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April 30
- Dead Island dev's Hellraid gets upgraded engine, Early Access plans
- Halo: Combat Evolved online multiplayer to use GameRanger after GameSpy shutdown
- Serious Sam Classics: Revolution blasts onto Steam Early Access
- Hearthstone Help: The 46 best cards revealed
- Hacks! An investigation into the million-dollar business of video game cheating
- Mad Max trailer shows exploding cars, makes lofty claims
- Battlefield 4 server update fixes "Death Shield" bug
- Valve are collaborating on a Left 4 Dead arcade game
- The International 2014 teams announced for Dota 2 championship
April 29
- Watch Dogs trailer shows off Season Pass content, explosion-happy protagonist
- Ludum Dare 29 breaks a record: 2,497 games developed in one weekend
- Morrowind Rebirth mod 2.7 update improves textures, adds new areas and items
- Dota 2 Spring Cleaning update changes heroes, interface, bugs
- Metroid-inspired Ghost Song: A Journey of Hope gets first gameplay video
- SOE launch unified All Access subscription
- Portal 2: Aperture Tag mod adds level editor and Steam Workshop support
- H1Z1 developers streaming design meetings, gameplay for 12 hours today
- Beneath The City: a free turn-based stealth game inspired by Thief
- League of Legends, Dota 2 help PC gaming overtake consoles globally, says analyst
- Wolfenstein: The New Order trailer shows mayhem, violence and... stealth?
- Monochroma trailer sets the scene on a dystopian puzzler
- Elite: Dangerous's trading systems detailed by Frontier
- Plants vs. Zombies: Garden Warfare PC version dated for June 24
- Echoes of Eridu developer asks you to fund its co-op Mega Man roguelike
April 28
- Why Bungie's Destiny isn't coming to PC—for now
- Dark Souls 2 developer From Software acquired by Japanese publisher Kadokawa
- Show Us Your Rig: FTL composer Ben Prunty
- Deus Ex: Revision video shows remastered levels, teases "near future" release
- Stalker: Lost Alpha released, restores cut content to Shadow of Chernobyl
- Saitek's X-55 Rhino flightstick is a lovely, chunky thing
- Supreme Commander Supreme Battlefeel mod gives SupCom a supreme makeover
April 27
- Rogue Shooter is more interesting than the name suggests, game and demo out now
- BioWare delays Star Wars: The Old Republic Galactic Strongholds early access
April 26
- The Best Free Games of the Week
- Obsidian's next Kickstarter to launch hopefully this year, an RPG based on a "cool idea"
- King's Bounty crosses to the Dark Side for its latest expansion
- EVE: Online history book funded in less than 8 hours
- Divinity: Original Sin launch date set for June 20
April 25
- Evolve hands-on: playing as the medic and the monster
- Denmark creates 1:1 scale replica of itself in Minecraft
- Card Hunter: Attack of the Artifacts expansion out now, adds multiplayer league system
- Interview: Endless Space and StarDrive developers talk about 4X design
- Unreal Engine 4 update adds SteamOS and Linux support
- Dragon Age Inquisition update details branching character classes
- Battlefield 4 gets superservers to fight latency issues
- Bioware on Dragon Age: Inquisition's return to epic scope - "Dragon Age 2 forced our hand"
- Dark Souls 2 launch problems prompt official response from Namco Bandai
- Company of Heroes 2 is free to try and cheap to buy this weekend
- Goat Simulator devs plan new map, local multiplayer, and goat parkour
April 24
- Dark Souls 2 modded: Durante's GeDoSaTo enables downsampling, texture modding
- Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodlines finds immortality with new 9.0 patch release
- Titanfall Expedition DLC map War Games revealed
- Resident Evil 2 remade like Resident Evil 4 looks fantastic
- Elder Scrolls Online vampire guild to give players a free ticket to the dark side
- Outcast Reboot HD trailer shows first footage of the remade open-world classic
- We've updated our list of the best Minecraft adventure maps to include 40 favourites
- Evolve interactive trailer lets you switch perspectives across a single match
- Arma 3 video guide teaches you how to be Zeus
- Darkwood trailer teases impending Early Access scares
- Meet Aztez, the Aztec-themed brawler with impeccable style
April 23
- The Elder Scrolls Online devs discuss bugs, black market in "state of the game" address
- Dark Souls 2 secrets guide: shortcuts, estus shards and more
- EVE Fanfest 2014 schedule includes panels with physicists, actual cage matches
- New Project CARS trailer claims it's the best looking racing game on the planet
- Watch Watch Dogs' multiplayer hacking modes in action
- DayZ update adds new village and bow crafting recipe; removes mouse acceleration
- Dragon Age: Inquisition digital deluxe edition detailed, bonuses include mounts and skull thrones
- Wildstar video details the explosive strategy behind PvP Warplots
- Call of Duty: Ghosts patch adds Chaos mode to Extinction
- Red Orchestra 2 one-day deal will let you download and keep the game for free
- Survarium opens its doors for one-day beta access this Friday
April 22
- H1Z1 money-making strategy will focus on player customization, won't be pay-to-win
- BlizzCon 2014 dates and prices announced
- Rise of Incarnates announced, a free-to-play fighter for PC
- Infinite Space 3: Sea of Stars makes the jump to Steam Early Access
- 2K migrates Civilization games and Borderlands from GameSpy to Steamworks
- Minecraft video teases upcoming World Customisation feature
- Portal 2 mod Thinking With Time Machine now available on Steam
- The Breakout: a PoW point 'n click adventure that's hoping to escape Kickstarter
- Dragon Age: Inquisition release date revealed; Bioware's RPG sequel out this October
- Dota 2's The Stanley Parable announcer pack has been recorded, reveals narrator
- Architects EP: a free collection of games, songs and general weirdness
- Grid Autosport announced, is a "descendant" of the TOCA series
- Dragon Age: Inquisition gets appropriately epic box art
- Subnautica screenshots look pretty, fishy
April 21
- Dark Souls 2 PC tweak guide
- Garry's Mod "Cough" virus is cured, but it could have been worse
- Rising Storm's Game of the Year Edition update adds new maps, vehicles, game mode
- Blizzard offering freebie to Hearthstone players who meet up IRL
- 1849: a bustling city management game set in the Gold Rush era
- The co-op Rally challenge: one driver, one navigator and a wild safari
- Huge Wasteland 2 update adds new area, Linux support and makes hundreds of other changes
- Schrodinger's cat alive and well in new puzzle-platformer from Team 17 and Italic Pig
- Wolfenstein livestream reveals 30 mins of shooty new footage
- Tesla Effect delayed by two weeks, now releasing May 7th
- Star Citizen's expanded PAX East video shows off spacewalking and stealth
April 20
- Secrets of Grindea demo is nostalgic, loot-obsessed and a lot of fun
April 19
- The Best Free Games of the Week
- H1Z1 footage shows that, yep, it looks a lot like DayZ [Update: DayZ similarities addressed in Reddit post]
- Procedurally generated grand strategy The Last Federation out now
- Pillars of Eternity soundtrack previewed in music release
- MechWarrior Online contest puts free BattleMech up for grabs this weekend
- Skyrim mod Skywind recreates Morrowind, will include revamped crafting and voice acting
April 18
- H1Z1 survivalists can vote to create custom servers
- Cortex Command gets Steam Workshop, renewed development commitment in update
- Square Enix: DRM is "essential for the foreseeable future"
- Updated: The Elder Scrolls Online item duplication bug forces Zenimax to shut down guild banks
- Take On Mars: Expedition One launches, ready to put humans on the Red Planet
- Brutal Doom update v20 to add ragdoll physics, more brutality
- Tropico 5 pre-orders now available for swag-filled physical, discounted digital versions
- Dark Souls 2 comparison video: Xbox 360 vs. PC at 1080p
- The Long Dark's creative director explains why the apocalypse doesn't need zombies
- Minimum rescued from limbo by Atari and Human Head, heading for Steam Early Access soon
- The Flock trailer shows the asymmetrical stealth horror game in action
- Mercenary Kings devs reveal Curses 'N Chaos, a supernatural brawler for two players
- Steam phishing scam bypasses Steam Guard, goes fishing for your trading cards
- Final Fantasy 14: A Realm Reborn bags over two million registered accounts
- Dynasty Warriors 8 Xtreme Legends hitting PC this May, sadly without that missing E
- Last Life hands-on: Could you solve your own death?
April 17
- Chaos Reborn gets photo-finish funding and multi-language translations
- Hack 'N' Slash hands-on: now I want a USB sword
- JetGetters finds sugar daddy, refunds Kickstarter backers
- World of Warcraft: Warlords of Draenor's new character models won't affect performance
- Hands-on with Darkest Dungeon, the best game I played at PAX East 2014
- Grave wants to be the Eraserhead of indie games, has free demo
- Report lists Steam's most popular (and most untouched) games
- How to run Jedi Knight II: Jedi Outcast in Windows 7/8
- Dark Souls 2 PC port: mod god Durante's verdict
- The Evil Within screenshots show more monstrous beasts
- Alien: Isolation trailer shows highly scientific VHS-mangling visual techniques
- Concursion demo offers playable piece of Puuba's strange genre mashup
- Vlambeer prototypes include Wild West story experiment, a new take on tower defence and "Space Murder"
- The Earl Octopusor is a beautiful free aquatic adventure game
April 16
- What's Hearthstone like on iPad?
- Curious Expedition interview: making a hardcore browser game people will pay for
- Jedi Knight 2 HD remake mod in the works
- The Elder Scrolls Online patch details quest bug fixes, upcoming gameplay changes
- Choice Chamber gets a helping hand from Twitch
- Broken Sword 5: Episode 2 to be released later today
- Wildstar trailer introduces Warplots, Carbine's 40 vs 40 PvP mode
- Wargame: Red Dragon launch trailer comes out in favour of explosions
- World of Tanks update 9.0 out now, adds HD tanks, reworked maps and historical battles
April 15
- Cult of the Wind dares you to fly imaginary fighter planes in childish dogfights
- Blizzard says Battle.net is safe from Heartbleed security flaw
- Titanfall director details roadmap for post-launch updates
- War of the Vikings leaves early access, launch trailer makes heavy use of the word "Viking"
- Blood Bowl 2 trailer tramples, elbows, bellows through first match footage
- Psychotic Sims 3 speed run achieves lifetime wish in under four minutes. Watch the video
- Child of Light trailer shows gorgeous watercolour wonderland
- Spelunky world record beaten, $3,109,825 collected over four hours
- Dark Souls 2: Prepare to Die on PC
- Create your own press kit with Vlambeer's free service for indie devs
- 27 deaths in Dark Souls 2
- Hong Kong Massacre's trailer is absurdly bloody
- Sol: Exodus gets remake treatment, renamed Exodus of Sol
April 14
- Oculus Rift DK2 prototype reportedly sells 25,000 units in one month
- Below hands-on: lonely, vulnerable, gorgeous
- Crysis and Crysis 2 PC multiplayer will shutdown with GameSpy
- The Elder Scrolls Online fan-run item market endorsed by Zenimax Online
- World of Darkness cancelled by CCP
- Battlefield 4 "death shield" bug discovered, causes projectiles to bounce off invisible walls
- Kotaku UK has launched
- Road Redemption now available in alpha, providing you spend $40
- Evolve screenshots show a menagerie of monsters
- Half-Life gets new world record speedrun; watch it be finished in 20 minutes 41 seconds
April 13
- Even the Ocean: a contemplative, innovative platformer set in two worlds
- Titanfall's first DLC pack, Expedition, due in May, along with free burn cards and modes
April 12
- Civilization: Beyond Earth announced. Civ is going to space
- The Best Free Games of the Week
- Citizens of Earth picked up by Atlus, coming to a planet near you this September
- Last Life is a sci-fi noir adventure 'presented by' Double Fine
April 11
- Wasteland 2 dev says "average" playthrough might take 50 hours, Linux build coming
- Source: Steam Controller will be available in "October or November"
- Star Citizen dogfighting shown at PAX East, crowd goes wild
- Bound By Flame footage looks mighty familiar
- Watch the PC Gamer PAX East panel archived here
- Double Fine literally sing the praises of Hack 'n' Slash in new video
- Hearthstone singleplayer adventure mode announced, called Curse of Naxxramas
- Orcs Must Die! Unchained announced, is a multiplayer lane-pusher
- World of Tanks VR possible if Oculus hits 5-10 million users, Wargaming boss says
- Arma 3's free Zeus multiplayer DLC released
- Xbox One indie darling, Below, is also coming to Steam
April 10
- Old Battlefield games will survive the GameSpy shutdown
- How Counter-Strike: Global Offensive's Overpass map evolved
- Strike Vector gets free Challenge Mode and map
- New video shows Watch Dogs looking pretty on PC, gives Nvidia a cuddle
- Fortnite will have 10 to 50 hour co-op campaigns, procedurally-generated worlds
- Titanfall patch adds private match support, fixes bugs
- Transistor release date announced, is sooner than you think
- Etherium trailer shows three factions and their resource war
- Elite: Dangerous leaves alpha May 30, gets shipped to Premium Beta backers
- Diablo 3 patch rebalances classes, makes Obelisks less clickable
- EA's new MOBA, Dawngate, opens its doors to a public beta
- SOE shows H1Z1, its new zombie MMO [Update: monetization and game map discussed]
April 9
- New Source trailer teases a metroidvania with wings
- Goat Simulator dev makes the case for free DLC
- Watch Dogs Season Pass adds single-player campaign with new playable character
- Building Crown, part three: collaborating with the Counter-Strike community
- Middle-Earth: Shadow of Mordor system requirements are even higher than Watch Dogs'
- The Evil Within trailer is a master of understatement, and blood rivers
- Borderlands: The Pre-Sequel interview — Randy Pitchford on why this isn't Borderlands 3, and how he "loves to play on PC"
- Chaos Reborn enters final week of Kickstarter, releases demo for all
- H1Z1 is probably Sony Online Entertainment's next game, but what is it?
- World of Warcraft: Warlords of Draenor alpha patch notes preview multiple class changes
- Arma 2 Free closes down, Bohemia puts Arma 2 series on sale
- MMO racer The Crew speeds past delay, coming this fall
April 8
- Spaghetti Western brawler Secret Ponchos coming to PC
- Epic's PC-exclusive Fortnite opens alpha registration
- Watch Dogs will require Uplay, even on Steam
- Logitech announces G502 gaming mouse with 12,000 DPI sensor
- Battlefield 4 update adds loadout presets to Battlelog
- Here are Dark Souls 2's PC graphics and control options
- Wolfenstein: The New Order trailer leaves you nowhere to run
- Card Hunter expansion Attack of the Artifacts announced
- Hotline Miami 2: Wrong Number trailer is so wrong it's right
- Outcast Reboot HD is an HD reboot of Outcast, now on Kickstarter
April 7
- Resident Evil 4 HD update fixes framerate drops, Capcom tackling other community issues
- Reddit compiles terrifying list of games affected by GameSpy shutdown
- Goat Simulator gets free maps and multiplayer mode in May patch
- Broforce bros out on Early Access, adds a female bro
- Show Us Your Rig: Civ V designer Jon Shafer
- The Elder Scrolls Online to get first content update later this month
- 4K Screenshot Showcase: Mirror's Edge
- Watch Dogs system requirements confirmed, wants a 64-bit system with significant oomph
- Titanfall matchmaking update leaves beta, joins Attrition and Hardpoint modes
- Viscera Cleanup Detail hits early access, fulfills your compulsive cleaning fantasies
April 6
- Kero Blaster, Studio Pixel's latest, gets a name change and a joyous new trailer
- Age of Wonders 3 video teaches the arcane art of level editing
April 5
- The Best Free Games of the Week
- Monaco's fourth and final free update is "brutally difficult", you'll be pleased to hear
- Steam Greenlight approves 75 more games, including Catacomb Kids and Frontiers
April 4
- Nether Territory Wars update gives players some much needed structure
- Daylight delayed until April 29 so it can be scarier
- Smite interview: Hi-Rez COO Todd Harris on competing MOBAs, F2P economics, and religious sensitivity
- GameSpy multiplayer service shutting down next month
April 3
- Diablo 3: Reaper of Souls sells 2.7 million copies in first week
- Anomaly Defenders announced, reverses "tower offense" gameplay
- Don't Starve's Reign Of Giants DLC stomps onto Steam, Klei says "beware of summer"
- Stalker: Lost Alpha mod leaked, April 26 release date announced
- Divinity: Original Sin enters beta, gets giant feature update
- How to run Unreal Tournament 2004 on Windows 7/8
- Uncharted creative director Amy Hennig joins EA's Visceral Games for Star Wars project
- Enemy Starfighter trailer shows deep-space dogfighting
- Three Lane Highway: why I am deadly serious about the phrase "wizard-'em-up"
- SOMA trailer takes you under the sea
- The Early Access Report: NomNom Galaxy, Running With Rifles and Carmageddon: Reincarnation
- Frontiers trailer heralds the exploration RPG's arrival on Greenlight
- Half-Life 2's City 17 recreated in the Unreal Engine, looks stunning
- Shadow of Mordor hits October 7, pre-order now to get "exclusive leaderboards"
April 2
- The Long Dark's first in-game screenshots crashland with new community forums
- Age of Mythology hits Steam in May with Steamworks, Twitch, better graphics
- You're invited to PC Gamer's PAX East afterparty
- The Elder Scrolls Online screenshots: maxed settings at 7680x1440 on LPC
- Tropico 5 releases on May 23, Kalypso plans "extensive" SteamOS version
- A goat farmer reviews Goat Simulator: "Goats love champagne."
- Guild Wars 2 moving to "Megaserver System", ArenaNet aim to populate quieter zones
- Battlefield 4 experiencing "rubber-banding" issues, DICE say reducing lag is top priority
- Watch Dogs video shows off wind, water and lighting effects
- SOE's Player Studio marketplace expands to Canada and Europe
- The Wolf Among Us trailer teases Episode 3's launch [updated with release date]
- The 12 most amazing moments from Smite's launch tournament
April 1
- Unreal Engine 4 sci-fi horror game Caffeine takes to Indiegogo
- The 10 best Elder Scrolls Online addons, tweaks, and tools
- Oculus VR hires another Valve virtual reality expert
- Star Citizen's Chris Roberts doesn't think Oculus "sold out"
- Dungeon of the Endless explains its genre mashup in new trailer
- Announcing our PAX East 2014 panel with Palmer Luckey, Chris Roberts, and more
- April Fools' round-up: the year's best (completely fake) announcements
- Dota 2's fourth The International tournament announced for July, moves to new location
- Draugen trailer provides first look at Red Thread's survival horror
- Hear three BioShock Infinite: Burial At Sea original songs from Irrational Games