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September 30
- Mars astronauts depend on your lucky dice rolls in Tharsis
- Budgeting for monster attacks in the mystifying Kingdom
- If you like Metal Gear Solid 5, you’ll also like…
- The Witcher 3: Hearts of Stone physical Gwent cards are really nice
- PC Gamer Presents PC Hardware: The Ultimate Guide 2015 is out now
- How PC Power Supplies Work
September 29
- Building an entire city on a highway off-ramp in Cities: Skylines
- Job Simulator makes office life (and puking) a blast in VR
- Counter Logic Gaming talk the past and future of North American LoL
- The PC Gamer Show: Prison Architect devs, VR, TwitchCon
- Unsung heroes of Dota 2: Omniknight
- Need For Speed preview: does story belong in a racing game?
- Jotun is a beautiful hand-drawn game about killing Norse titans
- How an MMO turns free-to-play without losing its soul
- Why VR games won't care which headset you're using
September 28
- The six biggest changes in Dota 2's 6.85 patch
- Build of the Week: Back to the Mod
- The 10 best CS:GO players in the world
- Grab free Steam keys for Time Gentlemen, Please and Ben There Dan That
- The adventure game devs that challenged kids to think and learn
- Deceit, giant frog monsters, and ghost parties in The Witcher 3's first expansion
- Five Reasons to Own a NAS
September 27
- Oculus talks about "hard decision" to ship Touch controller after Rift headset
- How to use old DirectInput controllers in new XInput games
- Win a MSI GT72 Dominator Pro laptop
- Crank up the difficulty in Metal Gear Solid 5: The Phantom Pain
September 26
- Being someone else in Metal Gear Solid 5
- Be a better Rocket League player with tips from Team Rocket
September 25
- The week's highs and lows in PC gaming
- Hearthstone's Savjz on RNG, tilt and the mistakes ladder players make
- Dying often, and of everything, in The Flame in the Flood
- League of Legends 5.18: what are the pros picking?
- The best pro gaming to watch this weekend
- What Oculus Touch feels like in an FPS
- Rediscovering the charm and whimsy of Beyond Good and Evil
- Killing a sick and deranged lion king in Armello
September 24
- See System Shock in glorious 720p
- ESL One New York 2015 competition: the results!
- Why playing the blame game will always hold you back
- PC Gamer UK November issue: World of Warships
- How To Set Up NIC Teaming (Link Aggregation)
- Atlas Reactor is an unusual, turn-based multiplayer tactics game
September 23
- A hardcore FPS player’s perspective on Rainbow Six Siege
- Creature prison: The VR designs of Rick and Morty's co-creator
- The best Hearthstone deck resource sites
- Watch the first live gameplay demonstration of Vermintide
- The brutal simplicity of One Finger Death Punch
- SSD Performance: Resetting the Benchmarks
September 22
- Street Fighter 5 system requirements announced
- The five Cave games we want most on Steam
- Albino Lullaby is a horror game that wants you to scare yourself
- Aces high! Amazing CS:GO moments at DreamHack London
- Today on The PC Gamer Show: A supersized show with special guests!
- Your Dota 2 questions answered, vol. 2: with PyrionFlax!
- Sort characters from cut-outs with the Plinkett Test
- Golden Joysticks 2015: what should win best PC game?
- Can Tribes: Ascend return from the grave?
September 21
- Understanding the big changes in CS:GO's latest patch
- Build of the week: Core X 2 Furious is big enough to live in
- Five outstanding moments from the Heroes of the Storm Americas Championship
- Have a free Steam key for retro platformer 8BitBoy
- Homefront: the open world shooter that feels like urban Far Cry
- It's (almost) always too soon to give up in League of Legends
September 20
- Upcoming PC game release dates: Autumn 2015
- How to overclock your monitor to a higher refresh rate
- Playing Civilization: Beyond Earth - Rising Tide's first 100 turns with Firaxis
- Five Nights at Freddy's inspires a Fallout: New Vegas mod
September 19
- Metal Gear Solid 5's failure spectrum
- Dota 2 Custom Game of the week: The Predator
- The week's highs and lows in PC gaming
September 18
- The Battlefield games ranked
- Inside Logitech: How headsets are designed and tested
- Win premium tickets to ESL One New York 2015!
- A gambling site forming a CS:GO team is a troubling reflection of the game
- Why you should compete in a tournament
- The best pro gaming to watch this weekend
- Sword Coast Legends: on D&D, dungeon masters and the CRPG revival
- Create a $10k Dream PC Setup with LG and Ultrawide Festival
September 17
- How $400 virtual knives saved Counter-Strike
- Mad Max 5k gallery: Visions from the wasteland
- Hearthstone's Ben Brode on RNG, esports, and Secret Paladin
- Why Rubick represents the best of Dota 2
- PC Gamer's most anticipated games
- What is there to do in Phantom Pain besides playing Phantom Pain?
September 16
- Find the best Hearthstone deck tracker for you
- Grading GTA 5's new freemode events
- Why I love: Butcher Bay in The Chronicles of Riddick
- What does it take to build a League of Legends champion?
- Killing spider cavalry with flamethrower Dwarfs in Total War: Warhammer
- Six new things we noticed while playing Total War: Warhammer
September 15
- Show Us Your Rig: Funktronic Labs' Kalin
- Today on The PC Gamer Show: Fallout 4, FPS FOV, and more
- Your Dota 2 questions answered, vol. 1: with PyrionFlax!
- LoL 2015 World Championship: get ready for the group stage
- Meet the Hearthstone wonderkid who the pros come to for help
- How to AWP: mastering Counter-Strike's iconic rifle
- Welcome to PC Gamer Pro
- If only every game had Metal Gear Solid 5’s Fulton system
- How To: Dual-Boot SteamOS and Windows
- Six amazing Hearthstone games from the ATLC finals
September 14
- Build of the week: Kruper Dog (yes, this is actually a PC)
- We're giving away 20,000 keys to the new WildStar beta
- FOV isn’t everything: How claustrophobia creates immersion
- Claim your free Steam key for Skyborn
- PC Cooling Basics
September 13
- The case for a bigger LoL World Championship
- Fantasy races modded into Crusader Kings 2
September 12
- How to build the perfect FPS
September 11
- The week's highs and lows in PC gaming
- How to turn an old PC into a dedicated gaming server
- Five stories of tactical comedy in Metal Gear Solid 5
- Overlooked strategy games that are worth playing today
September 10
- Legend of Grimrock 2 4K screenshot gallery
- AMD Radeon R9 Nano verdict
- Bombshell is 3DRealms' twitch shooter take on the action RPG
- Dota 2 Reborn is here—but is it ready?
- We're giving away 10,000 Rainbow Six: Siege beta keys [Update: they're gone]
- What the creators of short games think about Steam's refunds policy
- Cougar 550M tested: a promising but overpriced gaming mouse
September 9
- Due Process is being fully rebuilt, and looks really slick
- Mad Max tips: 12 things we wish we'd known before we started
- Origin Chronos system review [updated]
- Barkley 2's guns are alive, and other interesting facts
- Defibrillating soldiers in Battlefield
- No Man's Sky: how to play a game with 18 quintillion worlds
- How to Set Up a Dedicated Gaming Server
September 8
- The Banner Saga 2 continues the story and gives combat some depth
- This match is why Hearthstone will make it as an esport
- Show us your rig: Whalebox Studio's Nadya Zhuk
- Today on The PC Gamer Show: Our top 100, game movies, and more
- Why you should play Eye of the Beholder 2 from GOG's D&D collection
- The joy of Metal Gear Solid 5’s Mother Base
- We're giving away 5,000 Rainbow Six: Siege beta keys [Update: they're gone]
- XCOM 2: has Firaxis built the strategy sequel you deserve?
- 10 Secure Gmail Alternatives
- The surprising thrill of Battlefield 4's night maps
September 7
- A look ahead to the League of Legends 2015 World Championship
- Memory of a Broken Dimension will break your brain
- Tumbling headlong into a Rocket League fixation
September 6
- How to measure your PC's total power consumption
- Playing as mob-run Las Vegas in Civilization V
September 5
- MechWarrior creator talks Microsoft's relationship with PC gaming, new game
September 4
- The week's highs and lows in PC gaming
- Frontier defends Elite: Dangerous' expansion pricing
- Rain World's simulated ecosystem reacts to your choices
- Playing DM in Sword Coast Legends is a griefer's dream
- Mutant Football League is like a murderous NFL Blitz
- Hitman: Agent 47 is a bad movie about a bad hitman
- Get that extra esports edge with the GeForce GTX 950
- How To: An Overclocking Masterclass
September 3
- Metal Gear Solid 5 graphics tweaks guide
- I'm worried about Assassin's Creed Syndicate's invisibility skill
- Why a western team could win League of Legends' 2015 World Championship
- The genesis of PC gaming: the PDP-1 and Spacewar!
- We're giving away 8,000 PC Gamer skins for Killing Floor 2
- Techies, disarmed: the trouble with Dota's most disruptive hero
- Metal Gear Solid 5: 30 essential tips, tricks and secrets
- Why Hitman Absolution isn't as bad as you remember
September 2
- Mad Max review in progress
- Symphony Worlds is the closest I'll get to fighting Justin Bieber
- Skyshine’s Bedlam is like FTL crash-landed into Fallout
- Team Fortress 2's community-made Harvest map
- Inquisitor - Martyr is a promising Warhammer 40K action RPG
- 10 Unique Features of Windows 10
- Adult Swim is becoming an important label on PC
September 1
- Meet the MOBA bringing the genre back to its RTS roots
- Use Ultimate Windows Tweaker to deal with Windows 10's privacy settings
- Metal Gear Solid 5: The Phantom Pain review-in-progress
- Show Us Your Rig: Relic Entertainment's Braden Chan
- Today on The PC Gamer Show: the best of PAX, MGS5, and more
- Adventure game choices meets crafting in Minecraft: Story Mode
- Cibele is a game about falling in love with someone in an MMO
- Metal Gear Solid 5: The Phantom Pain port impressions
- Golden Joysticks: vote now and get Bioshock Infinite
- Runic deviates from Torchlight with Hob, an Ico-inspired adventure