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August 31
- 8 things I wish I knew before playing Absolver
- The origins of Quake Champions' jumping styles
- I spent $15 on Fallout 4's Creation Club content, and here's what I got
- Akira Yamaoka on reviving Silent Hill, Suda 51 and not working on Inside
- Win a Bundle Stars Spending Spree worth $500
- Dauntless is too simple and slight for Monster Hunter fans
- GTA Online's PUBG-style mode is not as good as PUBG
- The Quake World Championship was a battle of young vs old
August 30
- How to play support Sombra, according to Overwatch pros
- Guide to beating Hearthstone’s Lich King with every class
- Help us build the PC Gamer Readers' Top 100 list
- Battletech's 'Death From Above' is its most devastating attack yet
- Enter to win this $2,500 gaming rig from Razer and CyberPowerPC
- Eight things I wish I knew before starting XCOM 2: War of the Chosen
- PUBG players are farming for $300 skirts by going AFK
- Fallout, Doom, and Skyrim don't need VR, but Bethesda has bigger ideas
August 29
- Half-Life 2's Citadel as a 9-foot tall PC, and other awesome case mods from QuakeCon
- What you need to get Destiny 2 running at 60 fps in 4K
- Master X Master's co-op PvE is better than its MOBA
- Piloting the Dodo, the plane that was never meant to fly in Grand Theft Auto 3
- What should be done to fix Hearthstone's Druid problem
August 28
- The strangest patch notes in PC gaming
- Games like Dishonored 2 aren't going anywhere, says Harvey Smith
- Life is brutal in this adventure game about medieval peasants
- The best total conversion mods
- Dark Forces was more than a Star Wars-themed Doom clone
August 27
- What game would you recommend to a complete non-gamer?
- Thai horror Home Sweet Home will chill you to the bone
August 26
- What are you playing this weekend?
- This week's highs and lows in PC gaming
- We’re giving away 20 Dauntless Founder's Alpha codes to PC Gamer Club members (Updated)
August 25
- How Wolfenstein 3D is influencing The New Colossus
- Why Mercy's Resurrect had to be killed
- Star Citizen: expressive faces, space fashion, and boldly going beyond 3.0
- We're in an FPS golden age
- Nidhogg 2 is one of the year's best-looking games
- We’re giving away 50 Destiny 2 PC beta keys to PC Gamer Club members (Updated)
- The Crew 2’s instant vehicle switching is a fun idea it doesn’t use enough
August 24
- PC Gamer UK October issue: Total War: Warhammer II
- Giraffes are way OP in gruesome animal brawler Beast Battle Simulator
- Biomutant is one of the most exciting demos at Gamescom this year
- See what it's like to patrol Destiny 2's European Dead Zone
- The Evil Within 2 hands-on: more open horror forces you to make tough choices
- XCOM 2: War of the Chosen review in progress - an exciting, arduous expansion
August 23
- PUBG players are paying insane prices for rare costumes
- God's Trigger is a lightning fast co-op brawler in the style of Hotline Miami
- StarCraft: Remastered hasn't changed how Korea feels about StarCraft
- The weirdest shooters of the '90s
- Hunt: Showdown is going to have some crazy weapons
August 22
- Changes to CS:GO's smallest guns are having a big impact
- Absolver hands-on: a fun and complex fighting system in a sad, sad world
- Should Age of Empires IV reinvent the series?
- Assassin's Creed: Origins hands-on — bigger, livelier, and taking notes from The Witcher 3
- I came for Middle-Earth: Shadow of War's stealth and left on a fire-breathing dragon
August 21
- Hang out with ASUS ROG at PAX West 2017
- Final Fantasy 15 hands-on: a sight to see in 4K, if you've got the PC to handle it
- The craziest DPS builds of all time
- PC Gamer UK Podcast 52: I have a complicated relationship with Bathtub Geralt
- The making of Fort Frolic, Bioshock's most twisted and memorable level
- Our favorite BioShock moments
August 20
- Tell us about your worst save file disasters
- What game does everyone seem to love, but you can't stand it?
- 10 new things PC gamers should know about Destiny 2
- Our readers share their craziest (and stupidest) PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds stories
August 19
- What are you playing this weekend?
- The 'Souls-like' label needs to die
August 18
- This week's highs and lows in PC gaming
- Best gear for back to school 2017
- Escape from Tarkov is a compelling game about gear, and how we store it
- Exploring one of No Man's Sky's new synthetic planets
- The rise and fall of For Honor
- Epic had to kill Paragon twice to save it
- The most brutal melee takedowns in PC gaming
- Infinite Power: 20 Best Games that Never End
- We tried to steal a tank with a helicopter in GTA Online, and it was embarrassing
August 17
- Win a Primo Victoria tank in World of Tanks and more prizes
- Just Survive's stronghold system is a step in the wrong direction
- The most historically accurate PC games
- Do games have enough respect for your spare time?
- How Skaven plan to corrupt the world in Total War: Warhammer 2
- See Wild West Online's treasure hunting and beautiful yet lonely world in action
August 16
- The Overwatch World Cup's Santa Monica qualifiers showed the power of a versatile DPS
- Twitch's desktop app doesn't do the basics better than Discord
- The best XCOM 2 propaganda so far
- Join PC Gamer at the Lenovo Legion Lounge at PAX West
- Playing for a bare-fisted PUBG chicken dinner
- The profile of a Rocket League pro
- How to get the best gaming experience from your gaming PC with OMEN by HP
August 15
- RX Vega's inventory problems aren't due to cryptocurrency miners
- StarCraft: Remastered is a success in just about every way
- The uncertain future of games like Deus Ex and Dishonored
- Sonic Mania console review roundup
- StarCraft: Remastered—how to polish a classic
August 14
- Build of the week: a pile of guns and light
- Dusk's incredible FPS levels continue where Quake left off
- The best hidden object games
- Hunting the hunters in XCOM 2: War of the Chosen
- The AMD Radeon RX Vega 56 and Vega 64 preview
August 13
- How to clean a mousepad
- Our readers share their cleverest PC gaming moments
- We want your craziest, best stories from Playerunknown's Battlegrounds
- Why I Love: playing games and watching TV at the same time
- The funniest PC gaming videos of the week
- How Team Liquid swept The International 2017 Grand Finals for the $10.8M prize
August 12
- Unpacking AMD's Radeon RX Vega 56 and Vega 64
- What are you playing this weekend?
- What was the first PC game you played?
August 11
- The best Hearthstone Knights of the Frozen Thrones decks to try now
- This week's highs and lows in PC gaming
- The sensitive challenge of portraying psychosis in Hellblade
- How Hellblade's permadeath works isn't the point
- 'My creative calling is to freak people the f*** out,' says Alexis Kennedy on Cultist Simulator
August 10
- The best plays from the Overwatch World Cup Katowice qualifiers
- Paid crates continue to be a contentious issue for the PUBG community
- Popular cryptocurrency GPUs are finally back in stock, but prices remain inflated
- These four famous battles would be perfect for Total War Sagas
- The International 7 is great, but watching it in the Dota 2 client is not
- Seven new things we've learned about Far Cry 5's sandbox
- The AMD Ryzen Threadripper 1950X and 1920X Review
August 9
- One year later, No Man's Sky is a better game but still lacks magic and mystery
- Tips for playing LawBreakers
- How Valve could change the card game genre with Artifact
- The tireless creation of GTA 5's most impressive visual overhaul mod
- Predicting the power of all Hearthstone's new Death Knight cards
- This horror game set on Mars aims to separate real mental illness from Lovecraftian madness
- Streamers vs. stream-snipers: why cheaters will always prosper on Twitch
August 8
- The coolest tech demos from SIGGRAPH 2017
- Meet Eloise, the troll queen of Hearthstone
- 9 games that need a battle royale mode
- All Walls Must Fall's speedy hybrid turn-based firefights show promise in Early Access
- The ghosts of Lovecraft and Poe argue in neat adventure The Darkside Detective
August 7
- See every card from Hearthstone's Knights of the Frozen Throne
- Build of the week: this animatronic Alien PC has moving lips (for kissing)
- Being a baby dinosaur in Early Access survival game Saurian is no picnic
August 6
- Tell us the smartest you've ever felt playing a game
- How to clone a hard drive or SSD
- The most ambitious Quake map ever built has just been released in 2017
August 5
- What are you playing this weekend?
August 4
- This week's highs and lows in PC gaming
- The best (and worst) guns in PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds
- Revisiting Grand Theft Auto 2, the weirdest GTA of them all
- PC Gamer UK Podcast 51: Lvl.99 Seabass
- Unboxing AMD's massive Ryzen Threadripper
- First-person servers change everything in PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds
August 3
- How to design a great Metroidvania map
- Meet the teenager who started a charity to help those with disabilities using the magic of VR
- Everything you need to know about Steam refunds, explained
- Hearthstone card reveal: Roll the Bones
- Stellaris: Synthetic Dawn lets you play as Skynet, the Borg, and other space robots
- Life is Strange: Before the Storm is a prequel series for the punks
August 2
- What it's like creating one of Steam's most popular games at just 20 years old
- The hottest loot spots in PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds
- Why I love the taverns of Skyrim
- Dell Gaming brings PC gaming to San Diego Comic-Con
August 1
- Enter for a chance to win Vertagear's new SL-5000 gaming chair
- Everything you need to know about Guild Wars 2: Path of Fire
- Why Citadel: Forged with Fire has no hunger and thirst system—and why it someday might
- PC games based on movies that aren’t completely terrible
- PC Gamer UK Podcast 50: Other cities are available