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May 31
- G-Sync coming to gaming laptops, updated to support windowed mode
- Nvidia GeForce GTX 980 Ti Review
- Nvidia GTX 980 Ti announced: costs $650, available now
- Seven new G-Sync monitors on the way, including 144 Hz IPS Asus display
- Game of Checkers, Part 8: a tiny drama in CK2's Game of Thrones mod
- Kholat is Dear Esther meets Sean Bean, and it's out in a week
- Lego Jurassic World trailer features bike-based raptor, human hamsterballs
May 30
- Darkest Dungeon gets a little more crowded with two new classes
- Gods Will Be Watching adds free epilogue chapter
May 29
- Sunset review
- Gearbox dropped from Aliens: Colonial Marines lawsuit
- The week's highs and lows in PC gaming
- Konami apologizes for causing "anxiety"
- EA's new Need for Speed will require an internet connection to play
- Windows 10 Vs. Windows 8.1: The Major Differences
- Battlefield 4's Spring update: the most important changes
- D4: Dark Dreams Don't Die demo and DLC detailed
- Soma, Frictional's new horror game, arrives in September
- Win a free Steam Key for Realms of the Haunting
- Steam Summer Sale to start June 11
- Fallout 4 rumour roundup
- Tropico 5: Espionage expansion released
- Overwatch video shows the turret-placing Symmetra
- Humble has weekly bundled Relic's back catalogue
- Assault Android Cactus to exit Early Access soon
May 28
- Toren review
- Psychological puzzle game Pillar debuts on Steam tomorrow
- Starfall Tactics video teases factions and gameplay in upcoming RTS
- Pillars of Eternity: Lords of the Eastern Reach card game planned
- Witcher 3 mod reveals melting faces and detachable heads
- How to play Star Wars: Republic Commando on Windows 7/8
- Chip's Challenge 2 finally released after over 20 years in limbo
- The Curious Expedition review (Early Access)
- Ronin, the turn-based action-platformer, is now on Steam
- Chivalry: Medieval Warfare is a weekend freebie on Steam
- If Valve is planning to run the Dota 2 Majors, big changes are on the way
- Watch a Dishonored player make short work of Daud's assassins
- FIFA 16 will feature women's national teams
- Neon Struct review
- New Batman: Arkham Knight trailer and screenshots released
- Carbine on Wildstar F2P move: "it's the better business model"
- Wildstar is going free-to-play this autumn
- Thief Gold HD mod approaches v1.0, gets a trailer
- Dirty Bomb open beta starts next week
- Skywind trailer shows its updated version of Morrowind's starting town
- StarCraft II: Legacy of the Void beta gets new air unit
- Twitch bans Adults Only games
May 27
- Oculus Rift experience will cost around $1,500, says CEO
- PC building horror stories
- CD Projekt stays mum on Cyberpunk 2077
- Oculus Rift — Everything you need to know
- Double Fine's Iron Brigade drops Games for Windows Live in favor of Steamworks
- The Binding of Isaac: Rebirth adds daily runs and leaderboards
- Agario: the dot-gobbling browser game that's a hit on Twitch
- Why Batman: Arkham Knight's Gotham is the best version of the city ever
- Inside the world of professional PC builders
- Chaos Reborn update adds new multiplayer mode, environments and maps
- Telltale brings DRM-free Game of Thrones to GOG
- Why I love The Witcher 3's wobbly bushes
- New Overwatch footage shows the teleporting Tracer
- Squad marches onto Kickstarter
- Audiosurf 2 out of Early Access, has a demo
- More free Witcher 3 DLC out now
- Battlefield Hardline: Criminal Activity trailer released
- Nvidia GeForce GTX 980 Ti images surface, along with specs
- CS:GO 'Bloodhound' update brings new maps, XP system
- Magicka 2 review
- Killing Floor 2 update is live, ushers in new 'Volter Manor' map
May 26
- Free Evolve update adds a new Arena mode
- Oculus VR acquires Surreal Vision, a leading "computer vision" company
- It's a great time to buy RAM: DDR3 prices lowest in 26 months
- Survive 30 days in a devastated world in Impact Winter
- Show Us Your Rig: Darkest Dungeon's Tyler Sigman and Chris Bourassa
- Crypt of the Necrodancer gets the full Mega Man treatment
- Former Irrational devs announce Perception, a sound-based horror game
- Will Your CPU Bottleneck Your Graphics Card?
- Game of Thrones: Episode Four — Sons of Winter review
- Fraudulent Elder Scrolls Online keys will be deactivated today
- Once Upon A Timeline is a free game about time travel
- Dirt Rally update adds Pikes Peak, new cars
- Mass Effect and the joy of exploring strange new worlds
- Mad Max trailer features a road, extreme anger
- Mad Max hands-on: The fast and the Furiosa
- Punch flying Kittens in Final Fantasy 14: Heavensward
- Guild Wars 2: Heart of Thorns closed beta starts today
- Grimstorm is a brutal 2D combat platformer that you can play for free
- Resident Evil Zero HD remaster is reportedly coming to PC
- The Witcher was almost a top-down ARPG, with no playable Geralt
May 25
- 2K Games teases Advent with the sinister promise of a better tomorrow
- Mysterious Soma tweet leads to new videos and other secrets
- What makes FNATIC the world's best CS:GO team
- "Intellivision Gen2" aims to update old classics for modern systems
- The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt gets another update
- AMD's next-gen GPU teased in picture
- Total War: Arena reveals its first trailer
- Gauntlet getting 'free major content update'
- Lords of the Fallen GOTY edition coming June
- Win 10,000 Survarium bucks and VIP access
- Street Fighter V playable at June event
- The awkward asymmetry of Evolve
- 48GB of Star Citizen assets leaked
- How League of Legends can learn from other esports scenes
- GTA 5 mod adds Just Cause 2 grappling hook
May 24
- John Carmack to keynote Oculus Connect 2
- Game of Checkers, Part 7: a tiny drama in CK2's Game of Thrones mod
- Battlefield 4's big Spring patch arriving on Tuesday
- F1 2015 delayed by a month
- Helghast invade Half-Life 2 with Killzone mod
May 23
- Face off: Is it reasonable to expect a game to live up to early footage?
- Tropico 5's sneaky espionage add-on out next week
- Serpent in the Staglands trailer prepares us for next week's launch
May 22
- The week's highs and lows in PC gaming
- Blizzard confirms mounted flight won't be added to Warlords of Draenor
- How Heroes of the Storm compares to LoL and Dota 2
- Fractured Space gets a major update for May
- The Talos Principle writer talks up "ambitious" expansion
- A horrifying tale of survival in Pony World 3
- Blizzard explains why Tychus has no cigar in Heroes of the Storm
- We have 5,000 Magicka: Wizard Wars starter packs to give away
- Durante's Witcher 3 analysis: the alchemy of smoothness
- How The Witcher 3 puts misery back into mythology
- Expeditions: Vikings, the sequel to Conquistadors, is in development
- First screenshots of Shadowrun: Hong Kong released
- New Overwatch footage shows Hanzo in action
- Games Workshop's Dark Future being adapted for PC
- Hear Nobuo Uematsu's theme for Final Fantasy XIV: Heavensward
- The HP Omen road-test
May 21
- Galactic Civilizations 3 review
- Overwatch gameplay video puts McCree in the spotlight
- Playism poll asks which Touhou game you'd like to see next
- The Witcher 3 gallery: the prettiest sunsets and ugliest rocks
- Harebrained Schemes hints at something new from an old franchise
- R.B.I. Baseball 2015 review
- Game of Thrones episode 4 out next week, trailer now
- If you like The Witcher you’ll also like…
- Witcher 3 patch adds new graphics options and improvements
- Learn to (out)play: thoughts on skill growth and Dota
- Hellraid development put on hold
- Need for Speed reboot is a "nocturnal open world" street racer
- 15 overlooked RPGs that are worth playing today
- More developers announced for the PC Gaming Show at E3
- Rockstar files suit against BBC over upcoming drama
- Technobabylon review
- Torment: Tides of Numenera trailer explores the Ninth World
- Battlefield Hardline: Criminal Activity DLC detailed
- There is a live-action Batman: Arkham Knight trailer, for some reason
- League of Legends introduces automated 'player reform' system
- The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt review
- Getting the best out of GTA V's Rockstar Editor
- The big VR face-off
May 20
- CD Projekt addresses Witcher 3 graphical downgrade complaints
- Magnetic: Cage Closed developers show first 15 minutes
- Voxelnauts is a Minecraft-inspired, VR-friendly MMO
- Tell us your PC building horror stories!
- Windward review
- Bloodstained: Ritual of the Night will have a PC-exclusive beta
- Dying of radiation poisoning in Edge of Space
- Jujubee reveals Kursk, a survival game based on the Russian sub disaster
- Tabletop Simulator set to leave Early Access in June
- The Witcher 3 performance tips and crash advice
- Why I love virtual rainstorms
- The Evil Within: The Executioner trailer shows first-person slashing
- Banned H1Z1 cheaters may be allowed back, if they publicly apologise
- Martial arts MMO Blade & Soul coming to the West
- War Thunder devs announce post-apocalyptic vehicle combat MMO
- Guild Wars 2's capital city is being rebuilt
- Power Drive 2000 is an '80s inspired arcade racer
May 19
- Kalimba review
- Heroes of the Storm is now in open beta
- Nearly 25,000 H1Z1 players banned for cheating
- Gearbox and 3D Realms settle Duke Nukem lawsuit
- The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt — max settings at 60 FPS
- Oculus won't block VR porn on the Oculus Rift
- Show Us Your Rig: NeocoreGames' Anikó Salamon
- Project Cars studio denies it intentionally crippled performance on AMD cards
- Street Fighter 5 trailer shows that Bison is back
- Exploring films and TV in VR
- Iron Fish is a psychological deep-sea adventure
- Cities: Skylines patch brings European style buildings
- GSC Game World returns for Cossacks 3
- Dustbowl is a post-apocalyptic pixel adventure
- This is what Doom 4 could have looked like, apparently
- Microsoft planning "attractive Windows 10 upgrade offers" to grab pirates
May 18
- The amazing technology of The Witcher 3
- An analysis of the three-second Doom teaser
- The best World of Warcraft selfie will get you a ticket to BlizzCon
- League of Legends adding "Hide Eye Candy" option
- The Witcher 3 story primer: catch up on the essentials
- Old friends return in The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt launch trailer
- Defunded: How Kickstarter trolls use hope as a weapon
- Becoming a golden druid: a tale of obsession
- Sunset launch trailer promises high drama and housekeeping
- Brian Fargo interview: Wasteland, Torment, and the new Bard's Tale
- Two images from the Warcraft film appear online
- Casey Hudson joins Microsoft Studios as creative director
- Learn the fundamentals of CS:GO in these videos
- Life Is Strange: Episode 3 trailer features mischief, drama
- Win one of 1000 Warface starter packs
- Witcher 3 graphics options, performance and settings
- Battlefield 4 Spring Patch brings new weapons, Gun Master
- Conquering the ocean in Beyond Earth's first expansion
- Civilization: Beyond Earth – Rising Tide expansion announced
- Nvidia release The Witcher 3 'Game Ready' driver
- Episode 4 of Telltale's Game of Thrones out "soon"
- Konami to focus on mobile gaming in the future, says exec
May 17
- What's the difference between thermal paste, grease, and pads?
- Summer Showdowns in League of Legends
- Counter Logic Gaming airs dirty laundry
- Game of Checkers, Part 6: a tiny drama in CK2's Game of Thrones mod
- Guild Wars 2 to get grimmer with Reaper specialization
- Rust dev update details candle hats, barricades and floor spikes
- Mod makes Fallout: New Vegas a survival simulator
May 16
- Block N Load review
- Are annual releases of AAA games bad for gaming?
- Massive Chalice exits Early Access on June 1st
- Evoland 2 expands scope to feature all of the genres
- We found it: This is the worst mouse ever made
May 15
- Legends of Eisenwald launching in July
- Galactic Civilizations 3 has its sights set on the future
- The Cow Queen (and her secret level) comes to Diablo III
- The week's highs and lows in PC gaming
- Del Toro hits out at Konami's cancellation of Silent Hills
- VR mask with smells, heat, and mist struggles to find funding
- World of Warcraft bot factory gives up after massive Blizzard banhammering
- The making of Dragon Age: Inquisition
- Lifesize Lego AWP is impressive, still OP
- Oculus Rift PC requirements revealed
- Batman: Arkham Knight video shows more 'dual play' combat
- First screenshots of Survarium's London map released
- Yooka-Laylee brings 3D platformers back from the dead
- Win closed beta access to Orcs Must Die! Unchained
- You can play Ultra Street Fighter IV for free this weekend
- CryEngine action-RPG Umbra appears on Kickstarter
- Overwatch footage shows Mercy
- Meet FFXIV: Heavensward’s new Primals
- Divinity: Original Sin Enhanced Edition announced
- Dying Light 'Bozac Horde' DLC brings stadium slaughter
May 14
- Wadjet Eye releases free Technobabylon demo
- Candy Crush Saga will be automatically installed on Windows 10
- How to run Duke Nukem 3D on Windows 7/8
- Galactic Civilizations III flies free
- Batman: Arkham Knight — Everything you need to know
- The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt "launch cinematic" is here
- Blizzard bans more than 100,000 World of Warcraft accounts
- Heroes of the Storm World Championships gets $1.2M prize pool
- Show, off: learning to communicate more effectively in Dota 2
- GTA 5 mods Angry Planes and No Clip contain malware
- “We didn’t know exactly how good Grim Patron was going to be”
- Rainbow Six Siege release date announced
- Lego Jurassic World release date announced
- How PETA invaded the games industry
- Formula Fusion pre-alpha footage released
- Wildstar could be coming to Steam as a free-to-play game
- Invisible Inc. review
- Overwatch video shows full match played as 'omnic monk' Zenyatta
- The Magic Circle review (Early Access)
- Dying Light mod finds peace in outer space
- The Incredible Adventures of Van Helsing 3 hands-on gameplay
May 13
- Dead State: Reanimated is on Steam and free to owners of the original
- Das Tal is a sandbox PVP MMO in which the world will keep ending
- Hi-Rez raising funds for Nepal with special Smite chests
- Mechs, tanks, jetpacks, and dinos in the $1 Orion: Prelude
- Ubisoft working on VR versions of its biggest games
- Hacking in Uplink
- The Westport Independent gets a new trailer and free alpha preview
- Life Is Strange Episode 3 out next week
- Windward is a naval sandbox that's sailed out of Early Access
- Axiom Verge review
- Humble Paradox Bundle contains strategy and RPGs
- The Magic Circle is out in Early Access
- The G-Sync and FreeSync monitors available right now
May 12
- Survarium's North American and European servers will be un-merged
- Minecraft meets the opera in an unusual production of L'enfant
- Ark: Survival Evolved announcement trailer reveals rideable dinosaurs
- The final Evil Within DLC, The Executioner, arrives this month
- Yooka-Laylee developers tease free DLC as next stretch goal
- Black Mesa review (Early Access)
- Show Us Your Rig: Stardock's Paul Boyer
- Tom Clancy's The Division delayed to 2016
- The Black Glove is "shelved" as developers move on to other things
- Assassin's Creed: Syndicate footage released
- PC gaming's most annoying characters
- Assassin's Creed: Syndicate—gang warfare in Victorian London
- Crypt of the Necrodancer review
- Watch the new Assassin's Creed announcement here
- Riot: Civil Unrest trailer shows pixelated protests
- The Witcher 3: 5 observations from the full game
- When is our Witcher 3 review coming?
- GTA 5 mod unleashes terror from the skies
- Little Devil Inside is a gorgeous survival RPG
- Ludum Dare 32 winners announced
- GTA 5 mod drowns Los Santos
- Remastered Grandia II is coming to Steam
May 11
- EU Hearthstone players get free packs to compensate for connection issues
- CS:GO meets Dredd in de_peachtrees
- Star Citizen's FPS module is called "Star Marine"
- Star Wars Battlefront — Everything you need to know
- Build It: Big Capacity, Small Form
- GOG adds Darksiders, Saints Row, and Metro: Last Light Redux
- Castlevania producer reveals Bloodstained: Ritual of the Night
- King's Quest voice cast features Christopher Lloyd and Zelda Williams
- C.H.I.P. is a super-small, $9 Kickstarter computer
- Black Mesa mod won't get Xen levels
- Alien: Isolation sold 2.1 million copies during "weak" year for Sega
- Heart of Thorns and the future of Guild Wars 2
- Fallout 4 cinematic trailer listed on CG artist's LinkedIn profile
- Star Wars Battlefront won't have classes or squads
- Star Citizen retro webgame released
- 20 Best Android Games
- How to Root Android
- Android Guide (Version 4.2)
- Existing Elite: Dangerous owners will be granted Steam keys
- League of Legends: Lessons from the Mid-Season Invitational
May 10
- Game of Checkers, Part 5: a tiny drama in CK2's Game of Thrones mod
- Overkill cut prices on Payday 2 and older DLC
- Diablo 3's Crusader is heading to Heroes of the Storm
- Fly a modded chopper through Cities: Skylines
May 9
- Should developers be allowed to issue bans on Steam?
- Towerfall Dark World expansion releasing next week
- Humble Bundle's Spring Sale is a bit good
- Umbra gameplay video demonstrates unique character balance system
May 8
- Samsung T1 Portable SSD review
- The week's highs and lows in PC gaming
- Ratz Instagib's creator on the new update and plans for the future
- New Assassin's Creed called Syndicate, according to leak
- Meet the guy who spent $3,200 on Hearthstone packs in one night
- New map coming in Killing Floor 2's first content update
- Pillars of Eternity 1.05 patch makes "hundreds" of fixes and changes
- "Esports" is now officially in the dictionary
- Daybreak boss John Smedley: paid mods were an "awesome idea"
- Daybreak president John Smedley talks H1Z1 and leaving Sony
- iCEnhancer graphics mod is coming to GTA 5
- Grand Theft Auto 3 was a true game changer
- Europa Universalis IV: Common Sense expansion announced
- The new jobs in FFXIV: A Realm Reborn's Heavensward expansion
- Guild Wars 2 cheater publicly stripped and deleted
- Arma 3 gets the Steam Free Weekend treatment
- Dark Souls 2 weapon durability patch has arrived
May 7
- Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare — Ascendance DLC review
- GOG picks up three Star Trek games from Interplay
- Magicka: Wizard Wars review
- Rumor: Turok: Dinosaur Hunter remake is in the works
- Fract OSC 4K gallery
- AMD's next-gen Zen CPU due in 2016
- Battlefleet Gothic: Armada teaser reveals massive flying castles in space
- Assassin's Creed: Victory (or whatever it's called) reveal coming next week
- If you like Dishonored you’ll also like...
- No new GTA Online Heists anytime soon, Rockstar says
- E3 2015 press conference schedule
- Rockstar: you won't be banned for GTA 5 single-player mods
- This new Witcher 3 trailer is mostly about dismemberment
- My rares: thoughts on the Compendium's gradual shift away from esports
- PC Gamer UK June issue: Star Wars Battlefront
- Wasteland 2: Game of the Year Edition announced, will be a free upgrade
- Audiosurf 2 will leave Early Access on May 26
- Blitzkrieg 3 invades Steam Early Access
- Knee Deep is a theatrical swamp-noir adventure
- D4 will release for PC in early June
- Star Wars: Battlefront won't have iron sights
May 6
- Green Man Gaming hits back over Witcher 3 key row
- World of Warcraft sheds 3 million subscribers
- AMD's new GPUs will use high bandwidth memory, due in Q2 2015
- Witcher 3 keys on sale at Green Man Gaming are from an "unknown source"
- Dark Souls 2: Scholars of the First Sins mods may be causing softbans
- The Total War cavalry charge
- Kael'thas is your next Heroes of the Storm superstar
- Wolfenstein: The Old Blood review
- Now you can download the Cities: Skylines CityCopter mod
- Endless Legend: Guardians review
- The Magpie Collection features 10 games, helps indie devs replace stolen equipment
- Oculus Rift consumer headset due first quarter of 2016
- Wildstar: Invasion Nexus update released
- GTA 5 mod recreates the pedestrian riot cheat
- Dragon Age: Inquisition multiplayer expansion lets you fight dragons
- Project Cars review
- Magicka 2 trailer makes fun of other trailers
- GTA 5 mod turns bullets into cars
May 5
- Titanfall 2 release date won't fall in 2015
- We've upgraded our hardware buying guides
- How to make Nazis fun to fight, and other Wolfenstein questions
- Warner pulls Mortal Kombat X patch after data deletion reports
- Multiplayer mayhem comes to Medieval Engineers
- EA says Mirror's Edge 2 will be out in early 2016
- Finally, a naval combat sim that gets sailing ships right
- DeepCool's three-bladed Tristellar case available in June
- DirectX 12 will be able to use your integrated GPU to improve performance
- Show Us Your Rig: Unknown Worlds' Hugh Jeremy
- Geralt takes a dip in new Witcher 3 "Monsters" video
- Nvidia offers Witcher 3, Batman: Arkham Knight free with video card purchases
- The tough life of an urban coyote in GTA 5
- Win a beta key for Path of Exile: The Awakening
- The latest theories from GTA 5's UFO hunters
- GOG Galaxy enters open beta
- Black Mesa released to Steam Early Access
- GTA 5 gravity gun mod is delightfully chaotic
- Goat Simulator: GoatZ DLC announced, is out this week
- Portal Pinball: hands-on with Pinball FX2's new Portal themed table
- Euro Truck Simulator 2: Scandinavia delivers a launch trailer
- Elite: Dangerous community analyses mysterious 'Unknown Artefact'
- How Team Fortress 2 has survived 494 patches
May 4
- Kingdom Come: Deliverance screenshots are deceivingly peaceful
- WWE 2K15 review
- Build It: Your Own Super-Charged Set-Top Box
- Star Wars: Battlefront has 12 multiplayer maps including the planet Sullust
- The best Star Wars Battlefront 2 mods
- CCP launches Plex for Good campaign to support Nepal earthquake relief
- Wolfenstein: The Old Blood video says game is "dripping with history"
- Black Mesa Steam Workshop page appears
- Tips for taking the pain out of PC building
- Jason avoids Friday the 13th for Mortal Kombat X
- id Software wanted to pay modders in 1995
- Mass Effect-ish image tweeted by producer
- GOG's Galaxy client is making good progress
- Divinity developer bringing surprise to E3
- Battlefield's Megalodon returns
- I Am Bread introduces space combat
- GTA 2 recreated in real life thanks to drone technology
- Wolfenstein: The Old Blood releases this week, so here's an hour of footage
- Middle-earth: Shadow of Mordor GOTY edition is out this week
- Elite: Dangerous to reintroduce space destruction derbies following outcry
May 3
- League of Legends: The case for the East Coast
- Game of Checkers, Part 4: a tiny drama in CK2's Game of Thrones mod
- The Binding of Isaac: Eternal Edition out now
- Mod makes daytime more dangerous in Dying Light
- Batman: Arkham Knight season pass detailed - play as batgirl
May 2
- Are videogame auteurs a good thing?
- The best free games of the week
- Valve explains the reasoning behind Steam gift restrictions
- Caffeine trailer shows off spooky sci-fi corridors, empty cups
- Dota 2 International Compendium released
May 1
- The week's highs and lows in PC gaming
- D4: Dark Dreams Don't Die port detailed
- Why I hate pausable real-time RPG combat
- Introducing Game:ref - the anti-cheat hardware
- Hearthstone streamers taking part in 24-hour Hunger Games-style challenge
- PC Gamer Show: What we want from Star Wars Battlefront
- BioWare announces free Dragon Age: Inquisition multiplayer DLC
- Not a Hero suffers a slight delay
- GTA 5 6K gallery: Still life in Los Santos
- How to set up RAID 10 in Windows 8 and Linux
- Mysterious countdown clock appears for Black Mesa
- Spiritual successor to Rare's Banjo-Kazooie smashes funding target
- Modder's iPhone app controls GTA 5's in-game phone
- Grand Theft Auto 5 patch kills mod support
- Twitter pulls the plug on embedded DOS games
- Kerbal Space Program review
- The HP Omen benchmark challenge
- Star Force is an X-Wing sequel in all but name
- Steam suffers currency conversion meltdown
- The Sims 4 starts getting men pregnant (by accident)
- Witcher 3 screenshots show new monsters and a baking desert
- Killing Floor 2 review (Early Access)
- EverQuest fan project given blessing by Daybreak