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May 31
- The Best Free Games of the Week
- The Stomping Land steps delicately onto Steam Early Access, offers multiplayer dino-based survival
- Mighty No. 9 is looking solid but uninspired (and very blue)
- Arma 3 sells 1 million copies
- Enemy Front story trailer goes behind the lines in the Warsaw Ghetto
May 30
- Air Control may be the worst game on Steam — we played it and asked the developer to explain
- Rise of Nations: Extended Edition is coming to Steam in June
- Project Stealth turns Splinter Cell's Spy vs. Merc multiplayer into standalone game
- Elite: Dangerous "Premium Beta" now available at a $150 price tag
- Blizzard announces two new cards for Hearthstone's Curse of Naxxramas expansion
- Prison Architect gets more addictive for Alpha 21, next update to focus entirely on bugs
- End of days: GameSpy's forgotten games and the gamers keeping them alive
- Watch Dogs PC performance patch planned to reduce lag and stuttering issues
- Call of Duty: Ghosts – Invasion DLC trailer shows new maps, contains actual ghosts
- First ever Unreal Tournament deathmatch footage released
- Take-Two CEO points to a future for the BioShock series
- System Shock 2 modder reveals screens from gorgeous cutscene remake
May 29
- Fan-made Another World short film Project 23 recreates game's stylish intro
- Harmonix lays off 37 and chooses a new CEO, "retooling" musical shooter Chroma
- EA shuts down Mythic Entertainment
- The keyboard of the Large Pixel Collider
- Battlefield 4 work will continue alongside Hardline, DICE promises
- Three Lane Highway: why Dota 2 isn't really about heroes at all
- How to run Command & Conquer Red Alert 2 on Windows 7/8
- Arma 3 Karts goes from April Fools' joke to real-life DLC
- Europa Universalis 4 gets big update alongside Wealth of Nations DLC release
- Witchmarsh reaches its Kickstarter target, sets sights on stretch goals
- Dawn of War moving to Steamworks to avoid GameSpy and GfW Live shutdowns
- Star Citizen's dogfighting module delayed due to critical bugs
- Guild Wars 2 launches "Living World Season 2" in July
- 1001 Spikes will kill you 1001 times when it launches next month
- Goat Simulator 1.1 update includes Minecraft minigame
May 28
- Battlefield 3 and Plants vs. Zombies are "On the House" at Origin
- What I learned about CS:GO after watching the Twitch stream of someone I beat
- Tangiers trailer teases the strangest stealth you've ever seen
- CryEngine development kit subscription available on Steam
- Arma 3 mod contest offers one-week journey to real-world conflict zone
- Spiderweb Software's Jeff Vogel claims "the indie bubble is popping"
- Battlecry trailer shows violence and Cossacks
- Battlefield: Hardline footage escapes from EA, watch it quick before it's captured
- Lego Batman 3: Beyond Gotham announced with brooding and (not very) serious trailer
- Super Street Fighter 4: Arcade Edition ditching GfW Live for Steamworks this Friday
- WildStar trailer demonstrates depth of customisation ahead of next week's launch
- Steam Controller delayed to more 'realistic' 2015 release window
- Borderlands: The Pre-Sequel gameplay video is 16 minutes of lunar lunacy
- EA confirms Battlefield Hardline with teaser site for E3 reveal
- World of Warships promises "No submarines!" in debut developer diary
May 27
- Watch Dogs on PC beset by uPlay troubles; Ubisoft is working on it
- Battlefield 4 Battlepack upgrades now available for real moneydollars
- XCOM: Enemy Unknown coming to Linux, SteamOS this summer
- Battlefield Hardline, developed by Visceral, rumored to be EA's next shooter
- The Evil Within delayed, release date skitters back to late October
- League of Legends' new One For All: Mirror Mode gives all ten players the same champion
- Project Reality: BF2 update ensures life after Battlefield 2's GameSpy shutdown
- Final Fantasy III hits Steam on May 28
May 26
- Murdered: Soul Suspect will let you possess cats, and other things we learned from the latest trailer
- Fans remaking Capcom's cancelled Mega Man Legends 3 prototype for PC
- We Need to go Deeper: a Jules Verne-inspired roguelike set under the sea
- Save time in August by watching Wasteland 2's opening movie now
- Purgateus is a dark remix/mod for Proteus, and it looks fantastic
- Splash Damage's Extraction now called Dirty Bomb again
- Blizzard to sue creators of 'ValiantChaos' StarCraft 2 hack
May 25
- Evolve trailer reveals four new hunters, shows them doing what they do best
- Papers, Please dev reveals next game: first-person mystery Return of the Obra Dinn
May 24
- The Best Free Games of the Week
- Grid Autosport trailer details Endurance events
- Icarus Proudbottom: Starship Captain swaps typing for Star Trek-style bridge command
- The Forest goes from nature to nightmare in new gif series
May 23
- Respawn explains why it took CTF out of Titanfall and how it's bringing it back
- 2014 Hearthstone World Championship offers a $250,000 prize pool
- Total Chaos is the best-looking Doom II mod you've ever seen
- Wolfenstein: The New Order video: max settings at 2560x1440 on LPC
- Editor's note: improvements on PCGamer.com
- "I did see some concept art for Half-Life 3" says Counter-Strike co-creator. Left 4 Dead 3 "looks great"
- Former PC Gamer editor Gary Whitta is writing a Star Wars film
- No Wave is a free point-and-click adventure set in the '80s music underground
- Australia, win a Wolfenstein: The New Order Panzerhund Edition
- Murdered: Soul Suspect trailer offers a crash course in supernatural detective work
- Planetary Annihilation's new single-player mode takes after FTL more than RTSes
- The Elder Scrolls Online content update adds Craglorn zone, 12-man trials
May 22
- Crytek announces new MOBA Arena of Fate
- X Rebirth sees huge feature overhaul in 2.0 update
- Be a creepy robot in The Fall, first episode on Steam this month
- Metro Redux officially announced, first trailer released
- Dark Souls 2: ultimate armour guide
- Evolve release date announced: Turtle Rock's co-op shooter stomps into view this October
- Diablo 3's birthday boost to Legendary drop rate is now a permanent buff
- PC Gamer UK's Minecraft server is still going strong; take a look inside
- Always Sometimes Monsters launch trailer teases love, loss and adult behaviour
- Don Bradman Cricket 14 may be the last hope for cricket on PC
- Squad-based WWI shooter Verdun to launch soon; new footage released
- Gamestop PC Spring Sale offers deep discounts on big-name games
May 21
- Q.U.B.E: Director's Cut adds a story to the indie puzzler
- Steam In-Home Streaming tested: remotely play games from any PC in your network
- ZeniMax and id Software file lawsuit against Oculus VR for misappropriating trade secrets
- Command your fleet in first person RTS Flagship
- EVE Online remembers epic battle at B-R5RB in new video
- DayZ targeting better zombie behavior with expansion of dev team
- Teleglitch updates to v9.3, adds combat arena mode
- Batman: Arkham Knight trailer offers to even the odds
- Fistful of Frags relaunches as standalone game, can be downloaded for free on Steam
- Dota 2 Compendium gets new stretch goals, now targeting a $10 million International prize pool
- Goat Simulator update will release on June 3rd, adds new map and local multiplayer
- Hearthstone Help: Interview with Dreamhack Bucharest winner
- Oculus Rift to make long-awaited debut in American fast food outlets
- Warcraft film needs to attract more than the game's player base - studio CEO
- Wasteland 2 launches at end of August
- CS:GO crosshair generator is a must-use web tool for all players
May 20
- See Wolfenstein: The New Order at max settings: 3600x1920 on LPC
- Transistor soundtrack free on Spotify
- Minecraft Realms now available worldwide
- Blizzard releases level 90 primer videos for all World of Warcraft classes
- Designing an Escape Goat 2 level with creator Ian Stocker
- The Wolf Among Us: Episode 4 screenshots show the scowls and stares of 'In Sheep's Clothing'
- Dota 2's Compendium raises over $6 million for the International 2014, all stretch goals unlocked
- Portal 2 community map-pack Cosmogony is a great reason to return to Aperture
- Wolfenstein: The New Order technical issues: the problems detailed, plus a few fixes
- Offworld Trading Company is an economic RTS from the designer of Civ 4
- Dark Souls will remain 'functional' as GFWL prepares to die in July
- F.E.A.R. Online enters closed beta next week; applications now open
- Why our Wolfenstein: The New Order review is delayed
May 19
- Dead Island: Epidemic spreads to Steam Early Access
- Wildstar developer says it wants to do WoW right this time
- Oculus VR hires former Google Glass engineer to work on Rift
- Alienware says its Steam Machine will be its "least profitable" system [Update]
- SPONSORED: Half-Life 2 and Portal, the greatest PC games of all time, now on NVIDIA SHIELD
- Middle-Earth: Shadow of Mordor trailer shows off weapons and the violence that they cause
- Exogenesis: Perils of Rebirth funded through Kickstarter, new trailer filled with mystery (and blood)
- GOG "would definitely consider" Early Access, but prefer curatorial approach
- Skyblivion trailer shows Oblivion's opening locations recreated in Skyrim
- Rumour: YouTube to acquire Twitch for $1 billion [Updated]
May 18
- Star Citizen's Arena Commander module launching May 29th
- Titanfall ditches separate CTF/Pilot Hunter modes: "not widely used; overlong wait times"
May 17
- The Best Free Games of the Week
- Men of War finds time for one more WWII campaign - Assault Squad 2 out now
- Twenties-set mystery RPG Witchmarsh takes to Kickstarter, marvel at its moody pixel art
- MechWarrior Online competitive Tournament Series starts Sunday
May 16
- No more Witcher 3 delays coming, this one unrelated to Dragon Age: Inquisition release date
- Fleish and Cherry sets a puzzle-filled adventure in a 1930s cartoon
- Transistor looking better than ever in new launch trailer
- Titanfall's 144hz patch affected gun rate-of-fire, Respawn fixed it last night
- War of the Vikings adds Shieldmaidens in first update
- The week's highs and lows in PC gaming
- Elite: Dangerous reaches final alpha phase, adding impossibly cool hyperspace jumps
- War Thunder: Ground Forces expansion moves its tanks into open beta
- Sign Up to Transformers Universe now to get a free Autobot and exclusive PC Gamer warrior re-spray
- Aardman and Nominet Trust launch competition to help young people get into coding
- Arma 3 free weekend and free copy of Arma: Cold War as part of the Bohemia anniversary sale
- Glorious Leader! puts you in the shoes of North Korean dictator Kim Jong Un
- Buck is an Aussie Metroidvania adventure about a dog
- Player community working on keeping Battlefield 2, Battlefield 1942 online
- We've killed 20 billion zeds since Killing Floor launched five years ago
May 15
- Devolver Digital procedurally generates new FPS Heavy Bullets
- Tom Clancy's The Division delayed to 2015
- Dota 2 gets meta with The Stanley Parable announcer pack, available now
- Steam has added more games so far this year than in all of 2013
- Far Cry 4 announced: is set in the Himalayas, will be out this November
- DayZ hacked, but users' data remains secure
- Wolfenstein: The New Order launch trailer is ridiculous, but in a good way
- Bombshell: a new ARPG borne out of a Duke Nukem lawsuit
- Less than 24 hours after launch, the SUPERHOT Kickstarter is funded
- World of Warcraft's new female Night Elf model revealed
- The Sims 4 trailer shows off improved Create A Sim character customization
May 14
- H1Z1 hands-on: first impressions of SOE's zombie survival game
- How to Create Cool Custom Case Mods
- Oculus VR hires Halo 4 dev founding member as art director
- Steam indicates which user reviews are of Early Access versions
- Hearthstone Help: Basic Decks Guide
- Titanfall Expedition DLC drops this week
- Grid Autosport trailer promises aggressive "close racing"
- Democracy 3 Extremism expansion pack lets you go mad with power
- SUPERHOT is back, is on Kickstarter, is looking SUPER HOT
- Watch Dogs trailer explains why there's a spider-tank, also other stuff
May 13
- Landmark closed beta now on Steam Early Access
- Warhammer 40,000: Chess - Regicide announced, because nothing is more Warhammer than chess
- Humble Daily Bundles give you 14 days of deals
- 4A Games opens new studio, working on another Metro and unannounced projects
- Unreal Tournament's original composers could return to series
- Darksiders series "not dead," but creative director says future remains uncertain
- Dragon Age: Inquisition screenshots offer a first look at some new areas
- Wildstar trailer shows raids in action, promises they're not for the faint-hearted
- Guild Wars 2 teases the rebuilding of Lion's Arch in Festival of the Four Winds
- Titanfall update reduces audio install time, adds "extreme" frame-rate support
- Dota 2's Compendium helps The International 2014 prize pool break $4 million
May 12
- Fake Game of Thrones Hearthstone deck is fantastic, Targaryen is OP
- Tim Schafer plays classic Day of the Tentacle 20 years after release
- Titanfall Expedition trailer shows new maps in action
- Galactic Civilizations 3 updated with ship-building system
- Kentucky Route Zero Act III is out now
- Show Us Your Rig: Killing Floor 2 developer David Hensley
- Battlefield 4 adds Community Test Environment to help with netcode fixes
- Accessibility Jam interview: how a gamejam hopes to raise accessibility awareness
- GOG are having another one of their bizarre sales
- Halo: Combat Evolved patch will save multiplayer after Gamespy shutdown
- A Story About My Uncle trailer shows first-person grapple platforming
- EA list 24 PC games affected by Gamespy shutdown, including Battlefield 2, Crysis
May 11
- Kyoto Wild looks like the Bushido Blade-style brawler I've been waiting for half my life
- Studio Pixel's Kero Blaster, and its soundtrack, out now
May 10
- Interview with Tripwire's John Gibson: "Microsoft's done their best to kill gaming on PC for as long as I can remember"
- The Best Free Games of the Week
- The Walking Dead Season 2 gets third episode next week
- Dying Light delayed into February 2015, letting us enjoy the sun a bit longer
- See CS:GO with everything cranked up: 4320x2560 on LPC
May 9
- Microsoft Game Studios hiring for "AAA strategy game in a well-loved franchise"
- Never Alone's Alaskan Inuit hero will melt your heart
- The Sims 4 rated Adults Only in Russia
- Why an Unreal Tournament made by modders is the best (and only) decision Epic could've made
- Company of Heroes 2: The Western Front Armies release date announced, will reinforce multiplayer next month
- Unreal Engine 4 showcase: Zelda, Deus Ex and Bioshock look great in Epic's new engine
- Killing Floor 2: How Tripwire aims to design gaming's most realistic guns
- Magicka: Wizard Wars giveaway - grab early open beta access
- Titanfall DLC trailer takes you into the Swampland
- Hearthstone Help: How to build your own deck
May 8
- Last Life interview: Sam Farmer on the intersection of Total Recall, film noir, and point-and-click adventure
- Meet the characters of Watch Dogs
- Counter-Strike: Global Offensive player gets headshots with a wheel controller
- New Unreal Tournament game will be free, developed by Epic and UT community
- Age of Mythology: Extended Edition launches today on Steam
- Wildstar's open beta is live, new trailer teases conflict and mystery
- Get this exclusive Killing Floor 2 skin in the print edition of PC Gamer US #254
- Killing Floor 2 exclusive first look: co-op FPS horror with the most advanced gore system ever
- Valiant Hearts: The Great War release date announced, trailer shows drama, heroes, and a dog
- Maia 0.42 update adds first planetary creature, new research stations, toilets
- Eve Online monument vandals found, permanently banned from the game
- Fan imagines Buffy the Vampire Slayer as a LucasArts-era adventure game
May 7
- Don't Starve multiplayer expansion coming this summer
- League of Legends pro keeps streaming from hospital bed with collapsed lung
- World of Warcraft patch 6.0 prepares Azeroth for Warlords of Draenor with stat squish, raid changes
- Your Need for Speed will go unsatisfied this year
- Transistor and soundtrack now available for pre-order
- League of Legends All-Stars 2014 tournament starts May 8
- Oculus VR CEO sees potential for an MMO with "a billion people" in virtual reality
- Sniper Elite 3 trailer shows the tools of your trade
- Star Wars: Battlefront to be shown in more detail at E3, says EA's CEO
- Eve Fanfest attendees share their best Eve Online war stories
- Outcast Reboot HD devs concede Kickstarter defeat, admit they should have set a lower goal
- Towns development halts after its sole developer abandons the game
- Woof! Blizzard nerfs Unleash The Hounds in Hearthstone
May 6
- Kerbal Space Program developer announces mod hosting partnership with Curse
- Star Wars: Battlefront II multiplayer ends with GameSpy, GameRanger comes to the rescue
- Humble Bundle Spring Sale discounts Batman: Arkham Origins, South Park: Stick of Truth, more
- Earth: Year 2066, a $20 early access game, pulled from Steam
- DayZ flash mob group staging raves, games, more shenanigans
- Wildstar enters open beta on Thursday, will be free to try for ten days
- The Sun and the Moon: defy gravity in this free momentum based puzzle platformer
- Titanfall DLC screenshots show pilot parkour across tall trees and neon shapes
- Path of Exile two-week charity race event starts raising money for Child's Play from Saturday
- Eve Online monument vandalized, CCP and police investigating
May 5
- Supraball: first person shooter mayhem on a soccer field
- Smite launches two lane Siege mode and map on May 6
- Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare dev almost made a third-person Vietnam spinoff
- Show Us Your Rig: Rust creator Garry Newman
- Oculus respond to Zenimax IP claims: "all of its claims are false"
- Tales from the Borderlands screenshots look pretty much exactly as you'd expect
- Elite Dangerous' final alpha phase landing May 15th, contains "over 400 billion star systems"
- Bound By Flame gets a launch trailer full of fighting and portentous dialogue
- Brad McQuaid restarting Pantheon development, this time with a team of unpaid volunteers
- Mother Russia Bleeds: a sidescrolling beat-'em-up channeling Hotline Miami
May 4
- EVE Online's Kronos update arriving June 3rd
May 3
- EVE Fanfest 2014 day two: Details on EVE's Kronos update, plus booze and fighting
- The Best Free Games of the Week
- 20,000 Leagues Above the Clouds is "Baldur's Gate meets Pirates!", with steampunk airships in place of boats
- Planetside 1 is now free-to-play, with a working download link to boot
- Double Fine exec says publisher flexibility is key to getting devs more creative control
May 2
- The Elder Scrolls Online's first Emperor player interviewed, relied on trail mix to succeed
- Source code for MUD1, the first virtual world, to be released by Stanford University
- Epic announces livestream to reveal "future of Unreal Tournament" on May 8
- Titanfall Expedition DLC map Runoff revealed
- Blizzard releases classic games The Lost Vikings, Rock N' Roll Racing for free
- Minecraft Denmark beseiged by American tanks, dynamite-dropping vandals
- How Hearthstone hooked me like video poker without bankrupting me
- More Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare details listed at Amazon UK
- Captain Forever Remix announced, is a licenced re-imagining of Captain Forever
- DayZ has sold 2 million copies since Early Access launch
- Project Legion announced, a first person shooter set in the Eve universe
- Defiance going free-to-play next month
- CCP: new games are the best way to make EVE universe accessible, says CEO
- Eve Fanfest 2014 day one: hands-on with Eve: Valkyrie, Eve monument unveiled
- Battlefield 4 fan-made video shows the cinematic side of war
- Kevin Spacey stars in debut trailer for Call Of Duty: Advanced Warfare
- No One Lives Forever trademark filing hints at possible re-release
- BioShock Infinite's Columbia appears in the skies of Minecraft
May 1
- EVE: Valkyrie to use Unreal Engine 4, dulcet tones of BSG's Katee Sackhoff
- The Elder Scrolls Online devs explain future updates, includes questing and cosmetic additions
- Arma 3's future plans: new player bootcamp, DLC, an expansion, and more
- Call of Duty video hints at story, reveal coming this Sunday
- ZeniMax claims rights to key Oculus tech developed by John Carmack
- How to run Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodlines on Windows 7/8
- MechWarrior Online gets private matchmaking, and a glitch, in latest patch
- Wolfenstein: The New Order system requirements announced
- Euro Truck Simulator 2 Multiplayer mod moves into open alpha
- Vertico: a free isometric shooter about angry fish in a coral reef maze
- Steam in-home streaming now available in open beta
- Transformers Universe Founders program includes $450 Cybernite pack
- The Universim wants to make you a planet-managing god