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March 2018
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- March 31
- March 30
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- This week's highs and lows in PC gaming
- Booze makes you a better wizard in The Bard's Tale 4's great RPG combat
- Far Cry 5's biggest mystery is why it won't let me play baseball
- Sea of Thieves' first Pirate Legend used his fans to boost him, and players are pissed
- Sea of Thieves, Destiny 2, and the problem with games that always need 'more content'
- The five best years in PC gaming history
- Here's what modders are planning for Vermintide 2
- Players are searching for Bigfoot in Far Cry 5 (Updated)
- March 29
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- The five most iconic gaming keyboards ever made
- Far Cry 5 Easter eggs reference PUBG, Firewatch, and earlier Far Cry games
- Tunche is a permadeath brawler begging to be played with friends
- Where to find silver bars in Far Cry 5
- Dying Light: Bad Blood is battle royale for people who hate waiting
- Delayed, irrelevant, phenomenon: How Fortnite became the biggest game in the world
- J.B. Smoove on working with Rockstar, voicing Chakra Attack, and the enduring appeal of GTA 5
- Mike Dies is a game about fatal teleporter accidents
- Far Cry 5's shovel is the best weapon in the game
- March 28
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- The Sinking City is like L.A. Noire written by H.P. Lovecraft
- We're hiring a lead hardware editor
- 'The intention isn't to make Arena like Tavern Brawl'—Hearthstone's Iksar on recent changes to drafting
- I'm about a dozen battles in and I still don't know why Total War: Arena exists
- XCOM meets stealthy RPG in the seriously cool Mutant Year Zero: Road to Eden
- How a videogame composer designed the Tangledeep RPG
- March 27
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- Blazing Chrome is a perfect successor to Contra and Metal Slug
- Sea of Thieves beginner's guide: voyages, factions, and making money
- Meet EVE's search and rescue task force who will fly to the edge of space to save your ass
- Bonding over gibs in Viscera Cleanup Detail
- Official Rules: ROG ZEPHYRUS M Giveaway
- Remembering one of history's worst control systems in Jurassic Park: Trespasser
- How QUBE and QUBE 2 went from student project to whip-smart indie puzzle games
- The best weapons in Far Cry 5
- March 26
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- Bad North is easy to pick up, but it's a fiendish strategy game
- Where to find all 9 of Ni No Kuni 2's Dreamer's Door dungeons
- 15 things I wish I knew before playing Far Cry 5
- Making Deus Ex: Mankind Divided's best level, the Palisade Bank
- How Asmodee Digital is bringing classic board games to VR
- Valve has 1,700 CPUs working non-stop to bust CS:GO cheaters
- March 25
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- March 23
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- Warhammer books to read after you play Vermintide
- This player completed all of World of Warcraft's 3,314 achievements and it only took him 6 years
- A weird, Mei-centric strat almost caused the biggest Overwatch League upset yet
- This week's highs and lows in PC gaming
- The guy who designed Shadow of War's orcs is super proud that they're such dicks
- Meet the expert who claims all esports require more skill than traditional sports
- 7 Things I wish I knew before playing Ni No Kuni 2
- West of Loathing wasn't just a game with jokes in it, it was 'a game made out of jokes'
- The best Crusader Kings 2 expansions, from Old Gods to Monks and Mystics
- Official Rules: Acer Predator Triton 700 Laptop Giveaway
- Official Rules: Acer Predator Helios 300 Laptop Giveaway
- Official Rules: Acer Predator Nitro 5 Laptop Giveaway
- A giant pair of scissors is the weirdest controller we've tried this week
- March 22
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- Scavenger SV-4 tells amazing space horror stories
- The most convincing VR experience I've ever had didn't involve my hands
- The superboss remains one of Final Fantasy's most exciting traditions
- Giveaway: Get free stuff for Closers, an anime beat-'em-up on Steam
- The spirit of Wipeout lives in this crazy fast racer
- Creed: Rise to Glory is a VR boxing game that doesn't pull any punches
- Here's what is happening in this insane Slay the Spire world record speed run
- Keep the fun going through the night with the ACER Predator After Party at PAX 2018!
- Slay The Spire guide: tips for topping the tower
- You can't please everyone in survival city builder Frostpunk
- How to perfectly complete Ni No Kuni 2's Kingmaker Trial
- Five reasons to check out first-person horror survival adventure DESOLATE
- Official Rules: Acer Predator Gaming Laptop Giveaways
- March 21
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- Hearthstone's Iksar on The Witchwood, how Corridor Creeper got missed, and the mysterious best ladder player ever
- Pathway is an Indiana Jones-style pulp adventure with turn-based combat
- How to open Ni No Kuni 2's locked blue chests
- I tracked a player's footprints in 400-player battle royale game Mavericks: Proving Grounds
- GTA 5's most impressive visual overhaul mod looks even better after extensive update
- The best metroidvania games on PC
- Enemies in Spec Ops: The Line never actually throw grenades, and other game design secrets
- 25 ideas for future Sea of Thieves updates
- Children of Morta is a beautiful roguelike with a surprising focus on family
- Razer's spill-resistant keyboard can survive Doritos and Mountain Dew, just don't remove the keycaps
- March 20
- March 19
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- DayZ's creative director patiently explains why I shouldn't freak out over a sprint meter being added
- World of Warcraft: Battle for Azeroth has been datamined, here's what we know so far
- Lion is turning the Rainbow Six Siege meta on its head
- 7 Surviving Mars tips to keep your colony from dying
- What Microsoft's DirectX Raytracing means for gaming
- How imitation and revenge drive Dishonored's heroes and villains
- March 18
- March 17
- March 16
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- Run out of platforms in Octahedron and you can just make your own
- Kaet Must Die! wants to be the game you love to hate the most
- The best battle royale game might be the free browser-based Surviv.io
- The new Tomb Raider movie isn't bad, but it would be a lot more fun if it was
- Devil May Cry HD Collection is a cheap-feeling port, so maybe play Bayonetta instead
- Screw Fortnite mobile: I'm playing Kingdom Come and Quake Champions on my phone, sorta
- Cultist Simulator is a digital card game that tells sinister stories
- The influence of Nintendo on indie games
- I inadvertently brainstormed a GTA 5-inspired episode of Curb Your Enthusiasm with J.B. Smoove
- This is what PUBG plays like on a phone
- March 15
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- Fell Seal: Arbiter's Mark unabashedly takes after Final Fantasy: Tactics
- Fortnite's mobile port works better on my tiny, outdated phone than it has any right to
- At SXSW? Come to our Friday panel about one of the best RPGs ever
- The best-looking World of Warcraft armor of all time
- What we want to see in The Division 2
- How The Witcher 3 deals with religion and belief
- How developers pay digital tribute to loved ones in their games
- The 12 best drop locations in Fortnite Battle Royale
- We're hiring new PC hardware writers
- Come be PC Gamer's new hardware deals writer
- March 14
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- Where to find every tome and grimoire in Vermintide 2
- Indie veterans on the state of indie games on Nintendo Switch versus Steam
- You're the cutest damn mouse ever in stealth RPG Ghost of a Tale
- Fanatical celebrates its Spring Sale by giving away $1000-worth of Steam games
- Kynseed is a whimsical game about slaying monsters and farming the land
- March 13
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- See inside Valve's stunning new office
- Warhammer: Vermintide 2 settings guide: demanding for both CPU and GPU
- Save lives and play with vehicles in Stormworks: Build and Rescue
- Mexican food existentialism, bear gods, and the death of a galaxy: the Far Cry 5 novel is weird
- What's next for Quake Champions
- Digital Extremes on 38 million players and 5 years of Warframe: 'Change is a constant for us'
- A Way Out is an innovative co-op story game with plenty of cinematic flair
- Returning to Legacy of Kain: Soul Reaver—a landmark open-world platformer
- Orwell: Ignorance is Strength is more about puzzles than politics
- Watch this Overwatch pro dismantle his former team in a stunning upset
- March 12
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- Watch 25 minutes of Ni No Kuni 2 running on PC
- Playing 2D platformer Light Fall feels like learning to drive in a Ferrari
- Trailblazers channels Splatoon into an energetic, clever sci-fi racer
- Amid Evil is a strange and sinister fantasy FPS where you shoot armored angels with tiny planets
- Twisted Insurrection has been reinventing Tiberian Sun for a decade
- Pillars of Eternity 2: Deadfire lets you become a fearsome pirate, if you want
- March 11
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- March 9
- March 8
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- A look back at the Square Enix Collective's launch and what's coming in the future
- Our biggest screw-ups from Into the Breach
- Final Fantasy 15 is a flawed epic that makes the series relevant again
- 6 essential tips for playing Warhammer: Vermintide 2
- Honor View10 is the ideal gaming phone - beat the 5 most annoying things about gaming on the move
- Is GTA Online's Criminal Enterprise Starter Pack worth $40?
- Immortal: Unchained is Dark Souls with guns, and it doesn't work very well
- Inside Dishonored: Death of the Outsider, the standalone adventure that lets you kill a god
- Let's take a moment to appreciate the food in Final Fantasy 15
- Can your PC run Final Fantasy 15?
- March 7
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- Is it worth cutting out Steam to sell indie games direct?
- Watch the streamer who beats super hard games using a DDR pad
- Pressboard Test
- Modding The Sims 4 is a great way to get in touch with your crippling personal issues
- What horror game creators think about jump scares
- I robbed a string of banks unarmed by posing as a journalist in a GTA 5 roleplaying server
- March 6
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- Throne of Lies is a secretive party game where your chat logs can get you killed
- I tried playing a complex game without using a wiki and I suffocated in a hole on the moon
- Genital Jousting's story mode is like The Stanley Parable but you're a penis
- 13 games Sonic the Hedgehog has been modded into, for some reason
- Why Reinhardt is about to swing his way back into the Overwatch meta
- Minit is a Zelda-style adventure where you die every minute
- Modders take on the quest to save Chrono Trigger on PC
- March 5
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- Risk System is a shmup that prioritizes accessibility while still being a challenge
- Is this multiplayer sailing sim quiet and serene, or is everybody just ignoring me?
- Join the PC Gamer Club and get an exclusive Battalion 1944 rifle skin
- The most dedicated Kerbal Space Program players build amazing custom controllers
- Extinction wonders what Shadow of the Colossus would be like as a wave defence game
- Here’s what we think the themes for Hearthstone’s three Year of the Raven expansions are
- March 3
- March 2
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- This week's highs and lows in PC gaming
- How the community helped underdog series Fire Pro Wrestling get its second wind
- Dota 2's new rapid update schedule is a positive step for a maturing game
- How a bear called Cheeseburger illustrates a problem with Far Cry 5
- Watch an hour of Far Cry 5 running on PC
- Which game genre do you dislike the most, and why?
- The most controversial PC games
- March 1
