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- September 29
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- How to turn Counter-Strike into a rollercoaster with Garry's Mod
- Ubisoft laments "knee-jerk, uninformed" reactions to Splinter Cell: Blacklist
- Steam "Top Sellers" list now counts to 100, read our feeble attempt at deconstructing the data
- Gearbox already brainstorming for Borderlands 3
- Valve's advice on getting an industry job: "Give yourself one"
- Weekend Game Deals - September 28, 2012
- September 28
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- Release party: Offensive Combat, I Am Weapon, Carrier Command, and more
- Total War: Shogun 2 Steam Workshop is live, mod tools and modders' wiki released
- Trent Oster suggests fan negativity may have proved "just too much" for Bioware doctors
- Mount & Blade 2: Bannerlord announced with tiny teaser trailer
- Football Manager 2013 release date announced, pre-orders come with beta access
- DayZ standalone will be out this year, "and it's going to be cheap"
- Titan's team is over 100 people
- Unreal Tournament 2004 custom bots pass a deathmatch Turing test
- Notch: Microsoft should "stop ruining" PC as an open platform
- Carmageddon Max Pack careens onto GOG for $10
- Far Cry 3 takes "huge inspiration" from The Elder Scrolls
- September 27
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- Total War: Shogun 2 to get Steam Workshop support, deeper mod tools planned
- Need for Speed: Most Wanted PC comes with many DX11 frills, supports more players online
- Flare: a free open source RPG with tons of potential
- Oculus Rift dev kit pre-orders available now, first batch to ship in January
- Battlelog developer bought by EA, will "focus all of its energy" on the Battlefield series
- The Secret World Cat God update adds new missions, halloween event approaching
- Far Cry 3 system specs revealed
- Call of Duty: Black Ops zombie co-op campaign teased by trailer
- Little Inferno release date confirmed - the new game from World of Goo dev
- Today's other news: Far Cry 3, Black Ops 2, Guild Wars 2, and more
- September 26
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- Dead Space 3 video trips the fright fantastic with 17-minute single-player run
- How to not lose an armor a leg: Paradox completes War of the Roses mini-documentary
- World of Tanks patch 8.0 overhauls visuals, physics, tank behavior
- Thief 2 and System Shock 2 unofficial patches fix bugs and add widescreen support
- Runescape puts botters on trial in Botany Bay and lets players decide their fate
- IndieGamesStand goes live, offers Escape Goat for your consideration
- Subscribe to PC Gamer UK and get a Mionix mouse worth £50
- Homeworld 2 Complex mod 8.2.4 released
- Wargame: European Escalation goes on sale, gets free DLC
- Assassin's Creed 3 system requirements appear, render the American Revolution on 2GB RAM
- Today's other news: Resident Evil 6, Borderlands 2, Orcs Must Die! 2, and more
- Cryptic decrypts Neverwinter's Foundry system
- Bayonetta developer Platinum ponders push onto PC
- September 25
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- Torchlight 2 Embermage Build Guide
- Cryptic: Reviews "don't do a great justice" to MMOs
- Realism Theater: Convoy Shootout
- GamrRank quantifies your awesomeness across platforms. Limited-time beta access link inside!
- Updated: Steam active users graph flatlines after prolonged routine maintenance
- Dishonored: Tales From Dunwall sets scene for game in new animated online series
- 3D Realms to raise money for Earth No More via new corporate-minded Kickstarter site
- Splinter Cell Blacklist trailer features problematic interpretation of the word 'freedom'
- Minecraft Biomes O' Plenty mod adds 30 new areas, from marsh to mountain
- Google on gamers - how we search
- First-person puzzler Kairo gets demo, release date
- Battlefield 3 Armored Kill out today for non-Premium players
- Borderlands 2 bug resets Badass Rank to zero
- The making of Dota 2's Aegis of Champions, plus premium WETA replicas
- Today's other news: The Light, Left 4 Dead 2, The Secret World, Saints Row: The Third, and more
- Borderlands 2 player hits max level in just 43 hours
- Insane mod turns Mount & Blade into anime zombie survival game
- September 24
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- Professional Counter-Strike 1.6 player clinches tournament win with X-ray kills
- World of Warcraft: Mists Of Pandaria review in progress (Update 8 - Dungeon Griping)
- Guild Wars 2 introductory video shows the ropes for new and returning players
- Return to rust: Beneath a Steel Sky 2 confirmed
- World of Warcraft: Mists of Pandaria video heralds launch with tour of everything
- XCOM: Enemy Unknown demo released
- Mark of the Ninja sneaks onto Steam on 16 October, trailer inside
- World of Warcraft: Mists of Pandaria goodies galore giveaway
- Blizzard "looking at free to play as an option" for StarCraft 2 multiplayer
- Slender: The Arrival is the follow up to Slender: The Eight pages, first screenshots
- Cortex Command coming to Steam this week, massive new video
- Killing Floor gets Steam Workshop support, Red Orchestra 2 Steam Workshop support incoming
- Gearbox: More Borderlands 2 DLC incoming
- September 22
- September 21
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- Chivalry: Medieval Warfare trailer sets release date with reverse cut thrust
- ArenaNet to integrate Google Authenticator for Guild Wars 2 account security
- Arkane: Dishonored play testers "didn't know what to do," needed more hints
- Buy our MechWarrior Online issue, get a free mech skin and Coconut Monkey bobblehead
- Total War Darthmod creator retires
- Left 4 Dead 2 Steam Workshop support will let players trade mutations, maps and weapons
- Sleeping Dogs' October DLC releases include street racing, SWAT, and strategic soldiers
- Torchlight 2 demo out now, Runic explain budget pricing: "we want a bigger community"
- Diablo 3 patch 1.05 notes detail Monster Power, Infernal Machine, class and monster updates
- EA: Reinvigorated PES "keeps us all on our toes"
- Today's other news: Mass Effect 3 weekend event, Assassin's Creed 3 diary, trains, and more
- Painkiller: Hell and Damnation administers a double dose
- Quadrilateral Cowboy gameplay video shows godly hacking powers
- September 20
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- Runic: Possible Torchlight MMO wouldn't have traditional design
- League of Legends Honor system promotes positive reinforcement
- Company of Heroes 2 tiered pre-order bonuses unlock TF2 hats, in-game currency, and more
- Battlefield 10-year anniversary promotion discounts Battlefield 3 and other games to $10
- Meet Borderlands 2's most annoying gun
- Love+ is all the retro platforming you need
- Skywind mod to port Morrowind into the Skyrim engine, first videos and screenshots released
- Patterns: building and exploration in a world of triangles, physics, and more triangles
- Borderlands 2 ten hour 'Torque' DLC rumoured
- R18+ legislation passed by NSW
- Today's other news: Black Ops 2 zombies, Project Eternity coming to GOG, and more
- Bethesda: reaction to Oblivion's Horse Armor DLC was a lesson about value
- Get the Torchlight II and Black Mesa soundtracks for no dollars
- September 19
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- Neverwinter Guardian class trailer shows diverse abilities, agile tanking through careful timing
- End of Nations final closed beta event starts October 4
- Obsidian reportedly approached by publishers looking to exploit Kickstarter
- How to find Borderlands 2's Minecraft Easter egg
- Disabled Guild Wars 2 player livestreams his inspiring gaming dedication
- PlanetSide 2's Matt Higby talks membership benefits and pay-to-win
- Crusader Kings Chronicle, part 2: 1076 - 1086 A.D.
- Capcom: "When [ports] get treated as trivial, you end up with Resident Evil 4 PC"
- SOE president: "people that don't play games have no business in this business"
- Vampires! A supernatural puzzler that doesn't suck
- Sir, You Are Being Hunted update talks AI and stealth, shows new hunting grounds
- Saints Row: The Third free weekend incoming
- Valve hardware beta planned for the coming year, wearable computing "two to five" years out
- New Mass Effect game, old Mass Effect DLC and all-new IP confirmed by BioWare
- Paradox outlines vision for March of the Eagles in developer diary
- Quest for Glory creators to crowdfund fantasy adventure Hero-U: Rogue Rally
- September 18
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- Anodyne features top-down, 16-bit nostalgia and free demo
- Sang-Froid: Tales of Werewolves pits manly lumberjacks against slavering wolfpacks
- The Old Republic consolidates all players to high-population servers
- DC Universe Online Hand of Fate expansion zaps into existence
- The PC Gamer Character Name Repository: a cure for Naming Paralysis
- BioWare co-founders Ray Muzyka and Greg Zeschuk retire
- Team Fortress 2's item economy helped Valve's "long-term survival"
- Humble Indie Bundle 6 launches with Torchlight, Dustforce, Rochard, S.P.A.Z., and more
- Mists of Pandaria interview with Greg "Ghostcrawler" Street
- Diablo 3 Monster Power mode to give players "a lot more control over the difficulty of the game"
- Lone Survivor dev hints at next game: "...it may be Zelda x Dark Souls"
- Why Driver: San Francisco should win a Golden Joystick
- Reinstalling Unreal, Epic Games' forgotten masterpiece
- Arma community sets up support site for devs arrested on spying charges
- Epic's Cliff Bleszinski on open-world Unreal, Jazz Jackrabbit reboot likelihood and DayZ
- Project Eternity update reveals more on characters, parties, and player-driven storytelling
- Of Orcs and Men screenshots confirm that it isn't easy being green
- September 17
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- Funcom: "We definitely have the tools" for free-to-play Secret World
- Borderlands 2 is out tonight: launch trailer derails hero train, reiterates made-up number
- ArenaNet takes a tempered stance on Guild Wars 2 dungeon balancing
- Uprising44 combines action and strategy set during the Warsaw Uprising
- Direct control and extra visual effects added to Gratuitous Space Battles
- Starcraft 2 in every school: Blizzard's eSports director interviewed
- Dragon Age 3: Inquisition announced, due late next year
- PlanetSide 2 beta: Galaxy spawns to be nerfed and other "things we've learned in beta"
- Dark Souls mod enables 60fps
- Probability 0: an endless roguelike platformer that wants you dead
- Project Eternity smashes Kickstarter target, stretch goals ahoy
- Arma 3 devs detained in Greece were tourists, espionage accusations "completely false" say BI
- X-Plane devs sued by Uniloc for patent infringement
- September 15
- September 14
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- Guild Wars 2 patch brings profession adjustments as ArenaNet discusses balance
- Oddworld: Stranger's Wrath HD saunters onto Steam
- StarCraft II: Heart of the Swarm beta patch: Warhound gets the boot, Carrier welcomed back
- Obsidian announces fantasy RPG Project Eternity
- Love gets private servers, PC Gamer to host first
- Planetary Annihilation Kickstarter now over $2 million, Uber is livestreaming the last 2 hours
- FTL: Faster Than Light launches on Steam
- The Free Webgame Round-up
- Black Mesa Source released - download it now!
- Minecon 2012 tickets now on sale
- Bundle In A Box gets spaced out with new games, pay-what-you-want-pricing
- Guild Wars 2 developers talk endgame content
- Valve demos 99% working Portal turret, lacks only firepower and spark of life (maybe)
- Tribes: Ascend Marksman update adds Sentinel gear, 100% inheritance Blinksfusor, Rage tweaks
- BioWare testing new tech for higher server populations in The Old Republic
- September 13
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- Guild Wars 2 sells over 2 million copies in first two weeks
- PlanetSide 2 status update covers new continents and performance improvements
- From Baldur's Gate to Dragon Age - a classic RPG cinematic gets a new dimension
- AbleGamers' "Includification" offers games industry advice on accessible design
- GeForce GTX 660 and 650 launch: Nvidia's sub £200/$250 Kepler polygon pushers are here
- Infinity Ward to play 24 hour charity gaming marathon for Children's Miracle Hospital
- Steam Linux client release looks imminent - games and beta spotted
- The Stanley Parable HD goes for the Greenlight (but does Steam have a choice about it?)
- September 12
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- The Secret World Issue #2 update adds new cosmetic features, rocket launcher from Hell [UPDATED]
- Realms of Ancient War trailer shows off co-op, colorful selection disks
- Valve seeks spooky submissions for Scream Fortress 2 Halloween event
- Legend of Grimrock Dungeon Editor enters public beta
- Viewsonic projectors: now powered by lasers
- Diablo III inches closer to PvP with (currently still inactive) button of hope
- Ubisoft looking to join digital distribution battle with third-party game sales on Uplay
- Qbeh: a free block-based puzzler inspired by Portal and Minecraft
- Swedish Indie Pack, currently 81% off on Steam
- IndieGameStand offers constant sales, free game for anyone who signs up now
- Steam finally adds choice of installation drive
- EVE Online top player was US official killed in Libya
- Borderlands 2 Mechromancer DLC priced
- Pro Pinball series caroms onto Kickstarter with free Big Race USA download
- September 11
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- Alkaizer is first player in the world to hit level 100 in Diablo 3's Paragon system
- World of Warcraft gets new TV commercials, teases Season 12 armor sets
- First set of 10 Greenlight games approved for Steam - includes Black Mesa, NMRiH
- BioWare pledges six-week content update schedule for Star Wars: The Old Republic
- American McGee reveals Akaneiro, a free-to-play action RPG - trailer inside
- Funcom lays off The Secret World's lead designer
- League of Legends launch guide: Syndra the Dark Sovereign
- World of Warcraft may secretly include your account name and server IP in screenshots
- Fifa 13 demo available for quick kickaround
- Medal of Honor Warfighter Deluxe/Limited buyers bag bin Laden based bonus bundle
- Gentrieve 2: a Metroid Prime-inspired FPS with procedurally generated worlds, puzzles and foes
- Steam big picture mode - we kick the tyres of Valve's TV-friendly refit
- Bad Trip: artist videos a year of his life, embeds memories in bleak, weird art game
- Wing Commander creator Chris Roberts returns to gaming, brings space combat back with him
- What's inside Peter Molyneux's Cube? Sneak a peek in this week's Curiosity beta tests
- Bohemia Interactive devs arrested for "spying"
- Guild Wars 2 proudly unveils worst trailer of the year, including that one you're thinking of
- IndieFort Bundle: create your own package deal from a list of 24 games
- Skyrim hits 10,000 mods in Steam Workshop
- Sony Online Entertainment announces EverQuest II: Chains of Eternity expansion
- September 10
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- Amnesia developer on piracy: "screw it"
- Mysterious "Project X" teaser appears on Obsidian's website
- New Black Mesa screenshots show off iconic aliens, unlucky soldiers
- You can permanently lose items purchased with real money in The War Z
- Report: EA considered buying Valve, company would more likely "disintegrate" says Newell
- Command & Conquer will have a single-player campaign according to EA's Frank Gibeau
- XCOM: Enemy Unknown: Sid Meier not the only heroic game developer cameo
- Qrth-phyl released: mind-melting 3D snake game comes as $5 bundle with dev's previous work
- Valve's Michael Abrash examines the future of virtual and augmented reality
- Steam Marines: get killed by robots in squad-based sci-fi roguelike. Ooh-raaargh!
- Fan-made Battlestar Galactica game released for free
- Play Grand Theft Auto IV as an elephant. Or a dragon. Or with the Slender Man.
- Games are now Kickstarter's biggest category, exploding by 1,392% over last year
- Sleeping Dogs mod adds first-person perspective, TrackIR support
- Borderlands 2 skill trees detailed in funky web-app
- Black Ops 2 multiplayer leak video shows 'finger guns'
- September 9
- September 8
- September 7
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- XCOM: Enemy Unknown system specs, Steam pre-purchase rewards detailed
- PlanetSide 2 Alpha Squad package gives beta access, exclusive items
- Love is free: Eskil Steenberg's dreamlike strategic FPS available to download now
- Planetary Annihilation gets new stretch goal: galactic war
- Terra Militaris Firearms expansion trailer shows gunpowder, giant blue ogres
- Mount and Blade: Warband Napoleonic Wars update adds ten maps, releases full source code
- Super Crate Box sneaks onto Steam, play for free
- Watch the PC Gamer PAX panel featuring Minecraft, DayZ, The Walking Dead, Bastion, and XCOM: Enemy Unknown
- Trials Evolution: Gold Edition motors onto PC early 2013
- September 6
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- Thunder Wolves debut trailer shows helicopter hellions, lack of accountability
- Modern Warfare 3 Chaos Pack releases next week
- Players rally in protest against City of Heroes' closure
- Marvel Heroes soars into closed beta in October
- Valve removes Seduce Me from Steam Greenlight for "offensive material"
- The Mighty Quest for Epic Loot to offer user-made dungeon crawls
- I Am Alive PC port releases one week early on Steam
- SOE announces Player Studio: create and sell in-game items for EverQuest, PlanetSide 2
- Epic Games setting up shop in Seattle
- Broken Sword hits Kickstarter goals, stretch goals promise Beneath A Steel Sky 2 for $1m
- Super Hexagon: a super lurid hexagasm from the creator of VVVVVV
- Football Manager 2013 announced - video reveals new features
- PES 2013 release date is September 21
- Call of Juarez: Gunslinger goes back to the Wild, Wild West
- Wasteland 2 video shows stompy scorpion, a little bit of zooming
- Nevermind tests your stress control with biofeedback-fueled terror
- Red Orchestra 2: Rising Storm gameplay trailer patrols the Pacific Theater
- Natural Selection 2 pre-order slithers onto Steam for October release
- Middle-Earth Roleplaying Project mod for Skyrim petitions WB to revoke cease and desist
- September 5
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- Rift: Storm Legion expansion gets release date
- Get your face into CD Projekt Red's next game
- Far Cry 3 video tour continues with guns, hostages, and manic mushrooms
- StarCraft II: Heart of the Swarm beta has hatched
- Blizzard discusses incoming crowd control changes in Diablo 3 patch 1.0.5
- Notch on 0x10c: "I might possibly start over, because…it's not fun."
- Steam Greenlight's $100 entry-fee: indie devs respond
- Fallout 1 and 2 dev on storytelling and Fallout 3 vs New Vegas
- Minecraft UN Block By Block project to help young people redesign their neighbourhoods
- EA boss boasts: "I have not green lit one game to be developed as a singleplayer experience"
- Ubisoft renounces always-on DRM for PC - Assassin's Creed 3 confirmed playable offline
- Steam Greenlight gets submission fee, smaller rating queue
- World of Warcraft: Mists of Pandaria official launch parties announced
- Assassin's Creed 3 designer: "A lot of games have been ruined by easy modes"
- StarCraft 2 at PAX Prime 2012
- The War Z's Colorado map size detailed
- Cypher revisits classic text-based gaming with a classic cyberpunk style
- September 4
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- ArenaNet repairs Guild Wars 2 Trading Post, tussles with ongoing grouping problems
- New screenshots for The Cave show cavernous carnivals, levers and such
- Tera downsizing to three servers this month
- Valve launches new Steam Community with added features
- Battlefield 3 update rebalances weapons, prepares for Armoured Kill
- Call of Duty: Black Ops 2 system requirements and enhanced PC features detailed
- Assassin's Creed 3 multiplayer to tell ongoing story with monthly challenges
- Dark Souls director ponders easy mode, wants survival to be "satisfying rather than difficult,"
- September 3
