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May 2023

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May 31
- This lo-fi, PS1-style horror is like a campy Saw escape room, and I'm definitely getting the bad ending
- Play a city builder above ground and Dungeon Keeper below simultaneously in this brilliantly creative game
- Immortals of Aveum hands-on: If boomer shooters are '90s, does that make this a Gen-X shooter?
- Wage psychological warfare behind enemy lines in this XCOM-like World War 2 turn-based strategy game
May 30
- Computex 2023: all the biggest stories from the Taiwan tech show
- How to earn Diablo 4 Twitch drop cosmetics
- Diablo 4 Whispers of the Dead: Collect Grim Favors to earn rewards
- Diablo 4 guide: Everything you need to survive Sanctuary
- Diablo 4 gems guide: How to unlock the Jeweler
- Where to find waypoints and how to fast travel in Diablo 4
- Diablo 4 review-in-progress: The transition to live service buries what makes it great
- How to get a mount in Diablo 4
- Diablo 4 item enchantment: How to improve your gear
- Diablo 4 level unlocks: Here's when you can access different systems
- How to solve the cellar puzzle in Diablo 4
- How to use the Faded Plaques in Diablo 4
- Diablo 4 launch: early access start time and launch date
May 29
- Why did the PC gaming community learn to hate prebuilt computers?
- Nightdive on the System Shock remake: 'Even though we're changing and we're updating it, it's still part of the System Shock pedigree'
- I attempted to build one of every building in Cities: Skylines and its expansions—it ended in disaster
- How to restore an old PC: Top tips and the biggest mistakes to avoid
- Five new Steam games you probably missed (May 29, 2023)
May 28
- Great moments in PC gaming: Giving up on a pacifist run
- Sacrifice was a visionary strategy game, too great to be forgotten
May 27
- Gold Rush! was one of Sierra's odder adventures, but what made it so strange?
- Have you ever made a friend through a videogame?
May 26
- After playing F1 23 I dare say the cars feel much grippier than last year's
- When it comes to white PC components, the sun is both your friend and your enemy
- Freaky visuals and pixel-perfect metroidvania gameplay make the second outing of The Penitent One a cult classic in the making
May 25
- There's no greater shame in an RPG than leaving character creation and finding out you're accidentally hideous
- The best RPGs on PC
- How to watch Warhammer Skulls 2023
- Computex is a different beast to E3 and it's back for real in 2023!
- Every PC game announcement from PlayStation's 2023 summer showcase
- How is AI going to change game development?
- Metal Gear Solid 3's remake announcement can't hold a candle to one of the best game trailers of all time
May 24
- We need to talk about all the fans, hard drives and boxes we're hoarding
- The RTX 4060 Ti highlights where the limitations lie with Nvidia's Frame Generation technology
- Destiny 2 Deep Dive secrets and how it works
- How to craft Blood Merlot in V Rising
- This Diablo IV-themed PC gear reminded me how much companies love slapping a fan tax onto existing products
- How to fish in Destiny 2's Season of the Deep
- How to get Pollen in V Rising
- As someone who grew up playing Doom and Quake, Warhammer 40K: Boltgun is like returning home
- How to get Epochal Integration in Destiny 2
May 23
- Summer 2023 showcase schedule: Every gaming publisher livestream and Summer Game Fest event
- How to unlock the Ancestral Forge in V Rising
- F1 Manager 2023 is packed with upgrades, and offers a level of fidelity that rivals Codemasters' F1 series
- The best Honkai: Star Rail Jing Yuan build
- Exoprimal is a throwback to weird, experimental early 2000s Capcom
May 22
- EOFY sales are pretty much finished for 2024, but here's what's left in PC gaming
- How to get Radium Alloy in V Rising
- Enough with the cyberpunk aesthetic, bring back retrofuturism
- Five new Steam games you probably missed (May 22, 2023)
May 21
- Great moments in PC gaming: Reaching Warrior rank in Tekken 7
- Peter Molyneux's Magic Carpet was a game of violent chess, and a true one-off
May 20
- Is life with multiple monitors actually better?
- Before Doom, before Wolfenstein 3D, why does nobody remember one of the first first-person shooters?
- 2023's best gaming soundtrack was co-created by a high school student and a first-time composer
May 19
- 'Overwatch 2' is a failed idea
- I love that Honkai: Star Rail lets me be the goblin texter I've always longed to be
- If you own a CPU or GPU, it was made in one of these fab locations
- Norse mythology-inspired RPG Viking Rise is out now on mobile
- Marvel's Midnight Suns deserved better than its terrible DLCs
May 18
- Hawken Reborn isn't a comeback for the brilliant mech FPS, it's a total disaster
May 17
- ChatGPT can pass college entrance exams, so why can't it solve Skyrim's easiest puzzle?
- Early MMOs came up with the most painful game mechanic of all time, and it's somehow still in use today
- Greedventory is like Dark Souls meets Monkey Island, and it's out now
- When beat 'em ups were practically unheard of on PC, this 1993 rebel broke all the rules
- AMD is quietly smashing Intel in the mobile chip game
- Diablo 4 is proof that your in-game fashion doesn't have to be huge or complex
- Hit zombie survival game Doomsday: Last Survivors shambles to PC
- How do you move your MMO character, and are you doing it wrong?
- Hands-on test: Philips Evnia gaming peripherals
- Crusader Kings 3's Tours & Tournaments DLC looks like a minor expansion but is actually one of the series' best, and close to essential
May 16
- How to co-stream the PC Gaming Show on June 11
- How to defeat Darth Vader in Fortnite
- WoW 10.1.5: Everything we know about World of Warcraft's next update
May 15
- How to complete the Unyielding Flesh quest in Diablo 4
- Class balance is still an absolute joke in Diablo 4—but the game has far bigger problems
- Five years later, a new Hawken is coming to PC
- I have serious regrets about wasting my weekend fighting the Diablo 4 beta's awful world boss
- Fablecraft's virtual tabletop combines the best parts of D&D and videogames—this is the future of TTRPGs
May 14
- System Shock was the FPS that changed PC games forever
- Before Unreal or Gears of War, a young Cliff Bleszinski made a shareware game called The Palace of Deceit
May 13
- Which is better, switching weapons with number keys or the scroll wheel?
May 12
- The era of 100GB games is upon us, and the average PC gamer is underprepared
- Rainbow Six Siege is so consistently buggy that I can't even be mad anymore
- The Mercenaries mode has been my one big disappointment with the Resident Evil 4 remake
- You've probably committed at least one of the 11 sins of PC building
- The Asus ROG Ally may be the best handheld gaming PC but the Steam Deck's not finished yet
- Where to find a cooking pot in Sons of the Forest
- How to solve the Crypt of Uhrma door puzzle in Star Wars Jedi: Survivor
May 11
- How Fyrakk Assaults work in World of Warcraft
- Redfall would be better as a two-player game
- Best Diablo 4 Necromancer build: Cast bones and explode corpses
- Light up your gaming setup with Corsair iCUE Murals
- I can't stop playing this autobattling strategy masterpiece
May 10
- Everything we know about Fortnite Chapter 4 Season 3
- Best Diablo 4 Druid builds: Pulverize leveling build and storm wolf endgame build
- Redfall is the first Arkane game we don't like—what happened?
- If you're planning to upgrade to an ultrawide gaming monitor, don't overlook the one critical mistake I made
- FPS roundtable: Apex Legends, Hunt: Showdown and Deceive Inc. devs dish on competitive shooters
- How to fix the Xbox Elite Series 2 bumper buttons
- Best Diablo 4 Sorcerer build: Burning Meteor for damage and mobility
- MSI’s expert-specced PCs could be just what you’re looking for
May 9
- Why you're right to hate motion blur in games (but devs aren't wrong to include it)
- Best Diablo 4 Rogue builds: Penetrating Shot and Twisting Blades AOE damage
- I beat up like a hundred schoolkids in this budget Yakuza-like, and I'd do it again
- Tongue-in-cheek RPG Greedventory is slashing its way to Steam soon
- How to knock down timber pines in Fortnite
- Cassette Beasts is a pretty sick Pokémon remix and it's got co-op too
- Honkai: Star Rail's gacha animations have no right to go this hard
- How to unlock the Crystal-encased chest in World of Warcraft
- How to open the Blazing Shadowflame chest in World of Warcraft
- GoDeal24's Flash Sale has the best Windows and Office deals around
May 8
- 8 overlooked games you might've missed in 2023 (that are rather good)
- Five new Steam games you probably missed (May 16, 2023)
May 7
- Great moments in PC gaming: Making your own Doom levels
- Pathologic's ambition and atmosphere made it easy to praise, but hard to enjoy
May 6
- The first act of this impenetrable RPG was so good, I didn't mind playing through it three times
- An Englishman plays American Revolution sim Liberty or Death
May 5
- This fantasy author can't stop making mods for the 21-year-old D&D videogame that first disappointed him, and then 'helped shape' his life
- How to clean the fish tank in Star Wars Jedi: Survivor
- Where to find Ponzo in WoW: Dragonflight
- Honkai: Star Rail tier list for the best characters in version 1.1
- How to complete the Chamber of Reason in Star Wars Jedi: Survivor
May 4
- There might be more Star Wars games in development than you realize
- There are more magnificent, messy murders to solve in the DLC for last year's most devious detective game
- How to defeat the Rancor and unlock the Shatter Perk in Star Wars Jedi: Survivor
- How to Find the Gorge's Secret in Star Wars Jedi: Survivor
- How to unlock Holo Tactics and beat opponents in Star Wars Jedi: Survivor
May 3
- Is it just me, or is Game Pass not feeling like a very good deal lately?
- How to unlock the Old Trunk in World of Warcraft
- How to open the Dreamer's Bounty chest in World of Warcraft
- Launch your new Steam obsession with Oddyssey: Your Space, Your Way
- The challenges of telling compelling stories in survival games
May 2
- Redfall's ugly open world will only look worse once you see how great Prey 2017 still looks
- PC gamers are getting really, really fed up with one sh*tty port after another
- How to get Star Wars Force abilities in Fortnite
- Star Wars Jedi: Survivor Spawn of Oggdo location and how to beat it
- How to solve the Star Wars Jedi: Survivor Alignment Control Center puzzle
- Street Fighter 6's story mode really is a low-rent Yakuza game and I love it
May 1
- The PC game releases we're most excited about in May
- Here's when Redfall launches around the world
- Five new Steam games you probably missed (May 1, 2023)