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June 30
- Fight Knight blends dungeon-crawler exploration with first-person fisticuffs
- The best deals in Steam sale history
- New report says Mass Effect: Andromeda isn't getting any single-player DLC
- This week's highs and lows in PC gaming
- This mod for Diablo 2 steals the best ideas from Path of Exile and makes it feel new again
- Modder adds a home base for the hardest working man in Skyrim: the courier
- Heroes of the Storm's new Support hero is the Zerg-infested Admiral Stukov
- H1Z1 update adds new nighttime skirmish and team scoring
- LawBreakers open beta is now underway
- Oculus Rift creator Palmer Luckey kicks in $2000 to CrossVR Patreon (Updated)
- Arkane founder Raphael Colantonio on why he's leaving: 'I feel like I've never sat down'
- Smaller ISPs speak out in favor of net neutrality rules, and you can too
- Lenovo's Y710 Cube with GeForce GTX 1060 6GB drops to $899
- Fallout 4 modders are bringing skills back to the wasteland
- Thermaltake launches a $50 mouse with 16 programmable buttons
- Nvidia’s latest 384.76 GPU drivers are causing Watch Dogs 2 to crash
- PC Gamer UK Podcast 48: Our Top 100 picks
- Newegg's Independence Day sale begins today
- Get Mortal Kombat XL for 81 percent off right now
- The best and worst dressed characters in PC gaming
- GTA 5 Chiliad Mystery hunters discover alien life
- Watch Dogs 2 update adds four player co-op next week
- Shenmue 3 to share 'movie clips' and 'new announcements' at Gamescom
- Paradox acquires Age of Wonders developer
- Rain World expansion will usher in difficulty options and multiplayer
- StarCraft: Remastered will release this August for $15
- StarCraft: Remastered is a love letter to fans that's faithful right down to the bugs
June 29
- The next Hearthstone expansion will be announced next week
- BioWare kiboshes Mass Effect: Andromeda DLC cancellation rumor (Updated)
- Extinction aims to combine the scale of Shadow of the Colossus with the skill of a fighting game
- World of Warcraft 7.3 update takes the fight to the Legion homeworld of Argus
- Valve received more than 205,000 refund requests yesterday (Updated)
- How to execute the perfect attack in Steel Division
- Score a $150 Best Buy gift card with Oculus Rift and Touch bundle
- The best Elder Scrolls III: Morrowind mods
- Infinite Warfare's new Proteus rifle accidentally included an aimbot
- Interchangeable parts let you customize MSI’s latest mice for either hand
- Fan-made Halo game Installation 01 gets the official thumbs-up from 343 Industries
- Nvidia releases GPU drivers optimized for LawBreakers open beta
- LG Evil's Jake weighs in on SR calculation in Overwatch
- 'We don't feel anything is off the table' says Sega on growing its PC catalogue
- Star Wars Battlefront 2 outlines how its crates and crafting systems work
- Nex Machina review
- This Skyrim mod brings Bloodborne to Tamriel
- Warframe 'Chains of Harrow' update adds multi-powered priest, horror film-like quest
- Swords of Ditto gets an extended gameplay video
June 28
- The 5 biggest unanswered questions about Destiny 2
- Steam review bombing is working, and Chinese players are a powerful new voice
- The PC Gamer Show: Steam Summer Sale and a special guest from Songbringer
- Playerunknown's Battlegrounds studio wants to add cross-play between PC and Xbox One
- The Mage's Tale is one of VR's biggest games yet
- G2A will soon require key sellers to provide their name and address to buyers (Updated)
- For Honor ranked tournament public testing begins tomorrow
- 329,970 copies of Rust have been refunded on Steam, totaling $4.3 million
- Walden, the Henry David Thoreau survival game, comes out on July 4
- Score a Samsung 850 Evo 1TB SSD for $280
- Silverstone extends its 80 Plus Titanium power supply line to 1,500W
- Toshiba's QLC flash memory paves path toward cheaper high capacity SSDs
- Destiny 2 named Best PC Game in Game Critics Awards: Best of E3 2017 voting
- Monster Hunter: World delayed release on PC is 'just a resources and manpower issue'
- EVE Online developer gets sent a bag of dicks
- Your desk turns into touch screen with a lightbulb replacement
- Hearthstone's infuriating Rogue Quest is getting nerfed
- Diablo 3's Necromancer brings back the most satisfying ability in the series
- Rocket League to add Rick and Morty next week
- The Intel 600p M.2 SSD is down to $175 this week
- Caveblazers review
- Introducing Kayn, League of Legends' newest champion
- 6 things Monster Hunter: World needs to be a success on PC
- Every rat in A Plague Tale: Innocence will behave like 'a filthy little individual creature'
- Twitch Affiliate scheme lets users offer subscriptions to viewers
- New Splinter Cell is on the cards but players 'will have to wait for that'
- BioWare's Dragon Age team is currently 'hiring a lot of people', says creative director
- These videos of Flight Simulator X roleplays gone wrong are important viewing
- Titanfall 2 War Games update is live, and here are the patch notes
June 27
- John Romero's original Doom 2 floppy disks sell for more than $3000 (Updated)
- Asus ROG Zephyrus review
- The pros and cons of ‘silent’ mechanical keyboard switches
- The Overwatch League is compiling a 'scouting report' of the world's best players
- This algorithm picks out Steam's best hidden gems
- Elder Scrolls fans are (politely) upset about four-legged dragons in Legends
- Raphael Colantonio, creative director of Dishonored and Prey, is leaving Arkane
- Escape From Tarkov closed beta testing begins next month
- PUBG has banned 25,000 cheaters in the past 3 months
- This $8,000 contraption turns planking into a VR game
- Playdead co-founder unveils new sci-fi adventure called Somerville
- New PUBG patch lets you move while looting, adds destructible cabins
- Get a complete CyberPower gaming PC with an AMD Radeon RX 580 for $650
- Cooler Master launches a pair of mechanical keyboards with PBT keycaps
- In the desert at night, American Truck Simulator becomes one of the most atmospheric games ever
- Super CloudBuilt release date confirmed
- Dota 2's erratic approach to storytelling is entering a new era
- This week in Killing Floor 2, enemies shrink when you shoot them
- Get Even review
- The Division update 1.7 will add Global Events, Classified Gear, Commendations
- Watch Elite Dangerous players locate and investigate a Thargoid machine
- Sniper Ghost Warrior 3 was 'just too ambitious', says CI Games
- Observer's 'hidden horror' sees players invading the minds of NPCs
- The Humble Store has heaps of racing games on sale right now
- GOG is giving away Double Dragon Trilogy with every purchase this week
- Final Fantasy 14: Stormblood review
- Gorn is a ridiculously violent VR brawler by the Broforce studio
June 26
- Pathfinder: Kingmaker has been funded on Kickstarter
- BioWare boss says Anthem is 'science fantasy' like Star Wars or the Marvel Universe
- Agents of Mayhem trailer showcases the Bombshells
- Steamworld Dig 2 will come to the PC "within a few days" of the Switch
- Early benchmarks show Vega Frontier Edition beating Titan Xp
- Here's how PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds will be changing loot drops
- Star Citizen studio responds to rumors of financial crisis
- Hyper-Threading bug could cause Skylake and Kaby Lake PCs to act wonky
- How long does it take games to be cheap on Steam?
- I performed brain surgery on my CPU to lower its temperature 15 degrees
- Get a Lenovo 15.6-inch gaming laptop with GTX 1050 Ti for $750
- Wolfenstein 2 and Shadow of War lead Games Critics Awards Best of E3 nominations
- Sapphire is first to market with graphics cards specific for mining
- HEVN free two-hour demo teases intriguing, contemplative sci-fi exploration
- Diablo 3's Necromancer is faster, more aggressive, has full suite of skills and runes
- Get Dead Cells for 31 percent off today
- Dataminers uncover new information on GTA 5's Mount Chiliad UFO mystery
- Dark Souls has a Fidget Spinner mod, Doom Souls out now [Updated]
- We Happy Few schedules 'bigger and better' Joy update for August
- Overwatch's PTR suggests that patch 1.13 may usher in Doomfist
- Quake Champions will run through Steam, id Software confirms
- Elex gameplay video is 12 minutes of jetpack-fuelled exploration
June 25
- Dragon Ball FighterZ adds Future Trunks to its roster
- Prey speedrunner beats the game in 7 minutes
- Model train set game Tracks is getting an expanded commercial release
- Rhythm platformer 140 adds new level in free update
- What are latency and ping and what do they mean for gaming?
June 24
- Super Mario 64 mod gives you the power of Super Mario Odyssey's cap possession
- Newly free-to-play Battleborn gets new PVP mode
- The Temple of Elemental Evil is the most D&D game ever made
- Secret World Legends is available to play now
- Scanner Sombre VR mode now available in beta
- Disputed report claims 32TB of Windows 10 builds, including source code, have leaked online
June 23
- This week's highs and lows in PC gaming
- GTA modding tool OpenIV receives an update, signaling development will continue
- We're giving away 500 codes for Malthael in Heroes of the Storm
- Watch D.Va voice actor Charlet Chung take a whirlwind tour of Blizzard HQ
- PES 2018 is finally a football sim worthy of the PC
- Forza Motorsport 7 studio Turn 10 is 'learning how to become PC developers'
- Wonderful point-and-click adventure Machinarium has been rebuilt with hi-res support and more
- MSI employee suggests Radeon RX Vega is a power hog
- Rockstar is talking with OpenIV developer, issues new statement on mods
- PC digital revenues declined 30 percent in May compared to 2016, but there's no need to worry
- Score a Dell HDR monitor or SSD upgrade kit at a discount
- Call of Duty: Modern Warfare Remastered standalone release confirmed (Updated)
- Mozilla is offering $2 million for ideas on how to decentralize the Internet
- LG unveils a 34-inch ultrawide IPS 144Hz monitor with G-Sync for $1,000
- Beyond Good & Evil 2 is making a lot of promises we've heard before
- Assassin's Creed: Origins will fix the series' map icon problem, says creative director
- The best sidequests in PC gaming
- Win a Steam Wallet worth $200
- Get hardware for cheap in the Newegg clearance sale
- The Humble Software Bundle has all the tools you need
- Join the PC Gamer Club today and get a copy of One Finger Death Punch
- Farming Simulator 17 to get sugarcane farms and new tractors in 'Platinum Expansion'
- Thimbleweed Park gets a hint system and player character dialogues
- OpenIV closure sees 'single-player modders and machinima creators losing out the most' [Updated]
- The ongoing testing of Intel's X299 and i9-7900X
- Titanfall 2's next update introduces another map from the first game
June 22
- This survival game has no zombies or monsters, and also you're Henry David Thoreau
- Gigantic, the free-to-play hero shooter, will officially launch next month
- Paradox Interactive rolls back its price increases, will give refunds to purchasers
- Major Arma 3 update brings new island and Argo, a standalone 5v5 game
- Rising Storm 2: Vietnam review
- Playerunknown's Battlegrounds has now sold 4 million copies in just 3 months
- Here's what you need to know about Kaby Lake-X
- Get Killing Floor for free in the Humble FPS Sale
- GOG brings 17-year-old Homeworld expansion Cataclysm back from the dead
- Darkest Dungeon's vampiric DLC is brutal and needs balancing, but it's still fun
- Beyond Good and Evil 2 'in-engine demo' showcases lots of technology but no game
- Overwatch loot box duplicates are being 'drastically' reduced
- Get a Vive headset with $50 Steam gift card and Star Trek Bridge Crew for $750
- HTC hints at offering less expensive VR headsets
- You can now save your Overwatch highlights
- Hearthstone changing card packs so you'll never get duplicate legendaries
- Valve's Knuckles controllers could be handy for finger tracking in VR
- This World of Warcraft guild uses Tinder to recruit players
- The closure of OpenIV leaves Grand Theft Auto 5 machinima creators at a crossroads
- The Steam Summer Sale has begun! Here are the best deals so far
- Microsoft throws cold water on claims Fireball virus infected 250 million PCs
- Microsoft is adding a GPU monitor to Task Manager in Windows 10
- PC Gamer UK Podcast 47: E3 special
- Darkest Dungeon to make Curios less threatening following Crimson Court DLC
- Ashes of Creation launches 'Summer Crowdfunding Extension' campaign
- The best plays of the Overwatch Contenders groups phase
- From modder to pro, the making of PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds
- Dynasty Warriors 9 offers first glimpse of open-world brawls
- Overwatch might have quietly killed off aimbots in latest update
- New balance changes are coming to Team Fortress 2 in a 'major update'
- Tekken 7 update addresses some lingering issues
June 21
- Asus Strix GeForce GTX 1050 Ti review
- The PC Gamer Show: GTA 5 modding and the best of E3 2017
- Your choice of who lives or dies will radically alter London in Vampyr
- Destiny 2’s developers on balancing for mouse and keyboard, content droughts, and poledancing
- Ubisoft confirms that Skull and Bones will have a single-player 'narrative campaign'
- More BlizzCon tickets are going on sale in July
- A Way Out dev says the PlayStation 4 'is like a five-year-old PC'
- Gigabyte's external GPU enclosure for laptops wields an overclocked GTX 1070
- Netgear's newest wireless router will give your home network whiplash
- AMD's Ryzen 7 1700X drops below $300 at Walmart
- Final Fantasy 14 is being hammered by a DDoS attack
- Why I love the voxel-powered explosions of Nex Machina
- Get This War of Mine for just a few bucks
- Total War: Warhammer 2 showcases new continents and races in first campaign footage
- Pitch and roll with this new Ace Combat 7 campaign footage
- XCOM 2 expansion teases first Chosen enemy, The Assassin
- The road to the International 2017
- Nex Machina, Housemarque's latest arcade shooter, is out now
- Alzur's Legacy is an impressive looking fan film set in The Witcher universe
- Revisiting the best and worst of Journey to Un’Goro’s card design
June 20
- Black Mesa's Xen level has been delayed again, but you can see some new screens
- Hitman's 'ICA Facility' location is now free
- Watch 25 minutes of Monster Hunter: World gameplay
- Blow up your storage with a 10TB Seagate hard drive for $390
- The real history behind Steel Division's campaign missions
- Twitch Prime subscribers are getting free Overwatch loot boxes
- Overwatch's new map Horizon Lunar Colony is now live
- Steam Summer Sale dates confirmed, the fun starts this week (Updated)
- Make your EVGA GeForce GTX 1080 Ti more badass with this water cooler
- Cooler Master builds a mechanical keyboard for Nvidia fanatics
- Electronic Arts hopes Anthem will become a 'ten-year journey'
- Only headshots count in Killing Floor 2 this week
- Visiting Blizzard's first-ever esports arena
- Battlefield 1's first night map is available now
- AMD adds to list of certified DDR4 memory for Ryzen
- Death is the road to glory in Everspace
- League of Legends needs to preserve its written history
- OpenIV developer responds to Rockstar's statement, saying it's "wrong and they know it" (Updated)
- Reaching for Petals is a narrative exploration game that echoes Dear Esther and Firewatch
- Hunting the enemy power core in a 3v3 Dawn of War 3 smash
- Fallout 4 mod 'The Creation Club' is a golf club that creates random items when you swing it
- Hunt: Showdown showcases terrifying extended in-game footage
- Save up to 75 percent on Rebellion games like Sniper Elite this week
- The Diablo 3 Rise of the Necromancer pack has a price, and is out next week
- Origin update introduces FPS counter and cross-party invites
- PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds teases new gun due in next update
- Project Rap Rabbit hangs in balance after Kickstarter falls short
- Halo 6 won't be revealed or discussed any time soon
- Cladun Returns: This Is Sengoku! is out on Steam right now
June 19
- You can paint anything in this art game, so I painted 100 pictures of trees
- Friday the 13th developers say 'sorry' with a new update and free stuff for everyone
- 7 promising games from E3 2017 you probably missed
- Medal of Honor: Pacific Assault is free right now on Origin
- MSI’s X299 Tomahawk Arctic motherboard brings the chill
- Get an affordable MSI laptop with GeForce GTX 1050 for $649
- This VR startup is building a headset with 70 times the resolution of Vive and Rift
- Two Worlds 2 gets microtransactions, players get angry
- Here's why 10-core processors like the new Skylake-X are still totally overkill for gaming
- Threadripper was the coolest new PC hardware we saw at E3
- It looks like cryptocurrency mining is driving up Nvidia graphics card prices too
- Middle-Earth: Shadow of War is a violent Tolkien fan-fiction generator
- Darkest Dungeon: The Crimson Court is now live on Steam, so let's watch a trailer
- Sea of Thieves is a full-blown shenanigan simulator
- Call of Duty: WWII multiplayer doesn't have swastikas, and this is why
- Intel's first Skylake-X and Kaby Lake-X processors are now available to preorder
- Total War: Warhammer mods are 'theoretically' transferable to the sequel with a little work
- A second Blizzard job posting suggests Diablo 2 remaster is happening [Updated]
- Save $30 on the MSI Z270 Krait Gaming motherboard today
- Dragon's Dogma and DMC mastermind apologises for E3 absence
- Dealing with thirsty guests in Planet Coaster's Challenge mode
- Atari's new 'Ataribox' to be 'based on PC technology'
- OpenIV petition passes 50,000 signatures as GTA 5 hits 'mixed' Steam review rating [Updated]
- Shadow of the Tomb Raider looking increasingly legit, following new leak
- GTA 5 machinima depicts Rockstar and Take-Two killing OpenIV mods
- The Crew 2 will let you switch between vehicles on the fly
June 18
- Killer Instinct is releasing on Steam later this year
- What the public thought of E3 2017
- GTA Online cheating tools 'Force Hax' and 'Menyoo' shut down by Take-Two Interactive (Updated)
- Here's a longer look at Rebellion's pulp co-op shooter Strange Brigade
- Hidden Folks free update adds factory area full of, er, hidden folks
June 17
- Blizzard offers a first look at Diablo 3's Challenge Rifts
- Nidhogg 2 looks reassuringly crazy in new footage
- Why Hunt: Showdown, Crytek’s gothic survival shooter, was our favorite game of E3
- Best of E3 2017 awards
- Monster Hunter: World is targeting 30 fps on consoles, but not necessarily on PC
June 16
- Dauntless developer says he's 'super excited' about Monster Hunter: World
- The highs and lows of E3 2017
- Halo Wars 2: Awakening the Nightmare is coming this fall
- What makes Destiny 2 so special?
- Buy two Dell 34-inch 1440p ultrawide monitors and get $400 in gift cards
- EK builds a full coverage water block for MSI's GeForce GTX 1080 Ti cards
- GOG's Summer Sale is giving free copies of Fantasy General to everyone
- LiquidSky revamps UI and adds gameplay recording ahead of launch
- Metro Exodus takes the series above-ground for a year-long journey through post-apocalypse Russia
- Get a bunch of Team17 games cheap this weekend
- Monster Hunter: World looks like everything I want from a next-gen Monster Hunter
- IO Interactive goes independent, has 'complete control' of Hitman
- Metro Exodus will draw from the Stalker series' open world design
- Grab a great Corsair 650W power supply for $95 today
- Agony gameplay video is set in a fetid, fiery, miserable hellscape
- Guest editorial: there was one unacceptable thing about E3 this year
- Edmund McMillen's The End is Nigh is reminiscent of Super Meat Boy
- World of Warcraft's lead PvP designer is moving to another Blizzard project
June 15
- Unto the End announcement trailer reveals a '2D cinematic combat-adventure'
- The Elder Scrolls: Legends is more fun with added Fus Ro Dah
- Far Cry 5 is bringing back the wing suit
- Jazzpunk's Director's Cut goes live a day early (Updated)
- Rogue Trooper Redux gameplay video shows off five minutes of modernized warfare
- It's great that Bethesda wants to pay modders, but Creation Club mods should still be free
- We have mixed feelings about BioWare's Anthem
- Dying Light will get ten more pieces of free DLC over the next 12 months
- Mushkin Reactor3D and Triactor3D boast improved SATA SSD performance
- Bungie's Luke Smith says Destiny 2's PS4 exclusives will come to PC in 2018
- Call of Cthulhu makes an eerie RPG of survival horror and detective work
- Get an Oculus Rift, HP Omen PC, and $100 Oculus store credit for $1,000
- AMD’s Crimson ReLive 17.6.2 drivers fix a performance issue in Dirt 4
- Bethesda explains the 'F' in Doom VFR
- Call of Cthulhu E3 trailer takes closest look at Darkwater Island yet
- GTA modding tool OpenIV shuts down due to cease and desist from Take-Two (Updated)
- Get 75 percent off the Metro Redux Bundle today
- Sundered teases gigantic Souls-like boss ahead of July release
- Beyond Good and Evil 2 is at 'day zero of development', says Michel Ancel
- Ni No Kuni 2 will adopt 'more adult perspective' but won't scrimp on humour
- Forza Motorsport 7 PC system requirements revealed
- Overwatch team Yikes explains the rise of Mercy
- Playing Skull & Bones felt like Burnout as much as Black Flag, which I am on board with
- Rakka is the first Neill Blomkamp film to hit Steam
- Wolfenstein II: The New Colossus video demonstrates all the ways Nazis can die
June 14
- Hunt: Showdown is just incredible
- Assassin's Creed: Origins is single-player only
- Dauntless 'Founder's Alpha' will begin in August
- The first minutes of Wolfenstein 2: The New Colossus are excellent
- Assassin’s Creed: Origins makes assassinations simpler and more creative
- Far Cry 5 and Assassin’s Creed: Origins are both dumping the mini-map
- Every game at E3 2017 and its PC outlook
- The new Overwatch Open Division promises 'more formal' competition for aspiring amateurs
- Insurgency: Sandstorm announced, trailer teases 'Story Mode' for solo or co-op play
- COD:WWII multiplayer is familiar, but War Mode could be its secret weapon
- Razer upgrades Blade Stealth to a 13.3-inch display and tones down aesthetics
- Get this AC1900 dual-band wireless router for $50
- Mass Effect 1 and 2 lead writer Drew Karpyshyn is working on Anthem
- Ori of Ori and the Blind Forest joins Smash Bros-style brawler Rivals of Aether
- Hands on with Mount & Blade 2: Bannerlord's thrilling large-scale combat
- You can preorder Intel's Kaby Lake-X and Skylake-X CPUs next week
- Yakuza and Persona are 'on that list' of games Sega wants to bring to PC
- A Plague Tale: Innocence may give you rat-filled nightmares
- Destiny 2 PC footage: 4K, 60 fps, and played with a mouse and keyboard
- Planet Coaster to add new rides, player-operated fireworks in free summer update
- Ni No Kuni 2 demo shows off more gorgeous battles
- Monster Hunter: World has camouflage 'suit items' and drop-in multiplayer
- Metro Exodus isn't an open-world game
- Dawn of War 3's Annihilation update introduces new multiplayer modes
- The best budget PC case is $50 on Newegg today
- Crackdown 3 can be finished in less than three hours if you're in a hurry
- XCOM 2's huge War of the Chosen expansion detailed
- Metal Gear Survive delayed until early 2018
- Watch 11 minutes of South Park: The Fractured But Whole
- Conan Exiles to add 'frozen highlands' biome in free August update
- Wolfenstein 2 alternate '60s timeline is 'absolutely fearless from a story perspective'
- The Evil Within 2 story trailer underscores suffering of fallen hero Sebastian Castellanos
- Is it time for a co-op League of Legends campaign?
- I tried Intel's wireless Vive VR headset, and I want one
- Sorry Hideo Kojima, but I quite enjoyed playing Metal Gear Survive
- Axis and Allies can use the same guns in Call of Duty: WWII multiplayer
June 13
- Diablo's Reaper of Souls, Malthael, is now playable in Heroes of the Storm
- Buy a GTX 1080 or 1080 Ti, get Destiny 2 free with early beta access
- Voice actor's strike means Life is Strange: Before the Storm has a new voice for Chloe
- Take a dive into seedy, supernatural London in this ten-minute Vampyr video
- Sony won't allow Minecraft cross-platform play on PlayStation consoles
- Destiny 2's E3 demo line hits capacity 3 minutes after doors open
- Thank goodness: Far Cry 5 is goofy as hell
- The Thargoids are officially returning to Elite Dangerous this year
- Stylish action RPG Ashen gets a new trailer, out in 2018
- Phil Spencer interview: 'We have work to go do' on improving the Windows Store, UWP
- The Elder Scrolls: Legends - Heroes of Skyrim will add 150 new cards to the game
- The E3 2017 conferences reviewed
- Asus Z170-Pro motherboard drops to $84 after mail-in-rebate
- Player-controlled zombies mode coming to PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds
- Razer launches a $250 7.1-channel wireless headset for PCs and consoles
- Dell's Alienware will be the only major OEM carrying Threadripper in 2017
- Watch 'dis monster get dismembered in a new Extinction gameplay trailer
- Steam Direct is now live, developers can pay a $100 fee to submit games
- Phil Spencer wants to bring OG Xbox emulation and Xbox Game Pass to PC
- Overwatch's new moon map launches next week
- Watch the first Destiny 2 PC footage in all its 4K, 60 fps glory
- Bandai Namco brings a remastered trilogy of PS2 .hack//G.U. RPGs to PC
- Zotac shrinks Nvidia’s GTX 1080 Ti for small form factor gaming
- High dollar headset maker Astro debuts a $60 model for everyone else
- The GOG Summer Sale 2017 starts today, get 2 free games [Updated]
- Fallout: The Frontier trailer shows more of the ambitious New Vegas mod
- Billie's 'displace' ability sounds awesome in Dishonored 2: Death of the Outsider
- GTA Online Gunrunning update adds bunkers and weaponised vehicles
- Tyranny DLC Bastard's Wound due out this year
- El Presidente returns in Tropico 6
- Ubi boss says it's the 'right time' to unveil BG&E 2 as Ancel requires community feedback
- Dell’s 4K laser projector throws a 130-inch image at 120Hz with HDR
- The Evil Within 2 trailer is full of eerie corridors and menacing monsters
- The Elder Scrolls 6 isn't in development
- Absolver's stagger combat style is for drunken masters
- Assassin's Creed Origins has an $800 special edition
- Destiny 2's Luke Smith on PC features, PvP, new subclasses, and more
- Destiny 2 is set to release for PC this October
- Updated: Destiny 2 trailer focuses on big bad guy (and annoying Sony exclusives)
- Monster Hunter: World confirmed for PC
- Call of Duty: WWII multiplayer trailer debuts at Sony E3 conference
- A Way Out: like a David Cage game, only co-op and good
- Beyond Good and Evil 2 is "like GTA but in space" says Michel Ancel
June 12
- Dell unveils new 24.5" 240Hz G-Sync gaming monitor, available now for $699
- Ni No Kuni 2: Revenant Kingdom gets a November release date
- Watch Sony's E3 press conference live
- Steep expansion will take us to the Winter Olympics this December
- Beyond Good and Evil 2 trailer debuts at E3
- New Far Cry 5 gameplay trailer shows guns, planes, and dogs for hire
- Ubisoft announces Transference, a VR game about exploring digital memories
- The Crew 2 will go 'way beyond driving' with planes and boats, out next year
- Ubisoft announces Skull and Bones, an open world multiplayer pirate game
- Assassin's Creed: Origins trailer teases 'Mysteries of Egypt'
- Wolfenstein 2 has a neat collector's edition that actually comes with the game
- Ark: Survival Evolved will leave Early Access in August
- A new Middle-earth: Shadow of War cinematic reveals the Blade of Galadriel
- The original Age of Empires is being remastered in the Definitive Edition
- Advance Wars inspired tactics game Wargroove shows off full campaign editor and map making tools
- LawBreakers releases August 8 for $30
- Ylands reveals new gameplay footage, including horse catapults
- Klei trailer offers the first look at new RPG Griftlands
- Take a first look at gameplay from cyberpunk sidescroller The Last Night
- Sea of Thieves on PC will support ultrawide displays, high framerates
- Here's what you need to know about Forza Motorsport 7 on PC
- Destiny 2 PC will be able to use all the cores of your CPU
- Killing Floor 2's Summer Sideshow event starts tomorrow, kicking off a free week
- Get a WD Red 4TB hard drive and $25 Best Buy gift card for $120
- Vaulting, climbing, and diving through windows are coming to PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds
- Tunic is a charming isometric adventure starring an adorable fox
- Shadowverse's Wonderland Dreams expansion releasing at the end of the month, here's a new trailer
- Watch Total War: Warhammer 2's Lizardmen go prehistoric on some High Elves
- Plextor goes after SATA SSD market with new S3 series
- Mount & Blade 2: Bannerlord footage shows what happens when armies clash
- Jordan Weisman unveils first Battletech single-player campaign footage
- Creative brings RGB lighting to the premium sound card space
- Ooblets trailer shows off exploration, dancing and fashionable poop hair
- XCOM 2: War of the Chosen revealed at the PC Gaming Show
- Intel and ESL announce $1 million Intel Grand Slam prize for CS:GO (Updated)
- Logitech’s latest mouse pad continually charges new wireless gaming mice
- Echo Arena will be free for the Oculus Rift
- Hearts of Iron 4 getting another free update along with new DLC this week
- Total War: Warhammer 2 due out on September 28
- Obsidian teases more Tyranny
- Every news story out of E3 2017
- Meet Destiny 2's nimble Arcstrider
- Titanfall 2 gets a free trial for a week
- Cuphead is finally due out in September
- Bethesda announces Creation Club, which looks like a new paid mod system, maybe (updated)
- The Evil Within 2 brings back the horror this October on Friday the 13th
- Wolfenstein 2: The New Colossus revealed
- Heroes of Skyrim story expansion coming to The Elder Scrolls: Legends this month
- Daud and Billie Lurk return for Dishonored 2: Death of the Outsider
- Quake Champions will feature Wolfenstein's BJ Blazkowicz
- Fallout 4 VR coming to the HTC Vive in October
- Doom VFR is the series' virtual reality debut
- The Artful Escape E3 trailer teases a multi-dimensional rock and roll adventure
- Code Vein (aka Anime Dark Souls) has been confirmed for PC
June 11
- Super Lucky's Tale is the sequel to the Oculus VR platformer
- Tacoma teaser reveals an August release date
- New Middle-Earth: Shadow of War trailer shows how to turn orcs into allies
- Anthem gameplay trailer reveals an open world co-op shooter with jetpacks
- Ori and the Will of the Wisps revealed, looks gorgeous
- Minecraft will get a 4K graphics pack this fall, plus complete cross-platform play
- Crackdown 3 coming on November 7, starring Terry Crews
- Life is Strange: Before the Storm is releasing its first episode this August
- Sea of Thieves gameplay trailer shows treasure hunting, combat, and travel via cannon
- Cyberpunk platformer The Last Night gets a new trailer for E3
- Dragon Ball FighterZ debut trailer shows gorgeous 2D action
- Here's how Microsoft's $500 Xbox One X compares to a PC
- A gory new trailer for State of Decay 2 distracts from its delay
- Assassin's Creed: Origins gameplay debuts at Microsoft's E3 press event
- Metro Exodus announced, coming 2018
- Forza Motorsport 7 is coming to PC
- Pure Farming 17 delayed to 2018
- Reddit ad leaks The Evil Within 2
June 10
- Star Wars: Battlefront 2 has lasers that kick and classes that matter
- A Way Out's co-op only, split-screen only concept is risky yet very cool
- Anthem release date set for fall 2018 (Updated)
- Get a free week of Origin Access if you sign up before June 19
- NBA Live 18 introduces The One, a custom character story mode
- First Star Wars: Battlefront 2 gameplay footage revealed, all post-launch content will be free
- BioWare reveals Anthem, its new sci-fi adventure
- A Way Out is a new co-op game from the creator of Brothers: A Tale of Two Sons
- Watch FIFA 18's The Journey: Hunter Returns teaser trailer
- Need for Speed Payback trailer showcases a Fast and Furious-style 'Highway Heist'
- Battlefield 1's In the Name of the Tsar expansion gets a teaser trailer
- Watch the EA Play E3 press conference
- Amazon may have briefly shown October release date for Wolfenstein 2: The New Colossus
- Hearthstone’s Ben Brode on life after Un’goro
- Leaked Star Wars: Battlefront 2 video shows 12 minutes of gameplay
- Ace Combat 7 E3 trailer is full of drama and near-future sci-fi
- Play The Division, Steep, and Trials Fusion this weekend for free
- E3 2017: The games, hardware and gaffes we expect to see
June 9
- This week's highs and lows in PC gaming
- Star Wars Battlefront 2 preorder bonuses include early beta access, new outfits
- Another Assassin's Creed: Origins leak reveals an October release date
- Blizzard job listings point at a new first-person project in the works
- You won't be able to buy Hitman Season One episodes individually for much longer
- Overclocking a CPU to 7 GHz with the science of liquid nitrogen
- Meet the man who walked across America to visit his Minecraft friends
- Bloodstained: Ritual of the Night E3 trailer showcases a new map and improved gameplay
- GameStop customers may have had their credit card information stolen
- PC Gaming Show 2017: See all the trailers and announcements here
- Get a PNY GeForce GTX 1060 3GB graphics card for $185
- AMD and Nvidia give graphics drivers a performance tune up for Dirt 4
- Overwatch leavers could soon be hit with permanent Competitive bans
- Samsung launches insanely wide 32:9 aspect ratio monitor with HDR and FreeSync 2
- Nvidia's GeForce GTX USB drive is real and rare, here's how you can get one
- The RPG dream team
- We've got a sneak peak at 5 new cards from the next Shadowverse expansion
- Get all 3 Bioshock games for 70 percent off
- Sonic Mania trailer shows Tails spinballing around a reworked Chemical Plant Zone
- Klei's next game will be revealed at the PC Gaming Show next week
- The MSI X370 Gaming Pro motherboard is just $110 today
- Laser League is a new futuresport where you murder with colored light
- Get Inside and Limbo for less than $13 this weekend
- The Dark Souls-Shovel Knight crossover mod is out now, new trailer [Updated]
- Meet the roleplayers crafting new Star Wars stories in Jedi Knight: Jedi Academy
- Dota 2 has launched its first ever co-op multiplayer campaign
- Sauron's up to no good in the Shadow of War story trailer
- Kingdom Come: Deliverance release date revealed, along with new trailer
- Blizzard suspends pro Overwatch player Dafran for griefing
- Trent Reznor's Quake soundtrack is getting the vinyl treatment
- Bubsy, the annoying 16-bit platformer starring a bobcat, is back
June 8
- Assassin's Creed: Origins info confirmed by leaked Target preorder card
- Payday 2 goes free on Steam, but only while supplies last
- In this shopping cart riding game, just getting in the cart is a nightmarish challenge
- Agents of Mayhem adds Saints Row stalwart Johnny Gat as a preorder bonus
- Microsoft planning to use AI to beef up Windows Defender
- Acer builds an entry-level Ryzen system for gamers on a budget
- Overclockers reach an insane 7.5 GHz on Intel Core i7-7740K
- Take a first look at Warframe's completely revamped Earth maps
- Someone tried to extort money from CD Projekt with stolen Cyberpunk 2077 files
- Logitech launches stylish multi-use headsets for gaming and music
- Shenmue 3 delayed until the second half of 2018
- 2K and Firaxis to present at the PC Gaming Show at E3
- Project Cars 2 release date set for September
- Fortnite will release into an 'Early Access Season' this July
- After 5 years, Fortnite is a fun but bloated base defense shooter
- Ashes of the Singularity: Escalation 2.3 update adds a new campaign today
- The best budget CPU cooler is now even cheaper
- Vampyr's E3 trailer is appropriately gloomy
- There's a huge sale on RPG Maker on the Humble Store
- Minecraft: Story Mode Season 2 begins on July 11
- Overwatch ranking meddles with your skill rating and your mind
- PC Gamer UK Podcast 46: Dirt 4, Prey
- The Elder Scrolls Online: Morrowind review
- Dirt 4 review
- Total War: Warhammer is getting a new race and more free DLC
- The best moments of the Overwatch Contenders NA open qualifier
- Rumor: removed Bully 2 listing points to possible E3 2017 reveal
- The new Yooka-Laylee 'Green and Purple' patch is massive
June 7
- The PC Gamer Show: Computex, CPU impressions, and more
- There's a new era of pro NA League of Legends coming
- Binding of Isaac creator Edmund McMillen reveals The End is Nigh
- Why it took four hours and a dozen dead sheep to get my toilet working in Ark: Survival Evolved
- PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds and poker have a lot in common
- Little Nightmares: Secrets of the Maw three-part expansion will debut in July
- At home with the Kiblers
- Beyond Skyrim: Cyrodiil mod will release a recreated Bruma in July
- Mirage: Arcane Warfare goes free for the weekend, major content update coming in July
- Grab a Ryzen 7 1700 CPU and MSI X370 SLI Plus motherboard bundle for $370
- 5 battle tactics that will keep you one step ahead of your enemies in Steel Division
- G.Skill DDR4 RAM hits record 5.5GHz overclock with Kaby Lake-X
- Second Life's makeup unboxing videos are surreal and wonderful
- Death Stranding won't be at E3, so Hideo Kojima drops a new tease
- We're giving away 5,000 keys for the Aven Colony demo
- Asus has a 15.6-inch gaming laptop with GeForce GTX 1060 for $800
- Two VR enthusiasts ignore warnings and stay immersed for 48 hours
- Most of Mass Effect: Andromeda was developed in just 18 months, report says
- Get the most out of the GOG Summer Sale with the PC Gamer picks
- Absolver's final closed beta is coming soon
- Magic: The Gathering is getting the 'AAA' RPG treatment
- Total War: Warhammer 2's 'elite' High Elves detailed
- How Star Wars Battlefront 2 plans to take the series to the dark side
- Get The Jackbox Party Trilogy for 60 percent off this week
- Rebellion announces Strange Brigade, a supernatural co-op shooter
- Gorgeous platformer Outland is free on Steam
- Why I love the Silver Shroud quest in Fallout 4
- New Hellblade trailer pleads for pre-orders
- Jay Pinkerton leaves Valve as it continues shedding writers
- Fable Fortune will launch into Early Access in July
- This interactive map makes it easy to remember where the damn plane went in Battlegrounds
- 15 games that could surprise us at E3 2017
- The Swords of Ditto is a whimsical topdown action RPG, coming next year
- The Overwatch Anniversary Event is ending with a double-XP weekend
- Aftercharge is a multiplayer FPS where one side can't die
June 6
- Elex, the forthcoming Piranha Bytes action RPG, has a gameplay trailer
- Mysterious No Man's Sky audio tapes kick off an otherworldly ARG
- The tragic story behind a single moon in Elite: Dangerous
- Destiny: A PC gamer's guide
- Mass Effect: Andromeda update improves Scott Ryder's male romance options
- Monitor demo shows why we shouldn't worry about HDR just yet
- Battleborn goes free-to-play
- Steam Greenlight is closed, Steam Direct goes live next week
- Use these mods to make Dark Souls as difficult as possible
- Get an LG 27-inch IPS monitor with FreeSync for $150
- HP renews commitment to gaming with refreshed Omen PCs
- Chris Avellone's Pathfinder: Kingmaker RPG is now on Kickstarter
- Aven Colony sets release date for end of July
- Darkest Dungeon's new hero revealed as The Flagellant
- Kaspersky expands its antitrust crusade against Microsoft to Europe
- Styx: Shards of Darkness gets a demo on Steam
- Awesomenauts is the other MOBA for people who hate MOBAs
- For Honor is shedding players, down 95% since launch according to Steam stats
- Revisiting Pharaoh, the complex city-builder that rewards meticulous planning
- NZXT aims to revolutionize how we buy custom-built PCs with BLD
- Chris Taylor is making a new RTS
- The latest Smite Adventure is an RPG dungeon romp
- Dirt 4 celebrates its upcoming launch with a new trailer (Updated)
- Mega Man Legacy Collection 2 confirmed, will release in August
- How to land as fast as possible in PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds
- Bethesda Game Studios is hiring for a "AAA freemium game"
June 5
- 10 puzzle games under $10 that will consume your life
- Asus launches an AC5300 router that looks like a headcrab
- G.Skill Ripjaws MX780 RGB mouse is on sale for $30
- Plex ups the ante for cord cutters with support for live TV
- Apple is bringing SteamVR and HTC Vive support to Macs
- Vertagear made a self-cleaning headrest made of coffee grounds and silver
- The FIFA 18 reveal trailer is 'fueled by Ronaldo'
- Videogame voice actors strike is still ongoing, but progress is being made (Updated)
- New skins for Twitch Prime members coming to PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds
- Dragon's Dogma: Dark Arisen is now on GOG, and on sale too
- Everything (we think) we know about the next Assassin’s Creed
- Oculus founder Palmer Luckey sets sights on border surveillance technology
- A new Rust update promises to make the gunplay feel more like a 'traditional' FPS
- Overwatch players in China can now purchase in-game currency, but there's a catch
- 8TB Western Digital external hard drive drops to $180
- EK's new RGB monoblock is for one of MSI's top Ryzen motherboards
- Blame cryptocurrency miners for scarcity of Radeon RX 580 and 570 cards
- Tekken 7 review
- Explore Runescape's first ever expansion, Menaphos, during the free weekend
- Daybreak announces the Elite Series, a new H1Z1 pro circuit with prizes totaling $1 million
- Noctua spent four and a half years designing its quietest, strongest fan yet
- Ultimate Epic Battle Simulator review
- Empyrion's alpha 6.0 update fattens up the galactic survival game
- Rainbow Six Siege hitbox fix stops earmuffs counting as a body part
- July's Humble Monthly kicks things off with Dark Souls 2 plus DLC for $12
- Get a budget gaming laptop for $967 on Newegg
- Vintage RPG Silver arrives on Steam
- Chris Avellone on Pathfinder: Kingmaker's companions, choices and romances
- Today is the last day of Blizzard's Overwatch sale
- Wonder Boy: The Dragon's Trap will release on PC this week
June 4
- Kingdom Come: Deliverance trailer shows off its bleak medieval expanse
- Should I use a trackball for gaming?
- Rocket League Anniversary update adds new arena, cars, and goal explosions
- Stealth-action game No Trace gets new gameplay trailer, and it looks great
- Neverwinter is bringing dinosaurs with its next expansion
- Minecraft: Story Mode might be getting a second season
- These 2 Prey mods add hardcore difficulty and greater immersion
- Part 2 of New Vegas mod Fallout: Project Brazil teased in video series
June 3
- GTA Online's Gunrunning update will add weaponized vehicles and mobile upgrade hub
- Brigador gets new campaign, music, and discounts with the free Up-Armored Edition
- Gears of War 4's "biggest ever" update arrives next week, adds new Loot drops and difficulties
- Consortium: The Tower impresses with new video, Fig update post
- Ubisoft, please put my dad in Far Cry 5
- Spellforce 3 releases in December, second game gets free Steam weekend
June 2
- This week's highs and lows in PC gaming
- PC games to look out for in June, July, and August
- Gears of War 4 ten-hour free trial offer begins next week (Updated)
- [Update] Hearthstone streamer Kripparrian will dust all his extra cards tonight, tune in to see if it breaks the game
- New Dauntless trailer gives a first look at its hub city, armor sets, and chain blades
- Devolver Digital cancels its E3 'Indie Picnic' event
- Diablo 3 archangel Malthael is coming to Heroes of the Storm
- Hearthstone's Deathwing finally gets the animation it deserves
- The Long Journey Home gets a new, more forgiving 'Story Mode' option
- Tekken 7 runs great on PC, and online matchmaking has been excellent so far
- Troublemakers have been spoofing Friday the 13th logins to kick streamers
- Qualcomm's Snapdragon 835 prepares for battle with Intel and AMD on PC
- A Life is Strange prequel may be in development
- There's something strange about Kickstarter's most successful MMO
- Unlock dozens of mutant superpowers with this Fallout 4 mod
- Corsair's modular 650W 80 Plus Gold power supply is on sale for $80
- Asus bolsters Ryzen motherboard lineup with two mid-range gaming models
- This 1TB SSD is going for a low $246
- Elite: Dangerous' second alien encounter has been discovered
- Meet the overclocker who made delidding your CPU idiot-proof
- Mass Effect: Andromeda is strangely the most popular game at Computex
- You can get Mad Max for 80 percent off today
- Valve reveals Steam Direct fee, upcoming changes to the store
- Battle Chasers: Nightwar will release this October
- Total War: Warhammer 2 brings high fantasy to a redesigned campaign
- Need for Speed Payback will release this November
- Here's what's coming to Hitman this month
- Curved monitors aren't going anywhere: Asus and Acer show off ultrawide HDR G-Sync models
- Blizzard reveals the Necromancer's opening cinematic
- PC Gamer UK Podcast 45: Tokyo 42, Rime, Vanquish
- Gigabyte may have finally made external graphics practical and affordable
- Super Ultra Dead Rising 4 Mini Golf tees off in a couple of weeks
- Bulletstorm studio is collaborating with Square Enix on a new project
- Rime will drop Denuvo after crackers bypass it in just five days (Updated)
- AMD's Threadripper is huge, with an equally large socket and cooler
- Custom 'The Walking Dead' inspired Dell Gaming Laptop giveaway official rules
- Fallout 3, New Vegas and Oblivion are now DRM-free on GOG
June 1
- The next Need for Speed instalment will be unveiled tomorrow
- Extinction is a game about chopping the heads off of 150-foot-tall ogres
- Hearthstone's deck copying update is now live
- InXile reveals The Mage's Tale release date with a new trailer
- Up to 75 percent off Fallout and Elder Scrolls games this week on GOG
- Intel Core i9-7900X hits 5.7GHz and crushes Cinebench record
- AMD quietly cuts prices on all three Ryzen 7 processors
- Aorus shows off its new thin GTX 1080 laptop at Computex
- Prey vs. Deus Ex: Mankind Divided: why one intro works and the other doesn't
- The Elder Scrolls: Legends arrives on Steam with spectator and 'Gauntlet' modes
- Get a Gigabyte GeForce GTX 1080 Ti Gaming OC for $625
- Looking back at Dota 2's Manila Masters
- Why League of Legends is building more barriers around its fanbase
- Friday the 13th patch kills bugs, improves Jason spawn randomness
- PC Gamer US July issue: Star Wars Battlefront 2
- Wrecking mechs on BattleTech's tactical battlefields
- The Asus Zephyrus is an incredibly thin gaming laptop with one serious drawback [Updated]
- Middle-earth: Shadow of War delayed into October
- The new Cherry MX Speed Silver may become its most popular gaming switch
- Tropico 6 teased in 'Rule Again' trailer
- The best case mods from Computex 2017
- Gothic dev's Elex will be with us in October
- Payday designer announces GTFO, a "4-player hardcore co-op action horror FPS"
- For Honor patch 1.08 out later today, implements quitting penalty
- Lords of Xulima dev reveals steampunk strategy game They Are Billions
- MSI's add-in card can RAID two M.2 SSDs at 7,200 MB/s
- Formula Fusion, the Wipeout-esque future racer, is now on Steam