Features archive

June 2017

Filter

Year
Month

151 articles

June 30
- The best deals in Steam sale history
- This week's highs and lows in PC gaming
- This mod for Diablo 2 steals the best ideas from Path of Exile and makes it feel new again
- PC Gamer UK Podcast 48: Our Top 100 picks
- The best and worst dressed characters in PC gaming
- GTA 5 Chiliad Mystery hunters discover alien life
- StarCraft: Remastered is a love letter to fans that's faithful right down to the bugs
June 29
- Extinction aims to combine the scale of Shadow of the Colossus with the skill of a fighting game
- How to execute the perfect attack in Steel Division
- The best Elder Scrolls III: Morrowind mods
- LG Evil's Jake weighs in on SR calculation in Overwatch
- 'We don't feel anything is off the table' says Sega on growing its PC catalogue
- PC Gamer UK August issue: Destiny 2
June 28
- The 5 biggest unanswered questions about Destiny 2
- Steam review bombing is working, and Chinese players are a powerful new voice
- The Mage's Tale is one of VR's biggest games yet
- Diablo 3's Necromancer brings back the most satisfying ability in the series
- Introducing Kayn, League of Legends' newest champion
- 6 things Monster Hunter: World needs to be a success on PC
June 27
- The pros and cons of ‘silent’ mechanical keyboard switches
- This algorithm picks out Steam's best hidden gems
- In the desert at night, American Truck Simulator becomes one of the most atmospheric games ever
- Dota 2's erratic approach to storytelling is entering a new era
June 26
- How long does it take games to be cheap on Steam?
- I performed brain surgery on my CPU to lower its temperature 15 degrees
- Diablo 3's Necromancer is faster, more aggressive, has full suite of skills and runes
June 25
- What are latency and ping and what do they mean for gaming?
June 24
- The Temple of Elemental Evil is the most D&D game ever made
June 23
- This week's highs and lows in PC gaming
- We're giving away 500 codes for Malthael in Heroes of the Storm
- PES 2018 is finally a football sim worthy of the PC
- Beyond Good & Evil 2 is making a lot of promises we've heard before
- The best sidequests in PC gaming
- Win a Steam Wallet worth $200
- The ongoing testing of Intel's X299 and i9-7900X
June 22
- Here's what you need to know about Kaby Lake-X
- Darkest Dungeon's vampiric DLC is brutal and needs balancing, but it's still fun
- This World of Warcraft guild uses Tinder to recruit players
- The closure of OpenIV leaves Grand Theft Auto 5 machinima creators at a crossroads
- PC Gamer UK Podcast 47: E3 special
- The best plays of the Overwatch Contenders groups phase
- From modder to pro, the making of PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds
June 21
- Your choice of who lives or dies will radically alter London in Vampyr
- Destiny 2’s developers on balancing for mouse and keyboard, content droughts, and poledancing
- Why I love the voxel-powered explosions of Nex Machina
- The road to the International 2017
- Revisiting the best and worst of Journey to Un’Goro’s card design
June 20
- The real history behind Steel Division's campaign missions
- Visiting Blizzard's first-ever esports arena
- Death is the road to glory in Everspace
- League of Legends needs to preserve its written history
- Hunting the enemy power core in a 3v3 Dawn of War 3 smash
June 19
- You can paint anything in this art game, so I painted 100 pictures of trees
- 7 promising games from E3 2017 you probably missed
- Here's why 10-core processors like the new Skylake-X are still totally overkill for gaming
- Threadripper was the coolest new PC hardware we saw at E3
- Middle-Earth: Shadow of War is a violent Tolkien fan-fiction generator
- Sea of Thieves is a full-blown shenanigan simulator
- Dealing with thirsty guests in Planet Coaster's Challenge mode
June 18
- What the public thought of E3 2017
June 17
- Why Hunt: Showdown, Crytek’s gothic survival shooter, was our favorite game of E3
- Best of E3 2017 awards
June 16
- The highs and lows of E3 2017
- What makes Destiny 2 so special?
- Metro Exodus takes the series above-ground for a year-long journey through post-apocalypse Russia
- Monster Hunter: World looks like everything I want from a next-gen Monster Hunter
- Guest editorial: there was one unacceptable thing about E3 this year
June 15
- The Elder Scrolls: Legends is more fun with added Fus Ro Dah
- It's great that Bethesda wants to pay modders, but Creation Club mods should still be free
- We have mixed feelings about BioWare's Anthem
- Call of Cthulhu makes an eerie RPG of survival horror and detective work
- Overwatch team Yikes explains the rise of Mercy
- Playing Skull & Bones felt like Burnout as much as Black Flag, which I am on board with
June 14
- Hunt: Showdown is just incredible
- The first minutes of Wolfenstein 2: The New Colossus are excellent
- Assassin’s Creed: Origins makes assassinations simpler and more creative
- Every game at E3 2017 and its PC outlook
- COD:WWII multiplayer is familiar, but War Mode could be its secret weapon
- Hands on with Mount & Blade 2: Bannerlord's thrilling large-scale combat
- Destiny 2 PC footage: 4K, 60 fps, and played with a mouse and keyboard
- XCOM 2's huge War of the Chosen expansion detailed
- Is it time for a co-op League of Legends campaign?
- I tried Intel's wireless Vive VR headset, and I want one
- Sorry Hideo Kojima, but I quite enjoyed playing Metal Gear Survive
June 13
- Thank goodness: Far Cry 5 is goofy as hell
- Phil Spencer interview: 'We have work to go do' on improving the Windows Store, UWP
- The E3 2017 conferences reviewed
- Destiny 2's Luke Smith on PC features, PvP, new subclasses, and more
- A Way Out: like a David Cage game, only co-op and good
June 12
- Watch Sony's E3 press conference live
- Every news story out of E3 2017
June 11
- Here's how Microsoft's $500 Xbox One X compares to a PC
June 10
- Star Wars: Battlefront 2 has lasers that kick and classes that matter
- A Way Out's co-op only, split-screen only concept is risky yet very cool
- Watch the EA Play E3 press conference
- Hearthstone’s Ben Brode on life after Un’goro
- E3 2017: The games, hardware and gaffes we expect to see
June 9
- This week's highs and lows in PC gaming
- Overclocking a CPU to 7 GHz with the science of liquid nitrogen
- Meet the man who walked across America to visit his Minecraft friends
- PC Gaming Show 2017: See all the trailers and announcements here
- The RPG dream team
- We've got a sneak peak at 5 new cards from the next Shadowverse expansion
- Meet the roleplayers crafting new Star Wars stories in Jedi Knight: Jedi Academy
June 8
- In this shopping cart riding game, just getting in the cart is a nightmarish challenge
- Take a first look at Warframe's completely revamped Earth maps
- After 5 years, Fortnite is a fun but bloated base defense shooter
- PC Gamer UK Podcast 46: Dirt 4, Prey
- The best moments of the Overwatch Contenders NA open qualifier
June 7
- There's a new era of pro NA League of Legends coming
- Why it took four hours and a dozen dead sheep to get my toilet working in Ark: Survival Evolved
- PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds and poker have a lot in common
- At home with the Kiblers
- 5 battle tactics that will keep you one step ahead of your enemies in Steel Division
- Second Life's makeup unboxing videos are surreal and wonderful
- We're giving away 5,000 keys for the Aven Colony demo
- Get the most out of the GOG Summer Sale with the PC Gamer picks
- How Star Wars Battlefront 2 plans to take the series to the dark side
- Why I love the Silver Shroud quest in Fallout 4
- 15 games that could surprise us at E3 2017
- Aftercharge is a multiplayer FPS where one side can't die
June 6
- The tragic story behind a single moon in Elite: Dangerous
- Destiny: A PC gamer's guide
- Use these mods to make Dark Souls as difficult as possible
- Awesomenauts is the other MOBA for people who hate MOBAs
- Revisiting Pharaoh, the complex city-builder that rewards meticulous planning
- NZXT aims to revolutionize how we buy custom-built PCs with BLD
- How to land as fast as possible in PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds
June 5
- 10 puzzle games under $10 that will consume your life
- Everything (we think) we know about the next Assassin’s Creed
- Noctua spent four and a half years designing its quietest, strongest fan yet
June 4
- Should I use a trackball for gaming?
June 3
- Ubisoft, please put my dad in Far Cry 5
June 2
- This week's highs and lows in PC gaming
- PC games to look out for in June, July, and August
- Tekken 7 runs great on PC, and online matchmaking has been excellent so far
- There's something strange about Kickstarter's most successful MMO
- Meet the overclocker who made delidding your CPU idiot-proof
- Mass Effect: Andromeda is strangely the most popular game at Computex
- Total War: Warhammer 2 brings high fantasy to a redesigned campaign
- PC Gamer UK Podcast 45: Tokyo 42, Rime, Vanquish
- AMD's Threadripper is huge, with an equally large socket and cooler
June 1
- Prey vs. Deus Ex: Mankind Divided: why one intro works and the other doesn't
- Looking back at Dota 2's Manila Masters
- Why League of Legends is building more barriers around its fanbase
- PC Gamer US July issue: Star Wars Battlefront 2
- Wrecking mechs on BattleTech's tactical battlefields
- The Asus Zephyrus is an incredibly thin gaming laptop with one serious drawback [Updated]
- The new Cherry MX Speed Silver may become its most popular gaming switch
- The best case mods from Computex 2017
- PC Gamer UK July issue: Total War: Warhammer 2