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- April 30
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- The Mount and Blade empire began with a forum post
- The Binding of Isaac: Afterbirth+ update adds a new character and over 800 rooms
- Kill a goblin with another goblin in fantasy strategy game Fort Triumph
- Pay what you want for surreal adventure game You Left Me
- You can build Pam a house in the new Stardew Valley update
- Black Mesa comes closer to completion with a new 'Xen Engine' patch
- How to install the Windows 10 April update right now
- Save up to 35 percent on PC gaming products at Amazon in the US today
- What's the problem with de_nuke?
- Destiny soundtrack Music of the Spheres is finally getting an official release (Updated)
- AMD's new GPU drivers get your PC ready for the Windows 10 April 2018 Update
- Lawsuit alleges Samsung, Micron, and Hynix colluded to drive up DRAM prices
- Techland acquires Call of Juarez: Gunslinger from Ubisoft, restores it to Steam
- Beacon's beautiful new trailer is all about kicking butt and taking body parts
- Intel hires another AMD employee to promote its future discrete graphics cards
- How to run Ubuntu Linux inside Windows 10
- A hidden AMD doc seemingly confirms second-generation Threadripper CPUs
- Stardew Valley launches multiplayer beta
- It's battle royale at sea in fantasy naval combat game Maelstrom
- Fortnite Season 4 will launch tomorrow
- Tips for beating Hearthstone’s Monster Hunt mode with every hero
- How to speed up BattleTech battles
- Six things I wish I knew before I started Total War Saga: Thrones of Britannia
- FIFA 18 lines up free World Cup content next month
- Total War Saga: Thrones of Britannia review
- PES 2019 leak suggests new licenses, overhauled myClub, 'Visible Fatigue' en route to footie sim
- Fallout 3 cut content mod adds dozens of axed NPCs, weapons, armour sets
- Nixxes Software working with Nvidia on Shadow of the Tomb Raider for PC
- April 29
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- Warcraft: Total War conversion mod enters public beta following eight years of work
- Pick up the first Witcher game for free on GOG
- This Fallout 4 mod is basically Terminator: The Commonwealth
- Chernobylite is a survival horror game about the Chernobyl disaster from The Farm 51
- I can't stop buying $20 Fortnite skins
- Devolver Digital founder says 'shameful' developer workload is industry's 'dirty, dirty secret'
- Arcade racer Trailblazers shows off its track-painting antics in new trailer
- April 28
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- Mad Max, Pillars of Eternity and Torment: Tides of Numenera added to Origin Access
- MOBA Super Monday Night Combat to shut down because of new EU privacy laws
- Psychonauts, Gone Home and Titan Souls among free games for Twitch Prime subscribers in May
- Escape the undead in cutesy stealth roguelike Basingstoke, out now
- Reynad on turning away from Hearthstone to make his own dream card game
- Square Enix is selling a bunch of Final Fantasy games at 50% off right now
- 15 arrested in connection with PUBG cheating programs
- The history of Wolfenstein
- Disco Elysium is shaping up to be the most original RPG of the year
- What's the first game you really loved?
- April 27
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- This week's highs and lows in PC gaming
- An Elite Dangerous pilot spent a month drawing the game's logo across the entire galaxy (Updated)
- Dangerous High School Girls in Trouble is an unfairly forgotten girl-gang RPG
- EVE Online executive producer Andie 'CCP Seagull' Nordgren is leaving CCP Games
- BattleTech's complicated lore, explained by its creator
- Steam Spy isn't dead after all
- Frostpunk scenario guide: surviving the city-builder's extra challenges
- Come get a code for Quake Champions and play right now (all gone!)
- AMD has a Radeon Instinct graphics card with 7nm Vega running in its lab
- A new Blizzard job listing suggests that a PvP shooter is in the works
- Frostpunk studio commits to expansions as sales hit 250,000 in three days
- This Ryzen gaming desktop with a Radeon RX 560 is on sale for $600
- Vandals is like turn-based Hitman with graffiti instead of murder
- Slay the Spire's third character is now available
- Amazon is raising the price of its Prime membership program in the US
- The next major update to Windows 10 is scheduled to arrive on Monday, April 30
- Battle royale is coming to tabletop via Kickstarter
- Fallout 4 airships mod adds a splash of BioShock Infinite to the wasteland
- Shadow of the Tomb Raider trailer shows a tormented Lara Croft
- Murderous Pursuits is a multiplayer assassination game that echoes Dishonored, BioShock and Hitman
- Shadow of the Tomb Raider has a cool setting, but makes a poor first impression
- Get Alien: Isolation for $10 this weekend
- Bungie details Destiny 2 Exotic Masterworks and more changes
- April 26
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- Intel's 10nm Cannon Lake CPUs won't arrive in mass quantities until 2019
- Valve posts a notice about Australian consumer rights on Steam
- Forget Nintendo Labo, we built a PC using a cardboard box
- How a Russian strategy game where you can marry a frog or a zombie became a classic
- Newegg is having a big sale right now, with $100 Z370 boards, $50 2TB HDDs, and more
- Arma 3 is free to play for the weekend
- Becoming king of the hippos using Assassins' Creed Origins' cheat console
- H1Z1 publisher Daybreak Game Company cuts staff
- Sharkoon built a taller and sturdier version of its Skiller gaming chair
- Cooler Master's Hyper 212 LED CPU cooler is a great deal at $15 right now
- Halo Online is pure nostalgia for shooter fans of a certain age
- Hearthstone's new Monster Hunt mode is now live
- AMD breaks out the whiteboard to explain Ryzen's new overclocking features
- Logitech MX Sound 2.0 speakers review
- Solving puzzles and taking selfies in the colorful islands of Solo
- New details on Wild West Online PvE as its Steam release date is revealed
- Nvidia’s latest GPU driver is causing installation headaches for some GTX 1060 owners
- Watch Fortnite get clobbered by meteors as the comet apocalypse approaches
- For the King review
- AMD's most powerful Ryzen Threadripper CPU is $160 off right now
- Chucklefish is publishing Eastward—a sci-fi RPG with hints of Zelda, Mother and animated whale carcasses
- Take a closer look at Cities: Skylines' Parklife expansion
- Team Fortress 2 vs Overwatch: This video settles who would win in a fight
- Final Fantasy 15's Noctis and pals have come to Minecraft
- Flotilla 2 will fling you into tactical space battles in VR
- Fallout Miami mod brings sun, sea and sand to the post-apocalypse
- Valiant Hearts director reveals more about WWI narrative adventure 11-11: Memories Retold (Updated)
- Sonic Mania Plus release date set
- Meet the GTA 5 modder bringing The Avengers to Los Santos
- April 25
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- WW2 FPS Day of Infamy is free to play this weekend
- Is the great graphics card shortage finally ending?
- The PC Gamer Show 129: Frostpunk, BattleTech, Ninja's weird Fortnite show, and listener Q&A
- Epic seeks default judgment in lawsuit against 14-year-old Fortnite cheater and his mom
- QWOP was proof that games can be slapstick comedy
- We have 50 keys for Dead in Vinland to give away
- The Good Life, Swery's 'daily life RPG' murder mystery, gets a free demo
- Try the demo for ambitious top-down action RPG Last Epoch
- Halo community in turmoil as Microsoft DMCAs Halo Online Twitch streamers (Updated)
- Riot Games joins UC Berkeley for League of Legends esports program and scholarships
- Rainbow Six Siege is getting a bulletproof camera gadget
- Destiny 2's best new gun isn't even out but players are already arguing about it
- Here’s details on Magic: The Gathering Arena’s upcoming economy and drafts
- Get an MSI gaming laptop with GTX 1060 for $949 today only
- Belgium's Gambling Commission rules against loot boxes in Overwatch, FIFA 18, and CS:GO
- Electronic waste recycler is going to prison for selling Windows restore CDs
- Adata XPG EMIX H30 headset review
- Terraria meets Diablo in David Brevik's new game It Lurks Below, now in Early Access
- Nvidia releases 'Game Ready' GPU drivers for BattleTech and Frostpunk
- EVGA’s GeForce GTX 1070 Ti FTW Ultra Silent card is on sale for $510
- This 4GB RX 580 is just $250 right now (Update: out of stock)
- GTA Online's Vespucci Job is worth a spin this week with double GTA$ and experience
- What's next for Ninja Theory after Hellblade
- Slay the Spire designer discusses new characters and card game inspirations
- Microsoft blocks Halo Online mod ElDewrito, hints at 'official' Halo coming to PC (Updated)
- GTA 4's Liberty City is still an incredible virtual city
- Hitman, Limbo, Inside going cheap in Steam's 'Games From Denmark' sale
- Hellblade developer 'surprised so many people played the game with mouse and keyboard'
- April 24
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- The Sims 4 'Insane' trait has been renamed to 'Erratic'
- Samsung 970 Evo review: we're close to maxing out PCIe x4
- An upcoming Hearthstone patch will fix Shudderwock's absurd Battlecry
- To Leave is about a magic door and a boy's battle with himself
- Defense Grid, the 'beer game' that changed a genre
- Ubisoft admits Rainbow Six Siege's fastest characters are too strong
- See the new Exotics, armor, and enemies from the Destiny 2: Warmind DLC
- Pillars of Eternity 2 dev talks worldbuilding, and making all that text 'easier to digest'
- Foxy retro platformer Fox n Forests pouncing on PC next month
- Destiny 2: Warmind stream reveals Ana Bray, new Hive horde mode, and season 3 changes
- This AMD Ryzen 7 1700 desktop with a Radeon RX 560 is on sale for $600
- UFO shapes have appeared in Fortnite, sign says comet could hit tomorrow
- Supreme Court ruling makes it easier for tech companies to slay patent trolls
- Samsung’s flagship 970 Pro and Evo NVMe solid state drives are built for speed
- ViewSonic VP3268-4K monitor review
- A future Rainbow Six Siege update will nerf Lion, buff LMGs
- For the first time in a quarter-century Intel is not the top semiconductor vendor
- Pillars of Eternity 2 expansions will feature a doomsday cult, wizards, and Eora's toughest guys
- This 128GB Corsair M.2 SSD is just $65 right now
- Dark Souls: Remastered is half-price for owners of the original PC game after all
- Strange Brigade, Rebellion's supernatural co-op shooter, has a release date
- 9 things I wish I knew before playing Frostpunk
- The Swords of Ditto review
- Get this Sniper Ghost Warrior bundle for $1 for a very limited time
- Stellaris unveils Distant Stars story DLC with gentle giants and angry space neighbours
- BattleTech guide: Manage your mechs to victory and riches
- Fortnite adds plunger-like sticky grenades
- BattleTech review
- Escape Doodland looks like a lo-fi Rayman Legends
- Ninja held a Fortnite competition in Vegas, but underdog players stole the show
- Fortnite confirmed for China, with $15m esports investment
- April 23
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- David Cage's Quantic Dream sues French media outlets over negative coverage
- Does Braid deserve its status as the iconic breakthrough indie game?
- Descent successor Overload officially releasing next month
- Watch me jump out of a plane after annoying everyone on board in VR spy action game Defector
- How a bunch of Reddit memes became the best armor in Runescape
- Stunning sci-fi shooter Beacon launching on Itch.io next week
- The PUBG Global Invitational 2018 will see 20 teams do battle for $2 million in prizes
- The best BattleTech books
- Help demons come to terms with their crappy jobs in the Doom mod 'Mr. Friendly'
- The best deals in Amazon’s board game sale
- Upgrade to an SSD right now for just $36
- Get a Corsair Carbide Spec-Alpha case for $30 after rebate
- AMD’s updated price list suggests a phasing out of first generation Ryzen CPUs
- The Swords of Ditto comes out tomorrow, so let's watch the new trailer
- MSI wraps its newest mid-tower case in tinted tempered glass
- Asus ROG Strix Z370-G Gaming motherboard review
- Destiny 2: Warmind teaser hints at new armor, Exotics, and the return of a Crucible classic
- Frostpunk review
- The first DisplayHDR 1000 monitor is a 43-inch model from Philips
- Final Fantasy 7 remake aims for 'quality that surpasses the original'
- Total War Saga: Thrones of Britannia 'pays homage to its English heritage' with cinematic
- Darkest Dungeon class mod adds Dark Souls Darkwraith
- Ninja breaks Fortnite streaming record with 667,000 concurrent viewers
- Yoku's Island Express, the Sonic Spinball meets Studio Ghibli sidescroller, has a release date
- Demon's Souls in 4K and 30 fps on PC is wonderful and terrifying
- Resident Evil 4 HD Project mod remakes The Island, prepares for something 'BIG'
- The making of Audiosurf, the synesthesia simulator
- Introducing the Class of 2008
- April 22
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- Knuckle Sandwich, the RPG about fast food and cults, smashes Kickstarter goal in 12 hours
- Pretty Metroidvania Faeland jumps onto Kickstarter
- Next Stellaris update will overhaul anomalies and add multi-star systems
- Upcoming PUBG weapons patch aims to stop players using assault rifles all the time
- Assassin's Creed: Origins control panel that lets you 'hack' the game is out now
- Super Mega Baseball 2 out on May 1, final reveal video shows off new focus on realism
- April 21
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- Valve buys Campo Santo, developer of Firewatch
- Beyond Skyrim's latest trailer shows the ambitious mod's take on the Breton and Redguard homelands
- Iratus: Lord of the Dead, an RPG inspired by Darkest Dungeon, is heading to Kickstarter next month
- Pillars of Eternity 2: Deadfire director urges RPG developers to be more 'radical', says some fans 'resistant to change'
- After giving up on arcade games, it sounds like Housemarque is making a battle royale
- War for the Overworld's final expansion is out now, base game is 75% off
- Battle royale game Darwin Project is now free to play
- Tim Schafer talks Psychonauts 2 and more remasters of Lucasarts adventure games
- April 20
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- This week's highs and lows in PC gaming
- My Little Blacksmith Shop is relaxing and overwhelming at the same time
- An Ohio university is offering Fortnite esports scholarships
- Side-scroller Aura of Worlds opens its ever-changing labyrinth next week
- Playing an updated, widescreen Warcraft 3 in 2018 is surreal
- Grand Theft Auto 5, War for the Overworld, Cities: Skylines going cheap on Fanatical this weekend
- The life and death of EVE Online's first all-woman pirate gang
- Hollow Knight Lifeblood update now available, Gods & Glory DLC 'coming together'
- Daedalic Entertainment is having a weekend Steam sale
- Hearthstone won't be the same without Ben Brode
- Edmund McMillen's next game, The Legend of Bum-bo, gets its first trailer
- Through the Ages is a superior civilization-building game
- Blizzard accidentally revealed that Overwatch's Horizon Lunar Colony map is getting a major rework
- Agony, the horror game about salacious demons in Hell, has a new release date
- Valve loses final appeal in Australian lawsuit, on the hook for $2.4 million fine
- Grab a Zalman mechanical keyboard with Cherry MX Red switches for $40
- Hearthstone game director Ben Brode is leaving Blizzard
- EK will build and sell you a liquid-cooled AMD Ryzen gaming PC
- AMD hasn’t ruled out releasing a Ryzen 7 2800X, but probably won’t
- PC Gamer UK Podcast 63: Use Cider on Lemon
- Alienware’s hotel room in Hilton Panama is an absolute gamer’s paradise
- Tim Schafer would love to remaster more classic Lucasarts adventure games
- World of Tanks 1.0 Q&A
- Shenmue re-releases were planned before third game reveal, says Sega exec
- Football Manager 2018 partners with the NHS to promote mental health awareness
- God of War: Ascension and God of War 3 look great on PC with this PS3 emulator
- It looks like Fortnite could possibly launch in China next week
- PUBG 'Metal Rain' event has eight-player squads, flare guns and falling UAZs
- April 19
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- Netherlands Gaming Authority cracks down on loot boxes in some games
- Battlefield 1's Rupture map is now free for everyone, Shock Operations coming in June
- Cyberpunk RTS Satellite Reign is free on Humble
- Playing GTA 5 with a realistic damage mod is a world of constant pain and death
- Assassination party game Murderous Pursuits is holding an open beta this weekend
- Encumbrance sucks, so why is it still so common?
- Build the most confusing furniture store possible in Assembly Required
- Warhammer 40K: Inquisitor-Martyr dev says '90+ hours per week' was a joke (Updated)
- Cynical cemetery sim Graveyard Keeper gets grim in new trailer
- The Steam VR Spring Sale is on now
- Dozens of tech firms sign pact promising to protect citizens from cyberattacks
- Hearthstone designers explain what to expect from next week's Monster Hunt
- Everything we know about the next Rainbow Six Siege Operators
- AMD Ryzen 7 2700X is better than its predecessors in every way
- Get an Acer 15.6-inch laptop with a 256GB SSD and GeForce GTX 1050 Ti for $600
- The original EverQuest is so unhelpful and severe that it almost feels modern
- AOC launches a 31.5-inch gaming monitor with FreeSync 2 and HDR support
- Crytek outlines anti-cheating plans for Hunt: Showdown
- Everspace dev reportedly says they paid thousands for a pro streamer who 'played like a f**king moron'
- I love Saya no Uta, even though it's incredibly messed-up
- Someone just overclocked AMD’s Ryzen 7 2700X to an insane 6GHz on LN2
- Let's build the perfect RTS game
- Let's talk about politics in games
- Cities: Skylines gets greener with next month's Parklife expansion
- Serious Sam 4: Planet Badass has a teaser trailer
- Order of Magnitude is a colony simulation game from the makers of Prison Architect
- PUBG is getting map selection
- Fortnite update brings Light Machine Guns, 50v50 Limited Time Mode mark two
- PNY's GTX 1060 is just $230 right now on Amazon
- Fortnite players believe a comet is set to destroy Tilted Towers
- April 18
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- Crucial MX500 SSD review
- Battlefield studio DICE is reportedly working on a battle royale mode project
- Watch three of Destiny 2's revamped Exotic weapons in action
- Russian streamers claim Twitch is now being blocked
- Muffled Warfare is a multiplayer FPS where everyone is blind
- Radical Heights' first patch adds bike tricks and a much needed quick melee option
- Mech combat game Vox Machinae is just what VR needs
- Vampyr, Life is Strange developer reportedly working on multiple new games
- A new MechWarrior 5: Mercenaries trailer teases extended 'destructibility'
- GOG is getting user profiles 'very soon'
- Hearthstone got its fatigue mechanic thanks to Jeff Kaplan
- This ASUS GTX 1080 Strix is just $580 right now
- 14-year-old fanmade Halo PC maps could get a strange second life on Xbox Live
- Upgrade to an LG 27-inch 4K monitor with FreeSync for $275
- Suspect in massive Iceland Bitcoin heist busts out of jail, escapes to Sweden
- Peggle, PopCap's rage-inducing digital pachinko game, is free on Origin
- This portable graphics box promises full discrete GPU performance for laptops
- AMD and Cray forge an Epyc supercomputing partnership
- Beware of malicious Minecraft skins that attempt to erase your hard drive
- How authentic is PC Building Simulator really?
- PUBG is 'working on an underground cave system' for its new Savage map
- Join Adorama, your gaming destination and Meet Justin Wong with ASUS Republic of Gamers
- Dark Souls 3 cut content suggests Pontiff Sulyvahn was once the final boss
- I sang at a faux-American Idol audition and started a riot in a GTA 5 roleplaying server
- Using Early Access Astroneer to deal with the Singularity
- Insomnia: The Ark is a 'dieselpunk' RPG that echoes BioShock and Fallout
- April 17
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- Expect to see a lot of Sombra in Overwatch League stage 3
- I love pretending to be an NPC in games
- Fortnite's Guided Missile is going away for a while
- Lenovo Explorer mixed reality headset review
- EVGA's 8GB GTX 1080 is just $580 right now from Newegg
- Everything in side-scrolling shooter Heckpoint can be destroyed, especially you
- Call of Duty: Black Ops 4 may have a battle royale mode instead of a campaign
- Ride hoverbikes through a cel shaded desert in Project Sable
- Monster Hunter: World is getting a raid-style quest mode and a new Elder Dragon
- AMD fires back at Nvidia over GeForce affiliate program controversy
- After 16 years of work, 'hardcore realism' mod Ghost Recon: Heroes Unleashed is finally finished
- We tried to get good with Tachanka, Rainbow Six Siege's worst operator
- 'First draft' of Wasteland 3 will be complete next month, still on track for 2019 release
- Explore a dying PC in offbeat Metroidvania Visual Out
- Cooler Master’s latest all-in-one liquid coolers crank up the light show
- Overwatch gets a Competitive 6v6 Lockout Elimination season
- Ajit Pai’s former FCC broadband advisor arrested on $250 million fraud charges
- The joy of returning to the early days of the FPS in Ion Maiden
- Mansions of Madness is getting a proper videogame adaptation
- Here's why I've started collecting old PC games in big cardboard boxes
- Acer's 27-inch 1440p 165Hz IPS monitor with G-Sync on sale for $550
- Fallout: New California mod shows off one last teaser trailer ahead of release date announcement
- GTA Online gets new Italian Job-inspired police chase mode, complete with knock-off Minis
- Speak your dialogue lines out loud in Skyrim VR with this voice recognition mod
- The Pillars of the Earth review
- This collection of Star Wars Battlefront mods will make it look like the movies
- Fortnite is adding an LMG with a bipod
- If you like Crusader Kings 2 then you’ll love Fief: France 1429
- PUBG's Savage map has a blue zone that adjusts its timing 'based on the number of players left'
- A raging tornado was not enough to stop this guy from playing Fortnite
- Yv VIII: Lacrimosa of Dana is finally on PC, but the port is reportedly terrible
- Brendan Greene wants to make PUBG a major force in esports
- April 16
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- Lost in Space looks an awful lot like a Mass Effect TV show
- We're giving away 2,000 PUBG Savage beta keys here (Update: they're gone)
- Apocalipsis is a point-and-click adventure that creeps me the hell out
- Killer plants rule the world in bullet hell roguelike Juicy Realm
- Ubisoft may be hinting that Watch Dogs 3 is on the way
- Bully Hunters anti-harassment campaign shuts down as criticism mounts
- HP's 256GB SSD is just $60 from Walmart right now
- Air-powered FPS brawler Sky Noon hosting a beta before coming to Steam
- Free exploration game Marie's Room is like a bite of Edith Finch
- Overwatch League's Dallas Fuel fires underperforming coach and player
- Intel’s technical documents hint at 8-core Coffee Lake CPUs launching this year
- Casey Hudson says Mass Effect: Andromeda failure has 'refocused' BioWare
- ElDewrito, the mod that brings Halo Online to life, has a new version coming this week
- Update: Blizzard is taking feedback about whether to change Hearthstone's bonkers Shudderwock combo
- Fortnite review
- AMD’s second-gen Ryzen CPUs are topping 5.8GHz when overclocked
- Jessica Estephan is Magic: The Gathering’s first female Grand Prix winner
- GOG's Most Wanted Sale hits over 150 games with up to 85 percent off
- Vermintide 2, Arkham Knight, Metro series going cheap in Fanatical's Super 6 Sale
- How to rescue old PCs with Ultimate Boot CD
- Amazon has some big discounts on refurbished HP Omen PCs in the US
- The Far Cry games ranked from worst to best
- GTA 5 Vice City mod stunt montage gets nostalgic
- Two Point Hospital newsletter signees get a free golden toilet
- Radical Heights teases female character model and outfits
- The evolving art of dialogue in games
- Pathologic 2 shows off new combat mechanics and smarter AI
- Terraforming Mars digital is a quick-playing alternative to tabletop
- April 15
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- Rain down asteroids and control gravity with this cheat-enabling Surviving Mars mod
- Tower of Time ventures out of Early Access
- Civilization 6 spring update will make England strong again
- Latest Code Vein trailer shows off demonic finishing moves
- EA's new chief designer promises to avoid repeat of Battlefront 2's loot box controversy
- PC version of Agony will have optional patch to remove console 'censorship'
- April 14
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- Friday the 13th: Killer Puzzle is a free game about cartoon murder
- Northgard teases new clan and a multiplayer ranking system
- The most wishlisted games on GOG will get 'super cheap' on Monday
- A Way Out sells one million copies within three weeks—more than EA thought it would sell in its liftetime
- Terraria spin-off Otherworld has been cancelled
- The Banner Saga 3 gets July 24 release date
- Which game is just too damn long?
- Shenmue 1 and 2 are coming to PC with updated graphics options
- Take a tour of the Stygian Abyss in the first Underworld Ascendant trailer
- April 13
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- This week's highs and lows in PC gaming
- Gwent release set for October, but a full redesign is coming first
- Skyrim Special Edition is free to play for the weekend, and half-price until April 23
- 'Thelma & Louise vs. the mall' and more experimental games from the Now Play This festival
- Strip Fortnite is the latest in lazy exploitation on YouTube (NSFW)
- War Child's 'Re-Play' Steam sale features XCOM, Civilization, and some retro classics
- Manage monsters and inevitably get eaten in Lobotomy Corporation
- A new BioShock game is reportedly in the works at a 'top-secret' 2K studio
- We have 150 NeuroSlicer pre-alpha keys to give away (Update: all out)
- This Acer Predator laptop with a GeForce GTX 1070 and G-Sync is on sale for $1,349
- Meet the pilots who just had an EVE Online-themed wedding in Iceland
- Intel processors bundled with Optane Memory are now available
- Ewoks invade Battlefront 2 in the next update, premium currency returns
- Sam Barlow on #WarGames, Her Story, and reflecting real-world politics
- AMD's second-generation Ryzen CPUs go up for preorder, ship April 19
- How microtransactions and in-game currencies can be used to launder money
- This Fortnite nature documentary uses the game's new replay system to great effect
- PUBG gets respawns in point-accumulating deathmatch mode
- The history of Tomb Raider
- This Is the Police 2 has an XCOM-style tactical mode that changes the game entirely
- Hellblade: Senua's Sacrifice wins big at the 2018 BAFTA Games Awards
- April 12
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- Where to find Fortnite's hidden dance floors
- The Eugen Systems strike is over, but the battle rages on
- Mother Simulator makes you deal with a hungry baby, explosive diarrhea, and a sudden ice age
- Tabletop-inspired RPG For The King launching from Early Access next week
- Hunt: Showdown's first performance patch promises a smoother experience
- What happens when Fortnite hits China?
- Rockstar confirms that some Grand Theft Auto 4 music is being removed
- How The Chinese Room rebuilt Dear Esther for a live tour
- Save an extra 20 percent on ‘like new’ wireless AC routers on Amazon
- Tips from the Fortnite player with the most Victory Royales in the world
- EVE Online's next expansion pits players against a deadly human race
- Galactic Civilizations 3 gets governments and crises in the new 'Intrigue' expansion
- CCP Games CEO says he's a 'big believer' in VR despite halting VR development
- Fortnite is back but 50v50 is delayed, Epic says 'sorry' with some free stuff
- Empires of EVE: Volume 2, the EVE Online history book, crowdfunded in a matter of hours
- Beautiful Ghibli-inspired adventure game Forgotton Anne out next month
- Shovel Knight has sold 2 million copies, most sales on PC but most revenue on Switch
- Antec slaps a decade-long warranty on new power supply line for gamers
- Hearthstone: The Witchwood is live
- Adata joins the 5GHz club by overclocking a DDR4 memory kit on air
- Bathtub Geralt is now a Nendoroid figurine
- The Morrowind Rebirth mod is the ultimate enhanced vanilla experience
- The Biggest Tanks in PC Gaming
- The best spy games on PC
- Thrones of Britannia lets you arrange divorce and murder untrustworthy allies
- EVE Online's spin-off FPS coming in 2018
- Dead in Vinland dumps a viking family on North America's shore
- Sea of Thieves PC update targets aim sensitivity and mouse binds
- PUBG's Savage map returns for second round of testing next week
- This GTA 5 Kratos mod brings God of War to PC
- Overwatch League DreamKazper jerseys can reportedly be exchanged
- Only one player gets guns in the Dead by Daylight dev's new asymmetrical shooter
- Blizzard details how Hearthstone's updated Deathstalker Rexxar will work
- April 11
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- Fortnite's new replay tool is already producing gold
- Destiny 2's next expansion, Warmind, is coming in May
- The PC Gamer Show 128: Radical Heights, the battle royale explosion, and listener Q&A
- The creators of Spelunky and Getting Over It talk about Sexy Hiking and 'B-games'
- Hearthstone's Ben Brode: "If you knew how good a card is by looking at it, we wouldn't need a balance team"
- Warcraft 3 goes widescreen in a new update
- The best and worst boss fights in PC gaming
- Fortnite's Port-a-Fort grenades and Replay system are now live
- Accidentally save the world in 'classical' adventure game Unforeseen Incidents
- Elite women gamers team up to destroy online bullies and abusers in CS:GO
- What we think of Radical Heights, Boss Key's free-to-play Early Access battle royale game
- Get a Dell XPS desktop with 6-core Intel CPU and GeForce GTX 1070 for $1,000
- Monster breeding RPG Monster Crown looks like build-a-Pokémon
- Solve lovely-looking puzzles as a pen-and-paper samurai in Inked
- HP hopes to attract gamers on a budget with new laptops and desktops
- A last-minute bug is likely why Windows 10's Spring Creators Update isn't out yet
- AMD and Microsoft both release patches to protect against Spectre
- Drake teases a Fortnite rap, but only if Epic gives him a Hotline Bling emote
- Battletech story trailer talks oppressive regimes, mercenary companies and civil war
- FTC warns companies ‘warranty void if removed stickers’ are potentially illegal
- Thrones of Britannia director discusses modding and design intentions for Total War Saga
- Fallout 4 Sim Settlements mod add-on introduces disaster scenarios
- Mr Tic Toc & the Endless City is a gorgeous adventure about a time-travelling suitcase
- I’m over the fact that choices don’t really matter in Telltale games
- The Houses of Morrowind keeps The Elder Scrolls: Legends fresh and exciting
- The Dauntless open beta begins in May
- The Piano is a post-war survival horror murder mystery
- Overkill's The Walking Dead shows off its second survivor
- Find the best Star Wars board game for you
- Unlock new gear in Far Cry 5's live event: Arcade Dawn
- Meet the Dark Souls detective uncovering Lothric's cut content
- Shopkeeper RPG Moonlighter gets a release date and a new trailer
- Steam's new privacy update will apparently ruin Steam Spy
- April 10
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- Learning to walk (and work) again in Stardew Valley
- The art of flavour text
- Cultist Simulator launch trailer confirms a late-May release date (Update)
- Destiny's infamous Gjallarhorn rocket launcher is coming to Enter the Gungeon
- Why Dragon Quest 11 will have English voice acting even though the Japanese version has none
- Destiny 2 hotfix reduces Rumble player count and changes respawn system
- A new kind of ransomware forces you to play PUBG to unlock your files
- Help save the whales with the new Humble Strategy Bundle
- Let's discuss Far Cry 5's boring cult and pointless ending
- This Rosewill micro ATX case is just $10 after rebate
- Asus announces new midrange gaming laptops with 120Hz displays
- Corsair dresses up its latest premium DDR4 memory kits in spiffy white LEDs
- Chrono Trigger's first patch brings back 'Original' graphics
- Oregon enacts its own net neutrality law, but it doesn't affect home consumers
- Excellent grandma tribute Lieve Oma is free on Itch
- Overwatch Retribution skins revealed
- Masters of Anima, an action-RTS about a guy who wants to get married, is out today
- GTA Online kicks off 'Contraband Week' with Gunrunning-focused perks and discounts
- The Elder Scrolls 4: Oblivion feels sparse and strange today
- You're a goat-herding grandma in melancholy farming sim The Stillness of the Wind
- Deck-building dungeon-crawler Hand of Fate 2 gets Endless Mode and new challenges
- Football Manager World Championships winner to coach real-world team
- Worlds Adrift docks on Early Access next month
- This GTA 5 realistic damage mod adds nerve damage, heart attacks, internal bleeding
- Extinction review
- Below's world is dark, dangerous, and teeming with secrets
- Nexon has been fined by the Korean Fair Trade Commission over loot boxes
- This co-op puzzler has two players navigate cliffs while tied together with rope
- Portable fort-sprouting grenades are coming to Fortnite
- April 9
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- Skyrim VR adds a fresh sense of wonder to a familiar world
- Parkitect is reviving the classic rollercoaster sim
- Try the demo for Renaine, a 2D platformer 'about overcoming failure'
- Watch this Fortnite player rocket-ride across the whole map
- The Myst 25th Anniversary Collection will bring the full series to Windows 10
- Your Far Cry 5 companions hang out at a pizza joint together when you're not with them
- Seafaring survival game Raft is coming to Steam next month
- Ooblets developer update reveals four new characters and a 'level unlock tree'
- Hearthstone's next update will let you borrow a friend's deck and play it against them
- Hack the deep web and hide from hitmen in offbeat horror game Welcome to the Game 2
- A new Rainbow Six Siege exploit is turning Blitz into a monster (update: fixed)
- Windows 3.0 File Manager source code takes you back to 1990s-style navigation
- Get an Alienware desktop with a Core i5-8400 and GTX 1080 Ti for $1,400
- Overwatch League player DreamKazper released by Boston Uprising following 'allegations' (Updated)
- Ex-Grand Theft Auto producer suffers setback in $150 million lawsuit against Rockstar
- The Witcher 3 mod painstakingly recreates the UI and HUD from E3 2014 demo
- HyperX’s second gaming mouse looks like a better option than its first one
- Sam Fisher joins Ghost Recon Wildlands for 'Special Operation 1'
- Nvidia will no longer make GPU drivers for 32-bit OSes and Fermi graphics cards
- AOC refreshes its 35-inch curved G-Sync monitor with a faster panel
- BlizzCon 2018 dates announced, tickets go on sale in May
- Predicting the power of every legendary in Hearthstone's The Witchwood
- World of Tanks is getting serious about graphics and it’s great
- Radical Heights is Boss Key's next game—a free-to-play battle royale set in a 'futuristic '80s world'
- How Deus Ex: Mankind Divided nails the personal side of prejudice
- GTA 5 estimated to be the most profitable entertainment product of all time
- Navigating ancient tombs and a strained friendship In the Valley of Gods
- Fallout: New Vegas prequel mod enters beta after 9 years
- SCUM's ridiculous survival meters include vitamins, muscle mass, and even a tooth counter
- April 8
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- Street Fighter board game with collectible figurines punches through $400,000 Kickstarter target in one day
- Summer Games Done Quick announces speedrun lineup
- You can already run mods in Skyrim VR
- Hi-Rez shows off weapon crafting system and map for Paladins battle royale game as alpha tests begin
- Jeff Kaplan: Queuing system for specific roles in Overwatch could 'hurt spirit of the game'
- State of Decay 2 shows all the ways you can slaughter its zombies in latest trailer
- April 7
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- Acer Predator After Party brings games, giveaways, and music to PAX East 2018
- Solve the case or go crazy trying in isometric RPG Disco Elysium
- Tail whip killer robots in 2D 'motorbike combat game' Steel Rats
- The Forest will leave behind four years of Early Access on April 30
- Ubisoft says it's impossible to make a battle royale mode for Ghost Recon Wildlands right now
- Sinner: Sacrifice for Redemption is all boss fights, and each one makes you weaker
- Rust's first player-controlled vehicle has arrived, and it's a boat
- Riot regrets 'unnecessarily sexualized' design of League of Legends champion Kai’Sa
- Far Cry 5's week one sales more than doubled those of Far Cry 4
- Final Fantasy 15 to release four new DLC episodes next year, including an alternate ending
- PUBG's team deathmatch custom game mode will be rolled out to all players soon
- This week's highs and lows in PC gaming
- Follow the launch of Kingdom Come: Deliverance in the 'Epilogue' documentary
- April 6
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- Remembering SkiFree, and the Yeti that still haunts our dreams
- Deckard Cain puts enemies to sleep in Heroes of the Storm by reading them Diablo lore
- A DayZ 'reboot' with major engine changes is coming soon, lead producer says (Updated)
- Intel's team-up with AMD produces the fastest integrated graphics ever
- 'You play as the monsters' in Eldritch strategy game Sea Salt
- System Shock Kickstarter update details a return to the 'original vision'
- This video about old Japanese PCs is delightfully 80s and extremely British
- Destiny 2's AFK timer for Strikes is being shortened, 6v6 Iron Banner delayed
- Disgaea 5 Complete coming to PC next month
- Super Meat Boy Forever is an auto-runner, but it might be the best auto-runner
- Fortnite's new raven skin and glider finally make it edgy enough for the cool kids
- Save up to 80 percent on hardware during Newegg's 'Gold Tag' sale
- This Dell 15.6-inch laptop with 512GB SSD and GTX 1050 is on sale for $1,399
- EVGA’s Z10 mechanical keyboard has a built-in LCD screen for viewing stats
- Splinter Cell's Sam Fisher teases a team-up with Ghost Recon Wildlands
- The May Humble Monthly kicks off with Kerbal Space Program, Dead Rising 4, and Ruiner
- Conan Exiles prepares to leave Early Access with two new regions and massive NPC invasions
- The best and worst Final Fantasy party members
- Microsoft is testing a new way to take screen clips in Windows 10
- Mount & Blade 2: Bannerlord will have upgradable castles
- How Larian Studios skirted bankruptcy before making Divinity: Original Sin
- The making of Divinity: Original Sin 2
- Vermintide 2 dials back difficulty with latest update
- Sea of Thieves is getting invite-only crews because 'players are misusing the brig'
- Welcome to the PC Gamer Board Games channel
- If you like Surviving Mars then you'll love Terraforming Mars
- Splitgate: Arena Warfare is 'Halo plus Portal,' and the most disorienting competitive FPS I've ever played
- Republic of Gamers dropped a huge airdrop crate on the PAX East 2018 show floor
- April 5
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- The Division studio Massive is reportedly working on a battle royale title
- Destiny 2 developer: "We are actively working on a new weapon system right now"
- See a mud crab waiting for the subway in this weird The Elder Scrolls: Legends - Morrowind launch trailer
- 'Violence is your last resort' in stealth roguelike Basingstoke
- Retro platformer Timespinner looks ambitious and authentic
- WoW's new Island Expeditions are a refreshing alternative to dungeon grinding bullshit
- Come get a beta key for horror mansion sim MachiaVillain
- Shaq Fu: A Legend Reborn release date trailer introduces Shaq Fei Hung and Yen-Lo Wang
- Apocalypse Cow is a 2D action game that plays like a blood-drunk cartoon
- Crusader Kings 2 is free on Steam, and you can keep it forever
- LawBreakers studio is working on a new project
- NZXT's H400i micro ATX tower is on sale for $87 after rebate
- WD launches an ultra-fast SSD line that’s cheaper than Samsung’s 960 Pro
- Hearthstone: The Witchwood will launch next week
- McAfee report suggests gamers could thrive in a cybersecurity career
- Razer is opening a digital game store today and we're gifting 1,000 $5 codes
- Surviving Mars adds free camera, birth control policy, tribute to Stephen Hawking
- Clutching on to a collapsing kingdom in Total War Saga: Thrones of Britannia
- PUBG gets shotguns and melee-only custom mode
- World of Warcraft: Battle for Azeroth launches August 14
- CS:GO commentator Sadokist suspended from Twitch after using racist language, issues apology (Updated)
- Get 66 percent off Outlast 2 for a limited time
- Overwatch's next PvE mission is a Blackwatch strike in Italy
- Double Kick Heroes is a rhythm game on the highway to hell
- The 13th Doll, the fan-made sequel to The 7th Guest, will be out this year
- Watch the first trailer for The Endless Mission, the new game from the makers of Never Alone
- Far Cry 5's weirdest, wildest, funniest moments
- April 4
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- The PC Gamer Show 127: PUBG's new map, Fortnite is good, Far Cry 5, and listener Q&A
- Overwatch League matches keep getting better as the worst teams up their game
- Overwatch pro Josh 'Eqo' Corona fined and suspended for racist gesture (Updated)
- Where to find all of Fortnite's vending machines
- Being a hero ain't cheap in shopkeeping action RPG Moonlighter
- This month's PC Gamer Club Legendary game is Tormentor X Punisher
- This War of Mine is free to play for the weekend
- A new Overwatch comic delves into the early days of Blackwatch
- Ubisoft outlines its plan for punishing toxicity and team-killers in Rainbow Six Siege
- EVGA's 500W power supply with 80 Plus Bronze certifications is on sale for $30
- This waterblock is specifically designed for CPUs with the heatspreader removed
- Flash Point: Fire Rescue kicks in the door on Steam
- Intel decides to leave some older processor families vulnerable to Spectre
- See two minutes of Star Control: Origins gameplay in an exclusive new trailer
- Asus is rolling out thin and light 6-core gaming laptops starting at $1,499
- What to expect from World of Tanks 1.0
- Fanatical's Nemesis Bundle 7 boasts DreadOut, Super Cloudbuilt, Opus: The Day We Found Earth
- Shroud of the Avatar's player-made towns are already thriving, and full of weirdness
- Valve commits to Steam Machines though they 'aren't exactly flying off the shelves'
- Fortnite's latest update brings vending machines
- Sunless Skies shows off Albion in gorgeous reveal trailer
- The Blood Bowl 2 World Cup is open to everyone with a hefty prize pool
- PUBG's Savage map rolls out Squads, beta key signups reopened
- Here's what's changing in Dark Souls Remastered
- April 3
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- Slap naked mole rats with your inventory sack in Slasher's Keep
- New Ethereum ASICs could help reduce the mining demand for graphics cards
- MSI 6-core gaming notebooks are available for pre-order
- Totem Teller is like an interactive storybook with intentional glitches
- Drive fast and shoot straight in GTA Online's new Target Assault Races
- Infiltrate cities and spray graffiti in turn-based stealth game Vandals
- Get a Dell 15-inch gaming laptop with a 256GB SSD and GTX 1050 Ti for $700
- Motherboard makers pounce on new and cheaper 300-series chipsets for Coffee Lake
- Assassin's Creed: Origins getting godmode-style customization options on PC
- The best weapons in Fortnite
- Savage proves that solo PUBG plays best on a small map
- How Fortnite PvE fans feel about Battle Royale taking over the game they love
- Ghost Recon Wildlands Year 2 begins next week
- HTC prices Vive Pro starter kit bundle for new VR entrants at $1,099
- Watch the fantastic trailer for musical puzzle game Kine
- Tales From the Borderlands and Tokyo 42 headline Twitch's Free Games With Prime for April
- Intel gives gaming laptops a boost with its first six-core 8th gen Core i9 mobile CPU
- Eugen Systems developers are taking their employer to court
- The best Warhammer games on PC
- Chrono Trigger's old graphics are coming back
- Brave a flooded world in your little plane in Above
- Murder, wine and life-sucking pearls make Summerset another captivating Elder Scrolls Online expansion
- First-person roguelike City of Brass will leave early access in May
- Minit review
- The HTC Vive Pro makes me want to use VR more often, and for longer
- Jeff Kaplan would love to make an Overwatch battle royale mode
- MTG Arena hands-on: the next phase of Magic: The Gathering's complicated digital history
- The best 4X games on PC
- Skyrim VR is out on PC now
- Middle-earth: Shadow of War is ditching loot boxes
- Chasm, the procedurally generated RPG platformer, launches mid-year
- Blizzard teases big changes coming to the Overwatch Uprising event
- April 2
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- Where to find a twin-seat attack plane and other special vehicles in Far Cry 5
- Some of GDC's best games were controlled by singing, high-fiving, and holding hands
- Squish levels until they work in playdough puzzle-platformer Semblance
- The PUBG machete is a sharp, shiny blade in real life
- The best Far Cry Arcade maps so far
- This HP Omen desktop with a Core i7-8700 and GTX 1070 is on sale for $1,300
- Far Cry 5 performance analysis and settings guide
- My Time At Portia 'livestock update' adds farm animals, horse riding, and improves dating
- GOG weekly sale discounts Spelunky, Rogue Legacy and other great indies
- Check out this $69,000 cryptocurrency mining setup on Craigslist
- GDDR6 memory production may point to Nvidia launching new graphics cards this summer
- SpyParty, the cat-and-mouse game of deception and murder, will debut on Steam next week
- Watch Far Cry 5's different endings here
- The Gigabyte Aero 15X brings heavyweight performance without bulk
- Dell and HP are taking orders for laptops running hybrid Intel-AMD chips
- What happened to Steam Machines?
- Fortnite is now available on iOS, but please don't play it in class
- Star Citizen patch 3.1 brings with it character customisation and new ships
- War for the Overworld's getting a final expansion this month
- Asmodee Digital unveils Terraforming Mars—the only board game on PC that takes players to the Red Planet
- There's a comet hurtling towards Fortnite
- Twitch clarifies its community guidelines after Ninja's slur
- Valve gets rid of the Steam Machine section
- The best and worst in-game books and codexes
- We're giving away PUBG 4x4km map test keys here
- Octahedron is a vertical rhythm platformer to boggle your eyes
- April 1
