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- August 31
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- 8 things I wish I knew before playing Absolver
- The steampunk dungeon crawler Vaporum will be out in September
- Twitch Extensions will bring new 'interactive experiences' to streams
- The origins of Quake Champions' jumping styles
- I spent $15 on Fallout 4's Creation Club content, and here's what I got
- Wild West Online alpha testing will begin in September
- Pathologic remake is now called Pathologic 2 and has a very strange trailer
- Meet the team
- Cooler Master's chilly HAF 932 case falls to $85 after mail-in-rebate
- Total War: Warhammer 2 system requirements revealed
- Alienware announces a pair of 34-inch curved monitors with G-Sync
- AMD launches Threadripper 1900X, its least expensive enthusiast CPU
- Absolver pulls in over 18,000 concurrent players despite server struggles (Updated)
- Razer tones down 17-inch Blade Pro and shaves $1,700 off the starting price
- See Destiny 2's big budget live action trailer shot by Kong: Skull Island's director
- Akira Yamaoka on reviving Silent Hill, Suda 51 and not working on Inside
- Win a Bundle Stars Spending Spree worth $500
- Dauntless is too simple and slight for Monster Hunter fans
- GTA Online's PUBG-style mode is not as good as PUBG
- Figment, the beautiful puzzler set inside the human mind, has a release date
- WoW's 7.3 update cuts flying mounts to encourage exploration, says game director
- Kentucky Route Zero Act 5 due in early 2018
- Life is Strange: Before the Storm is out today, drops heart-wrenching trailer
- Obsidian almost made a Game of Thrones RPG
- The Quake World Championship was a battle of young vs old
- August 30
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- Vermintide, Samorost 3, and American Truck Sim lead the new Humble Bundle
- How to play support Sombra, according to Overwatch pros
- Sunless Skies is now available in Early Access on Steam
- The PC Gamer Show: the top 100 PC games, Absolver, PUBG AFK problems, and more
- Logitech launches high-end wireless mechanical gaming keyboard and mouse
- Destiny 2 streamer is testing aim assist with mouse and keyboard (Updated)
- Asus attaches a premium price to Windows mixed reality headset
- The Division's free 'Resistance' update will expand the map and add two new modes
- Guide to beating Hearthstone’s Lich King with every class
- Help us build the PC Gamer Readers' Top 100 list
- Today is the deadline to submit comments to the FCC on net neutrality
- Overwatch director dunks on toxic player, promises changes to reporting system
- Get an MSI B250M Pro motherboard and 16GB Intel Optane Memory for $60
- Acer's new 18-core Predator desktop and 35-inch curved monitor are beastly
- Acer's new ambidextrous gaming mouse lets you adjust the click resistance
- Battletech's 'Death From Above' is its most devastating attack yet
- Asus ROG Chimera gaming laptop rocks a fast 17.3-inch 144Hz G-Sync display
- Enter to win this $2,500 gaming rig from Razer and CyberPowerPC
- Wolfenstein 2: The New Colossus teaser stars a Nazi superhero called Blitzmensch
- Eight things I wish I knew before starting XCOM 2: War of the Chosen
- Sega: 'The Sonic Mania offline play bug has now been patched' [Updated]
- Warhammer: Vermintide 2 announced, full reveal due in October
- Get 9 games for super cheap in the Indie Legends bundle
- Dawn of War 3 adds modding tools and Steam Workshop support
- Soulshammer 40,000 mod brings Space Marines to Dark Souls
- Sea of Thieves will launch with an optional 540p mode and 15fps lock
- Valve reinstates standard Steam refund restrictions for Ark: Survival Evolved (Updated)
- The new Overwatch map Junkertown is now playable on the PTR
- PUBG players are farming for $300 skirts by going AFK
- Fallout, Doom, and Skyrim don't need VR, but Bethesda has bigger ideas
- An enormous space fish has been found in the Destiny 2 beta
- August 29
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- Absolver review
- Nvidia Shield Portable 2 prototype turns up in a Canadian pawn shop
- Half-Life 2's Citadel as a 9-foot tall PC, and other awesome case mods from QuakeCon
- MSI X299 Gaming M7 ACK motherboard review
- Watch Marauder Orcs bust a move in this super-hip new Middle-earth: Shadow of War trailer
- GTA Online gets a PUBG-style Battle Royale mode in the Smuggler's Run update
- Ark: Survival Evolved has officially launched, along with a $45 season pass
- Bundle and save on this Core i7-7700K CPU and Gigabyte Z270 motherboard
- Overwatch deathmatch modes are now open to everyone
- Steam support and Halo VR are coming to Windows 10 mixed reality headsets
- The Destiny 2 PC beta is live
- XCOM 2: War of the Chosen review
- Cooler Master’s $90 mouse and keyboard combo targets gamers on a budget
- Dell readies own version of HoloLens mixed reality headset for $360
- What you need to get Destiny 2 running at 60 fps in 4K
- The Fallout 4 Creation Club goes live with $3 'Horse Armor'
- Crucial’s BX300 SSDs make replacing your crusty old hard drive easy
- Akira Yamaoka would 'love' to see Silent Hill revived, is open to Team Silent reunion
- Master X Master's co-op PvE is better than its MOBA
- Join the PC Gamer Club today and get a copy of Reverse Crawl
- Telltale's creative comms head would 'love to do something' on Charlie Brooker's Black Mirror
- Piloting the Dodo, the plane that was never meant to fly in Grand Theft Auto 3
- Get money off classic Square Enix games this week on GOG
- Black Desert Online to get 'Savage Rift' defence mode tomorrow
- Half-Life 2: Aftermath mod alters launch schedule in light of Episode 3 synopsis
- South Park: The Fractured But Whole won't be censored in Australia
- What should be done to fix Hearthstone's Druid problem
- August 28
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- X4: Foundations announcement trailer showcases the latest outer space sandbox
- The strangest patch notes in PC gaming
- Here's what XCOM 2: War of the Chosen's devs had to say in a pre-launch AMA
- Get a rapid-fire primer of what Destiny 2 is with this latest trailer
- Divinity: Original Sin 2 trailer shows off gameplay and a possible new race
- Corsair Carbide 500R Arctic White case falls to $60 after mail-in-rebate
- Hunting Yankee is a North Korean game about shooting US soldiers
- See Destiny 2's FOV at its highest and lowest settings
- Games like Dishonored 2 aren't going anywhere, says Harvey Smith
- Asus announces a dual-band AC2900 wireless router for gamers
- Life is brutal in this adventure game about medieval peasants
- MSI's latest laptops deliver fast gaming on the go with 120Hz panels
- Destiny 2 PC beta is struggling with launch bugs (Updated)
- Destiny 2 on the PC will use Blizzard's 'Global Play' region locking
- Codemasters say adding VR to F1 2017 will be difficult
- Get ready for Absolver's martial arts brawls with the launch trailer
- 17 years after Rune, Human Head Studios announces an open world sequel, Rune: Ragnarok
- Target leaks possible Bethesda Game of Thrones game (Updated)
- The best total conversion mods
- Announcing Crackdown 3 at E3 2014 was a mistake, admits Microsoft
- Watch Star Citizen's impressive face-tracking in action
- Dark Forces was more than a Star Wars-themed Doom clone
- Dota 2 is getting negative Steam reviews because there's no Half-Life 3
- August 27
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- Consume your enemies and corrupt your friends in new Cultist Simulator trailer
- What game would you recommend to a complete non-gamer?
- PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds tops Dota 2 in Steam player count
- Watch Rainbow Six Siege's three new operators in action
- Thai horror Home Sweet Home will chill you to the bone
- August 26
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- Shinji Mikami: 'I welcome the new world of Steam and digital sales'
- No Man's Sky patch tweaks teleporters and fixes Atlas Rises bugs
- What are you playing this weekend?
- Watch the final day of the PUBG Invitational from Gamescom right here
- Divinity: Original Sin 2 will be fully voice acted after all
- This week's highs and lows in PC gaming
- We’re giving away 20 Dauntless Founder's Alpha codes to PC Gamer Club members (Updated)
- August 25
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- How Wolfenstein 3D is influencing The New Colossus
- Get a Corsair 500W power supply with 80 Plus Bronze certification for just $13
- Why Mercy's Resurrect had to be killed
- Star Citizen: expressive faces, space fashion, and boldly going beyond 3.0
- Killing Floor: Incursion is getting a Horde mode called Holdout
- Wolfenstein 2 'is political' but 'isn't a commentary on current topics,' says dev
- Rainbow Six Siege map playlists are being changed up in Season 3
- Destiny 2 early access beta preloads are now live
- Crypt of the Necrodancer studio reveals its next game, Industries of Titan
- We're in an FPS golden age
- Nidhogg 2 is one of the year's best-looking games
- Rocket League is dropping non-standard arenas for Competitive Season 6
- Cryptocurrency mining may void warranty on Inno3D GPUs
- We’re giving away 50 Destiny 2 PC beta keys to PC Gamer Club members (Updated)
- Darkwood creators upload the full game to The Pirate Bay so everyone can play it
- Linksys is now taking preorders on a gaming router designed to reduce ping
- Dell may utilize Alienware brand to attack sub-$1,000 midrange laptop market
- Monster Hunter: World will get free DLC with new quests
- Become Queen in Reigns: Her Majesty, due out this year
- HTC could be getting out of the VR business
- The Crew 2’s instant vehicle switching is a fun idea it doesn’t use enough
- Secret of Mana is getting a remake and it's coming to PC
- Final Fantasy 15 will have Steam Workshop support and will run on older PCs
- South Park: The Fractured But Whole video shows off crafting and puzzles
- Watch 45 minutes of the Star Citizen planetary landings update
- Ex-Valve writer publishes Half-Life 2: Episode 3 synopsis
- August 24
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- Get your AMD graphics card ready for Destiny 2
- Nvidia releases GPU drivers optimized for Destiny 2 and several other games
- A pair of Destiny 2 trailers introduce Cayde-6 and Hawthorne
- Watch a raccoon ponder the nature of holes in the Donut County reveal trailer
- Corsair closes out the summer with deep discounts on refurbished peripherals
- Final Fantasy 15 director says nude mods are up to the 'moral sense' of the community
- The way Mercy resurrects heroes is changing completely
- Dual Universe 'pre-alpha' will be released to backers at the end of September
- The QuakeCon Steam Sale is now underway
- Antec comes out of the woodwork with sub-$100 mid-tower case
- Giraffes are way OP in gruesome animal brawler Beast Battle Simulator
- AOC trots out FreeSync 2 and G-Sync monitors with 0.5ms response times
- Biomutant is one of the most exciting demos at Gamescom this year
- Metal Gear Survive will include farming and crafting
- GTA Online's big Smuggler's Run update adds new customisable aircraft and more next week
- See what it's like to patrol Destiny 2's European Dead Zone
- Rocket League's most requested feature is coming soon: transparent goalposts
- The Evil Within 2 hands-on: more open horror forces you to make tough choices
- XCOM 2: War of the Chosen review in progress - an exciting, arduous expansion
- Overwatch players could face demotion in Season 6
- Biomutant's open-world evokes Zelda, but with mechs and mutants
- Ark: Survival Evolved is killing hundreds of official servers on August 29
- Watch Need for Speed Payback running in 4K at 60fps
- Team up with allies old and new in Wolfenstein 2: The New Colossus
- Explore Total War: Warhammer 2's Vortex campaign map
- Watch KFC's weird VR training game about frying chicken
- The PC Gamer Show: Gamescom, Age of Empires IV, and Mei's animated short
- August 23
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- PUBG players are paying insane prices for rare costumes
- World of Warcraft: Shadows of Argus trailer heralds next week's arrival of patch 7.3
- PES 2018 demo is coming at the end of August
- God's Trigger is a lightning fast co-op brawler in the style of Hotline Miami
- Observer review
- StarCraft: Remastered hasn't changed how Korea feels about StarCraft
- Thermaltake's latest full-tower case is a glass house for your PC
- EA's Patrick Soderlund thinks Mass Effect: Andromeda criticism was a little unfair
- Asus has a motherboard that supports up to 19 GPUs
- Get Alien: Isolation, Dead by Daylight, and more in the Humble Spooky Horror Bundle
- Hearthstone animated short delivers a Disney-style tribute to 'Hearth and Home'
- The weirdest shooters of the '90s
- F1 2017 review
- Score a Lenovo 15.6-inch gaming laptop with GTX 1060 for $1,080
- Samsung launches a mammoth double-wide QLED gaming monitor
- Tyranny's first expansion, Bastard's Wound, is due next month
- Call of Duty: WWII beta confirmed for PC
- AMD releases GPU drivers for Quake Champions and Agents of Mayhem
- Mei takes the lead in the new Overwatch animated short
- Hunt: Showdown is going to have some crazy weapons
- Meet Middle-earth: Shadow of War's hardworking Machine Tribe
- Get 9 games for $3.49 with Bundle Stars' Indie Legends 6 Bundle
- Get a glimpse of PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds' desert map
- Dontnod are developing a new narrative adventure game
- Ace Combat 7 Gamescom trailer cranks up the drama
- Tropico 6 looks like paradise in the new trailer
- Assassin's Creed: Origins trailer features famous rulers vying for power
- Watch four hunters take on a huge finned lizard in Monster Hunter: World
- Rainbow Six Siege will be free to play this weekend
- Overwatch Season 6 changes outlined in new Blizzard video update
- August 22
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- Changes to CS:GO's smallest guns are having a big impact
- The Crew 2 is coming in March
- Quake Champions hits Steam Early Access, but it's not free yet
- Gwent single-player campaign coming later this year
- Absolver hands-on: a fun and complex fighting system in a sad, sad world
- Brink, Bethesda's post-apocalyptic FPS, is now free to play on Steam
- XCOM 2 War of the Chosen is getting a challenge mode with global leaderboards
- Gigabyte’s 17.3-inch 4K laptop with GeForce GTX 1070 is on sale for $1,399
- HP's Omen X gaming laptop tops 10 pounds and is built to overclock
- Mount & Blade 2: Bannerlord trailer reveals five-on-five 'Captain Mode' combat
- Here's a No Man's Sky bubble planet, and one covered with I don't even know what
- Western Digital launches a crazy capacious 20TB desktop storage system
- HyperX brings a chambered design to headset space for more distinct sound
- Hearthstone's first multiplayer raid pits everyone against Super-Arthas
- Corsair refreshes Void headset line with better sound and improved mic
- Cities: Skylines expansion will add electric cars and eco-friendly buildings
- The Good Life debut trailer features cats, a killer, and strange English villagers
- Call of Duty: WWII's social hub, Headquarters, revealed in new trailer
- Toshiba bumps capacity of high performance hard drive family to 8TB
- Doom VFR Q&A explains how playing a scientist will be just as violent as Doomguy
- Anno 1800 announced, will take the series back to the past
- Should Age of Empires IV reinvent the series?
- Assassin's Creed: Origins hands-on — bigger, livelier, and taking notes from The Witcher 3
- Biomutant in-game footage showcases handy vehicles, combat and more
- GTA Online update adds stylish machine gun car, new double payouts and rewards
- I came for Middle-Earth: Shadow of War's stealth and left on a fire-breathing dragon
- Grab yourself a stylish PC Gamer T-shirt
- Ni No Kuni 2 dev teases the original game on PC
- Kill more naked giants in Attack on Titan 2
- Halo Wars 2: Awakening the Nightmare release date set for September
- PUBG kills can now be instantly recorded with Nvidia ShadowPlay
- Here's another weird No Man's Sky planet, littered with sentient metallic orbs
- Battlefield 1 is getting a 5v5 mode called Incursions
- This new Shenmue 3 trailer shows a very wistful Ryo Hazuki
- August 21
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- Far Cry 5 extended gameplay video shows fishing, shooting and ramming
- Hang out with ASUS ROG at PAX West 2017
- Destiny 2 on the PC will support SLI and HDR displays
- Cats and Dogs are coming to The Sims 4 in November
- Age of Empires Definitive Edition set for October, AoE 2 and 3 remasters are coming too
- Final Fantasy 15 hands-on: a sight to see in 4K, if you've got the PC to handle it
- Forza Motorsports 7 system requirements updated, PC demo on the way
- D.Va is getting a big nerf on the next Overwatch PTR, but also a new ability
- A new Ruiner trailer reveals a September release date
- Grab a Corsair Katar gaming mouse with 8,000 dpi sensor for half price at $20
- The Destiny 2 launch trailer has arrived
- Samsung's 500GB Evo solid state drive is on sale for $150
- Need for Speed Payback trailer shows off the 2018 BMW M5
- Intel launches new 8th Gen Core processors for mobile
- NASA is livestreaming the solar eclipse on Twitch
- Star Wars Battlefront 2 video shows off 24-player Starfighter Assault battle
- Kel'Thuzad is coming to Heroes of the Storm
- The craziest DPS builds of all time
- Gigabyte's Aorus AC300W mid-tower case lets you show off your graphics card
- Junkertown is the newest Overwatch map
- Intel box art confirms Coffee Lake CPUs will require a new motherboard
- Biomutant is an open-world RPG with mutant critters
- PC Gamer UK Podcast 52: I have a complicated relationship with Bathtub Geralt
- Nidhogg 2 review
- ReCore: Definitive Edition and free expansion due out next week
- Final Fantasy 15 PC to support 8K resolutions
- Fear Effect Reinvented is a remake of the cel-shaded action game
- The making of Fort Frolic, Bioshock's most twisted and memorable level
- Our favorite BioShock moments
- Surviving Mars reveal trailer takes us on a tour of a Martian colony
- PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds has sold over 8 million copies
- Life is Strange: Before the Storm launch trailer gets angry
- Final Fantasy 15 is coming to PC next year
- Star Wars Battlefront 2 trailer shows off Starfighter Assault battles
- HTC drops price of Vive VR headset to $600
- Assassin's Creed: Origins Gamescom trailer is stylish and bloody
- August 20
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- Watch Talion ride dragons and battle Balrog in latest Shadow of War trailer
- PC and Xbox One cross-play confirmed for Sea of Thieves
- Jurassic World Evolution is a dinosaur theme park sim coming next summer
- Tell us about your worst save file disasters
- What game does everyone seem to love, but you can't stand it?
- 10 new things PC gamers should know about Destiny 2
- Our readers share their craziest (and stupidest) PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds stories
- Online brawler Absolver details co-op, competitive and mentoring systems
- August 19
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- BioWare is dropping support for Mass Effect: Andromeda's single-player
- Friday the 13th to add new maps, a new Jason and a $4 swimsuit DLC pack
- Fortnite survival mode coming later this month
- What are you playing this weekend?
- The 'Souls-like' label needs to die
- Dead Cells adds daily challenge mode and new abilities
- August 18
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- This week's highs and lows in PC gaming
- AMD Radeon RX Vega 64 review
- See a full level of sci-fi action game Echo being played
- Best gear for back to school 2017
- AMD is trying to meet demand for Radeon RX Vega 64
- Children of Morta is coming next year, so here's a new gameplay trailer
- Escape from Tarkov is a compelling game about gear, and how we store it
- Darkwood, the top-down horror game, rolls out with a creepy new gameplay trailer
- Exploring one of No Man's Sky's new synthetic planets
- A major new StarCraft 2 multiplayer update is now in testing
- New Cemu emulator hack enables 60 fps in The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild
- Save on system memory for desktops and laptops with these deals
- Check out these power supply deals
- Survey finds vast majority of Americans are clueless about net neutrality
- Spintires: Mudrunner brings new graphics, vehicles, and maps to the Siberian muck
- The rise and fall of For Honor
- Monster Hunter: World trailers show off a gorgeous environment and new creatures
- Epic had to kill Paragon twice to save it
- The most brutal melee takedowns in PC gaming
- Save on the entire Dawn of War franchise this weekend
- Infinite Power: 20 Best Games that Never End
- David Beckham will feature in Pro Evolution Soccer 2018
- Valve will 'continue granting free keys to help partners' but with some provisos [Updated]
- We tried to steal a tank with a helicopter in GTA Online, and it was embarrassing
- Planet Coaster adds real life world record-breaking ride months ahead of time
- Divine conjuration: Skyrim mod turns players into angels
- Bandai Namco's 'mysterious' #Projekt1514 is a new Sword Art Online game, coming to PC [Updated]
- Someone has finally recreated Doom 2 in the Diablo 2 engine
- Rainbow Six Siege's forthcoming Theme Park map showcased in new trailer
- August 17
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- Action-survival game Praey for the Gods adds Breath of the Wild-style climbing
- The debut trailer for Planet of the Apes: Lost Frontier shows primates under pressure
- Blizzard teases a 'reveal event' and new Overwatch animated short for Gamescom
- Just Survive's stronghold system is a step in the wrong direction
- Watch peasants throw poop in a new Kingdom Come: Deliverance story trailer
- Quake-inspired FPS Dusk's first episode is available now
- You're twice as likely to be struck by lightning than win your first game of Battlegrounds
- Dishonored 2: Death of the Outsider trailer re-introduces Billie Lurk
- Surging GDDR memory costs could drive up graphics card prices
- Mount & Blade 2 release date won't be revealed at Gamescom and this is why
- Upgrade to an ASRock X299 Taichi and Intel Core i7-7740X for $530
- Ashes of the Singularity: Escalation v2.4 update adds Vulkan support
- Third-largest American ISP will charge customers an extra $50 per month for 'unlimited data'
- Quake Champions hits Steam Early Access next week
- The most historically accurate PC games
- Shadows: Awakening is a tactical 'real time combat' isometric ARPG, due next year
- Do games have enough respect for your spare time?
- How Skaven plan to corrupt the world in Total War: Warhammer 2
- Turn your city into a stage with Cities: Skylines' Concerts expansion
- City of Brass Early Access release date set
- See Wild West Online's treasure hunting and beautiful yet lonely world in action
- Pillars of Eternity 2: Deadfire teases barfing pirates and animancy cats
- Shenmue 3 secures publishing deal with Saints Row outfit
- Check out this incredible Frost Lich Jaina cosplay
- First LawBreakers patch buffs Gunslinger, nerfs Harrier, and more
- August 16
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- The Overwatch World Cup's Santa Monica qualifiers showed the power of a versatile DPS
- The Amazing Eternals is a new FPS by the Warframe studio
- Check out Diablo 2 recreated in StarCraft 2 in this Curse of Tristram 'Megatrailer'
- Peter Molyneux's The Trail: Frontier Challenge is now on Steam
- The PC Gamer Show: NetHack, LawBreakers, Sonic Mania, and more
- Ogre, Steve Jackson's game about a giant cybernetic tank, is coming to Steam in October
- Do Nvidia drivers cause planned obsolescence?
- Crackdown 3 delayed to 2018
- Bungie says Destiny silver appeared on Steam 'in error'
- Twitch's desktop app doesn't do the basics better than Discord
- AMD adds to cryptocurrency craze with beta driver tuned for mining
- Get an EVGA 450W power supply for just $10 after rebate
- The best XCOM 2 propaganda so far
- A free Prey demo is now available on Steam
- Join PC Gamer at the Lenovo Legion Lounge at PAX West
- We Happy Few coming in 2018 as a 'full sized, retail game,' with a full sized retail price
- SteelSeries brings Discord notifications to its new mechanical keyboard
- The Evil Within 2 trailer reveals the deranged artist named Stefano
- Playing for a bare-fisted PUBG chicken dinner
- Lian Li builds a cube-shaped mini-ATX case that supports liquid cooling
- Total War: Warhammer 2 confirms the Skaven as fourth race
- The profile of a Rocket League pro
- PUBG abandons weekly and monthly patch schedule to maintain 'high standard of quality'
- How to get the best gaming experience from your gaming PC with OMEN by HP
- XCOM 2: War of the Chosen 'Propaganda Center' photobooth feature free on Steam
- THQ Nordic announces Black Mirror—a Gothic horror reboot about 'madness and psychological distress'
- Divinity: Original Sin survey demonstrates that its fans really love isometric CRPGs
- Middle-earth: Shadow of War has an Orc tribe called Terror and they're not nice
- August 15
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- The Good Life is a newly announced RPG by the creator of Deadly Premonition
- Nightmarchers is a supernatural RPG-shooter set in post-apocalypse Oahu
- RX Vega's inventory problems aren't due to cryptocurrency miners
- You'll soon be able to play EVE: Valkyrie without a VR headset
- StarCraft: Remastered is a success in just about every way
- PC Gamer US October issue: The Top 100
- Watch the new Destiny 2 PC open beta trailer running in glorious 4K
- The uncertain future of games like Deus Ex and Dishonored
- Creepy stealth game Hello Neighbor is delayed to December
- Papers, Please creator Lucas Pope details his next game
- Rosewill's 850W semi-modular power supply is on sale for $60
- Make propaganda for your XCOM 2: War of the Chosen campaign with this official app
- H1Z1: Just Survive has a new map, adds a stronghold system, and drops the 'H1Z1'
- Monolith explains why Shelob is a lady in Middle-earth: Shadow of War
- Chill out with Alphacool's massive and refillable 420mm all-in-one CPU cooler
- Sonic Mania console review roundup
- StarCraft: Remastered—how to polish a classic
- Razer launches an ambidextrous wireless laptop mouse for work and play
- Rez Infinite review
- Buy Observer today and get Layers of Fear completely free
- Pure Farming 2018 release date confirmed
- GTA Online update brings fancy new supercar, double payouts and gunrunning discounts
- Football Manager 2018 release date set
- The Escapists 2 shows off its three timed 'transport' prisons
- Agents of Mayhem review
- The Lighthouse is a neat-looking crowdfunded horror thriller, alpha demo out now [Updated]
- PUBG's work-in-progress vaulting animations look good
- Agents of Mayhem is out tomorrow, so here's a launch trailer
- Sid Meier's Civilization: A New Dawn brings the series to the tabletop
- August 14
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- Hearthstone players aren't happy with the Arena mode's forced synergy picks
- Songbringer, the Zelda-like with hallucinogenic cacti, will be out in September
- Deadlight: Director's Cut is currently free on GOG
- Build of the week: a pile of guns and light
- Study suggests first-person shooters may be damaging your brain
- Discord shuts down AltRight.com server after Charlottesville violence
- This nightmarish Doom mod turns every enemy into Crash Bandicoot memes
- Blizzard sees the light, brings back the Battle.net name
- A 480Hz gaming display supposedly shows up in the wild
- Dusk's incredible FPS levels continue where Quake left off
- For Honor player wins $10,000 in championship by abusing an exploit
- Elon Musk heralds the future of AI as a Dota 2 bot beats a human champ
- Gigantic's first big update will add a mischievous new hero tomorrow
- Nvidia's next-gen Volta gaming GPUs aren't arriving anytime soon
- Battletech pushed back to early 2018
- Destiny's 'Silver' in-game currency is now available for purchase on Steam (Updated)
- Nvidia releases Game Ready 385.28 graphics drivers for Agents of Mayhem
- The best hidden object games
- Hunting the hunters in XCOM 2: War of the Chosen
- GOG's Piñata Madness sale gives you mystery games
- The AMD Radeon RX Vega 56 and Vega 64 preview
- The Evil Within 2 teases horrific in-game artwork of mysterious antagonist Stefano
- Blizzard to launch 'global diversity and inclusion initiative', aims to boost women and minority group employment figures
- Deadly Premonition creator Swery65 to announce next game at PAX West
- Skull and Bones has loot boxes that reflect 'real economy of the Indian Ocean', won't be pay-to-win
- GTA 5 NaturalVision Remastered mod looks even prettier after extensive update
- August 13
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- How to clean a mousepad
- Mega Man Legacy Collection 2 out now with old-school cheat codes
- Our readers share their cleverest PC gaming moments
- We want your craziest, best stories from Playerunknown's Battlegrounds
- Why I Love: playing games and watching TV at the same time
- Star Citizen video shows off smartwatch-style UI called mobiGlas
- The funniest PC gaming videos of the week
- Myth-inspired RTS Deadhold charges into Early Access later this month
- How Team Liquid swept The International 2017 Grand Finals for the $10.8M prize
- August 12
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- Euro Truck Simulator 2 heads to Italy for next DLC
- Fallout 4 mod gives you a movable home base built inside a Vertibird
- Unpacking AMD's Radeon RX Vega 56 and Vega 64
- Valve reveals two new Dota 2 heroes
- What are you playing this weekend?
- What was the first PC game you played?
- Super Mega Baseball 2 delayed until 2018
- An excess of sex stuff sidelines a League of Legends celeb
- August 11
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- The best Hearthstone Knights of the Frozen Thrones decks to try now
- This week's highs and lows in PC gaming
- Sudden Strike 4 is now available (Updated)
- The sensitive challenge of portraying psychosis in Hellblade
- Riot loses lawsuit over League of Legends 'Striker Lucian' skin
- LawBreakers review
- John Cleese takes the lead in Raid: World War 2, coming to the PC in September
- Cliff Bleszinski says he's not worried about LawBreakers' slow start
- How Hellblade's permadeath works isn't the point
- Warcraft 3 finally gets its own PTR
- Rainbow Six Siege: Operation Blood Orchid is coming this month
- Plop your backside in a red accented racing chair for $52
- BitFenix case brings tempered glass to the masses with affordable $60 price tag
- Overclocker pushes Threadripper 1950X to 5.37GHz using liquid nitrogen
- EVGA’s SC17 gaming laptop pairs a 4K G-Sync display with GTX 1080 for $3,000
- Absolver teases sophisticated customisation system
- 3030 Deathwar Redux is a comedic Elite-like space explorer, due next month
- No Man's Sky Atlas Rises update adds '30 hours of new story content' and 'limited' online co-op
- 'My creative calling is to freak people the f*** out,' says Alexis Kennedy on Cultist Simulator
- Watch Sonic Mania's nostalgia-loaded opening animation [Updated]
- Update: Hearthstone: Knights of the Frozen Throne is live on EU and NA
- August 10
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- The best plays from the Overwatch World Cup Katowice qualifiers
- Eat your heart out, JC Denton: Hackers figure out how to inject malware into DNA
- Arma 3: Laws of War DLC will bring a 'different perspective' to the battlefield
- Bungie outlines the balance changes coming to Destiny 2's PC beta
- South Park: The Fractured But Whole system requirements are out
- Arctic is bringing the chill to Threadripper with Freezer 33 air cooler
- Paid crates continue to be a contentious issue for the PUBG community
- Another PUBG streamer has been banned, this time for taking advantage of a glitch
- Popular cryptocurrency GPUs are finally back in stock, but prices remain inflated
- The first game published through Fig crowdfunding has already doubled money for investors
- Overwatch is finally getting a Deathmatch mode
- Twitch declares war on Discord with the full launch of the Twitch Desktop App
- Discord takes aim at Skype with new video chat and screen sharing features
- Get an Intel Core i7-7800X CPU, ASRock X299 mobo, and case for $656
- These four famous battles would be perfect for Total War Sagas
- The Overwatch League adds new teams in London and Los Angeles
- The International 7 is great, but watching it in the Dota 2 client is not
- Google begins training DeepMind AI to dominate players in Starcraft II
- G.Skill announces 3600MHz and 128GB memory kits for Threadripper
- Dishonored 2: Death of the Outsider teases Karnaca's 'gritty underbelly' in neck-slashing trailer
- Fallout 4 Game of the Year Edition announced, release date set
- Conan Exiles details 'phase two' of early access plan, new systems, map features
- Seven new things we've learned about Far Cry 5's sandbox
- West of Loathing review
- The AMD Ryzen Threadripper 1950X and 1920X Review
- GTA 5 Project London mod is a work-in-progress map overhaul
- Bundle Stars launches 'biggest ever' Summer Sale, up to 90 percent off select games
- PUBG brings first-person servers to all game modes, leaderboards incoming
- Razer launches white/grey versions of its most popular accessories
- August 9
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- One year later, No Man's Sky is a better game but still lacks magic and mystery
- Corsair Glaive RGB Aluminum review
- The PC Gamer Show: Hellblade, Overwatch summer fashion, Dota cards, and more
- InXile boss Brian Fargo hints at a Starflight reboot
- Skyscrapers take a beating in the first Megaton Rainfall trailer in 2 years
- Tips for playing LawBreakers
- Ys Seven release date announced
- How Valve could change the card game genre with Artifact
- Grab an Asus 15.6-inch gaming laptop with GeForce GTX 1060 for $1,109
- A new Wolfenstein 2 trailer showcases the dangers of chocolate and big brothers
- Friday the 13th weapons being nerfed because camp counselors won't stop killing each other
- Enermax launches a pair of full-coverage liquid coolers for Threadripper
- The tireless creation of GTA 5's most impressive visual overhaul mod
- Predicting the power of all Hearthstone's new Death Knight cards
- Get Devil Daggers, Who's Your Daddy, and Pony Island in the Humble Microjumbo Bundle
- Try Guild Wars 2: Path of Fire for free this weekend
- Liquid-cooled Threadripper 1950X CPU gets overclocked to 4.1GHz
- Elgato’s launches a collapsible green screen to level up your game streams
- This horror game set on Mars aims to separate real mental illness from Lovecraftian madness
- Rez Infinite is out now on PC
- Streamers vs. stream-snipers: why cheaters will always prosper on Twitch
- GTA Online gets rad machine gun-equipped truck, new Adversary Mode in latest update
- PUBG weekly update lets dead players view markers on mini and world maps
- CODumentary is a Call of Duty documentary from Devolver Digital
- Warcraft: Total War alpha mod brings Azeroth to the turn-based battlefield
- No Man's Sky expansion 'Atlas Rises' will launch this week for free
- Valve is making a Dota card game to release in 2018
- A new Destiny 2 trailer shows off the chaos of competitive PvP
- August 8
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- Borderlands studio is working on a 1v1 competitive shooter and card game
- Heroes of the Storm's controversial Hanamura map is being removed and reworked
- These fanmade Hearthstone Destiny cards are the kind of brand crossover we actually want
- The coolest tech demos from SIGGRAPH 2017
- Jeff Minter and Atari kiss and make up, Tempest 4000 is on the way
- Meet Eloise, the troll queen of Hearthstone
- Overwatch Summer Games skins revealed
- Dell rings in school year with discounted gaming laptops
- Broadband analysis finds at least 196 ISPs impose data caps
- With Destiny 2 scented candles, Bungie can finally join you for bath time
- Ni No Kuni 2 special editions revealed, season pass confirmed (Updated)
- Testing finds reported discrepancies in Noctua’s fan manufacturing overblown
- Fallout gets a post-nuclear board game from Fantasy Flight
- Shinji Mikami recommends playing The Evil Within 2 on 'Casual' setting
- 9 games that need a battle royale mode
- All Walls Must Fall's speedy hybrid turn-based firefights show promise in Early Access
- Orwell: Ignorance is Strength is inspired by fake news
- No Man's Sky teases portals and spacecrafts ahead of update 1.3
- The ghosts of Lovecraft and Poe argue in neat adventure The Darkside Detective
- Save on sci-fi games this week on the Humble Store
- Steam has launched over 1,000 games in 7 weeks following Direct introduction
- Everything's exploding in Killing Floor 2
- Don't Knock Twice portrays a 'psychologically terrifying' urban legend this September
- Hellblade: Senua's Sacrifice deletes your save file for dying too often
- Rainbow Six Siege PC patch is huge but will 'reset foundation future patches are built upon'
- Hellblade: Senua's Sacrifice review
- New LawBreakers trailer trumpets importance of skill ahead of launch
- The Dota 2 International prize pool has comfortably broken its record
- Street Fighter costume modders issued DMCA takedown notice from Capcom
- August 7
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- For Honor will be free to play this weekend, and on sale too
- See every card from Hearthstone's Knights of the Frozen Throne
- The new Dusk trailer is all about high-speed violence and loud music
- This new Brutal Doom gun uses souls for ammo
- Asus and Acer delay feature-rich 4K 144Hz monitors with HDR until 2018
- AM2R creator is now working on Ori and the Will of the Wisps
- Destiny 2 will offer XP boosts and in-game loot as part of Rockstar Energy and Pop-Tarts promotions
- Build of the week: this animatronic Alien PC has moving lips (for kissing)
- Turn Geralt into an extreme sports nut with Pro Witcher 3 mod
- Gigabyte’s X299 Aorus Gaming motherboard only supports Kaby Lake-X
- AMD's Ryzen 7 1800X processor is going for a deal price of $420
- Spelunky creator Derek Yu reveals his next project, and the secret of UFO50
- Full details for Intel's Core i9 processor lineup
- Being a baby dinosaur in Early Access survival game Saurian is no picnic
- Cute, cuddly otters are coming to Ark: Survival Evolved
- Slime Rancher review
- Fallout 4 boss rush mod brings Metal Gear Solid to the Commonwealth
- Morph Girl is an FMV game inspired by '90s Japanese horror movies
- Rainbow Six Siege is 'here to stay' after hitting 20 million registered players
- DICE details new Battlefield 1 Specialization system, testing begins soon
- Valve kicks off CS:GO pistol changes with Tec-9 nerf
- Buy Tacoma on GOG and get Event[0] for free
- Middle-earth: Shadow of War will have microtransactions tied to its Nemesis system
- August 6
- August 5
- August 4
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- This week's highs and lows in PC gaming
- Killing Floor 2 is $12 in the September Humble Monthly Bundle
- ViewSonic XG2703-GS gaming monitor review
- Respawn boss says it's 'heavily invested in the Titanfall universe,' whatever that means
- The best (and worst) guns in PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds
- One of our favorite cult games from last year just got a big update
- Check out new Hunt: Showdown gameplay in the debut dev diary
- Skyrim Special Edition mod lets you challenge any NPC to a duel
- Monster taming meets Stardew Valley in this upcoming RPG
- Check out Quake 2 played on a Titan Xp with real-time GPU path tracing
- Hacked Wii U pulls double duty as a PC and console
- Watch BJ kill Nazis from a wheelchair in a new Wolfenstein 2: The New Colossus video
- Hearthstone's new expansion Knights of the Frozen Throne launches next week
- Get a 15.6-inch laptop with Core i7-7700HQ and GeForce GTX 1050 for $804
- PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds breaks 500,000 concurrent players on Steam
- AMD's partners detail unannounced Threadripper 1920 CPU in support docs
- Grimoire: Heralds of the Winged Exemplar is now live on Steam after 20 years of development
- The Witcher 3 Devil's Pit mod adds new playable area, 4 NPCs, 20 items
- Revisiting Grand Theft Auto 2, the weirdest GTA of them all
- The Long Dark review
- PC Gamer UK Podcast 51: Lvl.99 Seabass
- Daniel Licht, the Dexter and Dishonored composer, dies at 60
- Alexis Kennedy's part in next Dragon Age will 'immediately look familiar to anyone who's played Fallen London, Sunless Sea'
- The Evil Within 2 pushes psychological horror 'much harder' than original
- Alienware has a few neat Australian deals on gaming PCs and laptops right now
- Steam has an average of 14 million concurrent users every day
- Unboxing AMD's massive Ryzen Threadripper
- New F1 2017 trailer showcases this year's career mode
- Destiny 2's PC beta will feature improvements forged from the tears of console players
- First-person servers change everything in PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds
- August 3
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- Wizards of the Coast unveils Magic: The Gathering - Arena
- Mount & Blade 2: Bannerlord dev promises more transparency, kicks off a weekly blog
- Watch the first trailer for the Dan Harmon-produced esports comedy series
- How to design a great Metroidvania map
- Dynasty Warriors 9 confirmed for PC
- Meet the teenager who started a charity to help those with disabilities using the magic of VR
- Friday the 13th has sold more than 1.8 million copies so far
- Aukey's aluminum membrane keyboard with RGB lighting is on sale for $26
- For Honor season 3 introduces the Gladiator, Highlander, and 1v1 tournaments
- Popular virtual reality social app AltspaceVR closes today
- Valve makes changes to Steam groups to fight spammers and simplify signups
- Grab LG's 34-inch ultrawide FreeSync monitor with curved IPS display for $600
- Everything you need to know about Steam refunds, explained
- AMD posts list of liquid coolers compatible with Threaderipper CPUs
- Intel's Coffee Lake CPUs not compatible with current motherboards
- PUBG's new car horns have turned stream-snipers into 'stream-honkers'
- Epitasis is a cool exploration puzzle game about ancient tech and alien worlds
- Hearthstone card reveal: Roll the Bones
- Conan Exiles free 'Frozen North' expansion release date set
- Stellaris: Synthetic Dawn lets you play as Skynet, the Borg, and other space robots
- Life is Strange: Before the Storm is a prequel series for the punks
- Get Doom for 55 percent off this week
- Rocket League adds 20-word Language Ban system that will 'evolve over time'
- Take-Two labels PC market 'very important' but won't commit to Red Dead Redemption 2
- b00tl3g kr3w is a free game about pirating software in the '90s
- August 2
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- The PC Gamer Show: Tacoma, PUBG crates, sex games on Steam, the Doomfist debate, and more
- What it's like creating one of Steam's most popular games at just 20 years old
- Spartan Fist gameplay trailer features flying fists and exploding heads
- ESL One Hamburg is the first Dota 2 Major tournament for 2017-18
- 'Player-curated' Featured Contracts are coming to Hitman this month
- The Legend of Heroes: Trails of Cold Steel goes live with PC port work from Durante
- Get your gaming rig's cables organized with dirt cheap Velcro
- Psychic Readers Network sues Rockstar over Grand Theft Auto: Vice City
- Get a refurbished Logitech G602 wireless gaming mouse for $25
- Assassin's Creed: Origins factions will spontaneously fight—or hug, if they're pals
- The hottest loot spots in PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds
- FSP's newest power supplies are built to outlive your gaming PC
- Usain Bolt will feature in Pro Evolution Soccer 2018
- Cryptocurrency miners are partially responsible for delayed Vega launch
- Divinity: Original Sin 2 showcases co-op split screen, skill crafting
- Why I love the taverns of Skyrim
- Total War: Warhammer to get 30 free elite units next week
- GTA 5 NaturalVision Remastered overhaul mod is stunning
- Sunless Skies early access release date set
- PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds is open to 'any tie-in that you'd imagine' following Battle Royale crossover
- New Pillars of Eternity II: Deadfire video shows off the sprawling Neketaka metropolis
- The Witcher is getting a coloring book for adults and it features Geralt in the bath
- Dell Gaming brings PC gaming to San Diego Comic-Con
- The Overwatch Summer Games event returns next week
- Get these excellent Mackie CR3 speakers for a steal at $79
- House Party is back on Steam, developer providing ‘censor removal patch’ (Updated)
- August 1
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- Enter for a chance to win Vertagear's new SL-5000 gaming chair
- Kickstarter disaster Unsung Story has been sold to the developer of Barbie & Her Sisters Puppy Rescue
- Everything you need to know about Guild Wars 2: Path of Fire
- The LawBreakers 'Bleed Purple' pack offers free loot to Twitch Prime members
- Why Citadel: Forged with Fire has no hunger and thirst system—and why it someday might
- Hob, the Ico-inspired adventure from the makers of Torchlight, will be out in September
- Titanfall 2 Ultimate Edition includes maps, modes, weapons, and more freebies
- Watch Hearthstone game director Ben Brode rap the story of Arthas (Remixed)
- BioWare Montreal is being merged into EA Motive
- PUBG patch notes shed light on contentious paid crate system
- AMD put 2TB of memory in a new $7000 graphics card
- Razer launches a compact keyboard aimed at competitive esports players
- BioWare veteran Corey Gaspur, lead designer on Anthem, has died
- Stardew Valley multiplayer beta testing expected to begin at the end of the year
- AMD is down playing Crossfire configurations with Vega
- Logitech's lightweight G302 Daedalus Prime mouse drops to $21
- 'I could run naked through E3, and PUBG would still be finished,' says Brendan Greene of dedicated team and Q4 delay
- PC games based on movies that aren’t completely terrible
- Supersized enemies invade Killing Floor 2 this week
- 'I'd love to see my captain Jean-Luc playing but that would probably never happen,' says PUBG creator
- Stardew Valley speedrunner hits marriage world record inside 30 minutes
- PC Gamer UK Podcast 50: Other cities are available
- Sundered, the Lovecraftian Metroidvania, is out now
- Tacoma review
- Steelseries redesigns Sensei and Rival gaming mice with an exclusive new optical sensor
- Garrosh is now playable on the Heroes of the Storm PTR
- The Dolphin emulator developers spent two years fixing a nearly-impossible-to-solve stuttering problem
