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- March 31
- March 30
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- PC Gamer US Podcast #311 – TERA-ble news
- Valve actively seeking Linux devs
- The Week in eSports (3/30/2012)
- Chris Metzen on Mists of Pandaria's story, and why the players are the real villains
- Now Playing: The tyranny of Snwuggles in Moshi Monsters
- Guild Wars 2 dungeons preview
- Proteus: the best song I've ever played
- Minecraft update 1.2.5 adds more impatient cats, wilder Ocelots
- Ridge Racer: Unbounded PC City Creator doesn't work, patch incoming
- Double Fine success sparks Kickstarter boom
- We ask EVE Fanfest attendees what they think of DUST 514
- Counter-Strike: Global Offensive gets Arms Race mode and Aztec
- World of Warplanes getting dragon support? Happy March Fools day!
- Hack, slash, and kick it old-school with a free copy of Legend of Grimrock [Giveaway]
- Walk the Path of Exile during the public stress test weekend
- March 29
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- Why EVE Online is the best hangover game and the upcoming hazing of DUST players
- THQ lays-off 118 at Relic, Vigil as Warhammer 40K MMO Dark Millennium goes single-player
- Interview: Ubisoft on reinventing Assassin's Creed, punching bears
- Call of Duty: Black Ops 2 rumoured multiplayer and release date details hit official forums
- NCSoft explain why Guild Wars 2 collector's edition is more expensive in Europe
- The Indie Buskers want to turn your game ideas into real games
- Auto Club Revolution open beta is go, race for free
- PC Gamer UK Podcast 65 - Roguelikes, Guild Wars 2 and The Darkness 2
- World of Darkness players can try to stay human, but guns are only good as a "fashion accessory"
- 'Like' to have a left handed MMO mouse?
- Mass Effect 3 Operation Raptor multiplayer event kicks off this weekend
- How Team Fortress influenced Guild Wars 2's class system
- Team Fortress 2 update adds new hats and stat-tracking "strange parts"
- Now you can pay £32 to unlock everything in Battlefield 3
- Max Payne 3 trailer: better than summer time, better than dinner time, IT'S BULLET TIME
- March 28
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- Prime World's heroes give new meaning to "red versus blue"
- Game of Thrones trailer has shouting, glaring, stabbing, widest aspect ratio known to man
- SimCity will require an internet connection to play
- Battlefield 3 PC patch will land tomorrow
- Help Hubble, win an iPad
- We ask every CCP man we can find whether DUST 514 is coming to PC
- Minecraft makes $80 million in 15 months
- Legend of Grimrock release date set for April 11, pre-orders now available
- The World Cyber Games are dead (to us)
- Age of Empires Online invades Steam
- Interview: Ubisoft on Reinventing Assassin's Creed, High-Fiving George Washington
- March 27
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- Ghost Recon Online beta key giveaway
- ArenaNet president talks microtransactions and the risks of going subscription-free
- World of Darkness permadeath and politics: "Hanging out in bars could be a powerful play"
- Bioshock Infinite trailer introduces the Siren, it raises the dead and goes "WooOOooOO" a lot
- Empire: Total War "still selling now as much as it was a year ago"
- Guild Wars 2 World vs. World PvP guide
- Battlefield 3 PC patch delayed by console certification. "It's very frustrating," say DICE
- Good Old Games relaunches as GOG, will sell indie games and more current titles DRM free
- Assassin's Creed 3 trailer slowly rotates new hero, special editions announced
- Tribes: Ascend trailer shows incoming stealth update, smoke bombs, laser knives
- March 26
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- MLG 2012 Winter Championship - Day 3: MarineKing and DRG go the distance
- Digital Storm's sub-zero system revealed
- I hate Kaidan Alenko, but that's okay
- GAME enters administration, CEO quits, 227 stores close
- FTL is coming to Steam, Kickstarter campaign has five days left
- Prey 2 feared cancelled
- Grand Theft Auto V and Max Payne 3 to support multiplayer "crews"
- Starbreeze working on free to play game called Cold Mercury
- World of Darkness vampire MMO not dead, trailer shows first in-game footage
- March 25
- March 24
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- Kingdoms of Amalur: The Reckoning review
- EVE Online players will watch their DUST 514 minions deathmatch in arenas, place bets on their lives
- Notes and Highlights from the MLG Winter Championship - Day 1
- XCOM: Enemy Unknown preview
- Sacred Cows: Killing Your Darlings, Vol 1
- Weekend Game Deals - Square-Enix savings
- March 23
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- The Week in eSports (3/23/12)
- EVE Online's keynote: A recap in their own words
- What do game writers and designers think about BioWare changing the Mass Effect 3 ending?
- Release dates for Inferno and EVE Online's other major updates in 2012
- PC Gamer US Podcast #310 - Mass Effect 3 Spoilers
- Now Playing: A floating creep in Just Cause 2's Superman mod
- Qube review
- Far Cry 3 preview
- Shogun 2: Fall of the Samurai screenshots show moustaches, swordsmen and sunsets
- NVIDIA launches GeForce GTX 680
- Max Payne 3 PC will have DirectX 11 support, new PC screenshots arrive
- CCP CEO: DUST 514 won't "affect your everyday EVE experience unless you want it to"
- Dust 514 preview
- Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 free XP weekend arrives, IW apologise to PC fans
- Assassin's Creed 3 screenshots chop up redcoats, hide in trees, pose on rooftops
- March 22
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- Rift prepares us for the coming of Maelforge, Dragon Lord of the Fire Plane
- Bring the pain to Big-Ass Monsters with our TERA beta key giveaway
- MLG Winter Championship starts tomorrow in Columbus, winter still missing
- Scoring assists with Prime World's support heroes
- Syndicate review
- Watch EVE Online's Fanfest live with CCP's Livestream
- Sniper: Ghost Warrior 2 preview
- Dota 2 China launch is "mandatory if we want DOTA to succeed" say Valve
- Total War: Shogun 2 patch adds 80-unit battles, 22 new maps, hundreds of fixes
- Nvidia unveils the GeForce GTX 680: massively multicore, insanely powerful
- Star Wars: The Old Republic free trial kicks off today for new players
- Dota 2 patch files tease microtransactions: masks, taunts and Dr. Kleiner included
- March 21
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- Postal 3 review
- Total War studio boss on Steam Workshop mods: "we should be letting people do this"
- War of the Roses preview
- Far Cry 3 trailer trips balls, needs a cup of tea and a nice lie down
- Mass Effect 3 devs working on "game content initiatives" to clarify ending
- The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim patch 1.5 is out now, adds finishing moves and killcams
- Notch wants to make a Firefly-inspired sandbox space game like Elite "except done right"
- GAME delisted from stock exchange, files for administration
- World of Warcraft: Mists of Pandaria beta sign ups live, all Annual Pass holders will be invited
- Guild Wars 2 microtransactions work like EVE PLEX, claim ArenaNet. "Everyone wins."
- Battlefield 3 time lapse trailer pits bullets against interior design, bullets win
- Dark Souls PC teased, "an announcement is coming" says official Facebook page
- March 20
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- One billion games of League of Legends played
- Druid class revealed for Dungeons & Dragons Online
- Mass Effect 3 Operation Goliath multiplayer mission is over, three million Brutes brutalised
- World of Warcraft: Mists of Pandaria endgame guide
- The Walking Dead gameplay footage leaks
- Bioshock Infinite trailer introduces noisy Boys of Silence
- Tribes: Ascend patch adds new capture the flag map, more servers and balance fixes
- The Walking Dead trailer shows dead mostly standing still
- Fate of the World: Tipping Point review
- PC Gamer UK April issue: Guild Wars 2
- World of Warcraft: Mists of Pandaria PVP guide
- SimCity trailer shows early footage of new Glassbox engine
- Sun reports terrorists using Call of Duty as training tool, global threat levels reduced
- Dishonored screenshots delve into Dunwall's seedy underworld
- Blizzard “very happy” with subscription model, say free to play can “burn out” players
- Command a menacing metal beast with our World of Tanks giveaway
- March 19
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- Ys: The Oath in Felghana now on Steam
- Valve on bringing the PC to E3
- Gettysburg: Amoured Warfare preview
- World of Warcraft: Mists of Pandaria video preview
- Mists of Pandaria footage shows new zones, instances
- Red Harbinger puts a PC in your desk
- Baldur's Gate 3 "our long term goal" says Baldur's Gate: Enhanced dev
- The Secret World Dragon preview
- Kingdoms of Amalur MMO due "later in the year" says artist
- Trine 2 trailer teases "AAAA" expansion environments
- Garrosh Hellscream is World of Warcraft’s new arch-villain
- Mists of Pandaria: Everything you need to know
- March 18
- March 17
- March 16
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- The Week in eSports (3/16/12)
- Modding is amazing again
- PC Gamer US Podcast #309: The Achievements of the Father
- Mass Effect 3 multiplayer data released, weekend event awards unique item pack for Reaper genocide
- Maple Story invaded by aliens
- Save the earth, then throw it at people in DC Universe Online's newest content pack
- Valve launches Steam Collections: hand-picked mod packs for Skyrim and Team Fortress 2
- Garry's Mod has sold 1.4 million copies, Garry releases sales history to prove it
- The Secret World takes Minecraft's crafting system and makes it better
- Shogun 2: Fall of the Samurai: ten tips to help you take Japan
- Call of Duty: Elite still incoming. Activision "excited to do right by the PC gamers"
- Shogun 2: Fall of the Samurai review
- Elder Scrolls Online could be announced in May
- Future PCs made of blood and spit
- XCOM: Enemy Unknown will support mods and have a "standalone PC tactical UI"
- Max Payne 3 trailer shows "presentation innovations" and RANDOM SUBTITLES
- The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim patch 1.5 beta adds spectacular stabbing and suplexes
- March 15
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- Indie Royale's St. Patrick's Day Bundle headlined by Hard Reset, on sale now
- Baldur's Gate: Enhanced Edition announced, coming this summer
- Risen 2: Dark Waters preview
- Notch, Bethesda, Freddie Wong, Robin Walker (oh, and us) to fight in Team Fortress 2 for charity
- Max Payne: then and now
- CD Projekt co-founder: "I don’t want The Witcher to be sold by crappy stores"
- How to customize the UI in The Old Republic
- Risen 2 release date set for April
- Baldur's Gate site gets mysterious countdown
- Peter Molydeux's "MolyJam 2012" kicks off at the end of March
- Diablo 3 release date set for May 15
- March 14
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- Razer CEO ponies up $10K to fund Wasteland 2
- Chivalry: Medieval Warfare trailer shows olde FPS dueling, decapitations
- Portal 2 Puzzle Creator in internal beta testing now, will use Steam Workshop
- Hands-on with The Old Republic's new PvP WarZone, Novare Coast
- Roccat's new mouse features achievements, including one called "Sultan of Scroll"
- Mass Effect 3 ending outrage raises $30k for Child's Play charity
- Bioshock Infinite's Handyman has manly hands
- Project CARS trailer shows new cars and night racing
- Wasteland 2 Kickstarter Campaign kicks off, receives $500k in 24 hours
- Battlefield 3 patch incoming, new Close Quarters screens vandalise Ziba Tower
- March 13
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- Take on colossal monsters with our RaiderZ alpha key giveaway
- Put away your sword: pacifist-friendly content en route to Rift
- Guild Wars 2 Beta: Video tour of three major cities
- Pro Counter-Strike player slams CS:GO: “It’s not fun. It’s a terrible game right now.”
- Sponsored: Why Titanfall is 2014's Most Anticipated Shooter
- Flying the not-so-friendly skies in World of Warplanes
- First look at Rift's newest raid, stuffed with pirate ships and dragons made of gold
- Star Wars: The Old Republic free trial starts on Thursday
- Battlefield 3 producer on Battlelog: “We honestly believe this is the right way forward”
- Double Fine kickstarter project passes $3 million in donations, seven hours to go
- Pre-order Gratuitous Tank battles and get access to the beta
- Guild Wars 2 pre-orders come with beta access, £130/$150 Collector's Edition comes with big cat
- Hands-on with The Old Republic's Legacy system
- Battlefield 3 trailer shatters Ziba Tower
- Is Counter-Strike: Global Offensive's Arsenal Mode an attempt to level the playing field?
- Mass Effect 3 day one DLC files spotted on disk, Bioware respond
- PC Gamer UK Issue 238: how to redeem your Crusader King and Juggernaut codes
- Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 content collection to add maps and spec ops missions
- Origin delivers a broken Mass Effect 2 installer...in Hungarian [Updated]
- March 12
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- Some Mass Effect 3 multiplayer players losing multiplayer items, BioWare acknowledges
- New Spec Ops: The Line trailer shows brutal atrocities, stuff blowing up
- Dishonored trailer shows sandbox steampunk cityscapes
- Sir, You Are Being Hunted: an open world survival sim with robots, top hats, tea and terror
- Diablo 3 PvP mode to arrive in post-launch patch
- GAME share prices collapse to all-time low
- Team Fortress 2 mod recreates Bomberman with Demomen
- Guild Wars 2 video talks innovation and design aims: "we just don't want players to grind"
- Double Fine Kickstarter campaign ends tomorrow, Schafer makes last call for donations
- Mojang win the right to use Scrolls name
- March 11
- March 10
- March 9
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- MechWarrior Online preview
- League of Legends Dominion post-mortem: parts of the development process were "painful"
- Lord of the Rings Online's Update 6 launches players closer to Rohan on March 12th
- Another Week in eSports
- Five things you need to know about The Old Republic's future
- Cliff Bleszinski to indies: "go with the PC"
- Valve on Portal 2's original opening, ideas for its many endings and the "Morgan Freeman sphere"
- Rainbow 6 Patriots lead devs get replaced. "We're evolving the vision," says Ubisoft
- Mass Effect 3 alternative trailer stars female Shepard
- Star Wars: The Old Republic has nearly 1.7 million subscribers
- Dota 2 and CS: Global Offensive to support the Razer Hydra. Your mouse will also work
- CD Projekt: "DRM does not protect your game"
- Tribes: Ascend release date set for April 12
- Warface trailer showcases classes and massive mech suits
- Civilization V: Gods & Kings interview with lead designer Ed Beach
- Steam Box: the truth, direct from Valve
- March 8
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- Romero: upcoming indies should stop "waiting for permission"
- Industry legends share their gaming inspirations
- “Hats are key to building an in-game economy.” Hard Team Fortress 2 stats straight from GDC
- Valve experimented with Portal 2 competitive multiplayer. Ended up "super chaotic but no fun"
- Rift is free for past subscribers this week, go play it!
- Skyrim takes Game of the Year at the GDC awards. Portal 2 scoops a triple
- Warface closed beta sign-ups now live
- Under the Ocean trailer introduces gorgeous indie survival sim
- Behind the scenes of Star Wars: The Old Republic: throwing people at the problem
- War of the Roses trailer has chivalry, stabbing
- Postcards from Mass Effect 3
- Mists of Pandaria will fix Talents "once and for all," say Blizzard
- Gabe Newell listed among world's richest people, Valve estimated to be worth $3bn
- SimCity is "built to be moddable," say Maxis
- Bioshock Infinite's Motorised Patriot is evil robot George Washington with a gatling gun
- Firefall trailer shows world building and sweet vistas
- SimCity: Inside the GlassBox engine
- The Showdown Effect preview
- Notch: "If someone copies your game a trillion times, you won't have lost a single cent"
- March 7
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- Planetside 2 preview
- Mass Effect 3 Narrative Mode and Action Mode explained
- Deus Ex: Human Revolution designer on boss fights: "we are truly sorry"
- PopCap releases Solitaire Blitz. It's predictably addictive
- Guild Wars 2 beta: Q&A discusses WvW, events, and more
- The frustrating reality of Medal of Honor: Warfighter
- Planetside 2 creative director predicts an MMOFPS renaissance: "they’re really difficult to make, so good luck”
- Peter Molyneux leaves Lionhead and Microsoft
- World of Warcraft's revamped Scrolls of Resurrection let you instantly level a friend to 80
- Battlefield 3 themed DLC packs to add new guns and "the biggest map in Battlefield history"
- Intel Extreme Masters World Championship is underway, watch top e-sports talent in action
- Star Wars: The Old Republic update 1.2 trailer shows new race options and Legacy powers
- Mass Effect 3 face import bug fix incoming, Bioware suggest alternative solution
- Planetside 2 videos show 30 minutes of war
- Maxis on SimCity: “we want to make the most responsive, most playful SimCity ever.”
- PC Gamer US May issue: SimCity revealed!
- Kickstarter has raised an incredible amount of money for games: numbers inside
- 2011 was PC gaming's biggest ever year, says The PC Gaming Alliance
- Double Fine’s Stacking makes Steam debut at 33% off
- March 6
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- Celebrate Heroes of Newerth's 100th hero by trying him out for free! [Giveaway]
- Thirty Flights of Loving tells a better story in 13 minutes than most games do in 13 hours
- Dungeonland hands-on preview
- Medal of Honor: Warfighter debut trailer confirms October release date
- X3: Albion Prelude review
- Rift Executive Producer Scott Hartsman explains how dynamic content drives the world of Telara
- EA's latest studio will focus on a "new generation" of Frostbite 2 games
- City of Heroes Dev Diary: Designing Darkness Control
- Far Cry 3 will incorporate elements of the indie scene and social games
- Tribes: Ascend open beta update adds new map, badges and sonic punches
- World of Warplanes trailer features first in-game footage, dogfights aplenty
- XCOM: Enemy Unknown trailer shows combat and base building
- Game of Thrones trailer and screenshots makes camp in Castlewood
- Counter-Strike: Global Offensive to arrive this summer, cross platform play dropped
- Assassin's Creed 3 co-op mode spotted in product listing
- Is Mass Effect 3 everything we wanted? Well, we can check
- Mass Effect 3 War Assets and Readiness: how multiplayer affects your ending
- Roccat puts PC game controls on your phone
- Mass Effect 3 review
- How one Flash game is funding the "world's youngest dev's" education
- Blizzard's Morhaime, StarCraft caster Day9, Evil Geniuses CEO, and MLG chief talk eSports future
- March 5
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- Paradox Interactive announce The Showdown Effect, Dungeonland and RED Frontier at GDC
- Unity of Command review
- Notch nets himself a BAFTA. PC Gamer offers congratulations
- Champion Roundtable: Fiora, the Grand Duelist
- Hitman: Absolution crowd tech teased with screenshot. Agoraphobics need not apply
- GDC 2012 has just kicked off. We're live on the show floor
- PC Gamer US Podcast #307: A Quest Called Tribes
- Assassin's Creed 3 gets debut trailer, new engine, release date
- StarCraft Master will teach you multiplayer micro skills
- Jet Set Radio HD trailer takes on Tokyo
- Watch The Old Republic's Guild Summit live all day
- Star Wars: The Old Republic 1.2 "Legacy" patch arriving in April, friend trials go live tomorrow
- Radeon HD7800 pre-orders live. Is it the upgrade you've been waiting for?
- Project CARS screenshots corner beautifully
- Valve rumoured to be working on "Steam Box" mini-PC
- Mass Effect 3 launch trailer teases grand finale
- March 4
- March 3
- March 2
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- The week in eSports
- Max Payne 3 hands-on preview
- Get your clicking finger primed with our Diablo III Beta Code GIVEAWAY! [Update]
- Microsoft Flight preview
- Minecraft video shows off 1.2 features using Rube Goldberg machine
- Worried about your Game pre-order? EA suggest some alternatives
- Eve Online to get Japanese release later this year, Fanfest kicks off in 3 weeks
- DC Universe Online Battle For Earth DLC release date set for March 13
- MechWarrior Tactics screenshots show strategic robo-bombardment and mech jetpacks
- Windows 8 beta first impressions: brave but flawed
- Mass Effect 3's reputation system explained
- Star Wars: The Old Republic white lightsaber crystals hitting shops soon
- Sins of a Solar Empire: Rebellion beta open to pre-order players
- March 1
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- We're attending The Old Republic's Guild Summit, what do you want to tell the devs?
- Line of Defense trailer—exclusive first look
- All Zombies Must Die! coming to Steam on March 12
- Assassin's Creed 3 is official, will be set in the American Revolution
- Gamigo services affected by "illegal intrusion"
- A Game of Thrones MMO announced, from the creators of Battlestar Galactica Online
- Crapshoot Special: For The Love Of Crap
- Minecraft 1.2 is out, build twice as high, tame ocelots, explore jungles and craft Iron Golems
- Bioshock Infinite release date set for October
- Kingdoms of Amalur DLC to add new continent more quests and personal keep
- Windows 8 beta is out now
- Risen 2 screenshots show sunny scenes, golems and piracy
- Assassin's Creed 3 poster teases American Revolution setting
- The Banner Saga trailer and screenshots show turn-based combat and conversation
- Notes and highlights from the MLG Winter Arena StarCraft 2 tournament
