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June 2024

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June 29
- BroShep's voice actor played so many weird alien side characters in Mass Effect he doesn't mind if people prefer FemShep: 'I'm afraid you'll be forced to encounter me as Niftu Cal and Blasto and any vorcha you run into'
June 28
- PC gaming is mainstream. Now what?
- Need an upgrade? Here’s why your next gaming PC should be a Lenovo Legion powered by Intel
- I keep getting lost on my way home from trading wood to trolls and giving crystals to chickens in this strange but cosy survival game
- Zenless Zone Zero is an exciting blend of Persona 5 and Street Fighter, but I worry whether it'll be able to sustain itself in miHoYo's modern mold
- Finally, another chaotic animal game that has given me the same sadistic satisfaction as Untitled Goose Game
- AMD's Zen 5 APUs are mighty on paper but could've been made mightier and AI is partly to blame
- Aloft is a stunning skybound survival game that's soaring towards Early Access
- Shadow of the Erdtree shows that modern FromSoft's concept of 'a challenge' relies too heavily on boss fights
- The best deals in the 2024 Steam Summer Sale
June 27
- Concord seems under-anticipated: Sony's hero shooter has some juice
- The handheld gaming PC market is already oversaturated
June 26
- Shadow of the Erdtree's brutal difficulty spike is what happens when you inject Dark Souls into Elden Ring
- Shadow of the Erdtree's dense, dungeon-heavy map made me wish again (in spite of its upsides) that Elden Ring didn't go open world
- As Black Desert Online celebrates its tenth anniversary, Pearl Abyss reveals the future of its MMO lies thousands of years in the past
- Chillblast's Edge range of gaming PCs will take you to the next level
- The 10 defining events of PC gaming's golden decade
June 25
- Diablo 4 Season 4 dragged me back despite the rampant overgrowth of currencies to keep track of
- Warframe pregnancy: A PC Gamer special report
- RPG expansions that offer seemingly endless adventures? Sorcerian did that 36 years ago
- Supervive is a surprisingly deep MOBA-style battle royale that could be your next game for life
- With Doom: The Dark Ages, id Software is still searching for what made the original great, and I hope it never finds it
- Beyond Good and Evil's remaster is the easiest way to play the game in 2024, just a shame it's also the ugliest
- Elden Ring: Shadow of the Erdtree's NPCs are one of the few flaws in FromSoftware's RPG diamond
- Guild Wars 2's new player housing will add a hang-out for your alts, a stable for your mounts, and comes with a massive overhaul to the decorations system
- Witchcraft simulator REKA has everything I could ever want as a witch's apprentice, like mushroom foraging, an army of crows, and oh yeah—a customisable chicken-legged cabin
June 24
- 'Maybe this new Stardew Valley-like game is pretty good' I said to myself after blearily noticing I'd played it until 2 in the morning
- Shadow of the Erdtree's bosses are a delightful new tier of suffering—but threaten to make Elden Ring a worse RPG
- Dustborn let me smash fascists and flirt with my situationship on a road trip across America
- MSI’s slashing its laptop prices through June, so if you’re thinking of upgrading now’s the time
- Elden Ring: Shadow of the Erdtree is peak FromSoftware, with everything players complained about in the base game dialed up to 11 in the funniest way possible
- Five new Steam games you probably missed (June 24, 2024)
June 22
- The PC Gamer team has collectively spent hundreds of hours playing Elden Ring: Shadow of the Erdtree, and we still have no idea what the deal is with the glowing blue wormy guy
June 21
- Finally, a game that captures the best part of my old book store job: making the perfect book rec
- Spare a thought for the 60% of us who can't join you all in Shadow of the Erdtree because we never beat Mohg
- If you only try one of Elden Ring: Shadow of the Erdtree's new weapons, make it Dryleaf Arts
- This van life-themed unpacking game promised me pure relaxation, but I got so angry about a paella pan it kept me up at night
June 20
- 10 Elden Ring: Shadow of the Erdtree tips to help you survive in the Land of Shadow
- Dune: Awakening is threatening to turn me into a survival MMO guy after a lifetime as a devoted videogame hermit
- Bit Reactor has a Star Wars tactical strategy game in the works, 15 XCOM veterans on its team, and an ambitious vision for the future of the genre
- Sad times: The big Shadow of the Erdtree Elden Ring patch is still tarnished with micro-stutter. And it's not always that micro
June 19
- Elden Ring: Shadow of the Erdtree unlock times and release date
- Don't make my mistake by starting Elden Ring: Shadow of the Erdtree with your cheesy, OP NG+ build
- Early access MMO Pax Dei has launched without its most exciting features, so it needs to convince players to stick around
- Cozy hobbit game Tales of the Shire won me over with a subtly brilliant feature I've never seen in a farm life sim before
- The ideal desk fan for a PC builder: I've kept the best of Britain's lacklustre summer away with Noctua's quiet, effective and pricey desk fan
- Hyper Light Breaker brought back all my memories of Dark Souls' greatest boss, and it instantly became one of my favourite demos at Summer Game Fest
- Forget all the AI fluff—some serious next-gen CPUs are on their way, praise the sun
June 18
- Shadow of the Erdtree review roundup: 'Recaptures all of the magic of playing Elden Ring for the first time'
- The new D&D core books feature nearly 400 spells and over 500 monsters, but disappointingly few new ideas
- Shadow of the Erdtree is bigger than most full games: Hidetaka Miyazaki must've been pulling our legs when he said its map was 'comparable' to the size of Limgrave
- EA's Skate might have Tim Robinson, but the skating game where I played a demon on a quest to eat the Moon is my most anticipated Tony Hawk-like this year
- The solid-state AirJet cooler 'not bound by the limitations of mechanical devices' aims to double its thermal performance every two years. Y'know, Frore's Law
June 17
- Five new Steam games you probably missed (June 17, 2024)
June 16
- My first 2 hours with Black Myth: Wukong were a flurry of demanding boss fights, unbelievably pretty characters, and a surprisingly sparse world
- The newest soulslike on the block, Enotria: The Last Song needs a bit more rehearsal time
June 15
- Great moments in PC gaming: Choosing your origin in Dragon Age Origins
June 14
- Cover story: Shadow of the Erdtree is the culmination of decades of FromSoftware RPGs, and a gargantuan finale for Elden Ring
- GreedFall 2 is setting its sights high, hitting all the CRPG tropes at once
- Grid-based puzzle game Prickle may look simple, but it's an adorable test of endurance
- Retesting Ghost of Tsushima with a fresh Arc A770 shows that Intel has a mountain to climb to compete against AMD and Nvidia
June 13
- Xbox isn't a console anymore, it's a multiplatform game development giant
- Let's pour one out for these no-shows we were desperate to see during Summer Game Fest
- A follow-up to the legendary Disco Elysium might have been ready to play within the next year⁠—ZA/UM's devs loved it, management canceled it and laid off the team: 'For a while it seemed like miracles were possible, and with them redemption'
- Oh no, now I like another Magic: The Gathering format I have to keep up with
June 12
- Heart of the Machine is the most exciting thing happening in the 4X genre, and you can try it now
- Monster Hunter Wilds looks like exactly the evolution of World I hoped for
- I played Citizen Sleeper 2: Starward Vector and talked to its creator about quests that 'don't give you the dragon money', Mass Effect 2 as an 'anti-reference', and making RPGs that aren't based on D&D
- Fallout 76's Skyline Valley update expands the map into new beautiful areas, but I'm just happy to have more cults to fight and weird stories to uncover
- The battle for the heart of next-gen handheld gaming PCs: AMD's Strix Point versus Intel's Lunar Lake
- Dragon Age: The Veilguard's gameplay reveal emphasises just how terminally out of touch EA and BioWare have become
June 11
- Metaphor: ReFantazio feels like a fantasy Persona where no one was allowed to say no to the art team
- Larian already made the Dragon Age 4 I was hoping for
- Our 13 favorite games from the 2024 summer gaming showcases
- Kunitsu-Gami feels like a long-lost Capcom PS2 game, and I mean that as a sincere compliment
- With Veilguard, Dragon Age becomes what it was probably always destined to be: A Mass Effect game
June 10
- Metal Slug Tactics roguishly reinvents turn-based run-and-gun
- Assassin's Creed Shadows has the best-looking AC combat in ages, and I love that you can crawl through grass
- Star Wars Outlaws has the same problem as every modern Star Wars thing: Playing it way too safe
- How to watch Ubisoft Forward 2024
- There are so many great city builder demos on Steam right now, you can play 3 new ones every single day this week
- Beating the heat: Huge radiators, clever heatsinks and transparent water blocks were the order of the day at Computex 2024
- I thought I'd never get the same satisfaction from a creature collector as I did with Neko Atsume until I played Kamaeru: A Frog Refuge
June 9
- Every game, trailer, and announcement in the 2024 PC Gaming Show
- New city builder Generation Exile is a shot across the bow for both strategy game design and the gaming industry at large: 'It's simply not possible to keep expanding forever'
- Killing Floor 3 looks like essential co-op carnage and I can't wait to jump in with friends
- Grab a free month of PC Game Pass here while supplies last (update: they didn't last!)
- The 6 biggest reveals at the Xbox Games Showcase
- I played Stormgate's new faction with two of the world's top RTS players, but even they couldn't save me from my own ineptitude
- Everything we know about Stormgate's angelic Celestial Armada faction
- Fill out a quick PC Gaming Show survey for a chance to win a mighty $2,499 iBUYPOWER gaming PC
June 8
- The 5 best cozy game demos I tried from the Wholesome Games showcase
- The biggest announcements and trailers from the 2024 summer gaming showcases
- In classic E3 tradition, the cinematic reveal trailer for this new RTS is so cool I wish it was an anime instead of a game
- Fighting gamers are eating good: I've never been so happy to see the genre flourishing during Summer Game Fest
June 7
- The 10 best trailers from Summer Game Fest 2024
- After playing the deckbuilding RTS just revealed at Summer Game Fest, I believe in better, simpler realtime strategy
- An FPS series that dominated Chinese net cafes in the '90s is being revived: I tried it, and wound up breaking all the bones in my character's body
- Star Wars: Hunters is free-to-play junk food, but I wish it would come to PC just because I miss hero shooters
- I installed Fallout on my Android phone with this free app—and I'm amazed at how good it is
June 6
- Hello, PC gaming here: Are the consoles OK?
- AMD is right about AI PCs being 'the biggest change in the PC form factor in the last decade' but it's not because of AI
- Why I'm worried about Dragon Age: The Veilguard—and the Tiamat-sized RPG Baldur's Gate 3 looming over it is just the start
- Final Fantasy 14's low-poly grapes may have left us, but blocky food lives on in Dawntrail and I ranked them all because why not
- I can't believe I had to go back to regular crusty Final Fantasy 14 after witnessing Dawntrail's stunning graphical overhaul first-hand
- Mystery RAM slots, watercooled Nvidia GPUs, and dragons galore: The MSI booth was jam packed with PC gaming gear (and crowds) at Computex 2024
June 5
- I tried to recreate Marvel's Iron Man in this movie studio sim, and my version was so bad my own father stormed out of the theater
- The PC Gaming Show turns 10: Looking back at the biggest moments from each show
- The 4 biggest lore reveals in Elden Ring Shadow of the Erdtree's first few hours
- Meet the utterly sincere Fallout YouTuber who found his calling visiting the series' real-life locations wearing a Vault Boy head
- Mech tactics game Grit and Valor doesn't play much like Into the Breach, and that's a good thing
- The Final Shape's campaign is a major return to form for Destiny 2, and we'd all be saying it delivered if the servers had held it together
- We had 3 writers play Elden Ring: Shadow of the Erdtree: Here are 9 things one of us found but the others didn't
- From abandonware to zoning: 91 terms every PC gamer should know
June 4
- Wild Bastards takes every ingredient that made up BioShock's Irrational Games and blends it with cowboy beans
- The future of gaming belongs to weird little games
- 4 creative tips that will have you saying 'dag-dag' to your artistic slump
- Here's how Shadow of the Erdtree's new leveling system works
- After 3 hours with Shadow of the Erdtree, I can already tell it's going to deliver on my favorite thing about FromSoftware's games: Exploration
- Elden Ring: Shadow of the Erdtree's new martial arts moveset let me spin kick a boss so fast it felt like I was in Sekiro
- Elden Ring: Shadow of the Erdtree is PC Gamer's next cover story: Here's a sneak peek
- Pax Dei is an exciting 'social sandbox' from EVE alumni where you can be a medieval monarch, pope, or just make trousers all day—and it's out soon
- Test Drive Unlimited Solar Crown is the next open-world racer that seems destined for live service Hell
June 3
- It's hard to complain about 'hero shooter fatigue' when Concord looks this good
- It might be running in the 19-year-old GZDoom engine, but new cyberpunk FPS Selaco stands head and shoulders above its boomer shooter brethren
- The PC game releases we're most excited about in June
- Five new Steam games you probably missed (June 3, 2024)