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August 31
- Nostalgia replays have become my go-to escape from pandemic stress
- I love that 'horror fishing game' is becoming a genre
- Elden Ring is the new Skyrim
- Everywhere isn't a metaverse, it's Roblox for grown-ups
- How to unlock the King's Fall red border weapon chest in Destiny 2
- Where to find every King's Fall secret chest in Destiny 2
- The best Sims 4 mods to expand your life sandbox
August 30
- Rumbleverse is the fresh take on battle royale I needed
- One of the best city builders around is getting a hefty update
- Where to find Rukkhashava Mushrooms in Genshin Impact
- Bungie's Joe Blackburn talks Lightfall, Strand and the huge systemic changes coming to Destiny 2
- How to get Collei for free in Genshin Impact
- Explore square planets in this space survival sim that’s like an automated Minecraft
- Creating utopias and dystopias by gaslight in Victoria 3
- How to get Touch of Malice in Destiny 2
- Free keys here for the first dynamic, open-world player-created MMO
- Breaking down AMD's claims for a 13% Zen 4 IPC increase
August 29
- This life sim gem perfectly captures the sunny nostalgia of a childhood summer vacation
- I hope Ravenbound actually pulls off its open world roguelite mashup
- Five new Steam games you probably missed (August 29, 2022)
August 28
- Great moments in PC gaming: Making a full party of adventurers
August 27
- How long do you spend in character creators?
- The Fawlty Towers videogame was multimedia hotel hell
- 6 games that caught our attention at Gamescom 2022
August 26
- Justin Roiland's talking gun FPS finally won me over
- The Callisto Protocol's mutants will stalk you through vents like a xenomorph
- Homeworld 3 is all about the 'terrain' of space
- No classic horror film is safe from a videogame adaptation anymore
- How to get the End of the Line fish-bow in Genshin Impact
- Here's a few of our favourite games from Fanatical's summer sale
- How to get Nilotpala Lotus in Genshin Impact
August 25
- These are the upcoming Warhammer games I'm adding to my wishlist
- The messy 9-year development of Dead Island 2
- How to tame three animals during a single match in Fortnite
- Strategy puzzler Absolute Tactics scratches my XCOM itch, until the characters start talking
- Making the perfect campus in Two Point Campus
- How to get the Fortnite armor for free in Destiny 2
- Jagged Alliance 3 wants to escape the spectre of XCOM by never telling you the odds
- What Dead Island 2 lacks in surprises it makes up for with great zombie fights
August 24
- I've already sunk over an hour into Disney Dreamlight Valley's free character creator
- Minecraft Legends: everything we know about the new strategy spinoff
- An explosive new trailer for Soulstice is here and you can play the demo today
- The best build for Tighnari in Genshin Impact
- In Obsidan's murder mystery Pentiment, don't expect to know if you ID'd the right killer
- The best builds for Collei in Genshin Impact
- How to find Dendroculus in Genshin Impact
- How to get map fragments in Destiny 2's Season of Plunder
- How to get to Sumeru in Genshin Impact
- Homeworld 3: Everything we know
August 23
- All the Gamescom announcements and trailers from Opening Night Live 2022
- How to get Delicate Tomb in Destiny 2
- Subnautica developer Unknown Worlds wants to make the 'world's best digital miniatures game'
- Hogwarts Legacy: Everything we know about the new Harry Potter game
- Sample the student life in Two Point Campus
- Hearthstone Battlegrounds reveal: All remaining quests and two new heroes
- Death Stranding hits even harder in lockdown's aftermath
- I broke Total War: Warhammer 3 – Immortal Empires with a Black Ark super fleet
- Respect to the Ukrainian sound engineer who worked on Star Wars voices between air raid sirens
- Five new Steam games you probably missed (August 23, 2022)
August 22
- In between famous '80s JRPGs, Falcom made a shmup that broke all the rules
- How to start a Stardew Valley co-op farm with multiplayer
- Minecraft villager jobs, trades, and breeding explained
- The years I spent playing old fantasy MMOs helped me to finally understand Destiny 2
- Total War: Warhammer 3 – Immortal Empires is a messy masterpiece
- Warhammer 3 has a quicker campaign now, thanks to the Champions of Chaos
- Fans are still making sequels to FromSoftware's '90s RPG series
- It took owning a Steam Deck to finally understand its appeal
- Finally experiencing the demanding RTS I could only dream of running in 2007
- Revisiting Binary Domain, a burly shooter with an infectious combat loop
August 21
- Jankcore is the new aesthetic
- The 13 hardest PC games, according to the PC Gamer staff
- Pro athletes and wealthy gamers are spending thousands on these custom racing rigs
- Holy heck, there are a lot of strategy RPGs on PC now
- What's your favorite thing a unit in a strategy game says when you click on them?
August 20
- Half heist-simulator, half adventure game, The Clue! was an unusual crime game even for its time
- One day consoles will have a 'giant AI chip and all the games will be dreams'
August 19
- Streaming Xbox games to a Samsung TV is such a breeze that I wish every TV could do it
- There will only be one Starfield faction for me
- Project L: Everything we know about the League of Legends fighting game
- This sim wants me to turn a laundromat into an arcade, but I'm happy just washing clothes
- World of Warcraft's fated raids fit the 'end of expansion' feel perfectly
- Embalming corpses in The Mortuary Assistant is oddly satisfying
- My quest to marry a Game of Thrones celebrity in this Mount & Blade: Bannerlord mod
- Inside the thankless, quietly imaginative task of developing for low-spec gaming
- Spending two weeks behind enemy lines in Metal Gear Solid 5
August 18
- Farthest Frontier: How to get heavy tools in the new survival city builder
- 5 more games you need to check out in Fanatical's summer sale
- The best builds for Zhongli in Genshin Impact
- The classes of Two Point Campus take their silliness very seriously
August 17
- Dungeon Munchies is an RPG platformer where you're a zombie, and worse, an unpaid intern
- Everything we know about Genshin Impact 3.0
- Finally, a game that will just let me be a creepy witch in the woods
- Where to find Kame House in Fortnite
- How to use Qurious Crafting in Monster Hunter Rise: Sunbreak
- How to find Capsule Corp drops and unlock the Kamehameha in Fortnite
- Everything we know about World of Warcraft: Wrath of the Lich King Classic
- The best Skyrim mods: Everything from beautiful vegetables to huge expansions
- Welp, I built Saudi Arabia's stupid skinny city in Cities: Skylines
August 16
- The state of League of Legends
- Roadwarden feels just like cracking open a huge fantasy novel
- Gamescom 2022 schedule: all the shows and reveals you can watch this year
- Here's how an AI interprets famous gaming quotes taken entirely out of context
- Five new Steam games you probably missed (August 15, 2022)
August 15
- Why Nuclear Throne is still the best roguelike around
- How Larian broke out of the B-tier to master the RPG
- Yakuza 0's hostess club made me a manager with a heart
- Great moments in PC gaming: Grabbing that first Draft win in Magic Arena
- How Strange Horticulture's devs went from Flash to one of the best games of the year
August 14
- How '90s interior design software laid the foundation for today's life sims
August 13
- What should boomer shooters be called?
- In Manhunter: New York, alien eyeballs conquered the Earth and it was your job to help them
August 12
- Frogun, the game about a frog that's a gun, might be a speedrunner's dream
- The best Skyrim Special Edition mods
- Here's how to get Spider-Man tokens and what they do
- Every Spider-Man circuit puzzle solution
- All Spider-Man spectrograph solutions
- How to get every secret Spider-Man suit
- All Secret Photo Ops locations in Spider-Man
- PC Gamer roasts 15 of the most beloved games
- Creating the worst party of heroes in Wildermyth
- Tower of Fantasy is an anime-style MMO set on a stunning post-apocalyptic world
- The real cost of running Crysis in 2007, upgrade by upgrade
- The 'micro-RPGs' offering new perspectives on the genre's overstuffed epics
August 11
- These simple keyboard shortcuts broke the brains of my Gen Z coworkers
- Best Razer gaming laptop deals
- Here are 5 games you should grab in Fanatical's summer sale
- Tower of Fantasy codes currently active and how to redeem them
- Here's when Cult of the Lamb unlocks in your timezone
- The best gaming PCs in Australia for 2022
- Farthest Frontier crop rotation guide: Getting the most out of your farms
August 10
- Destiny 2 Plug One Adept god roll: The best weapon perks to get
- How to humble Ake in Assassin's Creed Valhalla
- Nvidia's next-gen GPU delays and cryptocurrency losses were crushingly inevitable
- Best high refresh rate gaming monitor in 2024: These are the speedy panels I'd snap up
- These Cult of the Lamb beginner tips will help you build your flock
- Cult of the Lamb followers guide: How to help your flock thrive
- Here's every doctrine you can unlock in Cult of the Lamb
- Best Australian Amazon Prime Day PC gaming deals in 2022: here are the highlights
- Being a bear who runs a B&B is no picnic
August 9
- These Minecraft ancient city redesigns are gloriously green
- Best Wi-Fi range extenders in 2022
- Crossfire: Legion brings back the RTS genre while offering something for newcomers too
- 9 tips for keeping your villagers alive in survival city builder Farthest Frontier
- Prey is the perfect blueprint for a killer Predator game
- Assassin's Creed Valhalla: How to complete Feeding the Wolf and honour the gods
- Read your future with 22 videogame interpretations of the Tarot
- This city builder that lives on my desktop has turned me into the world's worst landlord
August 8
- Destiny 2 season 18: Release date, Arc 3.0, and the new raid
- Assassin's Creed Valhalla: How to throw a feast
- Arcane season 2: What we know so far
- How to complete the Ranni quest in Elden Ring
- If your tabletop GM is too strict, why not use an AI game master
- Five new Steam games you probably missed (August 8, 2022)
- We tracked down the Dark Souls fashion police
August 7
- Great moments in PC gaming: Updating your graphics drivers without rebooting
- What's your favorite PC Gamer magazine cover?
August 6
- X-Men: The Ravages of Apocalypse really was an X-Men game about killing the X-Men
August 5
- All Vampire Survivors cheats and how they work
- YouTube needs to get serious about small streamers if it wants to rival Twitch
- The best gaming routers in 2024: the network data drivers I'd trust with my digital life
- Best antivirus for PC gaming in 2024
- EVE Online's most notorious scam took 16 months of commitment
August 4
- To simulate a stress dream, play Rocket League for 1,300 hours and then try this car golf game
- As counselor in this summer camp sim, I gave a kid 'the most terrifying experience of their life'
- Celebrities and the PC games they love
- You knew the first recorded computer bug was a literal bug, right?
August 3
- The masterminds behind the Nier: Automata church mystery explain how it 'got out of hand'
- Annoyingly, Hearthstone is still really good
- I have a confession: Windows is better in light mode
- Where to buy the Vessel of Profound Possibilities in WoW Shadowlands
- Where to bounce on three separate Crash Pads in Fortnite
- D&D's oddball space setting Spelljammer returns, with flying whales and dead gods
August 2
- Alan Wake 2: Everything we know
- I understand why my main got nerfed, but the pain is real
- Were the Middle Ages really as sick and incestuous as Crusader Kings says? We asked a historian
- Stalker 2: Heart of Chornobyl — Everything we know
- Inside the Backrooms: Where to find the elevator code
- How to unlock flying in Shadowlands
- The August PC game releases and updates you should know about
August 1
- The world's first syndicated game journalist was an 11-year-old kid
- I can't believe an esports mockumentary made me feel things
- Where to find Melina and level up in Elden Ring
- How to complete the Dung Eater quest in Elden Ring
- Five new Steam games you probably missed (August 1, 2022)
- Great moments in PC gaming: Editing rules.ini to make Red Alert guns shoot lightning