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- September 30
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- Henry conquers Kuttenberg
- Bryan from the Resident Evil movie has been modded into Resident Evil 2
- I want to hang out in Deadlock's New York so bad, man
- 'Xbox is not for sale,' CEO Asha Sharma says
- Peaches revives her breakthrough hit song for Hellraiser: Revival
- To celebrate September 30, the day the cop inside of Leon Kennedy died, here's my most traumatic encounters in Resident Evil
- I have saved GTA 5 from death and also added tornadoes
- Thanks Logitech, your new AI-fueled game clipping software makes me look trash at Counter-Strike, but I'mma keep it installed
- I've identified the least probable Goku on Nexus Mods and it only took 5 hours
- Holy hell—Deadlock's new map looks absolutely beautiful
- I spent an unreasonable amount of time testing whether Logitech's Superstrike analogue clicks actually make me react quicker
- Which Deadlock hero are you voting for first?
- No Law might be the open-world Deus Ex that Cyberpunk 2077 wasn't
- I have a reaction time 10x faster than pro gamers. Don't believe me? The Human Benchmark just told me
- Amazon's $25 self-propelling speakers gave me the giggles as they tried to walk off the edge of my desk, and that's almost worth the price of entry alone
- Big Walk Elden Ring mod is real
- September 29
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- Making our favorite FPS modes 1v1 to decide the greatest of them all
- This Star Wars Zero Company user review is wild
- The weird experience of liking a game before it's 'fixed'
- An Ace Combat dogfight is the world's coolest form of physics problem
- I'm starting my Baldur's Gate 3 Dark Urge run (again)
- CD Projekt urges Witcher 3 Remastered owners to update their drivers
- Why so many Steam games have weirdly similar (and forgettable) names
- My GTA 5 install has a death wish but I have soothed it with flossing
- How every major character in Dostoevsky's Crime and Punishment would fare if they had to survive the plot of Halo 1
- An ode to the loveable, horrible, wonderful Counter-Strike community and my first tournament experience
- Shogun 2 Complete Edition is remaking all cinematics in traditional Japanese woodblock style
- 31% of you go full goth and keep your RGB lighting turned off, while a mere 7% drench your rigs in unicorn vomit
- A frog named Touch Me
- This neat WoW AddOn lets you jot down notes about kind strangers
- Stop trying to make a console war out of which WoW is better, you're all exhausting
- Do you guys like videogames
- Which of the Witcher School armor sets is your favorite?🐺
- More weird asymmetrical co-op moments
- September 28
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- Bodied
- My guy in Runescape Dragonwilds is so ready for a nap
- Just happy The Witcher 3's back in the news
- I have broken GTA 5 by installing so many mods that the game only launches in windowed mode now
- 3 reasons to install a VPN on your gaming laptop before traveling
- Embark should've implemented a PvE mode into Arc Raiders a long time ago
- A love letter to the Guitar Hero X-Plorer Controller
- 3 Warhammer 40,000 sickos share their strongest held beliefs—and you can vote on them
- I just think it's neat
- Steam Week in Review: Great, haystack slop is a thing now
- Thief hype at maximum
- Make the Steam Deck 2 a Steam PSP
- September 27
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- Kibble & Locust Pizza
- I'm loving WoW: Forever, but I can't help but miss the music of my other beloved MMO
- William Pugh, co-designer of The Stanley Parable, has over 1,600 hours in Dota 2: 'It's not a game made of love. It's a game fuelled by hate and a desire to conquer'
- Lords of the End Times' greatest fantasy is letting us rewrite the most hated lore in Warhammer's history
- Steam stays winning, but why
- What's in Steam's global top sellers this week?
- Portrait mode
- September 26
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- Bloodborne.
- I saw the future and it literally stinks
- Skyrim's main quest is better than most of its sidequests
- What's the weirdest thing that happened to you in a tabletop RPG?
- The Elder Scrolls Online's devs are pushing through hard times after layoffs and delays: 'We didn't want to rush to just hit a date'
- After Warcraft 3's first new campaign in 23 years, let's normalize releasing new DLC for ancient RTS games
- Dressmaker is a serious seamstress sim with a lot of love stitched into the finer details
- The cure for missing old electronics
- Konami had the best booth at TGS 2 years in a row
- A running tally of the most ridiculous things AI bigwigs have said so far
- September 25
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- I did the math on my Wardogs XP grind, and now I wish I hadn't
- I think I have to play this game about running a pizza shop as a front for the mafia because I once lived near a pizza shop that I swear was a front for the mafia
- My first MMO character #8: Mollie Taylor
- Looks like Bungie wants to make runners fight a Gundam
- My first MMO character #8: Jessica Kinghorn
- I don't think current-day Bethesda has another good Dark Brotherhood questline in 'em
- For Warhorse's 15th birthday, we chatted with its co-founder about the demand for 'grown-up' RPGs, AI, why games are too cheap, and his role in the collapse of communism
- Kali Audio’s HP-1 brings real studio sound to a pair of headphones you can use every day
- I made the hot dog vendors in GTA 5 work because Rockstar never did
- 5 Nvidia-powered laptops to help you study hard and play hard
- Dragon Shelter has dragons on trampolines, animals on playground equipment trend
- My first MMO character #7: Andrea Shearon
- I made two $50 gaming keyboards fight for my average-gamer affections, and for me there's one clear winner
- You can properly test talents in the WoW: Forever beta, now
- War Thunder's Sky Odyssey update brings overhauled Bombers, a new map, and a whistle-stop tour of new military machines.
- Could the PC Gamer team survive Silent Hill: Townfall?
- My first MMO character #6: Jacob Ridley
- This chill procgen driving game has a very clever UI feature
- 14 days in Dragon Shelter: A play by play of my first season in the Stardew-style farm sim where dragons help bake pies
- September 24
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- Hooked on the brothers
- Cool demo alert: be a cyberpunk shopkeeper in Probably Stolen
- 8 strong Elder Scrolls opinions: With over 2,500 combined hours (and not all as stealth archers), we shout at each other about Skyrim, Morrowind, and Oblivion
- Thief 2 Remastered should be Thief 2 Gold
- My first MMO character #5: Fraser Brown
- After mainlining 30 hours of 1440p Bloodborne, I know in my heart it belongs on PC
- Arc Raiders population stats micropost
- PC Gamer's Hyperfeed beta is live
- I love modders
- The Video Game History Foundation is scanning Japanese magazines now
- My greatest GTA 5 challenge yet: Random teleports every 50 seconds
- I cannot believe this obscure MMO from my childhood is still going 23 years later
- To celebrate Silent Hill: Townfall's release I ranked all my coworkers based on whether I think they could actually survive the horrors of St Amelia
- Survival game buildings, Part 1
- Discord is not my friend
- There are 39* Stardew Valley-shaped farm sims that are still planning to launch in 2026 and I have 234 hours** of gaming time remaining.
- My first MMO character #4: Lincoln Carpenter
- My failed Steam Frame teardown... and iFixit's successful one
- Join me in meditating on clubbing a WoW scorpion
- The timeless power of Shiv
- WoW: Forever has a secret snake druid form
- My first MMO character #3: Steve Haines
- Micropost: I use my ring finger for right mouse button. Am I okay?
- The Industrial Revolution is the reason RPGs have area-of-effect spells: A PC Gamer Causality Chain™
- September 23
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- Halo needed to change, but Activision faces a huge challenge to fix it
- My first MMO character #2: Joshua Wolens
- I apologize in advance for this, but: Introducing Drillposting
- Shoot the tires, please
- Sometimes it's fun to hit a scorpion with a club for 38 seconds
- I put UFO sightings in Grand Theft Auto 5, though it didn't quite go to plan
- The scariest part of Silent Hill: Townfall? It's not the monsters—it's British interior design
- Razer Chroma Soma lighting
- Sorry early adopters, Logitech is releasing an improved Superstrike making the original all but obsolete just months after launch
- My first MMO character #1: Harvey Randall
- Wistful about Myst VI
- One chair for every posture: why the Boulies EP600 is built for people who don't sit still
- Valve offers CS2 players eggs
- Console rumour time #235
- Leon Kennedy is Zach Cregger's choice of bodyguard: 'I would just bear hug myself around him'
- Waiter, there's some Path of Exile in my Total War: Warhammer 3 DLC
- A tribute to PC Gamer's first MMO characters—may they never be forgotten
- It's me, I am the whale
- PC Gaming Show Toyko Direct 2026 picks
- Everything I'd do differently in Cregger's Resident Evil film
- I have fallen to my own hubris
- Micropost: 'This is crazytown' reaction to our worst graphical effect poll
- Esports tournaments do it better in person
- Where can Australians buy R18+ PC games without a credit card? Pretty much everywhere but Steam
- September 22
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- 'Guardians make their own fate.' Destiny 2 players and creators celebrate following Bungie's shock U-turn, as the studio admits: 'Your voices mattered'
- I modded Crazy Taxi into Grand Theft Auto 5
- What the hell are you guys doing?
- Why Blizzard vet Rob Pardo is going all-in on Arkheron, the PvP dungeon crawler that's like dark-fantasy Backrooms: 'It's very much been an odyssey'
- What's on PC Gamer's desk?
- Ranking Resident Evil villains based on whether I think I could change them
- Steam profiles are beautiful 2000s-era relics
- Beyond Good and Evil was never worth 20 years of angst
- I'm calling for an end to smooth-faced dystopias
- I ❤️ tornado games
- What's your 'back on my bullshit' videogame?
- Every game is about Goku eventually
- My favorite Space Warlord Baby Trading Sim events
- You ever notice how much more crouch walking you do in games than real life
- Slork in spirit, if not in name
- Cairn DLC
- Wolverine blinking is upsetting me
- I can't wait to play a Kodan in GW3 concept art
- I ordered the wrong Steam Frame 😔
- More games should look like Abyss x Zero
- Wookiepedia still feels like home
- Trying to pick the perfect autumn game paralysis
- WoW: Forever will live and die by the valley
- Just another Tuesday
- Desktops are meant to be messy
- I still can't believe we call them 'MOBAs'
- Sure, Windows: 'Remind me in three days'
- Where I'm at
- Best cozy games list update september 2026
- We're thinking about X-Men videogames wrong
- Gottem
- I can't be the only one
- I made a 'to play' shelf for myself on Steam
- Battlefield Baby
- How about that StarCraft trailer, eh
- September 21
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- Bungie unvaulting Destiny 2 content was a studio-saving emergency decision, because Marathon updates were never going to be enough
- 'All roads lead back to Arma'
- Giant. Robot. Survival. Game.
- Wait, how did Lego beat Minecraft to making a city builder?
- GTA 5 has true air travel now thanks to the mod I just installed, but they won't let me give me my pals piggybacks onto the plane
- Alright WoW: Forever gamers, are we team HD models or team old school models?
- Resident Evil is the best videogame movie because Bryan sucks
- WoW: Forever mentally broke me with a boulder
- Full unicorn vomit, or stealthed-out mean machine? I want to know how much RGB festoons your gaming PC, please and thank you
- Steam Week in Review: This indie publisher released 29 terrible-looking Steam games in a single day—will they make any money?
- September 20
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- In Falsus is a delightfully unforgiving rhythm game, though its best tracks are locked behind an unimpressive story
- Mark Darrah, co-director of Dragon Age: Origins, has played Riven for 3 minutes and Factorio for 832 hours: 'If you want to know what kind of programmer someone would be, have them play Factorio'
- Endless Legend 2 shows that Amplitude is still the master of faction design
- The latest co-op indie game to take over the internet is like one of my favourite board games, just with bombs
- September 19
- September 18
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- The Resident Evil film should be more concerned with understanding the roots of its survival horror than adhering to strict lore accuracy
- I have modded the most exciting thing possible into GTA 5: Hard and soft credit checks and realistic personal finance
- Control Resonant is one of the best-looking games at low graphics settings I've ever seen
- After 894 hours in Slay the Spire 2, these are our 12 strongest opinions
- Don't bother turning Control Resonant up to the maximum for mind-bending graphics, there's both performance and beauty in the lower graphics presets too
- September 17
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- September 14
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- The Steam Frame launches during one of the slowest periods for VR on Steam, but Valve hopes to 'rekindle the excitement' for PCVR
- Forget GTA 6, I have brought GTA 5 closer to being the true greatest game of all time: Hulk – Ultimate Destruction
- 5 reasons WARDOGS isn't your typical FPS
- Sombra's change to Support is the right move, but I fear some Overwatch players may take time to adjust
- Overwatch's newest hero is yet another example of how Team 4 is on a generational run
- Thief designer Randy Smith Evergreen refused to work for Xbox because it would be like 'walking past some stakes with human skulls on them' and pretending 'it's probably fine in this direction'
- September 13
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- Discussing 20 years of Company of Heroes with the team carrying its torch into the future
- My favourite soundtrack of 2026 so far is tucked in one of this year's biggest sleeper hits
- I've got a soft spot for cozy games with flying in them and these are my 4 favorites
- After more than 400 hours of Valheim in early access, I love the journey from naked adventurer to godly Viking now more than ever
- Ashly Burch, voice of Horizon's Aloy and star of Mythic Quest, is currently obsessed with Slay the Spire 2 and thinks videogames have too many stoic characters: 'I want more sh*tty little b*tches'
- As an OG Crazy Taxi lover, its new remake might just not be crazy enough
- September 12
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- GTA: London 1961 is full of cockney innuendo and harder than a bobby’s helmet
- Final Fantasy 14's funky new roguelike mode has me hyped for Evercold's combat revamp, which'll be a winner if it's even half as weird
- The Blood of Dawnwalker is a good game, but one change would make it a great RPG
- Starfinder: Afterlight, a CRPG based on one of my favourite systems that pulled in almost $1 million on Kickstarter, is starting to look ship-shape
- September 11
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- September 9
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- ASUS ROG gaming laptops show a computer is more than its components
- Logitech G's keyboards help you play to win
- How to throw a LAN party in 2026
- How NordVPN keeps your real identity hidden in multiplayer spaces
- Challenges and giveaways accomplished: recapping OP's latest showdowns against top streamers
- September 8
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- Thousand Hells is a 'tactical narrative' feast of infernal storytelling, but its defeats can feel brutal
- Final Fantasy 14: Dawntrail's final story patch is exactly what the game needed, and has the 4-month wait for Evercold suddenly feeling a whole lot longer
- 5 reasons students can replace two laptops with one Alienware 15
- September 7
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- September 5
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- Onimusha: Way of the Sword starts off slow, but stick with it: You'll be rewarded with some of the best action combat of the decade
- Confession time: Alright, come clean—how tidy are your bags in your MMOs?
- Half of France's premier FPS sibling duo just put out the most exhilarating parkour game I've ever played, and it's only $8
- Gaming monitors are one of the only good things about PC hardware right now, but one niche feature is underloved
- September's schedule of new games, events, and updates refuses to let 2026 go down in history as a slow year for new releases
- September 4
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- I have filled GTA 5 with realistic Los Angeles snow
- Silent Hill: Townfall is the most Scottish game I've ever played and the most effective horror game I've seen in ages: 'It made sense for us to dig deep into our upbringings, into our past, and try and build a place that felt believable'
- In a sea of failed live service games, I'm shocked to see someone trying to make a MOBA
- Age Twisters is a simple yet charming spin on the co-op adventure that aims to feel like watching a Pixar movie
- DLSS 5 is called 'DLSS Neural Rendering' in the NBA 2K27 graphics options, and I think I smell a rebrand of Nvidia's controversial graphics tech
- Petit Planet's delightfully cosy galactic take on Animal Crossing is the closest we'll ever get to the life sim on PC
- I've found DLSS 5 can slash frame rates by up to 73% on an RTX 5080 gaming PC in NBA 2K27, and I'm wondering what kind of mega-rig would justify the performance hit
- September 3
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- DLSS 5 can be jammed into almost any game now, so I've been playing FM26 with neural rendered little computer people because that's just what I do
- The bizarre spirit of classic Elder Scrolls games is alive and well in little lo-fi RPG A Short Quest
- I installed a mod that adds building interiors to GTA 5, at the low cost of deleting most of the map's exterior
- If you’re a 4X player, BioEden is the cosy genre subversion that lets you atone for all your warmongering - here’s your beginner’s guide
- PUBG's new spin-off game is 'faster, meaner, and more aggressive' with sword hands and 'a little bit of light cannibalism'
- Guild Wars 3's approach to combat and movement is like nothing I've ever seen in an MMO before: 'One of our big goals when we make a new game in the Guild Wars franchise is to set out and try new things'
- Alien: Isolation 2's Gamescom demo kept its cards close to its chest, but I'm definitely ready to be terrified again
- September 2
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- The Blood of Dawnwalker - best settings to tweak
- I've spent over 80 hours in The Blood of Dawnwalker—here are my top 20 quick tips to survive Vale Sangora
- I modded GTA 6 leak-accurate car fuelling into GTA 5
- The Expanse: Osiris Reborn turns the best Mass Effect mission into an entire game
- I've been worried Persona is succumbing to saminess, but Persona 4 Revival feels just as good as its predecessor did 16 years ago
- After playing a bit of Lego Skylines, it seems like a city builder for people who care less about traffic jams and more about decorating
- September 1
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- 5 top tips from World of Warcraft housing creators for making amazing masterworks
- August was a milestone month if you love watching robots completely eat it
- I modded a GTA 6-like 'wanted system' into GTA 5
- Okay, I wasn't expecting 'Rainbow Six XCOM' to be one of my favourite Gamescom demos
- Worried about Onimusha's difficulty after the demo? I have the death count to prove the full game's got teeth
- Afterworld, Paradox's post-apocalyptic grand strategy game, let me conquer Florida with a band of alcoholic mutant cannibals
- I've spent four months testing control pads in Counter-Strike and I've finally settled on my fave
- Nvidia snuck me into a room to show off DLSS 5 in person, and it's somehow beautiful, ugly, impressive, and troubling all at the same time
- Nekome: Nazi Hunter is about gleefully butchering fascists in Germany and America, but its devs swear it's not political
- Which Superloop NBN plan is best for gamers? Here’s what to consider when selecting the right speed for your gaming needs
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