches of June are a really crafty bunch

Crafting and cooking are all over the menu this month from survival crafting to flower arranging to stamp collection journaling.

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Hey, two (three) cakes!

Now that we have Paralives, Inzoi, and The Sims 4, life simmers finally have the variety we've been begging for

With Paralives joining the party, I finally feel like there's a real buffet of choice for life sim players.

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I been Charlie'd

Paralives players are getting jumpscared by a naked chap called Charlie glitching into their games and now I too have been Charlie'd

This unsettling, naked para is bodysnatching our characters and honestly, I want to keep them.

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I've had us doing more of these "Is It Worth It?" guides to early access games since we don't do scored reviews in EA. Bit of a different angle than our traditional longform impressions. I was excited to break down Paralives a bit for my fellow life sim fans! www.pcgamer.com/games/life-s...

Is Paralives worth playing in early access for life sim fans?

After a lot of hours spent in Paralives, here's my breakdown on how you can decide whether it's your type of life sim or not.

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🎨 We're delighted to reveal our specially commissioned posters for the #PCGamingShow designed by digital artist @waxbones.bsky.social! Can you guess the show's theme? These are a pretty big hint 👀

So far in Paralives I've spent three nights entirely in Live Mode, despite the bugginess, and one night just playing with the photo mode. I've barely touched Build Mode yet, which is normally the only part of a life sim I feel motivated to play. Going to have so much to say about this next week.

Taking screenshots of cute girls like it's my job* *it is my job

Our fantastic hosts Sean "Day[9]" Plott and Mica Burton return to present the #PCGamingShow next month! The fabulous Frankie Ward and new host Elz will be leading a Pre-Show that you don't want to miss 🔥 📅 Sunday June 7 ⏰ 12pm PDT / 3pm EDT / 8pm BST / 9pm CEST / 3am CST

I liked Mixtape a whole lot - but when it comes to its existence as a videogame, it felt out of step with its otherwise gorgeous direction. www.pcgamer.com/games/advent...

Mixtape review

Perfect playlist, but just a decent videogame.

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So if someone steals your clothing in Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2, it's because I lost my boots in Kingdom Come: Deliverance 1 and made a big stink about it 👢👢 www.pcgamer.com/games/rpg/if...

If you've ever had your shoes stolen in Kingdom Come Deliverance 2, that was apparently PC Gamer's fault, sorry

Chris Livingston's fault specifically.

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Just look at this guy.

This is Chort, a Final Fantasy 14 dungeon boss of absolutely no real significance, but a hero to us all

You can find Chort in the Clyteum.

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Heyo our list of cozy game launches this month is up! Personally I'm most psyched for: > OddFauna (the hand-sculpted critter collecting game I said I wouldn't shut up about) > Paralives (please I want to like this Sims-contender after I bounced off Inzoi)

The cozy game launches of May are dominated by a bunch of hotly-anticipated sims

From Paralives to Thrifty Business, this month is going to be all about life sims and shop sims in the cozy game corner.

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Late drop of a big story tonight—the research team that jailbroke AI safety standards with weaponized poems have published their Adversarial Humanities Benchmark, broadening their research through cyberpunk attack-fiction and ADVERSARIAL HERMENEUTICS:

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The study's authors said they tried to inform LLM providers about the vulnerabilities exposed in their research, but they didn't receive a response.

RDO never gave me the ranching job I wanted, but I'll take it in Palia

Horse game klaxon: Palia is adding breedable, rideable horses and they look way more realistic than most MMO mounts

Life sim MMO Palia's next free expansion is just three weeks away and it's giving me the ranching update that Red Dead Online refused to.

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Songs of Glimmerwick feels like the anti-HP of wizard school games. An entire setting that confronts a society newly escaping 40 years of regressive faux-populist politics. Serious as that sounds, Glimmerwick is SO funny and lighthearted. Excited to see the story continue in the full game.

The ethically-sourced wizard school life sim I've been waiting for finally has a playable demo and launches this year

Seven years in the making, the developers of Eastshade are finally ready for us to play a tiny first taste of their cozy witch school life sim Songs of Glimmerwick.

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Can't stop staring at this ridiculous four-leaf clover hidden object game made by a guy who actually likes looking for real four leaf clovers.

Oh you think you know hidden object games? Then go find a four-leaf clover

One In A Thousand is a mesmerizing replication of real life's most notorious hidden object challenge.

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Month 3 of compiling PC Gamer's cozy game releases calendar and it's wild how many games have persistent demos available these days. Especially in the cozy games space, having a demo is almost an expectation now.

Our cozy games of April list is looking so chilled out that there isn't even a single farm sim on it

Don't get a spring in your step just yet because this month's cozy game launches are all so cozy you might want to stay bundled up.

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First of a couple stories coming from a great conversation I had at GDC with The Sims 4's original AI programmer.

'I took those files and deleted them': Former Sims 4 developer says he totally rewrote the sims' AI in the middle of development and 'that was a scary thing to do'

The Sims 4's original lead AI programmer says he pitched the entire AI system not long before alpha and rewrote it from scratch.

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dungeons are cozy

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this is the most cozy gamer coded I've looked on a Friday night in a while

I think Khiimori might finally be the horse girl game I can wholeheartedly get behind. Once it makes it out of early access, anyway.

Finally someone has threaded the needle between survival game and horse girl sim

The Legend of Khiimori is a surprisingly detailed horse courier sim that I'm actually loving more than just in solidarity with my horse girl gamer friends.

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