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August 30
- Five new Steam games you probably missed (August 31, 2020)
- Why is Suikoden such a big deal?
- Great moments in PC gaming: Making a body pile
- What did you play last week?
August 29
- Where to find Baby Groot in Fortnite
- How do you name RPG characters?
- Crapshoot: The (Lost) Elder Scrolls
August 28
- I got carried away and built a 36TB home server the size of a toaster oven
- 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
- 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
- Griefers are ruining the end of Warzone's limited-time operation
- 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
August 27
- Every trailer and announcement from Gamescom 2020
- Fortnite Season 4: All mythic weapons locations
- All the new Fortnite season 4 skins
- Tell Me Why is a simplistic narrative adventure and a clumsy tale of identity and childhood trauma
- The Fortnite season 4 battle pass brings loads of Marvel skins
- Where to investigate mysterious claw marks in Fortnite
- How to complete the Know Your History mission in Warzone
- Fortnite Season 4 patch notes: What we know so far
- Dress to impress and change history in Dress Up! Time Princess
- Intel Core 10th Gen CPUs are great for gaming
August 26
- Totally Game: Modern Warfare star shares his passion for gaming with his fans
- Fortnite Season 4 start date, event, map changes, and battle pass details
- 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
- How skins work in Marvel's Avengers
- Read these awesome comics before you play Marvel's Avengers
- Remnant: From the Ashes is the co-op game you should be playing right now
August 25
- Who's the best videogame pet?
- Black Myth: Wu Kong has given Elden Ring fans another mysterious game to long for
- Should I buy an AMD RX 580 8GB graphics card?
- Giveaway: win an epic Noblechairs DOOM gaming chair on the PC Gamer forums
- Why I love being a healer in FF14
- Why Among Us is the best game to watch on Twitch right now
August 24
- How Final Fantasy 14 clawed its way back from disaster to become 2020's best MMO
- By stripping features away, Mortal Shell improves the Dark Souls formula
- How to find and switch between Shells in Mortal Shell
- Five new Steam games you probably missed (August 24, 2020)
August 23
- 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
August 22
- What's the best secret you've ever found in a game?
- Crapshoot: When Grand Theft Auto went to London
- Netflix's videogame history series avoids some common mainstream game coverage blunders
August 21
- Halo 3's best mode is back and it's now the one true joy in my life
- Let's visit some scary places in Microsoft Flight Simulator
- 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
- 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
- Actually, ray tracing is just getting started
- Ray tracing has failed to deliver on its promise
- I'm warming to World's Edge, thanks to Apex Legends' new crafting system
- 9 tips to get you started in Mortal Shell
- A round-up of this week's PC Gamer forum discussions
August 20
- The Witcher 3's best quests
- When should you give up on a game?
- The best huggers in Spiritfarer
- Totally Game: I broke my neck but rule at League of Legends
- Rainbow Six Siege: Operation Shadow Legacy - Everything we know
August 19
- When a game asks you to 'Press Any Key,' which key do you press?
- PC Gamer Readers Award winners - a nod to the gear you hold dear
- Players have already found optimal routes through Fall Guys' levels
- Every type of Fall Guy, classified
- Hopefully not a trend: Flight Simulator's deluxe editions having better airports
August 18
- Risk of Rain 2 already has a thriving mod scene
- GeForce Now turns the Chromebook into a ray tracing-capable gaming PC
- 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'
- 10 places every Microsoft Flight Simulator player should visit first
- Apex Legends Season 6: Everything we know
- Playing the Marvel's Avengers beta killed my excitement for its full release
- The gaming hardware doesn't yet exist to make Microsoft Flight Simulator really shine
August 17
- Trying to play Kill It With Fire without trashing my entire house isn't going so well
- Actually, 'Act on Instinct' is the best Command & Conquer song
- Dap is a cutesy horror game set in a forest that wants to eat you alive
- Five new Steam games you probably missed (August 17, 2020)
August 16
- Rainbow Six Siege Year 5: Everything we know about the operators, map reworks, and battle passes
- 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
August 15
- 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
- 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
- How to beat the final story trial of Shadowbringers
- Totally Game: How Fortnite saved Aidan's life
- Classic LucasArts biker adventure Full Throttle still kicks ass
- The next wave of major videogames are going to be SSD storage hogs
- 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
August 13
- Did you ever upgrade, build, or buy a PC just so you could play one particular game?
- Call of Duty's endless hunger for disk space must be stopped
- This mod turns the original Portal into psychological horror
- Where to find all the movie props in GTA Online
- How was Flashback this good in 1992?
- How to find the Memory Shards in Hyper Scape
August 12
- Why some hitboxes are so bad
- How to upgrade your new Destiny 2 Solstice armor
- Spelunky 2 looks like the perfect sequel for returning players
- What's been going wrong for Intel?
August 11
- This survival horror detective game lets you turn off the survival and horror
- How to add Gleamy Ooblets to your collection
- 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
- The story of Doom and how it changed everything—as told by co-creator John Romero
August 10
- 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
- How hitboxes work
- Is this Hearthstone's first turn one kill?
- 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
- Five new Steam games you probably missed (August 10, 2020)
August 9
- What did you play last week?
- Every game company that Tencent has invested in
- Great moments in PC gaming: Conquering Kronus in Dawn of War—Dark Crusade
August 8
- 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
- $3 for one of the wildest-looking shooters ever? Yes, please
- This short horror game is like a Seinfeld episode from Hell
- Here's what the PC Gamer community chatted about on the forums this week
- How to get the most OP armor in Horizon Zero Dawn
- This is my last chance to bring peace to Total War: Three Kingdoms
- 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
- Spiritfarer is a serene boat adventure about compassion in the face of death
- How to buy the best laptop for college
- Build a criminal empire or tear one down in Company of Crime
August 6
- When does Horizon Zero Dawn unlock on Steam in my timezone?
- 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
- How to run, jump, dive, and shove your way to victory in Fall Guys
- Fortnite secret challenge: How to build the coral buddies rocket ship
- 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
- How to get all of Destiny 2's Fallen, Taken, and Hive mods before Beyond Light drops
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
- Sekiro already has a boss rush mode on PC with this mod, and it's exhausting
- 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
- Totally Game: DieHardBirdie became a CS:GO champion at 78
- Auto-installing over 600 mods makes Skyrim beautiful and confusing
- Windbound is a breezy survival sim that captures the joys of sailing
- PC Gamer plays: Total War: Three Kingdoms, Legends of Runeterra, Gears 5, and Hades
- 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'
August 4
- The Missing Link is an impressive and eerie Zelda romhack years in the making
- We're giving away 30 copies of Risk of Rain 2 on our forums
- Swimming in games sucks
- Code wheels, poison, and star maps: the creative ways old games fought piracy
- This Carrion speedrun is the shortest horror movie I've ever seen
- A fear of spiders won't hold you back in Grounded
- Let's revisit the greatest Star Trek game ever
- PC Building Simulator's new DLC is a taste of what it's actually like to build PCs for a living
August 3
- If you can't go to a real bar, manage one in this lovely fantasy tavern sim
- Fortnite astronaut challenge: How to find the ancient ship and install its missing parts
- Penko Park is Pokémon Snap but in an eerie abandoned wildlife reserve
- Where to find all the Fractured Intel in Warzone
- Bring Witcher 3 characters into Skyrim with this mod
- Total War: Three Kingdoms—I'm on a mission to seize the throne as a devout pacifist
August 2
- What did you play last week?
- Great moments in PC gaming: Playing on the first mass-market PCs in the 1980s
August 1
- What weather adds the most to a game?
- The 7 weirdest things coming in Warframe's grotesque new open world
- Warframe's developers let its community design its next warframe and they created a Frankenstein monster
- 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