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- January 31
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- The Indie Royale Evolved Bundle: set your price for Unmechanical, Krater, and more
- Dead Space 3 trailer shows story setup, slimy monster throat
- Grand Theft Auto V's release date announced, Rockstar's lips still sealed over PC
- Matul Remrit: the illustrated Dwarf Fortress story comes to an end
- Battlefield 3 End Game's Capture the Flag looks like ridiculous fun
- State of Play show off Lumino City, the handcrafted sequel to their gorgeous Lume
- Bioshock Infinite's City in the Sky trailer provides Comstock footage
- Dirty Bomb enters closed alpha, get instant access - for a price
- Paradox Con round-up: CK2's Pagan DLC, Showdown Effect beta and... Brian Blessed?
- Cooler Master HAF XB case: the ultimate PC test bench?
- Gabe Newell: Steam Box's biggest challenge is Apple, not consoles
- Duncan Jones tapped to direct Warcraft movie
- No more Medal of Honor: EA pulls from rotation due to poor reception
- January 30
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- BioShock Infinite level designer discusses "difficult challenge" of box art, cover backlash
- Dark Souls creator on future of franchise and focusing on fan needs
- Do video games make people violent?
- Blizzard: bringing eSports onto TV will appeal to mainstream audience
- The price is Smite: win Alienware kit and free in-game stuff in Vulcan's Craftsman Challenge
- Prison Architect Alpha6 update lets you know who to watch
- Star Trek Online three-year anniversary beams up guest appearance by Denise Crosby
- Defiance release date set for April, live action trailer deployed
- Antichamber's launch trailer throws convention out the window
- Ur Not A Hero, but you are a badass in this cover-based 2D action shooter
- Steam Greenlight updated, making it easier to manage your queue
- Game of Thrones' King's Landing recreated in Minecraft
- SimCity beta tested against real world city planning models
- Dead Space 3's executive producer defends PC's "straight port"
- Prince of Persia series is on 'pause', but not dead - Ubisoft Montreal CEO
- Sins of a Dark Age trailer shows Realm Quests, walking arrow pincushions
- The Atomontage Engine: tiny cubes never looked so good
- How Riot Games plans to evolve eSports in 2013
- Greg Zeschuk on leaving BioWare: "You just get tired of it after a while"
- January 29
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- Dean Hall on DayZ Origins mod: "There are some awesome ideas"
- EpiQuake mod updates sounds, music with high-quality recordings
- Grand Theft Auto IV mod brings Far Cry 3's Vaas into the concrete jungle
- Five terrific games from Global Game Jam 2013
- Firaxis discarded an "awful" XCOM prototype before developing Enemy Unknown
- Help beta test PC Gamer's new website feature!
- SimCity trailer shows Digital Deluxe contents, authentically British rain
- Steam concurrent users growing 300% faster than start of 2012, Dota 2 players rising steadily
- Like Knytt? Play this: Nifflas releases his Great Work for free
- Cities in Motion 2 trailer keeps the traffic flowing
- Rebellion tease new project, possible 2000AD connection
- Dead Space 3 trailer: a soundtrack worse than dubstep?
- Crytek form new studio, fill it with ex-Vigil staff
- CryEngine 3 video shows off Crysis 3's technical wizardry
- Path of Exile open beta hosted nearly 70,000 players over weekend
- January 28
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- Nvidia 313.95 beta drivers improve performance for Crysis 3 beta, Assassin's Creed III, Far Cry 3
- Monaco designer: "I think stretch goals are bulls***"
- Next Mass Effect 3 DLC teased in screenshots showing colorful casino, smashy Krogan
- EVE Online's Battle of Asakai: who was involved, the stakes, and the aftermath
- ESL announce the largest independent Dota 2 competition so far
- Surgeon Simulator 2013 is QWOP meets Operation
- Crysis 3 multiplayer hands-on: seven PCG writers test their mettle
- Wayward: a fantastic sandbox survival roguelike set on a hostile desert island
- Bioshock Infinite trailer asks what happened to Columbia?
- Torchlight 2 Synergies mod adds new class, new enemies and a huge amount of end game content
- World of Tanks update 8.3 lets Chinese hardware run loose
- DayZ Origins: a new Arma 2 zombie survival mod "inspired" by DayZ
- Total War: Shogun 2 releases Gold Edition in March
- January 27
- January 26
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- Are SimCity's cities too small?
- Terraria creator asks what YOU would like to see in a possible update
- SOE introduces Roadmap system for PlanetSide 2, lets fans vote on upcoming changes
- Assassin's Creed III Tyranny of King Washington DLC releases February 19
- What to Watch: The Week in eSports (January 25-February 1, 2013)
- Why you should watch eSports
- Soulfinity, the action-puzzler where killing yourself is the solution
- Taboo unchained: player creates colonial-era plantation in The Sims 3
- January 25
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- Blizzard: "We acknowledge Diablo III needs to be a better game"
- Visceral: Dead Space 3 microtransactions are for players needing "instant gratification"
- Portal 2 mod used as recruitment tool for data applications company
- SOE bans "a whole bunch of idiots" for cheating in PlanetSide 2
- DayZ Standalone update: improved lighting, anti-hack measures, and closed testing
- The THQ aftermath: Why did no-one buy Vigil?
- The Free Webgame Round-Up
- VoxelFarm Realtime is Minecraft in a gorgeously realistic procedurally generated world
- Chivalry: Medieval Warfare holds free weekend on Steam, cuts price in half
- Origin launches limited Mac alpha client, gives free copy of Bookworm to testers
- Dishonored and The Walking Dead score high in Game Developers Choice Award nominations
- Hotline Miami soundtrack now on Steam; plus the game is half price
- Smite now in open beta, download and play for free
- Dead Island: Riptide gameplay video shows shows hub defense, indestructible boats
- Cliff Bleszinski on what's next after Epic: "I would want to get back to the triple-A space eventually"
- Omerta demo lets you try your hand at the XCOM of organized crime
- War of the Roses update adds free Scottish mercenary gear, reworks armor and weapon behavior
- January 24
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- MechWarrior Online update adds Death's Knell, nostalgic startup sequence
- Turn Left 4 Dead 2's Tank into the Stay Puft Marshmallow Man
- Crowdfunding campaign seeks rescue of Homeworld license from THQ
- StarCraft II: Heart of the Swarm mega interview with Dustin Browder
- THQ remembered: the ten best games
- League of Legends' fiercest pro purge yet: two players issued with lifetime bans
- Bioshock Infinite's pre-order bonuses: boosts, cash and lockpicks
- Indie gem Treasure Adventure Game is getting an HD remake, with a beautiful new art style
- Counter-Strike: Global Offensive update rebalances weapons, adds Deathmatch
- Evoland takes you through the history of the (J)RPG
- Tribes: Ascend is halving the XP cost of in-game unlocks
- Call of Duty: Black Ops 2 DLC trailer expects you'll be playing it a lot, suggests a way to help
- Crusader Kings II now on Linux, mysterious image teases future content
- Blizzard assures continued improvement of Diablo III character identity beyond loot
- THQ dissolves, auctions off franchises and studios - here's who bought what
- January 23
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- Free-to-play ARPG Path of Exile enters open beta
- Fighting for The Crown: SOE talks about PlanetSide 2's most well-known base
- See space slugs slither in Star Wars: The Old Republic's Rise of the Hutt Cartel expansion debut trailer
- Crusader Kings 2 developers livestreaming "introductory session" for new players
- Acronym alert! Heroes & Generals developer explains how to blend FPS, RTS, WW2 and F2P
- Crysis 3 public multiplayer beta launches next week
- SimCityEDU will bring city planning to the classroom
- Starcraft 2: Heart of the Swarm multiplayer to be more welcoming for newcomers
- Portal 2: amazing Source Filmmaker short shows a musical turret takeover
- Chasm is a stunning sidescrolling Action-RPG set, you guessed it, in a mine
- IGF announces shortlist for Best Student Game
- Subscribe to PC Gamer UK and get a Rage ST headset worth £30
- Firefall holds first public beta this weekend, new game footage released
- SimCity's beta EULA to be updated, EA: "players don't have anything to be concerned about"
- Visceral Games admits Dead Space 3 for PC will be a straight port
- American McGee: EA wanted to "trick" gamers with Alice: Madness Returns trailers
- Atari has filed for bankruptcy to ditch parent company
- Half-Life 2 Cinematic Mod soups up the sparkle, adds graphical gloss
- CPU Boss helps you find and compare the best processors
- Face Off: Are modern games difficult enough?
- TERA publisher stresses importance of treating free players equally and fairly
- Blizzard All-Stars MOBA will likely be stand-alone, free-to-play
- January 22
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- FTL designer wary of another Kickstarter pitch: "It just adds a whole new layer of stress"
- BioShock Infinite character "highly altered" after talks with religious Irrational members
- SimCity's city size restriction explained as a necessary performance trade-off
- Artizens: draw your weapon - literally - in this 2D co-op monster hunting RPG
- Ralph Nader calls violent video games "electronic child molesters." Seriously.
- Citizens of Earth preview: an indie RPG from the makers of Waveform
- Starcraft 2: Heart of the Swarm's opening cinematic released
- Hawken co-founder talks eSports, missing server browsers, clan support and big Beta fixes
- Dead Space 3 to feature microtransactions for crafting resources
- The Elder Scrolls Online now taking beta sign-ups, new trailer to celebrate
- Deepfall Dungeon: a free indie dungeon crawler for fans of Grimrock, dying, springing traps
- Paradox launch new web store, hold tactically optimal sale
- Proteus to be officially released next week
- SimCity beta's EULA contains EA wide ban clause for unreported bugs
- January 21
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- The music of FTL: Faster Than Light - an interview with composer Ben Prunty
- 1000 Beta keys for Heroes & Generals - sign up here, son
- The 90s Arcade Racer: vibrant racing action makes a Kickstarter pit-stop
- Cobalt livestream: Oxeye playing the game and answering your questions right now [Update: It's over, so enjoy the trailer instead]
- Hawken devs 'exploring' melee weapons, decals and spectator system
- Syndicate devs developing Storm, a co-op sci-fi FPS
- Diablo III Director's departure prompts community ire, Blizzard's Rob Pardo responds
- Nordic Game Jam 2013 concludes, play a bunch of weird and wonderful games now
- Two more "toxic" League of Legends pros feel the weight of Riot's banhammer
- Real life human wizard lays down the lore in The Elder Scrolls Online dev diary
- GTA 5 PC pre-order listed on Amazon France
- January 20
- January 19
- January 18
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- What to Watch: The Week in eSports (January 18-24, 2013)
- Why you shouldn't play The War Z
- Backspace Tron-ifies top-down shooting in spherical showdowns
- Antichamber will confuse your mind on January 31
- SimCity closed beta video shows starting tutorial [Update: poof!]
- The Free Webgame Round-Up
- What we want to see in The Witcher 3
- SimCity building up momentum, tops sales chart
- SimCity closed beta running next weekend, sign ups now open
- Kentucky Route Zero interview: choice and introspection in the magic realist adventure
- DayZ's Dean Hall answers questions on Standalone release, engine plans and The War Z
- Codemasters face job cuts, Grid 2 and F1 reportedly unaffected
- Legend of Grimrock sells over 600,000 copies, devs tease future content
- Dragon Nest closed beta coming to Europe in February
- Trials Evolution bunny-hops the console fence, lands on PC this March
- Left 4 Dead 2 gets Steam Workshop support
- Wildman update video shows early gameplay, details DRM, engine, canned corn
- Warcraft: A New Dawn mod sends Starcraft II to Azeroth
- Australia may finally, legally, get an uncensored version of Left 4 Dead 2
- January 17
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- Diablo III Director Jay Wilson leaves team for other Blizzard projects
- Valve launches Steam Guides: browse and create user-made walkthroughs and tips
- PlanetSide 2 Community Design Meeting initiative: help address metagame concerns
- Bailed Bohemia developers return home after nearly 130 days in jail
- Splinter Cell: Blacklist slips away to August, uses trailer as a decoy
- No Time To Explain arrives on Steam next week
- iOS hit 10,000,000 comes to PC, match-three to upgrade a castle, punch skeletons
- Crysis 3's latest trailer tours the innards of its new gun
- Portal's Still Alive performed in Guild Wars 2 - a time-wasting triumph
- Far Cry 3 concept art shows theme parks, tourist resorts and other rejected ideas
- Baldur's Gate: Enhanced Edition now available on Steam
- PC Gamer UK February issue: Bioshock Infinite
- Assassin's Creed 3 and 007 Legends nominated for WGA's games writing award
- Gearbox: Borderlands 2 level cap increase by March
- Warzone 2100 fan remake keeps the classic RTS game alive
- Custom StarCraft II observer interfaces coming in Heart of the Swarm
- Cello Fortress: play a real cello as a means of defense
- January 16
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- Editorial: Does eSports understand journalism?
- Defense Grid: Containment out on January 23, adds eight levels and community maps
- U.S. wants to spend $10 million investigating possible gun violence causes, including games
- Star Wars: The Old republic update 1.7 returns the Gree, adds new reputation system
- Skyrim Enhanced Terrain mod increases detail of distant textures
- Dark Souls networking guide takes the pain out of summoning
- Minecraft Basketball: shoot hoops with this excellent community map
- Darkout: a sci-fi sandbox survival game inspired by Minecraft, Terraria and the dark
- Mechwarrior Online releases Spider Mech ahead of double-XP weekend
- Team Fortress 2: Valve have been developing a VR port for the last year
- Missouri Representative proposes tax on "violent" video games
- Akaneiro: Demon Hunters and Leisure Suit Larry among fourth round of Greenlight picks
- Civilization V: One World expansion spotted in Steam database
- Reus: punish humans with the claws of an angry crab god
- January 15
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- Planetary Annihilation available for tiered pre-order, $60 tier and up grants early access
- Elite: Dangerous' David Braben on crowdfunding challenges: "People took a lack of material for a lack of faith"
- Half-Life Earth's Special Forces mod: unbelievable visuals, unbelievable muscles
- Mass Effect: Unification mod brings a different galactic struggle to Star Wars: Battlefront II
- The Cave release date and price announced, will support Mac and Linux
- Guild Wars 2 outlines 2013 plans, announce 3 million copies sold
- BioShock Infinite system requirements released, interview with Irrational about PC features
- Dustforce devs announce Spire, a procedurally generated first-person platformer
- Arma 3's imprisoned developers free on bail
- Crusader Kings II: Linux port, Republic video and some excellent patch notes
- Minecraft becomes a compulsory class for Swedish school
- Monkey Island's insult sword-fighting playable for free in your browser
- Half-Life 2: Episode 4 was being developed by Arkane; now cancelled
- Amazon's Tantalizing THQ Medley heavily discounts Metro 2033, STALKER, and others
- Gabe Newell: "We thought the distinction between living rooms and PCs was artificial"
- Dragon Age lead writer: "I dislike the idea of every character being sexually available"
- Grand Theft Auto IV Iron Man mod includes working repulsor beams, lack of morals
- January 14
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- Notch doesn't think Mojang deserves to be held up next to Valve
- Papercraft prowling: Children of Liberty is a 2D/3D stealth platformer
- MLG CEO on definition of a "sport," rising popularity of competitive gaming
- The Organ Trail: Director's Cut is a station wagon ride across zombie-infested America
- Ex-Dishonored dev on violence in games: we're too often "blinded by the fear of censorship"
- Chris Taylor on Wildman: "What if I tell people my wife's gonna cut my balls off?"
- Chris Taylor's secret project is Wildman, a barbaric RPG/RTS hybrid
- 25 Greenlight games you should vote for right now
- Unwritten: mysterious story-driven, turn-based strategy seeks funding on Kickstarter
- Aliens: Colonial Marines system requirements are eating your face
- 1000 Beta keys to give away for Starcraft II: Heart of the Swarm. Want one?
- Not Pacman has more in common with Pac-Man than you might think
- Make deals with space bears in 4X space strategy, StarDrive
- Gratuitous Space Battles Outcasts expansion adds new faction, ships, many tractor beams
- Diablo 3 1.0.7 update to add dueling, extra gems, rare crafting recipes and more
- Call of Duty: Black Ops 2 Zombie Nuketown map will claw its way onto PC on Thursday
- January 13
- January 12
- January 11
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- How to ward the map in League of Legends with Teemo
- Elite: Dangerous holds "over 100 billion" star systems, says Frontier Developments
- WoW cash shop cat raises $2.3 million for Sandy relief
- Oculus Rift developer on required system specs, potential new functionality
- Maxis: SimCity's "lonely experience" influenced always-online play
- Why Far Cry 3's menus drive me crazy
- Survarium interview: the devs talk about Stalker's spiritual MMO sequel
- Valve will stop selling nine Team Fortress 2 hats in two weeks' time
- Valve's Robin Walker on six figure item sales and the future of modding
- The Free Webgame Round-up
- Tomb Raider beats Ron Gilbert's The Cave to top Green Man Gaming sales chart
- NECA open up Gravity Gun pre-orders
- Dragon Age lead writer details Bioware writing process from start to finish
- Skulls of the Shogun is out this month (yaaay) on Windows 8 (nyooooo)
- Hidden Cyberpunk 2077 trailer message teases "other project," full reveal on February 5
- Fallout: Project Brazil mod is a full prequel campaign to New Vegas
- SimCity intro cinematic confirms the inclusion of buildings
- January 10
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- Team Fortress 2 Mixup 5 celebrity match videos released in full
- Vireio Perception drivers for Oculus Rift add support for Skyrim, Mirror's Edge, others
- Cyberpunk 2077 trailer: mass-murdering robot lady versus cyborg cop
- Rapture replica in Minecraft houses no gods, only blocks
- Check out the massive Dark Souls 2 feature in Edge magazine's free iPad sampler
- Minecraft is quite popular, sells more than 240,000 copies over Christmas
- A bundle of bundles: Indie Royale, Indie Gala and the Free Bundle all live
- Omerta: City of Gangsters plans to hit PC and Mac from February
- Tons of Indie Speed Run games available to play, for free, now
- Defiance trailer shows massive co-op; sign-ups for first beta event now open
- League of Legends announces Season 3 plans, attempts to organise eSports
- Dragon Age's lead writer on fandom and the "increasingly toxic" Bioware forums
- Surface Tension Uncut mod restores missing Black Mesa level content
- How is The Republic expansion changing Crusader Kings II?
- Marvel Heroes MMO launch window confirmed; starter packs detailed
- January 9
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- Fallout 3 voice actor hints at possible sequel
- MechWarrior Tactics closed beta launches, Founder packages detailed
- Half-Life 2 Estranged mod is like an interactive Twilight Zone episode
- Valve: "We saw this need" for Big Picture from players, operating systems
- First major changes to PlanetSide 2 outlined by SOE, coming Jan. 30
- Planescape: Torment's spiritual successor confirmed
- TERA going free-to-play in Europe and North America
- Neocolonialism: exploit, manipulate and pillage the world in twelve turns
- Astroloco: an adventure game with SPACE TRAINS, and also a demo
- Tomb Raider multiplayer footage: bows and traps aplenty
- EVE Online's console invasion: Dust 514 players migrate to Tranquility tomorrow
- Torchlight 2's activation system broken for some users, Runic suspects Windows 8 as cause
- Valve's Gabe Newell on Steam Box and the "giant sadness" of Windows 8
- January 8
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- More StarCraft 2: Heart of the Swarm lore questions answered
- Skyrim Interesting NPCs mod adds quests, music, hundreds of voiced dialogue lines
- Remember Me trailer plays glitchy piano music, shows clumsy androids
- Face Off: Does calling it a "beta" justify selling an unfinished game?
- Sins of A Dark Age cuts Commander role, closed beta now available for purchase
- Blizzard fixing Diablo 3 votekick exploit for Hardcore difficulty
- Lore alert: The Elder Scrolls Online's Daggerfall Covenant detailed
- Half-Life alpha tech demo is a glimpse into the legend's awkward adolescence
- Video: 2013 in PC gaming -- the (hopefully) incredible year ahead
- LEGO Marvel Super Heroes announced
- Oculus Rift creator Palmer Luckey on the future of VR: we'll double the resolution within a year
- Ludum Dare 25 winners announced - four games that let you revel in villainy
- Kentucky Route Zero Act I released, get your magical realist adventure gaming here
- Bioshock Infinite screenshots: combat, environments, historical anachronism?
- CES 2013: what does it mean for PC gaming?
- THQ's franchises and studios to be auctioned off on a "title by title" basis
- Death Inc: plague-spreading strategy from the makers of Fable, Burnout and LittleBigPlanet
- Black Ops 2 Revolution DLC details revealed, then pulled
- Interview: XCOM Lead Designer on the response to Slingshot DLC, death and loss in games
- XCOM Second Wave options officially released by Firaxis, patching in on Tuesday
- Confirmed: Valve will exhibit living room PC hardware at CES
- American McGee: Akaneiro is "100 percent finished," developer "not out of money"
- Capcom to "tighten up" Street Fighter X Mega Man with new version
- January 7
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- The Walking Dead sold over 8.5 million episodes since release
- 2013 Independent Games Festival main competition finalists announced
- DayZ Standalone delay explained, engine improvements detailed
- Blizzard rumoured to be working on Linux port of "at least one" of their titles
- THQ's quick sale blocked in response to creditors' complaints
- Fistful of Gun: a 3 player co-op showdown in the Wild West
- Steam's December hardware survey shows early Linux take-up
- NVIDIA's Project Shield: an Android-based handheld with Steam Big Picture streaming
- Grand Theft Auto 5 wallpaper art released; Kavinsky along for the NightRide
- Valve spokesperson says Steam Box will use Linux; is due for full reveal in 2013
- January 5
- January 4
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- Telltale talks about its future beyond The Walking Dead
- Crytek: Crysis 4 might not be an FPS
- The Showdown Effect character trailer introduces a cast of action flick clichés
- Free-to-play ARPG Akaneiro: Demon Hunters gets a Kickstarter, open beta to start this month
- James Bond games quietly exit Steam, Activision's store
- Meriwether, an ambitious exploration RPG, nears Kickstarter goal
- Evil Geniuses could sign Counter Logic Gaming as first League of Legends team
- Techno King: a free New Year's celebration from the creators of Super Crate Box
- Terry Cavanagh abandons development on RPG project Nexus City
- Dune 2: play the strategy classic in your browser now, for free
- THQ's quick sale could stall; creditors say the terms aren't in their "best interests"
- The War Z's servers brought down by hackers
- Guild Wars 2 Snowflake Jewelry exploit punishable with perma-ban
- January 3
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- Shadowrun Returns developer talks character archetypes, "classless" system
- Age of Empires Online ending new content production as it's "no longer cost-effective"
- Blazing Griffin on The Ship: Full Steam Ahead's Kickstarter failure, move to Steam Greenlight
- Half-Life 2 Empires mod adds new maps, models, interface improvements
- Top PlanetSide 2 player criticizes focus on kill/death ratios, vehicle abundance, other issues
- FIFA 13 PC wins AbleGamers award for Accessible Mainstream Game of 2012
- World of Warcraft's 5.2 patch available on Public Test Realm
- UK's digital game sales over £550 million in 2012; physical retail not doing so well
- Slave of God: a night in a different kind of church
- Connecticut town plans to collect and destroy violent games
- Star Wars: The Old Republic will expand end game, add "organic" PvP and same sex romance
- Valve: Virtual-reality hardware needs a "Kobayashi Maru moment"
- Elite: Dangerous blitzes Kickstarter goal; new stretch goals added
- January 2
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- Dead Space 3 trailer recaps story and Marker lore
- Quadrilateral Cowboy developer diary details ghost cursors, tracelines, and player respect
- STALKER Misery mod 2.0 video shows a post-apocalyptic afternoon, inventory menus
- Torchlight II sold over 1 million units in 2012
- Tomb Raider will have multiplayer, developed by Eidos Montreal
- Fez going multi-platform. Does this mean a reversal of the "not a PC game" claim?
- Zeno Clash 2 screenshots show more of the weird world of Zenozoik
- SPONSORED: Aliens: Colonial Marines story trailer analysed
- Jurassic Life mod trailer battles with clever girls
- Zynga shut down 11 games, close Japanese studio
- Blacks Ops 2 DLC details spotted
