But the most rewarding experiences I’ve had on Minecraft servers were those where I got to team up with a few passionate builders on the same project. As each builder gravitated towards their areas of aptitude, I began to feel more like part of a team than I ever had in a game of Team Fortress 2. I built a wall that could automatically rebuild itself, forever. I built a secret door in a fountain, where the water drained away carefully before the plinth slid apart to reveal a long descent of stairs. By Googling liberally, following greater Minecraft architects than I, and being creative in how I implemented what I found, I could achieve wonders.

That makes now the best time to play, since you can see the full story through with the closing chapter of this first saga. Even putting aside the narrative hooks, though, the game has constantly improving and polishing its modes to make a spectacular variety of things to do. You can explore the story, play cooperatively with friends, take parts in raids, compete in the Crucible, and more.

Various ports after its original release, Red Dead Redemption is still very much alive. This PC port shows us one of the best versions of the game to date. The identity of the first game is felt in the sequel and although the game is not free from flaws, it can be a great feast, especially if someone feels “quite hungry.”

With a single streamer, you can understand their preferences and better see if a game is right for you. In the reviews, clear Pros/Cons lists and a summary of the verdict make them easy to skim. Overall, GamesRadar+ provides lots of content to check out, as well as quick stories for staying abreast of gaming news. It’s also one of the most impressive overall productions in gaming history, with reams of excellently written dialogue performed by a stellar voice cast, an incredible original soundtrack, and graphics that qualify as both a technical and artistic achievement.

This is the continuation of Trick-Taking Week 2025, where I’ll be posting trick-taking related content all week. We here at The Opinionated Gamers love trick-taking games, and as I wrote two years ago, many of the writers in this group have contributed to the growth in the mechanic’s popularity in recent years. HUTAN plays over nine rounds, and all players have two turns each round. On your turn, you take a flower card from the shared market pool and place the flowers into your rainforest. If you place a flower on top of a matching flower, you grow a tree. When an area is completed with trees, the last tree is replaced by an animal.

If a competitive FPS with layered tactics, precise gunplay, and intense moments is your thing, Valorant is worth a try. We’ve linked to Steam listings where possible for these games, but it’s worth noting that you can often find better deals on storefronts such as Fanatical and GOG. Also, some of our picks are available on PC Game Pass, Microsoft’s subscription service. We’re used to crime scenes being meticulously investigated, not cleaned.

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To celebrate the arrival of the new game Pirate Yakuza in Hawaii, we rank every English-language release in the Like a Dragon [aka Yakuza] videogame series from worst to best by Metascore. Better still, you could scrape together a mud hut with your bare hands and avoid running into any monsters. Then again, it’ll be dark in there and you won’t be able to tell when it’s morning and, just, what the hell is wrong with you?

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And if you need even more horror recommendations, especially for spooky season, check out our favorite horror games. It starts with an old broken-down farm and a handful of seeds. You clear out the weeds and rocks until you get tired, and then you do it again.

Instead, I decided to spare his life for a new lead and extra goodies… then I killed him anyway so I could double-dip on rewards from the original quest-giver. Later, I performed a triple cross by revealing the murder to somebody I’d been begged to hide it from for yet more benefits. “It’s up to you” is the philosophy at the heart of Atomfall. Once you exit the bunker, leaving a grateful/dead scientist behind you (but not a Grateful Dead scientist), you have no guidance on what to do next. No on-screen text providing instruction, no waypoint telling you where to go, and no NPC imploring you to follow them.

Atomfall is a gripping survival-action adventure that takes some of the best elements of Fallout and Elden Ring, and synthesises them into its own fresh mutation. It presents a picturesque chunk of English countryside littered with alluring structures to pique and reward your curiosity, eccentric locals to meet, and absorbing mysteries to unravel, and uses classic iconography from British sci-fi and horror to consistently unsettling effect. In spite of some enemy behaviours that are occasionally less stable than a reactor in meltdown, Atomfall is a compelling, post-apocalyptic survival story that satisfyingly bends to your choices and discoveries no matter which direction you take. I enjoyed consistently sniping from the shadows, although it must be said that Atomfall’s stealth system doesn’t feel quite as adaptable as that of developer Rebellion’s own Sniper Elite series. Nor can you craft a smoke bomb to mask your escape from an area, as far as I can tell – although admittedly I can’t be completely sure about that. Given how much Atomfall loves to tuck secrets into almost every dark corner of its world, there’s every chance that there’s a smoke bomb recipe clenched in a corpse’s hand at the bottom of a mineshaft somewhere that I haven’t stumbled upon yet after over a dozen hours.

Because the game is so focused on your step-by-step exploits in these ‘catacombs of Dread’ rather than a cliff-notes version of your journey like the one seen in Talisman, it feels easier to become invested too. Paired with the need for teamwork, each hero’s unique stats, and the many traps you’ll contend with, HeroQuest immerses you in its adventure right away. Although I’d prefer more variety in terms of the board (there’s only one in the core set, even if different rooms are accessed for each mission), it’s a small niggle that’s forgotten quickly once you get started. Overall, Game Informer is a website run by people who love video games, built for players. The site doesn’t review every little game, but what’s here is excellent and there’s no political nonsense to worry about.

Sifu dev Slocap’s next game, Rematch, now has a release date set for 19 June. As part of a lawsuit that revolves around Ubisoft’s shutdown of The Crew, a response from the publisher states that players don’t have “unfettered ownership”… The Marathon release date was today shared by Bungie, alongside our very first real look at the shooter.

You can follow us on Google News for daily PC games news, reviews, and guides. We’ve also got a vibrant community Discord server, where you can chat about this story with members of the team and fellow readers. Within the opening hours I quickly found myself sidetracked with enticing distractions like investigating the murder of the vicar’s assistant in the Wyndham Village church, or trying to determine who or what was locked up in the residence above the local bakery.

I do not want my students to worry about going fast, to compete with the other team, or whatever. It is more important they understand and are able to get the answer. Kahoot is a good online one if your students have access to technology. I play “mathketball” where each kid answers questions on a sheet of paper and then gets to “shoot” (basketball style) their piece of paper crumpled up into a bucket. Then we go through the correct answer and anybody that made a shot gets a point for their team. If the student who had the dice got it wrong, they pass the dice to another group member who did get the correct answer.