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- January 31
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- Watch a Montreal orchestra play Deus Ex music while Adam Jensen kills people in the background
- Co-op stealth game Hacktag sneaking onto Steam February 14
- Destiny 2 'development roadmap' lays out schedule of coming changes
- Gigantic, the free-to-play hero shooter, is closing in July
- Yume Nikki sequel Dream Diary gets another weird trailer
- Vegan-friendly crypto startup scams investors, scribbles ‘Penis’ on website
- NZXT's H400i micro-ATX computer case is on sale for $130
- Avernum 3 remake launches alongside free demo
- CS:GO 'Dragon Lore' AWP skin sells for more than $61,000
- Samsung is making special chips specifically for cryptocurrency mining
- Commodore 64 is returning as a mini console with dozens of preloaded games
- Steamed Hams but it's a Team Fortress 2 map
- Rocket League to add tournament mode in March or April, beta test next month
- Diablo creator David Brevik is releasing a 2D sandbox RPG called It Lurks Below later this year
- Murderous Pursuits is a Victorian-era assassination game in the style of The Ship
- Titanfall developer Respawn's Star Wars game likely to release by March 2020
- Epic giving away Fortnite freebies to make up for downtime
- Hollow Knight's third free expansion will add new boss fights and an extra game mode
- Developers from the Final Fantasy XV Windows Edition team will join us on-stage at the PC Gamer Weekender
- January 30
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- EA confirms Anthem delay but says a new Battlefield game is coming this October
- Star Wars: Battlefront 2 isn't hitting sales targets; in-game sales returning soon
- You're glued to the floor in 2D platformer Dandara
- The Rockstar Humble Bundle features Manhunt, Max Payne, Bully, and GTA
- Overclocker partially boots a 32-core Epyc CPU in a Threadripper motherboard
- This Is the Police 2 trailer exposes new corrupt cop action
- World of Warcraft: Battle for Azeroth coming this summer, Allied Races unlock with preorder
- Destiny 2 update goes live with new Masterwork Armor and Raid gear perks
- Logitech's G600 MMO gaming mouse is on sale for $25
- Overwatch patch nerfing Mercy and Junkrat is now live
- Extinction, the game about fighting 150-foot tall ogres, is out on April 10
- Rainbow Six Siege: Operation Chimera's new operators bring drones and nanobots to the fight
- Corsair adds RGB lighting to its spill-resistant K68 mechanical keyboard
- The Elder Scrolls: Legends is getting another small-but-spicy expansion
- Razer releases a pro-grade USB microphone for game streamers
- Chilean war chief Lautaro will lead the Mapuche into battle in Civilization 6: Rise and Fall
- GTA Online gets a new electric sports car and assassination mode with double $GTA and experience
- Insurgency: Sandstorm trailer shows off door breaching, vehicle combat and lots of explosions
- First-person roguelike Delver emerges from four years of Early Access this week
- Hyper Light Drifter designer Teddy Dief leaves Square Enix Montreal after studio cancels his next game
- Build a virtual rig in PC Building Simulator at the PC Gamer Weekender
- The latest Wolfenstein 2: The New Colossus DLC is out now
- January 29
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- The best Celeste speedrun so far beats the game in 47 minutes
- Microsoft purchases cloud gaming platform PlayFab
- Age of Empires: Definitive Edition could come to Steam eventually
- The Trine trilogy is super cheap in the Frozenbyte Steam sale
- Facebook takes aim at Twitch and YouTube with 'Gaming Creator Pilot Program'
- Get an Asus 17.3-inch gaming laptop with a GeForce GTX 1070 and G-Sync for $1,399
- Microsoft issues a Windows patch to disable Intel’s buggy Spectre fix
- Hearthstone is finally nerfing Patches the Pirate as part of a major balance update
- Cloud9 becomes the first-ever North American team to win a CS:GO Major
- This is definitely not how to apply thermal paste
- Fortnite Battle Royale's latest limited mode is all about sniper rifles
- Metal Gear Survive system requirements announced (Updated)
- Nvidia releases GPU drivers optimized for Kingdom Come: Deliverance
- Superb, slimey 2D platformer Slime-san getting more free DLC
- New and returning Soulcalibur 6 characters revealed in latest trailer
- Deceiver is a 'philosophical shooter' that lets you shoot drones through enemies
- Tropico 6 is coming to the PC Gamer Weekender
- Star Citizen: Squadron 42 trailer shows off giant deadly gas cloud called 'The Coil'
- Out of the Park Baseball 19 release date set for March
- Assassin's Creed: Origins will get a New Game Plus mode at some point
- January 28
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- DYO is a co-op platformer where you can hop between two halves of a split screen
- Fe creator says publisher EA has not 'meddled' with game's vision, main story will last 7-8 hours
- You cannot keep ships you steal in Star Citizen, Cloud Imperium Games says
- Street Fighter's Ryu and Sakura will be coming to Monster Hunter: World
- PopCap founder's next game is a Friday the 13th puzzler about grids and cartoon murder
- They Are Billions adds weekly community challenges with leaderboards
- American team makes it to the final of a CS:GO Major for the second time ever
- January 27
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- Neon futuresport Laser League is having a free open beta for the rest of the weekend
- The Legend of Heroes: Trails of Cold Steel 2 will be out on February 14
- Fortnite disruption continues as Epic fixes game mode troubles (Updated)
- Side-scrolling shooter Mercenary Kings is getting a free 'Reloaded Edition' with extra guns and characters
- Atlus asks fans if they'd like a Persona game on PC, 'online RPG' on the table
- Ubisoft reverses price increase of Rainbow Six Siege Standard Edition
- Micro Center will sell you a graphics card at MSRP if it's for gaming instead of mining
- People are using AI to put Witcher characters' faces into real porn
- Sea of Thieves beta datamining reveals ship customization, harpoons, and a player-eating Kraken
- January 26
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- Valve appeals $2.4 million Australian lawsuit loss
- Underworld Ascendant gameplay video showcases stealth, magic, and 'hero kits'
- Paragon is closing in April, Epic offers full refunds to everyone
- The Monster Hunter: World launch trailer is here
- You're a sword-wielding fox in animal action game Vulpine
- Over $500 million in cryptocurrency stolen
- Get a 240GB solid state drive for $70 and a 4TB hard drive for $100
- G.Skill's Ripjaws KM570 RGB mechanical keyboard is on sale for $73
- Get Doom for $10 in Fanatical's weekend special
- Intel hints that Cannon Lake and Ice Lake will not be affected by current exploits
- Steamworld Dig and Fe developers merge to become studio Thunderful
- Puzzlement is a lovely puzzle game about shifting perspectives, out next week
- Stellaris: Apocalypse expansion release date set
- PixARK is a voxel-based spinoff of Ark: Survival Evolved
- GTA Online adds Ubermacht Revolter, extends Air Quota bonuses this weekend
- Black Desert Online is free to try this weekend
- Fortnite surfaces from 14-hour downtime with building and ADS bugs, applies PC patch
- Sea of Thieves closed beta extended by two days
- Overwatch dev update discusses toxicity, Mercy nerfs, and which characters are due for changes
- A new Kentucky Route Zero interlude suggests that Act 5 is on the way
- Spice up your Fallout 4 settlement with this mod that adds a damn skyscraper
- Destiny 2 Masterwork armor and Raid reworks detailed in Bungie update
- January 25
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- Maingear is going to sell cryptocurrency mining PCs stuffed with graphics cards
- Ubisoft is raising the price of Rainbow Six Siege
- You drink liquor to quicksave in Kingdom Come: Deliverance
- Oculus has invented a new unit for measuring time
- For Honor season 5 will bring major gameplay changes and dedicated servers
- Try the demo for 2v2 4-player fighter Cerebrawl
- Blizzard says Overwatch loot box odds have not changed
- Hearthstone is getting its biggest ladder changes since launch
- Our favorite wireless gaming controller is on sale for $40
- Vampyr's latest dev diary explores its environments and music
- AMD reaffirms commitment to gaming, discusses Intel partnership
- DeepCool's Ark 90 cases comes with its own liquid cooling setup
- The Amnesia Collection is free on the Humble Store
- Twitch viewbot makers ordered to pay nearly $1.4 million in lawsuit loss
- Forget holographic images, we want a 3D volumetric display
- Yume Nikki sequel confirmed with release date
- Pillars of Eternity 2: Deadfire release date set
- New System Shock video explores reboot's art direction
- Attack on Titan 2 shows off life beyond slaying naked giants
- Conan Exiles director explains dong slider implementation
- Lords of the Fallen, Vermintide, Galak-Z going cheap in Fanatical's Nemesis Bundle 5
- DICE hints at imminent progression changes for Star Wars Battlefront 2
- A Washington state senator has loot boxes in his sights
- System builders and OEMs recall botched Intel Spectre patches
- January 24
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- Rune: Ragnarok trailer showcases vikings, dragons, and a gigantic puppy
- Bonkers-looking arcade shooter Pawarumi coming this month
- Ghost Recon Wildlands is getting loot boxes
- Psychonauts, Everything, and more are super cheap during the Double Fine Humble sale
- World of Goo creators announce new puzzle game 7 Billion Humans
- Mark Darrah confirms that BioWare is working on a new Dragon Age game
- Battlefleet Gothic: Armada 2 announced, will feature all 12 tabletop factions
- BioWare's Anthem likely won't be out until early 2019, according to a report
- Grab this Samsung 28-inch QLED 4K monitor with FreeSync support for $330
- Burger King has a beef with the FCC voting to remove net neutrality rules
- Civilization 6: Rise and Fall will add Robert the Bruce's Scotland
- AMD hires former Nvidia and Synaptics execs to lead its Radeon Technology Group
- The Banner Saga 3 due this summer, new character series launched
- Loot boxes aren't going away, GDC survey says
- Two Point Hospital, the Theme Hospital successor, teases whacky illnesses and how to treat them
- Destiny 2 is 'not in a good place', says analyst in wake of microtransaction concerns
- PUBG removes weapons from starting island, spreads spawn areas in bid to boost server performance
- Dragon's Dogma: Dark Arisen is very cheap on Steam right now
- Gorgeous RTS card game hybrid Golem Gates coming this March
- January 23
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- Denuvo has been bought by the company that tried to force Overwatch porn offline
- The Steam Lunar New Year Sale will reportedly return in February
- The Destiny 2 Faction Rally is over and Future War Cult didn't win (again)
- Comedy survival game SOS is now in Early Access, and Snoop Dogg is streaming it
- Nintendo has hired the creator of indie shoot-em-up Downwell
- Get a wireless Xbox One controller for $40
- Linux creator bashes Intel over ‘garbage’ Meltdown and Spectre patches
- Klipsch ProMedia 2.1 Bluetooth speaker system is on sale for $100
- Crafting sandbox RPG My Time at Portia hits Steam today
- Samsung refreshes SATA solid state drive line with 860 Pro and 860 Evo SSDs
- Stellaris, Pillars of Eternity, and Hearts of Iron feature in the Humble Paradox Bundle
- Here's all the new Overwatch skins added in today's cosmetics update
- Watch a man get his face ripped off in Dead By Daylight's 'Saw Chapter' trailer
- Darwin Project wants to be 'more or less, The Hunger Games: The Game'
- Dark Souls 2 Enemy Randomizer mod is a game changer
- Total War: Warhammer 2 gets free Skaven Tretch Craventail legendary lord today
- A Duke Nukem movie starring John Cena might actually happen
- Asus launches a 7.1 surround headset with synchronized RGB lighting
- January 22
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- The Red Strings Club launch trailer teases cyberpunk bartending and futuristic phone calls
- Far Cry 5's system requirements have been revealed
- This high-speed 256GB M.2 NVMe solid state drive is on sale for $115
- The Hidden Ones reveal themselves in the Assassin's Creed Origins DLC launch trailer
- Fortnite launches in Korea and celebrates with a bizarre video
- Rust will leave Early Access in February, but it's not finished yet
- Intel now knows why Spectre and Meltdown patches are causing reboots
- Watch a PUBG cheat that enables instant healing and revives
- Nvidia wants retailers to prioritize gamers over cryptocurrency miners
- Resident Evil 4 HD Project shows off reworked Assignment: Ada mode
- Seven: The Days Long Gone has a demo and a limited-time discount
- Resident Evil 2 director trusts remake team, says 'do as you like'
- Ex-Sonic Team head joins Square Enix
- Esteemed cover artist Bob Wakelin has passed away
- January 21
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- Taiwanese player tom60229 crowned Hearthstone world champion
- Memories of Mars is a multiplayer, open-world survival game landing in Early Access this Spring
- Kursk, the game based on a 2000 Russian submarine disaster, will be out this year
- Faeland is a good-looking Metroidvania coming to Kickstarter soon
- Battlefield 1's Apocalypse DLC out next month, adds five maps and aerial combat mode
- Minecraft had 74 million active players in December, a new record for the game
- January 20
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- Metal Gear Survive has microtransactions and requires constant online connection—report
- Call of Duty: WW2 is adding prop hunt and the classic Demolition game mode for a limited time
- Free-to-play MMO Rift is adding a new subscription server free of loot boxes
- Silent Hills' P.T. teaser is now playable on PC thanks to fan remakes
- Pretty dungeon crawler Tangledeep shoots out of Early Access on February 1
- Ys 8: Lacrimosa of Dana's PC release delayed indefinitely because of performance woes
- Positech Games will bring Production Line, Basingstoke and Frozen Synapse 2 to the PC Gamer Weekender
- Old-school RPG Tower of Time will leave Early Access in April
- Overwatch League pro suspended for homophobic insult against opponent (Updated)
- January 19
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- Final Fantasy 14's next update brings back Kefka, one of the series' best villains
- Symmetry is a 'survival management' game about a crashed spaceship and an alien horror
- The No Man's Sky ARG is back in action
- This ultrawide 29-inch IPS monitor from LG is on sale for $184
- Wintry battle royale game Darwin Project is holding an open beta weekend
- LG launches a 27-inch 4K monitor with HDR and Freesync support
- We Happy Few delayed, developers offer refunds to Early Access purchasers
- Sea of Thieves' gorgeous world looks ripe for exploring in latest dev diary
- You spoke and NZXT responded with a price cut on its N7 motherboard
- Last chance for aspiring Overwatch stars to sign up for the OMEN by HP Bootcamp, and the chance to win a PC
- Bungie on Destiny 2 Faction Rally issues: 'This was on us, no excuses'
- PUBG to ban 100,000 cheaters in 'single wave', blue zone balances being tested
- January 18
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- Offworld Trading Company: Limited Supply DLC swaps stock markets for survival
- Welcome to 2018, it's time for new AMD Adrenalin drivers
- Ubisoft ad calls the PC "the lead platform in terms of innovation"
- Intel reveals 0-25 percent performance impact from Meltdown and Spectre patches
- Hunt: Showdown alpha testing will get underway at the end of January
- Activision Publishing CEO Eric Hirshberg is leaving the company
- Assassin's Creed: Origins' first DLC will arrive next week
- Age of Empires: Definitive Edition gets a new release date (Updated)
- Samsung's 500GB 850 Evo SSD is on sale for $130
- Here’s what games look like recorded in slow motion at 360,000 fps
- New legendary Pharah skin turns the Overwatch rocketeer into a golden snake
- Watch out for phishing emails linking to fake Meltdown and Spectre patches
- ESL joins with Facebook for Dota 2 and CS:GO Pro League streaming
- Samsung is cranking out GDDR6 memory for next-generation graphics cards
- Get 60 percent off comedy physics puzzler Human Fall Flat
- Q.U.B.E. 2 dazzles in new mind-bending trailer
- Carmageddon TDR 2000 free on GOG, Max Damage half-price for a limited time
- Endless Space 2 unveils The Vaulters DLC
- Vampyr explores the creation of its bloodthirsty monsters in new dev-led short
- Play unique puzzler Shift Quantum at the PC Gamer Weekender
- Shoot zombies, build defences, ride mechs in 15 minutes of Metal Gear Survive multiplayer
- There's a new Alien game in the works
- Magic: The Gathering Arena developers explain how it will hand out the cards
- This week's Tavern Brawl stars the un-nerfed decks of past Hearthstone champions
- Cryptocurrency prices tank due to regulatory fears
- January 17
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- Underworld Ascendant trailer teases the evolution of the Great Stygian Abyss
- Epic casts doubt on the future of Paragon as developers are moved to Fortnite
- EVGA is throwing its parts into PC Building Simulator
- Samsung's site is showing a 4TB 860 Pro solid state drive for $1,900
- Overwatch League attracts 10 million viewers in first week, averages 280k viewers per minute
- Dark Souls: Remastered won't have cross-play
- A new Fable game is reportedly in the works at Playground Games
- Play Crash Force at the PC Gamer Weekender
- Total War: Warhammer 2 raises the dead in new Tomb Kings footage, full roster named
- Blizzard World, the Overwatch theme park map, will go live next week
- Candleman: The Complete Journey is coming to PC at the end of January
- January 16
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- Genital Jousting is releasing in Australia when it leaves Early Access this week
- A new Xbox Elite wireless controller may be in the works
- Twitch spammer faces criminal charges in Canada
- This full-featured 5-bay QNAP NAS box is on sale for $409
- TPCast 2.0 wireless adapter brings 1ms latency and support for 8K VR headsets
- Civilization 6: Rise and Fall trailer details Golden and Dark Ages, Emergencies, and more
- CD Projekt apologizes for problems with Gwent's mid-winter update
- Bandai Namco on Dark Souls PC remaster: 'There is no discount' (Updated)
- Today is the last day Windows 8.1 users can upgrade to Windows 10 for free
- Check out some of the best videogame portraiture
- Tencent has reportedly helped Chinese police arrest 120 PUBG cheat makers
- Robot Cache is an upcoming digital storefront that will let you buy and sell games online
- Two Point Hospital is a new management sim from the creators of Theme Hospital
- Battlefront 2 adds new Blast map and Hero ship in latest update
- Monster Hunter: World showcases toxic Rotten Vale swampland
- Final Fantasy 15 PC release date set, 4K specs confirmed
- January 15
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- Fortnite breaks two million peak concurrent players
- Polish website says Cyberpunk 2077 will be playable at E3
- World of Warcraft patch 7.3.5 goes live tomorrow in North America, patch notes out now
- The Red Solstice is free on the Humble Store
- Free-to-play military shooter Ironsight will begin open beta testing in February
- Memory chip price drop could lead to cheaper RAM in 2018
- RimWorld creator says 'next version will be 1.0', outlines what to expect
- Warhammer 40,000: Inquisitor—Martyr adds new map, class, single player chapter
- Fallout 4's Sim Settlements mod add-on simplifies resource sharing
- Monster Hunter: World shows off gorgeous Coral Highlands
- Cuphead and PUBG compete for Game of the Year at the DICE Awards 2018
- Stardew Valley creator teases multiplayer and new additions
- January 14
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- Anime fighter BlazBlue: Cross Tag Battle will punch onto Steam in June
- Check out this stunning GTA 5 stunt montage, featuring flying tanks and one-winged fighter jets
- Switch emulator announced, made by team behind Citra 3DS emulator
- You can finally play Battlefield 1943 on PC thanks to this mod
- Remnants of Naezith trailer shows off its grappling hook platforming
- Awesome Games Done Quick 2018 finishes with more than $2.25 million raised for charity
- January 13
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- Death Trash is a post-apocalyptic RPG filled with profanity, gore, and puke
- Sea of Thieves team talk improved skeleton AI in latest developer diary
- Re-Legion is a cyberpunk RTS about cults, published by team behind IL-2 Sturmovik
- Tales from the Borderlands is the next free game for Twitch and Amazon Prime members
- Battlefield 1's Operation Campaigns go free for everyone
- Old-school shooter Dusk blasts into Early Access
- January 12
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- Sega teases announcement for next week (that could be a spiritual Theme Hospital successor)
- Kansas swatter faces involuntary manslaughter charge
- MSI's new 144Hz gaming monitors have customizable RGB lighting zones
- Dream Diary, 'the next Yume Nikki project,' gets a teaser trailer and countdown site
- Epic teases upcoming Fortnite Battle Royale changes in a new developer video
- Intel’s Meltdown and Spectre patches are causing reboot issues in older chips
- Electronic Arts and Major League Soccer announce eMLS competitive league for FIFA 18
- Corsair’s 1600W power supply has wattage to spare
- Intel AMT security flaw lets attackers easily bypass laptop passwords
- These two beautifully illustrated 'experimental' games are free on Steam
- Monster Hunter: World producer says it will not have loot boxes
- Anamorphine is a heavy adventure game about mental illness
- Genital Jousting's price will go up when it comes out next week
- Mount & Blade 2: Bannerlord welcomes the Aserai
- Attack on Titan 2 details character editor and online modes
- Elite Dangerous: Beyond to add team-based Wing Missions, open beta kicks off this month
- Celeste gets a solid release date and a nine minute gameplay video
- Bungie outlines how it plans to fix Destiny 2 in 2018
- January 11
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- Human cloning stunt was the weirdest thing at this year's CES
- I tried Pimax's 5K and 8K VR headset with 200-degree field of view
- Ela nerfed again in the Rainbow Six Siege 'Mid-Season Reinforcements' update
- Humble Winter Sale has big discounts on GTA 5, Destiny 2, Prey and more
- Razer's new hi-fi gaming speaker system produces good vibes
- Seedy vampire RPG Vampyr is getting a deep-dive video series
- Donald Trump claimed to have sold fictional Call of Duty jets to Norway
- Adorable musical platformer Fe coming to PC next month
- Spanish government approves $7.8 million grant for indie devs
- SOS, the social survival game, will release on Early Access later this month
- WPA3 is bringing stronger encryption and security to wi-fi routers in 2018
- Intel shares more benchmarks, including graphics, from Spectre and Meltdown patches
- PUBG players respond to BP apology with demand for Chinese region lock over cheating
- Get a Core i7-8700K and MSI Z370 Gaming Pro Carbon motherboard for $530
- EVGA’s 2200W power supply provides enough juice for seven GTX 1080 Ti cards
- Final Fantasy 12: The Zodiac Age is coming to PC next month with new features
- Stellaris: Apocalypse expansion adds Titan ships, marauding pirates, planet-killing weapons
- Dark Souls: Remastered confirmed for PC, release date set
- Dynasty Warriors 9 teases combat, horses, scroll system in new in-game footage
- Street Fighter 5 Arcade Edition update adds colour-coded training mode
- I can't stop clicking this optical keyboard fidget switch while walking at CES
- Try the demo for murder mystery adventure game Rainswept
- January 10
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- Mushkin launches a full suite of M.2 SSDs
- Mewgenics lives, is now a Edmund McMillen and Tyler Glaiel project
- The super-fast Lampadati Viseris comes to GTA Online
- Blizzard's Ben Brode hints at Hearthstone re-balance coming next month
- Former Police frontman Sting will star in Where the Water Tastes Like Wine
- WD’s 4TB My Passport portable hard drive is on sale for $100
- Microsoft points finger at AMD for Spectre and Meltdown patches bricking some PCs
- CES lost power for an hour today
- Ys 8: Lacrimosa of Dana will come to PC at the end of the month
- Intel and Microsoft assess the performance impact of Meltdown and Spectre updates
- Old-school WW2 FPS Battalion 1944 holding a beta next week
- Razer's new wireless gaming mouse is super light because it doesn't have a battery
- Sennheiser launches a gaming headset that won't stick to your skin
- Fortnite Battle Royale update adds 'Cozy Campfire' healing trap, Nvidia ShadowPlay Highlights
- Cyberpunk 2077 Twitter account comes to life after four years of silence
- Total War: Three Kingdoms heads to ancient China later this year
- Space sandbox Planetoid Pioneers releasing next month
- The Raven Remastered release date set for March
- Darkest Dungeon mod adds one of Dark Souls' toughest bosses as new class
- Yume Nikki, the surrealist cult classic adventure game about dreams, is out now on Steam
- Even Kodak is getting into cryptocurrency with a spectacularly opportunistic plan
- Corsair shows off wireless keyboard, mouse, and a mousepad that charged my phone
- Pirate sim Sea of Thieves gets a closed beta later this month
- January 9
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- Subnautica will finally leave Early Access later this month
- Now there's an RGB gaming chair to complete your RGB addiction
- Edge Memory shows off NextGen M.2 NVMe drive
- Try the demo for action roguelike The Onus Helm
- Tripwire Interactive headlines the Humble 'Hope for Orphans' Bundle
- Distract and lure enemies by whistling or throwing bolts with this Fallout 4 mod
- Blaze, the StarCraft Firebat, is now live in Heroes of the Storm
- Bungie community manager confirms Destiny's Crimson Days event is coming
- Maingear slims down its F131 gaming PC and outfits it with custom liquid cooling
- Get a 4-pack of Cooler Master 120mm silent case fans for $9
- Omensight is a time-looping action game about solving a murder
- Overwatch League skins are now available for every character
- Digital Storm shoehorns a liquid-cooled GTX 1080 into a really small chassis
- BioShock developer confirms that obscure Easter egg debug message is real
- Razer’s Project Linda is a prototype laptop shell for the Razer Phone
- NZXT introduces its first motherboard with a customizable color scheme
- WD My Cloud NAS vulnerability detailed
- Civilization 6: Rise and Fall unveils its Tamar-led Georgia
- Intel's Core i5-8400 is back in stock (for now)
- Twitch announces exclusive Overwatch League livestreaming deal
- GTA 5 mod adds The Doomsday Heist's jetpack to single player
- The Red Strings Club release date set
- PUBG to let players report cheaters directly from replay mode, new crate system on test servers
- Get Dark Souls 3, Little Nightmares, Tekken 7 for cheap in Fanatical's Bandai Namco sale
- This Aliens-themed Planet Coaster ride is incredible
- Assassin's Creed Origins will get a free update alongside its first expansion this month
- 2D post-apocalyptic adventure Skytorn will return, dev says
- January 8
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- Toshiba aims for mainstream pricing with new RC100 NVMe SSDs
- 382,000 people tune in to watch the return of notoriously toxic LoL player
- Celeste is a mountain-climbing platformer from the makers of TowerFall
- HTC announces Vive Pro with increased resolution and built-in headphones
- Dragon Ball Fighterz gets final system requirements
- Hotline Miami, The Talos Principle lead Devolver Digital Steam sale
- Hang onto your graphics cards, as cryptocurrency mining spikes GPUs prices
- This UPS will protect your PC from power spikes and is on sale for $125
- GOG's New Year's Resolutions sale is live
- Asus unveils a factory-overclocked desktop with hot-swappable storage
- That Steam UI update is still happening
- GeForce Now, Nvidia's cloud gaming service, begins beta testing on PC
- Intel’s tiny NUC now packs a gaming punch with a Core CPU and Vega GPU
- Nvidia’s latest GPU drivers includes a Spectre fix and Fortnite optimizations
- Fight fascist felines in Doom mod Rise of the Wool Ball
- Lordbound is a huge expansion-sized mod for Skyrim
- Rummaging around in Blade Runner 9732
- Rebellion acquires SkySaga: Infinite Isles studio Radiant Worlds
- The Mercury Man looks like Blade Runner with Russian health nuts
- Watch six minutes of Metal Gear Survive single-player
- Cloud Imperium responds to Crytek's Star Citizen lawsuit
- Nvidia announces massive gaming displays for the living room
- AMD details upcoming 12nm CPUs, Ryzen APUs, and 7nm Vega
- January 7
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- Star Citizen crowdfunded another $35 million in 2017
- Dragon Age's Varric just got a real-life publishing deal for his novel, Hard in Hightown
- Rediscover Kagrenac's legendary Morrowind tools in this Skyrim mod
- Injustice 2 adds Enchantress next week, watch her magic destroy opponents in new trailer
- Ubisoft is fixing Jäger's game-breaking shield glitch next week
- Number of concurrent Steam users passes 18 million, 30% more than a year ago
- January 6
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- Overwatch fan-made Cairo map catches Jeff Kaplan's eye
- Lab Zero's RPG Indivisible raises more than $2.2 million in crowdfunding, due out this year
- Acer announces a liquid cooled 2-in-1 for gamers and a potent Predator desktop
- OGN drops Overwatch Apex tournament after Contenders league snub
- Battle Royale Trainer is a game specifically designed to make you better at PUBG
- Get Civilization 6 and two DLC packs for $12 in latest Humble Monthly bundle (Updated)
- Fortnite servers will be unstable for the next week as Epic protects against Meltdown CPU exploit
- January 5
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- HTC teases a higher resolution Vive VR headset to be unveiled next week
- Rusty Lake Paradise trailer teases a weird adventure about the Plagues of Egypt and your mom
- The Vanishing of Ethan Carter may be getting a 'free roam' mode on PC
- 16 years later, Runescape's most iconic quest gets a sequel
- GOG releases another multiplayer update for the original Star Wars: Battlefront 2
- Bad North is a strategy roguelike with vikings and 'charming brutality'
- Get an Alienware Aurora desktop with a GeForce GTX 1070 for $1,395
- The Messenger is a Ninja Gaiden-inspired platformer with a 16-bit twist
- Several tech giants throw weight behind legal movement to restore net neutrality
- Monster Hunter: World trailer introduces the Elder Dragons
- Homeland Security is making an FPS to train teachers how to respond to school shootings
- 400Gbps Ethernet specification arrives enabling insanely fast file transfers
- AMD releases an alpha Adrenalin driver update to squash DX9 bug
- Here come the class-action lawsuits against Intel over CPU security flaws
- Crypt of the Necrodancer artist gets engaged through his own game
- Sign up for the OMEN by HP Bootcamp at the PC Gamer Weekender 2018
- Hi-Rez president explains why 'Battlegrounds' name was chosen for Paladins' new mode
- University of Cambridge launches Civ 5 superintelligence mod
- ModDB's Endless Space 2 modding contest ends next week
- Valve rescinds Major designation for Philippines Dota 2 tournament
- A small part of Diddy Kong Racing is explorable in this Unreal Engine 4 remake
- Intel CEO sold $39 million in company shares prior to disclosure of CPU security flaws
- Rxcovery is a free RPG about battling modern healthcare
- January 4
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- Watch the Meltdown CPU exploit in action
- FCC chairman Ajit Pai cancels CES appearance over death threats
- Poundmaker Cree Nation leader criticizes Cree portrayal in Civilization 6
- Yogscast's Humble Jingle Jam Bundle raises $5.2 million for charity
- Google is prepping a Chrome update to mitigate newly disclosed CPU exploits
- Spanish government axes $2.4 million in funding for indie devs
- NZXT's H440 mid-tower case is on sale for $87 after rebate
- 2D action MOBA Hyper Universe goes free-to-play this month
- You can now claim your free Hearthstone Kobolds & Catacombs packs
- The Elder Scrolls Online: Dragon Bones is coming in February
- Asus unveils an external GPU enclosure for graphics pros, but works for games
- DP8K DisplayPort cable certification for 8K displays arrives
- Mad Catz comes back from the dead
- Total War: Thrones of Britannia presents Alfred the Great in new footage and screens
- Paladins announces battle royale game mode named 'Battlegrounds'
- Smite unveils new Conquest map, Cerberus god, incoming pantheons
- Ni No Kuni 2 shows off its new RTS skirmishes and traditional role-playing
- Hellbound horror game Agony teases ghastly Red Goddess
- Dell upgrades XPS 13 laptop with quad-core CPU options and slimmer design
- January 3
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- Kylo Ren returns as Matt the radar tech in this spoof Star Wars Battlefront 2 mod
- Star Wars Battlefront 2 gets a pink Darth Vader mod
- Intel responds to security research bug, says no cause for concern
- Insurgency: Sandstorm cancels story mode, but alpha test signups are live
- The 2017 Steam Awards winners are revealed
- 2018 Independent Games Festival award nominees announced
- Binding of Isaac dev delays turn-based puzzle RPG Legend of Bum-bo
- SanDisk's 240GB SATA 6Gbps solid state drive dips below $70
- Playerunknown's Battlegrounds boss would like to see it made into a movie
- ASRock's Z370 Killer SLI AC motherboard is on sale for $110 after rebate
- Awesome Games Done Quick 2018 starts this Sunday
- GeForce GTX 1060 is now the most popular card on Steam
- Fallout 4: New Vegas mod teases Goodsprings, destruction physics, karma system
- Monster Hunter: World 'aiming' for autumn 2018 PC release
- Lawbreakers publisher cites success of PUBG as partial reason for shooter's failure
- PUBG PC patch targets hit registration, lobby crashes
- ModDB names Brutal Doom Mod of the Year 2017, Skyblivion as Best Upcoming Mod
- The latest Humble Staff Picks Bundle gathers BioShock Infinite, Aragami, Punch Club
- ESA encourages World Health Organization to reconsider 'Gaming Disorder' classification
- Serious Intel CPU design flaw may require a Windows patch, but probably won't affect gaming performance
- Overwatch's next Hero is in internal testing, Year of the Dog event is coming soon
- January 2
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- Blade Runner 9732, a virtual tour of Deckard's apartment, is now playable
- Fallout 4 mod lets you assign NPCs to plan and manage your settlements
- TimeSplitters Rewind update vlog showcases WIP weapons and map
- This Sonic cycle mod for Breath of the Wild proves Link, too, has gotta go fast
- Samsung 34-inch curved quantum dot monitor is on sale for $700
- Plextor launches an RGB solid state drive because someone had to
- GTA Online's latest update adds a raging racer with front-firing machine guns
- The Cree, led by Poundmaker, are coming to Civilization 6
- Everything you need to know about Blaze, the StarCraft Firebat joining Heroes of the Storm
- Microsoft takes down PUBG ad that closely copies a fan-made work
- AMD vows to fix Adrenalin driver bug affecting some DirectX 9 games
- LG kicks off 2018 with a massive 88-inch 8K OLED display
- Shenmue 3 producer reiterates 2018 launch, promises 'many other surprises'
- Sumo Digital acquires EVE studio's Newcastle branch
- Fortnite Battle Royale reveals limited-time 'Sneaky Silencer' mode with new weapon
- Join the PC Gamer Club and get a copy of Violet Cycle
- Devil May Cry and Dragon's Dogma director says new game is 'under climax'
- January 1
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- Valve: Linux Catbot VAC ban claims were hoaxed by hackers to 'sow distrust among anti-cheat systems' (Updated)
- Destiny 2 player develops his own Infinite Forest that's actually endless
- Steam reveals 2017's biggest earners, including The Witcher 3, H1Z1 and PUBG
- Watch an Overwatch streamer control Genji using only fidget spinners
- Need for Speed Payback to add online free roam
- Platinum Games working on two self-published games (and you can bet they'll end up on PC)
- Does Fallout 4's Codsworth know your name? Check this list.
- Learn about undergrad Computer Courses at the PC Gamer Weekender
