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August 31
- Starfield's planet exploration is way more limited than I expected, and yes there are boundaries
- Get these 5 skills immediately in Starfield
- This Starfield gun is awesomely OP, and you can get it very early on
- Critics are mostly positive on Starfield, but not unanimous: From 10/10s to 'cold, lifeless, and uninspired'
- Starfield romance options: how relationships work
- All the Starfield companions and crewmates you can recruit
- How buggy is Starfield? Somewhat, but definitely less than other Bethesda games
- Out of everything I saw at Gamescom, it's a space trucking sim that left me eager to play more
- From wafer to your PC: Behind the curtain of some of Intel's most advanced manufacturing facilities
- Starfield release time: when it unlocked in your time zone
August 30
- We scientifically ranked Baldur's Gate 3's party members on hotness, toughness, and meme-ability
- Life By You looks like The Sims with its brakes cut, and if it doesn't shake apart it could be something very special
- Turns out the best way to play Baldur's Gate 3 is as a terrible Paladin that wants to murder his own party
- How to complete Metamorphosis Attunement in Destiny 2
- Cities: Skylines 2 is getting the science of hailstorms all wrong
- Everything you need to know about AMD's FSR 3 upscaling and Fluid Motion Frames technology
- Cooling gel ear pads are the cheap gaming headset upgrade I never knew I needed
- How to get the Moonlight Sword in Armored Core 6
August 29
- Joe Blackburn on Destiny 2 conspiracy theories, what happened to the PvP team, and The Witness being able to 1v1 anyone in the universe
- Armored Core 6 doesn't need me to be a big stats guy to play with its toys, so I finally get to love a mech game
- Baldur's Gate 3: How to find Oliver and win hide-and-seek
- Baldur's Gate 3 breaks all of D&D 5e's taboos—like an eccentric DM who house-rules everything
- How to enter Burrow Holes in Baldur's Gate 3
August 28
- All of my friends are playing Baldur's Gate 3 completely wrong, but I love that it lets them
- So you've beaten Baldur's Gate 3 and want to get into the original games⁠—here's how, from a longtime Baldur's Gate freak
- Five new Steam games you probably missed (August 28, 2023)
August 25
- Armored Core 6: How to beat the chapter 4 Coral Convergence boss
- Retro FPS Amid Evil borrowed a famous anime attack to create one of the most satisfying videogame punches ever
- Path of Exile's latest League stuffs a full-on autobattler into the long-running ARPG
- Space Marine 2 is a rare throwback to the Xbox 360-era shooter, but it's missing some of what made those games great
- Lord of the Rings: Return to Moria marks the first time I've ever been excited for a survival game
- Armored Core 6 chest locations: Where to find hidden mech parts
- 2024 games: All the PC games scheduled for launch this year
- Armored Core 6 PCA Enforcement Squad guide: How to beat the 'Steal the Survey Data' mission
- Armored Core 6: How to beat the Sea Spider boss
- Homeworld 3's roguelike-inspired War Games mode is perfect for strategists in a hurry
- It was a mistake for Baldur's Gate 3 to bring back companions from the old games
- Armored Core 6 Smart Cleaner boss: How to beat the lava-spewing Chapter 2 monster
August 24
- Armored Core 6 Balteus boss guide: How to beat the Watchpoint boss
- Armored Core 6 Operation Wallclimber boss guide: How to beat the Juggernaut
- Armored Core 6 guide: 11 tips for surviving on Rubicon
- A guy with 19 YouTube subs executed perhaps the greatest GTA speedrun in history six weeks ago, and no one noticed
- How to get Opaque Cards in Destiny 2's Season of the Witch
- Is this the new must-have direct drive wheel? MOZA’s $399 PC & Xbox compatible R3 bundle is incoming
August 23
- Alan Wake 2 feels like Remedy's attempt to combine the best games it's ever made
- In just 15 minutes, the first playable Stalker 2 demo gave me all the harrowing, post apocalyptic misery I could want
- Souls players and mecha newbies: Here's what you need to know about Armored Core
- How to complete the Stop the Presses quest in Baldur's Gate 3
- The best dungeon in Act 3 of Baldur's Gate 3 is entirely optional
- Destiny 2: How to complete the Unveiled quest
- Online medieval slasher Warhaven is almost upon us
- Nightdive just performed another remaster magic trick: making N64-exclusive Turok 3 feel like a true PC FPS
August 22
- Gamescom Opening Night Live roundup: every PC game trailer and announcement
- All Tekken 8 characters and upcoming fighters
- An hour under relentless siege by orcs and angry ghosts in the world of Warhammer has me convinced that Realms of Ruin is the next great RTS campaign
- Where to find Thrumbo in Baldur's Gate 3
- AMD Ryzen 9 7945HX3D hands-on testing: So, I guess AMD just makes all the best mobile chips now
- How to escape the Djinni Lamp in Baldur's Gate 3
August 21
- How to open the Sorcerous Vault in Baldur's Gate 3
- The Metal Gear Solid Master Collection is packed with bonuses, but the barebones ports offer little that PC emulators don't already do better
- How to solve the Sarin skeleton puzzle in Baldur's Gate 3
- By Tymora, it's time we recognised Baldur's Gate 3 is one of the greatest video game events ever
- Five new Steam games you probably missed (August 21, 2023)
August 20
- Baldur's Gate 3 is a great RPG, but also a victory for the immersive sim
- Rainbow Six Siege keeps reinventing itself in ways other games are too scared to try
August 19
- 'A triumph': Brian Fargo, Mike Laidlaw, and other RPG architects weigh in on Baldur's Gate 3
- Broken Roads is a post-apocalyptic CRPG in the classic vein: 'We are unashamedly copying Fallout 2, Planescape: Torment, Pillars 2, Baldur's Gate'
- The best Baldur's Gate 3 mods
August 18
- The makers of Hardspace Shipbreaker are trying to crack a new take on the roguelike deckbuilder
- Why should you buy a high capacity memory kit? A better question is: why not?
- Baldur's Gate 3: Where to find the House of Grief and the Sharran Lookout
- How to make the Radio Alarm Trap in Sons of the Forest
August 17
- The Lamplighters League takes a shot at approachable turn-based tactics that won't bury you in percentage symbols
- How to save the Iron Throne prisoners in Baldur's Gate 3
- Baldur's Gate 3's Astarion, Neil Newbon, on acting the truth of trauma as a survivor: 'There's a lot of stuff that came very close to home'
- Folky survival RTS game Gord has crept onto Steam
- The best thing about Baldur's Gate 3's companions is that they keep getting in your way
- The best CRPGs to play after Baldur's Gate 3
- Where to find Lumidouce Bells in Genshin Impact 4.0
- Baldur's Gate 3: How to get into Wyrm's Rock and the Lower City
August 16
- Don't miss the window to get these wildly overpowered Baldur's Gate 3 gloves in Act 2
- The best space games to play on PC Game Pass ahead of Starfield's arrival
- Baldur's Gate 3 is PC Gamer's highest scoring game in 16 years. Here's why
- How illithid powers work in Baldur's Gate 3
- How to solve the Wyrmway Trials in Baldur's Gate 3
- How to unlock the Adamantine Forge in Baldur's Gate 3
- Baldur's Gate 3 endings and what you can choose
August 15
- How to free True Soul Nere from the cave-in in Baldur's Gate 3
- There are no Baldur's Gate 3 console commands (yet) but here are mods that can help you cheat a little
- Guild Wars 2's new expansion is built around the game's best mount
- Sorry Shadowheart, but Lae'zel is now my cleric's 'hot githyanki girlfriend' in Baldur's Gate 3, and it's exhilarating
- Gear up for back to school with the cutting edge at huge discounts
August 14
- I spent some time with the Path of Exile 2 demo and it's absolutely cooking
- In defense of Baldur's Gate 3's Wyll, my new favorite 'human nice guy' RPG companion
- Somehow Sword Dancer pulled off combining a JRPG and a fighting game on a Japanese PC built for visual novels
- Should you help He Who Was or Madeline in Baldur's Gate 3?
- The voice of Baldur's Gate 3's Astarion talks TTRPGs, storytelling, and the glamourous 'fury and the wrath' of playing vampires
- How to get to the House of Hope in Baldur's Gate 3
- Five new Steam games you probably missed (August 14, 2023)
August 12
- The final crapshoot: Over 200 rolls later, it's time to put away the dice
- Playing a halfling in Baldur's Gate 3 has given me a new, shorter perspective
August 11
- How to solve the Rosymorn Monastery puzzle in Baldur's Gate 3
- I started Baldur's Gate 3 over from scratch after 20 hours and I have no regrets
- 15 important D&D terms to help you understand Baldur's Gate 3
- Where to find Dribbles the Clown's lost limbs in Baldur's Gate 3
- How to win Akabi's Wheel of Wonders in Baldur's Gate 3
- Where to find Zevlor in Baldur's Gate 3
August 10
- Baldur's Gate 3 Lady Esther quest: how to get the Githyanki egg and whether you should give it to her
- If you're playing Baldur's Gate 3 multiplayer, Larian's boss has advice on what to do with companions: ignore them
- Overwatch 2's long-awaited story missions are delicious junk food for diehard fans and unsatisfying crumbs for everyone else
- 20 years of playing RPGs taught me all the wrong habits for Baldur's Gate 3
- How to solve the Baldur's Gate 3 brain puzzle
- I played 4 hours of Lords of the Fallen's upcoming reboot, and its weird world-hopping lantern is a nitrous boost to a well-worn formula
- How to get a Moon Lantern in Baldur's Gate 3
- Baldur's Gate 3 Legendary items and where to get them
- The funniest Baldur's Gate 3 moments and memes so far
August 9
- Please help me understand these weird Baldur's Gate 3 gloves that make my animal summons randomly attack my friends
- Final Fantasy 14 Dawntrail: Everything we know about the new jobs, story, and graphical overhaul
- Fellow Dragon Age fans, I need you to play Baldur's Gate 3 with me
- PC Gamer is hiring a social video editor in the UK
- Baldur's Gate 3 is the horniest RPG I've ever played and honestly it's a bit much
- Baldur's Gate 3 is the horniest RPG I've ever played and I love it
- How to romance Gale in Baldur's Gate 3
- How to help Pandirna in Baldur's Gate 3
- Where to find the dowry in Baldur's Gate 3
- Where to Find Mol in Baldur's Gate 3
August 8
- My new favorite Baldur's Gate 3 item is a greatclub that's even greater if you're drunk
- Being a dirty Oathbreaker is actually cool in Baldur's Gate 3
- I was kinda hoping it'd take Baldur's Gate 3 longer to ruin my life
- The producer of Netflix's Witcher can blame Americans and young people for its failings all day, but the fact is a no-budget YouTube fan film does it better
- I am desperate for a makeover in Baldur's Gate 3
- Alfira can teach any class to play like a bard in Baldur's Gate 3
- The price of graphics cards really hammers home my biggest issue with transhumanism
- Where to find Dammon in Baldur's Gate 3
- How to save Shadowheart and the Nightsong in Baldur's Gate 3
- How to romance Karlach in Baldur's Gate 3
- How to get the owlbear cub in Baldur's Gate 3
- With 11 races, 12 classes, 46 subclasses, and 100+ hours of content ahead of me, I can't stop second guessing my character choices in Baldur's Gate 3
August 7
- I broke Baldur's Gate 3 by playing as a party of bears
- Baldur's Gate 3: Where to find every Umbral Gem in the Gauntlet of Shar
- How to get the Blood of Lathander mace in Baldur's Gate 3
- How to save Gandrel in Baldur's Gate 3
- Baldur's Gate 3's second act features one of the most difficult choices I've ever had to make in an RPG
- How to solve the Silent Library puzzle in Baldur's Gate 3
- Where to find the Wilderness waypoints in Baldur's Gate 3
- How to solve the Thorm Mausoleum puzzle in Baldur's Gate 3
- Five new Steam games you probably missed (August 7, 2023)
August 6
- Meet the unluckiest videogame protagonist in history as we look back at Titanic: Adventure Out of Time
August 5
- My Baldur's Gate 3 experience has been flawless so far⁠—with the exception of my chronic chainmail wedgie
- Baldur's Gate 3 Arcane Tower guide: How to unlock the elevator and find Omeluum's mushrooms
- The best thing Baldur's Gate 3 has added to D&D is underpants lore
August 4
- How Baldur's Gate 3's stealth and sneak work
- Be very, very careful with this early Act 2 quest in Baldur's Gate 3
- It was FF14's housing updates, not Dawntrail's reveal, that I cheered loudest for at Fan Fest
- Don't worry about resting too often in Baldur's Gate 3⁠—except when a quest tells you otherwise
- How to share Baldur's Gate 3 save files
- Where to get the Everburn Blade in Baldur's Gate 3
- Where to find your Baldur's Gate 3 deluxe edition items
- I'm going to play the whole of Baldur's Gate 3 with a controller and you can't stop me
- How to Save Mayrina in Baldur's Gate 3
- Bards are Baldur's Gate 3's best class and I can't imagine playing it as anything else
- Abilities, proficiency, and skills in Baldur's Gate 3 explained
- Baldur's Gate 3 guide: Everything you need to survive in the Forgotten Realms
- What is the strange ox in Baldur's Gate 3?
- Where to find the Scuffed Rock in Baldur's Gate 3
- Rise of the Triad hasn't aged well but you should still play it
- How to respec in Baldur's Gate 3
August 3
- So we're all save scumming in Baldur's Gate 3, right?
- Difficulty spikes, failed stealth, and 6 other pitfalls to avoid in your first 10 hours of Baldur's Gate 3
- 5 things you really shouldn't miss in the first 5 hours of Baldur's Gate 3
- A CRPG as hardcore and old-school as Baldur's Gate 3 has no right to look this good
- You can hide Baldur's Gate 3's ugly version number if you toggle the entire UI off
- Baldur's Gate 3 classes and subclasses: how to pick your playstyle
- I ordered Baldur's Gate 3's companions by how much their first dates would suck in real life
- Acquire ultimate power with these top Baldur's Gate 3 tips
- Should you use DLSS or FSR upscaling in Baldur's Gate 3?
- Should you save or raid the Emerald Grove in Baldur's Gate 3?
- How to change your party in Baldur's Gate 3
- How to rescue Shadowheart and have her join your party in Baldur's Gate 3
- How to set up camp and have a long rest in Baldur's Gate 3
- Where to find Halsin the druid in Baldur's Gate 3
- How to recruit hirelings in Baldur's Gate 3
- Should you save the brain in Baldur's Gate 3?
- How to save Volo in Baldur's Gate 3
- How to open the Necromancy of Thay in Baldur's Gate 3
- How to save Arabella from the Druids in Baldur's Gate 3
- How to find your belongings in Baldur's Gate 3
- Here's how to disable the Baldur's Gate 3 launcher on Steam
- How to learn spells in Baldur's Gate 3
- How to revive dead companions in Baldur's Gate 3
- Baldur's Gate 3: How to get Sussur Bark and Finish the Masterwork Weapon
- Baldur's Gate 3: How to solve the moon puzzle in the Defiled Temple
- Baldur's Gate 3 Underdark entrances and how to unlock each
- Baldur's Gate 3: How to open Selune's Gilded Chest in the Owlbear Nest
- Baldur's Gate 3 Soul Coin locations and what they do
- Where to find Scrolls in Baldur's Gate 3
- How to speak with the dead in Baldur's Gate 3
- Should you give Auntie Ethel your eye in Baldur's Gate 3?
- Baldur's Gate 3 Infernal Iron locations and how to use them
- Baldur's Gate 3: How to open the secret cellar door and Ornate Mirror
- Should you run Baldur's Gate 3 in DX11 or Vulkan?
- Who is the Baldur's Gate 3 'guardian' you design in character creation?
- Baldur's Gate 3 review-in-progress: Oh boy, it's good
- Can I play Baldur's Gate 3 on a Steam Deck?
August 2
- How big is Starfield, anyway?
- Time Bandit is an anti-capitalist satirical work sim where all the drudgery takes real-life days and hours, and I can't wait for part 2
- Combat-free MMO Palia is giving me high hopes for the future of 'cozy' MMOs
- MOZA Racing hardware is shaking up the PC sim racing scene
- 9 things you should know about the city of Baldur's Gate before you start Baldur's Gate 3
- Surviving the Cannibal curse: One developer's fraught journey to create a videogame sequel to the most controversial movie ever made
- I'll be a sweaty little D&D powergamer in Baldur's Gate 3 and you can't stop me
August 1
- The PC game releases we're most excited about in August
- I'm so excited for Baldur's Gate 3 co-op, but scheduling a 100-hour D&D campaign with 4 adults is truly chaotic evil
- Baldur's Gate 3 launch times and download size
- Battle Shapers has my favorite melee attack of 2023 so far
- Take to the skies with Atlas Fallen's awesome aerial combat
- Publishers thought they could take a bite out of Steam yet it's more dominant than ever
- Nvidia RTX 4060 Ti vs RTX 3060 Ti and 7 of its biggest rival GPUs
- PC Gamer is hiring a social media editor in the UK