Andy Kelly reprises his role as Zeus to torment us in Arma 3: Apex. In Oblivion Chris tried to kill everyone in a tavern with poisoned apples for food week.Īlso Phil and Samuel tried being jerks in GTA Online and got owned by bigger, more established jerks, and took an erratic journey to the moon in Space Engineers-building spaceships is hard. He also neutered all the pets in The Sims 4: Cats & Dogs, but not before using The Sims 4 to breed racoons and cats to create the cutest animal ever: the red panda. This year Chris Livingston built Blimpton, a Cities: Skylines town where blimps blot out the sun. Speaking of Steam, what on Earth happened to Steam machines?ĭiary features-aka doing stupid things in games and then writing about them-have a long history on PC Gamer. We also imagined what buying games might be like if Steam ended and investigated whether indie games are too cheap to be sustainable.
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We also published the full 97 page report, if you're interested. With that in mind, Lars Doucet surveyed 230 developers to reveal their biggest issues with Steam in 2017. It's an evolving platform, and every small change can have a big effect on developers and publishers. Steam remains one of the most powerful forces in PC gaming. We also took a look at the best and worst loot boxes in PC games and, in this age of grinding out unlocks, Samuel asked developers about how they think about respecting our time when they design games. Alex Wiltshire went deep on the topic for us, examining the addictive psychology and seductive art of the loot box.
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We've seen a lot of microtransaction controversies over the years and in 2017 loot boxes became the central focus of debate. In a mammoth feature that ran in two parts across the mag this year, Richard Cobbett writes the history of RPGs.
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Elsewhere, inspired by the return of Civilization we looked back at the complete history of the series.