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January 31
- How Dragon Ball FighterZ took the fighting community by storm
- The unstoppable rise of Hearthstone's Ben Brode
- The best moments from the Sea of Thieves beta
- 1998 text adventure classic Anchorhead is an uncanny addition to 2018's lineup
- The best grenades in PC gaming
- The big winners and losers from Hearthstone's latest round of nerfs
- The best Sims expansion packs
January 30
- The Boston Uprising's tanking and flashy kills lead to an upset over the London Spitfire
- Modders are making their own version of massive space opera board game Twilight Imperium
- Q.U.B.E. 2 is shaping up to be an enthralling puzzler
- Subnautica gave me the experience I wanted from No Man’s Sky
- How Warhammer: Vermintide 2 plans to fix the first game's loot system
January 29
- 6 tips for getting started in Dragon Ball FighterZ
- Re-Legion is like Syndicate with cults instead of corporations
- How to enable Subnautica's developer console
- Explore the varied, story-driven puzzles of Photographs
- Dragon Ball FighterZ's best Dramatic Finishes look as good as the anime
- We locked two strangers in the brig in Sea of Thieves, but were we right to do so?
- Total War: Warhammer 2 Rise of the Tomb Kings is secretly a Heroes of Might and Magic game
- The best gaming Bootcamp in town comes this month at the PCGamer Weekender
January 28
- How to set up RAID 1 for Windows and Linux
January 27
- The complete guide to Battlefield 1's weapons
- See Surviving Mars in action at the PC Gamer Weekender, plus save 20% on tickets
- Which game would you like to see remade or remastered?
- This week's highs and lows in PC gaming
January 26
- Rocket League's best mode is its least played
- Why people love Monster Hunter so damn much
- How the Hearthstone World Championship final went wrong for Fr0zen
- Dragon Ball FighterZ PC graphics settings, keybindings, and quality comparison
- This box sits between your modem and router to anti-virus all your devices
- 8 things we want from Sea of Thieves' full release
- Pixel Noir is a hard-boiled detective JRPG set in American streets
- World exclusive gameplay of Two Point Hospital will be shown on-stage at the PC Gamer Weekender next month
- Far Cry 5 hands-on: two highs and two lows from our time in Montana
- Gaming peripheral software ranked by annoyingness
January 25
- Why EVE Online's 'million dollar battle' was a huge bust
- The charming story behind Dragon Ball's first PC fangame
- The Mind's Eclipse is basically a System Shock game reimagined as a visual novel
- We tried Netgear's first gaming router and it's the fastest we've tested
- What happens when you sail off the edge of the map in Sea of Thieves
- Play Cobalt WASD and learn about the game's creation at the PC Gamer Weekender 2018
- Firaxis to discuss Civilization VI: Rise and Fall development at the PC Gamer Weekender
- Monster Hunter: World is exactly the bold evolution the series needed
- 7 things I wish I knew before playing My Time In Portia
- Sea of Thieves' multiplayer ship battles are a blast, but the Xbox app needs to walk the plank
January 24
- Slay the Spire is a brilliant genre mash-up with third-act problems
- Making friends in Middle-earth: Shadow of War
- Kingdom Come: Deliverance will be on stage and playable at the PC Gamer Weekender
January 23
- Sometimes games are better without music
- EVE Online is on the cusp of the biggest battle in its 15-year history
- Drop dead gorgeous visual FX you must experience in Destiny 2 on PC
- Mojang will talk about 2018 Minecraft updates at the PC Gamer Weekender
January 22
- Watch the brutal Zarya ult and ace Widowmaker sniping that led the London Spitfire to victory in OWL week two
- Even without price gouging, most Nvidia graphics cards cost more now than in 2016
- SOS's hit-or-miss improv comedy battles can be awkward, funny, or just get you shot
- 15 ways to solve Human: Fall Flat's ridiculous physics puzzles
- Battletech is shaping up to be a great tactical combat game, and an absorbing mercenary sim
- 150 turns with Civilization VI: Rise and Fall reveals a complex, broad expansion
- Win a special edition Golden Joystick GT Omega gaming chair
- PC Gamer UK Podcast 59: The Doomsday Podcast
- First footage of 'Project X', the game with a 400-player battle royale mode, will premiere at the PC Gamer Weekender
January 21
- The 14 best moments from the 2017 Hearthstone World Championship
- What do esports winners spend their money on?
January 20
- A lucky 7 turned this Hearthstone championship match into a clown fiesta
- Get a four pack of Lethal League Steam keys with every PC Gamer Weekender ticket
- Which game are you most looking forward to this year?
January 19
- This week's highs and lows in PC gaming
- How week-long, 24-hour livestream AGDQ comes together
- Life is Strange: Before the Storm broke our hearts in good and bad ways
- Whatever happened to Barkley 2?
- Two Point Hospital is the first of many throwback sims, say its creators
- Don't miss an easy and fast $250,000 of GTA Online money with the Red Dead Redemption 2 challenge
- We've got 5000 Battalion 1944 beta keys for this weekend up for grabs
- My 120TB NAS is faster than an SSD
- With GPU prices peaking, now is a good time to buy a prebuilt gaming PC
January 18
- This insane Hearthstone championship match all started with a godly opener
- The Division's latest update makes it worth playing again
- Enter for a chance to win a gaming PC worth over $2,500
- Into the Breach is coming to the PC Gamer Weekender
- They Are Billions guide: 5 essential tips
January 17
- 7 amazing PC speedruns from AGDQ 2018
- Destiny 2 Faction Rally tokens are being throttled in yet another baffling misstep (Updated)
- The secret to The Signal From Tölva’s punchy combat
- 0°N 0°W lets you wander dimensions, develop a hangover
- How balancing works, and why it matters
- Clumsy brawls with dumb zombies make Metal Gear Survive hard to get into
January 16
- Watch this WoW player speedrun to level 60 by only killing boars
- 50 senators want to overturn the FCC's plans to kill net neutrality, but chances are slim
- The 10-year making of Iconoclasts
- How InnerSpace's creators made their disorienting flying game playable
- The best PC concept art
- Enslaved was a one-of-a-kind post-apocalyptic epic
- An ex-plumber's guide to bathroom murder
- When games are too bloated
January 15
- The best mods for Ark: Survival Evolved
- The best plays from week one of Overwatch League
- Walking Heavy is a stealth game about English gangsters that's flown under the radar
- Up close with Fortnite Battle Royale's massive map update
- The Lord of the Rings card game will scratch your itch for more Dungeon Runs
- Why I love driving at night in American Truck Simulator
January 13
- The weirdest patch notes of 2017
- If you could rebuild a game around the Nemesis System, what would it be?
- The weirdest and craziest things we saw at this year's CES
January 12
- This week's highs and lows in PC gaming
- How to build the perfect battle royale game
- Shadowhand's creators discuss their position at the crossroad of 'core' and 'casual' games
- The best Divinity: Original Sin 2 mods
- Five annoying things that Rocket League players still do, years later
- Win a copy of Legrand Legacy: Tale of the Fatebounds
- Violet Cycle is an offbeat mix of Hyper Light Drifter and Transistor
- With new enemies, new loot and mod support, Warhammer: Vermintide 2 is your next big co-op game
- Are arcade shooters really dead?
January 11
- You can grab guns out of people's hands in this VR battle royale game, and it's hilarious
- Opening day of Overwatch League lived up to the hype
- Final Fantasy XII: The Zodiac Age on PC will feature new game plus and 'new game minus'
- PC Gamer UK: The Indie Issue
- GTA 5 is only honest in its most drunken moments
- Battalion 1944's lead explains why they're making a competitive FPS set in WW2
January 10
- VRChat's surge in popularity has created a bizarre scene
- The VR game in this movie kills its players, but that's not the worst thing about it
- The best Yu-Gi-Oh! Duel Links decks for PvP
- Five games you should play if you like They are Billions
January 9
- Why cracking a tough mission in 2014’s Door Kickers is one of the best things I did last year
- Being a nobody is better than saving the day in historical RPG Kingdom Come: Deliverance
- 12 years later, the original Star Wars: Battlefront 2 is steadily gaining online players
- The Vive Pro VR headset's new OLED display is a huge improvement
- The strategy games of 2018
- Tackling an ancient curse and an angry titan in Pillars of Eternity 2: Deadfire
- Water cannons are unexpectedly among the best things in GTA Online's new heist
January 8
- The Witcher 3 outgrossed some of 2017's biggest games because it's just that good
- This player soloed a boss in WoW: Legion's last raid and it only took him a quick 8 hours
- Let's design the perfect battle royale game on PC
- Science is messy and cloning's unlimited in twin-stick shooter Beacon
- Command & Conquer: Tiberian Sun was a pivotal moment for Westwood's RTS series
- The Tomb Kings bring crazy new units and crafting to Total War: Warhammer 2
- Intel's 8th Gen G-series processors pack RX Vega M graphics
January 7
- Playing Fallout 4 with a non-lethal knockout mod, Part 5
January 6
- Hackers are stealing Second Life's player-made lootboxes and selling them for profit
- 7 games from 2017 you might have missed
January 5
- What we want from Overwatch in 2018
- The Red Strings Club is a cyberpunk game about underdogs and weirdos
- This week's highs and lows in PC gaming
- What to expect from CES 2018
- Wolfenstein 2 isn't available in Israel, so gamers protested with a parody about Hitler's mustache
- What goes into creating a memorable soundtrack?
January 4
- What you need to know about the Meltdown and Spectre CPU exploits
- How zombie plague RTS They Are Billions went viral
- The shooters of 2018
- The best Nvidia GeForce GTX 1080 Ti deals
- Steam's new Yu-Gi-Oh game is barebones nostalgia
- WiFi Router of the Year: Asus ROG Rapture GT-AC5300
- Webcam of the Year: Logitech Brio
- The comedy and tragedy of Nier: Automata's best sidequest
- How the Endless series reimagined the 4X strategy genre
- The RPGs of 2018
January 3
- What to expect from World of Warcraft in 2018
- The $3K Titan V is the fastest graphics card, even though it's not for gaming
- 6 ways PC gaming can improve in 2018
- You're a fishbowl-powered medieval robot in action RPG Feudal Alloy
- How devs and fans are coming together to rebuild Neverwinter Nights
- The best Thief: Dark Mod missions
January 2
- What PC Gamer's editors played over the holiday
- A look back at the weird, terrible keyboards of '70s and '80s PCs
- The indie games of 2018 we're most excited about
- The two-day Norwegian game jam that's set on a boat under the Northern Lights
- They Are Billions is an RTS that's all about defense
January 1
- Ring in the new year with data from a decade of PC-related emergency room visits
- What we want from Valve in 2018
- Our 2018 gaming resolutions