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- September 30
- September 29
- September 28
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- The best multiplayer FPSes you probably aren't playing
- 2D brawler Flynn: Son of Crimson looks wonderful in motion
- The best game engines for making your own 2D indie game
- Path of Exile is the king of ARPGs, but only if you can learn to love its complexity
- Behind the addictive psychology and seductive art of loot boxes
- Forza Motorsport 7 is gorgeous on PC, and runs smoothly so far
- A woeful errand through pixels and music in Superbrothers: Sword & Sworcery EP
- The apocalyptic music of Far Cry 5
- Call of Duty: WWII devs want to 'win the hearts and minds of the PC community'
- Call of Duty: WWII's new War mode gives you another chance to never get on the damn payload
- Interview: Absolver's slap, code of honor, and future updates
- September 27
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- Divinity: Original Sin 2 is the best tabletop RPG that doesn’t require a table
- Getting Over It is a brutal new game from the maker of QWOP
- Returning to Mad Max, one of the most atmospheric open worlds on PC
- PC Gamer UK podcast 53: Death of the Outsider, South Park, Paladins, Heat Signature
- Dark Devotion is a 2D indie RPG as dark as its name suggests
- Elite Dangerous' mysterious aliens have just declared war
- September 26
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- Even Overwatch pros sometimes forget to stay on the point
- Death makes you stronger in Hellscreen, an FPS with a rear-view mirror
- How X-Com's creator is reinventing his masterpiece in Phoenix Point
- Fortnite: Battle Royale wants to be PUBG more than Fortnite
- The joys of being dead in Divinity: Original Sin 2
- Divinity: Original Sin 2 build guide
- September 25
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- The best pixel art tools for making your own game
- Divinity: Original Sin 2 players are killing the toughest enemies by turning them into chickens
- The weirdest Crusader Kings 2 mods
- Road Redemption is Road Rash, randomized
- Here's your first look at the new weapons coming to H1Z1: King of the Kill
- The best Star Trek games
- September 23
- September 22
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- This week's highs and lows in PC gaming
- 10 days in Frostpunk: maimed children, cannibalism, and laws about soup
- A quick trip to cyberpunk murder city with Ruiner
- Grand Theft Space mixes Garry's Mod with Kerbal Space Program in GTA 5
- Every way to escape Fort Joy in Divinity: Original Sin 2
- Win a Snakebyte Professional Gaming Chair with Bundle Stars
- Everything's a bit funny with the chunky pixels of The Darkside Detective
- September 21
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- How collectibles, stealth and climbing came to define the Ubisoft open world game
- We have three new cards from the Shadowverse: Starforged Legends expansion to show you
- Modders have put GTA's CJ and The Witcher's Geralt into Zelda: Breath of the Wild
- Discover and destroy a deep Metroid-style world in SteamWorld Dig 2
- This PC footage of The Evil Within 2 features two fights against monsters made of limbs
- Win an NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070 with Bundle Stars
- Shadow of War's Talion is the ultimate Lord of the Rings superhero
- PC Gamer UK November issue: Black Mesa
- Planet of the Apes: Last Frontier is like Heavy Rain but with apes
- Steam's review bombing graph may only encourage review bombing
- Amazon’s fantasy sports game Breakaway shoots, but may not score
- September 20
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- You're a bird in this Early Access voxel sandbox, but sometimes you're a flying monkey
- The stunning sprites of Virgo vs The Zodiac
- Warframe's new robot Cthulhu man is a great example of how to rework a character class
- Logitech G’s mouse & charging combo aims to change the game
- Bundle Stars reveals Day 2 prize of its week-long Epic Gaming Loot giveaway
- Games that broke free of convention
- First-person roguelike City of Brass proves that there should be more whips in games
- Otis is an interactive experience that blurs the line between games and movies
- September 19
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- Games like Hellblade are eroding the border between indie and triple-A
- 5 things you want from the future of GTA Online
- Bundle Stars 7-day Epic Loot Giveaway kicks off with an HTC Vive
- Ark: Survival Evolved is the new Crysis of PC hardware
- Knights of the Frozen Throne did the Lich King justice but left Hearthstone feeling stale
- Win a free game as part of the GOG Big Deal sale
- Manic melodies: Sonic Mania's composer breaks down its soundtrack
- September 18
- September 17
- September 16
- September 15
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- 99 noteworthy games still coming to PC in 2017
- Opinion: For indie devs, game design and marketing are the same thing
- Multiplayer RPG Re:Legend has farming, monster taming, and, crucially, 'co-op breeding'
- XCOM 2's Chosen are the best videogame villains since the Nemesis system
- The best XCOM 2: War of the Chosen mods
- We're launching the PC Gamer Indie channel
- Behind the beautifully grotesque art of Scorn
- The best battle royale games, modes and mods
- September 14
- September 13
- September 12
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- Here's the PC you can build for the price of the new iPhone X
- Developers, submit your game for the PC Gamer Indie GIF Showcase
- The best and worst loot boxes in PC gaming
- King of the Kill devs talk about PUBG: "We just sort of try to ignore any comparison"
- EVE Online alliance leader permanently banned after threatening to cut off another player's hands
- Lawyers explain why Campo Santo's takedown of PewDiePie's video is legal
- Sailing a space locomotive through the stars in Sunless Skies
- Nine overlooked oddities for your wishlist
- September 11
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- If Street Fighter were a MOBA, it'd look like this
- New details and screens from Stardew Valley publisher's magic school RPG
- Build of the week: it's Baby Groot, but with a PC in place of a soul
- HDR's promise is stunted by reluctant developer support
- Getting lost at sea in Sailaway: The Sailing Simulator
- Tell us what you want from the future of GTA Online in our survey
- September 10
- September 9
- September 8
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- This week's highs and lows in PC gaming
- Immortal Unchained is a 'hardcore shooter for the action RPG genre'
- Smuggler's Run is the best thing to happen to GTA Online since the heists
- Final Fantasy 15's Hajime Tabata on gaining the 'trust and acceptance' of PC players
- The Amazing Eternals beta access is yours with a PC Gamer Club membership
- September 7
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- Tokyo Dark adds a western adventure game twist to the Japanese visual novel
- Arma 3's latest DLC explores the harsh realities of non-combat casualties in war
- PC Gamer Readers' Top 100 list
- This Darkest Dungeon mod adds Dark Souls' greatest praiser of the sun
- South Park: The Fractured But Whole is a far better RPG than the first
- These players loved their WoW servers so much, they bought the old hardware
- Battling death, explosions and other nightmares in Sunless Sea: Zubmariner
- Ark's Jesse Rapczak says launching from Early Access doesn't mean the work is done
- September 6
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- Ooblets is "like all your favorite games mashed into one"
- How Hearthstone's major balance patch will shake up the meta
- Rainbow Six Siege aims for 100 operators, but there's 'no reason' to stop there
- Survived By is an MMO where dying makes your next character stronger
- Titanfall 2's horde mode brings warmth and teamwork to a brilliant if strangely forgettable FPS
- From The Elder Scrolls to the US Secret Service: where videogame trees come from
- September 5
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- The most exciting new and upcoming fall hardware
- Trailmakers is Beseige with cars, planes, and whatever else you can make
- A video game attorney answers our important video game law questions
- Why aggro is good for Hearthstone (honest)
- Rocket League doesn't have a story but we made Psyonix explain it anyway
- Wargroove is still looking quite good
- Songbringer is a speedrunning-friendly and fun sci-fi Zelda-alike
- The early verdict on Destiny 2's campaign mode
- Win a Total War: Warhammer 2 Serpent God Edition with Bundle Stars
- The Amazing Eternals’ is a deck-building hero shooter that oozes character
- Watch the Grandma Gamer and I fail to save our children from drinking bleach
- The jetpack FPS is back (again) with Midair
- September 4
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- Torture, brainwash, or kill enemy agents in this XCOM-style Cold War game
- Planning goes a long way in Mount & Blade 2: Bannerlord's multiplayer Captain Mode
- Ni No Kuni 2's RTS skirmishes let you conquer territory with adorable air strikes
- Build of the week: a $20,000 steampunk computer
- Why Metal Gear Solid 2 is the most subversive game of all time
- Why I played through Half-Life 2's final chapter 15 times in two days
- Wolfendoom: Blade of Agony is a brilliant mashup of modern ideas and old-school shooting
- In Moonlighter, you're part adventurer, part shopkeeper
- September 3
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- Rend is a 60-player competitive survival game where matches last 'a month or two'
- How to stability test your PC
- This brutal cyberpunk brawler could make Hotline Miami look like a kids' cartoon
- This 'feel-good' shooter mixes Dragon Quest-inspired 2D art with 3D worlds
- Phantom Brigade brings 'an XCOM style campaign' to giant robot strategy
- You'll be able to build fighting pits and brothels in 'society simulator' Frostpunk
- What was your worst rage quit moment?
- From haute couture to industrial fetish wear, Nier: Automata's fashion is fascinating
- Why Dauntless' creatures will be able to go toe to toe with Monster Hunters'
- September 2
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- Warframe's monstrous new bosses are like twisted-up kaiju
- What PUBG learned from the Gamescom Invitational tournament
- We got a member of Psyonix to read some Rocket League fan fiction to us
- Maker of Ashes of Creation wants to put "massive" back into MMOs
- The new Razer Blade Pro's lower price comes at the cost of graphics
- What are you playing this weekend?
- ASUS ROG and Dr. Disrespect were the real champions of PAX West 2017
- It's Left 4 Dead, but you're badass space miner dwarves
- September 1
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- Mineko's Night Market is an Animal Crossing-inspired game where you can plant cats in the ground
- Total War: Warhammer 2's Skaven race are like "science nerds who have gone off the reservation"
- Dual Universe is a sci-fi MMO where the endgame is mastering a built-in scripting language
- This week's highs and lows in PC gaming
- The best weapons to use in Destiny 2's PvP modes
- Peter Molyneux on press exile, No Man's Sky and kickstarting his career
- Our Destiny 2 performance analysis confirms the game is legit on PC
- Advance Wars has another 'spiritual successor' in this indie strategy game from Japan
- How to get the Sturm exotic hand cannon in Destiny 2
- How to get the Rat King exotic sidearm in Destiny 2
- What we expect from PAX West 2017
- The Sonic games ranked from best to worst for some reason & Knuckles
