Empire review of the year 2023

Celebrating the absolute best of the last 12 months of PC gaming

“I just quit my job to found a tabletop RPG company. So… let’s talk about it”. Emmet Byrne says in an intro to a video he posted to TikTok. That sentence is a frankly terrifying prospect of diving int

Coming after one of the all-time great years ...

IF YOU WANTED ARCADE ACTION IN THE COMFORT OF YOUR HOME IN THE EARLY NINETIES, SEGA’S 16-BIT SYSTEM WAS THE MACHINE TO OWN. WE SPEAK TO THE DEVELOPERS WHO CRAMMED COIN-OPS INTO THE CONSOLE BACK THEN, AS WELL AS THOSE TAKING ON THAT CHALLENGE TODAY

A 20-PAGE CELEBRATION

Aghast, dismayed and utterly crestfallen, his face wearing a look of all-consuming shock, the young lad simply refuses to believe what the television reporter in Liverpool city centre has just told hi