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April 30
- Meet Madmonq, the food supplement designed to keep you at the top of your game
- Journeying into The Cradle in Thief: Deadly Shadows
April 29
- Taking on 'a master race from outer space' in 1988's Rocket Ranger
- Starfield's gonna live or die by its side quests
- What's been your worst PC building catastrophe?
April 28
- How to get through green laser walls in Star Wars Jedi: Survivor
- Here's why you have to deal with so many annoying webPs now
- Look, gaming monitors are just doing aspect ratio wrong
- Roots of Pacha just became my favorite Stardew Valley-alike
- The new Warhammer 40,000 tabletop RPG is like playing D&D in a horrifying galaxy where everything wants to kill you
- Listening to Blizzard explain Diablo 4 over and over again is driving me mad
- I was going to rant about film grain in games but then I remembered chromatic aberration exists
- Star Wars Jedi: Survivor outfit locations
- Honkai: Star Rail Ministry of Education quiz answers
- Blooming Business: Casino is a colourful twist on Las Vegas in the '50s
- How to unlock Stagnant Shadows in Honkai: Star Rail
- Star Wars Jedi: Survivor Priorite Shard locations and where to trade them
- Where to find Health Stim upgrades in Star Wars Jedi: Survivor
- Star Wars Jedi: Survivor perk locations and how to unlock slots
- How to get seeds and where to plant them in Star Wars Jedi: Survivor
- Star Wars Jedi: Survivor Datadisc locations and what they do
- Star Wars Jedi: Survivor essence locations guide
- How to get mounts in Star Wars Jedi: Survivor
April 27
- I just learned what modem means. My whole life has been a lie
- There's no other mecha game quite like Armored Core
- Where to find campfires in Fortnite
- Say what you want about today's graphics cards, you can at least buy whichever one you want
- Which suspect to pick in the Honkai: Star Rail Hook quest
- How to complete the Fleeting Lights quest in Honkai: Star Rail
- March of the Machine, Magic's latest set, is great for some formats but not others
April 26
- Dwarf Fortress & Caves of Qud roundtable: The masters of simulation talk roguelikes, AI and making the infinite compelling
- Humanity takes the idea 'Lemmings but with people' and turns it into something profound
- Before Steam Puzzle Fest ends, you need to check out the demo for the most mind-bending puzzle game I've ever played
- Meet one of the last positive communities left in gaming
- Well, I guess I'm a VR guy now
- One of 2022's best turn-based strategy games is finally coming to PC
- Honkai: Star Rail: 8 tips for getting started
- The best ways to farm Trailblaze EXP in Honkai: Star Rail
- The best Honkai: Star Rail March 7th build
- How to get Stellar Jade in Honkai: Star Rail
- The best Honkai: Star Rail Trailblazer build
- The best Honkai: Star Rail Dan Heng build
April 25
- Honkai: Star Rail unlock times and release date
- We talked to the Emulati gearing up to make Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom playable on PC next month
April 24
- The 19 best cozy games on PC that aren't farm sims
- Detective sim Shadows of Doubt heads into Steam Early Access
- Where to find Curtis' safe key in Dead Island 2
- Here's when you can preload Star Wars Jedi: Survivor
- Five new Steam games you probably missed (April 24, 2023)
April 23
- Great moments in PC gaming: Mowing down hordes of enemies in Diablo 3
April 22
- It's hard not to feel sorry for the overshadowed 1992 Dune game
April 21
- RPG roundtable podcast: Josh Sawyer, Mike Laidlaw, Strix Beltran, Paweł Sasko, and Lis Moberly go deep on writing and playing RPGs
- This great new city building mobile game could teach PC city builders a few tricks
- How to complete A Strange Smell in Wartales
- Resident Evil 4's knife parry is the best thing to happen to the series in 18 years
- You can currently get unlimited Legendary Shards for free in Destiny 2
- Where to find the night vision goggles in Sons of the Forest
- Where to find the Action Cam in Sons of the Forest
- After playing Half-Life with this new ray tracing mod, I need a cold shower in a dimly lit room
- Where to find Curtis' Garage Key in Dead Island 2
- This procgen cyberpunk detective game is like an endless Deus Ex, and it could become a stone-cold classic
- These tabletop city builders with all the chaotic freedom of D&D are my new obsession
- Dead Island 2: 10 tips for getting started in Hell-A
- How to get fuses in Dead Island 2
April 20
- Dark and Darker may be the punk hero of PC gaming this year
- The most controversial PC games of all time
- Where to get iron ore in Wartales
April 19
- Where to find the Lock On Pistol in Fortnite
- Where to find Attack on Titan's ODM gear in Fortnite
- Should you side with Berthram or the Captain in Wartales?
April 18
- The lead researcher behind those Sims-like 'generative agents' on the future of AI NPCs
- This new survival game has you follow in the footsteps of Ponce De León, which in my case meant eating several dogs
- Live service keeps killing modestly successful multiplayer games, and it doesn't have to be this way
- How to cure netherrack in Minecraft Legends
- This 1988 murder mystery made you feel like a real detective with a box full of paper clues
- Turn-based strategy meets tower defence as you fight to destroy magic forever in this brutal roguelike
- Where to find piglin keys in Minecraft Legends
- How to get into the locked room at the lumbermill in Wartales
- Jagged Alliance 3 is a chaotic action movie homage where all of your plans will go up in flames
- How to solve the Tiltren tomb puzzle in Wartales
April 17
- Thanks to the last 5 years of Nintendo emulation, Zelda: Breath of the Wild has one of the best mod scenes in gaming
- Here's when Minecraft Legends unlocks for launch
- How to unlock the Regal Tiger and Brilliant Beetle mounts in Minecraft Legends
- How to capture animals in Wartales
- Crucial T700 preview: The fastest PCIe 5.0 SSD on the planet... for what that's worth
- How to get gold in Minecraft Legends
- Where to find diamonds in Minecraft Legends
- Five new Steam games you probably missed (April 17, 2023)
April 16
- Great moments in PC gaming: Stealing and wearing your enemies' clothes
April 15
- 9 very long games that are actually worth it
- Secret US military documents leaking on Discord seems weirdly normal, doesn't it?
April 14
- I've played over 2,500 hours of Path of Exile, and these are my biggest concerns about Diablo 4
- One of Darkest Dungeon 2's cleverest enemies started with a Make-a-Wish kid
- This new fantasy city builder has a monster, and it turns out it's me
- Nvidia RTX 4070 vs AMD RX 6950 XT: There can be only one winner
- Amazon Prime Gaming is such a weird mess that it makes getting free games stressful
- Disney Dreamlight Valley Eggstravaganza: all the egg locations and recipes
April 13
- Hyper Light Breaker creator on reimagining the series as a 3D roguelike: 'I don't think that you could really release Drifter today and get the same sort of success'
- Ubisoft's next multiplayer FPS wants to be the free-to-play Call of Duty clone of your dreams
- Warzone 2: Where to find the cartel and contraband packages
- How to find and kill the Scavenger in Warzone 2
- Where to find the Knight V EUC in Sons of the Forest
- The hot seat: AutoFull gaming chairs offer esports-grade quality
- How to play the Kory Drum score in Genshin Impact 3.6
- Magic's head designer explains why it's getting its first new card type in years
April 12
- The PC game releases we're most excited about in April
- A boxing fan with no game dev experience quit his job to make a technical boxing sim—now the world's best pros want to be in it
- I tried Cyberpunk 2077's new RT Overdrive mode on my 30-series Nvidia GPU, and I was pleasantly surprised
- How to get the Udumbara Pistils in Genshin Impact 3.6
- 9 tips to forge a Chaos Dwarf empire in Total War: Warhammer 3
- Total War: Warhammer 3 Forge of the Chaos Dwarfs is the fantasy gun-running simulator I never knew I needed
April 11
- Five new Steam games you probably missed (April 10, 2023)
April 10
- This game about 'confronting relationship trauma' perfectly illustrates why it's a bad idea to date Draculae, lord of the vampires
April 8
- I plunged into the depths of Elder Scrolls metal bands and found the ones worth listening to
April 6
- Growing my village is a chill challenge in this beautiful new strategy city builder
- Steam Deck SSD upgrade: clone your Deck without losing a thing
- How to deal with the Stellar Basin creature in Dredge
- How to get the Signet Ring in Dredge and what it does
- Say hello to Utopia No. 8—the adorable new social MMORPG from Happy Tomato
- All Recording Rarities fish locations in Dredge
- Playing with the Panasonic SoundSlayer wearable speaker—how does its 3D audio transform your games?
April 5
- My favorite multiplayer game of 2023 so far is basically competitive Hitman
- I saw the first major 'AI game' coming to PC, and it convinced me of its potential for storytelling
- How to get Abyssal and Hadal fishing rods in Dredge
- How to get explosives in Dredge
- How to solve the clock puzzle in Resident Evil 4 Remake
- Where to find lily pads, air vents, and tires in Fortnite
April 4
- This clever action-RPG is like playing a whole Diablo adventure in 24 minutes
- Diablo 4 class impressions: Sorcerers are OP and Barbarians need more time in the gym
- Where to find the Stoplight Loosejaw in Dredge
April 3
- I don't care if a videogame remake is good or bad as long as I can still get the original
- How to tame creatures in Smalland: Survive the Wilds
- I'm completely hooked on this open world business sandbox sim, and I'm not alone
- Star Wars Jedi: Survivor is probably a bigger sequel than you're expecting
- Where to get refined metal in Dredge
- Five new Steam games you probably missed (April 3, 2023)
April 2
- Go back to a time when a 56k modem made you a god among geeks with Neuromancer