PC Gamer (US Edition) January 2023

ROBIN VALENTINE Twitter @robinlvalentine This month Got back into Warhammer 40K with a Kroot Kill Team. They’re one of the friendlier factions, once you get past all the cannibalism. For my money, no developer has followed more successfully in Left 4 Dead’s footsteps than Fatshark. The Vermintide games evoked that same co-op vs horde magic, while at the same time carving out their own distinct identity and pulling off a pitchperfect version of the Warhammer Fantasy world. Darktide is an ambitious yet confident step forward for a studio that’s proven its chops—cleverly expanding, refining and, thanks to the Warhammer 40K setting, adding bloody big guns to the formula. I know what I’ll be doing on November 30: purging the unclean. TALK TO PC GAMER Have your say! Email us at letters@pcgamer.com robin.valentine@futurenet.com The PC Gamer team SEAN MARTIN Twitter @RemainsToBeSean This month Headed…

CD Projekt is on the comeback trail. Ever since the botched launch of Cyberpunk 2077 the studio has been quietly improving Night City, stopping only to confirm a new Witcher is in the works. A new update says core studio CD Projekt Red has been working on two AAA projects since the beginning of 2022, and revealed a boatload of future projects in development elsewhere. Necessary caveat: we won’t see some of these for ages. We already knew the ‘mainline’ series is continuing with the game codenamed “Polaris”, but CDPR now says this is the first in a trilogy which will release “in a six-year period starting with Polaris”. The idea is that the first will be the foundation for the second and third, which CDPR thinks will “streamline development”. Then there is…

Talking to Obsidian design director Josh Sawyer forced me into a harsh realisation: I have the handwriting of a peasant. Decades of education and the internet’s infinite resources at my fingertips, and yet my messy chicken scratch would fit right in with a 16th century Bavarian peasant’s in Pentiment. It’s some consolation that Sawyer says his would, too. In our defense, the printing press is a bit more established in 2022 than it was in the 16th century, when your writing spoke volumes about your education, social class, and profession. That granularity is why Obsidian partnered with design firm Lettermatic to create six unique fonts for Pentiment, each telling you something about the characters you meet and talk to while trying to solve Pentiment’s mysterious murders. “Handwriting was changing a lot at…

A closer look at four of Pentiment’s fonts PRINTERS’ FONT Printing press operators carefully arrange their letter blocks before they begin speaking. LORENZ’S FONT You can see the darker ink spots where Lorenz re-dipped his quill. Must be using one of those cheap quills… VILLAGERS’ FONT Even Pentiment’s peasants have better penmanship than me, which is odd, but then I’ve never handled sheep before. MONKS’ FONT The Monastic script is by far the most intense, both to read and to write, with all its extra lines and fanciness.…

When Warhammer met Wargaming VOLUSAD THASSIUS Season VIII’s Battle Pass saw a Thassius-themed E-100 in blue. Tanks are bigger than Ultramarines, pack even mightier firepower, and are almost as heavily armored. DOLGOTH SEPK Sepk was introduced as a tank commander during the same season. Trundling around in an Object 430U probably makes for a nice holiday, when your home is literally called the Plague Planet. KROGLIN DA FACEGRINDA With a name like that, you might expect him to have dropped the hottest album of 2022; but he’s another part of the Warhammer crossover who boasted a themed STB-1.…

Martin is senior community manager for World of Tanks, and is in fact in charge of community managers in the European region. This follows a journey of ten or so years, a journey he began when he decided to switch focus from graphic design in the printing industry to videogames. In his early teens, he discovered what he describes as the “magic” of multiplayer games via LAN gaming and internet cafes. When he later in life decided to focus on games professionally, it was something of a challenge. “I come from the Czech Republic,” he says, “and in central Europe it was not as easy, right? Unless you had a lot of experience.” So, he started a ‘quest’ to gain that experience, which began with IRL community management. Martin would, with the…