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August 31
- Chucklefish responds to allegations it exploited volunteer Starbound developers
- Night in the Woods developer Alec Holowka has died
- Ultrakill looks like a PSX game and moves like turbo Doom Eternal in this free demo
- This free Total War: Warhammer 2 update adds enormous, unique forts to defend and conquer
- Guild Wars 2's first expansion now comes free with its second
- Watch 30 minutes of The Binding Of Isaac: Rebirth's final gruesome expansion
- Star Citizen's singleplayer beta release date has been pushed back
- Epic revamped the Epic Games Store roadmap to remove target months
August 30
- The biggest PC gaming stories of the week
- Metro Exodus publisher says more Epic Store exclusives are possible
- Borderlands 3's 2019 roadmap vaguely revealed
- Borderlands 3 will bring back True Vault Hunter and add a new Mayhem endgame mode
- Lenovo Legion Y540 gaming laptop with an RTX 2060 is down to $1,230
- The Avengers relied on God of War's combat designer for fun and 'data crunching' to balance it
- Gearbox announces Homeworld 3 at PAX West
- Cyberpunk 2077 customization options, 'cyberninjas,' and more details revealed in today's Q&A
- Some madman has already hit level 60 in World of Warcraft Classic
- Apex Legends' 'Voidwalker' event begins next week
- AOC launches a 1440p curved 27-inch monitor for $279
- Cyberpunk 2077 video shows off 15 minutes of gameplay
- I'm impressed with AOC's fantastic new gaming monitor warranty coverage
- Untitled Goose Game is coming to the Epic Games Store in September
- AMD is ahead of Nvidia in overall GPU shipments for the first time since 2013
- Trine 4 shows off 7 minutes of watery puzzles and mammals
- Save up to $70 on the acclaimed Anne Pro 2 keyboard at Newegg
- Duke Nukem (or at least his voice) is now available for weddings
- Pathologic 2 will get free DLC despite studio struggles (updated)
- Man Of Medan hides a trailer for Little Hope, the next Dark Pictures adventure
- Two Point Hospital probes aliens in the Close Encounters DLC
- Destiny 2's most coveted grenade launchers now demand less grind
- Planet Zoo will have aardvarks
- Dirt Rally is free to keep on the Humble Store
- Updated: Images from the new Resident Evil leak
- This forthcoming retro FPS is a throwback to the Nintendo 64 era
- Borderlands 3 writer wants to do more Tales from the Borderlands
- Greedfall extended gameplay video shows a promising blend of The Witcher 3 and Dragon Age
August 29
- Yakuza 7 is replacing beat 'em up action with turn-based combat
- Valve will fight European Commission's anti-competition ruling against Steam
- The Witcher 3 is selling better in 2019 than it did last year
- Noita, the game that simulates every pixel's physics, hits Early Access this September
- Final Fantasy XIV patch 5.08 buffs the Ninja and Samurai classes
- One of Logitech's best mice is more than half off at Best Buy
- Blatant Warcraft ripoff goes offline after Blizzard files a lawsuit
- Destiny 2's new seasonal model will offer free and 'premium' reward paths
- Manifold Garden, Wattam, and No Straight Roads will be Epic exclusives
- EVGA’s new G5 PSUs come out with aggressive pricing and a 10-year warranty
- The Lab gets a handy physics-driven update
- Celeste and Inside go free on Epic Games Store, with another two next week
- Gigabyte is launching a high-end 17-inch gaming laptop with a 240Hz display
- Planetside Arena enters Early Access in September with 300-player battles
- Star Wars: The Old Republic's Onslaught expansion is now due in October
- Total War: Warhammer 2's next DLC adds its biggest, stompiest dinosaur yet
- Try grisly metroidvania Blasphemous before the demo vanishes on Sunday
- World Of Warcraft Classic is 'substantially' boosting player capacity
- John Carmack wishes Rage had been released earlier
- The next Apex Legends event will (probably) be about Wraith
August 28
- Control has a deeply weird cameo from a famous game developer
- Bloodlines 2's first faction is the old money Pioneers
- Shovel Knight Dig will take the pixellated platformer underground
- Multiple men in the games industry accused of sexual abuse or assault
- AMD agrees to settle a class-action lawsuit over its Bulldozer CPUs for $12.1 million
- Updating the BIOS on your pre-X570 motherboard could break PCIe 4 support
- YouTuber ProJared denies soliciting nude photos from minors (Updated)
- Stalker: Anomaly 1.5 is a worthy fan-made successor to the series
- The world’s first trillion-transistor chip is bigger than some mouse pads
- Ubisoft executive thinks that Steam's business model is 'unrealistic'
- Dell's G3 gaming laptop with a GTX 1660 Ti is down to $850
- Telltale Games to return under new management
- The Alder's Blood demo feels like Bloodborne's sneaky turn-based cousin
- Try The Surge for free before the sequel lands next month
- Hunt: Showdown has officially launched out of Early Access
August 27
- Bloodlines 2's demo gets added info from creative director
- Gamestop conference leak may have confirmed that Crypto is coming to Apex Legends
- Fighting game pro SonicFox raises $22,150 for charity in 72-hour livestream
- Population Zero, a story-driven sci-fi MMO, begins beta testing in September
- Watch a Sandworm smash a weird wooden land crawler in a new Last Oasis trailer
- Nvidia chipmaker TSMC basically just called GlobalFoundries a patent troll
- The Bard's Tale 4: Director's Cut adds a new dungeon, difficulties, and 'thousands' of fixes
- XFX's custom Radeon RX 5700 XT is dressed to impress
- Mega Man Zero/ZX Legacy Collection is coming to Steam in January
- Elgato's Stream Deck Mini is on sale for $50 right now
- World of Warcraft game director responds to Classic queue complaints
- Nvidia releases a 'Game Ready' GPU driver optimized for Control
- A modder is remastering Red Dead Redemption on PC
- Frostpunk's first expansion and season pass are out today
- A Norwegian ISP postponed maintenance for World of Warcraft Classic
- Assassin's Creed Odyssey: Fate of Atlantis Episode 1 is free
- Fortnite and Borderlands collide in the latest update
- Grab an Intel Core i7-9700K CPU for its lowest price
- Rainbow Six Siege will be free for a week starting tomorrow
August 26
- Get the Razer Kraken Tournament Edition Headset for just $60
- Dying Light 2 gameplay video offers half an hour of in-game footage
- Some World of Warcraft Classic servers already have hour-long queues to get in
- Battlefront 2 developer says the community is 'happier than it's ever been'
- HTC Vive Pro has returned to its Prime Day price of $599
- LG's 31-inch G-Sync gaming monitor is down to $415
- Here's when World of Warcraft Classic launches around the world
- Conan Chop Chop, the April Fool's joke that became a real game, delayed to 2020
- AMD's 19.8.2 GPU driver promises up to 10 percent better performance in Control
- Thermaltake’s newest mechanical keyboard costs less than $4,500
- Ion Fury developers decide not to remove homophobic content after Steam review bombing
- Nvidia might face import bans due to a patent lawsuit against the company that makes its chips
- This new mine-laying Star Citizen spaceship costs over $600 (updated)
- Intel pats AMD on the back for 'closing the gap' but says its CPUs are still best for gaming
- Ashen will drop Epic Games Store exclusivity and arrive on Steam and GOG this year
- The International 2019 was Twitch's most-watched Dota 2 event ever
- Diablo 3 Season 18 is live now, and here's what's new
- Bandai Namco sees the Epic Games Store as both an opportunity and a threat
- Kingdom Come: Deliverance is getting official modding support
- Minecraft's new bees have already been made rideable
- Now machine translation can translate emulated games while you're playing them
August 25
- Ambitious Portal 2 mod Destroyed Aperture is still alive despite long silence
- The Sims studio Maxis hiring creative director for 'live service' game based on new IP
- Valve unveils new Dota 2 heroes, including a grandma with a shotgun who bakes cookies
- OG Dota wins The International for the second year in a row, claims biggest esports prize ever
- Valve admits it mistakenly dismissed Steam security flaw
- Six CS:GO players arrested for alleged match-fixing in Australia
- Life is Strange 2 Episode 4 out now
- See Gears of War 2, Fable 2, Lost Odyssey, Silent Hill: Downpour and more emulated on PC
- Flash emulation project aims to preserve gaming history
August 24
- Horror puzzler Darq is getting multiple free DLCs later this year
- Assassin's Creed Odyssey, The Division 2 and Rainbow Six Siege all half price or better this weekend
- Metro 2033 film announced, will premiere in 2022
- Blizzard to open new WoW Classic servers after warning of 'severe queues' at launch
- GOG exclusives 'don't work', store says (Updated)
August 23
- Overwatch's Workshop now has programmable bots, enabling training modes and Auto Chess-like experiments
- An incredulous Steve Harvey told Ninja to 'make some money' as a gamer in 2015
- Here's eleven minutes of Skywind, the mod porting Morrowind to Skyrim
- Bungie says Activision wasn't a 'prohibitive overlord' on Destiny 2
- Celtic RPG The Waylanders shows off cinematic trailer and gameplay
- Alienware redesigned its Aurora desktop and it’s now available starting at $969
- This Dell 144Hz G-Sync monitor is down to $350 at Best Buy
- Battlefleet Gothic: Armada 2 is free to play on Steam this weekend
- HP is releasing a 27-inch 240Hz QHD gaming monitor with HDR for $649
- Riot Games settles gender discrimination lawsuit, says sexism is 'not systemic'
- One of our favorite CPU coolers is about to get a whole lot sleeker
- Disintegration Gamescom trailer features 12 minutes of frenetic multiplayer
- Elite Dangerous is getting a full tutorial and enormous fleet carriers this year
- Cyberpunk 2077 should feel like a continuation of the 1990 tabletop game, creator says
- Dolphin devs estimate they've done $10 million worth of work emulating the GameCube and Wii
- In Exorcise the Demons, your friends guide you through arcane rituals
- Fortnite's mechs have finally gotten a major nerf
- Battlefield 5's 5v5 mode has been canceled
August 22
- John Romero's great-grandmother is an underworld boss in Empire of Sin
- Epic Store exclusive Hades is headed to Steam in December
- This Dell G5 gaming desktop with a GTX 1660 Ti is down to $814
- This whitepaper takes a deep dive into the RDNA architecture powering Navi
- Kerbal Space Program 2 dev reveals how baby Kerbals are made
- Asus is releasing a 43-inch HDR gaming monitor priced at around $1,000
- Soon you can spend your winnings in Las Vegas at Razer's massive new store
- Hearthstone is finally nerfing Dr. Boom and several other problem cards
- Fez is free on the Epic Games Store, two more freebies coming next week
- Square Enix wants to break the barriers between Final Fantasy 14 datacenters
- Fire is coming to Sea of Thieves, although we're not supposed to know that yet
- Knights of Honor 2 is set to be a more accessible grand strategy game
- The first Age of Empires 4 gameplay footage will be shown at XO in November
- Here's some raw 4K gameplay footage from Need For Speed: Heat
- Rocket League season 12 and the new Rocket Pass will be here next week
August 21
- A new Iron Harvest gameplay trailer reveals 2020 release date
- The latest thing to support ray tracing is Excel, apparently
- Kingdom Under Fire 2 is coming in November
- Super cute town adventure Garden Story harvests a publisher
- You can fight the law in Cyberpunk 2077, but the law will win
- Strap on these futuristic flip-flops to run around in VR
- Here's a half-hour of Bloodlines 2 gameplay from Gamescom
- Steam China will be 'almost entirely independent of Steam'
- Mortal Kombat 11's full Kombat Pack DLC character roster is here
- G.Skill’s newest mechanical keyboard skips flashy RGB lighting and costs $50
- Next-gen Threadripper is in AMD’s plans, but probably not multi-GPU support
- A modder recreated the classic Dust 2 map textures for CS:GO using artificial-intelligence
- Check out the first trailer for Snowrunner, the renamed sequel to Mudrunner
- Intel just bolstered its laptop CPU lineup with new 14nm Comet Lake processors
- New publisher Modern Wolf unveils a crunch-free games lineup
- Nvidia's new GPU driver promises big performance gains and new features
- Series producer hints Yakuza 3, 4, and 5 could be coming to PC
- Steel Division 2's first free DLC pack is out now
- Planet Zoo reveals pre-order beta dates
- Rainbow Six Siege's Halloween skins appear to have leaked
- For Honor is free to keep this week on Uplay
- GOG celebrates two million community wishlist fulfilments
- DayZ's Australia ban has been officially reversed
- Control trailer looks like it needs to be secured, contained, and protected for our safety
- Get a free Nix-Hound from Skyrim's Creation Club
- Sea of Thieves gets a free 'Halo inspired' Spartan ship set, but you have to be quick
August 20
- New Cyberpunk 2077 screenshots show gruff, burly men in gritty futuristic environments
- Metro Exodus: The Two Colonels trailer reveals a return to tunnels and horror
- THQ Nordic is bringing back Comanche as a multiplayer online shooter
- Gears 5 on Steam will run on Windows 7
- Psychological horror series Remothered returns next year with Broken Porcelain
- HP’s first gaming laptop powered by an AMD CPU will start at $799
- Destiny 2 Steam transfers have begun
- Corsair turns up the brightness on its newest wireless gaming keyboard
- Elgato updates its flagship capture card with HDR support and a cheaper price tag
- Gearbox is teasing a Homeworld announcement at PAX West
- Fallout 76 raids have begun
- The original Legend of Zelda map recreated in Fortnite looks pretty incredible
- Monster Hunter World: Iceborne trailer hints at a powerful new monster
- You can become a wizard in The Sims 4's next game pack, Realm of Magic
- Doom Eternal's new Hunter was built to slay the Slayer
- Why Mount & Blade II: Bannerlord is choosing early access after eight years of development
- Here's some new Marvel's Avengers gameplay footage
- Everything you ever wanted to know about Gears 5 Horde Mode
- Doom Eternal has a longer single player campaign than Doom 2016
- Mount & Blade II: Bannerlord now has an early access release date
- The next Settlers game has been delayed until 2020
- A Rockstar title called 'Bonaire' has been refused classification in Australia
- New Watch Dogs: Legion trailer explains its 'play as anyone' promise
August 19
- Syberia: The World Before will bring back Kate Walker for a new adventure
- You can now report Rainbow Six Siege players with a 'negative attitude' (update)
- Oddworld: Soulstorm is the latest Epic Games Store exclusive
- Respawn CEO Vince Zampella apologizes for developer comments in Apex Legends furor
- Goofy strategy sim Spacebase Startopia announced for late next year
- We wanted Death Stranding PC news at Gamescom but got Norman Reedus peeing instead
- Gamescom's opening show was briefly blocked by YouTube for Ubisoft copyright infringement
- Age of Empires 2: Definitive Edition is coming in November
- Magic: The Gathering Arena coming exclusively to Epic Games Store this winter
- Destiny 2's Season of the Undying looks uncomfortably Vexy based on this story trailer
- Sci-fi shooter Disintegration puts you in a grav-cycle for singleplayer and multiplayer battles
- GreedFall's new 'Companions Trailer' teases the getting busy bits
- Humankind is a historical 4X strategy game from the creators of Endless Legend
- Everspace 2 unveiled at Gamescom
- Little Nightmares 2 is coming next year
- Need for Speed: Heat trailer reveals day/night gameplay and the return of the cops
- Kerbal Space Program 2 announced
- A new Gears 5 story trailer depicts a world in ruin, wind-surfing
- Destiny 2 Gamescom trailer shows off new Shadowkeep exotic
- Nvidia CEO says buying a GPU without ray tracing is ‘just crazy’
- The Surge 2's new Gamescom trailer shows off ducking, dodging, and more
- HyperX is adding a couple of nifty upgrades to our favorite gaming headset
- Cyberpunk 2077 will be on Stadia
- Al Capone plays the Chicago Piano in the first Empire of Sin gameplay trailer
- Bloodlines 2 RTX trailer teases sweet graphics and a mysterious woman in red
- The world's first 55-inch OLED gaming monitor lands next month, costs $4,000
- Wasteland 3 Gamescom trailer introduces the Patriarch of Colorado, who doesn't seem very nice
- Gory Metroidvania Blasphemous launches next month
- Journey to the Savage Planet will have online co-op, launches in January
- Ghostrunner is a cyberpunk-style mix of Dishonored and Mirror's Edge
- This new Control trailer shows off its ray traced lighting effects
- Official ray tracing support is coming to Minecraft
- A Resident Evil movie reboot is in development
- Grandia HD Remaster is coming to Steam
August 18
- Cliff Bleszinski might make another game after all (and it won't be a battle royale)
- Suda51's Travis Strikes Again: No More Heroes gets October PC release date
- Apex Legends producer calls players 'ass-hats' and 'dicks' in heated Reddit thread
- Everything coming in Rainbow Six Siege: Operation Ember Rise, and what it means for the meta
- Her Story is just $2 ahead of Sam Barlow's Telling Lies release
- Darq developer reveals why he turned down Epic Store exclusivity
- THQ Nordic snaps up Darksiders 3 studio Gunfire Games
- Diablo 3's next season will add buffs for players from level 1
- Coffee Talk lets you make coffee for orcs and elves in an alternative Seattle
August 17
- Lead producer of next Dragon Age game leaves BioWare
- DayZ ban makes Australia 'laughing stock of the world', says politician
- Eliza is a visual novel about AI therapy from Zachtronics, out now
- Epic Games opens streaming-focused studio led by Star Wars: Rogue Squadron creators
- Blizzard urges fans to switch WoW Classic servers, Herod 'massively overpopulated'
- Fallout 76's raid in Vault 94 detailed
August 16
- Apex Legends producer says Iron Crown Collection Event 'missed the mark'
- The No Man's Sky fan-funded billboard is up
- HD remasters of Commandos 2 and Praetorians now have gameplay trailers
- Sniper Ghost Warrior Contracts trailer reveals a November release date
- System Shock 2 Enhanced Edition devs are focused on multiplayer and mods
- Halo: Infinite creative director Tim Longo has left 343 Industries
- Bungie admits Destiny 2's Trials of the Nine 'wasn't the hero we wanted it to be'
- Dell's G3 15 laptop with a GTX 1660 Ti is down to just $635
- No Man's Sky modders are already updating mods for Beyond
- Antec’s new mid-tower case flaunts RGB lighting and tempered glass for $65
- Skyblivion's new voice-acted trailer looks like an actual game
- Scan UK’s new 48-hour hardware replacement program is genius
- Skyrim SE mod finally lets you do something useful with books, like burn them
- Evo 2019 attendees may have been exposed to measles
- This free game only has one tiny enemy, and you've got to grow it into a boss
- TSMC is 'raiding the periodic table' to keep Moore's Law alive
- Ancestors: The Humankind Odyssey shows off its evolution system
- Hyper Light Drifter and Mutant Year Zero are free on the Epic Games Store
- A new Telling Lies trailer tells the true release date
- The Borderlands YouTuber being investigated by 2K no longer has a channel
- Need for Speed: Heat will never have loot boxes
- Don't Starve Together introduces rickety multiplayer boats
- Microsoft Flight Simulator's first technical alpha is coming in September
- Mr Flipper is a free pinball game with one hell of a twist
- There's a new teaser for that Doom movie they're making
- Grab an RTX 2080 on sale for $589, the lowest price we've ever seen
- Korn is playing a live concert in AdventureQuest 3D later this month
August 15
- Epic stands by Fortnite's mechs, says they cause relatively few eliminations
- Yooka-Laylee and the Impossible Lair brings Donkey Kong Country-style action to PC in October
- Supercharge your gaming setup with this Lenovo Legion desktop PC, $490 off
- Anthem lead producer Ben Irving is leaving BioWare
- Destiny 2: Shadowkeep will bump all players to Power level 750
- Pricing looks good on PowerColor’s Red Devil and Dragon Radeon RX 5700 cards
- Epic Games Store gets better product pages and more cloud saving
- Memory giant SK Hynix is making another run at consumer SSDs
- Logitech launches a pair of 'impossibly thin' mechanical gaming keyboards
- The Eternal Cylinder is a surreal survival game where you raise aliens
- Blair Witch trailer shows completely safe and normal forest
- Superhot Team is now funding games but says it's 'totally not a publisher'
- Rock of Ages 3: Make & Break is coming to flatten your castle next year
- No Man's Sky Beyond's first update tackles stability issues
- Celebrate whatever Intel Gaming Days is with discounts on Lenovo desktops and laptops
- King's Bounty 2 takes the tactical RPG in a new direction
- Doom Eternal's multiplayer trailer shows off the 2v1 Battlemode
- Bloodlines 2 dev explains how it connects to the tabletop RPG
- Gfinity Esports Australia is shutting down
August 14
- No Man's Sky Beyond has launched, but it's also been crashing
- Spelunky 2 probably won't be out this year
- Metro author Dmitry Glukhovsky says he's working on the next game in the series
- This Witcher 3 mod turns Geralt of Rivia into a man resembling Henry Cavill
- Epic apologizes for selling a new Fortnite dog that was identical to an old Fortnite dog
- Enhance your gaming rig with this $150 24-inch Dell gaming monitor
- MSI's gaming laptop with a 120Hz screen and GTX 1660 Ti is down to $1,029
- This Fallout 76 player built a 'looking for group' hub outside the upcoming raid
- Grab a Lenovo Legion gaming laptop for $200 off during their back-to-school sale
- Destiny 2 livestream shows off dramatic changes coming to armor customization
- Fretting over high GPU temps? AMD says 110C is 'expected and within spec' on Navi
- Several days of Borderlands 3 gameplay streams are ahead
- Retail Row returns to Fortnite, and it brought some purple friends
- Sorry Bill Nye, but I'm not dumping my Windows PC in favor of a Chromebook
- Steam adds 'played on another platform' as a new way to ignore games in the store
- AMD's new Radeon 600 GPUs appear to be rebrands of the 500 series
- Sea of Thieves' Dark Relics update finally sticks harpoon guns on rowboats
- Learn how to pilot a stolen alien vehicle in Nauticrawl
- No Man's Sky inventory slot capacity gets a slight bump from 250 to, uh... 10,000
- Ice-T voices a character in Borderlands 3
- Need for Speed: Heat will pit you against rogue cops in November
- The Falconeer is a dogfighting game with giant birds
- Volition is working on a new Saints Row
- G2A responds to Unknown Worlds' accusations, calling them slander (Updated)
- Puzzle with giant jelly cubes in clever, free puzzle game Splitting Headache
August 13
- PC Building Simulator comes to consoles
- Apex's new super-legendary item basically costs $170
- No Man's Sky Beyond (probably) won't mess up your bases like Next did
- Take-Two boss says linking videogames to gun violence is 'disrespectful' to victims
- Destiny 2 director reflects on the state of the game and what's coming next
- Skateboarding sim Session is coming to Steam in September
- Fornite, Apex Legends cheaters have been targeted by 'hit and run' malware
- Adata just added a 2TB option to its high-performance XPG SX8200 Pro SSD line
- Grab this GPU driver to play DRM-protected 4K videos on an RX 5700 card
- Custom Radeon RX 5700 series cards are starting to arrive on retail sites
- Nvidia's RTX 2070 Super and 2080 Super cards are back in stock
- Apex Legends solos mode goes live along with expensive new skins and a new currency
- DayZ will be changed everywhere because of the Australian ban
- Prey 2 audio logs reveal more of the cancelled game's story
- Quantic Dream is 'not exclusive to any platform anymore'
- Shenmue 3's backer PC trial is coming next month
- Total War: Shogun 2's best DLC is now a standalone Saga
- This Fallout 76 player lives underneath the map
- Fortnite shop update: the newest skin is a cop
- Plants vs. Zombies: Battle for Neighborville trailer leaks
- Vampire: The Masquerade—Coteries of New York detailed
- Fight Crab is a game about giant crabs fighting, and it features chainsaws
- Pick up this Dell S2417DG 24-inch Gaming Monitorwith G-Sync for just $320
- Borderlands 3 will not be preloadable
August 12
- Ninja gave his phone number to the entire internet, but it was just a marketing thing
- Fortnite's new mode is like prop hunt meets red light, green light
- Former id Software boss Tim Willits joins Saber Interactive
- The SteelSeries Sensei 310 ambidextrous mouse is just $35, its lowest price ever
- Cyberpunk tabletop creator will cameo in Cyberpunk 2077
- Minecraft's Super Duper Graphics Pack canceled for being 'too technically demanding'
- This LG ultrawide monitor is $78 off for today only
- Subnautica dev to G2A: 'You now owe us $300,000'
- I wish all laptops had as many ports as the newest Vaio
- Modders have added Dr Disrespect to two Resident Evil games
- Asus is readying ROG Strix branded 650W and 750W power supplies
- It was only a matter of time before Falcon Northwest jumped on the RGB bandwagon
- Fortnite's 16-year-old solo champion was swatted during a stream
- Replay Borderlands 2 with this big overhaul mod
- Knights and Bikes is a nostalgic co-op adventure coming this month
- Need for Speed countdown teases an impending reveal
- Get Alienware's M17 gaming laptop for (almost) its lowest ever price
- Gears 5's map builder makes creating murder rooms look easy
- Horror meets skateboarding in the spookily rad, free Orange County
- Dwarf Fortress publisher explains why there's no release window
- Grid 2 has been removed from Steam
- An enhanced edition of System Shock 2 is in development
August 11
- Ninja 'disgusted' after Twitch accidentally promotes porn stream on his dormant channel
- Still There is a dark, pensive game starring a space lighthouse keeper, out this year
- Shortest Trip to Earth, the tricky FTL-like, leaves Early Access this week
- Electronic Super Joy 2 could be your next ultra-hard platformer, out now
- Battlestar Galactica Deadlock DLC adds new campaign and ships later this month
- Steam Workshop items for CS:GO, Dota 2, and TF2 now require Valve approval (Updated)
- Plants vs. Zombies: Battle for Neighborville trademarked by EA
- Deeply messed-up visual novel Saya no Uta is coming to Steam
August 10
- SteamWorld Quest gets extra difficulty mode and new game plus in free update
- Modder brings Minecraft Earth mobs to PC, including a chicken that lays mushrooms
- Capcom expands testing of unannounced Resident Evil game
- Skyrim player completes game using only a torch
- Some of the PC's best visual novels are 80% off this weekend
- Epic reduces Fortnite mech spawns in Arena and Tournament playlists (Updated)
August 9
- This confounding game is chess, but with gravity
- Killing Floor 2 will offer 'paid weapon' DLC in future content updates
- Outer Wilds publisher says 'we're not going anywhere' following bankruptcy speculation
- Pick up this 32-inch LG gaming monitor for $250 off
- The Razer Blade Stealth ultrabook is $300 off right now
- Loot boxes are a matter of 'life or death' for problem gamblers, says researcher
- Dog shelter simulator To The Rescue hits Kickstarter goal after two days
- Indivisible, the action-RPG from the maker of Skullgirls, is coming in October
- Play Sekiro as Krillin, the strongest man on Earth
- Fantasy tavern simulator Crossroads Inn will release in October
- You can buy a mouse with a real spider inside just keep it far, far away from me
- Totally Accurate Battle Simulator's Renaissance update adds Da Vinci's tank
- The next thing Razer is adding RGB lighting to is *checks notes* a car
- Epic pledges loot box transparency across all of its games
- Stone Story, an ASCII art RPG, is out now in Steam Early Access
- Recent antivirus testing found Windows Defender to be a top performer
- Discord is adding built-in gameplay streaming to its voice channels
- DayZ's ban in Australia now extends to digital sales
- Final Fantasy 14 is free for 6 days for returning players
- PC Gamer UK podcast 72: Another One Hundred Videogames
- Watch Hitman 2's homing briefcase chase someone for 2 minutes
- Total War Saga is heading to Troy, according to a trademark application
- No Man's Sky Beyond will add 32 player support, powered bases, cooking, and alien milking
- Trine 4 and the Ultimate Collection are coming in October
- Just Cause 4: Danger Rising gives Rico a hoverboard
- Confront the past in beautiful free adventure game An Eternity, Reflecting
- Trade your life for sweet upgrades in free shmup Guardian Sphere
- More rejected Borderlands 3 cover art
- The Rock, Becky Lynch, Xavier Woods, and John Cena join Brawlhalla
- Apex Legends tournament won't air on TV due to recent shootings (updated)
- Infinity Ward says Modern Warfare isn't political
August 8
- Twitch has launched its own broadcasting software
- Bungie reveals Destiny 2 Steam date and cross save details
- Halo: The Master Chief Collection testing will resume 'when it's ready'
- This adorably small PC packs some serious firepower, including up to an RTX 2070
- Gnog is free on the Epic Games Store, and free Alan Wake and For Honor are still available for now
- Remake of FPS XIII has been delayed into 2020
- Ark's next expansion, Genesis, brings giant sea turtle forts and a voiced AI companion
- Google Fiber goes wireless in Austin, bringing 1Gbps internet to apartment dwellers
- AMD launches three 64-core, 128-thread CPUs, but they’re for the datacenter
- Solve virtual crimes in cyberpunk RPG Gamedec next year
- Borderlands 3's final character trailer introduces FL4K and his pets
- No Man's Sky Beyond will let you ride giant crabs
- Blizzard is helping people find old World of Warcraft friends
- Valve has put a stop to the Steam release date exploit (updated)
- Wargaming is bringing its new team-based shooter to Gamescom
- Final Fantasy 14: A Realm Reborn is getting condensed
August 7
- 2K confirms sending private investigators to Borderlands streamer's house
- GreedFall's new gameplay trailer shows off stealth, skills, and romance
- Death Stranding is no longer listed as a PlayStation 4 exclusive
- The 'Big Bad Update' for Hades adds a new biome and new story events
- Some Rocket League players are furious about the upcoming loot box removal
- Elizabeth Warren wants to give rural America better internet
- Police report no 'active threat' at Twitch HQ following social media scare
- My Time At Portia celebrates Chinese Valentine's Day with romance update
- Microsoft, EA, Ubisoft and others agree to start sharing loot box odds
- An overclocker just set the DDR4 frequency record at 5.9GHz
- Your friend might get you killed in Man of Medan's co-op mode
- Origin PC found a way to dress up the backside of a motherboard
- Ninja hits one million subscribers on Mixer in less than a week
- Roguelike RPG Children of Morta is launching next month
- Consumer SSD speeds are on track to hit a mind-boggling 7GB/s next year
- A GTA Online casino glitch lets players win chips fast on the horse races
- Take a tour of a System Shock remake toilet
- DayZ has been refused classification in Australia (updated)
- Call of Duty: Modern Warfare lets you equip a bloodthirsty Tamagotchi
- Niche is a cute genetics survival game that's now free for schools
- World of Warcraft Classic is getting one more test before launch
August 6
- Decay of Logos looks like Zelda: Breath of the Wild crossed with Dark Souls
- A year after sexism report rocked Riot Games, studio says it's made 'significant strides'
- DuckTales: Remastered is being removed from digital storefronts
- Amp up with this Corsair TX650M PSU, just $75 after rebate
- Rocket League is dropping randomized loot crates
- Ooblets devs reveal threats of violence and racist abuse following Epic Store announcement
- Hearthstone: Saviors of Uldum is now live
- Acer claims its new gaming monitors can achieve up to a 0.2ms response time
- Anthem's big Cataclysm event has finally begun
- You'll soon be able to play Apex Legends solo
- SSD makers might not be headed for a price war, after all
- Fortnite shop update: New skins let out your inner cowboy
- AMD CEO Dr. Lisa Su says there is ‘zero truth’ to rumor she is jumping ship to IBM
- Gamescom will kick off with world premieres from more than 15 publishers
- Borderlands 3's Amara is looking for a fight in a new character trailer
- Cook, Serve, Delicious! 3?! is a post-apocalyptic culinary road trip
- Fortnite 10.00 update brings back the Wild West
- Vermintide 2: Winds of Magic gets a gory gameplay trailer
- Borderlands 2 sales have jumped another 2 million since May
- Stumble through the dark in free exploration game Reaching
- Wasteland 3's alpha launches this month, followed by Early Access
- 'Buddy boost' feature cut from Call of Duty: Modern Warfare
- Plot out the rest of your summer with this Stardew Valley island farm mod
- Watch CJ and Big Smoke from GTA: San Andreas duke it out in Sekiro
August 5
- Take a break from Steam's Interactive Recommender by sharing your favorite hidden gems
- This mod ports Duke Nukem 3D into the Serious Sam 3 engine
- Epic addresses Ooblets outrage with statement on 'misinformation and abuse'
- This Acer gaming laptop with a 144Hz screen is just $900 right now
- E3 organizer leaks personal info of over 2,000 media and content creators
- Master Chief Collection update shows off ultrawide support and some goofy bugs
- Report suggests VR developers are shifting attention from HTC Vive to Oculus Rift
- Be your own Bob Ross with this glorious 3D landscape painting tool
- US president Donald Trump blames videogames for fueling violent culture
- Play it safe and install Nvidia’s latest GPU drivers to mitigate five security flaws
- Microsoft just made a bunch of tweaks to its new Windows Terminal
- This Metal Gear Solid mod gives Snake an intimidating banana
- Cyberpunk 2077 will have a New Game Plus mode
- Hotline Miami teaser promises trailer soon (updated)
- Snake is not sneaking into Tekken 7 (Updated)
- Master of Magic acquired by strategy publisher Slitherine
- Start a PC gaming journey with $350 off this HP Pavilion pre-built gaming machine
- Total War: Elysium is a card game spin-off launching in China first
- 100 million people are playing Roblox every month
August 4
- Romance of The Three Kingdoms 14 announced, due early 2020
- Republican politicians say videogames partly to blame for mass shootings
- Borderlands 2 dev explains why there's mysterious boxes hidden under every level
- Automachef and Wonder Boy among four free games for Twitch Prime subscribers
- Respawn producer appears to tease new Apex Legends character
- Record of Lodoss War platformer heading to Early Access later this year
- Infinity Ward's focus isn't on battle royale, Call of Duty: Modern Warfare multiplayer design director says
August 3
- Capcom asks select fans to test new Resident Evil game
- Rumor: Rainbow Six Siege's Season 3 operators revealed in leak
- Fortnite players fume over Season 10's overpowered mechs
- Valve updates Team Fortress 2 trading rules following hat market crash
- Valve apologizes for leaking Street Fighter 5 DLC characters, including E. Honda
- Grab Slay the Spire and FPS Squad for $12 in latest Humble Monthly Bundle
August 2
- Opus Magnum developer is releasing a visual novel
- Teamfight Tactics adds three more 'Little Legends' to the PBE
- Mixer's clothing guidelines are very concerned about cleavage
- Showtime's Halo TV series casts Cortana, Soren, and a trio of new Spartans
- Riot Games confirms it's working on a fighting game
- Open your Hearthstone Saviors of Uldum packs now by setting up a Fireside Gathering
- Control system requirements updated, are now a lot less demanding
- EVGA’s GPU overclocking utility now has a handy ‘boost lock’ feature
- Jim Brown joins Madden NFL 20 for Twitch Prime subscribers
- Asus is planning to launch five custom Radeon 5700 cards this month
- Alan Wake and For Honor are free on the Epic Games Store
- Fortnite shop update: These new skins are one part power ranger, another part Daft Punk
- Razer’s new Viper mouse actuates mouse clicks ‘at the speed of light’
- You can kill every character in The Outer Worlds
- Ghost Recon: Breakpoint trailer shows off its PC features
- This Skyrim mimic mod has completely ruined chests
- Ghostbusters: The Video Game will be resurrected in October
- No Man's Sky Beyond is a mega update coming this month
- GTA Online's casino update brought in the most players since launch
- Here's an hour of side-quests from The Outer Worlds—including a murder investigation
- Black Mesa: Xen's first 2 chapters are available now
- Watch 20 minutes of Mount & Blade 2: Bannerlord beta footage
- Our favorite budget 4K HDR monitor is $100 off right now
- New Cyberpunk tabletop RPG made in collaboration with CD Projekt Red out now
- See the first level of Super Mario Bros. as a first-person shooter
August 1
- Here's all of new Overwatch hero Sigma's skins
- Church in the Darkness writers include Chris Avellone, Brenda Romero, and Marc Laidlaw
- Grab an RTX 2060 graphics card for $290 right now
- Use a Ouija board to talk to a genuine dead person in The Black Widow
- A new Borderlands 3 trailer introduces Moze and her best friend Iron Bear
- Ninja's book is more useful than we expected
- Destiny 2: Shadowkeep and New Light are delayed by a couple of weeks
- Four years later, Windows 10 accounts for around half of all PCs
- Ninja ditches Twitch for exclusive streaming deal with Mixer
- Custom Radeon RX 5700 XT cards will start at $399, same as reference models
- Call of Duty: Modern Warfare open beta dated for September, will include crossplay
- Darksiders is getting a very expensive board game
- Try this driver if Wolfenstein: Youngblood crashes on your Radeon RX 5700 PC
- Ooblets is an Epic exclusive, and its creators say it's 'nothing to get worked up about'
- Cyberpunk 2077—Afterlife: The Card Game will make you a Night City Fixer
- Hitman 2's incredible homing briefcase is coming back
- Total War: Three Kingdoms is getting a free horde mode
- Respawn's mystery VR shooter will be revealed next month
- Pretty puzzler The Sojourn gets a release date and a new trailer
- Hell is murderous geometry in free roguelite action game Hells Divide
- Street Fighter 5 is finally getting E. Honda
- CS:GO map Workout removed from official matchmaking, two new maps added
- A Short Hike is a relaxing game about enjoying a wee trek
- This Resident Evil 2 Remake mod lets you play as Nier's 2B