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May 2017

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May 31
- We discuss Far Cry 5's new setting, the reaction to it, and the fidelity of its fly-fishing
- In Win's wood and glass cases are real stunners at Computex 2017
- Gunheart makes VR teleporting feel like a superpower instead of a crutch
- Hands on with Final Fantasy 14’s new classes coming in Stormblood
- Immortals CEO Noah Whinston on the state of Overwatch esports
- Your next gaming laptop is going on a diet
- Wireless gaming mice are here, but are we ready for wireless charging?
May 30
- Which cards should be exiled to Hearthstone's Hall of Fame next?
- After a decade of construction, this RollerCoaster Tycoon megapark is finally finished
- Revisiting Beavis and Butt-head’s forgotten point-and-click adventure
- Four epic reasons to play Paragon on NVIDIA SHIELD
- One person is letting Twitch viewers trade stocks using $50,000 of his own money
- Warframe partners with Top Cow Comics in new comic book series
- The Vive Deluxe Audio Strap is a must-have for Vive owners
- Intel's Core i9 and Skylake-X parts deliver up to 18 cores on the desktop
May 29
- Build of the week: a treasure chest filled with the finest loot
- How to reframe negative Hearthstone experiences (and win more as a result)
- The truth about free VPNs
- We're at Computex 2017! Here's what to expect
May 28
- More tips for playing PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds
May 27
- What size SSD is right for me?
May 26
- This week's highs and lows in PC gaming
- 9 sweet Vanquish GIFs that show why the PC version rules
- Meet the indie dev who spent two years making a game in youth hostels abroad
- How to kill Jason in Friday the 13th: The Game
- Friday the 13th: The Game is hilarious and brutal fun so far
- Planet destroyers and diplomacy: the expanding universe of Stellaris
- Far Cry 5 will let you customize your character, and everything else we know so far
- Far Cry 5 first look: Taking on doomsday preppers in backwater Montana
May 25
- Terrible controls all but ruin Harvest Moon creator's new game
- What to expect from the next generation of graphics card memory
- Black Desert Online isn’t a great MMO, but it is a great sandbox RPG
- The best plays from Overwatch's first year
- Dead Cells is like an old school Castlevania gone roguelike
- How lean play and quick fights can help you win in competitive Overwatch
May 24
- Fan game The Lecarde Chronicles 2 plays like a lost '90s Castlevania
- Playing a steampunk RPG with an Italian speaker on a Russian server
- Welcome to Blimpton, a Cities: Skylines town where blimps blot out the sun
- Why I love PUBG's seemingly innocuous doors
- 'I feel like we have barely scratched the surface.' Blizzard on hero design, balance, and the future of Overwatch
- Is SKT T1's dominance good for League of Legends?
May 23
- How an EVE Online con artist tricked a ruthless pirate into giving him his priceless ship
- The worst PC game box art ever
- What Alien: Isolation gets right that Alien: Covenant gets wrong
- Blizzard tricked me into liking Heroes of the Storm
May 22
- Watch a full strike mission from Destiny 2
- Oxygen Not Included is a deep and complex sim that's also easy to jump into
- The weirdest custom civilizations in Civilization
- Learning to let go of framerate anxiety made me love PC gaming again
- The guns of Rising Storm 2: Vietnam
- Why Twin Peaks is a powerful influence on games, not just television
- Hands-on with Shadow of War's spider mercs and singing uruks
- We’ve launched the PC Gamer Club
- PC Gamer Club FAQ
May 21
- Meet the Rocket League player who rewards goals with waffle facts
- How do I maximize internet speeds while gaming with a VPN?
May 20
- GTA 5 roleplaying is Twitch's new hotness
May 19
- It's time for PC game demos to make a comeback
- This week's highs and lows in PC gaming
- PC Gamer UK Podcast 44: Destiny 2, E3 predictions
- The most obscure Steam achievements
- The history of RPGs
- Hands-on with the PC version of Destiny 2: Campaign, Strikes and PvP
May 18
- How Bungie plans to make Destiny 2 on PC 'legit on day one'
- Destiny 2 on PC: everything we know so far
- Battlegrounds' map gets more haunting as you play it
- Mass Transit for Cities: Skylines may be the most enjoyable expansion yet
- What you can learn about Sombra from Overwatch Apex season 3
May 17
- Why I love(d) the Atari ST
- An ode to the shotgun
- Everything we know about Surviving Mars, the colony-builder from the makers of Tropico
- League of Legends' Mid-Season Invitational surprised us all
May 16
- People are getting ridiculously good at Rocket League
- Unlock the gaming potential of your TV with Nvidia GameStream
- Confessions of a Battlegrounds coward
- More MMOs need to let you be an average joe
- How Spelunky is informing Paradox's next grand strategy game
May 15
- Does it matter that Hearthstone’s Warlock class sucks right now?
- Intel and AMD are about to clash with new high-end gaming CPUs
- Hearthstone pros are not happy about having to play qualifiers in Buffalo Wild Wings
- The obsessive Steam collectors who own more than 10,000 games
- The secrets of Runescape's rise
- Get wrecked by a big-ass blizzard in this singleplayer survival game
May 13
- Are WiFi signals bad for my health?
- Decksplash is the Rocket League of skateboarding
- This low-poly GTA clone is a surreal multiplayer sandbox
- This week's highs and lows in PC gaming
May 12
- We asked for your most embarrassing MMO stories, and boy did you deliver
- We have 5,000 Rising Storm 2: Vietnam beta keys to give away (Update: all gone!)
- PC Gamer UK Podcast 43: Prey, PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds
- Nvidia reveals Volta GV100 GPU and the Tesla V100
May 11
- Wild West Online revealed: The Red Dead-like MMO 'built from the ground up' for PC
- How to learn to stop worrying and love Overwatch's escort maps
- Leeroy Jenkins turns 12 today, so let's share our most embarrassing MMO moments
- We're giving away 5,000 keys for the Hacktag closed beta
- The best pubs in PC games
May 10
- How Call of Duty: WWII can avoid rehashing every World War 2 shooter campaign ever
- How the author of the WoW cookbook turned rylak claws and spider kabobs into delicious meals
- Pretend to save the galaxy in an RPG about playing an RPG
- 5 ways this Logitech keyboard can enhance your gaming experience
- The aircraft-grade G413 mechanical keyboard is built to last
- Why I love Age of Empires 2's scenario editor
- Why I (still) love League of Legends
May 9
- 8 ways Forza Horizon 3’s Hot Wheels expansion makes it The Final Car Game
- Now is the time for Hearthstone’s Wild mode to finally shine
- 15 games with their own simulated operating systems
- Watch Larian's CEO recreate the first Divinity game in Divinity: Original Sin 2
May 8
- All three Dark Souls games have been turned into movies by a YouTube fan channel
- The best PCs in PC games
- The designers of Dishonored, Bioshock 2 and Deus Ex swap stories about making PC's most complex games
- Inside the Skyrim sex modding community where almost no taboo is off limits
- Build of the week: The Eternal Dragon from Dragon Ball Z
- Why 110,000 gamers built a community around playing games years after release
- Revisiting Konami's forgotten time travel adventure, Shadow of Memories
- Bringing peace to Bolivia with exploding planes in Ghost Recon Wildlands
May 7
- The PC needs a new skateboarding game
May 6
- 9 things I wish I knew before playing Prey
- What are high-static pressure fans?
May 5
- How to get Prey's shotgun as early as possible
- How to find a hidden stun gun in Prey's first hour
- Did you miss out on DreamHack Austin?
- This week's highs and lows in PC gaming
- The end of Steam: imagining the future of how we buy games
- Branching cities and floating pirate ships make Minecraft fresh again
- Why Dawn of War 3's Jain Zar is my new favourite RTS unit
May 4
- Why I'm glad Dark Souls is dead
- Hearthstone pros pick Journey to Un'Goro's most over and underrated cards
- Prey on PC runs better than Dishonored 2, thank goodness
- Spaceplan is a short and tasty clicker game where you shoot potatoes into orbit
- The most promising virtual reality games
- The PC Gaming Show is returning to E3 2017
- Using mods to play Metal Gear Solid 5: Ground Zeroes as a military FPS
- PC Gamer UK June issue: Star Wars Battlefront 2
- How playing Winston on defense can be viable in the current Overwatch meta
- Microsoft's new 'streamlined' version of Windows doubles down on the limitations of UWP
May 3
- Windows 10 Game Mode tested: good for minimum fps, bad for multitasking
- One man's quest to find 1000 of the most obscure PC games ever made
- The murderous history of mimics
- Why I love The Long Dark's painstaking search mechanic
- Ten gorgeous adventure game scenes from the pixel art era
- Is the tank meta returning to League of Legends?
May 2
- Next-Gen PC games you can stream to your TV in stunning 4K HDR
- Quake Champions is looking good, but mods are still in doubt
- Why modders won't let Morrowind slide into oblivion
- The 15 year quest to mod the mainland into The Elder Scrolls III: Morrowind
- Why raiding is the biggest reason to be excited about Destiny 2
- How real life teams are using Football Manager to target their next star player
- Hearthstone's pros' verdict on Journey to Un'Goro and if the game is getting too expensive
- PC Gamer US June issue: Dawn of War 3
- Drama at the Kiev Major kicks off an exciting period for competitive Dota 2
May 1
- Does a 240Hz monitor really make a difference?
- Why horror games need to quit killing us
- Serious Metal Detecting is like DayZ, only with metal detecting
- Build of the week: This Rocket League PC sets you up for a Nice shot!
- This mod gives Dark Souls the randomness of a roguelike
- How to get into grand strategy games
- How Magic: The Gathering Online got an infinite damage combo banned in two days