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October 31
- Terror and tourism in Tokyo Dark
- Will the Nintendo Switch gold rush affect indie games on PC?
- Surviving Mars wants to inspire the next generation of astronauts
- Spelunky deathmatch was underrated
- 10 great indie horror games
- A closer look at the amazing sci-fi worlds of Destiny 2
October 30
- Middle-earth: Shadow of War performance analysis with Mozû the Blight
- Shapeshifting puzzler Shift Quantum gets creative with black and white
- 10 corporate dick moves in gaming history
- If Valve wants to make Steam the best it can be, these issues are a good place to start
- World of Warplanes 2.0 is more reinvention than update
- Rise of Industry: we built a failing whiskey business in this neat production sim
- The most promising indies we saw at PAX Australia
October 29
- Does radiator size matter for cooling?
- Hoarding solves and causes all your problems in Uurnog Uurnlimited
October 28
- Steam needs better tools to deal with toxic users
- The horrifying legacy of Yume Nikki, the homebrew game that became a phenomenon
- Which game character do you hate?
October 27
- This week's highs and lows in PC gaming
- 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
- Here's 21 GIFs of Nazis getting owned in Wolfenstein 2: The New Colossus
- The biggest issues with Steam in 2017, according to 230 developers
- The state of Steam: Read what PC devs really think
- We've got just over 1900 Laser League closed beta keys up for grabs (EU readers only)
- The Aquanox beta is live, and we've got keys for you
October 26
- Blizzard's failure to curb toxicity undermines Overwatch's inclusive message
- Doki Doki Literature Club! hides a gruesome horror game under its cute surface
- Our readers’ orcs are also degenerate asshats
- Assassin's Creed: Origins' best skill turns your arrows into guided missiles
- How an EVE player is funding his spaceship business by making amateur porn
- Forgotton Anne is an indie game that looks like a Studio Ghibli movie
October 25
- Save grandma's PC in neon-lit action platformer Exception
- How netcode works, and what makes 'good' netcode
- Parenting is hard in Think of the Children
October 24
- Different as they are, Supergiant's games all explore tolerance and the ways we deal with disaster
- 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
October 23
- 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
- A beginner's guide to Warframe: Plains of Eidolon
- Reloaders Anonymous: It's time to talk about our Chronic Reload Syndrome
- Build of the week: there's a new Mario soon so here's a Nintendo PC
- 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
- Police Stories is a neat combination of Hotline Miami and Door Kickers
October 22
- We asked for your best stories about slacking off and playing games at work and we're all very disappointed in you
- Tell us about your fondest memory of playing PC games with your family
- Double Kick Heroes is a stunning shoot-'em-up with a metal rhythm
October 21
- This esports platform uses blockchain to let Dota 2 players bet on matches and prevent cheaters
- What are you playing this weekend?
- For over 20 years, these obscure wrestling sims have been taking players behind the scenes
- Which old PC game do you revisit regularly?
October 20
- This week's highs and lows in PC gaming
- Dig for gold in this Early Access mining sim, and then keep digging, and then dig some more
- How the System Shock reboot is changing System Shock
- That asshole orc is dead
- What does old Star Wars Battlefront 2 have that new Battlefront 2 doesn't have?
- The history of the first-person shooter
- Little Red Lie nails the weirdness of moving back home
October 19
- How to kill an Eidolon Teralyst in Warframe: Plains of Eidolon
- 9 PC gaming myths we believed when we were kids
- Tell us the longest amount of time you've left your PC turned on
- The 10 worst Hearthstone legendary cards
- The PC Gamer team becomes competing plants in The Botanist
- PC Gamer UK December issue: PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds
- How the Millennium Edition helped Strafe explode (in a good way)
October 18
- Why Mercy's recent overhaul made her too powerful
- 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
- Our best stories from Divinity: Original Sin 2
- The real reason Shadow of War's loot boxes are bad: they make the game boring
- Are indie games too cheap?
- Annoy and impress your friends with these Destiny 2 easter eggs
- Destiny 2 infusion guide
- South Park: The Fractured But Whole secrets: find Mr Hankey, 'cheating' and more
- Returning to Dead Space
October 17
- If you're new to Warframe, the Plains of Eidolon isn't worth your time
- The Gollop Chamber: XCOM is now a genre
- 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
- How a clever plot twist completely reshapes Warframe's story
- Get a free PC Gamer ebook worth $10/£10 when you vote in the Golden Joystick Awards 2017
- Funny moments from exploring South Park's open world
- Skyrim Special Edition's official survival mode lacks the depth of free survival mods
October 16
- F**k this one particular orc
- Build a driftwood city in the beautiful blue world of Flotsam
- Build of the week: this giant futuristic rifle is also a PC
- The best Kerbal Space Program mods
- Echo is a stealth game with the right idea but all the wrong moves
- Forged Battalion: hands-on with a nuts-and-bolts RTS from the Command & Conquer creators
October 15
- Our readers share their most hilarious and poopiest LAN party memories
- Tell us about how you goof off and play games when you're at work
October 14
- 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
- What's going to be our game of the year?
October 13
- Fight'N Rage is everything you love and hate about old-school brawlers
- This hypnotic rhythm game was the best thing we saw at IndieCade 2017
- Fading Skies looks like a modern Jak and Daxter with pet dragons
- We asked a professional game writer to write a movie script for PUBG
- This week's highs and lows in PC gaming
- CS:GO's new Dust 2 map, reviewed
- Fullbright's Steve Gaynor on Tacoma and the changing state of indie
- PC Gamer Indie's first month
- Middle-earth: Shadow of War: how to make Mirian fast
October 12
- Corpses leak and pacemakers are cut out: Dealing with death in A Mortician's Tale
- The best Dungeons & Dragons board game is now on Steam
- Everything you need to know about EVE Online's next expansion (and beyond)
- We have 10 BlizzCon 2017 Virtual Tickets to give away to PC Gamer Club members
- Watch this World of Warcraft player beat one of its toughest raid bosses solo
- Unlocked framerates on Forza Motorsport 7 are wildly inconsistent
- Why I love Cole from Dragon Age: Inquisition
- Life in a one-person biker gang in Grand Theft Auto 5
October 11
- 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
- Build shaky ski lifts in Early Access physics sim Carried Away
- You can't jump in the brutal, beautiful world of Unworthy
- Permadeath drives exploration in the meaty labyrinths of A Robot Named Fight
- 8 creatures from Middle-earth that deserve to be sexy too
- Have loot boxes reached a tipping point with Shadow of War and Battlefront 2?
- Wargroove is a fiercely competitive Advance Wars successor
- 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
- PC Gamer UK podcast 54: Assassin's Creed Origins, Total War: Warhammer 2, Destiny 2
October 10
- The good and bad of the Star Wars: Battlefront 2 beta
- West of Loathing's first hour redefines how we engage with open worlds
- 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
- The creators of Battle Chasers: Nightwar on comics, RPGs, and almost being Chaotic Evil
- Phalanstery is a cyberpunk point-and-click adventure
October 9
- 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?
- Battlestar Galactica: Deadlock frames disaster management with tactical space combat
- MechWarrior 5: Mercenaries hands-on: the series goes back to its roots
- Demetrious Johnson on PUBG, esports tournaments, and livestreaming into retirement
- What's your favourite game soundtrack?
- Join a team of B-list superfolks in Deadbeat Heroes
- Emotional Fugitive Detector is a Voight-Kampff test you want to lose
October 8
- A Case of Distrust is an adventure game made of silhouettes set in 1920s San Francisco
- 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
- Where the Goats Are is like Stardew Valley but all you have are goats, chickens, and crushing loneliness
- There's a game at Indiecade about competing to see who can send the most email
- What are you playing this weekend?
October 6
- In Oblige, life in 1970s Hong Kong is menial and controlled with a typewriter
- 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
- How 2D RTS Forts sold 120,000 copies completely under the radar
- How modders are restoring the classics
- How the loot boxes work in Middle-earth: Shadow of War
- Prison horror game Inmates looks spooky in motion
October 5
- 5 things I wish I knew before playing Middle-earth: Shadow of War
- Why porting games to PC is hard
- PC Gamer goes to war in Fire Pro Wrestling World
October 4
- How to set up Divinity: Original Sin 2's mod tools
- How synthwave music inspired games to explore a past that never existed
- We roleplayed Geralt of Rivia in this winery tycoon game
- Loot is one of the best additions in Assassin's Creed: Origins
- More details on the game with a 400-player mode that could take on PUBG
- For better or worse, Assassin's Creed: Origins is an RPG now
October 3
- 8 sadistic ways to take out guards in Heat Signature
- The Call of Duty: WWII beta was pretty damn fun
- The best PC games we gave up on
- Welcome fall with these autumnal PC games
- These 3 roguelikes are pushing the genre's boundaries while remaining true to its roots
October 2
- 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
- If Dr. Seuss made a puzzle game, it would probably look like Figment
- Pushing the boundaries of open-world gaming with Shadow of War on PC
- Chucklefish's magic school RPG: more details on dating, combat and influences
- 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
October 1
- 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