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- September 30
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- EverQuest Next devs tease a world of choice and consequence
- Hearthstone production director hints at 100-card expansion news "very soon"
- Alien: Isolation trailer warns that danger lurks in unexpected places
- Microsoft announces Windows 10, coming in 2015
- Steelseries refresh Siberia headphones with new v3 and redesigned Elite Prism
- Zelda fans are making a 2D version of Ocarina of Time for PC
- World of Tanks rolls out 'Tank Rally' racing mode
- Pathologic remake hits Kickstarter target
- Metrocide video shows top-down cyberpunk assassin at work
- Battlefield 4's massive 'Fall' patch now live
- The Evil Within gets trap-happy with latest trailer
- Interactive Cave Shooting Simulator brings (part of) Destiny to PC
- September 29
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- F.E.A.R. Online open beta precedes full launch on Steam in October
- Garden Warfare 'Legends of the Lawn' arrives tomorrow
- X Rebirth 3.0 and Teladi Outpost expansion coming in December
- Dragon Age: Inquisition gameplay stream shows off character creation
- Square Enix moves into MOBAs with Lord of Vermillion Arena
- Middle-Earth: Shadow of Mordor trailer details DLC
- Online crafting RPG Trove enters closed beta
- Cosmochoria: a space gardening shooter hitting Early Access today
- Substream offers rhythmic, looped space aerial combat; is now on Kickstarter
- FIFA 15 bans Luis Suarez, just like in real life
- Battlefield Hardline is "gonna work" at launch
- Payday 2's Hotline Miami DLC detailed
- Windows 9 will be free to Windows 8 owners, according to report
- Assassin's Creed Rogue for PC very likely, according to new evidence
- September 28
- September 27
- September 26
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- Middle-Earth: Shadow of Mordor trailer recaps what you need to know
- TUG studio lays off half its workforce after funding deal goes sour
- Assassin's Creed Unity trailer shows gear, co-op
- Age of Wonders 3 will raise dead with next expansion
- Far Cry 4 trailer re-introduces Pagan Min
- Vane trailer divines the weather in an open world desert near you
- Prison Architect Alpha 25 adds prisoner reputations, "legendary" crims
- Cities: Skylines trailer details differing approaches to city construction
- The Flock closed alpha is on the way, applications now being taken
- Wildstar devs pledge to release less buggy content drops
- Arma 3 will get two new helicopters this November
- September 25
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- The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt trailer examines modes of transportation
- World of Warcraft patch will enable the resurrection of deleted characters
- OlliOlli 2: Welcome to Olliwood announced, not yet confirmed for PC
- Crusader Kings 2: A Game of Thrones mod update improves life on the Wall
- The Evil Within system requirements calls for some serious hardware
- Ryse: Son of Rome won't have microtransactions on PC
- 4th Annual Saxxy Award voting begins
- Tickets for the BlizzCon Hearthstone qualifier in NYC are free
- QuakeCon's 20th anniversary coming in July
- Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare will be longer than previous games
- Trine and Trine 2 editors released into public beta
- S.W.A.P is a first-person arena shooter without any guns
- Watch Dogs' Bad Blood DLC is now available to season pass holders
- Bernband is a first-person exploration game set in a pixellated alien city
- Steam Music exits beta, will officially roll out with new client update
- Trials Fusion 'Welcome to the Abyss' DLC pack to release next month
- Deus Ex 3 was in planning stages at Ion Storm before closure
- September 24
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- Hearthstone EU Regionals underway, and full of upsets
- Titan cancellation may have cost Blizzard more than $50 million
- Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare trailer reveals "Exo Survival" multiplayer mode
- Oculus VR co-founder says major publishers are doing "serious work" in VR
- League of Legends North American Collegiate Championship revs up for 2014-15 season
- Saints Row: Gat Out of Hell trailer features angry armchair
- World of Warcraft: Warlords of Draenor system requirements released
- Titanfall: IMC Rising out tomorrow, new trailer out today
- Guild Wars 2 week-long free trial starts tomorrow
- Dota 2 'Rekindling Soul' update ushers in sweeping changes
- Razer DeathAdder Chroma mouse boasts better optical performance, more colours
- Sandbox survival sim The Long Dark hits Early Access
- League of Legends to block toxic players from joining ranked queues
- Triad Wars will be free-to-play and asynchronous
- September 23
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- League of Legends Worlds 2014 - Singapore group stage breakdown
- Rising Storm gets free Armored Assault content update
- Black Hat Oculus takes asymmetrical co-op to virtual reality
- A newbie plays Dwarf Fortress: Ep. 11
- Watch System Shock developers play and talk about the seminal game
- Roundabout is out and this launch trailer is crazy
- Blizzard's MMO Titan canceled after seven years in development
- Reflex bunny-hops onto Kickstarter, seeks funding for arena FPS action
- Autocraft enters early access, is filled with physics based construction challenges
- Big Pharma announced, is a pharmaceutical management sim
- We've got a Steam Curator page; follow us for great game recommendations
- Triad Wars is an "open world action strategy" game coming exclusively to PC
- Titanfall 'Sand Trap' will dig deadly trenches through IMC Rising pack
- Steam has over 100 million active accounts, added 1,300 new games in the past nine months
- Big changes to Steam: 'Discovery Update' adds curators, recommendations, and hides unpopular new releases
- Ubisoft explains why Watch Dogs is a lot like the first Assassin's Creed
- September 22
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- Corsair K70 RGB keyboard debuts with per-key backlighting for $170
- Devs react to Spacebase DF-9 release: "Early Access is not an 'alternative' development approach"
- Tropico 3 is free on Humble Bundle, but only today
- Oculus Crescent Bay interview: Nate Mitchell on prototype tech and VR presence
- EA supports White House anti-sexual harassment initiative
- Rudy Giuliani defends Call of Duty against lawsuit from former Panama dictator
- Kickstarter updates its terms of use to address failed projects
- Assassin's Creed Unity season pass trailer unveils standalone China-set sidescroller
- Farming Simulator 15 release date set for late October
- Toxikk trailer tries to take arena shooters back to the old-school
- Dark Souls 2: Crown of the Ivory King DLC delayed to next week
- Tim Schafer explains Spacebase DF-9's unexpected v1.0 release
- GTA V for PC may feature new first-person mode
- Should I defragment my hard drive? — Ask PC Gamer
- Sleeping Dogs follow-up Triad Wars is a PC only online game
- Battleborn gameplay video shows colourful cooperative campaign and lots of shooting
- September 21
- September 20
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- Oculus Rift 'Crescent Bay' prototype unveiled, a "massive leap" over DK2
- Watch Oculus Connect livestreams here all Saturday [it's over!]
- The Best Free Games of the Week
- Metal Gear Solid V features a wolf wearing an eyepatch
- StarCraft 2 tournament Red Bull Battlegrounds gets its grand final today
- Ryse: Son of Rome PC gameplay video — max settings at 2560x1440 on LPC
- September 19
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- The week's highs and lows in PC gaming
- Battlefield 4 Fall Patch is "right around the corner"
- Hearthstone Ranked Play graph illustrates the difficulty of becoming a Legend
- Pathologic stretch goals tease a trip to the "Termitary and Abattoir"
- Elite: Dangerous beta 2 goes live at the end of the month, original Elite is free right now
- The PC Gamer Show episode 6: Due Process, Oculus Rift DK2, and a fond farewell
- Clang, Neal Stephenson's swordfighting simulator, is officially dead
- Outland announced for PC, will be on Steam later this month
- We're giving away five thousand Steam keys for Dawn of War: Master Collection
- Battlefield Hardline's Hotwire mode is like Need for Speed with rocket launchers
- Crusader Kings 2 has sold one million copies
- Gratuitous Space Battles 2 trailer proves that intergalactic destruction can be beautiful
- Nvidia's Dynamic Super Resolution is downsampling made easy
- Nvidia GTX 980 tested: SLI, 4K, and single-GPU benchmarks and impressions
- Nvidia announces GTX 980 and GTX 970 "Maxwell" graphics cards for $550 and $329: here are their new features
- Heat Signature gains music and art direction, draws closer to becoming a game
- Nvidia's Game24 livestream event is live, tune in here
- Why Halo: Master Chief Collection isn't coming to PC (for now)
- Shadow of Mordor interview: lore, exploration and keeping up appearances
- September 18
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- Road Redemption roars out onto Steam Early Access
- Hellraid developers show off 20 minutes of monster murder in new gameplay video
- Minecraft composer releases 0x10c tracks, muses on Notch's departure from Mojang
- A newbie plays Dwarf Fortress: Ep. 10
- World of Warcraft expansions expected to arrive more quickly in the future, Blizzard says
- Grimoire FPS studio responds to Grimoire: Heralds of the Winged Exemplar trademark dispute
- Final Fantasy XIII confirmed for PC, releasing next month
- Blitzkrieg 3 announced, due out early next year
- Borderlands: The Pre-Sequel exhaustively explained in nine-minute trailer
- Spacebase DF-9 to leave Early Access next month, future content development halted
- The Crew trailer shows more social features, overuses the word crew
- League of Legends Worlds 2014 trailer is a dramatic way to launch a tournament
- Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain to release in 2015
- Metal Gear Collection 2014 isn't coming to PC, because it's a fashion line
- DoomZ brings DayZ survival to the Doom engine
- Torment: Tides of Numenera gets three minute pre-alpha gameplay video
- League of Legends Worlds 2014 - Taiwan group stage breakdown
- Someone has recreated Gone Home as a Counter-Strike map
- September 17
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- The Elder Scrolls Online update 4 welcomes you to the Dragonstar Arena
- Torment: Tides of Numenera gets a new website and stretch goal
- Final Fantasy IV makes a very quiet appearance on Steam
- Assassin's Creed Rogue may be coming to PC, producer says
- Legend of Grimrock 2 preorder trailer reveals October launch date
- Microsoft reveal 'wired' Xbox One Controller for PC
- Alien: Isolation's Survivor mode detailed, trailered
- Firefall patch 1.1 now live, brings new weapons, elemental damage
- The Evil Within trailer features classical music, long walks
- Quake Live joins Steam this week, watch the launch trailer here
- Minecraft mod CivCraft goes standalone as Praxis
- September 16
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- Bejeweled 3 is Origin's latest On the House freebie
- League of Legends Champion Spotlight shines on Azir, the Emperor of the Sands
- FIFA 15 Ultimate Team loses trade offers as EA continues to combat cheating
- Game24 promises new game reveals, exclusive interviews, major prizes and more
- A newbie plays Dwarf Fortress: Ep. 9
- Assassin's Creed Unity co-op gameplay trailer demonstrates the importance of teamwork
- Rust creator applauds Mojang sale to Microsoft, says he'd do the same thing
- ESL's Intel Extreme Masters e-sports tournament comes to San Jose stadium this December
- World of Warcraft to reclaim old character names
- Borderlands patch adds Steamworks support, reinstates multiplayer after Gamespy's shutdown
- Receiver available for free from Humble until 6PM BST
- Left 4 Dead 2 patch grants Australians access to uncensored version
- Far Cry 4 video proves you should not mess with elephants
- Saints Row creative director Steve Jaros leaves Volition for Valve
- Rockstar cites need for "extra polish" for Grand Theft Auto 5 PC delay
- September 15
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- Hearthstone hits 20 million players in just six months
- Doom made to run on Canon printer to demonstrate wireless security flaw
- Divinity: Original Sin update adds two new companions and a "big coat of polish"
- Microsoft buys Mojang – PC Gamer reacts
- Piranha Games speaks out on Transverse crowdfunding and the future of Mechwarrior Online
- Twitch chat bot plagues Steam users with wallet-emptying malware
- Elite: Dangerous release price revealed
- Notch statement on leaving Mojang: "I'm not a CEO. I'm a nerdy computer programmer who likes to have opinions on Twitter."
- Mojang confirm sale to Microsoft for $2.5 billion, Notch and other founders to leave
- KeeperRL is a Dungeon Keeper inspired building sim and roguelike
- Skywind trailer shows Morrowind's Bitter Coast get a Skyrim makeover
- Diablo 3 pets will be slightly buffed to reflect player statistics
- Someone has made Donkey Kong Country in the Doom engine, watch it in action here
- Titanfall 'Zone 18' map will bring dangerous rooftop skirmishes to IMC Rising
- Assassin's Creed: The Americas Collection will release for PC in Europe and Australia, but not in North America
- NVIDIA's GAME24: a Celebration of PC gaming - livestream coming September 18th
- September 14
- September 13
- September 12
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- League of Legends mass texture update brings new hotness to old champions
- Breach and Clear: Deadline preview: realism is out, zombies are in
- Magicka 2 karaoke trailer sings along to wanton wizard violence
- Star Citizen's Arena Commander module gets its biggest update yet
- Elite: Dangerous creator says crowdfunding covered less than one-quarter of its total cost
- League of Legends mass texture update brings new hotness to old champions
- GTA 5 trailer shows the stranger side of Los Santos
- GTA 5 PC release date announced, new features revealed
- Larian Studios founder writes about Divinity: Original Sin's success, what comes next
- The Crew trailer shows what you can do with your crew
- Garry's Mod has sold 6 million copies
- Minimum exits Early Access to become feature complete game; new update detailed
- Time's up for Leeroy Jenkins as Blizzard finally nerf him and Starving Buzzard
- How to run Clive Barker's Undying on Windows 7/8
- September 11
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- Arma 3 celebrates one-year anniversary with Zeus livestream and free stuff
- Dying Light launch is going to happen sooner than expected
- Don't Starve Together closed beta applications are now being taken
- A newbie plays Dwarf Fortress: Ep. 8
- Fable Anniversary will support modding with included Unreal Engine 3 editor
- Styx: Master of Shadows trailer reveals devilish "attack of the clone"
- Uncanny Valley is a creepy 2D horror game, has a demo out right now
- Payday 2: Hotline Miami DLC announced
- Kojima teases Metal Gear Collection 2014, here's why I think it's coming to PC
- Resident Evil Revelations 2 will be an episodic release; first trailer revealed
- Australia, win a copy of The Sims 4 Collector's Edition
- Oculus Rift consumer model reported to be releasing in 'beta' next summer
- Alien: Isolation has gone gold, so here are the system requirements
- September 10
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- Atari looks to reboot more classic games in the future
- Mechwarrior Online rights returned to Piranha Games, "more efficient development" promised
- League of Legends event introduces new Ascension mode and desert map
- Notch approached Microsoft about rumored Mojang buyout, says Bloomberg
- Assassin's Creed Unity "Heist" trailer shows off co-op gameplay in the tunnels of the Hôtel-Dieu
- FIFA 15 demo out now, teaches you bizarre celebrations
- Endless Legend to leave early access next week
- Bundle Stars' new bundle offers all FEAR games for cheap
- LA Cops gameplay video — Early Access impressions
- Guild Wars 2's September Feature Pack now live, draws criticism from community
- Double Fine's Hack 'n' Slash leaves early access, makes source code available
- PC owners more likely to wait for price drops before purchasing, according to NPD
- Microsoft reportedly in talks to buy Minecraft studio Mojang
- September 9
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- Humble Indie Bundle 12 offers something special for indie fans with deep pockets
- Mechwarrior Online studio announces Transverse, a persistent, player-driven sci-fi MMO
- Diablo 3 patch 2.1 emphasizes speeding through content, and that's a good thing
- Giveaway: Enter to win an ASUS ROG GL551 gaming laptop
- A newbie plays Dwarf Fortress: Ep. 7
- Gabriel Knight: Sins of the Fathers 20th Anniversary Edition launches in October, preorders open now
- DuoScreen wants to give your laptop monitor a sidekick
- Battlefield 4: Final Stand DLC promises a chilly trip to Russia
- Show Us Your Rig: Minecraft creator Markus "Notch" Persson
- The Sims 4 gay filter will be fixed quickly, EA promises
- Ultraworld is a surreal and beautiful first-person exploration adventure
- Alien: Isolation trailer reveals what happens when you don't escape
- DayZ's producer addresses community concerns about the game's development
- Noct is a top-down survival horror game, now on Kickstarter
- Battlefield 4 anti-cheating measures detailed
- Starbound studio announces Wayward Tide, a co-op puzzle game about pirates
- Spec Ops: The Line lead narrative designer leaves 2K Games
- September 8
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- Warlock: Master of the Arcane is (briefly) free during the Humble Store End of Summer Sale
- Resident Evil 5, Dead Rising 2 dropping Games for Windows Live in favor of Steamworks
- The best CS:GO tips I've received from angry teammates
- Divinity: Original Sin studio says it wouldn't "be correct" to crowdfund its next game
- Sims 4 developer warns there won't be a Sims 5 if this one doesn't sell
- Metro 2033 Redux video: max settings at 2560x1440 on LPC
- Warner Bros. Interactive may be readying its own Steam-like platform called WB Play
- Batman: Arkham Knight release date pushed to June 2015
- GOG celebrates its sixth birthday with cheap games
- Titanfall's IMC Rising DLC will let you fight across a hidden bootlegging colony
- ESPN boss claims e-sports are "not a sport"
- Dark Souls completed with a Rock Band guitar
- Elite: Dangerous newsletter details upcoming exploration systems
- The Sims 4 looks like the perfect home for Seinfeld and friends
- September 7
- September 6
- September 5
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- Project Cars announces North American release date and preorder bonuses
- The PC Gamer Show episode 5: PAX Prime 2014
- Camelot Unchained falls behind schedule, alpha test delayed into 2015
- The Binding of Isaac: Rebirth arrives in November, new trailer arrives now
- Team Fortress 2 poster mistaken for US propaganda on Russian state television
- Giveaway: Grab your beta key for new RTS Etherium (Update: all gone!)
- GTA 4's #WatchDogsIV mod is absurd
- Firewatch livestream reveals twenty-odd wonderful minutes of first-person mystery
- Spacebase DF-9 update adds angry citizens, lets you lock them in the brig
- League of Legends is rebooting its lore
- Dawn of War 2 drops Games for Windows Live
- Unreal Engine 4 now free for academic use
- Fable Anniversary farting its way to Steam next week
- BlizzCon 2014 Virtual Ticket provides full online streaming access, for a price
- Blizzard's Robin Williams tribute spotted in World of Warcraft: Warlords of Draenor beta
- September 4
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- This weird Sims 4 cheat lets you build toilets the size of houses
- Oculus Rift co-founder says consumer release is expected to stay under $400
- The Book of Unwritten Tales 2 hits Steam Early Access with a new gameplay trailer
- Altitude, the 2D multiplayer aerial combat game, goes free on Steam
- A newbie plays Dwarf Fortress: Ep. 6
- Nvidia announces Game24, a 24-hour PC gaming convention you can livestream
- Sims 4 "mosaic bug" turns out to be surprise anti-piracy measure
- Brutal Doom video makes a mess of the walls and ceilings
- Wasteland 2 trailer details character creation, battle options, robots
- Total War: Rome II – Emperor Edition releases later this month, is free to all Rome 2 owners
- Styx: Master of Shadows trailer reveals October release for the gobliny stealth game
- Starbound dev blog outlines what's left to include for version 1.0
- Ryse PC release date and system requirements revealed
- Pathologic remake infects Kickstarter
- Steam Client Beta update brings better AMD support to in-home streaming
- The Evil Within release date brought forward in Europe
- Avernum 2: Crystal Souls announced
- Stronghold Crusader 2 will feature the Sultana, the game's first female opponent
- Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare video details new multiplayer features
- Watch Dogs: Bad Blood DLC tells the story of T-Bone
- September 3
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- Dragon Age: Inquisition "romance guide" spills the beans on love in a land of demons
- Ancient Space developers reveal September release date and new gameplay video
- Galak-Z gameplay video — PAX Prime 2014 demo with Jake Kazdal
- Sega blames Gearbox for misleading Aliens: Colonial Marines marketing in new legal filing
- Civilization: Beyond Earth gameplay — our impressions after 100 turns
- Hearthstone hacked by Google's anti-hacking chief, but he won't release it
- The Sims 4 gameplay video — the PC Gamer team moves in together, pees a lot
- The Elder Scrolls Online studio Zenimax Online hit with layoffs
- Hearthstone Help: Nine great post-Naxxramas decks
- Dreamfall Chapters trailer suggests cityscapes, decisions and nap time in Book One
- Sponsored: Get paid to play Steam games with Playfire
- Saints Row IV gets first stage of SDK, makes it easier to design/import weapons
- Swordy trailer reveals a "physics brawler" featuring gigantic, unwieldy blades
- World of Diving is a multiplayer underwater exploration game, now in Early Access
- ArcheAge releasing 16th September, open beta tomorrow
- PayDay 2 Gage Assault Pack encourages you to barge in and kill everything
- September 2
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- City of Heroes "spiritual successor" could become an official resurrection
- A newbie plays Dwarf Fortress: Ep. 5
- PAX Prime 2014 hyperlapse — see the whole show in three minutes
- Mojang's Scrolls will add offline trading in update, full release coming this fall
- The Stomping Land can no longer be purchased from Steam
- Gigantic hands-on: an interesting deviation from the MOBA formula
- Star Trek Online reunites the Voyager crew for Delta Rising expansion
- The Sims 4 launch day patch fixes babies, Death, and the "Big Hat of Shame"
- Obsidian's free-to-play tank game Armored Warfare shown off in new video
- Wargame: Red Dragon gets free DLC, adds "full-length story campaign" set in the early 90s
- Minecraft 'Bountiful' update adds bunnies, mutton and underwater dungeons
- Titanfall's Titan-free Pilot Skirmish mode goes live today
- Maia 0.44 update reworks research, adds medical treatment and ugly molerat thing
- Over 1300 devs, pubs and critics sign open letter condemning "hateful, harassing speech"
- Left 4 Dead 2 is now legal in Australia in its full, uncensored glory
- Gratuitous Space Battles 2 gameplay debut shows pre-alpha battle effects
- September 1
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- Saints Row 4 developer says Anita Sarkeesian "is right" in latest Tropes vs. Women in Videogames
- Borderlands: The Pre-Sequel season pass and preorder bonus revealed
- Assassin's Creed Unity writer talks about "Paris Stories" side quests in new devblog
- Grand Theft Auto V for PC has not been canceled, Rockstar says
- Team17's sheepish puzzle game Flockers releasing 19th September
- Facepunch announces Arcade, a very different kind of arcade game
- Reprisal Universe releases later this month, trailer shows pixelated Populous
- The Behemoth's fourth game is a turn-based co-op tactical adventure
- Mighty No. 9 is now in beta, Comcept celebrate with excitable new trailer
- Galactic Civilizations 3 can support a 100 faction game
- Resident Evil Revelations 2 announced; first trailer for remastered Resi 1
- Civilization: Beyond Earth trailer proves that krakens and polite society don't mix
- You can now hack CCTV cameras in Grand Theft Auto IV, thanks to this Watch Dogs mod
- Alone in the Dark: Illumination will feature cooperative multiplayer; teaser trailer released
- Mortal Kombat X PAX gameplay is ten minutes of unrelenting violence
