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June 30
- And in other PC gaming news...
- Hold on to your wallets! The Steam Summer Camp Sale has begun
- DC Universe Online gets in-game cash shop, fans...rejoice?
- Minecraft 1.7 update is out now, you can no longer punch the wool off sheep, pistons added
- Team Fortress 2 players receive Refreshing Summer Coolers, speculation begins
- Age of Conan's free-to-play overhaul hits live servers tomorrow [Giveaway]
- Call of Duty XP 2011 will have MW3 multiplayer, MW2 paintball arena and Burger Town
June 29
- Blacklight Retribution shows off its free-to-play DX11 effects
- Exclusive first look at the Emerald Warden, Heroes of Newerth's nature lover [Updated]
- And in other PC gaming news...
- Arma 3 will have sandbox singleplayer with side quests
- Space Marine system requirements are out, Steam required
- Yogbox bundles Minecraft's best mods into one download
- Dirt 3 Monte Carlo DLC out today, adds eight Alpine stages
- EA: free-to-play can be "as profitable" as console games
- The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim DLC to be "more substantial" with "an expansion pack feel"
- Global Agenda patch 1.44 to add new maps and "cosmetic flair"
June 28
- Play World of Warcraft for free forever with the new endless trial mode [Updated]
- And in other PC gaming news...
- First impressions: WoW patch 4.2 brings new loot, dailies, raids and the ability to move characters on the selection screen [UPDATED]
- RUMOR: Dota 2 "leaked" patch notes reveal native livestreaming, heroes
- Minecraft adventure update to add NPC villages
- Crysis 2 map making tools arriving tomorrow, DX11 video released
- Call of Duty: Black Ops best selling game ever in UK
- Civilization V patch improves AI and adds hotseat multiplayer
- AOC releases USB powered screens
- Portal 2 mapping contest winners announced
- Guild Wars 2 trailers show underwater combat, dungeons detailed
- Shift 2 Unleashed Legends and Speedhunters DLC to be released free on PC
- And in other PC gaming news...
June 27
- Tribes: Ascend will be free to play, first gameplay footage
- US Supreme Court strikes down game law - you still shouldn't let your kids play Bulletstorm
- Crysis 2 DirectX 11 patch released
- World of Tanks creator: after Warplanes "we will do Battleships"
- Call of Duty: Black Ops Annihilation trailer is a sing-a-long spectacular... "In the jungle, the mighty jungle..."
- Battlefield 3 two player co-op mode will span ten missions
- Lulzsec disbands, final attack reveals hundreds of thousands of Battlefield Heroes passwords
- Star Wars: Galaxies servers to close on December 15th. SOE: "It's the right time for the game to end"
- Minecraft Adventure update delayed, will now be patch 1.8
- Proun released, pay what you want
- Hellgate open beta launches this week with new PvP arenas and the deadly Cow Room
June 25
- The PCG guide: Get everything out of Rift's 1.3 event while you can - Phase 1
- Eve Online players protest against monocle prices/microtransactions. Lasers involved.
June 24
- And in other PC gaming news...
- Guild Wars 2 has full-featured, distinct underwater combat (and we've played it!)
- Team Fortress 2 overtakes Counter-Strike to take Steam most-played top spot
- Bioware's Neverwinter Nights forums hacked, passwords and phone numbers compromised
- This week's winners
- Team Fortress 2 Über Update: Meet the Medic
- BREAKING: Team Fortress 2 is now free to play "forever"
June 23
- Exclusive look at Rift’s newest Companion Pets
- The Killing Floor Summer Sideshow Event—free update brings new map, trailer
- And in other PC gaming news...
- Operation Flashpoint to be re-released as Arma: Cold War Assault
- LA Noire coming to PC this autumn. "Increased fidelity, graphical enhancements and 3D"
- The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim pre-orders to get bonus map, will Skyrim use Games for Windows Live?
- The Old Republic writer: "A Bioware writer is a games designer"
- Arma 2: Free is free to download and play right now
- OCZ updates firmware for SandForce SSDs
- Crysis 2 patch 1.9 to add DirectX 11 features next week
- FIFA 12 will be "as good on PC as it is on console"
- PopCap for sale? EA rumoured to be making a $1 billion offer
- Team Fortress 2 Über Update: Day 3
- Newell: Portal 2 has hit three million sales
June 22
- Prepare for a world in Chaos with Maple Story's Age of Heroes update
- And in other PC gaming news...
- Terraria beginner's guide
- Fallout: New Vegas: Old World Blues release date announced
- Orcs Must Die trailer features fire and traps
- Eve Online now selling $70 monocles
- Crysis 2 DirectX 11 update and screenshot
- World of Warcraft: Cataclysm hitting China next month
- A glimpse of Minecraft 1.7's underground ravines
- Magicka PvP mode out now, new arenas and robes available
- City of Heroes: Freedom will use "staged download" system
- Tomorrow's Rift 1.3 patch will add Armor Sets to Telara [Updated]
- Team Fortress 2 Über Update: Day 2
June 21
- And in other PC gaming news...
- Magicka Dev Diary: PvP is here!
- Duke Nukem demo out now on Steam
- Lego Universe free-to-play out in August
- Want to be a world class overclocker?
- GRID PC servers saved by GameRanger
- City of Heroes: Freedom screens and details
- Lulzsec suspect arrested in joint Scotland Yard and FBI investigation
- City of Heroes goes free-to-play
- 1C publishing director slams brick and mortar retailers
- Batman: Arkham City's Robin revealed
- Duke Nukem Forever sequel on the cards? "You will see future Duke IP" says Take Two boss
- New info on the Team Fortress 2 Über Update
June 20
- The League of Legends Season 1 championship match is happening now. Watch it with us live!
- League of Legends' Dreamhack finals will be streaming all day long
- And in other PC gaming news...
- GRID PC servers closed down, Xbox 360 servers still going
- Far Cry 3 dev on game narratives: "almost no-one" can get great performances
- Eve Incarna update incoming, you'll be exploring Eve's space stations tomorrow
- Project Zomboid taken offline by pirates, free public demo now available
- Red Orchestra 2 dedicated servers detailed, will use VAC and Punkbuster
- Valve free-to-play game: "Yes," it's being worked on
- This week's releases
- Team Fortress 2 Meet the Medic video teased by dove invasion
June 17
- The full breakdown on League of Legends' Spectator Mode
- And in other PC gaming news...
- Surprise! Alice: Madness Returns shows up on Steam after all
- Terraria sells 432,000 in one month, hardcore mode revealed
- Valve attending Gamescom 2011, will we see Dota 2?
- Portal 2 DLC adds Sixense motion levels, Hydra motion controller out now
- Fract trailer: a first-person puzzle game that looks like a neon Darwinia
June 16
- BioWare will give female Shepard her own trailer and place on Mass Effect 3's box
- Ken Levine exposes the conflict in Columbia from BioShock Infinite
- Battlefield 3 pre-order bonuses will be available to all, boycott seems to be over
- Stay on the cutting edge of Bloodline Champions with our in-depth guide to Grimrog
- And in other PC gaming news...
- Kinect development tools beta incoming
- Mass Effect 3 to have four-player co-op?
- PC Gamer Terraria servers now live!
- EA on Origin future: "we’d like to be the worldwide leader in digital publishing"
- Call of Duty: Black Ops Annihilation map pack announced
- Crysis 2 Steam removal "not an EA decision"
- Fallen Earth officially announces it's going free-to-play
June 15
- The Cat and the Coup: free, fun and beautiful documentary game about a CIA-funded coup
- Still a prince: an interview with StarCraft 2 icon Lee Jung Hoon, aka MarineKingPrime
- And in other PC gaming news...
- Bioware tease Mass Effect MMO
- Crysis 2 vanishes from Steam, now listed as "only on Origin"
- Minecraft, Eve Online, and League of Legends websites hacked. LulzSec claim responsibility
- Dawn of War 3 in development, will be more "MMO-like" says THQ boss
June 14
- Delve into the League of Legends thinktank with our predictions for the mysterious E3 champions
- Magicka Dev Diary: A multitude of modes
- Steam starts supporting free-to-play games
- And in other PC gaming news...
- Rock of Ages release date announced
- Epic and Bethesda sites compromised as hacker attacks continue
- Call of Duty: Elite gets 2 million sign-ups. Activision say "More would be even better"
- Terraria patch adds new creatures, items and costumes
June 13
- PC games out this week
- The internet does not like Battlefield 3's pre-order bonus plans
- The biggest PC stories of E3 2011
- Notch video interview: "We want to make Minecraft feel more like a game"
- Battlefield 3 vs. Modern Warfare 3, this is "the beginning of the war" says EA boss
- Batman: Arkham City will let you play as Robin, as long as you pre-order from Best Buy
June 10
- This week's winners
- Notch still a PC developer, Minecraft 1.7 first details released
- Codemasters' website hacked. Customer's personal details "have been compromised"
- Dungeon Siege 3 demo out now on Steam
- Gamergate Freegames announced
- Battlefield 3 single player campaign will be around six to ten hours long
- Rage release date delayed, now out October 7
- E3 2011: Mass Effect 3 hands-on
- E3 2011: Far Cry 3 dev: "Games flirt with vulgarity. If done incorrectly, they become pornography"
June 9
- E3 2011: Modern Warfare 3 could get dedicated servers and mod tools, Infinity Ward "having conversations"
- E3 2011: Torchlight pirated over 5 million times in China, Runic CEO: "That's fine with us."
- E3 2011: Jagged Alliance: Back in action release date announced
- No joke: World of Planes flight sim MMO is real
- E3 2011: XCOM's many changes
- E3 2011: League of Legends' newest champion, Yorick, in action
- Alienware's three-way 3D set-up. Would you buy it?
- E3 2011: ARMA 2: Free announced. Multiplayer, completely free, and released in June
- E3 2011: Mass Effect 3 live-action trailer starts the battle for Earth
- E3 2011: Hitman: Absolution video interview discusses choice and freedom
- Dead Island co-op screenshots show electric machetes
- E3 2011: Payday: The Heist trailer and in-game video shows co-operative bank robbery
- E3 2011: Bioshock Infinite impressions (in brief: it looks astounding)
- E3 2011: Payday: The Heist - My favourite discovery of E3
- E3 2011: Sword of the Stars 2 trailer goes beyond the Anti-matter era
- E3 2011: Rock of Ages trailer features Michelangelo's David and splatted wizard
June 8
- E3 2011: Gotham City Impostors trailer brings the crazy
- E3 2011: Six PC games dominating the show
- EA 2011: Mirror's Edge 2 to be powered by Frostbite 2?
- E3 2011: Why Rage will run better on PC
- E3 2011: Carmack: PCs "an order of magnitude" more powerful than consoles
- E3 2011: Lord of the Rings Online's Rise of Isengard expansion will eventually be sold from in-game cash shop
- E3 2011: Magicka sold 600k copies, PvP DLC will be free for the game's owners
- E3 2011: our John Carmack video interview covers Rage, the PC, and gamma corrected anti-aliasing
- E3 2011: Metro: Last Light Preview
- E3 2011: Take On Helicopters screenshots and trailer take you on helicopters
- E3 2011: The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim video interview - "consoles are our lead skew"
- E3 2011: Aliens: Colonial Marines screenshots are climbing out of their eggs
- E3 2011: BioWare dodge questions about Mass Effect 3 multiplayer and MMO
- E3 2011: PC Gamer discuss day 2 at E3
- E3 2011: Carmack itching to make Rage 2
- E3 2011: How the Tomb Raider reboot is inspired by True Blood and Dexter
- E3 2011: Prediction: Dust 514 will be on PC a year after its PS3 release
- E3 2011: Id's Tim Willits on how Rage flies the flag for PC controls: "there are a lot of buttons"
- E3 2011: The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim has 70 voice actors, players free to explore from start
- E3 2011: Skyrim's main quest 30 hours long. Additional content "two to three hundred" more
June 7
- E3 2011: AMD revives FX name for Bulldozer
- E3 2011: Defiance trailer teases new MMO shooter
- E3 2011: Wargaming.net announces World of Warplanes
- E3 2011: New Deus Ex: Human Revolution screenshots sneak out of E3
- E3 2011: Assassin's Creed Revelations trailer shows in-game footage of Ezio's next adventure
- E3 2011: From Dust trailer is hauntingly beautiful
- E3 2011: Battlefield 3 trailer shows Thunder Run's mass tank battles
- E3 2011: SpikeTV's Skyrim demo goes into detail about dragons and shouting
- E3 2011: Tomb Raider demo shows Lara running, jumping, and grunting
- E3 2011: Mass Effect 3 trailer shows in-game footage of Reaper fights and rocket boots
- E3 2011: Tim's video verdict - Ubisoft Press Conference
- E3 2011: Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 trailer shows diving, killing, and explosions
- E3 2011: Tim's video verdict - EA Press Conference
- E3 2011: EA Press Conference: the verdict
- E3 2011: Ubisoft Press Conference: the verdict
- E3 2011: Dust 514 is a PS3 exclusive, supported by micro-transactions
June 6
- E3 2011: Far Cry 3 preview
- E3 2011: Mass Effect 3 trailer has colossal enemies and power punching
- E3 2011: Need for Speed: The Run to use Frostbite 2 engine, has foot chases
- E3 2011: Battlefield 3 coming October 25, multiplayer beta september
- E3 2011: The Microsoft conference - your reactions
- E3 action team deployed
- Breaking: Kinect 'fun labs' to bring PC created community games to the Xbox 360
- Breaking: Minecraft to get Kinect support on Xbox 360 this winter
- Mass Effect 3 Collector's Edition revealed in Amazon listing
- E3 2011: Halo 4 outed on Xbox E3 US site
- Limbo trailer on Steam hints at PC release
- Call of Duty Elite free features detailed, "even haters can play for free"
- E3 2011: the Monday schedule
- Will Wright at BAFTA: the creator of The Sims on his influences and hints to his next game
June 5
- E3 Liveblog: Day Zero
June 3
- The weekend playlist
- The Witcher 2 Patch 1.2 and DLC released
- And in other PC gaming news...
- Rainbow 6 remake rumoured
- EA's Origin digital download service detailed. Beta launching later on today
- EA launching Origin digital download service to challenge Steam
- Skyrim has 60,000 lines of dialogue, new dragon shouts revealed, horses confirmed
- Super Street Fighter IV: Arcade Edition DRM: Capcom admit they "Had it wrong"
- Duke Nukem Forever demo available now to First Access Club members
June 2
- OnLive aims to bring PC gaming to HDTVs and tablets, will get a UK release in Autumn
- And in other PC gaming news...
- Will Windows 8 be good for PC gaming?
- Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 won't have dedicated servers, perks and kill streaks detailed
- Darksiders 2 first details reveal Death as main character
- Serious Sam 3: BFE trailer is seriously old school
- Rift and Razer EU giveaway: win a bundle of MMO peripherals
- Duke Nukem Forever DLC free to pre-order customers
- Batman: Arkham City trailer stars Catwoman's cleavage
- Call of Duty: Black Ops free multiplayer weekend starts today
- Saints Row: The Third preview
June 1
- Giveaway: Venture back to the 1800s with the City of Heroes Steampunk Pack!
- Exclusive: Let your Wall Blades make green mincemeat in Orcs Must Die!
- And in other PC gaming news…
- What are you looking forward to at E3 2011?
- Edge site gets a redesign
- Aliens: Colonial Marines trailer out, release date set for Spring 2012
- Call of Duty Elite subscribers to get CoD web TV series featuring "top hollywood talent"
- Magicka: Nippon DLC adds samurai sword and hat for TF2, half of proceeds to go to charity
- Super Meat Boy gets free 'Enter the Unknown' update
- Age of Empires online release date announced, launch trailer launches