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- January 31
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- Invisigun Heroes could be the next Towerfall Ascension
- The Witness is selling very well, despite rampant piracy
- Infamous Quests does King's Quest with The Order of the Thorne
- Cliff Bleszinski: FPS campaigns often cost "75% of the budget"
- Play Fallout 4 as Snake, with Quiet as your companion
- The PC Gamer January digest: the best news, reviews and features of the month
- How it feels to use a stationary bike to fly a VR pegasus
- Umbrella Corps is a surprisingly fast and fun shooter
- January 30
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- Command zombies in Red Dead Redemption designer's new FPS
- CS:GO map lets you relive the controversial Oregon standoff
- DarkMaus is Dark Souls starring a mouse
- Meta horror Imscared is now a full game
- Benchmarked: Rise of the Tomb Raider
- Shoot living bullets with more bullets in Enter the Gungeon
- Omnibus pits an unstoppable bus against very brittle buildings
- We started a riot and killed a Greek god in Okhlos
- The week's highs and lows in PC gaming
- January 29
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- Valve bans CS:GO community servers providing 'falsified' items
- This is why Star Wars Battlefront can't have Force Awakens content
- Space Pirate Trainer nails the purity of an arcade FPS in VR
- The Rainbow Six Pro League kicks off in March
- Loot Gaming is a new Loot Crate for gamers
- Bombshell review
- Master Heroes of the Storm's Dragon Shire map
- Hearthstone’s first ‘Sealed Draft’ tournament looks like a lot of fun
- The best pro gaming to watch this weekend
- Former StarCraft 2 world champ questioned by match-fixing investigators
- From Resi 6 to Cookie Clicker: our guilty gaming pleasures
- Virtual punching, real music in the new game from Audiosurf's creator
- Nvidia's 361.75 drivers out now, with support for Thunderbolt 3 external graphics
- Get a full year of print PCG for $16.72, today only
- Danish 'dodgeball adventure' Stikbold coming spring
- American Truck Simulator review
- New Mass Effect, Battlefield, Titanfall by April 2017
- Rise of the Tomb Raider Optimization Guide
- Volition offers up cancelled PSP Saints Row game for free
- GTA Online is getting a new parachute-based Drop Zone mode
- Blade and Soul review
- Arcen lays off nearly all staff despite successful Starward Rogue launch
- Rainbow Six Siege players get 50 percent more renown this weekend
- January 28
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- Rise of the Tomb Raider video: max settings at 60 fps
- The next Warhammer: Vermintide DLC is called Schluesselschloss
- 'FPS construction kit' Gunscape will release in March
- What to expect from 12 games coming to the HTC Vive this year
- Sunless Sea and Fractured Space are free on Steam this weekend
- The Winter Battle Pass is Valve's best Dota 2 event yet
- AMD and PC Gamer join forces again!
- Path of Exile's new Ascendancy class is the Berserker
- The Witness gallery: sights from the mysterious island
- The Division Season Pass includes three expansions and some freebies
- First look at a mysterious new Pillars of Eternity location
- Heroes of the Dorm 2016 registrations are now open
- Ashes of the Singularity beta is now live
- GOG gets curated Early Access equivalent
- New Conan project is... a survival game?
- 12 Awesome New Vive Demos We Played
- XCOM 2: Get DLC free with Steam keys from the GJ Store
- Chrome extension creates custom Twitch highlights
- Tides of Numenera is a raw, promising take on Monte Cook's universe
- Insomniac tells a submarine fairy tale in Song of the Deep
- Testers wanted for Fallout NV multiplayer mod
- Unsettling Dark Souls 3 screens emerge
- Competitive TF2 confirmed, beta group now open
- Build It: Caged Power
- January 27
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- Samorost 3 system requirements revealed
- Rise of the Tomb Raider trailer showcases PC graphics technology
- NCsoft announces Master X Master, a tag-team "action MOBA"
- Scouting out Asian League of Legends
- The secret that makes Final Fantasy VI PC perfect for modding
- Hard Reset Redux is on the way
- Battlefleet Gothic: Armada gets a "narrative trailer" and preorder bonuses
- NZXT unveils its first mini-ITX case, The Manta
- The comforting fun of brainless games
- First Galactic Civilizations 3 expansion releases in February
- EA enters events space with EA Play
- MMO-ish WH40K: Eternal Crusade hits Early Access
- Life is Strange sparks $10k photography competition
- Rise of the Tomb Raider review
- Star Wars Battlefront hit by nerf blaster
- Guild Wars 2 update brings gliding to central Tyria
- Dying Light: The Following 'nightmare mode' detailed
- The PC Gamer Show: Far Cry Primal, Steam controller music
- John Romero is still working on a new shooter
- January 26
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- Heroes of the Storm patch brings Li-Ming into the fight
- PC digital sales outpace mobile, reaching $6.1 billion in 2015
- Torment: Tides of Numenera is now in Early Access
- You showed us your Dragon's Dogma pawns and Arisen
- How to defend on CS:GO’s Cobblestone map
- EA unveils Star Wars Battlefront freebies and Season Pass info
- The PC Gamer Show: Far Cry Primal, Steam controller music
- Homefront: The Revolution "Resistance Mode" trailer released
- Lenovo patches security flaw in software with '12345678' as a password
- Show Us Your Rig: John Smedley
- The Hero's Song Kickstarter plug has been pulled
- Quantum Break rated for PC in Brazil
- Far Cry Primal video preview
- Far Cry Primal gameplay: attack of the ancients
- Dangerous Golf is golf via Burnout and NBA Jam
- How record label Ghost Ramp is embracing games
- First footage of Sunless Sea Zubmariner DLC surfaces
- Planet Coaster video details building and sharing
- Motorbikes and teamwork in Homefront's Resistance mode
- Res Evil shooter Umbrella Corps releasing May
- TMNT: Mutants in Manhattan officially revealed
- NZXT CAM 3.0 Review
- January 25
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- Fallout 4 mod adds Traits and new Perks
- Esports market predicted to grow to $463 million in 2016
- Windows 10: Beware the Insider Preview Builds
- The first Warcraft television ad is up on YouTube
- We made the Steam controller sing The Star Spangled Banner
- Five Nights at Freddy's World has been removed from Steam
- Rocket League's second season will kick off in February
- Build of the week: The Stagecoach
- Street Fighter 5's story will be free DLC
- Mod turns Jedi Academy into a fighting game
- Morrowind retold via the medium of Facebook
- The Witness review
- Her Story 2 is on the way
- Mighty No. 9 delayed once more
- There is an indie ARG on the loose
- Today only: get a year of PC Gamer for $16.72
- Payday owner Starbreeze to open VR arcade
- Samsung 950 Pro 512GB Review
- Battleborn characters Ghalt and Deande showcased in new videos
- January 24
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- January 22
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- ClusterTruck made me feel like an incredibly clumsy Neo
- Show us your Dragon's Dogma pawn and Arisen
- Surreal adventure Between Me and the Night enters full release
- The best pro gaming to watch this weekend
- New Heroes of the Storm video reveals characters, skins, and mounts
- PC Gamer - Logitech G Prize Pack Giveaway
- Five Nights at Freddy's creator apologizes for ugly FNAF World launch
- Metal Gear Online is both good fun and extremely annoying
- Overkill's Walking Dead FPS is delayed into 2017
- David Gaider, former lead writer of Dragon Age, leaves BioWare
- Tom Clancy's The Division: impressions from the PC build
- Grab a PC Gamer Elite: Dangerous ship skin
- The Westport Independent review
- Elite developer Frontier focusing on SteamVR over Oculus
- Yandere Simulator banned from Twitch
- Elijah Wood's production company collaborating with Ubisoft on 'VR content'
- Pony Island review
- Rig of the Month: Shinai
- You decide: is this bottle of Jonathan Blow's pee real?
- January 21
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- Necropolis gets four-player co-op and a March launch date
- Everything You Need to Know About Rise of the Tomb Raider on PC
- Undertale update seems to include some sort of secret new content
- Five Nights At Freddy's World has released early
- Does Hearthstone’s Druid combo need to be nerfed?
- Overwatch closed beta won't return until February
- Gillian Anderson has a laugh in new Star Citizen video
- Dragon's Dogma: Dark Arisen 4K gallery
- The Thieves Guild is coming to The Elder Scrolls Online
- EA abandons Unravel trademark application after USPTO rejects it
- Win a Fallout 4 Steam key and Collector's Box prizes
- Two new heroes announced for Heroes of the Storm
- Homeworld: Deserts of Kharak review
- Torment: Tides of Numenera beta begins today
- New Directions in Storage
- Los Santos is being rebuilt in Minecraft
- Undertale's Steam review section is pretty funny
- Becoming obsessed with safety in INFRA
- January 20
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- Anno 2205 update 1.3 brings a new Sector and lots of bug fixes
- The Banner Saga soundtrack is getting a vinyl release
- The Sectopod and the Gatekeeper join the XCOM 2 cast
- Fractal Design's Define Nano S case is roomy for mini-ITX
- Mortal Kombat XL, Kombat Pack 2 are not coming to PC
- Opening week madness in the League of Legends Championship Series
- Paragon gameplay video reveals four new heroes in a mid-lane push
- Death, destruction, and donuts in the sandbox of Garbage Day
- Unravel gameplay trailer demonstrates puzzle-solving with yarn
- Two new Far Cry videos show Primal's human side
- Having accidental adventures in 80 days
- Shelter 2 expandalone Paws announced
- Obsidian's Fenstermaker: "I'm always up for working on a Fallout"
- Life is Strange director's commentary arrives
- Dark Souls is getting a comic book series
- Darkest Dungeon review
- Rainbow Six: Siege 'Operation Black Ice' operators have apparently leaked
- The PC Gamer Show: ESPN, Twitch, and Hex: Shards of Fate
- Heavy metal platformer Slain! has been delayed
- January 19
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- Danganronpa sequel will eventually hit Steam, as will other Spike Chunsoft games
- Nine things I wish I'd known before starting Dragon's Dogma
- The Witness preorders go live with a $40 price tag
- The PC Gamer Show: ESPN, Twitch, and Hex: Shards of Fate
- Nine of the most important pieces of PC gaming technology
- The Humble Firaxis Bundle boasts XCOM, Civilization, and more
- Discover Counter-Strike: Global Offensive’s climbing scene
- Unofficial Halo Online mod adds six new maps from Halo 3
- John Smedley's new game Hero's Song is now on Kickstarter
- Samsung kicks off HBM2 production for use in next-gen graphics cards
- The Division has a live-action story trailer
- You can now bet on Cobalt bots
- What the hell is Danganronpa?
- Free Black Desert character creator released
- Cities: Skylines Snowfall expansion announced
- Metal Gear Online leaves beta, now live
- Minecraft: Education Edition announced
- Martial arts MMO Blade & Soul launches today
- How Processors Work
- January 18
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- Consortium: The Tower is now on Kickstarter
- Darkest Dungeon launches this week, so here's a new trailer
- Microsoft says next-gen CPUs will not be supported on Windows 7
- The winner of this Far Cry Primal contest has to sleep in a cave
- New Knuckle Sandwich trailer has a cyclops running a puppy store
- Homeworld: Deserts of Kharak gameplay showcased in new video
- Heroes of the Storm 2016 Spring Championship kicks off in April
- CS:GO Pro League returns with $1.5m prize pool
- Resident Evil 0 HD Remaster Review
- Door Kickers 2 announced, out next winter
- The 50 most important PC games of all time
- The Ship: Remasted sails February 15
- Make your own magic in wizard sim CodeSpell
- American Truck Simulator will have Nevada at launch
- Danganronpa: Trigger Happy Havoc releasing February
- The original Metal Gear Solid is getting an unofficial Unreal Engine 4 remake
- The Division PC graphics options have leaked, and they're plentiful
- January 17
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- January 15
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- John Romero has just released a new Doom WAD
- The fuse of war is lit in new Homeworld: Deserts of Kharak trailer
- The Humble Store Winter Sale is now underway
- Riot crafts an opportunity to support esports
- Activision sued by family of Black Ops 2 Angolan rebel chief
- A new Fallout 4 beta patch is now live on Steam
- Valve releases SDK for Steam Link
- The best pro gaming to watch this weekend
- Our most intense ragequit moments
- Oxenfree review
- Omikron: The Nomad Soul free as Bowie tribute
- Aviary Attorney review
- Anyone can enter the Blood Bowl 2 World Cup
- Tom Clancy's The Division: gameplay impressions
- Massive Half-Life 2 add-on Prospekt releases February
- The Westport Independent cleared to release January 21
- Undertale turns 3D
- PS1-alike OmniBus careering onto Steam in Spring
- Planet is a meditative browser game about building worlds
- Mojang's 2D brawler Cobalt gets a firm release date
- Logitech teams up with pro gamers to build tournament-grade equipment
- That Dragon, Cancer review
- January 14
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- Dying Light: The Following trailer shows off buggy customisation
- Save up to 75% on RPGs from Paradox
- ESPN has decided to become the ESPN of esports
- Winning Putt is a golf MMO in open beta now
- Fad check: RGB LEDs in everything (including your games)
- Norwegian high school will include esports in its sports curriculum
- The Witness voice cast includes Ellie from The Last Of Us and Futurama's Hermes
- Warhammer 40,000: Eternal Crusade is coming to Early Access
- Six under the radar Hearthstone players to watch in 2016
- Hitman reboot switches to fully-episodic release schedule
- Dawn of War's modders have turned it into the ultimate Warhammer 40K game
- Dota 2 and the value of selfishness
- Lovely Planet sequel gets a name and teaser
- Riot releases Warsongs, a free League of Legends album
- Razer is selling all its peripherals for 50 percent off for 24 hours
- Stasis prequel chapter is being built "from the ground up"
- Space Barnacles discovered in Elite: Dangerous
- Titan disbands following funding collapse
- Dragon's Dogma: Dark Arisen review
- Unique operative coming to Ghost in the Shell: First Assault Online today
- Going deeper into XCOM 2: resistance isn't futile
- Twitch Plays made a genre of its own
- PC Gamer UK February issue: Total War: Warhammer
- Modders enshrine Motörhead's Lemmy in GTA 5
- Finnish devs attempt extreme game jam
- Star Wars: Battlefront Optimization Guide
- Titanfall studio is working on a third-person adventure game
- Predicting the biggest PC gaming stories of 2016
- Stunning Fallout 4 settlement recreates Bioshock Infinite's Columbia
- Five Nights at Freddy's World is releasing next month
- January 13
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- Twitter Gaming is now a thing
- Duke Nukem voice actor turns down Republican frontrunner's job offer
- Creative's promising new PC soundbar has a sound card built in
- The Metal Gear Online beta has been temporarily suspended
- Bossa Studios is holding a Worlds Adrift creative writing contest
- Game Ready: What you’ll need to prepare for the VR Revolution
- OCZ's RevoDrive 400 PCIe SSD reads up to 2.4 GB/sec
- Unlock “even dumber stuff" in Goat Simulator's new Payday 2 mode
- Bizarre crafting-adventure Crashlands will come out next week
- DICE Awards nominees lead by The Witcher 3 (almost)
- Seasons mod brings life to Fallout 4
- Croft Manor in Tomb Raider
- In Homeworld: Deserts of Kharak there’s still space in the desert
- Explore the apocalypse by train in The Final Station
- Morrowind multiplayer makes progress
- Meet League of Legends' new champion, Jhin
- Tharsis review
- PC sales suffer record fall
- Payday 2 is getting a Goat Simulator game mode
- Heroes of the Storm's newest hero is a shape-shifting Worgen
- Rainbow Six Siege patch 1.3 arriving tomorrow
- The PC Gamer Show: Firaxis joins us for an XCOM 2 demo
- Desert Bus 2.0 is coming to Oculus Rift
- January 12
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- Psychonauts 2 Fig campaign closes having raised more than $3.8 million
- What's under the blanket? A PC Gamer investigation
- Diablo 3 2.4.0 patch is now live in the Americas
- Tested: Oculus Rift vs HTC Vive Pre
- Leslie Benzies, one of the driving forces behind GTA, has left Rockstar
- The PC Gamer Show: Firaxis joins us for an XCOM 2 demo
- Here's the first 16 minutes of Dying Light: The Following
- Don’t Starve: Shipwrecked is a breath of fresh… Nope, that’s a hurricane
- To the Moon sequel Finding Paradise officially revealed
- EA Access arrives on PC as Origin Access
- Here's a mouse that looks like Iron Man's shrunken head
- How to attack on CS:GO’s Overpass map
- Dying Light mod tools extended to include PvP
- Beautiful concept art from PC games
- Bus Simulator 16 delayed
- Metal Gear Online beta arrives late today
- Homefront: The Revolution May release confirmed
- Epic mistakenly blocks man with name on US watchlist
- Theme park announces "fully VR" ride
- That Dragon, Cancer out now
- Here are three new stills from the Assassin's Creed film
- Watch the Warcraft movie trailer dubbed with Warcraft 2 sound effects
- Writers Guild of America announces game writing award nominations
- January 11
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- Rainbow Six Siege looks just as fun with Lego
- The Steam Winter Sale was a big success, even without flash sales
- The Division's new site will tell you if someone peed on your money
- Build of the week: Ragnar's Revenge
- Strapping a laptop to your back doesn't solve VR's cable problem (yet)
- Alienware Steam Machine Review
- Evodesk standing desk review
- Ubisoft confirms that For Honor will have a full single-player campaign
- AMD's R9 Nano graphics card gets a price cut
- The theme song from Portal gets the full choir treatment
- 13 Awesome Cosplay Costumes From Your Favorite Video Games
- The Witcher 3 patch 1.12 out now
- Parsing the meta of Battlefield 4
- Second Luckey AMA talks exclusivity, quality and experimental super-rigs
- HTC Vive pre-orders begin February 29
- JRPG Stranger of Sword City rated for PC
- Awesome Games Done Quick 2016 raises $1.2m
- CD Projekt slays Witcher 3 Enhanced Edition rumour
- How VR Is Resurrecting 3D Audio
- Idle Master accumulates Steam Trading Cards while you sleep
- GTA 5 mod brings Watch Dogs hacking tools to Los Santos
- January 10
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- Asus showed off external graphics, customizable keyboard and mouse at CES
- Smite has its new world champion
- Firewatch will take around six hours to complete, dev explains
- The biggest changes in XCOM 2
- Get ready for a dramatic Smite World Championship final
- Just Cause 3 Jenga looks like messy, destructive fun
- Give Fallout 4 a Borderlands-style look
- Diablo 3 patch 2.4.0 detailed again, ahead of next week's release
- January 9
- January 8
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- Australian esports org drops CS:GO team over match-fixing allegations
- Twitch finishes Punch Club in less than two days
- Plextor adds a new high performance M.2 PCIe SSD to its arsenal
- Don't Starve: Shipwrecked gets a roadmap for future content
- Homeworld: Deserts of Kharak trailer reveals the "Primary Anomaly"
- 2016 Game Developers Choice Awards nominees announced
- Corsair shows off Carbide 400 and Spec-Alpha cases at CES
- The best pro gaming to watch this weekend
- Ubisoft demos Far Cry Primal in two-hour community stream
- Could piracy be scuppered within two years?
- 500 Elite players journey to the end of the universe
- Get ready for Smite World Championship day two
- Battlefield Hardline Getaway DLC arrives January 12
- New evidence for Everybody's Gone to the Rapture on Steam
- Confirmed: Marc Laidlaw has left Valve
- The city of London in Assassin's Creed Syndicate
- MSI's Mac Pro lookalike packs in two GTX 980s
- This week in the GJ Store: Total War, Ethan Carter, Red Faction and more
- I Listened to Sennheiser's $55,000 Headphones
- January 7
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- Watch this incredible StepMania player hit 30 notes per second
- Oculus Rift shipping date pushed back to June for new pre-orders
- Ubisoft scrawls Far Cry Primal system requirements on cave wall
- Punch Club will launch early—but only if Twitch can beat it
- SteelSeries announces Rival 700 mouse with OLED display
- ViewSonic shows off a range of FreeSync and G-Sync monitors
- We talked to HTC and Valve about what's new, what's ahead for Vive
- Assassin's Creed Chronicles: India shows off its murder-moves
- Outlast 2 is coming this fall, but won't return to Mount Massive
- ASRock to release motherboards designed to overclock locked Skylakes
- Rainbow Six Siege patch 1.2 out today
- Old School Runescape gets new continent
- Dragon's Dogma devs on bringing the 2012 RPG to PC
- Conclave announced for Crusader Kings 2
- Smite season 3: Japanese gods herald huge changes
- Smite mount arrives in Paladins as a champion
- 10 things we've learned from the full build of XCOM 2
- "I handled the messaging poorly"—Luckey
- ADR1FT launches March 28 on VR and Steam
- At $600, the Rift is Expensive, and Not
- Polk Audio Striker Pro Review
- Kingston aims to beat its own HyperX Cloud headset with the Revolver
- Smite World Championship 2016: what you need to know
- Here's Creative Labs's $5,000 Speaker System
- The Oculus Rift price hurts now, but ultimately won't matter
- Watch an amazing combined no-gold pacifist Spelunky run
- January 6
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- Check out In Win's awesome infinity mirror PC case
- Psychonauts 2 is now funded
- Shenmue 3 dev explains why Kickstarter rewards won't go to PayPal backers
- We played a game that pits a suicidal baby against a protective parent
- Oculus Rift is "obscenely cheap" for high-end VR, co-founder says
- Nvidia’s Drive PX 2: The Shape of Things to Come
- A brief history of artificial intelligence beating humans
- Mafia 3 preorder link reveals April release date
- The new League of Legends champion teaser is super trippy
- Her Story, Undertale lead 2016 IGF Award nominations
- New narratives for League of Legends in 2016
- Far Cry Primal won't support co-op play, and this is why
- Cooler Master unveils new modular case and CPU cooling tech
- Digital Storm launches HydroLux Pro liquid cooling system
- Eve: Valkyrie alpha begins January 18
- Oculus Rift will cost $599, ETA March
- Square Enix shelves Shinra Technologies
- Visionary births $30,000 PC
- Thomas the Tank Engine rains fire upon Fallout 4
- The Razer Core looks like the graphics card enclosure we've been waiting for
- Razer aims to own the Ultrabook market with i7-powered, $999 Blade Stealth
- HTC Vive Pre nails the big picture—now it's time to sweat the details
- The PC Gamer Show: games of 2016, VR, and more
- January 5
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- Valve makes CS:GO match-fixing bans permanent
- Six alternative settings we'd love to see in RPGs
- AMD’s Polaris Shoots for the Stars
- Rise of the Tomb Raider system requirements revealed
- Blizzard releases crazily detailed Overwatch art and cosplay guide
- See what happens in Just Cause 3 when you don't press any buttons
- Windows 10 has been installed in more than 200 million systems
- The PC Gamer Show: games of 2016, VR, and more
- Show Us Your Rig: Stardew Valley's Eric Barone
- Torment: Tides of Numenera beta kicks off later this month
- How to defend on CS:GO’s Overpass map
- Origin PC's refreshed Chronos fits a Titan X in a tiny chassis
- Modder goes all-out for Dying Light map Harran The Ride
- New Vive Pre VR headset features front-mounted camera
- Dev Kit backers to receive free Oculus Rift
- Finally playing Thirty Flights of Loving
- The White March Part 2 releases Feb 16
- Watch 20,000 cars drive a single Trackmania course
- Macho Man mod makes deathclaws scarier
- Steam games market worth $3.5 billion in 2015
- How To: Troubleshoot Your Home Network
- This is what an 80-piece choir singing the Skyrim theme looks like
- We're at CES 2016! Here's what to expect
- January 4
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- PayPal backers frozen out over Shenmue 3 Kickstarter rewards
- Build of the week: Project RX-0
- Garry's Mod breaks ten million copies sold
- Rumor: No new Assassin's Creed in 2016
- Fallout 3 speedrunner breaks the 15-minute world record
- Acer announces ranges of USB Type-C and ultra-thin IPS monitors
- ReCore is coming to the PC
- Rainbow Six Siege Black Ice DLC delayed
- Oculus Rift pre-orders begin January 6
- Steam surpasses 12 million concurrent users
- AMD unveils 14nm Polaris GPU architecture
- Extreme overclocking World Tour improved for 2016
- The PC games to watch at Awesome Games Done Quick 2016
- Awesome Games Done Quick returns for 2016
- Activision gobbles up MLG in $46 million takeover
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