Everything

Happy holidays! Time to see what’s in your stocking. Oh, it’s another copy of The Golf Handbook (Third Edition). And some toenail clippers. Great. No, honestly, that’s fine. It’s not like little Jemima over there is dashing about in her cool lion slippers, making you ache for an era of innocence and novelty that you can never revisit. And who cares if she’s clashing her…

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This is The Mechanic, where Alex Wiltshire invites developers to discuss the inner workings of their games. This time, Everything [official site]. Everything is a game about everything. You can play as everything. Planets and hairs, whales and articulated buses. Pollen, spiral galaxies, tents, penguins - you get the picture. Within a few seconds, you might have moved from being a tardigrade floating on the…

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Update: The year is finished, which means you can now read our final list of the best games of 2017. 2017 has already been an extraordinary year for PC games, from both big-name AAA successes to no-name surprise indie smashes. Keeping up with so much that's worth playing is a tough job, but we've got your back. Here is a collection of the games that…

Tagged with Best PC Games 2017, feature, rainworld, A House of Many Doors, A Normal Lost Phone, Alwa's Awakening, Astroneer, Bayonetta, best pc games, BRUTE, Card Quest, Caveblazers, Cosmic Express, CrossCells, Dead Cells, Deadly Premonition, Detention, Endless Space 2, Everything, Flinthook, For Honor, Future Unfolding, Hidden Folks, Little Nightmares, Loot Rascals, Mysterium, NieR: Automata, Night in the Woods, Northgard, OrbLands, Pictopix, Planescape: Torment: Enhanced Edition, Playerunknown's Battlegrounds, Prey, Rakuen, Resident Evil 7 Biohazard, She Remembered Caterpillars, Sky, Snake Pass, Sniper Elite 4, Stories Untold, Torment: Tides of Numenera, Unexplored, v r 3, What Remains of Edith Finch, Yooka-Laylee.

Navigate the gallery by clicking on the left and right arrows or use the left and right cursor keys on your keyboard! Real life is rubbish sometimes, and there’s nothing that video games can do about that. But I know that if I’ve had a particularly tough day at work, then sitting down at my PC and visiting a different world can often be exactly…

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