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August 31
- Will Battleborn be more than Borderlands by another name?
- Win a Steam key for Pencil Test Studio's Armikrog
- "Fifty shades of white": Witcher 3 devs talk race and adapting literature
- Watch the first full gameplay demo of Tharsis
- Biodrome channels Metroid and Quake for exploratory speedrunning
- Warhammer: End Times - Vermintide was the best game at PAX
- Diablo 3 2.3 is another excellent free update, but what's next?
- Space Beast Terror Fright is Aliens meets slapstick
- Win access to the Company of Heroes 2: British Forces trial
- Dream Machine 2015
- Checking out Logitech's new Artemis Spectrum headsets at PAX
August 30
- Left 4 Dead meets Warhammer: new footage of Vermintide
- Sublevel Zero is a roguelike that scratches the same itch as Descent
- Peril, dice, and cannibalism in Tharsis, a game about our first mission to Mars
- What if Minecraft was more like EVE Online?
- Mod creates a spreading monster infection in The Witcher 3
- Homefront: The Revolution interview - new publishers and guerrilla warfare
- How ARK addressed survival games' kill-on-sight problem
August 29
- VA-11 HALL-A is all about the booze you choose
- YIIK claims to have "one of the most unique endings" ever
- The Westport Independent is a game about ethics in journalism
- Raids are coming to Guild Wars 2: Heart of Thorns
- Guild Wars 2 core game is now free
- The future is analog: Headlander’s wood-paneled weirdness
- Planetoid Pioneers: elderly space marines and a gun that shoots acid bees
- Blowing up everything in Brigador, one of the toughest games at PAX
August 28
- Cliff Bleszinski explains how to shoot people behind your back in LawBreakers
- Kôna hands-on: investigating a winter wonderland gone wrong
- The week's highs and lows in PC gaming
- Ranking the best and worst Bioshock games
- Brian Kibler on Magic’s battle to catch up with Hearthstone
- The best Sims 4 mods
- Memory Myths: How Much RAM Is Enough?
- Bioshock 4K gallery
August 27
- Garden of Terror is one the best maps in Heroes of the Storm
- Become a Metal Gear expert before The Phantom Pain comes out
- There are a lot of Warhammer games coming
- Valve on Dota 2 Reborn, community, and building a game for the long term
- PC Gamer UK October issue – DOOM
- A journey through the nine circles of free-to-play hell
- Knuckle Sandwich is like a grown-up EarthBound
August 26
- The Roccat Nyth is the best customizable mouse I've ever used
- Crushing Diablo 3's Treasure Goblins
- LawBreakers is the new FPS from Boss Key and Cliff Bleszinski
- How GOG rescued 13 Forgotten Realms games from licensing hell
- How your Divinity: Original Sin 2 character choices affect everything you do
- Tips for customizing Windows 10's Start menu
August 25
- Today on The PC Gamer Show: Hearthstone, PAX 2015, and more
- Show Us Your Rig: Untame's Julia Keren-Detar and Itay Keren
- Prepare the perfect Ground Zeroes save file for Metal Gear Solid 5
August 24
- Metal Gear Solid 5 review round-up: nothing but love
- Build of the week: F3 Scout 2 Advanced
- This amazing quad-kill was the turning point of the CS:GO championship
- Reynad picks the 10 most OP The Grand Tournament cards to craft
- We're giving away $1000 of Steam Wallet cash
- Commandos, tanks and top swearing in CoH2: The British Forces
- What League of Legends patch 5.16 means for you
August 23
- You can now play dice and card games in Skyrim's taverns
August 22
- The best covers of PC gaming music
August 21
- What are the hardest PC games?
- The week's highs and lows in PC gaming
- Corsair Strafe tested: good keyboard, better software
- Get ready for the League of Legends 2015 World Championship
- Stellaris: how Paradox plan to make an infinite grand strategy
- Torn City: discover the power of text-based games
- Build It - Virtually Prepared: Getting Ready For Oculus Rift
- Secret Ponchos is getting a bunch of new stuff for its PC release
August 20
- Half-Life screenshot gallery: downsampled from 8K
- Final Fantasy Type-0 port analysis: two steps forward, one step back
- Warhammer 40,000 has the only interesting Space Marines in games
- In praise of the secret language of Dota 2's drafting phase
- Intel Level Up contest winners feature Kafka, reincarnation
- Nvidia 'Share' adds streaming features to GeForce Experience
- Assassin's Creed Syndicate: is invisibility a stealth trick too far?
- How To: Set Up And Use A Plex Server
August 19
- Pilot drones through derelict spaceships in the tense Duskers
- Being a dick in Rocket League
- How To Make Windows 10 Faster
August 18
- What we want from Mass Effect: Andromeda
- Today on the PC Gamer Show: Original Sin 2, The Witcher 3
- Show Us Your Rig: Composer and sound designer Adrian Talens
- Planetary Annihilation: Titans resurrects a flawed RTS, and it's out today
- The best Rocket League plays of the week
- Diamond Horse, and 9 other reasons to be excited about MGS5's sandbox
August 17
- Build of the week: Animunculus from the Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim
- Time-shifting FPS Superhot makes you feel like a frag god
August 16
- Why movement is so important in superhero games
- Smash up GTA 5 with Hulkbuster armor
August 14
- This week's highs and lows in PC gaming
- Ranking the best and worst of the Civilization series
- Can you guess just how bizarre this noir adventure game is?
- Motherboards with 'Killer' network adapters aren't worth your money
- Hitman's NPC AI could mean a return to form for Agent 47
August 13
- NVIDIA's SHIELD Android TV Gets a New Helping of Games
- BenQ's FreeSync monitor is (almost) everything I want for gaming
- Life is Strange is a refreshing glass of gut-punch
- Dota 2 and the impact of that $6m Echo Slam
- Tales from the Borderlands: Episode 4 out next week
- Event[0] traps you on a broken spaceship with a lonely AI
August 12
- Why Cradle and its giant cybernetic eagle could become a cult classic
- If you like Her Story, you’ll also like…
- Show Us Your Rig: Eat Create Sleep's Roland Koch
- Sharing a ride in GTA 5
- How to completely crush this week’s Tavern Brawl
- Mirror's Edge Catalyst looks like the sequel I was hoping for
- Police Quest: Open Season was a detective game that wanted you to play by the book
- Best Backup Software
August 11
- How modders are cracking Halo Online to bring Halo 3 to PC
- PC gaming's most shocking story moments
- The story of Pillars of Eternity: The White March – Part I
- The best Rocket League plays of previous weeks
- Windows 10 tips and tricks
- A look at Burstfire, a hardcore tactical FPS made by four people
August 10
- Build of the week: L3pipe
- Want to cover PC hardware news? Come write for us!
- The 10 players you meet in Rocket League
- World of Warcraft desperately needs its next expansion
- Riot's stance on sandbox mode is inarticulate and harmful
- Hands-on with the first hour of Tacoma
- Creating an electrifying freak in WWE 2K15
August 9
- The International 2015: the best of the final day
- Customize trains, planes, and automobiles while playing Cities: Skylines
August 8
- Watch The International Dota 2 grand championship live [it's over!]
- The International 2015: the best of day five
- This week's highs and lows in PC gaming
August 7
- The verdict is in on Windows 10 gaming performance, compatibility
- Ranking the best and worst of the Mass Effect games
- Gamescom 2015: The biggest news from day three
- The International 2015: the best of day four
- Why Scalebound, Crackdown 3 and Quantum Break aren't coming to PC
- With the Legion expansion, World of Warcraft enters its endgame
August 6
- The Wolf Among Us 4K gallery
- Rocket League dev exploring mod support, working on "crazy maps"
- Submerged tells three different stories without saying a word
- Time magazine's cover is the greatest threat to VR
- Still waiting for your Windows 10 upgrade? Here's how to install now
- Watch Blizzard unveil the new World of Warcraft expansion
- Bloomfield Takes on Skylake
- The International 2015: the best of day three
- XCOM 2 screens show customisation options galore
- Mafia 3: a violent tale of family in a sumptuous city
- Deus Ex: Mankind Divided screens show different ways to play
- Dark Souls 3 screens show new attacks and sinister villains
- Fighter Squadron's foolproof flying serves the Star Wars fantasy
- How StarCraft 2: Legacy of the Void's prologue sets the stage for the finale
August 5
- Ranked rewards and jousting are the real stars of Hearthstone's new expansion
- Mirror's Edge: Catalyst's headset guy needs to shut the hell up
- The International 2015: the best of day two
- Dark Souls 3 is more of the same—and still good
- Intel Skylake i7-6700K tested: a smart upgrade despite small gaming gains
- Fable Legends "isn't a ghetto PC port"
- Planetary landings are coming to Elite: Dangerous this year
- Watch the EA Gamescom 2015 press conference here
August 4
- Show Us Your Rig: Shield Break Studios' Chris Talucci
- Watch The PC Gamer Show, our new video podcast
- The PC games to watch at Gamescom 2015
- The International 2015: the best of day one
- Watch the Microsoft Gamescom 2015 press conference here
- Streaming Xbox One To Windows 10 Revisited
- The transatlantic quest to make Pixel Ripped, a game about gaming
- You should be playing Dirty Bomb
August 3
- Be a gross giggling ghost baby in Dead Realm
- Build of the week: Brandywine
- Protecting the citizens of San Andreas in GTA 5
- Windows 10 vs. 8.1 vs. 7: Performance
- How melee combat in games compares to real swordfighting
- Windows 10 Graphics and Motherboard Drivers (Updating)
- How far away from your monitor should you sit?
August 2
- Mod support and more frequent updates are coming to Terraria
- Mod turns GTA 5 into an RPG
- The International 2015: everything you need to know