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August 31
- Multiple CS:GO coaches used a spectator bug to cheat in tournaments, says ESL
- RTX 3080 and 3090 specs leak: a 24GB monster looms on the horizon
- Ridley Scott comments on Epic's parody of his 1984 Apple ad
- Check out a new Everspace 2 video and developer AMA in our forums
- Fall Guys raises $1 million for Special Effect charity
- World of Warcraft: Shadowlands minimum system requirements call for an SSD
- Riot's new board game is all about bluffing and 'playing the player'
- Beautiful noir platformer White Shadows adapts Animal Farm, but in a strangely cute way
- Here's 12 minutes of The Outer Worlds: Peril on Gorgon DLC Gameplay
- NBA 2K developer supports NBA in protesting police brutality following Wisconsin shooting
- The Crusader Kings 3 AI kept trying to seduce female player characters and had to be nerfed
- Crusader Kings 3 review
- Control Ultimate Edition and more up to 90% off in The Humble Store End of Summer Sale
- Logitech's G703 Lightspeed wireless gaming mouse is on sale for $70
- Samsung's next-gen 980 Pro SSD to deliver blistering speeds up to 7,000MB/s
- 12 Minutes developer: If games were film we'd still be in the 'silent movie era'
- Iron Harvest review
- Ghostrunner gets a new teaser, beta registration now open
- Ubisoft's Gods & Monsters likely has its new name
- New Kingdoms of Amalur: Re-Reckoning trailer is about silent murder
- Madden NFL 21 has one of the lowest user scores on Metacritic
August 30
- Five new Steam games you probably missed (August 31, 2020)
- League of Legends' next champion has moves like a Capcom spectacle fighter
- Hack things, go mad, in cyberpunk cosmic horror adventure Transient
- Star Dynasties looks like Crusader Kings in space, which rules
- Cheat seller ceases Call of Duty hacks following Activision lawsuit
- Eiyuden Chronicle, spiritual successor to Suikoden, raises over $4.5 million on Kickstarter
- Why is Suikoden such a big deal?
- Great moments in PC gaming: Making a body pile
- What did you play last week?
- You don't need to own Doom Eternal to play The Ancient Gods, Part One
- Chivalry 2 delayed to 2021
- Sacred Fire is a "psychological" RPG where manipulation and emotions are key
August 29
- Streets of Rage 4 will be getting 'more content'
- Ubisoft apologizes for using a raised fist to represent villains in a mobile game
- Sony wants to bring more first-party games to PC
- Where to find Baby Groot in Fortnite
- How do you name RPG characters?
- Crapshoot: The (Lost) Elder Scrolls
August 28
- Serious Sam goes to the Vatican and jacks the Popemobile in a new trailer
- I got carried away and built a 36TB home server the size of a toaster oven
- Assassin's Creed Valhalla trailer introduces Ragnar Lothbrok's Drengr
- Watch Dogs Legion has beekeepers that can summon swarms of 'nano bees'
- Get a close look at Smalland, a survival game where you're tiny enough to ride a mouse
- Sea of Thieves is adding dogs in its next update
- Call of Duty streamer accidentally reveals he's cheating, loses his Twitch channel
- Razer's compact BlackWidow Lite keyboard is on sale for $60 right now
- The first Fall Guys tournament is today, with a $50K prize
- Can removing half of Destiny 2 really be good for the game?
- EVE's economy thrown into chaos as some players help alien invaders conquer a key star system
- The Last Campfire is a whimsical adventure that is worlds away from No Man's Sky
- Monster Hunter World: Iceborne players will face Fatalis in the final update
- Intel Tiger Lake spotted crushing Ice Lake at 4.8GHz boost, 1.55GHz GPU clock
- Here's a new turn-based Warhammer game set in the Age of Sigmar
- This game let me set Cthulhu on my housemates to get them to clean up
- How to complete the door puzzle in Tell Me Why
- Teardown, the destructible heist sandbox, is coming to Early Access in 2020
- Griefers are ruining the end of Warzone's limited-time operation
- Blood Bowl 3 has been punted back to 2021
- Dwarf Fortress will finally let us enjoy the sight of disembowelled guts
- A bug in Windows 10 could be slowly wrecking your SSD
- 10 things you should know before you play Wasteland 3
- Here's what the PC Gamer community has been discussing on the forums this week
- Nvidia graphics cards now account for 80% of the PC market
- AMD's latest GPU driver aims to significantly boost performance in Fortnite
- Discord banned more than 4 million accounts this year, mostly for spam
- A lot of Sims 4 players are annoyed about the new Star Wars Game Pack
- Observer: System Redux is coming to PC, and a demo is available now
August 27
- Chaos EC and Team Liquid postpone ESL One playoffs to protest racism and police brutality
- Pharoah: A New Era is a remake of the 1999 historical city builder
- League of Legends music group K/DA isn't K-Pop anymore and I don't know how to feel
- Every trailer and announcement from Gamescom 2020
- Free-to-play battlemage royale Spellbreak launches on September 3
- Medal of Honor: Above and Beyond's story trailer shows intense VR combat
- I want to protect the boy with the paper bag head in Little Nightmares 2 at all costs
- Our sympathies to the Elden Ring subreddit as FromSoftware is a no-show at Gamescom
- Fortnite Season 4: All mythic weapons locations
- Bungie shows off new Stasis powers in latest Destiny 2: Beyond Light trailer
- Cooperative RPG shooter Outriders gets a new cinematic trailer
- Chorus, the sentient starfighter sim, shows off gameplay at Gamescom
- Lego Star Wars: The Skywalker Saga is coming in spring 2021
- The Sims 4 is getting a Star Wars pack, and it looks pretty great
- Age of Empires 3: Definitive Edition is coming in October
- Time loop game 12 Minutes stars Daisy Ridley, James McAvoy, and Willem Dafoe
- Confirmed: Star Wars: Squadrons has escort missions
- Bridge Constructor: The Walking Dead is the year's weirdest crossover
- Sam and Max are getting a VR game
- World of Warcraft: Shadowlands is coming on October 27
- Here's the first episode of WoW: Afterlives, a new series of animated shorts
- Project CARS 3 is racing your way with more cars, more tracks, and a slick pre-order deal
- BioWare reveals a behind-the-scenes look at the next Dragon Age game
- Doom Eternal DLC trailer shows mo' gods, mo' problems for the Doom Slayer
- Unknown9: Awakening is a new game about a 'mysterious hidden dimension known as The Fold'
- Call of Duty: Black Ops - Cold War will have multiple endings
- Dirt 5 players can create and share arenas with the built-in 'Playgrounds' editor
- Steam is experimenting with customizable profanity filters for chat
- Get Hitman and Shadowrun Collection for free on the Epic Games Store
- All the new Fortnite season 4 skins
- Nvidia is bringing 4K 60fps AI upscaling to GeForce Now on Shield TV
- Microsoft Flight Simulator players are flying straight into Hurricane Laura
- Tell Me Why is a simplistic narrative adventure and a clumsy tale of identity and childhood trauma
- Adventure game The Last Campfire, from Hello Games, is out now
- The Fortnite season 4 battle pass brings loads of Marvel skins
- Nvidia's latest AI project will turn your pet into a savage beast
- Gotham Knights is not a live service game and can be played offline
- Where to investigate mysterious claw marks in Fortnite
- How to watch the Future Games Show
- The Witcher is getting a Pokemon Go style AR game and it doesn't look terrible
- Adopt a very good pupper in Best Friend Forever, out now
- How to complete the Know Your History mission in Warzone
- Asus ROG is cooking up its own custom mechanical keyboard switch
- Netflix's live-action Resident Evil TV series has been confirmed
- MSI launches its first PSUs and hints at thirsty Nvidia Ampere compatibility
- Left 4 Dead 2 is getting an official update made by the community
- Asus Maximus XII Apex gaming motherboard review
- Fortnite Season 4 patch notes: What we know so far
- Asus to launch 360Hz gaming monitor next month for $699
- Dress to impress and change history in Dress Up! Time Princess
- Make some bad choices in Little Hope's interactive trailer
- Fortnite season 4 is the Marvel-themed Nexus War, watch the trailer here
- Halo veteran Joseph Staten is returning to help with Halo Infinite
- Puyo Puyo Tetris 2 is headed to Steam next year
August 26
- Watch the Gamescom 2020 Opening Night Live show
- Dota 2's The International 2020 has broken its prize pool record, but still no dates for the tournament
- Totally Game: Modern Warfare star shares his passion for gaming with his fans
- Cyberpunk vs Cthulhu puzzler Magrunner is free on Steam for a bit
- Fall Guys sells 7 million copies on Steam
- Fortnite Season 4 start date, event, map changes, and battle pass details
- Grounded now has a bird
- Activision confirms cross-gen multiplayer and Zombies in Call of Duty: Black Ops - Cold War
- Call of Duty: Black Ops - Cold War is coming in November
- I’m not sold on Call of Duty: Black Ops – Cold War yet
- This little tool takes the hassle out of switching audio devices
- This Fortnite Creative map is Fall Guys on hard mode
- Here's Doom Eternal running at 1,000 fps on a liquid nitrogen cooled PC
- How skins work in Marvel's Avengers
- Stardew Valley gets an Animal Crossing-style aquarium with this mod
- Read these awesome comics before you play Marvel's Avengers
- Flight sticks are in short supply as Microsoft Flight Simulator lifts off
- NZXT revamps its 'Starter PC' line for gamers and lowers the entry price to $699
- Nvidia confirms 12-pin 'included adapter' for the Ampere Founders Edition cards
- Wasteland 3 review
- Get your first look at the new Nvidia Ampere graphics card in this official video
- Pupperazzi lets you photograph dogs—what more could you want?
- Nvidia RTX 3090 to come with 24GB GDDR6X memory, AIB report claims
- Watch Making The Witcher to get your Geralt fix
- Remnant: From the Ashes is the co-op game you should be playing right now
- Resident Evil 3 Remake now has a Fall Guys mod, naturally
- Latest Outriders video reveals the Technomancer class
August 25
- The Sinking City disappeared from Steam earlier this year due to a messy legal dispute
- The original Nostromo model from Alien looks great and could be yours for a mere $300K
- Children of Morta's new DLC is raising money for the Humane Society
- Oculus AR and VR divisions are now under the umbrella brand of 'Facebook Reality Labs'
- Activision removes Tiananmen Square video from Call of Duty: Black Ops - Cold War trailer
- Who's the best videogame pet?
- Vote for the best photo in Horizon Zero Dawn’s Photo Mode — the winner will score a custom-built PC
- Guild Wars 2 is coming to Steam, and a new expansion is coming next year
- Black Myth: Wu Kong has given Elden Ring fans another mysterious game to long for
- Airplane Mode is a real-time flight simulator—but you're not the pilot
- Should I buy an AMD RX 580 8GB graphics card?
- Logitech's new gaming gear doesn't just rely on some RGB LEDs to bring a bit of colour to your PC setup
- Fall Guys will start booting cheaters before they finish their game
- Giveaway: win an epic Noblechairs DOOM gaming chair on the PC Gamer forums
- Ring of Pain is a weird dungeon crawler card game coming later this year
- Cyberpunk 2077 will have adjustable text sizes, but there's still a way to go on accessibility
- Why I love being a healer in FF14
- Borderlands 3's next DLC will stick you in some dude's head
- Need more storage? This 2TB SSD is super quick and on sale for $205
- Why Among Us is the best game to watch on Twitch right now
- Another intimidating obelisk has been found in Microsoft Flight Simulator
- Windows 95 came out 25 years ago and it was a game changer for PCs
- No Straight Roads review
- MSI has just registered 29 Nvidia Ampere graphics cards
- Call of Duty: Black Ops – Cold War is reportedly a direct sequel to the original
- Watch this 'inhuman' typist take the ultimate typing crown at 208.5WPM
- Apple vs Epic: Unreal Engine is saved, but Fortnite isn't coming back to iOS for now
- Here's what the Dragon's Dogma Netflix anime looks like
August 24
- Ooblets content update is coming in September, and so is a baby
- The Wonder Boy revival continues with Asha in Monster World, coming next year
- Multiple employees resign over Skullgirls studio head's behavior
- It has begun—there's a Fall Guys followers mod for Skyrim
- Electronic Arts adds more than 1000 achievements to its games on Steam
- Summer Games Done Quick raises $2.3 million for charity
- This Asus TUF gaming laptop with a GTX 1660 Ti is on sale for $849
- How Final Fantasy 14 clawed its way back from disaster to become 2020's best MMO
- Maingear Turbo gaming PC review
- By stripping features away, Mortal Shell improves the Dark Souls formula
- Hearthstone designer explains how 'most players' will be better off under new rewards structure
- How to find and switch between Shells in Mortal Shell
- Watch a Call of Duty streamer play Modern Warfare with drums
- Get Serious Sam: The First Encounter for free in GOG's Harvest Sale
- This premium EVGA case with an overclocking button is on sale for $70
- Enjoy Corsair's products? You may soon be able to buy a share of the company
- Watching these Fall Guys players team up to eliminate a cheater brings me joy
- Factorio review
- Nvidia Ampere's 12-pin power and up to 850W PSU requirements confirmed by Seasonic
- Team Xtreem ARGB DDR4-3600 C14 gaming memory review
- Unlike Suicide Squad, Gotham Knights isn't set in the Arkham universe
- Watch Heavenly Sword running at 4K and 60 fps in the RPCS3 emulator
- The tribute to voice actor Rick May in Team Fortress 2 has been made permanent
- Five new Steam games you probably missed (August 24, 2020)
August 23
- This is what Microsoft Flight Simulator looks like on three CRTs
- Here's a new Surgeon Simulator 2 gameplay trailer, it has great music
- Five Nights at Freddy's creator is funding fangames, and a remake of the original
- Next Fall Guys patch has a bunch of requested changes
- Cyberpunk 2077 will have free DLC like The Witcher 3
- Microsoft backs Epic's request for a restraining order against Apple
- Here's everything being removed from Destiny 2 at the end of this season—it's a lot
- What did you play last week?
- Great moments in PC gaming: Bulletstorm's Mechagodzilla rampage
- Wasteland 3 trailer shows off co-op hijinks
- Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League revealed, features 4-player co-op
August 22
- What's the best secret you've ever found in a game?
- Watch a man run, jump, and crawl for a Half-Life: Alyx speedrun
- The next Batman game is Gotham Knights, and Batman's dead
- Crapshoot: When Grand Theft Auto went to London
- Netflix's videogame history series avoids some common mainstream game coverage blunders
August 21
- Rocksteady promises more action to ensure an 'inclusive culture' at the studio
- Halo 3's best mode is back and it's now the one true joy in my life
- Apple says Fortnite can come back anytime, once Epic cleans up its 'hot mess'
- Clint Hocking says finding multiple grandma spies in Watch Dogs Legion is a 'one in a billion' chance
- Let's visit some scary places in Microsoft Flight Simulator
- This officially-licensed clone of the Xbox 'Duke' controller is now just $50
- Geralt is looking rough as The Witcher season 2 resumes filming
- This sci-fi FPS looks like Borderlands, but its robot is cool instead of annoying
- Rogue Legacy 2's brutal platforming drags down the action
- Explaining our RTX head-to-head, and where we missed the mark
- What the Xbox Series X and PlayStation 5 mean for PC gaming
- These guys made a real-time 16-hour flight from LA to Dubai in Microsoft Flight Simulator
- How to engage autopilot in Microsoft Flight Simulator
- Remnant: From the Ashes' final expansion solidifies it as a great co-op action game
- Flight Simulator 2020 controls list: Keyboard and controller mappings
- Crysis Remastered will be an Epic Store exclusive when it launches next month
- Actually, ray tracing is just getting started
- Ray tracing has failed to deliver on its promise
- Fortnite and Thor crossover finally confirmed, other Marvel characters possibly on the way
- Here’s why Microsoft Flight Simulator has a terrifying Australian obelisk
- I'm warming to World's Edge, thanks to Apex Legends' new crafting system
- Psychological horror game Martha Is Dead gets a new, disturbing trailer
- 9 tips to get you started in Mortal Shell
- Razer’s latest peripherals have gaming chops but are really designed for work
- Permanently disabling Windows 10’s built-in virus scanner is no longer an option
- A round-up of this week's PC Gamer forum discussions
- Sci-fi flying sim Exo One gets a free prologue on Steam
- Microsoft Flight Simulator expected to generate $2.6B in PC hardware sales in 3 years
- Epic announces #FreeFortnite tournament, and an evil apple skin
- Marvel's Avengers beta patch fixes stutter, other common issues for players
August 20
- The Witcher 3's best quests
- Enter the Gungeon and God's Trigger are free on the Epic Games Store
- K/DA, the League of Legends K-Pop group, has a new single coming next week
- Burger King takes heat for using Twitch donation readouts to run advertisements
- Call of Duty: Black Ops - Cold War art is surprisingly bright and colorful
- Fall Guys origin story reveals it was once called 'Fool's Gauntlet' and 'Stumble Chums'
- The Marvel's Avengers open beta starts August 21, preloading is live now
- Fall Guys patch notes: No more back-to-back team games
- TSMC celebrates a colossal milestone: one billion 7nm chips
- Final Fantasy 14 will get more housing to deal with its rising player population
- When should you give up on a game?
- Intel defends its 'magic instructions' against Linux founder's criticism
- Eve’s Spectrum monitor is designed to be perfect for gaming and is now a prototype
- Australia is coming to Planet Zoo, mate
- The best huggers in Spiritfarer
- Hitman 3 will be an Epic exclusive
- Sea of Thieves outlines its summer events, ahead of September's content update
- Totally Game: I broke my neck but rule at League of Legends
- The Steam Game Festival will be a recurring event
- Microsoft Flight Simulator review
- Black Myth reveal trailer shows some snappy hack and slash combat in ancient China
- Lian Li UNI FAN SL120 review
- If playing fast is your thing, this 240Hz Alienware monitor is on sale for $347
- Rainbow Six Siege: Operation Shadow Legacy - Everything we know
- Asus ROG sets another RAM record by hitting 6666MHz on an AMD Ryzen PC
- EK-Fluid Gaming PC 250 Conquest review
- Google restores Gmail and apps for all users after disruption (Updated)
- Devolver apologises to Fall Guys players whose keys were accidentally refunded
- Logitech G Pro X Wireless gaming headset review
- Valve says the time it takes to download Microsoft Flight Simulator won't affect refund requests
August 19
- Rocksteady shares employee letter defending its response to 2018 abuse allegations
- Call of Duty: Black Ops - Cold War confirmed, full reveal coming next week
- In Bear and Breakfast you run a bed and breakfast, but you're a bear
- Drifters Loot the Galaxy is a high-mobility hero shooter in open beta on Steam
- New Mount & Blade 2 patch adds autoblock and fixes bandit hideouts
- When a game asks you to 'Press Any Key,' which key do you press?
- EA's subscription service is coming to Steam August 31
- You can win a copy of dungeon crawler Blightbound on our forums
- The Red Lantern is a roguelite about getting lost in Alaska with your five dogs
- Creepy platformer Inmost gets an August 21 release date
- Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodlines 2 fires lead writer Brian Mitsoda together with creative director
- PC Gamer Readers Award winners - a nod to the gear you hold dear
- Players have already found optimal routes through Fall Guys' levels
- The Stanley Parable: Ultra Deluxe has been delayed again
- The Razer BlackWidow Elite mechanical keyboard is on sale for $100
- Hades leaves Early Access this autumn
- Intel's Marvel Avengers CPUs come with pretty packaging but not the actual game
- Every type of Fall Guy, classified
- Microsoft will end support for Internet Explorer, and legacy Edge in 2021
- Quirky office roguelike Going Under launches September 24
- Hopefully not a trend: Flight Simulator's deluxe editions having better airports
- Valve clarifies rule against using Steam to promote games on other storefronts
August 18
- Risk of Rain 2 already has a thriving mod scene
- Reigns developer reveals a new game about cheating at cards in 18th century France
- GeForce Now turns the Chromebook into a ray tracing-capable gaming PC
- Untitled Goose Game comes to Steam in September with a two-player co-op mode
- Oculus VR headsets will soon require Facebook accounts
- The Baldur's Gate 3 Early Access system requirements are out
- Baldur's Gate 3 comes to Early Access on September 30, hopefully
- Spiritfarer review
- What you need to know about the Marvel's Avengers beta
- If you miss live music, Teenage Blob is a PC game punk album that captures the spirit of 'the show'
- Deathloop, Arkane's dueling assassins game, is delayed to mid-2021
- Blue skies in Elite? Check out the Odyssey update's new atmospheric planets
- Xbox architect on ray tracing: 'developers still want to use traditional rendering techniques without a performance penalty'
- 10 places every Microsoft Flight Simulator player should visit first
- Total War: Three Kingdoms' first expansion takes us to the jungle
- Apex Legends Season 6: Everything we know
- AMD launches budget A520 motherboards for 3rd gen Ryzen and Zen 3
- Rocksteady reacts to staff harassment claims
- AVerMedia launches an internal capture card with dual HDMI ports (Updated)
- Playing the Marvel's Avengers beta killed my excitement for its full release
- SK Hynix drops the world's first SSD with 128-layer memory. Basically Samsung speed for less
- Dirt 5 system requirements are here, and surprisingly GPU thirsty
- Warzone bug turns the FR 5.56 into a ridiculous one-hit killing machine
- Take to the skies with Nvidia and AMD drivers for Microsoft Flight Simulator
- PSA: turn off data features to ensure the best Microsoft Flight Simulator 2020 performance
- The gaming hardware doesn't yet exist to make Microsoft Flight Simulator really shine
- FYI: if you 'pre-loaded' Microsoft Flight Simulator it's just the client
- Hitman 3 game modes: PvP is scrapped, and the Elusive Target mode will change
- When does Microsoft Flight Simulator unlock in my time zone?
- Quake 3 is free to keep right now, but not for long
August 17
- The real Coral Castle in Florida sues Epic over the fake Coral Castle in Fortnite
- Fall Guys might get an 'ask me about my butthole' shirt thanks to a charity drive
- Get the Corsair HS60 Pro gaming headset for just $50
- The Firewatch movie is back on
- Trying to play Kill It With Fire without trashing my entire house isn't going so well
- Epic seeks restraining order against Apple's 'devastating' response to lawsuit
- Warner is teasing a new Batman game again, reveal could happen tomorrow
- Actually, 'Act on Instinct' is the best Command & Conquer song
- Hearthstone's next patch will nerf Kael'thas and Mindrender Illucia, plus bring a bunch of Battlegrounds changes
- Animal Farm is being turned into an adventure game
- Dap is a cutesy horror game set in a forest that wants to eat you alive
- Mortal Shell review
- Mixolumia is a ridiculously addictive new block puzzler
- The Viking Way looks like Mount and Blade but with bigger beards
- ASRock B550 Taichi gaming motherboard review
- An ‘ultra-bandwidth’ successor to HBM2e memory is coming but not until 2022
- Someone made a model of the Stardew Valley wizard's tower from garbage and it looks amazing
- Looks like Portal and My Friend Pedro skins are coming to Fall Guys
- Here's a first look at Beyond Skyrim's Black Marsh
- Five new Steam games you probably missed (August 17, 2020)
August 16
- Final Fantasy 14 player eats 999 eggs
- A massive Fallout: New Vegas mod overhauling the game's voice work has released
- Spelunky 2 is now on Steam with an updated release window
- Rainbow Six Siege Year 5: Everything we know about the operators, map reworks, and battle passes
- Summer GDQ 2020's speedruns kick off today, here's the schedule
- Rainbow Six Siege’s next update is going bananas with new features
- Sam Fisher is the best Rainbow Six Siege operator in years
- Hey, it's a new show! Welcome to This Week in PC Gaming
- What did you play last week?
- Great moments in PC gaming: Guiding noobs through a co-op session
- Resident Evil 7 has sold 7.9 million copies
- The arcade version of Quake is finally playable on PC
August 15
- Over 7.5 million people got A Total War Saga: Troy for free
- Factorio's new spider robot has mesmerizing telescoping legs
- Here's an entire quest in Morrowind conversion Skywind
- Counter-Strike professionals reform rankings for work-life balance
- Fortnite item shop: Joker and Poison Ivy debut in this holiday bundle
- What's your favorite 'casual' game?
- Crapshoot: Bikini Karate Babes, which does exactly what it says on the tin
- Where to stoke campfires at Cape Cod in Fortnite
August 14
- Epic is right to fight Apple, but drafting Fortnite fans into a corporate war is tacky
- Team modes are good, actually: Every Fall Guys minigame ranked
- The US Army is back on Twitch, and it is not going well for them
- Mount and Blade 2 shows off official mod tools in a new dev update, and they look awesome
- Horizon Zero Dawn patch fixes 'several' issues, but there's a lot left to be done
- What's your dream Warhammer 40k game?
- This electric standing desk is gorgeous, but probably costs more than your PC
- Risk of Rain 2 Mithrix guide: How to take on the final boss
- The next Phoenix Point DLC will be out later this month
- Call of Duty ARG continues with more Cold War teasing, but no reveal yet
- How to beat the final story trial of Shadowbringers
- Apex Legends Season 6 is the end of the line for its beloved murder train
- The Microsoft Flight Simulator series has had quite the glow up
- Totally Game: How Fortnite saved Aidan's life
- Origin Access and EA Access are both being renamed 'EA Play'
- Classic LucasArts biker adventure Full Throttle still kicks ass
- The next wave of major videogames are going to be SSD storage hogs
- Here's when you can watch Rocksteady's Suicide Squad reveal
- It's '99 again: I can't stop playing the Tony Hawk's Pro Skater demo
- Shogun: Total War started a long legacy, but it was almost a very different game
- Here's what the community has been up to on the PC Gamer forums this week
- Ubisoft fires Assassin's Creed Valhalla's former creative director
- Mozilla lays off 25 percent of its staff as Firefox and Edge duke it out for second place
- Micron suggests Nvidia's RTX 3090 comes with GDDR6X memory at up to 21Gbps
- The new Dwarf Fortress UI looks so much better
- Razer brings back its Naga gaming mouse for left-handed MMO players
- GTA radio host Lazlow leaves Rockstar
- You can 3D print your own gaming keyboard for $40, but you probably shouldn't
- Factorio finally leaves Early Access after 4 years
- Epic sues Google after Fortnite is kicked off the Play Store
August 13
- Did you ever upgrade, build, or buy a PC just so you could play one particular game?
- Here are the Star Wars: Squadrons ship and pilot customization options
- This gaming PC with an RTX 2070 Super is on sale for $1,250
- Epic's 'Nineteen Eighty-Fortnite' video attacks Apple with a parody of its famous ad
- Call of Duty's endless hunger for disk space must be stopped
- Epic Games sues Apple over 'monopolistic practices'
- Apple removes Fortnite from the App Store
- Remnant: From the Ashes and The Alto Collection are free on the Epic Games Store
- This mod turns the original Portal into psychological horror
- Watch the first 15 minutes of Control: AWE
- Dead by Daylight adds cross-play and unified friends list between PC and consoles
- Where to find all the movie props in GTA Online
- Russell Kirsch, inventor of the pixel, dies at 91
- How was Flashback this good in 1992?
- Windows 10 is gaining a new setting for power users with multiple GPUs
- Intel's Tiger Lake laptops will get 'a dramatic frequency increase' to tackle Ryzen Mobile
- Demons Ate My Neighbors! is a co-op roguelike inspired by a 16-bit classic
- Grab Total War Saga: Troy free for the next 24 hours on the Epic Games Store
- Intel promises enthusiast gaming GPU to take on AMD and Nvidia in 2021. It's a ray tracing three-way
- Intel's next-gen gaming chips will take a huge architectural risk to rival AMD's Ryzen
- How to find the Memory Shards in Hyper Scape
- THQ Nordic parent company acquires Metro and Insurgency studios, and both are working on something new
- Metamorphosis, the Kafka-inspired game about being a bug, is out now
August 12
- New Microsoft Flight Simulator video shows off dozens of lifelike airports
- Tony Hawk's Pro Skater remaster renames the 'mute grab' to pay tribute to its creator
- Sniper Elite: The Board Game features a miniature of Hitler getting shot in the balls
- A zombie plague is ravaging World of Warcraft's test servers
- Control is coming to Steam this month with both expansions and a lower price
- You don't need a superhero PC to play the Marvel's Avengers beta
- Quake 2 is currently free on the Bethesda launcher, Quake 3 follows next week
- EA shareholders reject paying EA executives a bunch more money
- Why some hitboxes are so bad
- Razer Huntsman Mini gaming keyboard review
- How to upgrade your new Destiny 2 Solstice armor
- As Far As The Eye is a nomadic roguelike where you control a roving village
- G.Skill Trident Z Royal DDR4-4000 gaming memory review
- The Dead Cells Barrels o' Fun update adds explosive new level and 8-bit soundtrack
- A patent suggests AMD is getting inventive to meet Intel and Arm in mobile devices
- A Total War Saga: Troy review
- Konami wants in on Fall Guys with its Metal Gear-themed outfits
- Thermaltake reinvents how to apply thermal paste to CPUs
- A popular malware variant has learned to swipe passwords from browsers and VPNs
- Torchlight 3 update reworks relics into proper subclasses
- Inscryption announced, a deckbuilding horror roguelike from the Pony Island dev
- Spelunky 2 looks like the perfect sequel for returning players
- What's been going wrong for Intel?
- Minecraft Dungeons' Creeping Winter DLC is coming next month
- Forza Horizon 3 will no longer be available to purchase after September 27
- You can get to the house's roof in Grounded, but it's not worth it (yet)
August 11
- This Minecraft recreation of Destiny 2's Tower is very impressive
- Warzone players remain frustrated by cheaters even after Infinity Ward asked everyone to please stop cheating
- Atomic Heart gameplay trailer features a mini-boss fight and Mick Gordon
- This survival horror detective game lets you turn off the survival and horror
- Here's how Rocket League's cross-platform progression will work
- Sam Fisher is coming to Rainbow Six Siege
- Shroud returns to Twitch
- Risk of Rain 2's excellent, moody soundtrack is on Spotify and vinyl now
- Halo Infinite delayed to 2021
- Steam Game Festival is returning for the fall
- Blizzard confirms 'major rework' coming to Hearthstone rewards following battle pass speculation
- 3D Realms is having an online event with John Romero, Cliff Bleszinski, and more
- How to add Gleamy Ooblets to your collection
- Final Fantasy 14's hugely expanded free trial is now live along with major patch
- Fall Guys is getting a new level and bug fixes tomorrow
- Why you don't get the capacity on your SSD the packaging claims
- These are the Scholomance Academy cards that are most likely to get nerfed, according to the pros
- Risk of Rain 2 review
- GTA Online's Los Santos Summer Special update goes live
- Nvidia's September 1 GeForce Special Event to 'usher in a new era' of Ampere GPU. But will it really be a GeForce RTX 3080?
- Logitech's excellent G502 wireless gaming mouse is on sale again for $120
- Fan-made GoldenEye remake given cease and desist
- Toshiba dumps its laptop business after 35-year run, but will anyone miss it?
- Get your first look at gameplay from Frostpunk's final expansion: On The Edge
- The story of Doom and how it changed everything—as told by co-creator John Romero
- Marvel's Avengers gets more confusing exclusive tie-in content
- Dirt 5 has been delayed, but only by a week
- LG OLED48CX TV review
- Vampire: The Masquerade – Bloodlines 2 has been delayed into 2021
- Death Stranding's confusing story should make more sense as a novel
August 10
- Minecraft combat test removes 'coyote time' and buffs healing
- Call of Duty ARG teases Black Ops reveal coming later this week
- Former Arkane boss on why he left triple-A: 'You're not making a game anymore, you're making a product'
- Someone help, I'm ready to spend my entire paycheck on ridiculous keycaps
- EA Access page is now live on Steam, service is 'coming soon'
- Fall Guys studio is aware of cheaters and hopes to have a fix 'soon'
- How hitboxes work
- Amazon renames Twitch Prime to Prime Gaming
- Is this Hearthstone's first turn one kill?
- DreamHack postpones the rest of its 2020 festivals
- League of Legends Yone: How to play the new undead samurai
- If Halo Infinite gets a battle pass, it's a bad sign for the future of multiplayer
- How to get more Froobtoose in Ooblets
- Watch Destiny 2's rock hard Grandmaster Nightfall speed run in under four minutes
- How to check if the Fall Guys servers are down
- Nvidia teases announcement on August 31. It's got to be Ampere, right?
- LG is not planning to update its 2019 OLED TVs to support FreeSync
- Injustice 3, featuring the Watchmen, has been seemingly teased by BossLogic
- Horizon Zero Dawn's PC port features new optimisations for AMD RDNA GPUs
- A machinist lapped an AMD Ryzen 16-core CPU within a nanometer of its life
- AT&T may be keeping hold of Warner Bros. Interactive after all
- Street Fighter producer Yoshinori Ono leaves Capcom
- Developers respond to complaints about Horizon Zero Dawn's PC port
- Five new Steam games you probably missed (August 10, 2020)
August 9
- What did you play last week?
- The intricate strategy of Grand Tactician: The Civil War comes to Steam this month
- Bethesda confirms that Fallout 76 is still getting official mod support
- Every game company that Tencent has invested in
- Fans have gotten Hawken on PC working again... in singleplayer
- One fan's elaborate cinematic tribute to World of Warcraft's Black Temple
- Great moments in PC gaming: Conquering Kronus in Dawn of War—Dark Crusade
- For its three-year anniversary, West of Loathing received a patch
- A peculiar message in Warzone seems to be hinting at the next Call of Duty
- Sega will port more new and old games to PC after Persona 4 Golden's success
August 8
- Fall Guys is Devolver's biggest launch ever
- Here's a great free strategy game about medieval water supplies
- Have you defeated a boss by exploiting a bug or a cheesy strat?
- Crapshoot: The Monty Python games
- After a thrilling trailer debut, indie developers reveal they quit over 'one year of psycho terror'
August 7
- Someone made the dollar store knock-off version of Fall Guys in Dreams
- F1 2018 is free for keeps from the Humble Store
- The next 'Remedy Connected Universe' game is already in development
- Dr Disrespect responds to speculation: 'We didn't do anything to warrant a ban'
- Fall Guys: Ultimate Knockout review
- The original Quake goes free for QuakeCon, and Quake 2 might, too
- Dr Disrespect makes his streaming return on YouTube
- Fallout 76's new boss fight will literally scare your characters into fleeing
- Guild Wars 2's Skimmer mounts are going underwater
- Doom Eternal: The Ancient Gods teaser turns up at QuakeCon
- Fortnite's new Jonesy skin takes fashion advice from sad Thor
- A vampire army threatens The Elder Scrolls Online later this month
- $3 for one of the wildest-looking shooters ever? Yes, please
- Ghostwire: Tokyo features yet another dog you can pet
- The cheerful new gameplay trailer for Bugsnax has a surprise sinister ending
- Hitman 3 will have VR support, but only on PlayStation so far
- This short horror game is like a Seinfeld episode from Hell
- This portable Threadripper PC gives new meaning to the term 'desktop replacement'
- Here's what the PC Gamer community chatted about on the forums this week
- Rocksteady confirms it's making a Suicide Squad game
- How to get the most OP armor in Horizon Zero Dawn
- Asus unveils a NUC competitor with AMD Ryzen and Radeon hardware inside
- This is my last chance to bring peace to Total War: Three Kingdoms
- Apex Legends Season 6 is adding crafting and a new Legend
- Save $60 on this fast Netgear Nighthawk Wi-Fi 6 wireless router
- Get ready for the biggest gaming hardware season ever
- Take a closer look at some of the aircraft you'll be flying in Microsoft Flight Simulator
- Intel is investigating leak of more than 20GB of internal files
- From the creator of the Cyberpunk keeblade comes an adorable Ditto keyboard
- Spiritfarer is a serene boat adventure about compassion in the face of death
- How to buy the best laptop for college
- Rip and tear ergonomics a new one with this DOOM gaming chair
- Hood: Outlaws & Legends is a game of multiplayer medieval heists
- Impostor Factory trailer promises a wholesome apocalypse
- Build a criminal empire or tear one down in Company of Crime
- Trump issues executive orders targeting Tencent's WeChat and TikTok apps
- Braid: Anniversary Edition is a 'hand-repainted' remake, coming to PC in 2021
August 6
- When does Horizon Zero Dawn unlock on Steam in my timezone?
- Apple confirms it won't allow game streaming services like xCloud and Google Stadia on iOS devices
- Diablo 4 team is 'moving forward' despite COVID-19 pandemic
- What a good (and bad) indie game publishing deal looks like
- The race to beat World of Warcraft Classic's latest raid turns into all-out war as players resort to dirty tactics
- Control: AWE teaser confirms the return of Alan Wake, hints at a 'Remedy Connected Universe'
- How to run, jump, dive, and shove your way to victory in Fall Guys
- Spelunky 2 is coming to PS4 in September, will arrive on PC 'shortly after'
- Hearthstone: Scholomance Academy goes live with a free Legendary card for everyone
- Fortnite secret challenge: How to build the coral buddies rocket ship
- Destiny 2's Solstice of Heroes returns, but you'll need to pay for the best armor
- The Lenovo Legends Tournament is offering a chance for you to prove you're better than an Apex Legends pro
- Borderlands 3 is free to play for the weekend on Steam and Stadia
- Blizzard pays tribute to streamer Reckful with World of Warcraft NPC
- Horizon Zero Dawn is not the perfect PC port, but it's promising
- Horizon Zero Dawn's Aloy is one of the best new protagonists in years
- Audeze Mobius gaming headset review
- Call of Duty: Warzone season 5 causes colossal surge in UK web traffic
- Remnant: From the Ashes goes free on Epic Games Store next week
- Mothergunship studio's next game is a 'playable sitcom,' free on the Epic Games Store
- Gorgeous endless runner The Alto Collection is free on the Epic Games Store next week
- Serious Sam 4 delayed into September
- Cyberpunk 2077's next Night City Wire livestream is next Monday
- MSI’s Bravo 15 is another aggressively priced AMD Ryzen gaming laptop
- Horizon Zero Dawn review
- Retailers are selling Intel ‘KA’ series Avengers Edition Comet Lake CPUs
- Honey, I Joined a Cult will let you manage a cult in Early Access next year
- Intel confirms Tiger Lake laptop launch September 2... here comes Xe
- How to get all of Destiny 2's Fallen, Taken, and Hive mods before Beyond Light drops
- Family is a free detective game about a forgotten music scene
- Xbox Game Pass for PC adds Trailmakers, Final Fantasy and more
- The US Army will return to Twitch 'in the near future'
August 5
- How to tune into the Fortnite radio station
- Call of Duty: Modern Warfare Season 5 roadmap - What's coming soon
- Fortnite cars: Everything you need to know
- Avengers dev explains why Spider-Man is a PlayStation exclusive
- Sekiro already has a boss rush mode on PC with this mod, and it's exhausting
- Fortnite 13.40 update: Cars pull in, radio stations go live
- Street Fighter 5's final season will add five new characters, including Akira from Rival Schools
- Do you buy battle passes, and do you complete them?
- Call of Duty: Modern Warfare season 5: Everything we know
- PC controls and a wider FOV make Horizon Zero Dawn the game it was meant to be
- EA removes two FIFA 21 goal celebrations to help reduce 'toxic behaviors'
- Fortnite item shop update: Test out the new cars with this crash dummy skin
- You maniacs! You made COD: Modern Warfare over 200GB
- Yakuza Empire is a mob management sim with turn-based shootouts
- Totally Game: DieHardBirdie became a CS:GO champion at 78
- Auto-installing over 600 mods makes Skyrim beautiful and confusing
- Join a gang in Necromunda: Underhive Wars in September
- Ninja is streaming on Twitch again
- Windbound is a breezy survival sim that captures the joys of sailing
- Paper Beast review
- PC Gamer plays: Total War: Three Kingdoms, Legends of Runeterra, Gears 5, and Hades
- Mortal Shell gets a release date and a new trailer
- Asus is in a race to ship the first gaming monitor with HDMI 2.1
- Obsidian is working on something that isn't Avowed or Grounded
- Latest AMD Radeon driver is tuned for Horizon Zero Dawn, Grounded, and Hyper Scape
- Fanatec CSL Elite racing wheel review
- Marvel's Avengers is getting even more PlayStation exclusives
- Peace heats up in my attempt at a pacifist playthrough of Total War: Three Kingdoms
- Getting a bunch of negative user reviews is not automatically a 'review bomb'
- Blizzard confirms that a digital BlizzCon will happen early next year
August 4
- Call of Duty: Mobile success proves Diablo Immortal was a good idea, Activision says
- Activision confirms that Treyarch and Raven are making the new Call of Duty
- The Missing Link is an impressive and eerie Zelda romhack years in the making
- National Videogame Museum completely recreated in Doom WAD
- This trailer for Flight Catastrophe will convince you to stick to bus travel
- Riot Games is shifting some patches so it can take next week off
- Bohemia Interactive's new Humble Bundle has a surprising number of non-Arma games
- We're giving away 30 copies of Risk of Rain 2 on our forums
- Swimming in games sucks
- The Overwatch Summer Games returns for 2020 with Lucioball Remix and new cosmetics
- Ubisoft reminds Rainbow Six Siege players that kills don’t matter to your MMR
- Wipeout-style racing game Pacer blasts onto Steam this September
- Baldur's Gate 3 Early Access launch won't happen in August
- Samsung rumours suggest Nvidia might not be the only company after Arm
- Code wheels, poison, and star maps: the creative ways old games fought piracy
- Fall Guys is out now, but the servers are taking a beating
- This Carrion speedrun is the shortest horror movie I've ever seen
- Xbox aims to bring all first-party games to the cloud on day of release
- A fear of spiders won't hold you back in Grounded
- Destiny 2 is getting rid of Mars, so it's been rebuilt for Garry's Mod
- This Omen gaming PC with an RTX 2060 Super is $200 off right now
- Blasphemous gets a new storyline, New Game Plus and more for free
- Let's revisit the greatest Star Trek game ever
- GTA Online PC players will get new stuff exclusive to next-gen consoles
- Snag a 1TB solid state drive for just $82 today
- Grab this 10th Gen Core i7 HP Pavilion 15t laptop for just $779 ($350 off)
- You can build a compact gaming PC inside this tiny pyramid
- Fast typist? Prove it and you could win $5,000
- Call of Duty: Modern Warfare season 5 will let you inspect your weapons
- Kingston KC2500 1TB NVMe SSD review
- This Skyrim mod adds a two-handed weapon that's just a chair
- PC Building Simulator's new DLC is a taste of what it's actually like to build PCs for a living
August 3
- Take-Two's Private Division to publish games from the makers of Ori, Armello, and OlliOlli
- GTA 5 sold even better after its Epic Store giveaway
- The DLC for the Frog Fractions 4K remaster is Frog Fractions 3, which is actually Frog Fractions 4
- If you can't go to a real bar, manage one in this lovely fantasy tavern sim
- Psychedelic trance shooter Moose Life, from Jeff Minter, comes this month
- Fortnite astronaut challenge: How to find the ancient ship and install its missing parts
- Microsoft is serious about trying to buy TikTok in the US
- Author unwittingly copies videogame crafting recipe for a historical novel
- Spider-Man is coming to the Avengers game, but only on PlayStation
- Penko Park is Pokémon Snap but in an eerie abandoned wildlife reserve
- Where to find all the Fractured Intel in Warzone
- AMD Ryzen 4000 APUs in short supply says XMG... suggests Intel is better anyways
- Bannerlord finally lets you celebrate your victories with your army
- Here's every new skin coming in Valorant Act 2, plus a deathmatch mode
- Bring Witcher 3 characters into Skyrim with this mod
- If your Windows 10 PC suddenly feels slow, Microsoft wants to hear from you
- These promising IPS gaming monitors from Asus tick all the right boxes
- Ubisoft VP Tommy François is no longer at the company amid abuse allegations
- Resident Evil 3 Remake hasn't been nearly as popular as its predecessor
- Leisure Suit Larry is coming again in Wet Dreams Dry Twice
- Halo: The Master Chief Collection crossplay is coming in 2020
- William English, the co-inventor of the computer mouse, dies at 91
- Total War: Three Kingdoms—I'm on a mission to seize the throne as a devout pacifist
- Grown-up Pokémon game Monster Crown enters Early Access
- Popular D&D tabletop campaign Curse of Strahd is being re-'vamped'
- The legendary Frog Fractions is now on Steam in remastered 4k
August 2
- This mod lets you swap Geralt's other romance partners for Yennefer
- Spintires got a major update and new DLC
- Total War: Troy lays out the Greek and Trojan heroes in detailed videos
- Here's a mod that turns MechWarrior 5 into an RTS
- What did you play last week?
- Great moments in PC gaming: Playing on the first mass-market PCs in the 1980s
- Netflix announces Beyond Good & Evil movie
- Atlantis, aka Coral Castle, arrives in Fortnite
August 1
- What weather adds the most to a game?
- The 7 weirdest things coming in Warframe's grotesque new open world
- Warframe's creepy Heart of Deimos open world expansion launches on August 25
- Co-op board game Spirit Island now has a nice digital edition
- Cook, Serve, Delicious! 3?! releases a final update before launch
- Here's a first look at Warframe's next three warframes coming this year
- Warframe's developers let its community design its next warframe and they created a Frankenstein monster
- Over a million players have tried Grounded, and the first update is coming
- The 5 biggest reveals from Warframe's TennoCon 2020
- Crapshoot: Fascination, one of the most confusing erotic thrillers ever
- Gamesplanet Summer Sale turns up the heat with some great deals