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January 31
- 8 hours in, Suicide Squad doesn't seem like the disaster some were waiting for
- I treasure obscure PC keyboard shortcuts. Here are 8 I use every day
- TIE Fighters, ranked
- Bore Blasters' brilliantly silly arcade action finally combines the mining power of dwarves and helicopters
- Doom is eternal: The immeasurable impact of gaming's greatest FPS
- Celebrating RTX 500: How NVIDIA RTX took 10 classic games to the next level
January 30
- Like A Dragon: Infinite Wealth Dondoko Island guide: How to earn $500,000 and break the economy
- The best JRPGs on PC
- I wish I could stomach Immortal Life's clunky controls long enough to fall in love with a cultivation fantasy farm sim
- Three great Palworld base locations to settle down in
- PC gaming's many launchers, reviewed for 2024: Steam still puts the rest to shame
- Windows Defender let me down, so I thought I'd try some popular free antivirus alternatives. They left a lot to be desired
- Diablo 4 igneous core: How to farm season 3 boss materials
January 29
- Stormgate mashes up StarCraft 2 and Warcraft 3 with a few fresh twists
- The state of Total War: Warhammer in 2024 – The next updates are going to have to be something special
- When Quake 2 came out, we gave it a 96% review; now, it's seen as 'the worst id game'. Let's reinstall it and figure out the truth
- Five new Steam games you probably missed (January 29, 2024)
January 28
- Great moments in PC gaming: Going back to the 1960s TV show in Lego Batman 3
January 27
- It's a miracle that Palworld exists, according to the studio founder: 'It was the antithesis of proper game development'
- Where to find metal scraps in Enshrouded
- I have Like a Dragon: Infinite Wealth's $110 Ultimate Edition, and it's making the game less fun
January 26
- How to unlock Tekken 8's endings in The Dark Awakens story mode
- Sims 4 build tips: 7 tricks for less boring builds
- Enshrouded amber guide: three great spots to quickly find this useful resource
- Dominions 6 is the only strategy game where I can lead an army of dog men to victory with a squeaky toy god
- How to craft and use the Grappling Gun in Palworld
- Palworld isn't good enough—or bad enough—to warrant us losing our collective minds over it
- Intel Battlemage: What can we expect to see with the second generation of Arc GPUs?
January 25
- Lucky Pals: how 'shiny pals' work in Palworld
- Our way-too-early Game of the Year 2024 predictions
- Don't sleep on one of Enshrouded's coolest features… which is literally sleep
- I made the classic survival-crafting mistake in Enshrouded: I dug myself to death
- How to unlock unique character customizations in Tekken 8
- How to build and use a Ranch in Palworld
- Palworld is the Pokémon this sinful world deserves
- How to get sulphur in Palworld
- Everything you need to know about Sujimon in Like A Dragon: Infinite Wealth
- All Like a Dragon: Infinite Wealth Vocational School answers
- The best ways to make money in Like a Dragon: Infinite Wealth
- 10 tips to stomp enemies in Like a Dragon: Infinite Wealth
- Train Sim World 4 and how The Sims ironically inspired the simulator's approach to community generated content
- How to get coal in Palworld
- Gale is one of Baldur's Gate 3's best romances—and I'm tired of pretending he's not
- Palworld is 2024's first breakout hit. Why is it so popular?
- The best Palworld mods so far and how to install them
January 24
- How to find Palworld kindling and other work suitabilities
- 5 tips for getting better at fighting games, according to pro player Cuddle_Core
- I hope Palworld inspires a vibrant new survival crafting subgenre: Little base buddies management
- 'I'm a big believer in our community': Tasty Steve on Tekken 8, the competitive scene and why you should pay more attention to South America and West Africa
- I want more simple, colorful strategy games like Rising Lords that people will actually play with me
- Help your tribe of vikings race against the end of the world in this peculiar pairing of deckbuilder and city builder
- Palworld Type chart: How strengths and weaknesses work
- Meet the amateur developer who's found success in 'the worst videogame of all time'
- How to unlock the door inside the Hunter Vault in Enshrouded
- How to craft the grappling hook in Enshrouded
- How to fast travel in Enshrouded
- Where to get the Fell Thunderbrute Head in Enshrouded
- How to craft a glider in Enshrouded
- Co-op survival RPG Enshrouded: forgiving survival systems in a surprisingly massive open world
- Palworld breeding guide and the best breeding combos
- The only pal I want is my robot spider in Diablo 4's most challenging season yet
January 23
- Palworld players discovered an exploit for capturing bosses and turning them into party members
- Palworld multiplayer: how to join your friends online
- Where to find the Black Marketeer to buy and sell Pals in Palworld
- The state of FF14 going into 2024: Endwalker's post-launch experiments proved a failure—still, there's never been a better time to get started
- How to get leather in Palworld
- How to set up a dedicated server in Palworld
January 22
- Here's what we know about Palworld's early access roadmap so far
- How the Azerothian Archives event works in World of Warcraft
- How to get High Quality Pal Oil in Palworld
- Where to find wheat seeds in Palworld
- Five new Steam games you probably missed (January 22, 2024)
January 20
- Square Enix's CEO suggests the company makes too many mid-budget games, but that's exactly where it's doing its best work
January 19
- Yes, the 'Great Circle' in the new Indiana Jones game is a real thing: Let's go down this conspiracy rabbit hole together
- How Follower Dungeons work in World of Warcraft: Dragonflight
- Lonestar's spin on deck-building helps it stand out from the pack
- The best ways to get Paldium Fragments in Palworld
- Everything you can do in World of Warcraft patch 10.2.5
- How to hatch Pal eggs in Palworld
- Laptop makers just aren't interested in discrete Radeon GPUs and I really want AMD to do something about that, even though it won't
- Final Fantasy 14 is a safe haven for queer expression, though its world and story are still stuck its hush-hush past
- How to get Ancient Civilization Parts in Palworld
- Thank god Indiana Jones and the Great Circle is first-person
- I still feel like I barely know anything about Avowed, but it's looking like a rare game that nails the wizard fantasy
- The 5 most ambitious Fallout mods in development right now
January 18
- Townscaper's developer on how its 'radically casual' design is inspiring a new wave of low-stress builders to adapt the blueprint
- Palworld could be a delight if it wasn't so invested in being awful
- The sexiest thing in Cult of the Lamb's big 'sex update' is a demonic blunderbuss
- How to get Pal Fluids in Palworld
- The best Pals to catch early in Palworld
- How to unlock mounts in Palworld
January 17
- There's a lot more beating people to death with a baseball bat in this computer repair shop sim than I expected
- This Vampire Survivors-like milks the memey humor of Abraham Lincoln fighting dinosaurs, but it's the exact type of over-the-top-slapstick that makes 'bullet heaven' games great
- Spooky '90s call centre sim Home Safety Hotline has wired up a direct line to my heart
- Best wireless gaming keyboard in 2024: my top picks for cable-free typing delights
- 10 of the most no-good, upsetting frogs in gaming—from Dark Souls nightmares to Larian's amphibious freaks
- Nvidia's RTX 4060 and RTX 4060 Ti are the cards that really should be getting the Super treatment
January 16
- It shouldn't be this hard to play the best version of one of Japan's great roguelikes today
- There should be more strategy games like War Hospital
- I wish Nvidia had been brave enough to kill the RTX 4070
January 15
- A clone learns about individuality in experimental narrative game 1000xResist
- How to help The Deserter in Prince of Persia: The Lost Crown
- How to solve the Sacred Archive time puzzles in Prince of Persia: The Lost Crown
- How to get past the masked monsters in Prince of Persia: The Lost Crown
- Prince of Persia: The Lost Crown Amulets and where to find each
- All Prince of Persia: The Lost Crown sidequests and where to find them
- How to fast travel in Prince of Persia: The Lost Crown
- Five new Steam games you probably missed (January 15, 2024)
January 12
- The 5 colony sims coming in 2024 I'm most looking forward to
- Does anyone else really miss cleaning the gunk out of old mice?
- After a deluge of AI-powered products CES 2024 is making it tougher than ever to define what AI actually is
- Here's how to watch the Diablo 4 Season 3 announcement livestream
- Start 2024 the right way with the best games being added to PC Game Pass
January 11
- Of course Steam said 'yes' to generative AI in games: it's already everywhere
- Here are all of the Intel Meteor Lake gaming laptops we saw launched at CES 2024
- The 5 most ridiculously broken builds in D&D history
- Baldur's Gate 3's permadeath honour mode has made Act 1 my own personal Groundhog Day, and I am either having a breakdown or becoming a god
- These are the 5 AI features at CES 2024 we will absolutely never use (and 3 we might)
- Honda's CES concept cars are more Cyberpunk 2077 than the cars in Cyberpunk 2077, and I challenge anyone to convince me otherwise
- Here's when Call of Duty: Warzone Season 1 Reloaded releases and what to expect
- 2024 is already looking like a fantastic year for survival games
- The best D&D actual-play series goes back to school for Fantasy High: Junior Year
January 10
- Have live service games gone off the deep end with insultingly expensive cosmetics?
- Yes, I game with a trackball mouse in 2024—and it rules
- Expeditions: A MudRunner Game is a change in focus for the series, but mud is still the star
- I know I'm not alone in thinking Thermaltake's RGB DDR5 memory looks way better without RGB
January 9
- Zenless Zone Zero could be my next Genshin Impact if it would just let me skip straight to the action
- Divinity: Original Sin 2 isn't that much harder than Baldur's Gate 3, but Larian sure got better at constructing a first act between games
- Where to find Peyote Plants in GTA Online
- My new favorite survival game companion is Pacific Drive's clunky sci-fi station wagon
- How We Source Coupon Codes and How To Use Them
January 8
- The demo for this upcoming horror-RPG-FPS built in the Doom engine might already be the most terrifying thing I play all year, and I can't wait for more
- The Founders Editions of the new Super series are the best Nvidia's cards have ever looked
- The $999 RTX 4080 Super feels like a tacit admission Nvidia over-reached on the original Ada pricing
- Final Fantasy 14: Dawntrail's second-half switcheroo to cyberpunk glory has me hyped for its story again
January 6
- 11 upcoming RPGs that might finally pull me away from Baldur's Gate 3
January 5
- Thanks to this Tamagotchi-like critter care game I now believe that bugs can be cute too
- Here are 8 Japanese PC games you should be looking forward to in 2024
- One of my most anticipated games of 2024 is the one where mechs do farming
- The biggest PC gaming trends of 2023: 3 that need to stop, and 3 I hope continue into 2024
- The 7 city builders coming in 2024 that I can't wait to play
January 4
- The big PC gaming events in 2024
- The 10 cozy games I'm most excited for in 2024
- Playing Like A Dragon: Infinite Wealth feels like walking into a restaurant where the staff already knows my order
- What are your 2024 gaming resolutions?
- In a year of excellent remakes, too many remasters made messes of their original games
January 3
- I spent so much time taking photos in Cyberpunk 2077 that it made Idris Elba angry
- What games did everyone play over the holidays?
- Twitter had a very rough 2023, and I only hope 2024 is the year that finally kills it
- The PC game releases we're most excited about in January
January 2
- The state of WoW going into 2024: Blizzard had to deliver the best year ever for World of Warcraft, and it did
- 20 hidden gems from 2023 to grab before the end of the Steam Winter Sale
- All the movies and TV shows based on videogames coming in 2024
- I am begging Discord to stop bombarding me with pointless new features
January 1
- Our boldest predictions for PC gaming in 2024
- Alan Wake 2 is so stuffed with jump scares it cheapens the good horror
- CES 2024 preview: The future of PC gaming hardware
- This year I'm finally going to tackle my gaming backlog—please take me seriously, I have a plan and everything
- The PC Gamer tech team's New Year's resolutions