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May 2020

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May 31
- What did you play last week?
- Great moments in PC gaming: Playing bass badly in Night in the Woods
May 30
- What game has loading screens that don't suck?
- Crapshoot: The Deus Ex mod set in a fan forum
May 29
- Meet the guy making daily Elden Ring fan art despite having almost nothing to base it on
- The history of the PC Gaming Show
- How to access the super secret level in Minecraft Dungeons
- Destiny 2's mysterious Pyramid ships are now in orbit around Jupiter
- Dance Collider will turn you into a buzzing, sweaty mess
- Here's what the PC Gamer forum is hyped about this week
- Developers say Unreal Engine 5 will 'empower them to be creative and take risks'
- The best Minecraft Dungeons builds
- 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
- 5 Reasons to Play Black Desert Online
- 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
May 28
- Monster Train is a deckbuilder that tries to do it all and actually pulls it off
- I came to Sludge Life for cool graffiti but I'm staying for its brilliant, oddball characters
- The Assassin's Creed series has failed its best idea
- How to surf in CS:GO
- Grab episode one of the Song of Horror survival adventure series for free
May 27
- Though it shows its age, Phantasy Star Online 2's combat is snappy and fun
- Killing innocent animals in Minecraft Dungeons is filling me with guilt
- Mafia 2's Empire Bay is still one of PC gaming's greatest cities
- Why Overwatch and CS:GO pros are switching to Valorant
May 26
- Watch the 2020 PC Gaming Show here
- Where to find a safe house in Fortnite
- Fortnite: Hatch locations—Where to swim over hatches at the Agency
- Backing up your game saves probably isn't a priority, but it should be
- Free horror game Routine is like a weird Groundhog Day
May 25
- SHiFT codes for Borderlands 2 that work in 2020
- IBM and Google battle for quantum supremacy in computing
- Five new Steam games you probably missed (May 25, 2020)
May 24
- PC gaming clichés we don't hate
- What did you play last week?
- Great moments in PC gaming: Fighting Bill O'Reilly in DmC
May 23
- What loot would you drop?
- Crapshoot: Life and Death actually is brain surgery
May 22
- What's the difference between GeForce Max-Q and Max-P laptops?
- The real world is now more ridiculous than GTA 6 could ever hope to satirize
- Here are the winning PC builds from our forum competition
- You can watch the guy who invented Counter-Strike surf maps stream his work on Twitch
- Securing Victory in Civilization VI
- Conquering the mid-game in Civilization VI
- Tips and tricks for getting started in Civilization VI
- How to become a poison-spewing vampire shark in Maneater
- Minecraft Dungeons is a bombastic and breezy dungeon crawler that doesn't take itself too seriously
May 21
- How to change Fortnite skins and cosmetics during a match
- How to complete Fortnite's secret Truce Celebrated challenge
- The story of Halo 2's iconic multiplayer maps: tight deadlines, a tiny team, and a visit from Napoleon Dynamite
- This World of Warcraft player has 49 max-level warriors, and he isn't stopping
- 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
- Use time as a weapon in this gorgeous RPG inspired by Japanese classics
- Meet the ten fearsome hunters of Crucible
May 20
- Watching Warzone players failing to loot bunkers is heartbreaking and hilarious
- NaturalVision Evolved makes GTA 5 look like a modern PC game
- 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'
- Cinders is an ambitious mod that rekindled my love for Dark Souls 3
- Ex SimCity devs team up with Seasun to create a new game
- Terraria whips guide: How to get the new summoner whips
May 19
- The Wonderful 101's PC port is janky, but at least the weird cult classic is preserved
- The Witcher 3 turns 5: Celebrating the RPG of the decade
- Where to find Fortnite XP tokens
- TimeOut is a stylish free noir detective game with a dystopian sci-fi twist
- 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
- It's ludicrous that Terraria still costs just $10
May 18
- I'm already tired of Rainbow Six Siege's annoying new defender
- Revisit classic PC games in our new Reinstall video series
- Snag a free Main Assembly beta key and get a chance to win a Reign SENTRY MKII gaming PC
- Five new Steam games you probably missed (May 18, 2020)
May 17
- The best Terraria builds for each class
- What did you play last week?
- Great moments in PC gaming: BioShock's twist
May 16
- 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
- How to get started in GTA Online
- What the Unreal Engine 5 Demo means for PC
- GTA 5 system requirements: What you need to run it on PC
- I'm obsessed with Crusader Kings 3's character models
- 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
- Warzone's new Stimulus Solo mode is less competitive, but more enjoyable than regular Solo
- 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
- 5 big improvements in Crusader Kings 3
May 14
- Where to find Shanty Town and Orchard for Fortnite Location Domination challenges
- Sergey Titov, the infamous creator of The War Z, on why he's making another zombie survival game
- Crusader Kings 3 sticks to what it does best
- The Unreal Engine 5 demo looks amazing, but shows nothing that will move games forward
- Where to destroy teddy bears in Fortnite
- Alan Wake's Bright Falls is still one of PC gaming's greatest settings
- 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
- What's the first setting you change when starting a new game?
- Sorry, there's no such thing as a GTA 5 money cheat
- Get to the chopper with these GTA 5 helicopter cheats
- F1 2020 is screeching into RPG territory with a new team-building career mode
- I am at war with wild toddlers in The Sims 4's 100 baby challenge
May 12
- Apex Legends Season 5: new legend, battle pass details and everything we know
- The names of 225 things in Halo, ranked
- Here's how to win the hearts of Stardew Valley's characters
- 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
May 11
- Inside the journey to bring Halo back to PC
- How to master fishing in Stardew Valley without floundering
- Forget LN2, we overclocked AMD's Ryzen 3 3100 using just the stock air-cooler
- Enjoy some of PC gaming's most satisfying gifs
- Art and design studio Atomhawk is taking over the PC Gamer forums this week
- Five new Steam games you probably missed (May 11, 2020)
May 10
- What did you play last week?
- Great moments in PC gaming: Teaming up with Potato GLaDOS in Portal 2
May 9
- Why 'dead game' needs to die
- Crapshoot: BloodRayne 3, the Uwe Boll movie
- What's your favorite podcast game?
May 8
- Here's what you missed on the PC Gamer forum this week
- The controversy over Riot's Vanguard anti-cheat software, explained
- The PC Gamer Show 197: Fallout 76 is good now, Assassin's Creed Valhalla reveal impressions
- Somehow, the Sokpop Collective has released two games a month for two years
- The Stardew Valley Expanded mod feels like a proper expansion
May 7
- The simple genius of Unreal Tournament map Facing Worlds
- Water your crops the easy way with this Stardew Valley sprinkler guide
- SpecialEffect is helping people with physical disabilities play the games they love
- What's the next Crysis? The games that give the RTX 2080 Ti nightmares
- Meet the Legends of Runeterra champions
- Which Apex Legends map is best?
May 6
- Which Assassin's Creed game has the best setting?
- In Assassin's Creed Valhalla, I'm finally going to play as a female assassin
- 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
May 5
- Free games like Minecraft you can play online
- How to unlock all 12 Streets of Rage 4 retro characters
- 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
- How to find all the secret notes in Stardew Valley
- This trippy game is the weirdest vacation I've ever been on
- The best Hearthstone Demon Hunter decks, and how to counter them
May 4
- I found a filthy inflatable sex doll, hosed it off, and sold it in this pawn shop sim
- The best Star Wars games on PC
- The gaming charity SpecialEffect is this month's guest on the PC Gamer forums
May 3
- Five new Steam games you probably missed (May 4, 2020)
- What did you play last week?
- Great moments in PC gaming: Being brainwashed in Star Wars: The Old Republic
May 2
- What's the first game you remember finishing?
- Crapshoot: The TV show of the predecessor of Day of the Tentacle
May 1
- I can't decide if having no inventory system in this mining sandbox is brilliant or brutal
- Here's a chance to win a GeForce RTX 2080 Ti Cyberpunk 2077 Edition
- How to get started in Street Fighter V
- Handy XCOM: Chimera Squad cheats and how to use them
- This is what the PC Gamer forum has been chatting about this week
- The Hearthstone community is creating ridiculous custom Demon Hunter cards to mock how OP the new class is
- Where to destroy gnomes in Fortnite's Camp Cod and Fort Crumpet areas
- Team up with a journalist cat to solve a murder from your balcony
- 9th century England is the perfect setting for Assassin's Creed Valhalla