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August 31
- XCOM: Enemy Within 'War Machines' trailer features bio-augs, mechs, alien-punching
- Zeboyd's Cosmic Star Heroine hitting PC next year, but you can view its opening video now
August 30
- Baldur's Gate 2: Enhanced Edition opens to the world on November 15
- Deadly Premonition: Director's Cut gets Steam release on October 31
- Square Enix reverses policy on Final Fantasy XIV video monetization
- Borderlands 2: Tiny Tina's Assault on Dragon's Keep gets a prologue video
- New Saints Row 4 DLC drops presidents, plunger gun on Steelport.
- Always Sometimes Monsters explores the most terrifying setting—the real world
- PC Gamer at PAX Prime 2013 — Join us for the PC Gaming World Congress!
- Guild Wars 2 celebrates its first anniversary with graphs and charts
- Tinker with the spiritual successor to Incredible Machine, now on Steam Early Access
- Daedalic's Memoria out today, looks promisingly beautiful
- Frontiers update shows new terrain and lighting for the open world RPG
- Ironclad Tactics trailer shows civil war robotics, pre-order details
- Natural Selection 2 gets Reinforced in time for free weekend, devs crowdfund future expansions
- Prison Architect alpha 13 introduces escape tunnels; weekend deal shanks price by 40%
- Greenlight Anniversary Sale offers deals on 50 greenlit games
- Crusader Kings 2, War of the Roses and other Paradox games star in the Humble Weekly Sale
August 29
- New Arma 3 community guide zeroes in on snipers and launchers
- War Thunder releases beautiful, bullet-ridden new CGI trailer
- Humble Origin Bundle earns nearly $10.5 million for charity before ending
- New indie publishing label Midnight City announces 10 games
- Diablo 3: Reaper of Souls loot system designed to "cut the legs out from the auction house"
- 123 people have pledged real money so that Uwe Boll can make a Postal 2 movie
- GTA 5 trailer shows your usual mix of plot, action, and criminal antics
- Golden Joysticks 2013 voting now live
- The Witcher 3 story writer reveals unseen areas: "at any point you can go to a different location"
- Diablo 3 to get major free update alongside Reaper of Souls expansion
- Wasteland 2 footage shows quests, combat and screaming goats
- Mojang team up with the Victoria and Albert Museum for the World of Minecraft
August 28
- Minecraft update 1.7 to completely rework terrain generation
- Twitch announces major streaming changes
- SOE announces layoffs to "streamline employee base" [Updated]
- Dragon Age Keep lets you shape your past in Dragon Age: Inquisition
- Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag footage sinks ships with broadsides
- Gun Monkeys generates free Steam keys to fight low server populations
- Rayman Legends launch trailer is as lovely as you'd expect
- Steam Greenlight approves largest batch yet, one hundred new titles greenlit
- Enemy development update details the turn-based roguelike's campaign overworld
- Dirty Bomb renamed Extraction, will be published by Nexon
- Borderlands 2 Game of the Year edition announced, contains lots to shoot
- Team Fortress 2 comic released, isn't tied to an impending update
- Final Fantasy 14 digital sales halted due to server queues
August 27
- Chivalry: Deadliest Warrior will showcase Samurai, Spartans at PAX
- Deep Silver CEO: More Metro games are planned for the future
- Hot Tin Roof, a new noir-inspired 3D platformer, seeks Kickstarter funding
- Arma 3 map might be bigger than you ever imagined
- Guild Wars 2 returns to the old-school with a new Super Adventure Box
- PC Gamer presents World of Tanks: a definitive 148 page guide, for iPad and iPhone
- Wildstar trailer casts stun, explains crowd control while you're disabled
- Why our Splinter Cell: Blacklist review hasn't emerged from the shadows
- Call of Duty: Black Ops 2's Apocalypse trailer features dieselpunk zombies, shooty men
August 26
- Watch Dogs PC version getting some Nvidia treats
- DICE held off pitching Mirror's Edge 2 to EA
- Lost Planet 3 releases on August 27
- What to expect in Star Wars: The Old Republic 2.4
- Shadow of the Eternals' retooled crowdfunding campaign didn't make its goal
- Avadon 2: The Corruption trailer reveals a game that looks a lot like Avadon 1
- Mo' money, MOBA: Awesomenauts expansion funded already
- Splinter Cell: Blacklist's Steam version keeping many players in the dark by refusing to launch
- The Free Webgame Round-Up
- Command & Conquer to feature faster paced matches, may have starter packs
- Evil Genius to get "fully featured PC follow-up", also, erm, a Facebook game
- Precinct's crowdfunding campaign cancelled again, backers' cash is safe
August 25
- Firefall's second open beta now live, is all about "expanding the world"
- Neverwinter: Fury of the Feywild now live, adds new zone, races, unicorns
August 24
- Camp Keepalive releases today, is pretty much Friday the 13th in turn-based strategy form
- Free-to-play "makes sense" for Blizzard at some point
August 23
- Fallen Enchantress "Empires" update sends the AI to strategy school
- Everybody's Gone to the Rapture now PS4 exclusive, no PC release in sight
- Total War: Rome 2 reveals its plan for post-launch free DLC
- Battle Worlds: Kronos release planned for mid-November, open-beta a few weeks earlier
- DayZ standalone held up by "core network architecture", no longer has a release date
- Battlefield 4 'Levolution' trailer continues murder of the English language, looks fab
- Dungeon of the Endless revealed as a tower defence roguelike, set in a sci-fi fantasy
- Maia alpha showcase demos base-building in the face of tremors, meteorite strikes, chickens
- Star Citizen's first playable module arrives with backers next week
- Shadow Warrior reboot gets gory new trailer, late September release date
- EA's Humble Origin Bundle raises nearly $8.5 million, adds Red Alert 3: Uprising and Populous
- Chivalry: Deadliest Warrior announced - a historical battle royale for the medieval FPS
- Assassin's Creed 4's definition of stealth involves jumping on baddies' heads, Mario style
August 22
- Gamescom 2013: all the stories from day three
- Dead Island MOBA being put together by Bloodline Champions developer
- Total War: Rome 2 trailer shows multiplayer, explains interactive campaign map
- New CryEngine drops number for fourth iteration, shows appropriately spangly video
- Call of Duty: Ghosts "will be all dedicated servers", will enable stealthier updates
- Age of Wonders 3 trailer shows ten minutes of dwarves and destruction
- Broken Sword: The Serpent's Curse gets a Gamescom trailer too
- The Crew trailer takes you on a drive-through of its social events
- Don't Starve gets fed Steam Workshop support, has new Ruins level for dessert
- Stronghold Crusader 2 trailer is full of sand, castles
- Castlevania: Lords of Shadow 2's combat explained in latest trailer
- Battlefield 4 footage provides an extended look at Paracel Storm multiplayer
- Endless Legend announced, a fantasy 4X from the Endless Space devs
August 21
- Why is Watch Dogs releasing on PC? "There's a lot of PC gamers," says senior producer
- Defiance's debut DLC pack launches with a trailer
- Space station social media game Redshirt is up for preorder and beta access
- Gamescom 2013: all the stories from day two
- Battlefield 4's Premium trailer contains hints for the redesigned maps inside Second Assault DLC
- Murdered: Soul Suspect haunts Gamescom with spooky new trailer
- Castlevania: Lords of Shadow 2 will be out at the end of February
- Batman: Arkham Origins trailer biffs, pows and thwacks its way into view
- Watch Dogs trailer is all about the hackers
- Diablo 3: Reaper of Souls announced - expansion adds new class, zone, enemies
- The Elder Scrolls Online monthly subscription confirmed
- The Binding of Isaac Rebirth trailer is live action done right, is also terrifying
- XCOM: Enemy Within announced - a huge expansion to Enemy Unknown
- League of Legends US accounts hacked, credit card details could be at risk
- Lords of the Fallen gets a debut trailer at Gamescom
August 20
- Titanfall drops a gameplay demo at Gamescom
- Rogue Shooter, an FPS with a Shotgun Trident
- Gamescom 2013: all the stories from day one
- Elder Scrolls Online blog details the creation of the new flame atronach
- Alien Rage, a new sci-fi FPS, is coming out next month
- GOG launches new indie game portal, invites submissions
- War of the Vikings begins closed alpha testing this week
- Dragon Age: Inquisition unveils world (sorta) in latest dev diary
- EVE: Valkyrie announced, promises multiplayer space dogfighting with the Oculus Rift
- Battlefield 4 Premium announced, five expansions planned, beta launches early October
- The Sims 4 will "explore the gamut of human emotions"
- Command & Conquer to get episodic campaign missions for singleplayer and co-op
- Peggle 2 and Plants vs Zombies: Garden Warfare won't be on PC at launch
- Ronimo Games to take Awesomenauts "to the next level" with Starstorm expansion
- World of Warplanes release date announced, alongside Gamescom trailer
- Shadowrun Returns' Berlin campaign delayed into next year, transformed into full expansion
- Sir, You Are Being Hunted lets players sneak into the alpha through Steam Early Access
- Tom Clancy's The Division is coming to PC
- Dota 2 blog post conceals first preview of the GLaDOS announcer pack
- Procedural dodge-'em-up Race The Sun is out now
- Badger survival sim Shelter to emerge next week
- Origin now offers refunds on EA games within 24 hours of first playing them
- Games for Windows Live to shut down July 2014 according to deleted support update
August 19
- Classic side-scroller Flashback is being remade, and the remake lands this week
- Guild Wars 2 will be free to play this weekend, starting Friday
- After 14 years, an Age of Empires 2 fan mod becomes an official expansion
- Audiosurf 2 coming to Steam Early Access next month
- Football Manager 2014 video shows match engine footage
- The Bureau: XCOM Declassified trailer psyches up for launch
- Wildstar to use monthly subscription model, plus EVE style "play-to-pay" system
- Call of Duty: Ghosts' PC version will be better than next-gen consoles, say Infinity Ward
- Wasteland Kings is expanding, will be crowned after Gamescom
- 0x10c in suspended animation, community looks to rebuild Notch's space sandbox
August 18
- Barkley 2 gets first in-game footage, shows the indie RPG firing on all cylinders
- Dragon Age Inquisition combat shown in 'pre-alpha' video
August 17
- Total War: Rome II trailer shows that ships don't get along with each other either
- Might & Magic X gets spiffy new trailer, adds early access this coming Monday
August 16
- New Enemy Starfighter trailer emerges from development deep space
- Arma 3 beta gets Steam Workshop integration
- Amnesia: A Machine for Pigs shows up on GOG and Steam, releases next month
- Dragon Age writer is leaving BioWare, but not because of death threats
- World of Warcraft 5.4 trailer makes pandas more endangered
- Thief release date announced, Gamescom trailer slips out while you're distracted
- Warhammer 40,000: Space Wolf announced, is a turn-based collectible card game
- Baldur's Gate: Enhanced Edition is back on sale, patch details coming soon
- Space Hulk launch trailer brings honour and righteous death
- FTL, Fez and Gunpoint soundtracks among the highlights of Game Music Bundle 5
August 15
- BioShock Infinite sweepstakes offers chance to include your name in DLC
- Latest Hawken update may deploy by the end of month, should bring major changes
- Games for Windows Marketplace to close next week
- Blizzard's Battle.net desktop launcher enters open beta
- Counter-Strike: Global Offensive devs working on a new, curiously whimsical sandbox game
- SimCity's update 7 will also include tunnels and trees on top of its new traffic fixes
- Payday 2 getting a year of updates, female characters possibly in the works
- New survival MMO Nether wants you to be afraid, but not alone, in a broken city
- Grand Theft Auto Online trailer reveals a persistent 16-player world
- Tropico 5 announced: follow El Presidente through the ages
- Europa Universalis 4 video tutorials take you through the basics
- Call of Duty: Ghosts multiplayer trailer: dogs, female soldiers, and Eminem
- Former Steam director Jason Holtman moves to Microsoft, to focus on PC gaming
August 14
- CS: GO Arms Deal update adds more than 100 weapon skins, supports eSports
- Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag stealth video sneaks into view
- Three hidden nations from the Crusader Kings II to Europa Universalis IV save converter
- Humble Origin Bundle worth more than $200, all of EA's share goes to charity
- Gods Will Be Watching lines up Devolver Digital as commercial publisher
- Dishonored's Brigmore Witches DLC is out now, here's the launch trailer
- Guild Wars 2's birthday introduces XP adjustments, gifts of pet queens
- Ultra Street Fighter 4 will drop Games for Windows Live
- Splinter Cell: Blacklist trailer promises 100 ways to play, shows off a few of them
- Football Manager 2014 announced, brings enhancements, cloud saving and Linux support
- Polycount's VG Remix contest is full of beautiful low-poly game dioramas
- The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt trailer shows carefully choreographed combat
- The Wolf Among Us trailer: a fabled introduction to Telltale's next adventure
- Final Fantasy XIV gameplay video shows character customisation; is colourful
August 13
- Morrigan won't be a party member in Dragon Age: Inquisition
- Blizzard trademarks "The Dark Below," possibly a Diablo 3 expansion [Update]
- Tomb Raider studio Crystal Dynamics faces some layoffs
- New Watch Dogs video shows how to hack like a vigilante
- Kerbal Space Program Chronicle, part five—the journey home
- Fan-made Starcraft MMO gets a Kickstarter
- Tangiers Kickstarter funded, first stretch goal reached
- Chivalry: Medieval Warfare sells 1.2 million copies, adds customization system
- Gone Home to support fan translations
- Payday 2 launch trailer takes you through a single moment of chaos
- Europa Universalis 4 trailer celebrates launch with historically relevant wishful thinking
- Dungeon of the Endless announced, from the developers of Endless Space
- GTA 5 PC release date hinted at by Nvidia director [Updated]
- Volume is a stealth game from the creator of Thomas Was Alone
- Arma 3 livestream video scouts over an hour of full release features
- King of Fighters XIII finally confirmed for Steam release
August 12
- Watch as Overkill studios QA plays a level in Payday 2
- The International 2013: Grand Finals in review
- Starbound trailer teases environmental diversity, trees growing eyeballs
- Battlefield 4 will reward squad play with "Field Upgrades"
- CS:GO's "Operation Payback" extended to the end of this month
- Pac-Man Championship Edition DX+ to get Steam release next month
August 11
- The International 2013: day four in review
- Sword of the Stars gets another spin-off in the form of card-based wargame Ground Pounders
- Gorgeous hand-drawn platformer Aaru's Awakening gets a new trailer
August 10
- The International 2013: day three in review
- Wasteland 1 to get Steam and GOG releases
- Battlefield 4 trailer offers a very Gallic look at its upcoming total war
August 9
- Call of Duty: Black Ops 2 final DLC releases August 27 for Xbox, PC "to follow"
- How F.E.A.R. and No One Lives Forever are shaping Betrayer
- Final Fantasy XIV: A Realm Reborn announces last open beta as it nears launch
- Valve's small San Francisco group disbands, forms new indie studio
- The International 2013: day two in review
- Heroes of Newerth devs bringing out a new MOBA: Strife
- Splinter Cell: Blacklist trailer explains the game in exhaustive detail
- Skyward Collapse to get first expansion, Nihon no Mura
- Grid 2's community patch will introduce mod support
- Introversion break into the Humble Weekly Sale, offer cheap Prison Architect (if you're quick)
- X Rebirth trailer confirms the long-awaited space sim sequel is ready to come into being
- Maia, Viscera Cleanup Detail and more make it through the Steam Greenlight gate
- Scrolls will now let you have friends, encourages battling with them via double-gold event
August 8
- Precinct shuts down Kickstarter and reboots with its own "staged funding" plan
- Bioshock Infinite's Burial at Sea DLC will let you play as the more-thoughtful Elizabeth
- Humble Deep Silver Bundle adds Dead Island and Metro 2033 to sweeten the deal
- Assassin's Creed 4: Black Flag's huge open world will take half an hour to sail across
- King Arthur's Gold enters beta, brings shark riding to Medieval war gaming
- Trion shuts down its San Diego studio
- The International 2013: day one in review
- 2K Games currently has "no plans" to release Civilization Online in North America
- What APB got right, and why it initially failed
- Brothers: A Tale of Two Sons to get PC release at the end of the month
- Europa Universalis 4 demo released, Steam Workshop support confirmed
- Arma 3 release date announced, leaves beta next month
- Amazon launch PC game downloads in the UK, celebrate with Far Cry sale
- MechWarrior Online update increases the match size for more mechanised mayhem
- King of Fighters XIII Steam Edition gets a trailer, despite no official announcement
- Dead Island Epidemic is a free-to-play MOBA
August 7
- Get in on Ridge Racer Driftopia's PC beta
- Civilization Online revealed, probably isn't the PvP MMO you expected
- The International 2013: what you need to know to get started
- What's next for Everquest? Not Everquest Next, but more current-gen expansions
- SimCity is rerouting its traffic issues... again
- Mark of the Ninja's special edition DLC dated
- John Carmack becomes Oculus VR's new chief technical officer
- Star Wars: The Old Republic trailer introduces you to update 2.3, the Titans of Industry
- Dragon Age: Inquisition to reintroduce multiple playable races, add mounts
- XCOM: Enemy Unknown's Steam listing updates with mysterious achievements
- New Project Eternity screenshot stays true to concept art
- Dishonored: Game of the Year Edition listed on Aussie Classification website
- The Boob Jam, a game jam celebrating stories about breasts
- Gods Will Be Watching survival sim gets full funding through Indiegogo
August 6
- Saints Row 4 character creator released as a free demo on Steam
- StarCraft 2 WCS premium subscriptions available as Season 2 Finals approach
- Kerbal Space Program chronicle, part four — the Kerbal has landed
- Company of Heroes 2 Russian distributor halts sales after charges of "anti-patriotism"
- Creative England launches £1 million support program for developers in South West England
- Payday 2 release date confirmed, is earlier than expected
- Arma 3 interview: Bohemia explains the Arma 3 campaign
- War of the Vikings announced, Fatshark's Norse follow-up to War of the Roses
- World of Warcraft to add "connected realms," Blizzard's solution to low population servers
- Saints Row 4's full in-game radio tracklist to let you dance if you want to
- Europa Universalis 4 release window confirmed, demo planned for later this week
- Left 4 Dead 3 and Source Engine 2 reportedly referenced in Valve changelog
August 5
- Mount Your Friends skins down, climbs into the Steam Greenlight pile
- CD Projekt RED opens up a new studio
- Sequel to Analogue: A Hate Story gets a release date and J-poppy trailer
- Planetside 2 trailer introduces the swamp continent of Hossin
- One Finger Death Punch: become the bane of stick men in this two-button twitch brawler
- Arma 3's latest community guide teaches you how to be a helicopter
- Betrayer announced — hands-on with the new FPS from the creators of F.E.A.R. and No One Lives Forever
- Shadowrun Returns to get Linux port, Berlin campaign, and various fixes
- Assassin's Creed series has an end, confirms Black Flag game director
August 4
- Saints Row 4 video shows 90 minutes of footage, comes with usual 'giant dildo' warning
- Four Crytek websites taken offline due to "suspicious activity"
- The Free Webgame Round-Up
- Game of Thrones diary part six: staying alive in Crusader Kings 2′s Westeros
August 3
- DayZ Standalone video shows the power of teamwork, outlines updates to injuries and map
- Payday 2's latest video showcases the safehouse, boasts terrifying wall o' masks
- EverQuest Next interview: no grinding, no leveling, and a maybe on Frogloks
- Star Citizen crowdfunding still rising, surpasses $15 million
- The Elder Scrolls Online gets live demo at QuakeCon
- New Watch Dogs trailer shows a powerful, hyper-connected Aiden Pearce
August 2
- Final Fantasy XIV: A Realm Reborn gets benchmark and character creation tools before launch
- Infinite Crisis launches Founders Program, lets players buy beta access
- John Carmack talks the future of high-res displays at QuakeCon 2013
- Rumor: Star Wars: Battlefront is likely to come out in 2015
- EverQuest Next Landmark, a free-to-play voxel building game, coming this winter
- Prey 2 not being developed by Arkane, claim Bethesda
- Wargame: Airland Battle listens to the people, brings free DLC adding new maps and co-op
- Blizzard's Project Titan now "unlikely" to be a subscription MMO
- The Elder Scrolls Anthology bundles every mudcrab, dragon, and potato-faced human
- Saints Row 4 modified for Australian release, now rated MA15+
- Humble Weekly 1C sale offers Men of War and Kings Bounty for pittance
August 1
- Wasteland 2 designers stress importance of player choices in the game's universe
- Marvel Heroes developer rolls back broken 1.11 update
- BioShock Infinite DLC details: new plasmids and weapons, no hacking
- Wolfenstein: The New Order delayed until 2014
- The Bureau: XCOM Declassified puts permadeath on display in new video
- Tomb Raider sequel "well into development," says Square Enix CEO
- Total War: Rome II Gameplay Demo
- New Tropico 4 DLC brings Voodoo to your island
- Neverwinter is home to two million unique players
- Papers, Please opens its borders next week, bribes pre-orders now being taken
- Take On Mars lands on Steam Early Access
- Rise of the Triad's upgraded (and bloodier) re-release is now available
- Total War: Rome 2 trailer is impressively grand and tactically relevant
- StarMade combines elements of Minecraft, EVE and Elite for voxel-based space adventure
- Towerfall's PC release will bring new content, including singleplayer mode
- Company of Heroes 2 trailer provides recon on Langres - a free remake of the classic map
- Why the creator of GTA and the lead designer of Diablo II are making a Facebook game together