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May 31
- Space Haven is a promising management sim about interstellar vagrants
- Escape From Tarkov breaks 200k concurrent players and bans 3k cheaters amid reset
- Halo 3 testing to begin in early June, here are the details
- Here's how to dismantle space salvage in Hardspace: Shipbreaker
- What did you play last week?
- Great moments in PC gaming: Playing bass badly in Night in the Woods
- Hytale will feature in-depth character customization and poop-flinging
- The first Minecraft Dungeons DLC is Jungle Awakens, due July
May 30
- What game has loading screens that don't suck?
- Check out the excellent trailer for Industria, a surreal Cold War shooter
- Factorio 1.0 will come a month early to avoid Cyberpunk 2077
- New Valorant agent Reyna revealed
- Crapshoot: The Deus Ex mod set in a fan forum
- Halo community update tracks the obscure cause of Halo 2's worst launch bug
May 29
- Timelie review
- Meet the guy making daily Elden Ring fan art despite having almost nothing to base it on
- Larian drops Baldur's Gate 3 gameplay teaser, reveal coming on June 6
- The history of the PC Gaming Show
- Rockstar rolls back Grand Theft Auto 4 update that appeared to be corrupting saves
- League of Legends' mobile spin-off looks awesome
- Call of Duty: Warzone finally has Duos
- How to access the super secret level in Minecraft Dungeons
- Satisfactory is coming to Steam Early Access on June 8
- Destiny 2's mysterious Pyramid ships are now in orbit around Jupiter
- New Raspberry Pi 4 with 8GB of RAM and 64-bit OS is an exciting jump for tiny computing
- Twitch Prime subscribers get five free games and a mullet for the Doomslayer in June
- Deep Rock Galactic review
- Legends of Runeterra is getting multiple new game modes very soon
- AMD's latest GPU driver fixes several more lingering black screen issues
- Dance Collider will turn you into a buzzing, sweaty mess
- Here's what the PC Gamer forum is hyped about this week
- Run a space station in Spacebase Startopia, coming October 23
- Developers say Unreal Engine 5 will 'empower them to be creative and take risks'
- The best Minecraft Dungeons builds
- Valorant was played by nearly 3 million players a day during closed beta
- The Eve Spectrum gaming monitor is specced out for next-gen AMD and Nvidia GPUs
- The Razer Blade 15 Studio is the gaming laptop we want but can't afford
- The live-action Sonic the Hedgehog is getting a sequel
- How Marvel's Avengers aims to approach accessibility and representation
- Microsoft Flight Simulator gets into the nitty-gritty of navigation in a new video
- Meet the 19-year-old CEO who started a professional Minecraft building company
- 12 tips to help you get started in Phantasy Star Online 2
- Star Wars: Tales from the Galaxy's Edge is a VR game based on the theme park
- 5 Reasons to Play Black Desert Online
- Intel is using two manufacturing processes for some Comet Lake Core i5 CPUs
- The Witcher series hits 50 million sales
- Tips and Tricks for getting started in Borderlands: The Handsome Collection
- Make quick cash and become a badass in Borderlands: The Handsome Collection
- Getting acquainted with the Pre-Sequel in Borderlands: The Handsome Collection
- Logitech G915 TKL gaming keyboard review
- Outriders gets extended gameplay video, and won't have microtransactions
May 28
- Monster Train is a deckbuilder that tries to do it all and actually pulls it off
- Bungie says Destiny 2 season 11 and year 4 reveals are coming 'very soon'
- Quake-like FPS Wrath: Aeon of Ruin gets pushed into 2021
- Cate Blanchett is confirmed for the Borderlands film
- I came to Sludge Life for cool graffiti but I'm staying for its brilliant, oddball characters
- Arkane's Arx Fatalis is free for the taking
- Steam Cloud Play enters beta testing with GeForce Now support
- Someone is selling 128MB USB drives for $350 as 5G 'shields'
- Fortnite Chapter 2 season 3 is delayed again
- Motherboard makers are sidestepping Intel's CPU overclocking lock
- Sludge Life is a funky vandalism sim and free on the Epic Games Store
- Dell G5 15 SE gaming laptop review
- Valve and Microsoft are helping HP jump back into VR with the Reverb G2
- Borderlands: The Handsome Collection is free on the Epic Games Store
- The Assassin's Creed series has failed its best idea
- How to surf in CS:GO
- Obliterate the human race for the first time on PC with the free Destroy All Humans! demo
- Grab episode one of the Song of Horror survival adventure series for free
- How A Total War Saga: Troy blends myth and reality
- Just sittin' on a Vault Boy... the Fallout gaming chair is now available
- This Stardew Valley mod adds six cute new shops to the base game
- MSI Optix MAG272CQR review
- Nvidia GeForce Now is going to get worse before it gets better
- Fast & Furious Crossroads has been delayed until August
- Half-Life: Alyx update adds liquid to bottles, and it's cooler than it sounds
- Trackmania will be free-to-play, but you'll need to subscribe for certain features
May 27
- Though it shows its age, Phantasy Star Online 2's combat is snappy and fun
- Prey goes DRM free on GOG, and is currently very cheap
- Sea of Thieves' big Tall Tale adventures are finally getting checkpoints
- Darkest Dungeon's PvP mode comes out tomorrow, and it's free for everyone
- Far Cry 5 is free to play this weekend once again
- Dishonored studio Arkane teases 20th anniversary celebration plans
- Phantasy Star Online 2 launch marred by how shitty the Windows Store is
- This 8K holographic monitor has me dreaming about the future of gaming
- The Windows 10 May 2020 update is here, what could go wrong?
- Ninja is hosting a weekly Fortnite tournament series on Mixer
- 25 years later, Task Manager's creator shares a bunch of cool tips for using it
- Crucible review
- New Nvidia drivers prep your PC for Valorant and the next big Windows 10 update
- Metro Exodus ditches Denuvo
- Discover tentacled horror at the bottom of the sea in the strategy-RPG Stirring Abyss
- Razer Deathadder V2 review
- Killing innocent animals in Minecraft Dungeons is filling me with guilt
- Minecraft Dungeons review
- Mafia 2's Empire Bay is still one of PC gaming's greatest cities
- GOG's summer sale brings demos of Desperados 3 and the System Shock remake
- Why Overwatch and CS:GO pros are switching to Valorant
- Get Cities: Skylines for $1 on the Humble Store
- Secretlab Omega review
- Eternal Hope is a Limbo-like journey to save the soul of your beloved
- AMD Radeon RX 5500 XT 8GB review
- Nvidia GeForce RTX 2080 Ti Founders Edition review
- Four classic Anno games are being updated and re-released
- Mid-year AMD Ryzen refresh all-but confirmed... but it's no gaming panacea
- Intel Core i9 9900K review
- Acer Predator XB273K gaming monitor review
- Valve Index review
- Samurai Shodown NEOGEO Collection will be free-to-keep on the Epic Games Store at launch
- The winner of Fortnite's Asia FNCS Invitational has been caught cheating
- You can now take a leisurely ride through Los Santos with this GTA 5 bike controller mod
May 26
- League of Legends is about to get in-game ads during official matches
- Formula E driver fired by Audi after letting an esports pro take his place in an online race
- Watch the 2020 PC Gaming Show here
- Take-Two says SEC filing does not hint at Grand Theft Auto 6 in 2023
- 3v3v3 tactical shooter Nine to Five is looking for alpha testers
- BlizzCon 2020 is canceled
- Where to find a safe house in Fortnite
- Silent Hill's Pyramid Head is coming to Dead by Daylight
- Fortnite: Hatch locations—Where to swim over hatches at the Agency
- Ooblets releasing in early access 'pretty soon'
- This overclocked Radeon RX 5700 is on sale for $310, the lowest price around
- Mondo Museum is an indie management sim that puts artifacts where they belong
- Minecraft Dungeons pays tribute to Diablo with a secret cow level
- Razer’s new Gigantus V2 3XL mouse pad is bigger than my desk
- Backing up your game saves probably isn't a priority, but it should be
- Total War: Warhammer 2 hits a new peak player count after the Greenskin update
- Arkane's Half-Life spin-off featured Opposing Force's protagonist and his mate, a mutant priest
- Logitech's best wireless gaming keyboard just got smaller and cheaper
- No Man's Sky is coming to Xbox Game Pass for PC in June
- Leaked Call of Duty: Black Ops 4 footage shows off the cancelled campaign
- Faster AMD Ryzen 3000 CPUs rumoured for June 16 announcement
- Mafia 3: Definitive Edition seems to contain a map from a Cold War spy game
- EKWB announces star-spangled CPU water block in support of disabled vets
- MicroProse is working on a multiplayer VR bomber sim
- Free horror game Routine is like a weird Groundhog Day
May 25
- The next Sherlock Holmes game depicts the famous detective as an arrogant young man
- The International Battle Pass 2020 is live
- This World of Warcraft player found a way to one-shot enemy players while naked
- Outriders Broadcast will showcase People Can Fly's upcoming RPG-shooter later this week
- Amnesia: Rebirth promises a deeper kind of horror that 'grows over time'
- Heavy Rain, Beyond: Two Souls, and Detroit: Become Human are coming to Steam
- The Witcher 3's best graphics overhaul mod is getting even better
- The Division 2 dataminer digs out upcoming story details and a new game mode
- SHiFT codes for Borderlands 2 that work in 2020
- Smite's next god is ol' squidface himself, Cthulhu
- MacVenture-style Spectacle is a free adventure game treat
- Twin-stick roguelite I, Dracula: Genesis hits early access
- IBM and Google battle for quantum supremacy in computing
- Family Man, the Breaking Bad-like blocky RPG, is out now
- Drox Operative 2 trailer shows off the sci-fi action RPG
- Halo 3 public tests could start in early June
- John Wick writer wants to make TV shows based on My Friend Pedro and Bendy and the Ink Machine
- This mod makes Doom 2 a third-person hack-and-slash
- Five new Steam games you probably missed (May 25, 2020)
May 24
- Ninth edition of tabletop wargame Warhammer 40,000 announced
- The Wholesome Direct stream will show off 50+ indie games
- Shrek is far scarier than Nemesis, as this Resident Evil 3 mod shows
- Pump up Mechwarrior 5's weather effects with this lovely mod
- PC gaming clichés we don't hate
- Dungeons & Dragons rolls out the celebs for D&D Live 2020
- What did you play last week?
- Great moments in PC gaming: Fighting Bill O'Reilly in DmC
- Epic's next free games may have leaked
- Heartwarming adventure game Rakuen has an animated series DLC
May 23
- Warframe: The Deadlock Protocol will soon revamp the game's oldest content
- Assassin's Creed Valhalla will have Viking rap battles
- Total War: Warhammer 2 now has a dabbing goblin named Niblet
- What loot would you drop?
- Crapshoot: Life and Death actually is brain surgery
May 22
- The biggest PC gaming stories this week
- What's the difference between GeForce Max-Q and Max-P laptops?
- Risk of Rain 2 is pushed back into August
- Watch this World of Warcraft player one-shot a raid boss for 115 million damage using a genius exploit
- Wasteland 3 video showcases psychos, Gippers, and consequences of bad decisions
- The real world is now more ridiculous than GTA 6 could ever hope to satirize
- Manchester United sues Football Manager over trademark infringement and mod support
- Logitech G Pro X gaming headset review
- Here are the winning PC builds from our forum competition
- Summer Game Fest joins with Day of the Devs for two more events
- AMD might be refreshing its Zen 2 CPU lineup, but what we really want is Zen 3
- PSA: Terrible people are running a phishing campaign with fake Covid-19 stats
- The PC Gamer Show 199: 9 years of Terraria, GTA 5 mods for new players
- Star Citizen is free to try for 11 days
- Cloudpunk looks amazing in first-person mode
- You can watch the guy who invented Counter-Strike surf maps stream his work on Twitch
- Pac-Man is celebrating his 40th birthday by starting a Twitch career
- Securing Victory in Civilization VI
- Conquering the mid-game in Civilization VI
- Tips and tricks for getting started in Civilization VI
- Watch clips from Arkane's cancelled Half-Life 2: Episode 4
- Microsoft Solitaire is 30 today and trying to set a new record
- Microsoft announces new accessibility features coming to Windows 10
- How to become a poison-spewing vampire shark in Maneater
- Researchers build AI that can clone Pac-Man without a single line of code
- Playtest Surgeon Simulator 2 this weekend
- Fortnite will screen a full Christopher Nolan film this summer
- Minecraft Dungeons is a bombastic and breezy dungeon crawler that doesn't take itself too seriously
- Alan Wake is now on Xbox Game Pass for PC, Minecraft Dungeons joins next week
- Dive into the depths of Maneater with this new trailer
- Grounded will get a demo on Steam as part of the Steam Game Festival
May 21
- F1 2020 gameplay video shows Monaco with a 'visual uplift'
- Steampunk survival game Volcanoids finally gets co-op play
- Sea of Thieves sails onto Steam on June 3
- Neversong dev accidentally gave away 3500 Steam keys to each of his Kickstarter backers
- A new trailer for Christopher Nolan's next film debuts in Fortnite tonight
- Desperados 3 extended gameplay trailer shows the importance of being sneaky
- How to change Fortnite skins and cosmetics during a match
- Watch this pro play StarCraft with a keyboard the size of a desk
- How to complete Fortnite's secret Truce Celebrated challenge
- G.Skill RAM hits 6666Mhz with Intel's new Comet Lake, setting a world record
- The story of Halo 2's iconic multiplayer maps: tight deadlines, a tiny team, and a visit from Napoleon Dynamite
- Borderlands 3's next DLC promises a Wild West-style adventure
- This World of Warcraft player has 49 max-level warriors, and he isn't stopping
- The first 8TB M.2 SSD could go a long way towards not having to uninstall games
- Total War: Warhammer 2's WAAAGH! update makes it good to be green
- Now is a great time to go on holiday in ancient Greece
- Unreal Engine 5 PS5 demo runs happily on current-gen graphics cards and SSDs
- Civilization 6 is free on the Epic Games Store
- Razer announces new Blade Pro 17 gaming laptop with 300Hz screen
- Valorant is launching on June 2
- Use time as a weapon in this gorgeous RPG inspired by Japanese classics
- The Euro 2020 finals are taking place virtually this weekend
- Meet the ten fearsome hunters of Crucible
- Warcraft 3: Reforged's first balance update is coming soon
- Command & Conquer Remastered source code will be released to support modding
- Here's footage from the Artifact 2.0 beta
- G2A has paid Factorio studio nearly $40,000 over sale of illegitimate keys
May 20
- Intel bought the company that makes Killer networking products for gamers
- Take-Two has 93 games planned for the next five years, but no news on GTA
- Doom Eternal will ditch Denuvo Anti-Cheat in its next update
- Rainbow Six Siege mobile clone shut down following Ubisoft lawsuit
- Kerbal Space Program 2 now aiming for launch in late 2021
- Sega, SNK, Koei Tecmo, and more are holding a new online event in June
- Amazon's free-to-play PvP shooter Crucible is now live on Steam
- EVE Online players will soon be able to choose sides in the alien invasion
- Tencent officially takes control of System Shock 3
- Serious Sam 4 threatens to put 100,000 enemies on your screen at once
- This 28-inch 4K IPS monitor is on sale for $249, the lowest price around
- Watching Warzone players failing to loot bunkers is heartbreaking and hilarious
- Watch these overclockers crank Intel's Core i9 10900K all the way to 7.7GHz
- Bots and ranked matches have arrived in PUBG
- G.Skill's fast DDR4-5000 RAM will probably cost more than your GPU
- NaturalVision Evolved makes GTA 5 look like a modern PC game
- Destiny 2's 'The Lie' quest is finally fixed
- Watch RoboCop fight the Terminator in Mortal Kombat 11
- Bethesda confirms Fallout 76 seasons will be free
- Let's hear it for Hunt: Showdown's incredible sound design
- This mod adds massive tanks to XCOM 2: War of the Chosen
- Umurangi Generation is a stylish urban photography game set in a 'shitty future'
- Our overclocked Intel Core i9 10900K CPU sucks 331W of power
- Embracer Group, formerly THQ Nordic AB, has 118 games in development
- Cinders is an ambitious mod that rekindled my love for Dark Souls 3
- Call of Duty is heading to the Cold War next, according to a leak
- AMD Ryzen 4000 test chips already look to be as fast as Zen 2
- Microsoft Flight Simulator closed beta is taking off in July
- Ex SimCity devs team up with Seasun to create a new game
- World of Warships is colliding with Warhammer 40K
- The Half-Life: Alyx intro has been recreated in Far Cry 5, and it looks great
- Terraria whips guide: How to get the new summoner whips
May 19
- Phantasy Star Online 2 comes to PC on May 27
- Your Fallout 76 allies will now wear your spare clothes, if you let them
- Oculus Quest is finally available to order again, but it won't ship until July
- Get Tekken 7, Tales of Berseria, and Man of Medan in the new Humble Bundle
- The Wonderful 101's PC port is janky, but at least the weird cult classic is preserved
- Henry Cavill is in the new Total War: Warhammer 2 DLC
- Kerbal Space Program joins with the European Space Agency for new missions and more
- Zotac just upgraded its VR backpack, but should have waited for new CPUs
- The Witcher 3 turns 5: Celebrating the RPG of the decade
- The Overwatch 2020 Anniversary event features a trio of new epic skins
- Sims rival Paralives shows off new character creator as Patreon support surges
- AMD's next-gen Zen 3 CPUs will work in 400-series motherboards after all
- Mafia 2 and 3 Definitive Editions are out now, free for owners of the originals
- Intel Xe leak suggests DG1 is not much of a gaming chip
- Where to find Fortnite XP tokens
- The Witcher 3 nearly made Ciri a deadly ice skater
- TimeOut is a stylish free noir detective game with a dystopian sci-fi twist
- Gwent launches on Steam with crossplay, achievements and trading cards
- PC Gamer plays: Gylt, Six Ages, Escape from Tarkov, and Jedi: Fallen Order
- Why I loved playing Duke Nukem 3D with my dad
- Amazon's new team-based shooter is a pick and mix of genres
- How The Witcher 3's best quest was made
- Steam's Remote Play Together is fiddly, but still a great way to play couch co-op online
- AMD Ryzen 4000 APUs will make for a mean budget gaming PC
- Epic Games Store gets self-service refunds and more keyless integration
- Nvidia and AMD GPUs deliver 2.5x speed boost in new Premiere Pro patch
- The Culling is keeping its pay-to-play system, but Xaviant regrets how it was announced
- Microsoft president admits the company was on 'the wrong side of history' with open source
- Wasteland 3 developer diary deep dives on character creation
- It's ludicrous that Terraria still costs just $10
May 18
- Artifact 2.0 enters beta this month
- GTA Online cheating even more rampant during free giveaway
- The Chex Quest remake is finally out, still miraculously crunchy
- Madden Bowl championship winner didn't throw a single pass or even draft a quarterback
- See Mortal Kombat 11's upcoming Friendship finishers in a cuddly new trailer
- After rebate, this gaming PC with an RTX 2070 Super is cheaper than building your own
- Rainbow Six Siege lead designer talks upcoming Nøkk, Oryx, and Kali buffs
- Terraria's mod loader is now on Steam as the devs 'hand the keys over to the fans'
- Nvidia's CloudXR could one day do for VR what GeForce Now is trying to do for PC gaming
- ASRock figured out a way to overclock Intel's locked non-K Comet Lake CPUs
- I'm already tired of Rainbow Six Siege's annoying new defender
- Minecraft sales now exceed 200 million
- Intel promises more sustainable PCs with "longer-term, energy-efficient architectures"
- Watch a Legends of Runeterra character get designed live
- The tiny GPD WIN Max handheld gaming PC is selling out fast
- Revisit classic PC games in our new Reinstall video series
- This Half-Life: Alyx mod lets you play with lightsabers
- Snag a free Main Assembly beta key and get a chance to win a Reign SENTRY MKII gaming PC
- Work continues on Fallout 4: New Vegas mod
- Club Penguin clone with rampant "penguin e-sex" shut down
- Wasteland 3 will feature a goat cannon, and some deep customization options
- Minecraft studio Mojang has rebranded, and is 'playing with ideas' for new games
- Five new Steam games you probably missed (May 18, 2020)
May 17
- Ubisoft is suing Apple and Google over an alleged Rainbow Six Siege clone
- People are extremely unhappy with Doom Eternal's kernel mode anti-cheat
- In Timelie, you control time like a video player
- The best Terraria builds for each class
- What did you play last week?
- Great moments in PC gaming: BioShock's twist
- The LEGO NINJAGO Movie Video Game is free on Steam
- Jet Lancer looks like Luftrausers but anime and it's out now
May 16
- There are already lots of good SnowRunner mods
- Terraria hits all-time highs on its ninth anniversary and final update
- Space dwarf mining shooter Deep Rock Galactic outlines ambitious post-release plans
- How do you hold a controller?
- Crapshoot: An FPS where you carry two guns and your wife rides on your back
- Where to find the military base in GTA 5
May 15
- Become the god of Los Santos with this GTA 5 invincibility cheat
- The biggest PC gaming stories this week
- How to get started in GTA Online
- NASA challenges Kerbal players to mirror an upcoming launch to the International Space Station
- Half-Life: Alyx now has Steam Workshop support and official mod tools
- Cyberpunk 2077 car pays tribute to Mad Max: Fury Road
- Hearthstone devs are hitting Demon Hunter with another round of nerfs
- What the Unreal Engine 5 Demo means for PC
- Anthem developers have begun trying to figure out what went wrong
- This rad Sekiro mod adds Katana Zero's bullet time and fast sword attacks
- The Waylanders trailer showcases narrative interludes and your magic sailing ship
- GTA 5 system requirements: What you need to run it on PC
- You no longer need a $79 Link cable to play PC games on an Oculus Quest
- The Epic Mega Sale began yesterday, but nobody noticed because GTA5 crashed the store
- Students are holding their college graduation ceremony in Minecraft
- I'm obsessed with Crusader Kings 3's character models
- This brilliant liquid cooler plugs into a PCIe slot
- Here's what the PC Gamer forum is discussing this week
- How to survive Escape from Tarkov's Customs map
- I was so bored in self-isolation I built a mini PC I don't need
- I want to live inside this virtual videogame box collection
- Warzone's new Stimulus Solo mode is less competitive, but more enjoyable than regular Solo
- Terraria: Journey's End has a ridiculously long changelog
- Do you remember the first time you hit the degauss on a CRT?
- Getting Acquainted with Grand Theft Auto Online
- How to make money in Grand Theft Auto V
- Tips and tricks to help you get started in Grand Theft Auto V
- The Dig is a weird LucasArts adventure dreamed up by Steven Spielberg
- Doom Eternal's first update includes Denuvo Anti-Cheat
- Tricky physics sim Poly Bridge 2 is releasing on May 28
- Your next CPU and GPU could be manufactured in the USA
- 5 big improvements in Crusader Kings 3
- Steam's Play Next feature is ready to drop some recommendations
May 14
- Conan Exiles is free to try for the weekend
- Respawn is not working on a new Titanfall right now
- After a brief intermission, the FBI can spy on your browsing history without a warrant again
- Assassin's Creed Origins and Odyssey Discovery Tours are free for everyone
- The PC Gamer Show 198: Halo 2 hits PC, 5 essential Stardew Valley mods
- Tower defense platformer Aegis Defenders is free on the Humble Store
- Where to find Shanty Town and Orchard for Fortnite Location Domination challenges
- HyperX x Ducky One 2 Mini gaming keyboard review
- The Grand Theft Auto 5 giveaway broke the Epic Games Store
- Ubisoft warns that one of its upcoming games could be delayed
- Oh good, someone invented the 'first AI capable of crying'
- Alienware and Asus are in a race to release the first 360Hz monitor
- You can pet the dog (and take it hunting with you) in Hunting Simulator 2
- Sergey Titov, the infamous creator of The War Z, on why he's making another zombie survival game
- It's the end of an era as Microsoft stops distributing 32-bit Windows
- Fallout 76 is getting season passes, starting this summer
- Here's what we know about Nvidia Ampere GPUs after Jen-Hsun's keynote
- Crusader Kings 3 gets a September 1 release date
- Crusader Kings 3 sticks to what it does best
- GTA 5 is free on the Epic Games Store
- Play Dance Dance Revolution V on PC for free
- Small World of Warcraft turns the MMO into a brisk board game
- Blightbound is a three-player co-op dungeon crawler from the makers of Awesomenauts
- The Unreal Engine 5 demo looks amazing, but shows nothing that will move games forward
- Watch the Nvidia Ampere GTC Keynote here... time to 'Get Amped'
- Where to destroy teddy bears in Fortnite
- EVO 2020 has become an online event
- Alan Wake's Bright Falls is still one of PC gaming's greatest settings
- Nvidia confirms Ampere will power next-gen GeForce graphics cards
- Destiny 2's new event needs 9 million Seraph Tower completions, but players can't be bothered (Updated)
May 13
- Multiplayer bugs undercut the Master Chief Collection's biggest launch yet
- Diablo 3 screens from the Blizzard North era reveal a 'darker' original vision
- Phil Spencer says next year's games are more likely to be hit by coronavirus delays than this year's
- Super Mega Baseball 3 launches with a free demo
- You can watch a new Hearthstone card back get created from scratch next week
- Fast SSD storage is key to the Unreal Engine 5 demo's super detailed scenes
- What's the first setting you change when starting a new game?
- Alienware injects Intel’s latest CPUs and faster GPUs into its laptops and desktops
- Robocop's Mortal Kombat 11 fatality pays tribute to a great shot from the film
- Seagate's 16TB drive shines in latest HDD reliability report, but more data is needed
- Play Fallout 76 for free this weekend
- This Minecraft build puts you in a stunning H.R. Giger theme park
- Mafia: Definitive Edition is coming in August and it looks gorgeous
- Unreal Engine games no longer owe royalties on their first $1M in revenue
- AMD Ryzen 3 3100 CPU review
- PUBG adds bots and ranked mode to the test server
- Sorry, there's no such thing as a GTA 5 money cheat
- Rainbow Six Siege players are terrifying their teammates with this image
- Open-world RPG Tainted Grail is heading to Early Access on June 25
- Epic's multiplayer systems are now available for other devs to use for free
- Unreal Engine 5 tech demo uses 'film-quality' assets, runs on today's hardware
- Mafia Trilogy announcement coming on May 19
- Get to the chopper with these GTA 5 helicopter cheats
- Call of Duty: Warzone gets two-step authentication to stem the tide of cheaters
- This Valve Index mod lets you display a custom message across your VR headset
- Play 25 demos in Steam's Indie Celebration
- F1 2020 is screeching into RPG territory with a new team-building career mode
- Titans get a tiny statue for winning the Destiny 2 Guardian Games
- I am at war with wild toddlers in The Sims 4's 100 baby challenge
May 12
- Gorgeous cyberpunk adventure VirtuaVerse is out today
- This mod gives Geralt a dad bod
- Hearthstone players can claim the Nemsy Necrofizzle hero skin for free this week
- Assassin's Creed Valhalla will bring back 'social stealth' and wrist blade insta-kills
- Riot bans nearly 9,000 Valorant cheaters, warns that this is 'only the beginning'
- Apex Legends Season 5: new legend, battle pass details and everything we know
- Get Hypnospace Outlaw, Starbound, and some surprises in the new Humble Indie Bundle
- The names of 225 things in Halo, ranked
- Turns out converting files into images is a highly effective way to detect malware
- Larian 'playing around' with Divinity: Original Sin 2, teases June announcements
- Nvidia's RTX 3080 Ti looks bigger than expected
- Here's how to win the hearts of Stardew Valley's characters
- The Culling is making an unexpected return with a baffling business model
- Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 1 and 2 remasters releasing in September
- A trio of Crucible trailers reveal more about the sci-fi shooter's alien world
- Arnie is coming to Predator: Hunting Grounds
- This free photography game lets you explore the beautiful wilderness of Iceland
- Today's Hearthstone patch finally adds deck ordering, three new Battlegrounds heroes and a minion
- Apex Legends Season 5 and Loba arrive today
- Super Mega Baseball 3 review
- This free virtual pet lets you make a planet horny with cosmic rays
- Intel Comet Lake - all the gaming CPU specs, pricing, release date, and performance info
- Stellaris gets an anniversary update and is free to try all week
- Cancelled spin-off Terraria: Otherworld may see the light of day
May 11
- Disco Elysium will now run on very low-spec machines
- Vikings TV show composer working on the Assassin's Creed Valhalla songs
- Former Apex Legends devs launch new 'anti-crunch' studio
- This Dino Crisis fan patch updates Capcom's goofiest survival horror game for modern PCs
- Bethesda says it will be 'years from now' before we get Elder Scrolls 6 details
- Steam Summer Sale dates have leaked
- Inside the journey to bring Halo back to PC
- Razer's $80 Viper gaming mouse is free when you buy a Huntsman TE keyboard
- PC Gaming Show joins forces with GamesRadar and Guerrilla Collective for a huge day of announcements (Updated)
- Ubisoft's 'E3-style showcase' is coming in July
- Leeroy Jenkins, World of Warcraft's greatest meme, turns 15 today
- Cassette Beasts is a Pokemon Fusion style RPG from former Chucklefish devs
- McAfee aced a Windows PC performance impact test, are you surprised?
- Origin PC upgraded its 17-inch gaming laptop with a 240Hz display
- AMD announces FidelityFX tech optimised for RDNA GPUs and FreeSync HDR
- Cyberpunk 2077 fan film shows what the RPG would look like in live-action
- How to master fishing in Stardew Valley without floundering
- AMD, Intel, and Nvidia could be calling it quits for Computex 2020
- You won't see Intel Xe graphics in your desktop gaming PC in 2020
- Civilization 6 is getting a new season pass with 6 DLC packs
- Forget LN2, we overclocked AMD's Ryzen 3 3100 using just the stock air-cooler
- Legend of Beowulf mission revealed as part of the Assassin's Creed Valhalla season pass
- Enjoy some of PC gaming's most satisfying gifs
- Before We Leave review
- This hardcore Stardew Valley mod creates a more realistic farming experience
- Art and design studio Atomhawk is taking over the PC Gamer forums this week
- The Square Enix Stay Home and Play bundle includes 54 games for $40
- Indie run-and-gun platformer Fury Unleashed has left Early Access
- Meet John Romero's gangster great-grandma in a new Empire of Sin trailer
- Five new Steam games you probably missed (May 11, 2020)
May 10
- Mafia games' Twitter reactivates to hint at something
- Take your commies nuclear in the new Workers & Resources update
- Beyond Skyrim project releases a new video on the Roscrea expansion
- There’s a new, free Thimbleweed Park adventure
- Here's when Halo 2 on PC unlocks in your time zone
- What did you play last week?
- Great moments in PC gaming: Teaming up with Potato GLaDOS in Portal 2
- See Resident Evil 1 remade in Resident Evil 4's engine
- Rumor: Diablo 2 remaster coming this year
May 9
- Cannibal Cuisine is Overcooked with human flesh
- Counterinsurgency game Rebel Inc now has a campaign mode
- Doom Eternal is getting super-demons that murdered other players
- Age of Empires 2 is quietly having an incredible year
- Here's a look at Dwarf Fortress's new world maps
- Why 'dead game' needs to die
- Crapshoot: BloodRayne 3, the Uwe Boll movie
- What's your favorite podcast game?
May 8
- The biggest PC gaming stories this week
- Celebrate VE Day by smashing Berlin again in the 100-player WW2 FPS Enlisted
- Here's what you missed on the PC Gamer forum this week
- The controversy over Riot's Vanguard anti-cheat software, explained
- Apex Legends' new quests will feature PvE battles and a hunt for lost artifacts
- Online Town is like a Zoom meeting set inside a JRPG scene
- PS2 emulator PCSX2 puts out its first major release in 4 years, with big improvements
- Ride tall, handsome hogs in this necessary RDR2 mod
- Nintendo takes action against that really good Super Mario 64 PC port
- This EVGA 360mm liquid cooler is the cheapest one we've seen at $100 after rebate
- An overclocker pushed AMD's $99 Ryzen 3 3100 to 5.9GHz using exotic cooling
- The Ascent announced, a striking cyberpunk action RPG
- Doom Eternal story DLC teased with two screenshots
- Bungie admits 'rewards not where we want it to be', promises to dial down Destiny 2's microtransactions
- The PC Gamer Show 197: Fallout 76 is good now, Assassin's Creed Valhalla reveal impressions
- This Bannerlord mod basically adds a mobile phone to the game
- The Golf Club 2019 is currently free to play on Steam
- Assassin's Creed Valhalla creative director admits the 'gameplay' trailer was a letdown
- Somehow, the Sokpop Collective has released two games a month for two years
- Drive a train across the wasteland in this free indie game
- Stuck in SnowRunner? Perhaps this tips trailer will help
- Spaceship action RPG Drox Operative 2 announced
- The Stardew Valley Expanded mod feels like a proper expansion
- Tokyo Game Show has been cancelled
- Jonathan Frakes is here to tell you how sad PUBG's Dinoland is
May 7
- Ashes of the Singularity: Escalation is free in the Humble Store Spring Sale
- GTA Online's alien outfits are now free, so get out there and kill each other
- The simple genius of Unreal Tournament map Facing Worlds
- Paris Games Week has been cancelled because of the COVID-19 pandemic
- The first gaming laptops from value-focused Adata aren't as interesting as hoped
- Try turning off Windows 10's Game Mode if your games are stuttering or freezing
- Second Extinction is a co-op FPS that looks like Turok crossed with Generation Zero
- The Final Destination-like puzzle game Death Coming is free on the Epic Store
- Water your crops the easy way with this Stardew Valley sprinkler guide
- SpecialEffect is helping people with physical disabilities play the games they love
- You can get a $50 Steam credit when upgrading to an MSI Z490 motherboard
- Search for a missing expedition on a mysterious island in this first-person adventure
- Layers of Fear studio Bloober Team is working on a new game about 'perspective'
- Assassin's Creed Valhalla 'gameplay trailer' reveals an incredible 2-3 seconds of gameplay
- H.R. Giger inspired horror game Scorn is back with an extremely moist trailer
- Yakuza: Like a Dragon confirmed for Windows 10
- Bright Memory Infinite continues looking ridiculous in a new trailer
- Dirt 5 takes you on muddy races around the world this October
- Vampire: Bloodlines 2's new trailer makes music out of murder
- Chorus: Rise as One is a space sim that will go 'beyond the boundaries of reality'
- A brutal war between the High Elves and Greenskins is the next DLC for Total War: Warhammer 2
- Disintegration, the sci-fi FPS from the co-creator of Halo, comes out in June
- What's the next Crysis? The games that give the RTX 2080 Ti nightmares
- AMD Zen 3 CPUs will only be compatible with 500-series motherboards
- AMD Ryzen 3 3300X CPU Review
- Battlefront 2, The Sims 4 and Titanfall 2 are all 70% off in the Origin sale
- Meet the Legends of Runeterra champions
- Which Apex Legends map is best?
- RoboCop is coming to Mortal Kombat 11 in new Aftermath expansion
- Sid Meier's memoir is called Sid Meier's Memoir! and it's coming this September
May 6
- Valorant producer: harassment is 'not a status quo I'm comfortable accepting'
- Footage of a cancelled Prince of Persia reboot has been hiding on YouTube for years
- Rumor: Mass Effect trilogy remaster will be out before next April
- Riot confirms that increased internet usage due to COVID-19 is affecting pings
- Cyberpunk 2077 on Xbox Game Pass tweet was 'not accurate'
- The Vancouver Titans has released its entire Overwatch League roster
- Deadmau5, Steve Aoki, and Dillon Francis to headline the Fortnite Party Royale premiere
- Why am I strangely drawn to this 'OMG!' PC case?
- Logitech's G305 wireless gaming mouse is on sale for $40 (save $20) today
- Which Assassin's Creed game has the best setting?
- Mirror's Edge meets Dishonored in this time-limited demo for Ghostrunner
- Cyberpunk 2077 features customizable genitals
- Terraria's Journey Mode will let you play with item duplication, God mode and more
- Microsoft's Surface Book is now a respectable gaming laptop
- In Assassin's Creed Valhalla, I'm finally going to play as a female assassin
- Weaving Tides is a gorgeous knitted adventure with a free demo
- This Alien-themed Doom mod pits you against androids, predators, and xenomorphs
- The new Sims 4 Eco Lifestyle expansion pack is out June 5
- A quick primer on Legends of Runeterra cards and their abilities
- Gears Tactics has the best graphics option menus I've ever seen and every game should copy them
- I love to destroy my friends on Hitman 2's leaderboards
- Total War's free-to-play collectable card game gets its first gameplay trailer
- Evil Genius is free right now, and you might want to grab your copy quickly
- After five months Google's Stadia Controller is fully functional on PC
- Logitech G203 Lightsync gaming mouse review
- Melbourne Esports Open and IEM pushed into 2021
- Rainbow Six Siege's new limited mode turns Hereford Base into a 1920s British crime den
May 5
- Cate Blanchett may play Lilith in the Borderlands movie
- Blizzard president says World of Warcraft is still as social 'as the day we launched'
- EA still plans to release 14 games over the next 11 months
- A new Call of Duty and World of Warcraft: Shadowlands are still on track for this year
- Valve is releasing the music of Half-Life: Alyx in an 'episodic' soundtrack starting today
- FCC loses legal battle to hide IP addresses of net neutrality comments
- This overclocked GeForce RTX 2070 Super is on sale for $460 right now
- Free games like Minecraft you can play online
- Halo 2: Anniversary comes to Steam and Xbox Game Pass for PC next week
- How to unlock all 12 Streets of Rage 4 retro characters
- Sekiro multiplayer mod adds Souls-style co-op and PvP, invasions included
- We're giving away a free wireless headset every month to support SpecialEffect
- Hearthstone's new ladder system is creating almost 10 times as many Legend rank players
- Origin PC’s new gaming laptop offers 4K OLED, but is it worth the added cost?
- How to find all the secret notes in Stardew Valley
- This trippy game is the weirdest vacation I've ever been on
- Overwatch Hero Pools are being dropped for most players
- CD Projekt teases Cyberpunk 2077 event in June
- Hardspace: Shipbreaker dev diary showcases zero-g spacecraft surgery
- The best Hearthstone Demon Hunter decks, and how to counter them
- Mortal Kombat 11 is getting new story DLC
- Watch the Xbox livestream with a new Assassin's Creed Valhalla teaser here
- The publisher behind classic Civilisation and XCOM is releasing a trio of new games
- Amazon's sci-fi PvP shooter Crucible arrives on May 20
- Minecraft is more accessible than ever with SpecialEffect's eye tracking software
- Moonray is a surreal hack-and-slash adventure coming to Early Access
- If you want to play Snowrunner as a giant octopus, this is the mod for you
- Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order just got a new arena combat mode
- Bloodstained gets a randomizer and new playable character this week
May 4
- Watch a disembodied hand do a kickflip with this horrific fingerboarding mod
- Yakuza: Like a Dragon looks to be headed for Steam
- YouTube secures Pewdiepie with an exclusive livestreaming deal
- Someone stealth released a full Mario 64 PC port that looks and runs great
- Id details 'complicated relationship' with Doom Eternal composer, won't work with him on DLC
- I found a filthy inflatable sex doll, hosed it off, and sold it in this pawn shop sim
- Grab this fast 27-inch 144Hz monitor with FreeSync support on sale for $275
- Creator of one of the worst viruses ever finally fesses up 20 years later
- EA Play Live is coming in June with 'world premieres' and more
- Nvidia Ampere rumour suggests it will kill the cost of ray tracing
- AMD's affordable Ryzen 3 3100 hits 4.6GHz on all cores in benchmark leak
- JBL Quantum One gaming headset review
- The Dirt Rally creator teases two new games
- Lord of the Rings: Gollum screenshots show off its clammy protagonist
- The best Star Wars games on PC
- The gaming charity SpecialEffect is this month's guest on the PC Gamer forums
- Watch this delivery company test a Death Stranding exoskeleton
- Warzone will connect the different Call of Duty series
- Five Australians charged following CS:GO match-fixing investigation
- Age of Empires 2: Definitive Edition will finally be compatible with Capture Age
- This NES is actually a modern gaming rig
- Them's Fightin' Herds has left Early Access
May 3
- Five new Steam games you probably missed (May 4, 2020)
- What did you play last week?
- Fully automatic crossbows in Mount & Blade 2 are hysterical
- Great moments in PC gaming: Being brainwashed in Star Wars: The Old Republic
- Flight Simulator’s volumetric clouds are stunning in new images, and in motion
- See the first screenshots of Halo 3 and ODST on PC
- Fortnite's limited-release Star Wars loot returns for May the 4th
- Almost 1 million new people had a VR headset after Half-Life: Alyx launched
- Call of Duty: Modern Warfare in glitched-out third-person looks good actually?
May 2
- What's the first game you remember finishing?
- World of Warcraft Shadowlands spiffs up the darkness with ray tracing in alpha
- Dragon Quest 11 and Final Fantasy 12 at half off in Square Enix’s charity collection
- A Warhammer Age of Sigmar RTS is coming from Elite Dangerous developer Frontier
- Crapshoot: The TV show of the predecessor of Day of the Tentacle
- Rick May tribute added to Team Fortress 2
May 1
- The biggest PC gaming stories this week
- I can't decide if having no inventory system in this mining sandbox is brilliant or brutal
- If Doom was a rhythm game it might look a lot like Bullets Per Minute
- Morrowind Rebirth mod gets a big update to celebrate Morrowind's 18th anniversary
- Fallout 76 players have eaten 193,639 pepperoni rolls in two weeks
- Twitch Prime subscribers get 6 free games in May
- The original Star Wars: Battlefront now has Steam multiplayer support
- This 27-inch 1440p FreeSync monitor is on sale for $200
- FCC commissioner calls bullshit on FCC's own broadband availability report
- An alien onesie can be yours if you log into GTA Online in May
- Turn your boring Mount & Blade 2: Bannerlord bow into an arrow shotgun with this mod
- Here's a chance to win a GeForce RTX 2080 Ti Cyberpunk 2077 Edition
- Call of Duty: Warzone brings back Bounty contracts
- How to get started in Street Fighter V
- Yes, your Z490 motherboard will support Intel’s 11th gen Rocket Lake CPUs
- Intel teases data centre Xe GPU with 'tens of billions of transistors' (updated)
- Handy XCOM: Chimera Squad cheats and how to use them
- This is what the PC Gamer forum has been chatting about this week
- Geoff Keighley's hosting his own E3 replacement that will run all summer
- The Hearthstone community is creating ridiculous custom Demon Hunter cards to mock how OP the new class is
- Assassin's Creed 2, Child of Light and Rayman Legends are all free to keep
- Subnautica: Below Zero adds a revamped story, new mechanics and snowballs
- Where to destroy gnomes in Fortnite's Camp Cod and Fort Crumpet areas
- Kind Donations turns Animal Crossing's museum into a blood-soaked nightmare
- Team up with a journalist cat to solve a murder from your balcony
- Assassin's Creed Valhalla lets you dual-wield shields
- 9th century England is the perfect setting for Assassin's Creed Valhalla
- Legends of Runeterra launches with more than 120 new cards
- Cyberpunk 2077 gets an R18+ rating in Australia, alleviating fears of a ban
- Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 Remastered is now available on PC
- Dota 2's The International probably won't happen in 2020, Valve says