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- December 31
- December 30
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- Hitman takes aim at a food critic in the last Elusive Target of 2016
- GOG bids goodbye to Grid tomorrow
- Elite: Dangerous will add a Carrie Fisher tribute station in the 2.3 update
- STALKER: Call of Chernobyl wins ModDB's Mod of the Year, Rimworld grabs IndieDB's top prize equivalent
- Carrie Fisher was 'gracious, funny and creatively open' in her small Dishonored role, says Arkane's Harvey Smith
- Mass Effect: Andromeda to tease 'environments and gameplay' at CES 2017 next week
- December 29
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- Former Crytek Sofia leads launch a new studio called Black Sea Games [Updated]
- PNY adds high speed NVMe CS2030 drives to SSD family
- Amazon's 24-hour 'Digital Day' sale begins at midnight
- Ark: Survival Evolved is getting sheep, with or without a Steam Award win
- Nuclear Throne's soundtrack to be released on vinyl with awesome sleeve art
- Postal goes open source after almost 20 years
- Tripwire Interactive to bring Rising Storm 2: Vietnam and Killing Floor: Incursion to the PC Gamer Weekender
- December 28
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- Star Citizen switches from CryEngine to Amazon's Lumberyard [Updated]
- Diablo's 20th anniversary brings special events to Hearthstone, Overwatch, and more
- The Stanley Parable update fixes weird "Baby Game" monolith bug
- Watch 14 minutes of the classic Star Wars sim X-Wing recreated in Unity
- Windows 10 may be getting a new "Game Mode" option [Updated]
- Birthdays the Beginning teases world-building mechanics in time-lapse footage
- Abandon Ship to get first public demonstration at the PC Gamer Weekender 2017
- December 27
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- Gigabyte Brix Gaming GT desktop wields a GeForce GTX 1070 or 1080
- Bamboo EP is a weird but wonderful game about dodgeball, swordsmen and frogs
- John Smedley's Hero's Song cancelled, Pixelmage Games shut down
- Failbetter Games to present Sunless Skies at the PC Gamer Weekender
- Frog Fractions 2 discovered inside a two-week-old game
- December 24
- December 23
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- Blue Yeti microphone and Watch Dogs 2 bundle available for $89
- Ark: Survival Evolved's latest patch brings new caves, giant squids, and Raptor Claus
- Owlboy devs are "very happy" people are playing, even if they pirate it
- Valve hit with $2.1 million fine by Australian courts over Steam refunds
- Counter-Strike's third Dust map, originally a PC Gamer demo, is ported into CS:GO
- Steam is back! [Updated]
- Gigabyte gaming laptop with GeForce GTX 1060 on sale for $1,099
- GTA Online welcomes a white Christmas, new car and Juggernaut adversary mode
- Corsair to debut RGB memory modules at CES 2017
- Binding of Isaac's ambitious user-made Antibirth mod is out now
- Cossacks 3 gets new mission in free holiday-themed update
- Watch Dogs 2's T-Bone gets his own trailer ahead of first DLC
- Dying Light launches second global Be the Zombie event
- December 22
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- Baldur's Gate Enhanced dev Beamdog seeks beta testers for new game
- GOG's Goodbuy 2016 Sale kicks off tomorrow
- Crypt of the Necrodancer: Amplified is coming to Early Access in January
- Get Grid for free from the Humble Store
- Klipsch ProMedia 2.1 speaker system on sale for $110
- Six minutes of Battlefront 3 gameplay footage turns up on YouTube
- Night in the Woods has been delayed
- Nvidia's GeForce 376.48 hotfix drivers improve stability in Battlefield 1
- The Steam Winter Sale 2016 is live!
- Black Mesa team teases first screenshot of reimagined Xen
- Sniper Elite 4 trailer puts front man Karl Fairburne back in the hotseat
- Birthdays the Beginning from Harvest Moon creator delayed
- Dark Souls 3 speedrunner beats world record in under 70 minutes
- Vampyr's Darkness Within trailer tells us 'there's always a price'
- December 21
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- Team Fortress 2's Smissmas event brings new taunts, Casual match improvements
- Blizzard working on 'multiple new heroes' for Overwatch, reveals plans for 2017
- PC gaming market worth $36 billion in 2016
- Battletech's latest Kickstarter update showcases hot mech melee combat
- Seasonic 650W 80 Plus Gold PSU on sale for $50
- The Battlefield 1 Holiday Event adds a new game mode and dog tag
- Zotac shrinks the GeForce GTX 1070 for compact builds
- Sniper Ghost Warrior 3 shows off drone reconnaissance in extended gameplay trailer
- Civilization 6 launches free update alongside Poland and Viking-inspired premium DLC
- Mafia 3 adds free racing and car customisation DLC
- RimWorld's extensive Wanderlust update adds spherical planetary exploration
- Turbine moves MMOs to new studio, Asheron's Call is closing down
- December 20
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- A new Overwatch comic celebrates the holidays and establishes that Tracer is gay
- Darkest Dungeon's new 'Radiant' mode promises shorter, more accessible campaigns
- Watch a guy sit in a chair in the BioWare Holiday Livestream
- Gwent gets ranked play and new experience and progression systems
- AMD updates Crimson ReLive drivers to stomp out annoying bugs
- Call of Duty: Infinite Warfare map pack Sabotage revealed in new trailer
- G.Skill's new Trident Z RAM puts on a customizable RGB light show
- Crytek eliminates five studios after struggling to pay employees
- Grim Dawn unveils new Inquisitor class ahead of this week's free update
- Prison Architect adds 'staff needs' in surprise Christmas update
- Dawn of War 3 trailer showcases its factions and contextualises its battles
- The PC Gamer Weekender is coming in 2017, get your 20% discount code here
- How a debuting indie studio got The Witcher's Geralt of Rivia to voice its trailer
- Valve reveals Steam Awards nominees
- December 19
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- Battlefield 1 DLC They Shall Not Pass will bring the French into the fight
- This NSFW Witcher 3 cosplay calendar is everything we dreamed it would be
- Oculus confirms that Palmer Luckey is still around
- Star Marine gameplay video highlights the dangers of gunfire in space
- Steam Winter Sale start date confirmed by PayPal UK
- Dishonored 2's New Game+ update is live, Phenom processors are now supported
- Nvidia readies "PC Gaming Revival Kit" to renew aging systems
- Nvidia confirms GTX 1080 Ti and unveils Club GeForce Elite
- Dynasty Warriors 9 to mark series' 20th anniversary with open-world brawler
- Ark: Survival Evolved teases Jurassic Park-like VR adventure venue
- Payday 2 adds Scarface-themed DLC
- Skyrim total conversion mod Enderal announces DLC
- Border control simulator Papers, Please is going cheap
- December 18
- December 17
- December 16
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- Darkest Dungeon's The Crimson Court DLC will bring a vampire-hunting Fanatic
- Surf World Series brings the thrill of arcade surfing to your PC next year
- 39th update for Morrowind Rebirth mod brings dozens of changes
- Riot signs megabucks new League of Legends streaming deal
- Razer Diamondback Chroma and Orochi mice now on sale
- Corsair K70 LUX mechanical keyboard gets slashed to $80 on Amazon
- The Orks go WAAAGH! in a new Dawn of War 3 gameplay trailer
- Save big on Acer's Predator XZ321Q 31.5-inch curved monitor
- MSI releases 27-inch curved gaming monitor with 144Hz refresh rate
- The Little Acre is out now with launch interview and trailer
- Verdun to reenact WW1 Christmas Truce for War Child charity
- Space Engineers moves to beta phase after three years in Early Access
- The Division is free to try this weekend
- Night in the Woods teases sprawling explorable city and knife fight mini-games
- You can get 14 Star Wars games very cheaply on Steam right now
- December 15
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- Watch Sam Lake slow jam the history of music in Remedy videogames
- Garry Newman asks bored Rust players to "just stop playing"
- Styx: Shards of Darkness gameplay trailer features four minutes of murder
- Free Planet Coaster Winter Update adds rides, blueprints, and Cosmic Cow Ice Cream
- Amazon slashes price on Logitech C920 webcam and other peripherals
- Warhammer: End Times—Vermintide gets new DLC today and its biggest patch yet
- Ex-Crytek employee seeks support for legal action over unpaid wages
- Charming ARPG Quote offering discounted early alpha access, expires tomorrow
- Biostar builds an inexpensive 5000 DPI mouse for gamers
- Nvidia's 376.33 drivers beef up security and stomp out YouTube bug
- Ubi 30's 'Special Weekend' lets you claim previous months' games for free
- Call of Duty: Black Ops 3 gets unranked dedicated servers
- Cyanide's Call of Cthulhu teases eerie new screens
- Rainbow Six Siege update adds Bartlett University to PvP, tweaks Tachanka, and more
- December 14
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- Ubisoft drops a For Honor story trailer, closed beta coming in January
- Doom: Bloodfall DLC adds a trio of new maps and the Spectre Pinky
- Warhammer 40K: Inquisitor - Martyr delayed into late 2017
- Elder Scrolls, Fallout mastermind Todd Howard joins the AIAS Hall of Fame
- Score an MSI laptop with a GeForce GTX 1060 for $899 after rebate
- Compact Asus Xonar U7 MKII USB sound card brings better audio to laptops
- Space Hulk: Deathwing is out now and it is quite good so far
- Torment: Tides of Numenera is coming in February
- Dishonored 2 New Game Plus mode hits Steam, lets you combine Emily and Corvo's powers
- LG to unveil HDR-compatible 4K monitor next month
- Troll and I looks like Papa and Yo merged with The Last Guardian
- New Age of Empires 2 expansion out next week
- HTC Vive launch title developer breaks down difficulties of making money from VR
- Worlds Adrift trailer demos craft construction and airborne battles
- A No Man's Sky bug lets you land your freighter on a planet
- Evolve, Left 4 Dead studio is working on a 'dark fantasy' co-op FPS
- See Doom 2 played on a tiny display inside a single keyboard key
- December 13
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- Warhammer 40,000: Inquisitor - Martyr trailer shows off its open world
- Steam achievements come to the Amnesia games
- The Surge gameplay trailer shows off Dark Souls-inspired sci-fi combat
- Hitman's holiday mission: Kill the bumbling burglars from Home Alone
- Oculus boss Brendan Iribe steps down to lead new PC focused VR division
- Overwatch Christmas skins revealed
- For Honor will be an "always online experience"
- Corsair’s Force MP500 SSDs read and write data at breakneck speeds
- Doom Resurrected doc showcases "Call of Doom" and the move to a reboot
- Steam client update adds Dualshock 4 custom bindings, improved patching speeds and more
- Shenmue 3 footage due 'early in the new year', PC pre-orders begin on Thursday
- Metro 2035 author hints series will continue after end of book timeline
- Worlds Adrift's persistent world-building tech being made free to qualified game developers
- Yooka-Laylee release date set, celebrates with new world trailer
- Memoranda is a gorgeous point-and-click adventure about memory loss, due January
- December 12
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- New WW2 shooter promises 100-player battles that are not "sports-like"
- American Truck Simulator celebrates bigger roads and wider spaces with a new trailer
- Battlefield 1: Giant's Shadow patch notes are out [Updated]
- Mass Effect: Andromeda's creative director says you should probably keep your saves
- Twitch's new AutoMod tool uses "machine learning" to create less toxic chat
- Ex-Witcher and Gwent designer joins Techland to work on new open-world fantasy RPG
- CERT warns against using several Netgear routers until a security fix is issued
- The PC is finally getting a hockey game, and it's straight outta the '90s
- Space Hulk: Deathwing launch trailer stomps into view
- DoomRL successor Jupiter Hell hits crowdfunding goal
- Retired British Royal Air Force marshal calls for gamers to pilot combat drones
- December 11
- December 10
- December 9
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- A trilogy of Mass Effect: Andromeda novels is coming next year
- The Binding of Isaac: Afterbirth+ gets a January launch date and a creepy teaser
- The Elder Scrolls: Legends beta gets a "Chaos Arena" event next week
- Watch Dogs 2: T-Bone Content Bundle will take a little longer to arrive
- Watch "sticky meat bits" hit the floor in Strafe's new Uber-Gore v2 trailer
- New Skyblivion teaser trailer shows off four minutes of a recreated Cyrodiil
- AMD and Intel team up for holiday hardware and games bundle
- Ubisoft sanctioned €1.27 million for insider trading, publisher issues statement and plans to appeal (updated)
- Europe's largest 'permanent VR facility' now open in Paris
- Call of Duty: Modern Warfare Remastered update to add free maps and modes
- Conan Exiles dev diary talks survival tactics, teases new footage
- The Division to get DirectX 12 support next week
- Free Battlefield 1 map "Giant's Shadow" will introduce the Grenade Crossbow
- CS:GO's chickens are wearing festive Christmas sweaters again
- December 8
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- Kingdom Come: Deliverance is fast approaching completion, here's an update video
- Blizzard gets into book publishing with novels, manga, and a coloring book
- We Happy Few takes a big step forward with the new Clockwork Update
- Total War: Warhammer - Realm of the Wood Elves DLC is now available [Updated]
- Streaming, video capture, and more features added to AMD Radeon Software
- Microsoft partners with Qualcomm to bring the full Windows 10 to ARM devices
- Watch Sean Bean find out that he dies in the Civilization 6 launch trailer
- Chinese law will force game makers to reveal loot box drop rates
- Bitfenix Shogun case wields dual tempered side panels to showcase big builds
- Sea of Thieves alpha update trailer offers first proper look treasure hunting in practice
- Shadow Warrior 2 'The Way of the Wang' free DLC out now
- Dawn of War 3 Jain Zar unit revealed
- DayZ creator on VR: Without subsidisation some studios can't break even, let alone make a profit
- Resident Evil 7 shows off ten minutes of actual in-game footage
- VR shooter Arizona Sunshine has features locked behind timed CPU exclusivity [update: not any more]
- A new No Man's Sky patch addresses problems with mods
- December 7
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- Doom's new update brings bot support and a new MP mode
- Someone has made an Atari 2600 emulator in Minecraft
- Space Hulk: Deathwing has been (slightly) delayed, so here are some new screens
- Batman: The Telltale Series Episode 5, "City of Light," arrives next week
- Creating hacks for online games could now earn you jail time in South Korea
- Assassin's Creed 3 goes free, murders Ubisoft servers in the process
- MSI gives a glimpse of Z270 motherboards for Kaby Lake
- Amazon is offering a $100 gift card if you buy an Oculus Rift today
- Omen by HP announced as headline sponsor of the PC Gamer Weekender 2017
- The Elder Scrolls Online's highly customisable housing system due in February
- Atlas Reactor unveils new character and Extraction Mode in free winter update
- December 6
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- Halo 5: Forge custom game browser is launching on PC this week
- Battleborn Winter Update promises big changes for new and returning players
- See the Skyrim, Fallout and Doom tables in this Bethesda Pinball video
- Mads Mikkelsen doesn't really understand that Death Stranding trailer either
- Will Ferrell to star as aging esports player in upcoming comedy
- Ghost Recon Wildlands beta signups have begun
- The Overwatch Holiday Event begins next week
- Star Wars Battlefront DLC Rogue One: Scarif patch notes reveal new "Infiltration" mode
- Cooler Master launches travel friendly MasterCase Maker 5t
- Shadow Tactics: Blades of the Shogun out today
- Hitman has a Christmas mission, and other plans for the festive season
- Here's the first story trailer for Sniper Elite 4
- A new Dishonored 2 patch just hit Steam
- Crusader Kings II: Monks and Mystics DLC announced
- Football Manager 2017 now has a demo
- N++ Ultimate Edition will "roughly" double the size of the original
- Someone's modding CS 1.6 into CS:GO
- December 5
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- A Bulletstorm: Full Clip Edition upgrade offer is "not possible," Gearbox boss says
- Nier: Automata has a new trailer, but no firm release date for PC as yet
- Watch 24 minutes of lovely forest exploration in a new Hob gameplay trailer
- Big changes are coming to Paragon in tomorrow's Monolith update
- Nvidia release drivers optimized for slew of Oculus Touch games
- "Tactical stealth heist game" Filthy Lucre comes to the PC next week
- Stellaris update 1.4 paves the way for free Horizon Signal DLC, out today
- Lara Croft GO has been excavated from the Windows Store
- Nexus: The Jupiter Incident update adds Steam Workshop support
- World of Warcraft Nostalrius server returns on December 17
- The Walking Dead Season 3 begins with two episodes this month
- New Rain World trailer sneaks out of the PlayStation Experience
- Two new characters have been confirmed for Marvel vs Capcom: Infinite
- December 4
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- Maize, the first-person adventure about sentient corn, is out now
- Crackdown 3 launches holiday 2017 at the latest
- Marvel vs Capcom: Infinite's first gameplay trailer shakes up the fighting formula
- Akuma hitting Street Fighter V in a couple of weeks
- Multiplayer combat RPG Absolver gets a new trailer
- Fully singleplayer MechWarrior 5 announced
- December 3
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- Resident Evil 7 demo coming to PC later this month
- Get your first look at Pyre's versus mode in new trailer from Bastion developer
- Marvel vs Capcom: Infinite revealed, coming to PC next year
- Latest Resident Evil 7 trailer peels back another layer of the mystery
- Star Wars: The Old Republic's Knights of the Eternal Throne out now
- Dead Rising 4 launch trailer is as Christmassy as they come
- December 2
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- The first Full Throttle Remastered trailer shows off new graphics, old music
- The latest Hitman Elusive Target is a kindly old grandmother
- Mass Effect: Andromeda's Nexus station is a "smaller, streamlined" version of the Citadel
- Space Hulk: Deathwing gets heavy in a lengthy new gameplay trailer
- Enermax brings a little Revolution to SFX power supply category
- Mass Effect: Andromeda's facial animations are still being polished
- Halo Wars 2 story trailer showcases super villain Atriox
- Fan-made Doom spin-off from 2002 challenged by ZeniMax legal team
- Torment: Tides of Numenera teases its well-rounded Jack class
- Overcooked to get free and frantic festive expansion next week
- Watch aliens turn into furniture in this eight-minute Prey gameplay trailer
- Watch the new Mass Effect: Andromeda gameplay trailer
- That Dragon, Cancer creator delivers poignant speech on the power of games
- Telltale is making a Guardians of the Galaxy series
- Shovel Knight: Specter of Torment trailer shows off the next campaign
- The new Prey trailer looks a lot like Bioshock in space
- Hearthstone celebrates the holidays with a festive album sung entirely by murlocs
- Co-op action game Dauntless sounds a lot like Monster Hunter
- Watch the new Death Stranding trailer featuring Mads Mikkelsen
- Bulletstorm: Full Clip Edition is a remaster coming April 2017
- Rocket League shoots for the stars with a free new arena
- BattleTech main characters and new plot points revealed
- December 1
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- No Man's Sky players are now sharing messages across the stars
- MSI to equip motherboards with M.2 shield to combat SSD throttling
- Blizzard rolls out hotfix for Hearthstone’s Mean Streets of Gadgetzan bug [Updated]
- Biostar jumps on mechanical keyboard bandwagon with waterproof plank
- Watch Star Wars Battlefront's new heroes in the Rogue One: Scarif DLC trailer
- Titanfall 2's digital sales are down nearly three-quarters from the original
- The Steam Winter Sale dates have leaked
- Kingdom Come: Deliverance developer already has sequel planned
- Gears of War 4 to add PC and Xbox competitive crossplay this weekend
- Worms WMD adds free Liberation update
- The Elder Scrolls Online adds Crown Crates, new mounts and ice wolf pups
- New No Man's Sky patch addresses a number of small annoyances
