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December 31
- Were our 2017 PC gaming predictions accurate?
- PC Gamer's biggest news stories of 2017
- The PC gaming lows of 2017
December 30
- The Looties: PC Gamer's random selection of other 2017 GOTY awards
- Predicting the big stories of 2018
- Black Mirror gives us a VR roleplaying nightmare
- The prettiest screenshots of 2017
- Which game have you snuck off from your family to play during the holidays?
- The PC gaming highs of 2017
December 29
- Best Visual Novel 2017: Butterfly Soup
- Wireless headset of the Year: SteelSeries Arctis 7
- The orcs were the stars again in Shadow of War, especially one particular bastard
- Headphones of the Year: MrSpeakers Ether Flow
- Warhammer: Vermintide 2 will be playable at the PC Gamer Weekender
December 28
- Hidden Folks is the hidden object game I've been waiting for
- Hard Drive of the Year: HGST UltraStar He12 12TB
- The best ways to gamble in PC games (without losing real money)
- Listen to the best PC game music of the year
December 27
- Case of the Year: NZXT H700i
- RAM of the Year: G.Skill Trident Z RGB
- The funniest Hearthstone moments of 2017
- Absolver's enthralling brawls are all about fashion and deceit
- The best moments from the history of Twitch Plays
- The best visual novels on PC
- PC Gamer's best features of 2017
December 26
- Keyboard of the Year: Corsair K95 RGB Platinum
- The best multiplayer games you can play with bots
- Death of the Outsider's design decisions made Dishonored feel fresh again
- Best Open World Game 2017: Assassin's Creed Origins
- Save an extra 20% on a PC Gamer subscription in our Boxing Day flash sale
December 25
- Singleplayer games aren't dead, they're just changing
- The Sims 4 battle royale, part 3: Chicken dinner is served
- What is RAM (Random Access Memory)?
- The Sexy Brutale's stylish adventure gives you both unlimited time and a ticking clock
- Ongoing Game Award 2017: No Man's Sky
- The weirdest PC mice
December 24
- The best local multiplayer games on PC
- 5 quick tips for dealing with your family's nightmare computer
- The Sims 4 battle royale, part 2: Fear the Reaper
- Best Mod 2017: Sim Settlements for Fallout 4
- Attention Required: A competition looking for the best Overwatch players is here
- The best and worst dressed characters of 2017
December 23
- The most baffling PC port issues of 2017
- The Sims 4 battle royale, part 1: Survival of the simmest
- Which game did you miss in 2017 that you're saving for the holidays?
- Best Action Game 2017: Nier: Automata
- Desktop of the year: Corsair One
December 22
- Dear Square Enix, all I want for Christmas is Final Fantasy Tactics on PC
- We finally get our first look at Risk of Rain 2
- How ScummVM is keeping adventure games alive, one old game at a time
- Night in the Woods brings hope and joy to the rural apocalypse
- Win an HTC Vive and VR games bundle worth over $750 with Fanatical
- Best Story 2017: What Remains of Edith Finch
- Railway Empire is a mostly satisfying management sim
- Rumu is a cleaning robot with a big heart and a bottomless dustbag
December 21
- The best two Witcher 3 mods overhaul the game in radically different ways
- How the loot box controversy shaped gaming in 2017
- Brainwash bad guys and build a conspiracy wall in this secret agent strategy game
- Need a last minute holiday gift? Save with a PC Gamer subscription
- Mouse of the Year: Logitech G903 Lightspeed
- The Lion's Song is a thoughtful and beautiful point-and-click game
- Best Comedy Game 2017: West of Loathing
- Flying cars are rad as hell in GTA Online's Doomsday Heist
- The art of great and silly fighting game story modes
- Seed is a hugely ambitious in-development MMO that echoes EVE Online, Rimworld and The Sims
- Now is the perfect time to check out wacky platformer Ultimate Chicken Horse
December 20
- Before he went To The Moon: Kan Gao's curious, poetic early games
- Headset of the Year: Kingston HyperX Cloud Revolver
- 2017 in silly back page jokes
- Against all odds, we got a good Quake game in 2017
- Best Co-op Game 2017: Destiny 2
- Play Biomutant at the PC Gamer Weekender
December 19
- Last-second gifts for PC gamers
- Vermintide's Death on the Reik DLC is a fitting send-off for a great game
- Motherboard of the Year: Asus Z370 Maximus X Hero
- PC games that are so bad they're good
- Best Setting 2017: Tacoma
- Football Manager 2018's Dynamics system is a fantastic story generator
- Soulcalibur 6 finally brings the tale of swords and souls to PC
December 18
- Monitor of the Year: Dell UP3218K
- Exclusive: Three new cards from the Shadowverse: Chronogenesis expansion
- Driftland: The Magic Revival takes building an empire to new extremes
- Unexplored weaves personal roguelike stories with clever random generation
- Game of the Year Awards 2017
- Breakout Game 2017: PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds
December 17
- Playing Fallout 4 with a non-lethal knockout mod, Part 4
- PC Gamer Club members have a chance to win great Razer prizes
- Rise of the Necromancer gave Diablo 3 a new lease of unlife in 2017
- Best Platformer 2017: Hollow Knight
December 16
- Why Curse of Osiris failed to change Destiny 2's future, and how the live team now holds the key
- Best Strategy Game 2017: Total War: Warhammer 2
- Stories Untold shows we need more anthology series in games
- Which game were you the best at?
- Laptop of the year: Gigabyte Aero 15X
December 15
- The Gollop Chamber: The good, the bad, and the ugly of RNG
- Defending towers gets hairy in the free, fantastic Sang-Froid: Tales of Werewolves
- This week's highs and lows in PC gaming
- RIP, AIM: Remembering how we used to talk on the internet
- PUBG Miramar map guide: The best spots so far
- The best Star Wars mods
- Hearthstone Dungeon Run bosses ranked by their bullshit
- Best Expansion 2017: XCOM 2: War of the Chosen
- Final Fantasy 14: Stormblood breathes life into tired MMO tropes
- I think I've been brutally owned by Ubisoft
- 7 ways Far Cry 5 is changing up the usual Ubisoft open world format
- Far Cry 5 is fun, but its tone is all over the place
December 14
- In Cattails you are cute, cuddly, and born to conquer
- SSD of the Year: Intel Optane SSD 900P
- Daily quests aren't fun, they're tedious
- Resident Evil 7 saved the series
- Game of the Year 2017: Divinity: Original Sin 2
- Surviving Mars lead designer on citizens, renegades and Martian wonders
- Take down futuristic megacorps in 2.5D shooter Hollowpoint
- 'Top Gun meets Gundam' in Blazing Legion: Ignition
- What you need to know about cryptocurrency mining
December 13
- We played D&D in Tabletop Simulator and it worked surprisingly well
- Ylands is a promising sandbox game (and game toolkit) from the creators of Arma
- Becoming the ultimate werewolf wizard in retro roguelike Haque
- Realm Grinder beginner's guide
- Graphics Card of the Year: EVGA GTX 1080 Ti FTW3 Elite
- Inon Zur on composing Fallout’s timeless orchestral scores
- Don't Sink lets you live out your pirate captain fantasy on a budget
- Puzzle platformer Etherborn channels M.C. Escher and rainbows
December 12
- How Masterwork weapons work in Destiny 2
- What we want to see in Monster Hunter: World on PC
- CPU of the Year: Intel Core i5-8400
- Gear of the Year Awards 2017
- You can now play Colossal Cave Adventure, the first text adventure game, via SMS
- 5 things Rainbow Six Siege is doing better than other multiplayer shooters
- 4K gallery: the beautiful painted landscapes of Okami
- Save big with the GOG Winter Sale PC Gamer Collection
- Total War: Warhammer 2's Laboratory is a boss fight for your CPU
- In Fallout 4 VR, the Pip-Boy can be a pain but VATS is better than ever
December 11
- Watch how Destiny 2's new public event splatter-kills PC players for running at high framerates
- Killing monsters and making clothes from their carcasses is more complex (and fun) with Dauntless' latest update
- The best Hearthstone Kobolds & Catacombs decks to try so far
- Monster Hunter: World is shaping up to be exactly the evolution we hoped for
- In hyperrealistic Doom mod Hideous Destructor, you have to pick up your shell casings
- Talking to the voice of Rachel from Life is Strange: Before the Storm
- Eat lasery death in neon futuresport Laser League
- The best sports games on PC
- How to trigger heroic public events on Mercury in Destiny 2: Curse of Osiris
- How to open the secret chest on Mercury on Destiny 2: Curse of Osiris
- How to get the Aeon exotic armour in Destiny 2: Curse of Osiris
December 10
- What are the differences between Cat5, Cat6, and Cat7 Ethernet cables?
December 9
- Despite weak AI, MechWarrior 5 is shaping up to be the mech game I've always wanted
- If EA lost the Star Wars license, who should get it next?
- Watch devs tell the stories behind games like Chuchel, Heat Signature, and Untitled Goose Game
December 8
- The evolution of loot boxes
- PUBG's new desert map is a huge step up
- This week's highs and lows in PC gaming
- How anime porn is giving some games a second shot at success
- This trucker put a gaming PC in his big rig to deal with the isolation of the open road
- Games of the Year 2017: The nominees
- Xur is selling Destiny 2's broken-as-hell gun this week, ensuring a weird weekend for the Crucible
- The best and absolute worst ladders in PC gaming
- The 10 most dubious in-game purchases
- We want to see your best screenshots of the year
- The indie dev taking his brawler on tour to test it against the toughest audiences
December 7
- Kobolds & Catacombs could be Hearthstone's scariest expansion yet
- SOS is a battle royale game you can win with your voice
- WoW's top guilds are locked in a savage race to beat its latest raid
December 6
- 5 Kobolds & Catacombs cards that could be the next big sleeper hit
- Overlooked RPGs that are worth playing today
- The Norwood Suite is a surreal hotel that demands to be explored
- Past Cure is a John Wick-inspired psychological action game from a tiny indie team
- 2015 in silly back page jokes
- What we want from the next Deus Ex
December 5
- Overwatch League preseason power rankings
- All the new exotic gear in Destiny 2's Curse of Osiris expansion
- How SteamWorld bucked 'the easy route' and became a series without a genre
- A clumsy detective investigates space murders in 2000:1: A Space Felony
- All the new armor and exotic items available in Season 2 of Destiny 2's Eververse
- The lost art of the PC game manual
December 4
- Ben Brode and Day[9]'s non-stop laughter made for Hearthstone's best card reveal stream yet
- A merchant has 21 days to solve a mysterious death in a strange city
- Meet World of Warcraft's most notorious ganker
- Doom VFR is more like visiting an interactive Doom exhibit than playing Doom
- In Dwarf Fortress's first major update in 16 months, dwarves have learned how to lie
- PC Gamer UK podcast 58: Into The Breach, Need For Speed: Payback, Pipe Push Paradise
December 3
- Playing Fallout 4 with a non-lethal knockout mod, Part 3
December 2
- Why Stardew Valley needs to be discovered, not beaten
- What are you playing this weekend?
- If you could play a sequel to any game, what would it be?
December 1
- This week's highs and lows in PC gaming
- So far, Wild West Online is more mild than wild
- Puzzle platformer Uurnog Uurnlimited is as clever as it is crazy
- The rarest Steam games
- The Norwood Suite's creator on composing the game's soundtrack and standing out from the crowd