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- February 28
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- 'The point is to be generous': This $20 FPS releasing next month is trying something new—giving away a full version of the game
- I wish Monster Hunter Wilds' open world and changing seasons were ambitious enough to justify its PC performance woes, but they've yet to truly wow me
- I did not expect the most promising turn-based tactics game of Steam Next Fest to star the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, but here we are
- You probably don't remember Remember Me, but its one brilliantly unforgettable idea lives on
- While everyone's getting all excited or angry about all these new GPUs, I'd just like to remind everyone that graphics settings exist
- Tales of Seikyu is just your regular farming simulator, apart from the fact I've got shapeshifting abilities and I'm engaged to a pretty persistent kappa
- I played 83 Steam Next Fest demos and these are my top 5
- Monster Hunter Wilds: Best PC settings for graphics and performance
- February 27
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- Drop Duchy is an unholy fusion of city builder, roguelike deckbuilder, and Tetris, and you can try it for free right now
- This cosy birdwatching idle game has me leaving behind my binoculars and enjoying the hobby from the comfort of my desktop
- You've got to try these 5 brilliant free roguelike deckbuilder game demos before Steam NextFest ends on March 3
- WoW players should try Fellowship's dungeon-only take on MMOs—it's like a fast and breezy version of WoW's party play
- February 26
- February 25
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- Monster Hunter Wilds' new cooking system is a win for balance, but there's a Meowscular Chef-shaped hole in my heart
- This Sims 2 mod makes all your sims very horny but that's not actually the best part
- Avowed's inert cities remind me just how good we had it in Skyrim and Oblivion
- New leak claims AMD's upcoming RX 9070 XT GPU hits over 3.2 GHz and could be an overclocking beast
- As a lapsed 4,500 hour veteran of Dota 2, the big new Wandering Waters update has lured me back—but despite the changes, the game still feels stuck in its ways
- Desktop pets are so back, baby!
- MSI B850 motherboards: The best choice for work or play
- February 24
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- Mecha Break could be the big multiplayer mech game you've been waiting for—if you can stomach the monetization
- Sea of Thieves in space? Not quite, but Jump Ship replicates a lot of the things that make Rare's pirate sandbox so fun
- Bad news for portable Monster Hunter Wilds hopefuls: the Steam Deck can't manage 30 fps, even in maximum potato mode
- This cheat mod makes The Sims 2 feel like a god game and it turns out I am a cruel, cruel god
- Immersive sci-fi FPS Skin Deep feels like Prey by way of Looney Tunes
- Five new Steam games you probably missed (February 24, 2025)
- February 22
- February 21
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- Done with apocalypses, the new game from XCOM creator Julian Gollop is a bright, Brutal Legend-style action-strategy inspired by Pikmin and Clash Royale
- RPGs like Avowed need to stop letting me steal everything that isn't nailed down
- In Shotgun Cop Man you are a man who looks like a thumb and has gone to Hell to arrest Satan
- Is This Seat Taken? is an upcoming adorable puzzle game all about dealing with stinky triangles and snotty squares, and just trying to make everyone happy
- February 20
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- Dune: Awakening: Everything we know about Funcom's survival MMO
- Ray tracing is quickly becoming inescapable and I think it's time we bit the bullet and embraced it
- Looking to get creative and customize your own PC accessories? Check out Elegoo's Centauri Carbon 3D printer
- PlayerUnknown's upcoming game Prologue: Go Wayback! is full of grand ambitions, but there's still a lot of room for this survival game to grow
- The homebrew Dungeons & Dragons 5E CRPG alternative returns, with a demo you can play right now
- The price gouging of Nvidia's RTX 5070 Ti is utterly grotesque
- February 19
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- D&D's new Monster Manual is gorgeous and filled with welcome variety—but even with a full system revamp, WoTC's still leaving too much important work to its DMs
- Delta Force's Black Hawk Down campaign is a bizarrely slow, serious complement to the popcorn multiplayer mode
- RoadCraft isn't just another demanding offroad sim for petrol heads – it sated my desire to micromanage production lines too
- Avowed's in-dialogue glossary isn't that new, really—it's just somehow not industry-standard yet, though it could solve the 'amnesiac/prisoner RPG protagonist' problem forever
- Avowed's first zone of Dawnshore is the anti-Hinterlands: A fantastic first impression that I didn't mind sinking 16 hours into
- Avowed is overrun with bears and I need to find out why
- February 18
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- Avowed lets you pretend your character's not a stinky mushroom person, but that's the coward's choice
- Stories from Sol: The Gun-Dog captures the spirit, as well as the sprites, of the past
- Sorry, ROG Flow Z13, but after a weekend with you I don't see the point in a gaming tablet
- Morbid curiosity made me swap from Chrome to Opera's 'gaming browser' but its early 2000s custom ringtone vibes give me the ick
- Make sure to sleep regularly in Avowed—if you don't, you could miss out on lore, quests, and magic items
- A long-awaited RPG release hits PC Game Pass Day One this month
- Having spent many hours testing Avowed I've found these three top tips are the best way to boost the game's performance
- February 17
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- February 14
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- Avowed succeeds where Dragon Age: The Veilguard failed: An actionized, beginner-friendly entry point to a long-running series that doesn't sacrifice its identity
- 'A hellish nightmare': Remembering the most famous Civilization game ever played, Civ 2's 'Eternal War'
- Fishing minigames are the worst and I'm not afraid to say it
- I finally understand why all those Soulslike bosses hated me so much, thanks to The Dark Queen of Mortholme, which pits you up against some plucky upstart who just keeps coming back
- It's worth subscribing to Warhammer+ for a month just to marathon the animations, then cancel your sub
- February 13
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- Skyrim stealth archers and NCR Ranger wannabes rejoice: I'm 45 hours into Avowed's hardest difficulty as a glass cannon gunslinger and I've loved every minute of it
- Unreal Engine often gets flak for games running poorly or stuttering, but as Avowed demonstrates, it's really about how devs use it and the pressures of time
- Avowed's low frame rates but smooth-feeling gameplay makes me wonder if we PC gamers worry too much about the numbers
- The first thing you should do in Avowed is make a beeline for this badass flaming sword
- Monster Hunter Wilds PC performance: From Nvidia's latest, past AMD's greatest, to Intel's failing silicon, this is what the game does to PCG's own rigs
- Avowed PC performance analysis: Sometimes good, sometimes bad, frequently odd
- Avowed launch times, release date, and advance access period
- Using the State of Play showcase to announce a remaster of Days Gone makes it feel like Sony has graduated to deliberately trolling Bloodborne sickos for kicks
- February 12
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- Overwatch 2's new third-person Stadium mode breaks every Overwatch rule in the book, and it's about time
- This tabletop RPG has one of the cleverest ways of teaching you the rules I've ever seen—and it's inspired by a D&D set from over 40 years ago
- 3 hours with Elden Ring Nightreign helped me accept it's not the co-op FromSoft game I asked for, but damn fun in its own right
- Killing Floor 3 is an unapologetic throwback to the gory days of the horde shooter
- February 11
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- The Steam Deck 2 doesn't need to happen because Valve will win either way (though I hope it does)
- I played the final preview build of Monster Hunter Wilds, and the 2 beasts I hunted were the best kind of absolute freaks
- How Dishonored and Deathloop led to a mesmerising indie horror game about tending to a monstrous train
- February 10
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- Civilization VII is almost here: Hear the big changes the developers have in store
- There is one thing making me excited about the new Nvidia RTX 5070 Ti and no, it isn't Multi Frame Generation
- Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2's 'follow NPC' toggle should be mandatory in all videogames, with a jail sentence for developers not using it
- Magic: The Gathering's interplanar Wacky Wheels set is good actually
- February 9
- February 8
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- Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2 turns boring fast travel into a thing of beauty
- We're in a golden age of spy TV shows, but I have to play a 14-year-old MMO to get my videogame espionage kicks
- Heart of the Machine is Crusader Kings for speculative sci-fi nerds, flipping the script on the cult AI War series
- I spent too long playing the Cyberpunk 2077 mod that turns V's hands into feet, and now I genuinely think it's what's great about PC gaming
- February 7
- February 6
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- Unique items in Path of Exile 2 need to take more inspiration from Grim Dawn's diarrhea pants
- Journey to the Industrial Era with our custom-modded Civilization VII PC
- Eight months into the brave new world of Windows on ARM, and this is the state of play for PC gaming outside of the x86 arena
- This no-vidia gaming PC is a great example of how small design decisions can make it feel like you're building a PC on easy-mode
- I've already spent 25 hours with this idle game where an adorable grass-cutting frog keeps me company on my desktop, and it's safe to say I'm obsessed
- Where the AF are all the graphics cards?! It's not just the new RTX 50-series that's impossible to buy, finding any decent GPU in stock at the major US retailers right now is like staring into an abyss of nothing
- The best Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2 mods: unlimited quicksaves, increased carry weight, instant herb-pickin'
- February 5
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- The Sims 2 has the most unhinged drama in the entire series that finally seduced me away from my beloved Build Mode
- Civilization 7 early access unlock time and release date
- Virtua Fighter 5 R.E.V.O. isn't just a PC port of a 19-year-old game: it's the reason a diehard fighting game community can 'finally reach out and play with each other across the world'
- EA has learned all the wrong lessons from Dragon Age: The Veilguard, and it's going to be disastrous for the future of Mass Effect 5—if it even has a future
- February 4
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- I messed up so bad in Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2 that I was literally branded a criminal and hours later I'm still shunned by society
- Tokyo Xtreme Racer brings heart, soul, and sweet handbrake turns back to the genre just when it needed them most
- Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2 is proof, if any was ever needed, that you don't need the latest graphics technology to have a great-looking game that also runs well
- February 3
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- Spirit Swap: Lofi Beats to Match-3 To is a chill haven where problems melt away
- This month's PC Game Pass offering features sweet RPGs and brutal actioners from the Far East
- Not even the most powerful gaming PC is going to get around Civilization 7's ridiculously variable performance
- Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2 performance analysis—scalable frame rates, decent graphics, and barely a stutter in sight
- Civilization 7 PC performance analysis: Playable on lots of systems but the late game will grind down whatever CPU you have
- February 2
- February 1
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- The PC game releases we're most excited about in February
- I'm a Baldur's Gate 3 Honour Mode sicko, and these are the 4 new subclass builds I'm most excited for in Patch 8
- Put Tony Hawk's Pro Skater, Hades and Risk of Rain in a blender and you get Helskate, plus a whole lot of jank
- I've navigated Marvel Rivals' chaotic ranked play and dragged myself out of Plat hell, which means it's time to start preparing to do it all over again next season
