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February 28
- Why people are furious about that Hunt Down The Freeman game on Steam
- Is Empires of the Undergrowth a worthy successor to SimAnt?
- Great puzzles in PC gaming
- 6 essential tips for Into the Breach
- How to get the best framerate in Rainbow Six Siege
- Brigitte abilities list: here's everything Overwatch's new hybrid support/tank can do.
- The Predator After Party returns to PAX East 2018!
- How I lost my mind on the last day of Hearthstone ladder
- FTL-like sea adventure Abandon Ship shows great potential
- The Blackout Club is a Stranger Things-like co-op horror game from ex-BioShock devs
- Hands on with Auto Royale, H1Z1's chaotic new cars-only battle royale mode
- Battlefield 1's new River Somme map has the best trenches in the game
- Warhammer: Vermintide 2 is tense, dramatic, and frustratingly hard
- The most evil choices you can make in PC gaming
February 27
- Beat Saber is a VR rhythm game that's basically Lightsaber Hero
- Hearthstone's Year of the Raven getting in-game tournaments, Ice Block sent to Hall of Fame
- Final Fantasy 15 developers discuss mods and the game's journey to PC
February 26
- The best game recording software
- Solving a short, sweet snapshot of tragic puzzler Photographs
- Phoenix Point's deep combat and massive crab monsters make it a worthy XCOM alternative
- Octahedron is a neon nightclub that wants to kill you
- Forgotton Anne is a gorgeous offbeat adventure where a talking scarf threatens you with a shovel
February 24
- Do you usually make yourself in character creators, or someone else?
- At the Overwatch Collegiate Championship young players dream of making big money as pros
February 23
- This week's highs and lows in PC gaming
- How I made Into the Breach's soundtrack
- Legendary Gary is two RPGs in one, and I want more of both
- Tala is a gorgeous 2D mix of nature and animation
- The best stories in PC gaming
- What game studios might Microsoft actually buy?
- What the fallout of a cryptocurrency collapse might mean for graphics cards
- I'm keeping the Winter Olympics alive by playing 1985 sports classic Winter Games
- Raising a digital child the PC Gamer way in The Sims 4
- Avernum and Thimbleweed Park are finding homes for hints in modern games
February 22
- How I accidentally lost my virginity in Kingdom Come: Deliverance
- Arc System Works talk fighting games on PC, and why none of their male fighters have nipples
- Learning how to slice, dice and perfectly sear a bull in Battle Chef Brigade
- We tried to destroy Corsair's spill-resistant keyboard with Doritos and soda
- Watch us play Into the Breach, the subversive strategy game from the makers of FTL
February 21
- How Divinity: Original Sin 2 surprised me with a deadly twist 100 hours in
- How Return to Lordran reinvigorated Dark Souls' online community
- The Shanghai Dragons didn't win a single match in Overwatch League stage one—here's why
- My relationship in Kingdom Come is built on a lie, and I feel like garbage
- 4 underrated PC accessories that are highly useful
February 20
- The Walking Simulator a Month Club pushes the boundaries of a sometimes narrow genre
- Kingdom Come: Deliverance Easter eggs reference The Witcher, Wolverine, and more
- Conan Exiles' director talks Early Access development, the future of the survival genre and dong sliders
- The new Discovery mode turns Assassin's Creed Origins into an interactive history lesson
February 19
- The significance of Subnautica's cascading failures
- Bolster your PUBG experience with jaw-dropping 4K visuals
- The dumbest armour in PC gaming history
- Kingdom Come: Deliverance stole my boots, and I'm on a violent mission to get them back
- Growing Ooblets, the gorgeous farm battler
February 18
- What is Vcore and how can I use it to lower my CPU temperatures?
- Rainbow Six Siege's zombie mode is weird, fun, and surprisingly big
- Watch the PC Gamer Weekender 2018 livestream here
February 17
- Everything you need to know about Rainbow Six Siege's next two operators
- What's the meanest thing you've done in a game?
February 16
- This week's highs and lows in PC gaming
- Becoming a human cannonball in sandbox platformer Meanders
- The Ballad Singer's story promises 40 endings and 1,700 unique paths
- Why Digital Extremes is finally reworking Warframe's level progression
- Inside the GTA 5 mod that brings San Andreas gang warfare to modern day Los Santos
- Two players co-operate to solve linked escape rooms in We Were Here Too
February 15
- Path of Exile's next update is basically Pokémon and I love it
- The weirdest glitches and bugs we've seen in Kingdom Come: Deliverance
- The latency problem: why modern gaming PCs are slower than an Apple II
- Our highest review scores of 2017
- It's refreshing to play an unimportant dork in Kingdom Come: Deliverance
- Battalion 1944's lead on its troubled launch, plans for the future, and the color gray
- Kingdom Come: Deliverance may be the new heir to the Crysis throne
February 14
- CS:GO pros reveal crucial tips to improving your game
- Scarlett's StarCraft triumph is already one of 2018's best moments
- Deep Rock Galactic's Left 4 Dead-like mining adventures make it the ideal Early Access game
- 5 ways to spice up your Dark Souls PvP life
- PC Gamer UK Podcast 60: It's all chicken off
February 13
- What it's like to kill a game
- Stormworks: Build and Rescue's free beta is a sim sandbox of heroics (plus a bit of horror)
- The complete schedule of developer stage talks and reveals at this week's PC Gamer Weekender
- Sea of Thieves' kraken and endgame explained, and Rare's post-launch plans
- Rare reveals if the 8 things we want from Sea of Thieves will be there at launch
- How to get rich quick in Kingdom Come: Deliverance
- Kingdom Come: Deliverance review in progress
- 13 things I wish I knew before playing Kingdom Come: Deliverance
- What The Red Strings Club teaches us about conversation
February 12
- The return of Dr Disrespect and the struggle for 'authenticity'
- Watch the amazing Widowmaker plays that shaped the Overwatch League stage one finals
- Subnautica map coordinates and exploration tips
- Three exciting RPGs to check out at the PC Gamer Weekender in 5 days
- Trying to make the grade in the challenging boss arenas of Cuphead
- Welcome to Wynncraft, a full-fat Minecraft MMO mod
February 11
- Everything you need to know about Into the Breach, the next game from the developers of FTL
- The Valentine's Day gift guide for PC gamers
- Learn to build and overclock rigs with ASUS/Republic of Gamers and Tom Logan at the PC Gamer Weekender
February 10
- When was the exact moment you fell out of love with a game?
- 10 great things to do at the PCG Weekender, plus last weekend to save 20% on tickets
- If you have high ping, you can pay a subscription fee to lower it
February 9
- How game sizes got so huge, and why they'll get even bigger
- Battalion 1944 plays like a shooter born in 2005
- This week's highs and lows in PC gaming
- Genesis Noir is a stark romp through the entire universe
- Using giant robot fists to punch giant robots in McRogue
- Subnautica's hands-off approach to storytelling is brilliant
- How Pure Farming 2018 taught me to respect rice and strange machinery
- Downhill biking game Descenders could be the heir to Skate's throne
- Enter here for a chance to win a Hunt: Showdown alpha key
- PUBG gamers & streamers go to battle for glory live on Twitch
- Fez is still a stunning puzzle platformer with one of the best soundtracks in games
- This '4D' mouse has a joystick, but that doesn't make it good
February 8
- This PUBG streamer is only eating chicken this month, but first he has to win it
- I love this commercial fishing simulator, and not just because it has a fish-gutting minigame
- Join PC Gamer Club for a chance at a Hunt: Showdown key
- Come to the Play a Pro event to meet HayliNic and win Alienware giveaways
- My life as the grandma guildmaster of Ultima Online Forever
- Betrayal, rebellion, and too many Vikings in Total War Saga: Thrones of Britannia
- PC Gamer UK March issue: Pillars of Eternity 2 Deadfire
- Join the PC Gamer Club and get exclusive Rising Storm 2: Vietnam items
- Last chance to see the UK’s finest esports players at the Omen by HP Bootcamp
- Crash Force: a hovercraft arena shooter
- World of Warcraft's new level-scaling is fun, but only if you love nostalgia
February 7
- Witchball is Pong reinterpreted as a sci-fi racing game
- We looked for a great Monster Truck game on PC, but found these instead
- Why is Civilization 5 still more popular than Civilization 6?
- What it's like to finish both Divinity: Original Sin games with a friend
February 6
- The Gollop Chamber: Rise of the roguelike deck builder
- 6 things Bungie could do for Destiny 2 to bring players back right now
- What it's like being an Overwatch League pro
- Dragon Ball FighterZ 5K gallery
- This Early Access FPS mixes Mount & Blade with modern combat, plus a bit of RTS
- Get an exclusive Elite Dangerous ship skin when you join the PC Gamer Club
- Fortnite makes it hard to play a silent assassin, but we tried anyway
- Warhammer: Vermintide 2 gets Overwatch-style supers and RPG elements
- 4 awesome next-gen gaming laptops worth owning
- How it feels to get destroyed by RNG on Hearthstone's biggest stage
- We want your questions for the Final Fantasy XV developers at the PCG Weekender
- Watch Pillars of Eternity 2: Deadfire's ship combat in action
- Enjin Coin and the Future of Gaming
- 3 major things look for in a gaming laptop
February 5
- How to buy a graphics card without getting ripped off
- One Hour One Life gives you 60 minutes to advance civilization and raise children
- Age of Empires stands the test of time
- Build of the week: a PUBG diorama that can run PUBG
- Bots are threatening EVE Online's economy and players are fed up
- Play all these new and upcoming games at the PC Gamer Weekender
- Play the team-based competitive survival game Rend at the PC Gamer Weekender
- What can I use to remotely access my PC?
February 3
- Here's everything you get as part of joining the PC Gamer Club
- Which demo did you play to death?
- Here's what a late-game colony looks like in Surviving Mars
February 2
- This week's highs and lows in PC gaming
- Battalion 1944's Early Access launch brings quick kills and long waits
- The best low-stakes RPG quests
- Poker is a deadly weapon in this turn-based RPG
- In Genderwrecked's post-apocalypse, the only options are talk, fight, and kiss
- Even if he sucks, Doomfist is fun to watch in Overwatch League
February 1
- The strange satisfaction of loot box simulators
- How Skyrim Special Edition works (and doesn't) with your existing saved games and mods
- Four games to play while we wait for Monster Hunter: World on PC
- How to build an efficient cryptocurrency mining PC (if you insist)
- Endless Space 2 is cruising along nicely after the Vaulters expansion and post-launch updates
- Thrones of Britannia makes significant changes to the Total War formula
- The only thing scarier than Hunt: Showdown’s monsters is its optimization