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February 29
- The history of Baldur's Gate
- Crapshoot: Lula 3D, another unsexy sex game
- What's the last game you refunded?
February 28
- Here's what the PC Gamer forum is getting heated about this week
- I love that Baldur's Gate 3 makes you roll a die for big decisions
- Put pedal to the metal with these GTA 5 car cheats
- How to hide in Fortnite's secret passages
- It sucks that Baldur's Gate 3 is turn-based
- It rules that Baldur's Gate 3 is turn-based
- Flipping burgers in the apocalypse is the most stressful thing I've done in a game
February 27
- Watch live from PAX East 2020
- Coronavirus updates: Gamescom has been cancelled
- How Larian is keeping Baldur's Gate 3 weird
- How Baldur's Gate 3 compares to Divinity: Original Sin 2
- Baldur's Gate 3 looks great even when everything is going wrong
- How to tame Megachelon, the giant sea turtle, in Ark: Genesis
- How Escape From Tarkov fulfills one of Destiny's failed promises
- Here's a list of all the Apple Arcade games on PC
- Dead Cells' The Bad Seed DLC is a must for new players
- Deadly action platformer Foregone dashes into Early Access
February 26
- The best cooperative board games
- Foregone aims to be the next brutal 2D brawler, but it's not a roguelike
- Why am I still playing Skyrim?
- 2020 finally has an exciting music game on the horizon
- Ori and the Will of the Wisps' sublime platforming sets a new bar for metroidvanias
February 25
- It rules that there's a game about repairing, but not driving, Mars rovers
- Sobbing alone in bed, and other stories from my return to college in The Sims 4
- 10 things that every PC gamer should own
- Path of Exile: Delirium sends you into a creepy mirror dimension in search of game-changing rewards
- How to romance Leah in Stardew Valley
- The ultimate PC gaming music quiz
- Every vault location in Fortnite Chapter 2 Season 2
February 24
- We wrote some ESRB content warnings that are actually useful
- Roleplaying a spy in Fortnite's newest season kicks ass
- How to get Fortnite's mythic weapons and where to find them
- No Man's Sky is still the best game for taking amazing photos
- Sims 4 modders are expanding the next Stuff Pack before Maxis even releases it
- Create your dream hero with this Wolcen classes introduction
- Cast new truly powerful new spells with this Skyrim mod
- Five new Steam games you probably missed (February 24, 2020)
February 23
- Great moments in PC gaming: Slow motion in FEAR
- What did you play last week?
February 22
- Crapshoot: Harvester, the gory horror game that's horrifying for the wrong reasons
- Which NPC bark are you most sick of hearing?
- As anger over the Epic Store subsides, what's next?
February 21
- World of Horror is a gruesome adventure game inspired by the work of Junji Ito
- Behold, the ugliest MMO pet of all time
- The endless duel between WoW raids and the mods that break them
- BattleBots is alive and deadly in Besiege's internet fight clubs
- The PS2 successor to Fire Emblem gets a long-awaited fan translation
- Space skulls, sentient gas, and other weird things we've found in the No Man's Sky update
- Corporate satire in games isn't funny anymore
- Create your perfect build with this Wolcen skills primer
February 20
- The PC Gamer Show 189: Chivalry 2, Amazon's New World MMO, Hardspace: Shipbreaker
- Every Fortnite Chapter 2 Season 2 skin so far
- How Dark Souls speedrunners exploited death to create the perfect skip
- This Metro Exodus DLC has a new harmonica-playing hero
- How to get a living ship in No Man's Sky
- Maneater hands-on: Grow from adorable shark pup to adorable shark monster
- Chivalry 2's medieval combat is nuanced, gory, and spectacularly fun
- Battlefield 5's spectator mode turned me into a wannabe cinematographer
February 19
- The weird arm physics of Jurassic Park: Trespasser
- What great song or musician did you discover on a game's soundtrack?
- New World hands-on: classic MMO questing with 50v50 territory wars
- Hands-on: Hardspace: Shipbreaker is about the dangerous work of cutting up spaceships
- Monster Hunter's greatsword has the best videogame animation since Chris Redfield punched a boulder
February 18
- 5 things Fallout 76's new human NPCs need to do to pull me back into the game
- I got drunk trying to take Geralt on a pub crawl in The Witcher 3
- How Blizzard turned a Hearthstone fan theory into Hearthstone fact
- Star Trek: Borg is a '90s FMV game that doesn't completely suck
- I became the mob's personal tailor after a gangster saved my life in GTA 5 RP
February 17
- 10 of the weirdest gaming wiki pages
- How to romance Sebastian in Stardew Valley
- In Other Waters lets you explore the strange depths of a thriving alien ocean
- Academics are making 'intelligent buildings' with the help of fungi
- What did you play last week?
February 16
- Five new Steam games you probably missed (February 17, 2020)
- Great moments in PC gaming: Winning a ranked match in StarCraft 2
February 15
- Smashing through walls with Rainbow Six Siege’s new defender is unreasonably fun
- Crapshoot: Man Enough, the unromantic romance game
- Who is your favorite videogame detective?
- You need to play The Cat Lady
- How to cook cats in Magic Arena, and other winning combos
February 14
- Wolcen: Lords of Mayhem would be an adequate ARPG if it weren't so buggy and unpolished
- Destiny 2 players are making a big mistake by sleeping on Charged With Light mods
- Are you going to buy a PS5 or new Xbox?
- Which FIFA 20 players are getting a winter upgrade?
- The best League of Legends champions
- I won't be asking comedy physics game Table Manners out for a second date
- Take a tour of Legends of Runeterra's far-flung regions
- Learning Street Fighter 5 was a punishing, exhilarating experience
February 13
- The best Warhammer 40K starter set guide, and beginners tips
- Outriders mixes superpowers, shooting, and Destiny
- How I became an arms dealer in Escape From Tarkov
- You can now play the Japan-exclusive Animal Crossing in English thanks to a new fan translation
- Here's everything included in Street Fighter V: Champion Edition
- Thank you, theorycrafters, for doing the hard work for me
- How to dual wield in Call of Duty: Modern Warfare
- How to prepare for Clash in League of Legends
- PC gaming's most immersive worlds
- PC Gamer plays: Endless Legend, Hearthstone Battlegrounds, Red Dead Redemption 2, and Catastronauts
February 12
- AI Upscale mods: a list of bigger and sometimes better textures created with machine learning
- The best Kingdom Come: Deliverance mods
- If you could respec in real life, how would you reassign your skill points?
- Everything you need to know about diamonds in Minecraft
- Open world games are better when they leave you wanting more
- Apex Legends Revenant: abilities, lore, and more
February 11
- Great moments in PC gaming: The opening train ride of Half-Life
- Help, I'm addicted to building tiny houses in The Sims 4
- Who cares about framerate? I just want maxed-out graphics
- The best Might & Magic: Chess Royale comps
- Broomstick League proves I won't be going to Hogwarts on a Quidditch scholarship
February 10
- The best stealth games on PC
- Revenant's cool abilities aren't enough to shake up Apex Legends' rigid meta
- This tactical RPG mixes real-time combat and rewinding to make you a time traveling mage
- If Mythic Quest has you in the mood for an MMO sitcom, don't sleep on Dead Pixels
- Rainbow Six Siege is bigger than ever, and it’s time to join in
- Wide Ocean Big Jacket makes me nostalgic for camping trips I never went on
- Why Kim Kitsuragi is Disco Elysium's breakout star
February 9
- Five new Steam games you probably missed (February 10, 2020)
- What did you play last week?
- Great moments in PC gaming: Visiting the Sensorium in Planescape: Torment
February 8
- What unreleased game of 2020 are you most looking forward to?
- Crapshoot: Wing Commander, the Saturday morning cartoon
- Wounded, intoxicated, and covered in leeches: a normal day in Stoneshard
February 7
- MMO sitcom Mythic Quest kicks off with tired gamer humor, but a hint of heart
- Between censorship and Steam, Chinese indie developers are hanging by a thread
- Should I buy a curved monitor for gaming?
- How to play Might & Magic: Chess Royale
- Everything you need to know about Minecraft bees
- You need to play the Blade Runner PC game
- I put a xenomorph in a house with Ripley in The Sims 4 and it turns out they hate each other
- How Final Fantasy Tactics found a second life on Twitch
February 6
- Let my gnome cop teach you the perils of buying too much Sims 4 DLC
- The best Magic: The Gathering Arena decks
- What rewards can you get in the Legends of Runeterra vault?
- GeForce Now is the cloud gaming service Stadia should be
February 5
- Disintegration's multiplayer beta doesn’t click as an RTS or FPS
- How often do you clean your PC? (And have you ever used a leaf blower to do it?)
- Stardew Valley guide: essential tips for mastering the farm
- Everything you need to know about Apex Legends season 4
- Reign supreme with the best Legends of Runeterra decks
- How to farm and invest fractaline in Destiny 2's Empyrean Foundation event
- How to get started in Magic: The Gathering Arena
- How to redeem Magic: The Gathering Arena codes
- Co-op and turn-based tactics just don't mix
- Managing patrons and puke in classic management game SimCoaster
- Fortnite Birds of Prey event: Everything we know
February 4
- Five and a half questions we still have about Half-Life: Alyx
- Apex Legends update: Latest patch notes
- Blizzard's claim that it owns Warcraft 3 mods isn't just the standard fine print
- Do yourself a favour and get the best Temtem in the game
- Use this Temtem list to expand your collection
- Use this Temtem type breakdown to determine your squad's strengths and weaknesses
- How to find Luma Temtem
- Which Temtem starter should you choose?
- How to get Oceara in Temtem
- King’s Bounty II dev diary introduces its core elements and new look
- What to do in WoW this week: the Darkmoon Faire continues
- Upgrade your desktop with these beautiful 4K gaming wallpapers
- Hearthstone: The 20 best legendary cards
- Pathfinder: Wrath of the Righteous pits humanity against a demon invasion
- Where to dance on Mounts H7, F8, and Kay in Fortnite
- How fast cars and speed demons influenced Tim Schafer's career
- The outrage over Warcraft 3: Reforged, explained
February 3
- PAX East’s hardcore Acer Predator Gaming After Party returns for its 5th year
- What did you play last week?
February 2
- Five new Steam games you probably missed (February 3, 2020)
- Great moments in PC gaming: Burning Rome to the ground in Total War
February 1
- What achievement did you go to ridiculous lengths for?
- Crapshoot: Leisure Suit Larry 2 and its many unavoidable deaths
- Blizzard doesn't trust us to ban Overwatch heroes, but will it do a better job?