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- February 28
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- EA adds some weird Sims 4 costumes to Final Fantasy 15 Windows Edition
- New Frostpunk developer update outlines endgame and confirms price
- Discord shutters alt-right and Nazi servers, but they're not completely gone
- Why people are furious about that Hunt Down The Freeman game on Steam
- Is Empires of the Undergrowth a worthy successor to SimAnt?
- Fortnite: Save the World review
- Shattered Realms is a fun, free singleplayer co-op brawler
- Get ten percent off select GOG purchases for the next 48 hours
- Great puzzles in PC gaming
- 6 essential tips for Into the Breach
- How to get the best framerate in Rainbow Six Siege
- Get an AMD Ryzen 7 1700X and MSI X370 Gaming M7 motherboard for $400
- AMD pushes prebuilt PCs with free Far Cry 5 offer on select systems
- Far Cry's 5 live-action 'Baptism' trailer is a disturbing tale of power and insanity
- Brigitte abilities list: here's everything Overwatch's new hybrid support/tank can do.
- This cloth mouse pad also has integrated RGB lighting
- Democrats introduce bill to restore net neutrality rules, but it's probably doomed
- The Predator After Party returns to PAX East 2018!
- David Lynch Teaches Typing is exactly what it sounds like
- How I lost my mind on the last day of Hearthstone ladder
- Heaven's Vault gameplay trailer showcases the new project from 80 Days studio Inkle
- Bill Gates blasts cryptocurrency, says they are a cause of deaths 'in a fairly direct way'
- New Overwatch hero Brigitte is a support tank
- Old-school FPS Ion Maiden has the same engine as Duke Nukem 3D, Shadow Warrior
- FTL-like sea adventure Abandon Ship shows great potential
- Fanatical's BundleFest 9 adds tiered Nemesis Bundle 6 - get 15 games for $9 (Updated)
- The Blackout Club is a Stranger Things-like co-op horror game from ex-BioShock devs
- H1Z1 leaves Early Access with new cars-only Auto Royale mode
- Hands on with Auto Royale, H1Z1's chaotic new cars-only battle royale mode
- Humble's Brawler Bundle puts up its dukes with Rivals of Aether, BlazBlue, Street Fighter X Tekken
- PC Building Simulator hits Early Access soon, here's how it plays
- Fight giant boars, spiders, crabs, evil trees in Battle Princess Madelyn boss montage
- Surviving Mars' randomised research detailed in dev panel
- Fortnite's jetpacks pushed in favour of new Hunting Rifle (Updated)
- Watch this Fortnite player quick scope from an airborne rocket to victory
- Battlefield 1's new River Somme map has the best trenches in the game
- Warhammer: Vermintide 2 is tense, dramatic, and frustratingly hard
- The most evil choices you can make in PC gaming
- February 27
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- Defiance 2050 is a 'reimagined' sci-fi shooter coming this summer
- Hellscreen, the retro shooter with a rear-view mirror, is now on Kickstarter
- The Battletech reboot will be out in April, watch a new trailer now
- DeepCool launches frameless RGB fans that you can control over Wi-Fi
- This $90 Phanteks mid-tower case is on sale for $52.50 after mail-in-rebate
- Destiny 2's latest update fixes The Colony plus adds Nightfall scoring and Challenge Cards
- Beat Saber is a VR rhythm game that's basically Lightsaber Hero
- Chrono Trigger is now on Steam, and it does not look good
- One Hour One Life is a multiplayer survival game where you can be another player's kid
- You can get FTL free with Into the Breach for a limited time
- Death Trash dev calls out 'copycat' on Steam: 'Please rename your game'
- This full-tower case from Corsair is on sale for $110 after rebate
- ESRB tackles loot boxes with a new 'In-Game Purchases' label
- Cryptocurrency miners bought 3 million graphics cards worth $776 million in 2017
- Hearthstone's Year of the Raven getting in-game tournaments, Ice Block sent to Hall of Fame
- GTA Online adds Pfister Comet SR, 25% off Mammoth Avengers, double GTA$ and RP on Special Vehicle missions
- New Overwatch hero teasers point toward melee hero, Torbjörn's daughter
- Cooler Master's mesh white MasterCase H500P is ready for custom paint jobs
- Yoku's Island Express is Sonic Spinball meets Studio Ghibli
- Final Fantasy 15 developers discuss mods and the game's journey to PC
- Counter-Strike: Global Offensive kicks off group stages of Katowice 2018
- Rocket League announces WWE partnership
- Modders are rebuilding Fallout 3 in Fallout 4 – here's some footage
- Bethesda is Metacritic's top-ranked major publisher for 2017
- Into the Breach review
- February 26
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- Warframe's Tennocon 2018 tickets go on sale this week
- The best game recording software
- Ghost of a Tale, the RPG about a minstrel mouse, gets a date and new screens
- Metal Gear Survive review
- Final Fantasy 15 to get four DLC episodes into 2019, PC demo live
- Solving a short, sweet snapshot of tragic puzzler Photographs
- CD Projekt touts Cyberpunk 2077 as a 'blockbuster franchise'
- Cryptocurrency ICOs have a spectacularly high failure rate
- Warhammer: Vermintide 2 beta extended, 10,000 more keys available
- Nvidia claims new GPU drivers bump performance in PUBG by up to 7 percent
- Phoenix Point's deep combat and massive crab monsters make it a worthy XCOM alternative
- Dark Souls 2's annual Return to Drangleic community event is underway
- Tropico 6 raids will let you send spies and pirates to steal world monuments
- Pure Farming 2018 announces PC mod support at launch
- How the Civ 6: Rise and Fall designers came up with its cast of leaders
- GTA 5 Dragon Ball script mod adds teleportation, Ki Blasts, Destructo Disc attacks (Updated)
- Octahedron is a neon nightclub that wants to kill you
- Forgotton Anne is a gorgeous offbeat adventure where a talking scarf threatens you with a shovel
- Into the Breach, the tactical strategy game from the makers of FTL, has a launch trailer
- February 25
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- "I wish we had more time to polish the game before release", says Kingdom Come: Deliverance exec producer
- Someone left a hidden message in Metal Gear Survive
- "All remaining questions will be answered" in Little Nightmares' third and final DLC chapter, The Residence
- Here's when you can play Final Fantasy 14's Little Ladies Day event
- New Shenmue 3 character screenshots unveiled at Magic Monaco
- Overwatch fans spend thousands cheering - but the money goes to Twitch and Overwatch League, not teams
- February 24
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- Bandai Namco outlines plans to address Dragon Ball FighterZ online issues
- Here's what's new in Warcraft 3's latest update
- Looks like New Gundam Breaker is coming to PC
- Here's when you'll be able to play Camelot Unchained's first beta
- Grab a bargain in EA's latest Origins sale
- Put Immortal: Unchained through its paces during this closed Alpha test
- Do you usually make yourself in character creators, or someone else?
- Hardware seller Massdrop says Nvidia predicts graphics card prices "will continue to go up" through the year
- At the Overwatch Collegiate Championship young players dream of making big money as pros
- February 23
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- This week's highs and lows in PC gaming
- How I made Into the Breach's soundtrack
- Kingdom Come: Deliverance has already sold over a million copies
- Legendary Gary is two RPGs in one, and I want more of both
- Tala is a gorgeous 2D mix of nature and animation
- The NRA just gave Ajit Pai a gun for repealing net neutrality
- The best stories in PC gaming
- Ubisoft details, and delays, Assassin's Creed Origins next DLC
- Funcom is counting down to a new game reveal
- Warcraft film director says it was a 'political minefield'
- What game studios might Microsoft actually buy?
- Intel's Core i7-8700K Coffee Lake processor is on sale for $313
- More 8K displays are coming in the first half of 2018
- GTA 5 stunt crew Evolve brings its skills to the Doomsday Heist
- AMD released GPU drivers optimized for Sea of Thieves and Final Fantasy XII
- What the fallout of a cryptocurrency collapse might mean for graphics cards
- All Walls Must Fall review
- The best powerline adapters
- Total War Saga: Thrones of Britannia shows off 8 minutes of Gaelic King slaughter
- I'm keeping the Winter Olympics alive by playing 1985 sports classic Winter Games
- Ivy and Zasalamel confirmed for Soulcalibur 6
- League of Legends reveals loot box drop rates
- Save big on the Sniper Elite series this weekend
- Raising a digital child the PC Gamer way in The Sims 4
- Avernum and Thimbleweed Park are finding homes for hints in modern games
- New Overwatch hero (probably) teased by Blizzard
- For a brief moment, Blitz was the most powerful character in Rainbow Six Siege
- Florida's Overwatch League team to honor the Parkland school shooting victims
- Foundation is a freeform medieval city builder with no grids to follow
- Metal Gear Survive charges money for extra save slots
- February 22
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- Call of Duty: WWII multiplayer is free now and all through this weekend
- Star Control creators file lawsuit against Stardock (Updated)
- Trailblazers is a co-op racer about painting ever-changing tracks
- Intel is bringing fast 5G wireless connectivity to PCs next year
- Hunt: Showdown is now available on Steam Early Access
- How I accidentally lost my virginity in Kingdom Come: Deliverance
- Get an 4K Alienware 15 laptop with a GeForce GTX 1060 6GB for $1,300
- Astroneer's biggest update yet is all about building bases
- FCC sets April 23 kill date for net neutrality rules
- Rhode Island Rep. calls for special tax on violent videogames (Updated)
- Corsair’s new brushed aluminum case uses smoky glass to dim the lights
- Hunt: Showdown system requirements released
- Total War: Arena rolls out open beta
- Arc System Works talk fighting games on PC, and why none of their male fighters have nipples
- Final Fantasy 15 to get free demo next week, limited-time Half-Life Steam crossover
- Bad News browser game aims to help players identify fake news
- Yume Nikki sequel teases terrifying in-game footage ahead of tomorrow's launch
- Fortnite update 3.0.0 adds extensive building improvements
- Learning how to slice, dice and perfectly sear a bull in Battle Chef Brigade
- Blizzard is hosting a Warcraft III invitational later this month
- We tried to destroy Corsair's spill-resistant keyboard with Doritos and soda
- Watch us play Into the Breach, the subversive strategy game from the makers of FTL
- February 21
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- Steam users can now choose to 'ignore' curators they don't like
- Gabe Newell's son thinks Valve needs to try something new
- Destiny 2 'development roadmap' runs into some delays
- Phil Spencer says Microsoft 'needed a reboot' in DICE keynote on workplace diversity
- Intel explains why we don't have 10GHz processors by now
- Blast zombies and sharks from an armored Cadillac in metal rhythm shooter Double Kick Heroes
- Knights of Pen and Paper 2 gets a free-to-play edition
- The Rocket League Tournaments beta is live
- Try the demo for Starmancer, a Dwarf Fortress-inspired space station sim
- How Divinity: Original Sin 2 surprised me with a deadly twist 100 hours in
- Western Digital's Black 512GB NVMe SSD drops to a low $163
- Blizzard finally releases Overwatch League Code of Conduct
- You can now earn in-game skins by watching Overwatch League
- This $130 Rosewill gaming case with fan controller is $29 after rebate
- See exclusive footage of ambitious simulation MMO Seed
- Burnout Paradise Remastered won't have microtransactions
- Fractal Design adds more side panel options to its Meshiy C mid-tower case
- This 35-inch curved display has 120Hz and G-Sync
- Intel releases a new round of Spectre and Meltdown patches
- Abandon Ship flaunts exploding boats, customisation, sea monsters in Early Access launch trailer
- This Darkest Dungeon mod sheds light with MS Paint makeover
- Cypher is a neat, head-scratching puzzle game that'll teach you cryptography
- PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds teases retro fashion 'Fever' crates
- League of Legends unveils Kai'Sa Daughter of the Void
- How Return to Lordran reinvigorated Dark Souls' online community
- Rocket League to add old and new school Batmobiles, range of DC cosmetics
- Watch Dogs 2, For Honor and more are super cheap in Ubisoft's Humble Store sale
- Codemasters' new arcade racer Onrush finally gets a gameplay trailer
- Age of Empires: Definitive Edition review
- The Shanghai Dragons didn't win a single match in Overwatch League stage one—here's why
- Elite Dangerous's new season Beyond - Chapter One goes live next week
- My relationship in Kingdom Come is built on a lie, and I feel like garbage
- 4 underrated PC accessories that are highly useful
- February 20
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- Sledgehammer co-founders Glen Schofield and Michael Condrey have left the studio
- The Walking Simulator a Month Club pushes the boundaries of a sometimes narrow genre
- Burnout Paradise Remastered is coming to PC later this year
- Legendary Gary, an RPG about playing an RPG, is out now
- The Papers, Please short film will debut on YouTube this weekend
- Kingdom Come: Deliverance Easter eggs reference The Witcher, Wolverine, and more
- The Toronto Maple Leafs are really into Fortnite
- Hackers infiltrated Tesla's Amazon cloud account to mine cryptocurrency
- Dino Run 2 is a procedurally generated 2D runner with plenty of dinosaurs
- The new Humble Bundle features vintage RPGs Torment, Wasteland, Shadowrun, and Dreamfall
- The Station is a first-person sci-fi mystery set in an alien civil war
- Darwin Project's second and final open beta takes place this weekend
- Samsung's speedy 500GB 960 Evo SSD is on sale for $200
- Intel shares details of a discrete GPU prototype in development
- Conan Exiles' director talks Early Access development, the future of the survival genre and dong sliders
- Razer is having a big one-day sale on gaming laptops and peripherals
- You can now order an Asus mixed reality headset with a flippable hinge for $429
- A new PUBG map will be unveiled in March
- The new Discovery mode turns Assassin's Creed Origins into an interactive history lesson
- Samsung’s 30TB solid state drive can hold a ton of games
- GTA Online adds vintage sports car, Smuggler's Run missions get double $GTA and experience
- Total War: Rome 2 announces Desert Kingdoms DLC, adds Cleopatra and Teuta
- Secret of Mana review
- See some of the bizarre new ailments you'll need to treat in Two Point Hospital
- Fortnite Battle Royale Season 3 Battle Pass almost doubles loot from previous season
- Julian Gollop shows how not to defeat the crabmen in Phoenix Point
- Biomutant's character creator and crazy exploration gear detailed
- Assassin's Creed Origins' non-combat Discovery Tour is out now
- A statue depicting Geralt of Rivia in a bath is being made, for some reason
- February 19
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- James 'Phantoml0rd' Varga sues Twitch over his 2016 suspension
- The significance of Subnautica's cascading failures
- Flight Simulator expansion installed password-stealing malware as DRM
- Bolster your PUBG experience with jaw-dropping 4K visuals
- Fable Fortune leaves Early Access later this week
- Rust review
- The dumbest armour in PC gaming history
- Seagate's 2TB FireCuda solid state hybrid drive is on sale for $85
- The Overwatch 'Puppy Rumble' celebrates the Year of the Dog with real dogs (Updated)
- AMD will lend you an older processor to update your BIOS to support a Ryzen APU
- Kingdom Come: Deliverance stole my boots, and I'm on a violent mission to get them back
- Northgard release date set, 11-chapter campaign incoming
- Automaton lifts the lid on Mavericks: Proving Grounds' impressive tech
- Kingdom Come: Deliverance dev explains patch process, targets respec potion and pickpocketing
- Growing Ooblets, the gorgeous farm battler
- Battlefront 2 adds limited-time jetpacks and rocket launchers mode in new patch
- Julian Gollop shows off pincer-wielding boss monsters in new Phoenix Point footage
- Rare talks listening to critics and running Sea of Thieves on a potato
- Fallout 4 mod adds socially aware, hyper-aggressive dogs
- That was a helluva Rainbow Six Siege championship
- February 18
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- Vivid Fallout—All in One combines some of the best Fallout 4 texture mods into one package
- What is Vcore and how can I use it to lower my CPU temperatures?
- Rainbow Six Siege's zombie mode is weird, fun, and surprisingly big
- This trio of mods will improve archery in Kingdom Come: Deliverance
- Oxeye Game Studio explains why Cobalt WASD is such a good fit for PC
- PQube's Indie Showcase is a colourful explosion of neat-looking games
- 5 major changes coming to Rainbow Six Siege
- Next Guilty Gear game will be less complex to attract wider audience, says series creator
- Smell a rat, and a Chaos army, in Warhammer: Vermintide 2's PC Gamer Weekender livestream panel
- Frozen Synapse 2 spills murderous techno factions all over the PC Gamer Weekender livestream
- Remedy's upcoming third-person action game, codenamed P7, will be out in 2019
- Grimlore Games explains how to balance Spellforce 3's RPG and RTS elements
- Steel Division: Normandy 44 DLC adds seven new missions and 58 units
- Biomutant shows off intricate character customisation and some of its 500,000+ weapon combos
- The Elder Scrolls Online: Dragon Bones DLC out now alongside character customisation update
- Surviving Mars dev explains how we'll set up shop on the Red Planet
- Watch the PC Gamer Weekender 2018 livestream here
- Win an LG gaming monitor at the PC Gamer Weekender's LG Lounge
- February 17
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- Bardock and Broly will be first two DLC characters in Dragon Ball FighterZ
- Everything you need to know about Rainbow Six Siege's next two operators
- Code Vein will let you summon other players to help in fights, Dark Souls-style
- Here's what Overwatch looks like as a fighting game
- Final Fantasy 15 devs answer questions from PC Gamer readers
- Build a gaming PC in a game with PC Building Simulator
- Creative Assembly explains Total War Saga: Thrones of Britannia's place within the wider series
- Rend, the 60-player survival game from ex-WoW devs, flaunts tribal warfare
- Final Fantasy 15 drops two stunning PC trailers ahead of next month's launch
- Final Fantasy 15 teases mod support with civilian Cactuars
- Warhorse Studios talks Kingdom Come: Deliverance at the PC Gamer Weekender
- JRPG The Legend of Heroes: Trails of Cold Steel 2 has arrived on PC
- LG wants to 'forge its reputation' in the PC gaming market this year
- Pretty platformer Fe is out now on Origin
- The D.R.G. Initiative devs talk murder game shows at the PC Gamer Weekender
- Civilization 4 is free for Twitch Prime subscribers right now
- Fade to Silence explores its post-apocalypse at the PC Gamer Weekender
- Two Point Hospital's new in-game footage is what you hoped for
- Mavericks: Proving Grounds, the game with the 400-player battle royale mode, drops first teaser
- What's the meanest thing you've done in a game?
- Watch the PC Gamer Weekender OMEN by HP Bootcamp livestream here
- Ryzen 3 2200G is great for extreme budget gaming and HTPC use
- February 16
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- This week's highs and lows in PC gaming
- Dungeons 2 is free for 48 hours in GOG's Chinese New Year sale (Updated)
- System Shock reboot put on hiatus as developers 'reassess our path'
- Becoming a human cannonball in sandbox platformer Meanders
- The Ballad Singer's story promises 40 endings and 1,700 unique paths
- Why Digital Extremes is finally reworking Warframe's level progression
- Lockpicking mod for Kingdom Come: Deliverance makes it a bit easier to steal
- For Honor gets a new mode and loot in the time-limited Apollyon's Legacy event
- For some reason Atari is moving into cryptocurrency now
- This 15.6-inch gaming laptop with a GeForce GTX 1050 is on sale for $700
- You can extend the life of this gaming mouse by swapping out the switches
- Intel is facing 32 lawsuits over Meltdown and Spectre CPU vulnerabilities
- Intel's latest graphics driver automatically configures optimal game settings
- Get $250,000 of free GTA Online money by signing in this week
- The Winner of ModDB's Endless Space 2 contest adds romanceable characters, 19 new endings
- Farming Simulator 19 reveal trailer wants you to 'farm like never before'
- Stellaris details its Apocalypse expansion ahead of launch next week
- Meet the Calradic Empire, one of Mount & Blade 2's most important factions
- Inside the GTA 5 mod that brings San Andreas gang warfare to modern day Los Santos
- Deadly Premonition director Swery making a new game called The Missing for 2018
- Two players co-operate to solve linked escape rooms in We Were Here Too
- Steam's wishlist tool has had an overhaul
- Bungie discusses plan to buff Destiny 2's least loved Exotics
- February 15
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- A new Extinction trailer showcases the last of the Sentinels and the world you'll (maybe) save
- Mafia 3 developer Hangar 13 suffers layoffs
- Ubisoft unveils Rainbow Six Siege's newest Operators, Finka and Lion
- Spinch is a psychedelic 2D platformer inspired by indie comics
- Hunt: Showdown alpha update improves performance and matchmaking (Updated)
- Monster Prom is a competitive dating sim in which you hook up with sexy freaks
- Once Upon A Coma is a side-scrolling sequel to a Flash era great
- Path of Exile's next update is basically Pokémon and I love it
- The weirdest glitches and bugs we've seen in Kingdom Come: Deliverance
- The latency problem: why modern gaming PCs are slower than an Apple II
- Sicario 2 director in talks to helm the Call of Duty movie
- Third-party sellers are hawking unreleased Coffee Lake CPUs on Newegg (Updated)
- Intel's Core i7-8700K processor is on sale for $335
- Our highest review scores of 2017
- The Steam Lunar New Year Sale has begun
- FCC chairman Ajit Pai is under investigation over $3.9 billion media deal
- Corsair’s SFF gaming desktop gets a six-core upgrade starting at $2,800
- In Win’s open air D-Frame Mini returns with a new color options
- Orwell: Ignorance is Strength release date set
- Kingdom Come: Deliverance devs working on better lockpicking and mulling a 'save on quit' option
- Ultima spiritual successor Shroud of the Avatar has a release date
- Win Moto G5 Plus and Moto X4 handsets at the PC Gamer Weekender Tournament Area
- It's refreshing to play an unimportant dork in Kingdom Come: Deliverance
- Final Fantasy XII: The Zodiac Age review
- CD Projekt Red responds to loot box controversy
- Just two days until the PC Gamer Weekender in London, last chance to save 20% on advance tickets
- Fortnite update 2.5.0 adds impulse grenades, Lunar New Year-themed shrines and weapons
- Aegis Defenders review
- Battalion 1944's lead on its troubled launch, plans for the future, and the color gray
- Kingdom Come: Deliverance already has an unlimited saves mod (Updated)
- Kingdom Come: Deliverance may be the new heir to the Crysis throne
- The Sea of Thieves beta returns this weekend for server 'scale testing'
- The PC Gamer Show 119: Kingdom Come: Deliverance, Overwatch League Stage One, and listener questions
- February 14
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- CS:GO pros reveal crucial tips to improving your game
- Devil May Cry is going free for Twitch Prime subscribers
- Warhammer: Vermintide 2 brings the rat pack back in March
- American folklore road trip Where The Water Tastes Like Wine setting out this month
- US senator calls on ESRB to take action on loot boxes, suggests FTC could get involved (Updated)
- Pendula Swing is an adventure game set in a fantasy version of the Roaring '20s
- Rocket League Tournaments beta coming next week
- Sombra, Mei, and Doomfist changes being tested on the Overwatch PTR
- Get a Dell Inspiron desktop with a Core i7-8700 and GeForce GTX 1060 for $931
- Newegg is offering partial refunds after overcharging for AMD’s Ryzen APUs
- Dust: An Elysian Tail dev bringing stealth action game Never Stop Sneakin' to PC
- Scarlett's StarCraft triumph is already one of 2018's best moments
- Tech-noir tactics game All Walls Must Fall leaves Early Access this month
- Deep Rock Galactic's Left 4 Dead-like mining adventures make it the ideal Early Access game
- Valve removes publisher's games from Steam for manipulating review scores
- 5 ways to spice up your Dark Souls PvP life
- Shanghai Dragons officially confirm Geguri signing
- The Evil Within 2 adds first-person mode with terrifying results
- Roguemance, the romance roguelike about fighting blue balls, is out now
- Co-op space dwarf shooter Deep Rock Galactic will be at the PC Gamer Weekender
- Kingdom Come: Deliverance review
- PC Gamer UK Podcast 60: It's all chicken off
- THQ Nordic buys Saints Row owner Koch Media
- Darksiders III and Biomutant will get DRM-free editions on GOG
- The trailer for China's mobile PUBG game is a wild live action ride
- February 13
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- What it's like to kill a game
- You're an indigenous shaman in northern Mexico in action platformer Mulaka
- Valentine's Day brings the Vapid Hustler to GTA Online
- Stormworks: Build and Rescue's free beta is a sim sandbox of heroics (plus a bit of horror)
- EVE Online update lets you gatecrash a pirate party and rebalances Citadels
- Get a Dell Ultrasharp 34-inch 3440x1440 IPS monitor for $500
- Crossing Souls' launch trailer is a delightfully lo-fi cartoon
- Dead Space, EA's 2008 survival horror classic, is free on Origin
- AMD’s latest GPU driver is optimized for Kingdom Come, Fortnite, and PUBG
- [Updated] Mark of the Ninja, Invisible Inc and other great indies are cheap on GOG
- QuakeCon 2018 dates announced for August, and the LAN party will double in size
- GPU maker Colorful copied EVGA’s ‘About Us’ page word for word and thought no one would notice
- The complete schedule of developer stage talks and reveals at this week's PC Gamer Weekender
- Micron's 3D QLC NAND flash memory could lead to higher capacity SSDs
- Kingdom Come: Deliverance patch expected in two weeks
- Crossing Souls review
- Dishonored 2, GTA 5, Prey less than half price in Fanatical's Lunar New Year sale
- Play Murderous Pursuits, the Victorian-era assassination game, at the PC Gamer Weekender in four days
- Hawaii proposes new legislation to regulate use of loot boxes
- Konami explains MGS5 'nuclear disarmament' event mishap, apologises to players (Updated)
- Sea of Thieves' kraken and endgame explained, and Rare's post-launch plans
- Rare reveals if the 8 things we want from Sea of Thieves will be there at launch
- Sea of Thieves system requirements revealed
- How to get rich quick in Kingdom Come: Deliverance
- 'There will never be loot crates in Sea of Thieves,' says design director
- Kingdom Come: Deliverance review in progress
- Sea of Thieves' PC players accounted for one third of its closed beta
- 13 things I wish I knew before playing Kingdom Come: Deliverance
- The director of Home Alone and Harry Potter is making a Five Nights at Freddy's film
- What The Red Strings Club teaches us about conversation
- AMD's Ryzen 5 2400G is a good option for a budget gaming PC
- YouTubers Gavin Free and Meg Turney survive break-in by armed, deranged fan
- EVE Online devs reveal harsher punishments for botters
- February 12
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- Sonic the Hedgehog modded into Dragon Ball FighterZ is exactly as ridiculous as you expect
- The return of Dr Disrespect and the struggle for 'authenticity'
- Watch the amazing Widowmaker plays that shaped the Overwatch League stage one finals
- Meet the new enemies in Rainbow Six Siege 'Outbreak'
- Overwatch will be free to play this weekend
- The Humble Store kicks off a 2K Games sale and Valentine deals
- Fast-paced strategy game Space Tyrant rockets out of Early Access this month
- Ubisoft touts Assassin's Creed: Origins and 'the PC opportunity' in third quarter financials
- Subnautica map coordinates and exploration tips
- Roguelike platformer 20XX adds third playable character Hawk
- Corsair launches a wireless mechanical keyboard for gaming on the couch
- Metro Exodus is bigger than 2033 and Last Light combined
- Geometric puzzler Q.U.B.E. 2 coming next month
- Get an Alienware Aurora desktop with a GeForce GTX 1080 for $1,127
- AMD’s new Ryzen CPUs with Radeon Vega graphics are now available
- Icelandic Bitcoin centres will use more energy than country's homes this year, says power firm
- Three exciting RPGs to check out at the PC Gamer Weekender in 5 days
- Trying to make the grade in the challenging boss arenas of Cuphead
- Get lost in a single screen with neat puzzler Swaps and Traps, out today
- Welcome to Wynncraft, a full-fat Minecraft MMO mod
- This Dark Souls 3 speedrunner now holds all 8 world records
- Cryptocurrency hackers target UK government websites
- February 11
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- Production sim Rise of Industry enters Early Access
- Friday the 13th shows off brutal single-player challenge mode
- Destiny 2 to rework Nightfall Strikes, removing timer and adding difficulty modifiers
- Everything you need to know about Into the Breach, the next game from the developers of FTL
- The Valentine's Day gift guide for PC gamers
- Rust marks end of four-year Early Access with a visual overhaul
- Mount Your Friends in 3D on February 23
- Space Metroidvania Planetoid Pioneers blasts out of Early Access
- Learn to build and overclock rigs with ASUS/Republic of Gamers and Tom Logan at the PC Gamer Weekender
- February 10
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- 'The floor is lava' among a dozen temporary game modes coming to Fortnite soon
- Her Story creator's next project is a multi-viewpoint story that changes based on which perspective you watch
- Laser League dashes into Early Access with a 30% discount
- Nvidia CEO: 'We’re doing everything we can' to increase GPU supply
- Player permabanned for creating The Division photo mode might have ban overturned (Updated)
- Grappling hook platformer Remnants of Naezith is out now
- Play Phoenix Point at the PC Gamer Weekender
- When was the exact moment you fell out of love with a game?
- 10 great things to do at the PCG Weekender, plus last weekend to save 20% on tickets
- If you have high ping, you can pay a subscription fee to lower it
- February 9
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- How game sizes got so huge, and why they'll get even bigger
- Battalion 1944 plays like a shooter born in 2005
- Secret of Mana remake system requirements and price revealed
- David Gaider has left Beamdog
- This week's highs and lows in PC gaming
- Gleaner Heights is a retro farming sim that mixes Harvest Moon with HP Lovecraft
- Genesis Noir is a stark romp through the entire universe
- Using giant robot fists to punch giant robots in McRogue
- Overwatch's Hanzo almost got a barrier-piercing arrow but it was too OP
- Subnautica's hands-off approach to storytelling is brilliant
- The alien ocean of In Other Waters channels Sunless Sea and Metroid Prime
- How Pure Farming 2018 taught me to respect rice and strange machinery
- Activision Blizzard earned more than $4 billion on in-game purchases in 2017
- Years later, My Little Pony-inspired fighting game Them's Fightin' Herds gets a release date
- Nuclear scientists in Russia arrested for using supercomputer to mine cryptocurrency
- Downhill biking game Descenders could be the heir to Skate's throne
- For Honor's dedicated servers will go live on PC later this month
- Asus issues BIOS updates to support upcoming Ryzen APUs with Vega graphics
- This desktop with a Core i7-7700K and GeForce GTX 1080 is on sale for $1,450
- Chrome browser update will label unencrypted HTTP sites as ‘not secure’
- Compete in the PC Gamer Weekender's Tournament Area with Rocket League, Hearthstone and League of Legends
- Enter here for a chance to win a Hunt: Showdown alpha key
- Dying Light is going cheap this weekend, free 'Content Drop #3' launched
- PUBG gamers & streamers go to battle for glory live on Twitch
- Dishonored 2 is getting a graphic novel this month
- This PUBG nature documentary uses the game's replay system to hilarious effect
- 60-player factional survival game Rend will be at the PC Gamer Weekender
- Fez is still a stunning puzzle platformer with one of the best soundtracks in games
- Abandon Ship casts its Early Access anchor this month
- This '4D' mouse has a joystick, but that doesn't make it good
- The Overwatch hacker Sombra is next in line for a rework
- February 8
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- This PUBG streamer is only eating chicken this month, but first he has to win it
- I love this commercial fishing simulator, and not just because it has a fish-gutting minigame
- Join PC Gamer Club for a chance at a Hunt: Showdown key
- Come to the Play a Pro event to meet HayliNic and win Alienware giveaways
- Far Cry 5's 'Guns For Hire' trailer introduces all your potential allies
- Destiny 2 was 'the largest PC launch in Activision history'
- Twitch rolls out stricter rules for sexual content and harassment
- Intel releases updated Spectre patch for Skylake CPUs
- Get $137 worth of games for cheap in the Humble Best of 2017 Bundle
- New teams are expected join Overwatch League in season two
- Cardboard gets scary in horror roguelike Paper Cut Mansion
- Swery's The Good Life is going to Kickstarter in March
- Popular streamer Dr Disrespect defends use of racially insensitive fake Asian language
- My life as the grandma guildmaster of Ultima Online Forever
- You can cram a dozen graphics cards into this motherboard
- Scrolls servers go offline next week, Mojang hopes to make the software public
- Analysts predicts most cryptocurrencies will plummet to zero
- Overwatch Lunar New Year skins revealed
- Fortnite passes PUBG with 3.4 million concurrent players
- Vampyr release date revealed in dev diary series finale
- This 2TB solid state drive is on sale for $390
- Betrayal, rebellion, and too many Vikings in Total War Saga: Thrones of Britannia
- Voice-activated power supply RGB lighting is the feature nobody asked for
- Seed, Klang's hugely ambitious EVE-like MMO, will be on stage at the PC Gamer Weekender
- Relic steps away from Dawn of War 3: 'When a game underperforms, plans need to change'
- Metal Gear Survive to get PC beta next week
- Join the PC Gamer Club and get exclusive Rising Storm 2: Vietnam items
- Injustice 2 welcomes the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles this month
- Last chance to see the UK’s finest esports players at the Omen by HP Bootcamp
- Crash Force: a hovercraft arena shooter
- ARK Park, the Survival Evolved VR offshoot, will release this March
- World of Warcraft's new level-scaling is fun, but only if you love nostalgia
- The PC Gamer Show 118: Subnautica, problematic Witcher porn, the weirdest custom PCs, and listener Q&A
- February 7
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- Witchball is Pong reinterpreted as a sci-fi racing game
- Metro Exodus will feature a year-long journey across the Russian wilderness
- Sweden could classify loot boxes as gambling by early 2019
- We looked for a great Monster Truck game on PC, but found these instead
- Latest 'Steam Audio' beta taps AMD GPUs for spatial audio in games and VR
- Destiny 2's Crimson Days event includes a new map and 2v2 Clash combat
- The best Z270 motherboard
- Failbetter Games lays off employees, Sunless Skies delayed (Updated)
- G.Skill's Ripjaws KM780 RGB mechanical keyboard is on sale for $100
- Cities: Skylines is free to try on Steam for a limited time
- Reddit bans 'Deepfakes' subreddit, the home of the fake Witcher porn
- Vendors on Amazon now selling 6-packs of GPUs for cryptocurrency mining
- FCC report uses old data to ‘prove’ net neutrality repeal saved the internet
- Why is Civilization 5 still more popular than Civilization 6?
- This PowerPoint presentation does a good job explaining Spectre and Meltdown
- The Overwatch 'Year of the Dog' event will feature a new CTF map and competitive season
- The Surge 2 announced, will release in 2019
- This Planet Coaster map is both a working theme park and a playable Monopoly game
- Counter-Strike co-creator charged with commercial sexual abuse of a minor (Updated)
- Kerbal Space Program's Making History expansion bringing mission builder next month
- Scarlett wins Intel's pre-Winter Olympics 2018 StarCraft 2 event
- Civilization 6: Rise and Fall review
- Fear The Wolves is an incoming battle royale game from ex-Stalker devs
- PUBG's Early Access chicken dinners could feed the population of Iceland for a year
- Biomutant will be on stage at the PC Gamer Weekender
- Hand of Fate 2 update lets players make their own missions
- Rocket League may get competitive Snow Day and Hoops
- Dandara review
- What it's like to finish both Divinity: Original Sin games with a friend
- Middle-earth: Shadow of War - Blade of Galadriel is out now, so here's a trailer
- Retro cartoon adventure Crossing Souls gets a free demo
- February 6
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- The Gollop Chamber: Rise of the roguelike deck builder
- Into the Breach, from the makers of FTL, is coming this month
- 6 things Bungie could do for Destiny 2 to bring players back right now
- Geguri set to join the Shanghai Dragons, report says
- What it's like being an Overwatch League pro
- Manga publisher VIZ Media announces indie program and first original game
- Germany may ban loot boxes (Updated)
- Dragon Ball FighterZ 5K gallery
- The cheapest gaming keyboard (that's still decent)
- This Early Access FPS mixes Mount & Blade with modern combat, plus a bit of RTS
- Hearthstone 10.2 update is live, Wildfest is coming later this month
- High capacity hard drives fare well in Backblaze's 2017 HDD reliability report
- The Zulu are coming to Civilization 6 in the Rise and Fall expansion
- Get an exclusive Elite Dangerous ship skin when you join the PC Gamer Club
- Fortnite makes it hard to play a silent assassin, but we tried anyway
- New Jersey is now imposing its own net neutrality rules on ISPs
- Acer's 27-inch 1440p Predator monitor with G-Sync is on sale for $550
- Lost Sphear review
- A Rainbow Six Siege free weekend is coming later this month
- Roccat’s new headset aims to blast your noggin with virtual 7.1-surround sound
- Warhammer: Vermintide 2 gets Overwatch-style supers and RPG elements
- Hearthstone's 'Quest for Packs' will award 3000 card packs and $1200 to one player (Updated)
- 4 awesome next-gen gaming laptops worth owning
- How it feels to get destroyed by RNG on Hearthstone's biggest stage
- We want your questions for the Final Fantasy XV developers at the PCG Weekender
- Puyo Puyo Tetris confirmed for PC, release date set
- Watch Pillars of Eternity 2: Deadfire's ship combat in action
- Strategy transport title Mashinky playable at the PC Gamer Weekender
- Civilization 4 veterans unveil historical 4X strategy game 10 Crowns
- Dragon Ball FighterZ review
- Fortnite Battle Royale's latest limited-time mode improves first-shot accuracy
- Enjin Coin and the Future of Gaming
- Rainbow Six Siege 'Outbreak' gets another cinematic trailer starring Ash
- 3 major things look for in a gaming laptop
- February 5
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- Ash of Gods is a game about angels and free will that looks like The Banner Saga
- How to buy a graphics card without getting ripped off
- Ancestors Legacy open beta begins tomorrow
- The Sims 4 is on sale for $10, expansions 50% off
- Unicef's 'Game Chaingers' asks gamers to mine cryptocurrency to support relief efforts in Syria
- One Hour One Life gives you 60 minutes to advance civilization and raise children
- Age of Empires stands the test of time
- Build of the week: a PUBG diorama that can run PUBG
- Bots are threatening EVE Online's economy and players are fed up
- DrDisrespect returns to PUBG action, sets a new viewer record on Twitch (Updated)
- In FPS brawler Sky Noon, the west is wild thanks to grappling hooks and jetpacks
- Geguri may soon become the Overwatch League's first female player
- Join the PC Gamer Club and get a copy of Slain: Back From Hell
- Get a CyberPower 1000VA 600W pure sine wave UPS for $100
- G.Skill's latest memory kit pushes DDR4 speed boundary to 4700MHz
- Play all these new and upcoming games at the PC Gamer Weekender
- Ossic X's headphones with true 3D calibrated sound are up for preorder
- Creative Assembly will show Total War Saga: Thrones of Britannia at the PC Gamer Weekender
- Save £72 on Razer Phone deals with TechRadar and Three
- Play the team-based competitive survival game Rend at the PC Gamer Weekender
- PUBG banned over 1 million players in January, new anti-cheat measures block ReShade
- Dynasty Warriors 9's open world is huge
- Play C&C: Red Alert 2, Dark Forces and Half-Life in the PC Gamer Weekender LAN Retro Zone
- Doom/Overwatch crossover mod adds D.Va's mech to Doom
- What can I use to remotely access my PC?
- February 4
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- From spreadsheets to high-end games, ACER laptops with GeForce GTX do it all
- Squad alpha version 10 out tomorrow, overhauls player movement and weapon handling
- Pick up excellent racer Dirt Rally for $10, its lowest ever price
- Enter the Predator Helios 300 laptop giveaway
- Friday the 13th Kickstarter backer rewards were stolen by staff at game distribution partner and sold on eBay (Updated)
- Rebellion's Battlezone 2 remaster will be out on March 1
- A Game of Thrones total conversion mod for Kingdom Come: Deliverance is in the works
- Final Fantasy 15 on PC will support Xbox One cross-play
- Square Enix CEO commits to single-player, says 'games as a service' doesn't mean loot boxes
- February 3
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- Space Engineers releases visual update that was a year in the making
- Here's everything you get as part of joining the PC Gamer Club
- Treadnauts brings its multiplayer flying tank battles to Early Access
- Watch a two-card deck lay waste to Slay the Spire's bosses with an infinite combo
- Blood Bowl developer Cyanide's next game is based on Warhammer 40K board game Space Hulk
- Pick up Alien: Isolation plus 5 DLC packs for £8/$11, a whopping 77% discount
- Which demo did you play to death?
- Fortnite update 2.4.0 adds a minigun to the mix
- King of Kong's Billy Mitchell gets kicked off the Donkey Kong leaderboard for allegedly playing on MAME, not real hardware
- PUBG tops premium PC digital market with $714 million in 2017
- Here's what a late-game colony looks like in Surviving Mars
- February 2
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- This week's highs and lows in PC gaming
- We Were Here Too is a co-op escape game that aims to keeps the players apart
- Battalion 1944's Early Access launch brings quick kills and long waits
- Windows 10 update includes a Spectre fix that plays nice with AMD systems
- Battalion 1944 studio lead apologizes for launch problems
- The Overwatch 'Year of the Dog' event is coming next week
- The best low-stakes RPG quests
- Poker is a deadly weapon in this turn-based RPG
- Frostpunk's Automatons are helpful machines that probably won't kill anyone
- Dark Souls 3 is $12 in the new Humble Monthly Bundle
- Get an Alienware Aurora with a GeForce GTX 1080 Ti for $1,395
- Turbulent Bitcoin tumbled to below $8,000 today
- Gunpoint, Heat Signature dev teases XCOM-like battlemage strategy game
- AMD’s Adrenalin 18.2.1 GPU driver is optimized for Final Fantasy XII
- Far Cry 5 season pass includes zombies, Mars, the Vietnam War, and Far Cry 3
- 'Kinetic arcade action game' Violet Cycle launches from Early Access
- Corsair launches a $400 racing chair for long-haul gaming sessions
- Telltale Games Steam sale discounts The Walking Dead, Tales from the Borderlands and more
- This evil Dark Souls mod relocates bonfires, NPCs, enemies
- PUBG to disable Steam family sharing in bid to halt cheaters
- Rock of Ages 2: Bigger & Boulder is free to try this weekend
- The Forest will flee Early Access this April
- In Genderwrecked's post-apocalypse, the only options are talk, fight, and kiss
- Even if he sucks, Doomfist is fun to watch in Overwatch League
- Kingdom Come: Deliverance trailer sets up a 'Blacksmith's Tale' of war and revenge
- February 1
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- Caffeine is a new 'social broadcasting' platform taking on Twitch with simpler, safer streaming
- Destiny 2 update promises "go faster" Guardians are on the way
- Onrush, a racer by former Motorstorm and Driveclub devs, will come to PC
- The strange satisfaction of loot box simulators
- Try the demo for military RPG Long Gone Days
- Rainbow Six Siege 'Outbreak' event will bring alien parasites, three new PvE maps
- Slay the Spire developer considering more characters and events
- How Skyrim Special Edition works (and doesn't) with your existing saved games and mods
- Dota 2 is moving to a bi-weekly update schedule
- Four games to play while we wait for Monster Hunter: World on PC
- New Vampyr dev diary is all about saving and killing citizens
- Razer's 'Cutting Edge' Destiny 2 emblems are selling for more than $100 on eBay
- Play Fallout 4 for free from now until Sunday, and buy it at 50% off
- Malware based on Meltdown and Spectre could be coming soon
- Get an Acer 27-inch 1440p monitor and G.Skill mechanical keyboard for $329
- California is pushing a bill that would impose net neutrality rules on ISPs
- How to build an efficient cryptocurrency mining PC (if you insist)
- Conan Exiles was partly inspired by the European migrant crisis
- Endless Space 2 is cruising along nicely after the Vaulters expansion and post-launch updates
- New Skyblivion trailer shows Cyrodiil's Imperial City remade in Skyrim
- A new Chuchel teaser literally reveals the March release date
- Colony management sim Surviving Mars will arrive in March with full mod support
- Thrones of Britannia makes significant changes to the Total War formula
- Dynasty Warriors 9 reveals army-slaughtering opening cinematic
- GOG makes U-turn on Opus Magnum following initial rejection (Updated)
- BT-owned Openreach promises 3 million premises 'ultrafast' broadband by 2020
- The only thing scarier than Hunt: Showdown’s monsters is its optimization
- The PC Gamer Show 117: Steam's strange sex games, Hunt: Showdown, Overwatch League, and listener questions
- Go behind the scenes of '80s-style action-adventure Crossing Souls
