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- August 31
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- Fortnite's storm will damage player-made structures starting in patch 5.40
- Last Tide is a diving battle royale shooter filled with sharks, now on Steam
- 24 years later, speedrunner finds 'the last official secret' of Doom 2
- CitizenCon digital ticket plan scrapped following uproar among Star Citizen fans
- 'We're in a place to invest and focus a lot more on games again,' says Valve
- Buzzsaw your buddies in the Super Meat Boy card game
- Watch 20 minutes of Artifact gameplay from PAX
- Epic teases a Fortnite 'High Stakes' event coming next week
- Razer's Lancehead Tournament Edition gaming mouse is on sale for $38
- Nazi tattoos removed from survival game Scum, Devolver apologizes
- MSI dresses up gaming hardware in a stylish laptop for creators and designers
- Microsoft confirms next big update to Windows 10 will arrive in October
- AMD's 16-core Ryzen Threadripper 2950X lands on store shelves today for $899
- Co-op classic Pandemic comes to Steam
- China cracks down on game approval in alleged attempt to curb poor eyesight
- Divinity: Original Sin 2 Definitive Edition is out now as a free update
- Hello Neighbor is getting a prequel
- Gorgeous Industries of Titan trailer shows off combat system
- For Honor is getting an 'open test' of its upcoming Marching Fire expansion
- Swedish artist Simon Stålenhag is not happy with Generation Zero
- Battlefleet Gothic: Armada 2 release date delayed to January
- Razer upgrades Blackwidow keyboard with dedicated media controls, onboard storage
- August 30
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- This triple-fan Gigabyte GTX 1080 is just $430 right now
- This Sapphire Vega 64 with three free games is $500 right now
- Monster Hunter: World mod makes your hub area more patriotic
- We're hiring: be PC Gamer's next hardware editor
- The Binding of Isaac: Repentance teased in short new trailer
- Star Wars: Battlefront 2 winter roadmap reveals new sandbox mode and upcoming heroes
- A new Paradox trailer teases a Rusty Lake detective mystery
- Subnautica: Below Zero returns to the sea for a brand-new mystery
- Save $60 on this Ryzen 5 2600 CPU and Asus X370 motherboard bundle
- Warhammer 40,000: Space Marine is free in the Humble Store Summer Sale
- Desktop GPU sales normalize as crypto-mining gold rush ends, report says
- Hunt: Showdown's one-week Solo Event has special rewards for lone-wolf hunters
- Samsung gives portable storage a speed boost with a new NVMe drive
- No Man's Sky community event adds Quicksilver currency and collectibles
- Battlefield 5 release date delayed to November
- The Bradwell Conspiracy is an intriguing mystery thriller from Bossa Studios and A Brave Plan
- Warhammer: Vermintide 2 is free to play this weekend on Steam
- Jurassic World Evolution to add challenge mode, sandbox options in next update
- EA will donate $1 million to families of Jacksonville shooting victims
- Killing Floor 2, Rising Storm, Road Redemption going cheap in Tripwire sale
- Bungie may have accidentally fixed Destiny 2's matchmaking, but a lot of players preferred it bugged
- August 29
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- Gwent's singleplayer Thronebreaker mode becomes a standalone RPG
- Rocket League's new leveling and XP system is now live
- Scum is already Devolver's biggest launch ever
- Acer’s new 485-pound 'gaming chair' has room for a PC and three monitors
- A bug is causing Destiny 2: Forsaken items to drop before the expansion is out
- Riot Games commits to 'seven steps' to drive cultural change around sexism and harassment
- Here's 15 minutes of Battlefield 5 running on an RTX 2080 Ti
- This massive 8K HDR TV could bring even Nvidia's RTX 2080 Ti to its knees
- Denuvo says 'there is no uncrackable product'
- This 27-inch G-Sync monitor from Lenovo is on sale for $250 today
- Spelunky 2's first gameplay trailer shows off liquid physics and online multiplayer
- Acer’s detachable mixed reality headset is a more hygienic way to demo VR
- Acer’s new monitor makes 4K HDR gaming with G-Sync more affordable
- Sunless Skies overhauls combat in latest update
- Steel Division 2 trailer shows off new units and Eastern Front warzone
- Cyberpunk 2077 damage numbers can be turned off, 'a lot' of HUD settings optional
- Cyberpunk 2077 gameplay reveal was viewed by almost half a million people
- GTA Online adds HVY Menacer vehicle, extends adversary mode bonus
- August 28
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- Family Man is a morality tale about owing money to the mob
- Get board games without the boards in the Humble Digital Tabletop Bundle
- Destiny 2: Forsaken patch notes and post-launch plans revealed
- Earn D.Va sprays and an epic skin in the Overwatch Nano Cola Challenge
- Blue’s first mic since being acquired by Logitech is a miniature Yeti for streamers
- Starflight 3 aims for classic sci-fi storytelling in a new part of space
- Nvidia's 'Game Ready' 399.07 GPU driver package is optimized for the Battlefield V beta
- AMD's latest GPU driver aims to boost performance in Strange Brigade
- The Guardian finally speaks in the Destiny 2: Forsaken launch trailer
- From Software explains why it's working with Activision on Sekiro
- Elite: Dangerous free update adds new ships, weapons and space mysteries today
- Dota 2 International 2018 Battle Pass features to be extended for two weeks
- Onimusha is coming to PC in early 2019
- Fortnite's Shockwave Grenades let you launch players through structures
- Fallout 4 Project Valkyrie is a huge 20-quest mod that adds new game endings
- Cyberpunk 2077 dev says it 'started the process of optimization right at the start'
- EA cancels remaining Madden qualifiers following Jacksonville shooting
- AMD's senior VP of Computing and Graphics Jim Anderson has left the company
- August 27
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- PAX West organizers comment on security concerns following Jacksonville shooting
- Owlboy creator's Chrono Break mockup is a beautiful teaser for a sequel that will never exist
- Blizzard removes paid loot boxes from Overwatch and Heroes of the Storm in Belgium
- Get a Samsung 960 Evo 1TB NVMe solid state drive for $249
- Ray tracing benchmark built from the ground up is headed to 3DMark this fall
- AMD says Radeon Pro V340 is a dual-GPU ‘beast’ based on Vega
- The Witcher GOG sale discounts the action RPG series by up to 85 percent
- Remake of Resident Evil remake 'wouldn’t be laughable', says Capcom
- Streets of Rage 4 announced
- Videogames are an important 'access point' for classical music, says Royal Philharmonic Orchestra
- Half-Life 2 mod lets you stomp enemy heads like Super Mario
- Cyberpunk 2077 is now playable from start to finish, says game producer
- Skyrim doppelganger mod lets you follow and marry yourself
- August 26
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- Three killed, including shooter, at Madden esports tournament in Florida (Updated)
- Halo composer reveals the original recording session for Halo 2’s Mjolnir mix
- Soulcalibur 6 could be the last Soulcalibur
- Nihon Falcom confirms new Ys game in development
- This League of Legends skin only costs your blood
- Fortnite's mysterious cube is slowly moving across the map (Updated)
- The Blackout Club reveals first gameplay footage in new video
- Dota 2 championship ends in a pulse-pounding, curse-breaking Cinderella story
- Latest Brutal Doom update means mod is 'basically completed'
- August 25
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- There's an HD texture pack mod for Shenmue I & 2
- Open AI bots fall to human Dota 2 players at The International 2018
- Daybreak Games shutters H1Z1 survival game, Just Survive
- Square Enix is delisting RPG The Last Remnant on PC
- Here's everything we know about new Dota 2 heroes, Grimstroke and Mars
- Here's why Capcom has redesigned Ada Wong's look for Resident Evil 2 Remake
- Star Citizen is free to try this weekend
- Palmer Luckey believes he'll have a cure for VR motion sickness by the end of the year
- 3 dead in high-speed collision caused by CS:GO YouTuber McSkillet
- August 24
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- Play Low Mem Sky, a chill game inspired by No Man's Sky
- Fortnite competitive features are coming this fall
- Silent Hill 2 Enhanced Edition mod pack promises the 'definitive' version of the horror classic
- Epic: No one pooped in a bag while standing in line for Fortnite at Gamescom
- Samsung's already affordable 28-inch 4K Freesync monitor is on sale for $250
- AMD issues big price cuts to first-gen Threadripper processors
- Where to find the Dusty Divot battle stars in Fornite's weekly treasure hunt
- The first Call of Cthulhu gameplay trailer reveals investigation, perception, and madness
- Intel catches heat for CPU benchmarking clause, responds to complaints (Updated)
- Blizzard says 'no plans' to enable user-created Hearthstone puzzles, but it's a 'cool idea'
- GTA Online adds Declasse Scramjet and reworked Hunting Pack Adversary Mode
- Borderlands 2, System Shock 2, Gal Civ 3 going cheap in Fanatical's Sci-Fi Sale
- Wargroove is 'coming along at a really good pace', says Chucklefish
- Dark Souls 3 mod lets you storm Lothric as an OP Yhorm the Giant
- Fortnite now lets you thank the bus driver
- World of Goo creators release satirical puzzle game 7 Billion Humans
- August 23
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- New nerfs coming to Maverick, Zofia, Glaz in Rainbow Six Siege
- 932-episode Twitch Pokémon marathon comes with 'Badge Collector' extension
- Check out these custom-made Overwatch Nikes
- Call of Duty: Black Ops 4 PC trailer shows off 4K graphics and uncapped framerates
- Overwatch is free to play this weekend (starting from now)
- Battlerite developer details battle royale bonuses for existing owners
- You can now run Windows 95 inside Windows (or Linux or macOS)
- See upcoming Fortnite skins datamined from the 5.30 update
- Forza Horizon 4 will let you 'push to the extreme beyond Ultra' on PC
- NZXT's Hue 2 products aim to light up your desktop, inside and out
- Fortnite's Tomato Town replaced with an ancient temple dedicated to our beloved leader
- Destiny 2 'Last Stand of the Gunslinger' cinematic marks the end of Cayde-6
- For Honor starter edition goes free, draws over 225,000 concurrent players on Steam
- This PC has a built-in coffee maker
- Reigns: Game of Thrones brings 'swipe-to-rule' to Westeros
- PUBG welcomes return of point-accumulating Desert Knights event mode
- Cheaper RTX 2080 cards will arrive after the initial launch
- Check out this ridiculous liquid-cooled 64-core Epyc server
- PC Gamer UK October issue: Metro Exodus
- Black Ops 4's battle royale mode will have 'well-balanced' vehicles 'by land, sea and air'
- Fortnite rolls out portable Rift-To-Go and Score Royale LTM
- August 22
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- Trials Rising release date announced, closed beta coming in September
- Star Control: Origins trailer teases life as an interstellar bad guy
- Nvidia RTX demo shows seriously impressive reflections in Atomic Heart, BF5, and more
- Commands & Colors: Ancients brings Roman warfare to Steam by end of August
- Watch a guy get clobbered with two axes at once in the first Surge 2 gameplay trailer
- Nvidia is bringing ray tracing to GeForce Experience with improved Ansel support
- Nvidia's benchmarks claim the RTX 2080 will be 50% faster than GTX 1080
- PUBG's Training Mode will feature a shooting range, racetracks, parachute practice, and more
- Here come the full coverage water blocks for GeForce RTX graphics cards
- Nvidia is taking an enthusiast approach to its Founders Editions RTX graphics cards
- A new Overwatch animated short puts D.Va in the spotlight
- Cyberpunk 2077 shows off new batch of concept artwork
- The Division 2 will visit the White House, Air and Space Museum, Roosevelt Island
- The Division 2 could have been set in Seattle or New Orleans
- Punchy platformer Guacamelee 2 out now
- Metal Wolf Chaos XD timing is 'interesting' because 'a lot of people are fascinated by the president'
- No Assassin's Creed game in 2019, Ubisoft says
- Fortnite's next item is a pocket rift that teleports you skywards
- Blizzard has revealed Overwatch's next map, and it's coming to the PTR today
- Gabe Newell comes to Dota 2 in wonderfully deadpan voice pack
- Steam Play update opens up more games to Linux users
- Congressman indicted for misuse of campaign funds, including $1,500 for Steam games
- August 21
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- Monster Hunter: World mod lets you transmog your armor's appearance
- Many cryptocurrencies have lost 90 percent of their value since January
- Get Dead by Daylight and BioShock Remastered in the Humble Spooky Horror Bundle
- The Gardens Between, a tale of childhood friendship and time travel, comes out next month
- Watch Doom 3 running (hideously) on Windows 98 and a 12MB graphics card
- Assassin's Creed Odyssey cinematic showcases a world of Greek fantasy
- Mutant Year Zero: Road to Eden release date revealed in the day's weirdest trailer
- Samsung unveils 'affordable' 1440p curved monitors for fast action gameplay
- Hearthstone: The Boomsday Project's singleplayer Puzzle Lab is now live
- Grab a gaming chair for just $85 right now
- Here are the GeForce RTX graphics cards that are available to preorder right now
- HTC is bringing wireless VR to the Vive with a $299 adapter on September 24
- HyperX extends its Predator DDR4 memory kits to 128GB
- Battlefield 5 Companies and combat roles detailed in a new trailer
- Devil May Cry 5 arrives in March
- Fallout 76 flaunts 'New American Dream' in Gamescom trailer
- Sea of Thieves' Forsaken Shores update is coming in September
- State of Decay 2 Daybreak DLC arrives September 12
- BattleTech's first expansion, Flashpoint, coming in November
- PUBG will announce something new tomorrow—it could be a shooting range
- Cyberpunk 2077 drops handful of new screens
- How to watch Microsoft's Gamescom 2018 livestream
- Here's 14 minutes of Rage 2 gameplay footage
- Mount & Blade 2: Bannerlord trailer showcases singleplayer campaign
- Cyberpunk 2077 quests similar to The Witcher 3 'in terms of playtime and complexity'
- Ubisoft is making a new The Settlers game
- Shenmue 3 release date set
- Desperados 3 announced, led by Shadow Tactics developer Mimimi
- The Dark Pictures is a horror anthology series from the creators of Until Dawn
- Watch Rico chase a tornado and railgun a wind cannon in new Just Cause 4 video
- A Hat in Time to add co-op mode alongside DLC that's free for one day only
- Logitech's new flagship G Pro Wireless gaming mouse is an insanely light 80 grams
- August 20
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- Updated Skyrim mod Sinister Seven adds unique assassins that hunt you down
- Valve's new streaming website, Steam.tv, is officially live now
- Call of Duty: Black Ops 4 battle royale beta dates revealed (Updated)
- Bloodstained: Ritual of the Night has been delayed into 2019
- Valve launches streaming website Steam.tv (Updated)
- OpenAI's Dota 2 bot will play three rounds at The International 2018
- Twitch Prime ends ad-free viewing, Amazon Prime preorder discount reduced
- This Game of Thrones tabletop game is so big it needs 33 players
- Life is Strange 2 stars two brothers on a journey to Mexico, and a mysterious new power
- Spintires: Mudrunner, the ultra-niche off-road driving sim, is getting a sequel
- Underworld Ascendant Gamescom trailer nails down a November release
- 21 games will support Nvidia's real-time ray tracing, here are demos of Tomb Raider and Control
- Battlefield 5 open beta begins on September 6
- Here's how Battlefield 5 looks with Nvidia RTX effects
- Windjammers 2 is coming to PC next year
- Breach is an ambitious action-RPG from ex-BioWare devs, first trailer revealed
- Stalker-inspired battle royale Fear the Wolves Early Access release date set (Updated)
- Hitman 2 will include updated versions of Hitman Season 1's missions as DLC
- Watch today's Nvidia GeForce RTX 2080 announcement here
- Cliff Bleszinski will address Boss Key failures in new book
- Space Hulk: Tactics release date set, gameplay trailer teases explosive combat
- Portal: After Hours mod Episode 1 launched on Steam Workshop (Updated)
- Darkwood, Acid Wizard's brilliant horror game, is going cheap till later today
- Dying Light's Bad Blood battle royale offshoot to enter Early Access next month
- Space detective game 2000:1: A Space Felony is free to keep this week
- Prey's director says the final act was "too intense"
- The Pizza Delivery Boy Who Saved the World is a visual novel about pizza
- Shadow of the Tomb Raider trailer shows off its enemies
- August 19
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- Casting scripts for the Netflix Witcher show have leaked
- The Long Dark's final two episodes will hopefully arrive before the end of 2019
- Some of the greatest visual novel games on PC are discounted until tomorrow
- SSX and Resistance 3 are now playable on PC with RPCS3
- Rainbow Six Siege Operation Grim Sky gets full reveal at Paris Major
- They Are Billions adds giants, new difficulty mode
- Turn-based tactics RPG Fell Seal: Arbiter's Mark is out now
- August 18
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- Here's what Treyarch learned about the Call of Duty: Black Ops 4 beta test
- Chucklefish announces atmospheric story-driven puzzle platformer, Inmost
- Fishing Sim World reckons it's 'the most authentic fishing simulator ever made'
- Here's when we'll get to the end of Clementine's journey in The Walking Dead: The Final Season
- PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds' latest event 'mimics' its Early Access period
- The 10 best deals from Fanatical's summer sale
- August 17
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- Robot Cache early access signups are now open
- Bus Simulator 18 gets a free mission pack
- Space 4X Exodus: Proxima Centauri releases on Steam today
- The Predator Gaming After Party is coming to PAX West 2018
- Far Cry 5: Dead Living Zombies will shuffle out at the end of August
- Burden of Command is a tactical RPG that aims to capture the personal experiences of war
- A glitch in Twitch may have exposed streamers' private messages
- Nvidia’s outlook on cryptocurrency GPU sales is great news for gamers
- Microsoft says Halo: Infinite “is Halo 6”
- Co-op survival game Generation Zero gets a gameplay trailer
- Vampyr is getting a TV adaptation
- US judge blocks tools that help GTA Online players cheat
- Hitman 2 video shows Agent 47 killing a man with a fish
- Burnout Paradise Remastered launches on PC next week
- August 16
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- Boyfriend Dungeon's cast of lovable weapons adds a cat that turns into brass knuckles
- Adult game approval on Steam could still be months away
- Mad Machines looks like Rocket League with massive armored robots instead of cars
- Evolution: The Video Game delayed into 2019
- 'Garbage town builder' Flotsam mixes survival and city building in new trailer
- Here's exactly where Fortnite's stone heads are looking
- Roguelike FPS Polygod leaves Early Access tomorrow
- Turtle Beach is releasing three sub-$100 PC gaming headsets
- Surveillance state thriller Orwell is free until Saturday on the Humble Store
- Asus crams a 6-core CPU and GTX 1070 into an ultra-thin 144Hz gaming laptop
- Sniper Ghost Warrior Contracts drops open-world design in favor of 'tailor made' missions
- Intel teases its own discrete GPU ahead of Nvidia’s GeForce RTX 2080 launch
- Rainbow Six Siege's new blow torch operator revealed
- Hearthstone: The Boomsday Project's solo mode features more than 100 diabolical puzzles
- Razer upgrades its Mamba mouse with an optical sensor for smoother tracking
- Battlefield 5 trailer briefly teases the battle royale mode
- World of Goo dev’s new game launches next week
- Warhammer: Vermintide 2’s first DLC arrives this month
- GamesRadar teams up with Honor for GamesCom After Dark show
- Tropico 6 gets a jaunty GamesCom trailer
- Doom 2 mod Annie launches after 12 years in development
- Torchlight Frontiers dev diary reveals more info on the MMO sequel
- August 15
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- The MP5 returns to CS:GO
- This Patriot Memory Rage 2 128GB flash drive is just $36 for today only
- 81-year-old writes short story about his Destiny 2 LFG team after his first raid clear
- Steam may be getting tools that will enable Windows games to run in Linux
- Toronto could be getting an Overwatch League team
- The new 'What is Shenmue?' video teaches us about jiu-jitsu and duck racing
- Steam users are being hunted by Monster Hunter: World notifications
- Graveyard Keeper launch trailer showcases crafting, quests, and corpse disposal
- Techland CCO claims Dying Light 2’s choices will form the 'ultimate vision for the open world'
- Get an EVGA GeForce GTX 1080 Ti and 650W power supply for $649.99
- Overclocker cranks all 32 cores of AMD’s Threadripper 2990WX to nearly 6GHz
- Razer starts shipping hi-fi gaming speaker system with THX certification
- Here's how Doom Eternal’s extra lives work
- This PNY GTX 1080 is just $430 from Dell right now
- Latest Fortnite: Battle Royale update adds devastating heavy sniper rifle
- TimeSplitters and Second Sight are now owned by Koch Media, 'future products' in the works
- Assassin's Creed Odyssey will be 'much longer' than Origins, but should it be?
- China freezes all game license approvals
- Hi-Rez splits into three new studios
- New Strange Brigade trailer offers comprehensive gameplay overview
- August 14
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- Jagged Alliance: Rage! is a turn-based strategy game about old, broken mercs
- The No Man's Sky player using 3 billion units to become the galaxy's Santa Claus
- Patrick Stewart will narrate My Memory of Us, a game about children in the Holocaust
- Fortnite fans reckon its time rifts will close by the end of next week
- Rune, the game that lets you use severed limbs as weapons, begins beta testing this weekend
- Ninja defends his decision to avoid streaming with women
- Fallout 76 instructional film shows how to make friends and watch them die horribly
- Dishonored is 'resting,' Arkane lead designer says
- Grab a 960GB solid state drive for only $127
- Nvidia releases a hotfix GPU driver to correct stuttering and stability issues
- Cooler Master launches its largest all-in-one liquid CPU cooler to date
- EA’s Patrick Söderlund steps down
- Europa Universalis IV’s Dharma expansion gets a release date
- World of Warcraft’s new level cap has already been hit
- SEGA re-launches Yakuza 0 patch, after rolling it back
- Sumo Digital acquires TheChineseRoom
- Phantom Doctrine has multiplayer, here’s how it works
- Lenovo's VR headset is just $100 right now (Update: Back in stock)
- August 13
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- Rainbow Six Siege's first shield-carrying defender is a Scotland Yard officer named Clash
- Unofficial Monster Hunter: World fix addresses fullscreen crashes and CPU usage
- Destiny 2's Solstice of Heroes event is hiding a quest honoring Cayde-6
- The King's Bird is a lovely platformer that combines jumping and gliding in a secret world
- Insurgency is free until Wednesday, and you can keep it forever
- Fortnite's new heavy sniper is real and can one-shot metal walls
- The Black Ops 4 beta will be updated in September, so don't delete it
- SCUM, the survival game that tracks how many teeth you have, hits Early Access this month
- Acer's Nitro 5 laptop with a GeForce GTX 1050 Ti and 256GB SSD is on sale for $700
- Cooler Master and AMD team up on an easy-to-install air cooler for Threadripper
- This EVGA GTX 1080 SC with a 750W PSU is just $490 right now
- Monster Hunter: World removed from sale in China
- AMD's 32-core Ryzen Threadripper 2990WX CPU is now available
- Narrative platformer GRIS comes to PC later this year
- Massive Half-Life story mod Echoes retells the Black Mesa story from a new perspective
- Hacknet gets 'Educational' pricing plan to help teach students about cyber security
- New Total War: Three Kingdoms trailer debuts campaign map
- Forza Horizon 4 leak shows potential event inspired by Halo’s Silent Cartographer mission
- Play Rainbow Six Siege for free again this weekend
- The world of adventure game Rakuen will be the setting of a new animated series
- August 12
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- Former Dallas Fuel Overwatch pro xQc suspended again, might miss World Cup
- 2D sci-fi RPG CrossCode gets September 20 release date
- Free Ni no Kuni 2 DLC adds bosses and quests, out now
- The Elder Scrolls: Legends will only launch on consoles that support PC crossplay, Bethesda says
- Battlerite Royale is now a standalone game, launches in Early Access next month
- Bethesda may still release future games on Steam despite Fallout 76 avoiding the platform
- Pete Hines explains why Bethesda blocked resale of a sealed copy of The Evil Within 2
- Hugo Martin: Doom Eternal's destructible demon system makes such an impact 2016's Doom is now 'hard to play'
- August 11
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- The Elder Scrolls Online: Wolfhunter DLC out on Monday, Black Marsh expansion due later this year
- Fallout 76 will have a photo mode, complete with poses and fancy filters
- Hack-and-slash RPG Let It Die coming to PC this autumn
- Being an 'asshole' in Fallout 76 will earn you a bounty paid from your own caps
- Rage 2 won't support mods at launch, but may in the future
- Doom Eternal mod support is a 'long-term' target
- Bethesda blocks resale of unopened, second-hand The Evil Within 2 copy
- CaseLabs announces it has been 'forced into bankruptcy and liquidation'
- The Call of Duty: Black Ops 4 open beta starts Saturday unless you pre-ordered
- August 10
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- Watch the Fallout 76 panel and Q&A from QuakeCon
- Doom Eternal will have singleplayer DLC
- The Quiet Man will be a three-hour mix of live-action and gameplay
- A new Shenmue trailer introduces the heroes and villains of Yu Suzuki's jiu-jitsu revenge tale
- The Elder Scrolls: Legends' next expansion will feature the Daedric Prince of Madness
- Watch seven minutes of Rage 2 gameplay in an extended QuakeCon trailer
- How to follow Fortnite's Snobby Shores treasure map for easy battle stars
- Doom Eternal revealed at QuakeCon, and it looks great
- Where to find all 15 rift portal locations in Fortnite
- Adata is pushing SSD capacities, plans to add a 2TB model to its popular SU800 line
- This ASRock motherboard for small form factor gaming PCs is on sale for $80
- Doom Eternal will let you 'invade' another player's campaign
- Grab a 450 watt 80 Plus Bronze PSU for just $19.99 right now
- Intel keeps the GPU driver train rolling, latest one is optimized for Battle for Azeroth
- Researchers discover how blue light from displays accelerates blindness
- Quake Champions is now free to play for everyone
- The Resident Evil 2 remake is getting an official typewriter-themed keyboard
- Play The Elder Scrolls Online and its Morrowind expansion for free this weekend
- How Black Ops 4 aims to be 'best PC version of COD ever'
- Darkest Dungeon, Prison Architect, Figment are cheap in GOG's weekend sale
- It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia stars announce comedy show about game dev
- Battlefield 5 gets second closed alpha next week
- August 9
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- Germany lifts ban on swastikas in videogames
- Insurgency: Sandstorm release date revealed, 'preorder beta' test now underway
- Get an ASRock RX 580 for $220 with three free PC games
- Starpoint Gemini Warlords concludes with new Endpoint DLC
- Hunt: Showdown is free to play this weekend
- Monster Hunter: World smashes the record for biggest Japanese launch on Steam ever
- Take a look at Rainbow Six Siege’s reworked Hereford Base
- Overwatch Summer Games 2018 skins revealed
- Save $260 on Corsair’s Bulldog PC kit with a Core i7-7700K and 16GB RAM
- Lenovo spills the beans on AMD’s unreleased Ryzen 5 2500X and Ryzen 3 2300X CPUs
- The Fortnite Android beta test is live
- Fanatical Assistant browser extension tells you when its deals beat Steam's
- Acer wants a larger slice of the PC gaming pie, plans to spin off peripherals business
- Discord to start selling games, plans Steam-like universal game-launching tab
- Torchlight Frontiers brings a shared world to the series' existing universe, due 2019
- Shadow of the Tomb Raider lets you independently tweak puzzle, combat, traversal difficulty
- PES 2019 demo out now, ahead of full launch this month
- Telltale's The Walking Dead: The Final Season has a PC demo
- PUBG announces Dodgebomb event mode with frags, Molotovs, frying pans
- August 8
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- Fearing legal action, emulation hub EmuParadise is removing all of its ROMs
- Cookie Clicker is 5 years old today
- This year's Dota 2 short film contest saw some incredible entries at the last minute
- 60 Parsecs! is a space-age survival game from the maker of 60 Seconds!
- Deathgarden coming to Steam Early Access on August 14, free for the first week
- Asmodee Digital updates digital board game release dates: Pandemic, Munchkin, Gloom, and more
- Riot Games promises a 'zero tolerance policy' for sexism and discrimination
- This Ryzen desktop with a Radeon RX 570 graphics card is on sale for $550
- NZXT is building officially licensed themed cases like this Fallout Nuka Cola chassis
- Magic Leap's AR headset is finally available to buy, but it costs $2,295
- Save 15% off most eBay purchases today only
- Blizzard has 'multiple Diablo projects in the works'
- Dauntless adds The Coming Storm expansion to its open beta
- Bethesda's QuakeCon 2018 Steam sale has begun
- 'EA moral compass' gives dev teams guidance on loot boxes post-Battlefront 2
- Shadow of the Tomb Raider teases brutal stealth kills, deadly tombs, cave-swinging
- PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds announces 'Fix PUBG' campaign
- The DDoS attacks reported by the FCC last year didn't actually happen
- Runescape Classic's shutdown was delayed just so one player could finish his last quest
- August 7
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- Brandon 'Seagull' Larned retires from Overwatch League to return to full-time streaming
- Call of Duty: Black Ops 4 beta system requirements announced
- Destiny 2: Forsaken stream demos overhauled weapon loadouts, buffed melees, and more
- Intel's 660p series brings SATA pricing to faster NVMe SSDs
- Ubisoft shares first details of Operation Grim Sky, Rainbow Six Siege’s next season
- Grab a Radeon RX 580 8GB for $220, or $195 for Mastercard customers
- AMD’s 18.8.1 GPU driver is optimized for Monster Hunter: World and Battle for Azeroth
- AMD explains differences between its new Ryzen Threadripper 2 processors
- Electronic board game Dark Tower to return via Restoration Games
- Watch the Destiny 2: Forsaken combat reveal livestream here
- Easily harvest No Man's Sky's whispering eggs with this one weird trick discovered by a player
- GTA Online invites real-world DJ Dixon to Los Santos, adds new plane and music
- Yakuza 0 rolls back first PC patch as players continue to report crashes
- Dark Souls modder shines new light on Lordran
- Overcooked 2 launch trailer shows off familiar mess of kitchen mayhem
- Master Chief will be a lead character in Showtime's Halo TV series
- Git gud for a good cause with Speedsouls' Charity Marathon
- Fortnite update v5.20 rolls out double barrel shotgun and Steady Storm LTM
- August 6
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- The first part of the remastered Bard's Tale Trilogy debuts next week
- Spice up your No Man's Sky Next planets with this colorful mod
- The trailer for Bee Simulator is unexpectedly epic
- Evo 2018 ended with dramatic Street Fighter and a controversial Dragon Ball FighterZ finish
- Fallout 76 won't launch on Steam
- Fortnite's incoming double barrel shotgun sounds like a 'double pump' replacement
- Get a GTX 1080 for just $430 from Amazon
- Samsung is building new high-capacity SSDs to flood the market with 1TB+ drives
- This RX 580 is just $250 right now from Newegg, or $225 for Mastercard customers
- Frostpunk's free 'People and Automatons' update lets you name your suffering citizens
- Corsair's K70 LUX RGB mechanical keyboard is on sale for $110
- Gigabyte launches a gaming mouse with adjustable weights and 16,000 dpi sensor
- AMD’s 32-core Threadripper 2990WX is available to preorder for $1,800
- Superman actor Henry Cavill wants to play Geralt in Netflix's Witcher series
- Good review scores 'count as much as a game that sells millions' says Capcom
- Stardew Valley portrait overhaul mod reworks all character expressions
- Tekken 7 will add Negan from AMC's The Walking Dead
- Surviving Mars adds creative mode, announces 'hardcore survivalist' update
- Football Manager 2019 release date set, includes German league for first time
- Small is beautiful: The rise of the pocket gaming PC
- 2K/4K texture pack for the Mass Effect trilogy updated with hundreds of new textures
- August 5
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- Chris Roberts responds to Star Citizen 'pay-to-win' concerns after removal of in-game currency cap
- Watch OpenAI's Dota 2 bots square off against five top players live on Twitch today
- Gridiron Reinhardt is the second Overwatch Summer Games legendary skin
- FIFA 19 is getting a 'survival' mode, where you lose a player every time you score
- Blizzard invites 'aspiring pros' to compete in Overwatch's Open Division
- NHL 19 could come to PC 'if there is enough demand', says creative director
- There's an official Fallout recipe book on the way
- Get multiplayer brawler Knight Club for free
- August 4
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- Dead Cells gets a slick animated trailer in advance of leaving Early Access
- Post-launch updates for We Happy Few detailed, including DLC
- Fortnite's guided missiles turn faster at higher framerates, apparently
- The Walking Dead's Story Builder lets you re-make all your tough decisions before Final Season
- Flash Sales are returning to Steam, according to a report
- Riot Games to add 'experimental modes' to League of Legends, starting with quick-fire Nexus Blitz
- Five months after its woeful PC port, Chrono Trigger receives its final patch
- Alter Army, the game made by two 16-year-olds, has a new trailer and release date
- Here's the first legendary skin from next week's Overwatch Summer Games event
- August 3
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- Riot Games says it's working on more than just League of Legends, possibly including an MMO
- Add 3TB of storage to your system for only $65
- The Russian Subway Dogs launch trailer features real dogs talking about videogames
- Doom Eternal gameplay reveal coming next week
- Choose Rise of the Tomb Raider or Sniper Elite 4 in the new Humble Monthly Bundle
- Save $160 on Vertagear's Triigger 275 ergonomic gaming chair
- This Dell 22-inch IPS monitor is just $110 on Newegg
- Purported AMD Ryzen Threadripper 2000 series packaging is big and bold
- AMD built a powerful semi-custom Ryzen-Vega SoC for game consoles and PCs
- There’s going to be a $200 Super Star Destroyer 'miniature' that is bigger than my head
- GTA Online's latest Red Dead Redemption 2 trial nets players $250k of in-game cash
- Tekken 7, Street Fighter 5, BlazBlue: Cross Tag Battle free to try on Steam
- Dragon Quest 11 trailer shows off cast of typically whimsical characters
- PUBG players learn to ride smoke grenades off cliffs without taking damage
- Capcom plans to 'explore' more remakes following Resident Evil 2
- Murderous Pursuits is free to try this weekend
- Destiny 2 'combat reveal' teaser hints at changes coming in Forsaken
- EA and other major publishers are gearing up for Netflix-like game streaming subscriptions
- Colin Kaepernick's name was removed from a song lyric on the Madden 19 soundtrack (Updated)
- Ninja becomes the first Twitch streamer to reach 10 million followers
- August 2
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- New Arkham Horror edition coming, A Game of Thrones: The Board Game getting a Daenerys expansion
- Fallout 4 mod lets you worship statues of Todd Howard
- Absolver is free to play for the weekend on Steam
- The Steam Board Games Weekend Sale is live
- Yakuza 6: The Song of Life may be coming to PC
- Board game juggernaut Gloomhaven is getting a videogame adaptation
- BioWare boss Casey Hudson talks about Anthem's shared-world storytelling
- How to solve Fortnite's 'gas station, soccer pitch, and stunt mountain' challenge
- Overwatch League announces new teams in Atlanta and Guangzhou
- Ninja is streaming Fortnite (and other games) from Lollapalooza
- Magic: The Gathering's creator has a new card game in which every deck is unique
- Star Wars miniatures games X-Wing, Legion go to the Clone Wars in 2019
- BenQ’s 32-inch 1440p FreeSync 2 HDR monitor will be available August 7 for $700
- Grab an overclocked MSI Radeon RX 580 Armor 8GB graphics card for $230
- Grip, the Rollcage-inspired combat racing game, rolls out on November 6
- No Man's Sky modder aims to improve NEXT update with suite of projects
- Oh look, MSI just confirmed 9th gen CPUs that Intel has not yet announced
- Nvidia releases GPU driver optimized for World of Warcraft: Battle for Azeroth
- Endless Space 2 and Endless Legend tease new expansion footage, announce free weekend
- Life is Strange 2 reveals new teaser trailer
- Cyberpunk 2077 ends trailer breakdown series with fast cars and fancy clothes
- Yoku's Island Express gets a free demo
- PUBG unveils 'Sanhok Forty-Fivers' event mode, fixes bullet penetration
- A quashed World of Warcraft bug was deleting players' entire quest logs
- EVE Online had its biggest battle ever last week and now an even bigger one is happening [updated]
- Death's Gambit is a lush 2D fantasy RPG releasing this month
- August 1
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- Vega+ retro game console loses Sinclair and ZX Spectrum brand licenses
- Hypergun is a neon roguelite FPS with weird weapons and petty office politics
- Arma 3 free update adds a new ship, SAMs, and small-diameter bombs
- This EVGA GTX 1080 is just $460 right now
- Fans think Nomad from Ghost Recon Wildlands could be the next Rainbow Six Siege operator
- No Man's Sky player offers 200 million unit reward for finding a specific ship
- Get a Dell Inspiron desktop with a Core i7-8700 and GeForce GTX 1070 for $1,090
- Hackers infiltrated Reddit and pillaged user data from 2007 and earlier
- Pimax admits the obvious, GTX 1070 can’t take full advantage of 8K VR headset
- NZXT buys Forge and expands reach into gameplay capture and sharing
- Artifact, Valve's fantasy card game, will be out in November
- Sunless Sea 'Tales of the Grave-Garden' expansion mod adds stories, ships, guns
- Origin’s 3.4-pound EON15-S gaming laptop packs a Core i9 hexacore CPU inside
- Yakuza 0 PC launch trailer is typically weird and wonderful
- Darksiders 3 trailer shows environmental puzzles with fire magic and bomb bugs
- PUBG adds bullet penetration system and new dynamic weather
- Lords of the Fallen 2 is a 'reset' and a 'fresh start', says its new developer
- Pixel Ripped 1989, the VR game-within-a-game, is out now
- The Long Dark gets its third story episode this December
