THE HIGHS
James Davenport: Warmind never changes
The new Destiny 2 expansion is nothing special. I beat the campaign in just over an hour and I'm already losing motive to keep playing, but damn, I've been missing Destiny 2. Bouncing around with my floaty warlock and dissolving hordes of Hive with the improved Crimson is as fun as ever, the perfect beer game. I've come to accept that I'll only ever play it when expansions release, much like the first game, and while I was hoping for a reinvention that gave me better reason to play every week, I'll take another good sci-fi shooter that gets new levels every few months. The raids alone are worth the droughts.
Samuel Roberts: Free Fire
The Flame in the Flood is a kind of miserable yet beautiful and interesting survival game, and for some reason—because this is the modern era of PC gaming where a new game is free pretty much every week—reviewed it a few years ago.
Tim Clark: Enraged
There's a new Rage game, who knew! Nobody except for everyone at Walmart Canada, who managed to PC Gaming Show at E3 is coming back. See you there, yeah?
Tom Senior: Gratuitous
Do you like free games? The internet is full of them, it turns out, and Phil, Pip and Andy have been hunting them down and pulling them together into a massive round-up. It’s a mix of browser games and s that won’t try to sell you a loot box. In addition to some cool interactive fiction and some beautiful exploration games, you will also find classics such as StarCraft, The Elder Scrolls 2: Daggerfall, and the original SimCity.
In other free game news, I have been enjoying Tix.Tax this week, a game that takes humble playground fave noughts and crosses to the next level.
Phil Savage: Strategic Solutions
It'll be months until I play Thrones of Britannia, and more—it's been a great few months for fans of sitting at a desk, carefully considering your next move. I love big, dumb action as much as the next idiot, but it's heartening to see such a strong foundation of deep, complex, satisfying PC experiences emerge and succeed.
Chris Livingston: Jersey score
I'm now 14 games into a 54-game season of Super Mega Baseball 2, using a team based on the PC Gamer staff, and I'm happy to say after a rough start my club has climbed into first place in their division. Samuel has been crushing home runs, Joe is my star closer, and Bo drove a line drive so hard into an opposing pitcher's stomach the guy had to leave the game. As for the character I based on myself, I pitched a complete game yesterday, which gave my bullpen a much needed rest.
My biggest hurdle is my stubborn and baffling (even to me) refusal to use a controller, and selecting the base to throw to while fielding is sometimes an adventure using a mouse. Someone steals second base and I invariably throw to first. Someone steals third and I throw to first. Someone's about to score: the ball goes to first. I guess I need to work on my mouse gestures if I'm going to make it to the world series.
