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- October 31
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- Inmates review
- Destiny 2: Curse of Osiris officially revealed (Updated)
- Spintires: MudRunner is out now with a bumping launch trailer
- Terror and tourism in Tokyo Dark
- Destiny 2 will get hotfixed on Thursday to remove clan-related performance issues (Updated)
- Crossing Souls is an adventure game styled after '80s cartoons
- The Red Strings Club is a cyberpunk tale of life, happiness, and psychological bartending
- Wasteland 2, Grey Goo, and Prototype 2 go cheap in the Humble Jumbo Bundle 10
- Feed the undead elves in Gwent's 'Saovine' holiday event
- PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds is leaving Early Access in December
- GTA Online is dishing out Double GTA$ and RP for Halloween
- Epic Star Cards and most Battlefront 2 weapons will no longer be loot box rewards
- Check out the three-hour Witcher musical that's opening soon in Poland
- Steam Controller is on sale for $35 and Steam Link for $15, or get both for $45
- Will the Nintendo Switch gold rush affect indie games on PC?
- New cable modems deliver crazy fast 10gbit downloads and uploads
- Cooler Master says its RGB mouse pad isn't all about looks
- Surviving Mars wants to inspire the next generation of astronauts
- Custom GeForce GTX 1070 Ti graphics cards go up for preorder
- The Surge reveals A Walk in the Park DLC
- Spelunky deathmatch was underrated
- The Elder Scrolls: Legends is getting a Clockwork City expansion
- Spotlight your favourite indie game in the Golden Joystick Awards
- World of Final Fantasy announced for PC, release date set
- 10 great indie horror games
- Itch.io adds Patreon integration
- Human Fall Flat adds 8-person online multiplayer
- A closer look at the amazing sci-fi worlds of Destiny 2
- Far Cry 5 co-op trailer flaunts quad bikes, jet planes and tractors
- Resident Evil 7 Not a Hero DLC has some terrifying new monsters
- Wunderdoktor review
- October 30
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- The Humble Extra Life Bundle is raising funds for Children's Miracle Network Hospitals
- Middle-earth: Shadow of War performance analysis with Mozû the Blight
- The new Hong Kong Massacre trailer shows a top-down John Woo-style killfest
- The demo for this 'inventory action game' feels like Resident Evil 4
- Shapeshifting puzzler Shift Quantum gets creative with black and white
- Dota 2's big 'Dueling Fates' patch notes revealed (Updated)
- Get a compact Seasonic 750W modular power supply for $70
- 10 corporate dick moves in gaming history
- This is what your internet service could look like without Net Neutrality
- Nvidia's latest GPU drivers prep your PC for Call of Duty: WWII
- CCP Games shuts down VR development, lays off nearly 100 employees
- Night in the Woods is getting a director's cut edition this holiday
- The Gardens Between is a surreal, time-traveling adventure about growing up
- This compact mechanical keyboard from SteelSeries syncs up with Discord
- Football Manager 2018 will feature gay players
- Guacamelee 2 announced, coming next year (Updated)
- Spelunky 2 announced
- If Valve wants to make Steam the best it can be, these issues are a good place to start
- Dauntless is getting rid of loot boxes
- PS2 classic Sphinx and the Cursed Mummy confirmed for PC
- World of Warplanes 2.0 is more reinvention than update
- Star Citizen teases huge 'very Blade Runner-esque' cities
- Rise of Industry: we built a failing whiskey business in this neat production sim
- PUBG faces China ban for deviating from 'socialist core values'
- Wolfenstein 2: The New Colossus patch re-enables Steam overlay, targets AMD players
- FIFA 18 eWorld Cup qualifiers kick off this week
- The most promising indies we saw at PAX Australia
- October 29
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- You can revisit the Gothic games in Skyrim with this mod and play 32 voice-acted quests
- Does radiator size matter for cooling?
- Hoarding solves and causes all your problems in Uurnog Uurnlimited
- Put rogues behind bars and sail smaller ships in latest Sea of Thieves update
- Hand-drawn JRPG Fell Seal: Arbiter's Mark meets Kickstarter goal, Early Access in March
- Indie competitive fighter Punch Planet slams into Early Access next month
- Brutal Doom to add night vision rocket launcher and revamp online multiplayer
- Mousey RPG Ghost of a Tale will sneak out in March
- October 28
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- Minecraft gets an official Stranger Things skin pack
- Watch a truck carrying logs tumble down a hill in Spintires: MudRunner launch trailer
- You can't die in Heat Signature's Halloween event
- Steam needs better tools to deal with toxic users
- Friday the 13th is getting a new, free game mode called Paranoia
- Final Fantasy 15's minimum PC specs are surprisingly accessible
- The horrifying legacy of Yume Nikki, the homebrew game that became a phenomenon
- Intel's Optane SSD 900P is the new king of the SSD hill
- Hellblade sales 'better than expected', will break even months ahead of schedule
- Which game character do you hate?
- October 27
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- Noir puzzle series Framed coming to Steam next year
- Kingdom Come: Deliverance shows off its 'realistic' combat in a new trailer
- This week's highs and lows in PC gaming
- Ex-Visceral employee calls the studio's closure 'a mercy killing'
- The best chess games on PC
- The making of Frodan: Who needs RNG when you work this hard?
- 8 things I wish I knew before playing Assassin's Creed: Origins
- 7 things I wish I'd known before playing Wolfenstein 2: The New Colossus
- Get a Dell XPS desktop with a Core i5-8400 and GeForce GTX 1050 Ti for $900
- The Papers, Please short film teaser is here
- MSI adds a GeForce GTX 1050 option to its thin and light Stealth gaming laptop
- Hard drive reliability report shines a positive light on 10TB and 12TB HDDs
- Here's 21 GIFs of Nazis getting owned in Wolfenstein 2: The New Colossus
- Torment: Tides of Numenera is free on Steam for the weekend
- The biggest issues with Steam in 2017, according to 230 developers
- The state of Steam: Read what PC devs really think
- Star Citizen Sabre Raven exclusively available with Intel's new Optane 900P SSDs
- We've got just over 1900 Laser League closed beta keys up for grabs (EU readers only)
- There's just one week left to vote in the Golden Joystick Awards 2017
- Injustice 2 welcomes Hellboy into its star-studded superhero fold
- The Aquanox beta is live, and we've got keys for you
- Earn $400,000 of free GTA Online money when you log in during the next week
- Destiny 2 review
- Survarium update 0.50 adds long-awaited PvE mode
- EA tells Battlefield Revive team to 'stop distributing copies of our game clients'
- Destiny 2 update explains how Bungie intends to improve the endgame
- October 26
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- D&D-inspired roguelike Soulblight is all about role-playing
- This is probably the most shocking moment in Wolfenstein 2 [Über spoiler]
- Blizzard's failure to curb toxicity undermines Overwatch's inclusive message
- Try the demo for this 2D platformer about defending your dungeon from adventurers
- Mass Effect novel about the quarian journey to Andromeda is coming next year
- Get Guns of Icarus Online for free in the Humble Haunted Halloween Sale
- Doki Doki Literature Club! hides a gruesome horror game under its cute surface
- Warframe developer 'hits the pause button' on its hero shooter, The Amazing Eternals
- PC Building Simulator is gaining the ability to benchmark your proposed build
- Call of Duty: WWII final system requirements revealed, Steam preloading is live
- Our readers’ orcs are also degenerate asshats
- Blizzard warns Hearthstone players over fake Fireside Gatherings
- Breaking: You can pet cats in Assassin's Creed: Origins
- Absolver update adds prestige system which allows players to respec
- Oriental Empires review
- Corsair slaps a tempered glass side panel on its affordable Spec-04 case
- Razer launches a pair of spill-resistant membrane keyboards starting at $60
- Spend $15 in the GOG Halloween Sale and get Tales From the Borderlands free
- AMD’s Ryzen laptop CPUs with Vega are ready for mobile warfare with Intel
- The Steam Halloween Sale 2017 is live
- Outcast - Second Contact is coming in November, so here's a new trailer
- Join the PC Gamer Club and get a copy of Zombie Kill of the Week
- Assassin's Creed: Origins' best skill turns your arrows into guided missiles
- Crusader Kings 2 and Europa Universalis 4 expansions will arrive side-by-side next month
- Publishers will soon be able to send games directly to Steam Curators
- Fortnite Battle Royale adds new potion and character customisation in Halloween update
- Tacoma, Firewatch headline Steam Explorer's Bundle
- GeForce GTX 1070 Ti officially coming November 2
- You can ride a unicorn in Assassin's Creed: Origins, just like the ancient Egyptians did
- Total War: Warhammer 2's free mortal empires campaign out now alongside gore DLC
- Bungie wrongly banned an unspecified number of Destiny 2 players (Updated)
- The Battlerite community isn't thrilled with its new objective-based 'battlegrounds' mode (Updated)
- How an EVE player is funding his spaceship business by making amateur porn
- If Decksplash does not reach 100,000 players during a free week then Bossa Studios will cancel the game
- Wolfenstein 2: The New Colossus review
- PUBG's deadlier blue zone has arrived: the farther you are from safety, the more damage you take
- Amid Evil is a retro FPS inspired by Heretic and Hexen
- Forgotton Anne is an indie game that looks like a Studio Ghibli movie
- Protect your PC with this discounted battery backup from CyberPower
- October 25
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- Rainbow Six Siege 'Mid-Season Reinforcements' update goes live tomorrow
- Magic: The Gathering Arena stress testing starts in November, closed beta coming soon
- Save grandma's PC in neon-lit action platformer Exception
- Harvest Moon: Light of Hope coming November 14 to Steam, ahead of consoles
- Seagate aims to launch a 20TB hard drive by 2020, and eventually 100TB
- Destiny 2 dataminers uncover secrets, surprises, and spoilers
- How netcode works, and what makes 'good' netcode
- This bizarre papercraft adventure game is free until tomorrow
- Nitro Concepts announces a new gaming chair with neck and lumbar support
- Cooler Master launches a pair of air coolers with ‘aggressive’ RGB lighting
- Sword Art Online: Fatal Bullet announced, coming in February
- Steam Digital Gift Cards are now available
- Warframe Plains of Eidolon update almost doubles concurrent player count
- Middle-earth: Shadow of War details Expansion Pass and forthcoming DLC
- Destiny 2 and Warframe can 'absolutely' coexist on PC, says Digital Extremes
- Robert Guillaume, the voice of Half-Life 2's Eli Vance, dies at 89
- Metal Gear Survive PC release date set (Updated)
- Parenting is hard in Think of the Children
- October 24
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- Former Human Head director leads new Fantasy Flight Interactive studio
- Different as they are, Supergiant's games all explore tolerance and the ways we deal with disaster
- Deus Ex: Mankind Divided is free to play until Thursday
- Heavy Bullets is currently free when you buy High Hell on Steam
- Lost Sphear story trailer showcases combat, memories, and the moon
- Double Fine's adventure games headline the Humble 'Day of the Devs' Bundle
- This mini-ITX gaming motherboard from ASRock is $120 after rebate
- Try the demo for this slick hoverbike racing RPG
- The Shieldbreaker joins Darkest Dungeon later this week
- Asus appeals to FPS and MOBA games with new laptop options
- Microsoft is bringing back its iconic IntelliMouse for another run
- Stronghold HD and AD 2044 are free on GOG for the next two days
- AMD’s GPU driver update promises big gains in Destiny 2 and other games
- Destiny 2 review in progress: one of the most beautiful, satisfying shooters on PC
- Destiny 2 guides: How to go from hour one to raid-ready
- Destiny 2 will keep aim assist on the PC
- Hitman to reactivate Elusive Targets next month
- Mirror's Edge world record-breaking speedrun might give you motion sickness
- Skyrim modder uses real life photography to recreate gorgeous Finnish forests
- The Escapists 2 drops Wicked Ward DLC in time for Halloween
- Resident Evil 2 board game raises over $1 million in crowdfunding
- Influential games forum NeoGAF is back following chaotic weekend
- Blizzard is giving away Hearthstone card packs to mark the launch of Battle.net gifting
- October 23
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- Turn into a bird and explore a shattered world in this immaculate puzzle game
- You're an acrobatic skeleton in colorful platformer Super Skelemania
- Keeping your crew and plane alive in Bomber Crew is tough and fun
- Battleborn bids farewell with its final update
- Watch lots of people get slo-mo murdered in the Assassin's Creed: Origins launch trailer
- Tartarus launch trailer showcases a retro-future sci-fi ship in trouble
- Twitch is offering Halloween loot boxes with temporary emotes
- A beginner's guide to Warframe: Plains of Eidolon
- Reloaders Anonymous: It's time to talk about our Chronic Reload Syndrome
- Wolfenstein 2 doesn't have multiplayer because it would 'dilute' the storytelling
- Star Wars Battlefront 2 campaign is '5-7 hours' long
- Build of the week: there's a new Mario soon so here's a Nintendo PC
- Score a high-end Asus ROG Z170 motherboard for $100
- Newegg is being sued by 4 banks for an alleged Ponzi scheme
- Nvidia releases GPU drivers optimized for Destiny 2 and Assassin's Creed Origins
- Destiny 2 PC and console builds could diverge 'if we need to' says Bungie
- Watch Destiny 2 played at 4K on a killer gaming PC
- Destiny 2 PC DLC, patches and updates will arrive 'day and date' with console
- Power-up your Republic of Gamers BlizzCon® 2017 prizes to win gaming laptops and more
- RPGs may never top Ultima 7, but Divinity: Original Sin 2 comes close
- Grand Theft Auto 5 is not getting single player DLC
- Celebrate the best PC games you're still playing in the Golden Joysticks
- EA 'pushing for more open-world games [because] you can monetise them better,' says ex-Bioware dev
- Wolfenstein 2 system requirements and PC-specific features revealed
- Sonic Mania to inspire future 3D games, was designed to help bring 'very divided fans together'
- Police Stories is a neat combination of Hotline Miami and Door Kickers
- Football Manager 2018 adds new graphics engine with help from Total Warhammer devs
- City of Brass launches first major update with new traps, enemies, relics
- October 22
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- Pawarumi is bringing a new kind of shoot-'em-up to Steam
- We asked for your best stories about slacking off and playing games at work and we're all very disappointed in you
- Competitive horror game Hide and Shriek is free this Halloween
- Double Fine bringing toy box puzzler Gnog to Steam next month
- PUBG will test a deadlier blue zone next week
- EVGA's 450W power supply is on sale for $12 after rebate
- Cities: Skylines' pollution-battling DLC Green Cities is out now
- The brilliant Warhammer: End Times – Vermintide is free to play for the next three days
- Sword Art Online: Hollow Realization slashes onto Steam next week
- Tell us about your fondest memory of playing PC games with your family
- Build your own rave in Party Hard Tycoon
- Double Kick Heroes is a stunning shoot-'em-up with a metal rhythm
- Activate The Evil Within 2's first-person mode with a console command
- October 21
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- Card game Duelyst adding new Generals and 100+ other cards
- Try the demo for promising 2D brawler Flynn: Son of Crimson
- This esports platform uses blockchain to let Dota 2 players bet on matches and prevent cheaters
- Unruly Heroes is a stunning 2D action game from former Ubisoft veterans
- Life is Feudal: MMO open beta will start next month
- What are you playing this weekend?
- Build and rebuild a robot in sci-fi roguelike Cogmind, now on Steam
- Classic '90s space strategy games Star Control 1 & 2 land on Steam
- Northgard update adds Thor worship tiles and a new trading faction
- New alchemy puzzle game from Infinifactory creator bubbles into Early Access
- Half-Life 2 mod adds locations, characters and plot points that never saw the light of day
- For over 20 years, these obscure wrestling sims have been taking players behind the scenes
- Which old PC game do you revisit regularly?
- Battle Chasers: Nightwar review
- Destiny 2's 'seasons' have been explained, sort of
- October 20
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- Divinity developer Larian Studios teases 'something wicked' on Twitter
- This week's highs and lows in PC gaming
- Twitch is adding a clear roadmap to Partner status
- Dig for gold in this Early Access mining sim, and then keep digging, and then dig some more
- Battlefield 1 Incursions mode is moving to the Community Test Environment
- Turn-based roguelike Deep Sky Derelicts channels Darkest Dungeon in space
- How the System Shock reboot is changing System Shock
- Get a Corsair Vengeance K65 compact mechanical keyboard for $55
- That asshole orc is dead
- Epic reveals changes coming to Fornite Battle Royale in a new video
- Razer wants to bolster your broadcasting setup with a unique webcam and mic
- Check out the full map for Total War: Warhammer 2's massive Mortal Empires campaign
- What does old Star Wars Battlefront 2 have that new Battlefront 2 doesn't have?
- King of the Hat is a fighting game where you die if someone steps on your hat
- Palpatine lives on in this awesome Star Wars Battlefront 2 cosplay
- LG's 34-inch ultrawide monitor with FreeSync is on sale for $480
- Battle royale survival game The Darwin Project begins alpha testing next month
- G.Skill launches world's fastest SO-DIMM memory for small form factor PCs
- Life is Strange: Before the Storm no longer uses Denuvo
- Asus ROG Twitter post basically confirms GeForce GTX 1070 Ti is real
- Visual Novel Maker is coming to Steam on November 16
- The dates for the next 3 Steam Sales have been leaked
- The Dueling Fates, Dota 2's next update, will be out on November 1
- League of Legends' World Championship quarter-finals turned me into a fan
- The history of the first-person shooter
- Star Control: Origins' combat beta is due out soon
- A Championship Manager player travelled from China to England to meet his team
- Team Fortress 2's Jungle Inferno update will launch today
- Get ready to hunt rebels with Star Wars Battlefront 2's new trailer
- Little Red Lie nails the weirdness of moving back home
- Destiny 2 for PC: launch times, first raid, and known issues detailed
- October 19
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- For Honor dives into Halloween with the Feast of the Otherworld event
- How to kill an Eidolon Teralyst in Warframe: Plains of Eidolon
- A new Overwatch Halloween comic features 'The Return of Junkenstein'
- 9 PC gaming myths we believed when we were kids
- Civilization 3 Complete is free on the Humble Store
- Hollow Knight's second free expansion pack arrives next week
- Date your weapons in dungeon crawler dating sim Boyfriend Dungeon
- Windows 10 now has an anti-cheat system for gaming called TruePlay
- Roccat's Khan Pro headset with hi-res audio certification is now available
- Hyakki Castle, the Edo Japan dungeon crawler, will be out in November
- Get an Asus GeForce GTX 1070 and Assassin's Creed Origins for $390
- Tell us the longest amount of time you've left your PC turned on
- Zotac builds a miniatured GeForce GTX 1080 Ti for liquid cooled PCs
- The 10 worst Hearthstone legendary cards
- Gabe Newell is worth $5.5 billion, according to Forbes
- Dawn of War 3's Endless War begins now
- Get a taste of American Truck Simulator's New Mexico DLC
- Blue Yeti USB microphone is on sale for £40 less than usual
- The PC Gamer team becomes competing plants in The Botanist
- Final Fantasy 14's All Saints' Wake event begins today
- PC Gamer UK December issue: PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds
- Nvidia breaks down Destiny 2's graphics options
- Mafia: The City of Lost Heaven comes to GOG, years after vanishing from Steam
- The Talos Principle gets existential in VR
- GTA Online's Transform Races are crazy
- Resident Evil 7 hits Capcom's 4 million sales target
- The PC Gamer Show: Orc bullies, troubling patents, and Visceral Games shut down
- How the Millennium Edition helped Strafe explode (in a good way)
- Halo Wars 2 is getting crossplay between PC and Xbox soon
- October 18
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- Why Mercy's recent overhaul made her too powerful
- Destiny 2 preloads are now live
- Republic of Gamers is bringing exclusive collectibles and prizes to BlizzCon® 2017
- Check out the sleek explosion-powered platforming of cyberpunk action game Black Future '88
- League of Legends World Championships gets its very own montage video
- Choose, ride and inevitably crash a mountain bike in Lonely Mountains: Downhill
- Our best stories from Divinity: Original Sin 2
- The real reason Shadow of War's loot boxes are bad: they make the game boring
- Former Visceral designer says Dead Space 2 cost $60 million and 'underperformed'
- Are indie games too cheap?
- Annoy and impress your friends with these Destiny 2 easter eggs
- NZXT unveils three new cases and they all look dapper
- Try the demo for this 'indigenous cybernoir' mystery adventure
- Coffee Lake’s motherboard compatibility hints at Intel releasing 8-core CPUs
- Here's footage of a Chinese mobile PUBG clone that's also about Terminator 2 somehow
- Check out Overwatch's Zenyatta remade in StarCraft 2
- Cooler Master launches MasterWatt PSU line with longer cables
- A Mortician's Tale review
- Nvidia is giving away Destiny 2 with GeForce GTX 1080 and 1080 Ti cards
- Destiny 2 infusion guide
- Vermintide 2 will not sell loot boxes, developer confirms
- Vanilla World of Warcraft project, Elysium, has been dissolved
- Star Ocean is coming to PC for the first time on November 28
- South Park: The Fractured But Whole secrets: find Mr Hankey, 'cheating' and more
- Sony Music Entertainment has opened its own game publishing label
- Returning to Dead Space
- New releases on Steam are expected to reach 6,000 this year
- Gothic and Risen dev's post-apocalyptic RPG Elex is out now
- Freddy Krueger is coming to Dead by Daylight
- Rogue Trooper Redux review
- Humble 'Down Under' Bundle compiles a bunch of Australian games
- Huge Battle Chasers: Nightwar patch makes it less grindy and more difficult
- Dark Souls 3 conquered without leveling up or taking damage
- October 17
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- Activision wins patent that uses matchmaking to make you want to buy stuff
- If you're new to Warframe, the Plains of Eidolon isn't worth your time
- The Gollop Chamber: XCOM is now a genre
- A new Overwatch patch brings changes to Mercy, fixes Lucio's Wall Ride speed
- Killing Floor 2: Halloween Horrors free update adds a new map, missions, and the Dosh Vault
- Hearthstone players getting dual-class Arena mode next week, plus a couple of free packs
- Mutant Football League is a faithful return to the goofy, frustrating era of arcade sports
- 6 things we like about the Windows 10 Fall Creators Update, and 5 we don't
- Warhammer: Vermintide 2 gameplay trailer showcases the new Chaos Army
- EA is closing Visceral Games, changes direction of studio's Star Wars game
- Civilization 6 is also adding Indonesia to the mix
- How a clever plot twist completely reshapes Warframe's story
- Razer updates its Blade Stealth gaming laptop and external graphics enclosure
- Corsair will sell you a set of shine resistant keyboard keycaps for $50
- Here's a hot deal for a GeForce GTX 1080 Ti for $680
- Middle-earth: Shadow of War will get 'infinite Shadow Wars' in a coming update
- LawBreakers 'All-Star Update' brings ranked competitive play later this week
- The Windows 10 Fall Creators Update is out now
- You can now have Hatsune Miku dancing inside your PC
- Get a free PC Gamer ebook worth $10/£10 when you vote in the Golden Joystick Awards 2017
- Bomber Crew looks like FTL but with World War II bombers
- Wolfenstein 2: The New Colossus launch trailer teases a sick Hitler
- South Park: The Fractured But Whole out now, launch trailer launched
- Funny moments from exploring South Park's open world
- South Park: The Fractured But Whole review
- Football Manager 2018's Medical Centre is the best thing to happen to injured players
- UK government responds to loot box concerns (Updated)
- Battlefield 1 unveils new maps and guns in Turning Tides DLC
- Resident Evil 7 takes a closer look at incoming DLC
- Team Fortress 2 'Jungle Inferno' update will usher in new Mercenary Park map
- Skyrim Special Edition's official survival mode lacks the depth of free survival mods
- October 16
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- F**k this one particular orc
- Overgrowth review
- 'KRACK' attack exposes widespread vulnerability in wi-fi security
- Atlus brings free Shin Megami Tensei side-scroller to PC
- Build a driftwood city in the beautiful blue world of Flotsam
- Starborne is a massively multiplayer strategy game from former EVE Online devs
- Watch this rad trailer for a new skateboarding sim coming to PC
- The Evil Within 2 review
- Civilization 6's Khmer people have elephants with ballistae strapped to their backs
- The Destiny 2 PC launch trailer is here
- Build of the week: this giant futuristic rifle is also a PC
- The best Kerbal Space Program mods
- Overwatch breaks 35 million player mark
- Try and fail to keep your kids alive in this 'cooperative parenting simulator'
- This nifty utility compacts your games without a performance hit
- Get a Lenovo Y710 Cube desktop with a GeForce GTX 1070 for $790
- HP is readying an Envy x360 laptop with integrated AMD Vega mobile graphics
- Antec's newest case makes it easy to connect a VR headset
- Echo is a stealth game with the right idea but all the wrong moves
- CD Projekt Red responds to employee complaints, says its approach 'is not for everyone'
- Forged Battalion: hands-on with a nuts-and-bolts RTS from the Command & Conquer creators
- Darkest Dungeon's chilling soundtrack to get limited edition vinyl release
- Strategy veterans Petroglyph announce Forged Battalion, a customisable RTS
- Dying Light launches free 'Content Drop #1' with new weapons and bounties
- NBA esports investment 'a long-term play' that will be 'around for decades'
- Call of Duty: WWII live-action trailer suggests you 'get your squad back together'
- Fan mod adds decapitations, dismemberment and flaming guts to the original Quake
- Rocket League's Halloween event kicks off tomorrow, adding a new (free) way to open loot crates
- October 15
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- Tame vicious wolves in latest update to Alaskan survival game The Wild Eight
- Our readers share their most hilarious and poopiest LAN party memories
- Dungeon Keeper-esque strategy game Dungeons 3 is out now
- Tell us about how you goof off and play games when you're at work
- Latest Star Citizen video shows off future cockpit improvements
- PUBG's anti-cheat system is banning more than 6,000 players a day
- October 14
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- The Joe Rogan Experience's Young Jamie talks PUBG and competitive streaming
- EVE Online's biggest scammer tells us his secrets
- Hands-on with PUBG's desert map and vaulting system, plus exclusive new screens
- Age of Empires: Definitive Edition delayed until next year for more in-depth testing
- H1Z1: King of the Kill is now called just H1Z1
- Get behind the wheel in Spintires: MudRunner's first gameplay trailer
- Sociable Soccer Early Access delayed until next week
- What's going to be our game of the year?
- Klei Entertainment's next game, Griftlands, is a 'pirate/mercenary sandbox'
- October 13
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- Mutant Football League's 'More Gore' trailer reveals a Halloween kickoff
- Fight'N Rage is everything you love and hate about old-school brawlers
- You can make orcs fight like Pokémon in Middle-earth: Shadow of War
- This hypnotic rhythm game was the best thing we saw at IndieCade 2017
- IGN acquires Humble Bundle
- Fading Skies looks like a modern Jak and Daxter with pet dragons
- Cuphead has sold more than one million copies
- We asked a professional game writer to write a movie script for PUBG
- This week's highs and lows in PC gaming
- You might not be able to overclock Nvidia's GeForce GTX 1070 Ti
- ASRock's X370 Taichi motherboard for Ryzen is available for $156 after rebate
- CS:GO's new Dust 2 map, reviewed
- South Park: The Fractured But Whole season pass includes two expansions and the 'Danger Deck'
- European game rating body agrees with ESRB: Loot boxes aren't gambling
- Cooler Master's MasterBox MB600L is an affordable case for liquid cooled PCs
- Asus launches a 27-inch 144Hz curved gaming monitor with RGB lighting
- Fullbright's Steve Gaynor on Tacoma and the changing state of indie
- G.Skill’s 32GB DDR4-4266MHz memory kit is the fastest it gets at this capacity
- PC Gamer Indie's first month
- Lego Marvel Super Heroes 2's story trailer reveals Kang's evil plot
- Nearly 600 entries have been accepted into IGF 2018
- Everything dies in Hunt: Showdown's Early Access trailer
- Middle-earth: Shadow of War: how to make Mirian fast
- Here's what The Evil Within 2's difficulty levels change
- Riot's co-founders are going back to making new games
- Square Enix responds to Final Fantasy 14's housing crisis
- DICE addresses Star Wars: Battlefront II loot box concerns
- October 12
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- Corpses leak and pacemakers are cut out: Dealing with death in A Mortician's Tale
- Epic sues two Fortnite cheaters
- These are Destiny 2's final PC system requirements
- The best Dungeons & Dragons board game is now on Steam
- Try the demo for Underhero, a 2D RPG starring a villain turned hero
- Shadow of War players are using an exploit to get unlimited loot boxes
- Dragon Age creative director Mike Laidlaw has left BioWare
- Everything you need to know about EVE Online's next expansion (and beyond)
- Hunt: Showdown, our game of E3 2017, is coming to Early Access on Steam
- This interactive food sim was designed to make you hungry
- Swery's The Good Life will head to Kickstarter to try again later this year
- Past Cure, the game about a man tormented by mannequins, is coming in February
- Get a Corsair 1,000W power supply for $125
- NZXT's S340 mid-tower case is available for $60 after rebate
- The sun never sets in this RPG about a faceless merchant
- We have 10 BlizzCon 2017 Virtual Tickets to give away to PC Gamer Club members
- Western Digital is promising massive 40TB capacity hard drives by 2025
- Discord launches 'Verified Servers' for game developers and publishers
- NZXT updates system monitoring utility with gaming tweaks
- John Carmack: the power of the PC will never get to mobile
- Watch this World of Warcraft player beat one of its toughest raid bosses solo
- John Carmack says he's better at optimizing than GPU driver programmers
- Fallout 4 mod lets you punch NPCs unconscious and then carry them around in a sack
- Unlocked framerates on Forza Motorsport 7 are wildly inconsistent
- Warframe's Plains of Eidolon expansion launches today
- Grim Dawn: Ashes of Malmouth is out now
- Mircrotransactions and DLC have tripled the value of the game industry
- Overgrowth is leaving Early Access next week
- Noise might be your greatest foe in Hunt: Showdown
- Why I love Cole from Dragon Age: Inquisition
- Life in a one-person biker gang in Grand Theft Auto 5
- Middle-earth: Shadow of War has been cracked in just a day
- October 11
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- Shadow of War has an orc who will hunt you down and sing to you
- The PC Gamer Show: Loot boxes, The Orange Box turns 10, Shadow of War, and more
- More than 3,000 Nazis die in Wolfenstein 2: The New Colossus
- The secret history of underdog game engine RPG Maker and how it got its bad reputation
- Fortnite Battle Royale claims more than ten million players
- Ubisoft explains why Assassin's Creed: Origins has adjustable difficulty
- [Probably NSFW] There's a kid with a melted face in The Evil Within 2 launch trailer
- A Hat in Time review
- Build shaky ski lifts in Early Access physics sim Carried Away
- The creators of Titanfall are making a 'realistic' VR war game
- You can't jump in the brutal, beautiful world of Unworthy
- Corsair's new RGB fans are its brightest yet
- Day of Infamy's free weekend starts tomorrow
- Mass Effect: Andromeda is headed to Origin Access
- Valve's next major TF2 balancing update is 'imminent'
- Permadeath drives exploration in the meaty labyrinths of A Robot Named Fight
- 8 creatures from Middle-earth that deserve to be sexy too
- Loot boxes are not gambling according to the ESRB
- Oculus Santa Cruz is the VR headset we are all waiting for
- Have loot boxes reached a tipping point with Shadow of War and Battlefront 2?
- Oculus Go is a $199 standalone headset that doesn't need a PC or phone
- Windows 10 update sends some PCs into a BSOD boot loop
- Wargroove is a fiercely competitive Advance Wars successor
- Cooler Master's MasterCase HP500P mid-tower case is all about airflow
- Oculus Rift and controller bundle gets a permanent price cut to $399
- H1Z1 Pro League announced, will offer players $50,000 minimum salary
- Final Fantasy 14's huge update goes live today, adds a FF12-themed raid
- Making Final Fantasy 15 for PC is '100 times' easier than console version, says game director
- Stardew Valley creator's next game takes place on same planet but is not a sequel
- PUBG passes 2 million concurrent players mark
- How Total War: Warhammer 2's free mortal empires campaign plans to glue both games together
- Succeed where John Hammond failed in Jurassic World Evolution
- Valve unveils revamped Counter-Strike map Dust2 and opens it up for testing
- Borderlands, Borderlands 2 and Endless Legend for $5 in latest Humble Bundle
- PC Gamer UK podcast 54: Assassin's Creed Origins, Total War: Warhammer 2, Destiny 2
- Football Manager 2018's overhauled scouting system explained
- Star Wars Battlefront 2 beta extended, ends today
- Deadbeat Heroes review
- October 10
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- Civilization 6 is getting a religion reboot in the Fall 2017 update
- NIS America apologizes for Ys Eight translation, hints at December release on the PC
- Build trains throughout history in transport strategy sim Mashinky
- The good and bad of the Star Wars: Battlefront 2 beta
- Blizzard job listing hints a new Overwatch project could be in the works
- 25 years later, Star Control 2 is getting a direct sequel
- Middle-earth: Shadow of War now supports Steam Family Sharing (Updated)
- Corsair's 750W 80 Plus Gold power supply is on sale for $60 after mail-in-rebate
- Patriot’s Viper LED mouse pad brings more illumination to your desktop
- West of Loathing's first hour redefines how we engage with open worlds
- The Overwatch 'Halloween Terror' 2017 event puts a new twist on Junkenstein's Revenge
- Hearthstone is giving away the first Warlock hero skin for free, but there's a catch
- Silverstone wants to turn your M.2 SATA SSD into a USB thumb drive
- Humble Store Female Protagonist Sale celebrates gaming's leading ladies
- Listen to Overwatch's Reaper make a guest appearance in Destiny 2's PvP
- AMD launches Crimson ReLive 17.10.1 drivers for Radeon GPUs
- Nvidia’s latest drivers prep your PC for Shadow of War and The Evil Within 2
- Assassin's Creed: Origins season pass will include two expansions and the 'Calamity Blade'
- MSI overhauls its Vortex SFF gaming PC and drops the price
- World of Warplanes version 2.0 release date set
- The Elder Scrolls Online Clockwork City release date announced
- Crusader Kings 2 Jade Dragon expansion trailer introduces the Emperor of China
- Welcome to The Orange Box 10th anniversary day!
- Remembering Half-Life 2: Episode Two, and the conundrum Valve faced afterwards
- Valve reflects on The Orange Box, ten years later
- 'The cake is a lie'—the life and death of Portal's best baked meme
- The Orange Box review
- Assassin's Creed: Origins' loot boxes can only be bought with in-game money
- Call of Duty: Infinite Warfare launches 'Willard Wyler's Halloween Scream' event
- PES 2018 partners with Arsenal and shows what it's capable of
- The creators of Battle Chasers: Nightwar on comics, RPGs, and almost being Chaotic Evil
- Phalanstery is a cyberpunk point-and-click adventure
- Legendary CS:GO map Dust2 is getting an updated and refined version
- October 9
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- All proceeds from sale of Hellblade: Senua's Sacrifice tomorrow will go to UK mental health charity
- Creators of Dungeonland and Chroma Squad launch Kickstarter for co-op RPG Relic Hunters Legend
- Ghost Recon Wildlands is having a free weekend to mark the release of its team deathmatch mode
- Swen Vincke on the future of Divinity: Original Sin 2, and the pros and cons of open development
- Has Hearthstone become too expensive to keep up with?
- The Battletoads have finally jumped into Shovel Knight on PC
- Battlestar Galactica: Deadlock frames disaster management with tactical space combat
- MechWarrior 5: Mercenaries hands-on: the series goes back to its roots
- First Jurassic World Evolution in-game footage plus details of theme park disasters
- Demetrious Johnson on PUBG, esports tournaments, and livestreaming into retirement
- Total War: Warhammer 2's Steam Workshop is open for business
- What's your favourite game soundtrack?
- Football Manager 2018's 'Dynamics' system lets you win or lose the dressing room
- Divinity: Original Sin 2 has 'at least one big surprise' for players in coming months
- Join a team of B-list superfolks in Deadbeat Heroes
- Emotional Fugitive Detector is a Voight-Kampff test you want to lose
- October 8
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- A Case of Distrust is an adventure game made of silhouettes set in 1920s San Francisco
- Fear Effect Sedna's tactical action coming to PC early next year
- Kung fu rabbit game Overgrowth adds story mode in final beta version
- Get The Elder Scrolls Online and Quake Champions for $12 in Humble Monthly Bundle
- PC version of Ogre, the board game about cybernetic tank warfare, is out now
- Second batch of Fast & Furious DLC screeches onto Rocket League's turf next week
- Ruiner tones down difficulty in first post-release update
- Cat Sorter: a VR game about fixing defective cats
- Where the Water Tastes Like Wine turns American folk tales into a road trip
- October 7
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- Stronghold 2: Steam Edition reboots the 2005 strategy game's multiplayer servers
- Where the Goats Are is like Stardew Valley but all you have are goats, chickens, and crushing loneliness
- Elite Dangerous is getting Squadrons, large groups of players that share a massive mobile base
- There's a game at Indiecade about competing to see who can send the most email
- What are you playing this weekend?
- Old school 3D platformer A Hat in Time is out now
- Blizzard appears to have leaked three more spooky Overwatch Halloween skins
- New save system for No Man's Sky
- Buffs galore in latest Quake Champions patch (plus a double XP weekend)
- October 6
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- In Oblige, life in 1970s Hong Kong is menial and controlled with a typewriter
- EVE Online's free-to-play program is going to get a lot more generous
- Telltale's Batman features real image of assassinated Russian diplomat (Updated)
- Guide to the games of 2017
- This week's highs and lows in PC gaming
- OneShot is a bizarre adventure game full of fourth-wall-breaking moments
- Capture Shadow of War’s most jaw-dropping moments with NVIDIA Ansel
- How to get rich transforming your Stardew Valley farm into a winery
- Twitch Prime members will get a free golden Hearthstone pack next month
- Everspace: Encounters expansion will add a new ship, factories, characters, and quests
- How 2D RTS Forts sold 120,000 copies completely under the radar
- Bethesda embraces anti-Nazi stance: That's 'what Wolfenstein represents'
- G.Skill's Ripjaws KM570 RGB mechanical keyboard is on sale for $80
- EVGA announces trio of Z370 motherboards with cable cutouts
- Major Divinity: Original Sin 2 patch is now live on Steam
- FIFA 18 review
- Get an iBuyPower gaming system with Core i7-8700K and GTX 1080 for $1,469
- Intel i5-8400 review - the best new gaming CPU in years
- The Star Wars Battlefront 2 beta is now open to all
- This Batmobile-like car is coming soon to GTA Online, as well as two new modes
- Intel's flagship Core i7-8700K Coffee Lake processors are in short supply
- Star Citizen alpha 3.0 out now for testing
- Hitman outlines October plans, will reveal 'brand new content' later this month
- How modders are restoring the classics
- Power can be purchased in Mount & Blade 2: Bannerlord
- Call of Duty: WWII includes classic map from original games
- How the loot boxes work in Middle-earth: Shadow of War
- The Evil Within 2 system requirements revealed
- Prison horror game Inmates looks spooky in motion
- Discord now has video chat and screen share
- October 5
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- Epic confirms 'thousands' of Fortnite: Battle Royale cheaters have been banned
- Psychonauts 2 'First Playable' video showcases large, open levels and a goat
- Battle.net gets new social features, user profiles, and an 'Appear Offline' function
- Blizzard is planning Overwatch League-specific in-game items
- 5 things I wish I knew before playing Middle-earth: Shadow of War
- Chris Avellone may be teasing a new Fallout game
- Join the PC Gamer Club and get 7 days of Runescape, plus an exclusive Fire Lycan pet
- Street Fighter 5 Arcade Edition will add Arcade Mode, V-Trigger moves, and more
- CyberPowerPC puts Coffee Lake inside a glass house made by Corsair
- Cooler Master's MasterBox 5 case is on sale for $50 after rebate today
- Overclocker bathes Core i7-8700K in LN2 and doubles clockspeed to 7.4GHz
- Sledgehammer pledges to tackle cheaters in Call of Duty: WWII
- Forza Motorsport 7 VIP package changed in response to player complaints
- Seagate wants to stuff 12TB of storage into your desktop and NAS boxes
- G.Skill cranks out high-speed DDR4 memory kits for Coffee Lake
- Assassin's Creed: Origins system requirements revealed
- Samorost studio unveils the debut trailer for its new game, Chuchel
- Seven: The Days Long Gone release date set
- Intel Core i7-8700K review
- Spec Ops: The Line writer 'would eat broken glass' before considering sequel
- Why porting games to PC is hard
- Warframe's open world Plains of Eidolon confirmed for next week
- Middle-earth: Shadow of War review
- Save money on Middle-earth: Shadow of War and its special edition
- PC Gamer goes to war in Fire Pro Wrestling World
- Visage shows off 22 minutes of PT-inspired horror
- Road Rash successor Road Redemption rides out of Early Access
- Mercy's new Resurrect has been nerfed on the latest Overwatch PTR
- October 4
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- Sanic is now playable in emulated Zelda: Breath of the Wild
- How to set up Divinity: Original Sin 2's mod tools
- Riot dev leaves the company following angry outburst about toxic streamer
- How synthwave music inspired games to explore a past that never existed
- Hand of Fate 2 will be out in November, fourth companion revealed
- Assassin's Creed: Origins trailer reveals the 'Birth of the Brotherhood'
- We roleplayed Geralt of Rivia in this winery tycoon game
- Loot is one of the best additions in Assassin's Creed: Origins
- The PC Gamer Show: Divinity, Cuphead, game difficulty, and audience Q&A
- Fortnite's PUBG-style Battle Royale mode helps push it past seven million players
- HGST's 8TB Deskstar hard drive is on sale for $230 today
- This Asus Hyper M.2 x16 riser card lets you load up on NVMe SSDs
- Patriot announces a customizable gaming mouse for FPS and MMO gamers
- Steam VR support for Windows mixed reality is right around the corner
- More details on the game with a 400-player mode that could take on PUBG
- Microsoft's mixed reality headsets go up for pre-order starting at $399
- Hearthstone voice actor leaks a new 'Tunnel Rodent' card
- Divinity: Original Sin 2 Paladin class mod adds 6 healing skills
- For better or worse, Assassin's Creed: Origins is an RPG now
- Fallout: New Vegas was seemingly compromised by console support
- Abandon Ship showcases picture frame maps and brutal elemental environments
- Darkest Dungeon is cheap this week, new class mods make it a must buy
- Save up to 77 percent on Disney games including Star Wars on GOG
- WWE 2K18 won't have paid microtransactions, says 2K
- The creators of Push Me Pull You are working on a new game where you are a pesky goose
- Silly Knight is one of 6 brand new DOS games you can play today
- Warframe's Plains of Eidolon expansion could launch sooner than expected
- October 3
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- 8 sadistic ways to take out guards in Heat Signature
- Aftercharge, the 3v3 asymmetrical FPS, will hold an 'open alpha' next weekend
- Star Control: Origins is delayed, but a public beta is coming
- Get an EVGA SuperNova 850W 80 Plus Gold PSU for $93
- Stardock strategy games headline the latest Humble Bundle
- Samsung’s Odyssey VR headset with OLED displays looks impressive on paper
- PUBG studio apologizes for server problems, says improvements are on the way
- The Call of Duty: WWII beta was pretty damn fun
- The best PC games we gave up on
- Dota 2 'Midas Mode' tournament is coming in November
- MSI brings console-like game controllers to the PC and other platforms
- The Overwatch 'Halloween Terror' event returns next week
- Grab an Intel Core i5-7600K and ASRock Z270 motherboard bundle for $270
- Western Digital’s mega-capacity 14TB helium-filled hard drive is now shipping
- Watch a Divinity: Original Sin 2 speedrunner beat the game in 38 minutes
- Gone Home prevented Tacoma from being judged on its own, says creator Steve Gaynor
- SkyUI launched for Skyrim Special Edition
- FIFA 18 PC patch targets wonky keepers, shot accuracy
- Welcome fall with these autumnal PC games
- Forza Motorsport 7 review
- 'Nobody can beat the shadow, the Warrior in the Woods,' boasts UFC champ ahead of PUBG tourney
- Code Vein teases more demon-slaying Souls-like in-game footage
- South Park: The Fractured But Hole wants your fart in game
- These 3 roguelikes are pushing the genre's boundaries while remaining true to its roots
- October 2
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- World War Two RTS Divided We Fall launches on Steam, free to play until Thursday
- Verdant Skies is a farming sim where you play as a space scientist
- Mike Donais on Hearthstone's new meta and why Keleseth is crazy (but not broken)
- Blazing Chrome polishes running and gunning to a mirror shine
- Tooth and Tail review
- If Dr. Seuss made a puzzle game, it would probably look like Figment
- Star Wars: Battlefront 2 multiplayer restored, now with Steam/GOG crossplay
- Battle.net may soon support Discord-style groups and—hallelujah!—an 'appear offline' option
- Gigabyte’s X399 Designare EX is a spiffy looking motherboard for Threadripper
- Witcher gameplay video from the '90s pops up on YouTube
- Score a pair of 6-foot HDMI cables for $2
- Augmented reality market expected to skyrocket say analysts
- Hawken is being closed and removed from Steam in January
- Insanely fast NVMe RAID comes to Threadripper
- Pushing the boundaries of open-world gaming with Shadow of War on PC
- Chucklefish on Wargroove's ambitious branching narratives and mod support
- Chucklefish's magic school RPG: more details on dating, combat and influences
- Nioh: Complete Edition coming to PC, release date set
- HTC brings post-apocalyptic world to new Vive owners with Fallout 4 VR bundle
- Finding new ways to play Metal Gear Solid 5: The Phantom Pain two years on
- How a 17-year-old community is keeping Elasto Mania alive
- Demetrious Johnson says he'd 'absolutely' beat Conor McGregor at PUBG
- Cuphead review
- PUBG hit with stream of negative reviews following Chinese in-game ads
- Mutating dungeon crawler Freaky Awesome squirms out this month
- October 1
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- We want to hear your favorite LAN party memories
- Our community shares their worst PC building horror stories
- How to customize GPU cooling using MSI Afterburner
- Hell Let Loose, the WW2 shooter promising 100-player battles, launches Kickstarter campaign
- Hackers have already infiltrated the Call of Duty: WWII open beta
- Gwent update launches Ale Festival event and makes cards more flexible
- Grimrock-inspired dungeon crawler Vaporum is out now
- Jeff Kaplan opens up about how 'scary and intimidating' the Overwatch community can be
