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May 31
- Assassin's Creed: Odyssey confirmed, full reveal coming at E3 (Updated)
- Warhammer: Vermintide 2 gets mod support, daily quests, and more hats
- The Elder Scrolls: Legends has a new developer, client update in the works
- Conquer a robot dystopia in cute card battler Insane Robots
- Upcoming free Frostpunk updates include endless and survival modes
- Get a Dell desktop with a Core i5-8400 and GeForce GTX 1080 for $1,080
- Zotac's GeForce GTX 1080 Mini is on sale for $500
- This 480GB NVMe solid state drive is on sale for $140
- Spiderweb Software's first-ever Kickstarter is already a big success
- Roccat is building its own mechanical key switches now
- Nvidia is scheduled to discuss its next-gen GeForce GPUs on August 20
- Several AMD Radeon RX Vega cards are widely available again
- XCOM 2 mods bring The Phantom Pain to the turn-based alien invasion
- PC Gamer UK July issue: Call of Duty Black Ops 4
- Elite Dangerous: Beyond—Chapter Two release date set
- PUBG overhauls throwables, adds anti-cheat tech on test servers
- Battle Princess Madelyn, the game co-created by a 7-year-old, has a new trailer
- Sonic the Hedgehog is getting a movie starring James Marsden
- You know you want this mod that lets you ride giant ducks and chickens in Skyrim
- How would you like a 512GB RAM module in a future PC?
May 30
- Team Sonic Racing, a co-op driven kart racer, has a reveal trailer
- Microsoft denies Crackdown 3 delay
- Black-and-white 2D action game Unworthy is out now and worth your time
- Atone is a lovely-looking puzzle game inspired by Norse mythology
- Fallout 76 rumored to be an online survival game
- Fractured Lands is a Mad Max-style battle royale set to begin testing in June
- Get a 500GB Samsung 860 Evo SSD for $30 off, or with a free Google Home Mini
- Samsung cranks out industry’s first 32GB DDR4 modules for gaming laptops
- HP’s upgraded Omen 15 laptop highlights a bevy of new gaming products
- Dying Light launches last of 10 free content drops
- Bethesda unveils Fallout 76, more to come at E3
- Space Hulk: Tactics echoes tabletop Warhammer and XCOM-style warfare
- Fortnite adds rideable shopping carts, reactivates self-refund feature
- GTA 5 mod brings Thanos to San Andreas with devastating results
- Get a refurbished HP Mixed Reality headset for just $149 right now
- Sega Mega Drive & Genesis Classics now has VR and multiplayer support
May 29
- Re-Legion's first trailer showcases cyber-religious RTS gameplay
- Active Shooter and its developer have been removed from Steam
- Door Kickers: Action Squad is like a two-player 2D Rainbow Six Siege
- The Humble Arma 2018 Bundle is live
- World War 3 promises large-scale modern combat and battle royale later this year
- Shared-world survival game Memories of Mars coming to Steam next week
- Dell's new G3 15 gaming laptop with a GTX 1050 is just $669
- Sea of Thieves: The Hungering Deep teases a new terror from the blackest depths
- Seagate's 2TB FireCuda solid state hard drive is on sale for $80
- Delightful shopkeeping action RPG Moonlighter is out today
- Asus takes its RGB game to the next level with a standalone LED controller
- Cooler Master’s latest mid-tower case keeps it glassy with a touch of mesh
- Mega Man 11 gameplay trailer reveals October release date
- Acer is launching a decked-out desktop replacement laptop for AMD fans
- GTA Online Dispatch Services missions let you 'infiltrate holding cells'
- Bethesda is teasing something Fallout-related
- Fortnite's first unlikely vehicle is 'coming soon'
- GTA Online teases star-studded techno summer soundtrack
- PUBG Corp has filed a lawsuit against Epic Games
- Battlefield 5 minimum system requirements revealed
May 28
- Watch Trevor from GTA5 run around in a Bloodborne prototype map found in Dark Souls Remastered
- ESA president defends loot boxes, warns against government regulation
- Hellish horror game Agony will be slightly toned down, 'uncensored' patch plan dropped
- Blizzard wants to add six more Overwatch League teams
- EVE Online's PvE expansion Into the Abyss due today, here's a video detailing all the new features
- Long-awaited VR stealth game Budget Cuts to release this Thursday
- This Pillars of Eternity 2 mod ramps up the difficulty by tweaking level scaling
- Battlefield 5 design director says playable female characters will put him on 'right side of history'
- New Star Citizen ship pack unlocks nearly every vessel in the game for $27,000
- Buy the Deus Ex games for cheap today, including Human Revolution for $3/£2
May 27
- Kingdom Come: Deliverance unveils DLC roadmap, three new stories due this year
- This sadistic mod makes Dark Souls even harder through a series of debuffs
- Fallout 4 conversion mod Fallout: Cascadia unveils impressive teaser trailer
- Driving horror game Beware now has a playable demo that looks terrifying
- PUBG developer admits it has 'fallen short' on performance improvements
- Cult classic Killer7 is coming to PC later this year
May 26
- The 8-bit spin-off of Bloodstained: Ritual of the Night is out now
- New World War Z trailer shows Moscow overrun by zombies
- Surviving Mars to add new space domes and long-awaited tutorial on Monday
- Guns of Icarus Alliance and Galactic Civilizations 2 are free on Steam right now, and you get to keep them
- Play Overwatch for free this weekend
- Fortnite's temporary jetpack mode disabled after less than an hour, then reinstated
May 25
- Federal charges brought against three men involved in deadly Kansas swatting
- The Wolf Among Us season 2 delayed until 2019
- The Sinking City cinematic teases a 1920s world of shadows and insanity
- Electronic Arts says 'female playable characters are here to stay'
- Report says cryptocurrency demand drove annual graphics card shipments up 66 percent, optimistic about availability
- Get an Asus GeForce GTX 1080 Ti graphics card for a crazy cheap $568 while it lasts
- PC Gamer UK Podcast 65: ...It's been a long week
- The murder-mystery hacking sim Hacknet is free for 24 hours on the Humble Store
- Mirage: Arcane Warfare is being removed from Steam due to GDPR regulations
- Asus is releasing a 27-inch 4K 144Hz HDR monitor with G-Sync in June for $2,000
- Get Batman: Arkham Origins, Mad Max and Injustice for $10 this weekend
- The Sims 4 reveals Seasons expansion, release date set
- First F1 2018 gameplay video goes for a spin in Monaco
- Fortnite is getting a new 'Playground' mode with respawns and llamas
- Game critic TotalBiscuit dies at age 33
May 24
- Apple rejects Steam Link app for iOS
- Far Cry 5: Hours of Darkness is set for early June
- The Dauntless open beta has begun
- School shooting game Active Shooter appears on Steam, draws widespread condemnation
- ZOTAC's GTX 1070 Ti Mini is $449.99 for today only
- Get an AMD Ryzen 7 1700X CPU and MSI X370 Gaming Plus motherboard for $300
- Mothergunship demo teaches the finer points of gun-crafting
- AMD’s Radeon 18.5.1 driver adds support for Ryzen APUs and 4K Netflix streaming
- Pornhub just launched a VPN service for mobile and desktop
- The Steam Spring Sale is live
- Pillars of Eternity 2: Deadfire free Rum Runner's Pack out now
- Nvidia releases GPU drivers optimized for The Crew 2 and State of Decay 2
- This Grand Theft Auto 3 mod brings Game Boy Advance GTA to PC
- PUBG apologises for lack of transparency on gunshot audio changes
- This early Dark Souls: Remastered cut content is creepy as hell
- Age of Wonders: Planetfall features busy battlefields, space dwarves and mod support
- We Happy Few studio addresses the game's ban in Australia
- Sunset Overdrive is coming to PC, according to the Korean rating board
May 23
- Battlefield 5 will not have loot boxes, but will have paid cosmetics
- Runescape Classic is closing
- Tim Schafer: 'I don't think I've made my best game yet'
- EVGA's X299 FTW motherboard is just $170 for today only
- Battlefield 5 release date set for October, watch the first trailer here
- Battlefield 5 will have no Premium Pass, all maps will be free
- Battlefield 5 will include a 4-player co-op mode
- Prime Mover is a new puzzle game about building circuit boards
- Try the first few hours of Stoneshard, a medieval RPG about building a caravan
- Fortnite's Celebrity Pro-Am Tournament at E3 will pair 50 pros with 50 famous fans
- MSI's gaming desktop with a Core i7-8700 and GTX 1070 Ti is on sale for $1,550
- NZXT is making cheaper versions of H-series cases without 'smart' features
- A 500 episode Doctor Who marathon is coming to Twitch
- Find easy Fortnite Battle Pass points between a bench, ice cream truck, and helicopter
- Acer blitzes the gaming market with new systems, monitors, and peripherals
- GTA Online's battle royale mode Motor Wars gets double GTA$ and experience
- Leisure Suit Larry: Wet Dreams Won't Dry is coming this year (Updated)
- PES 2019 announces 7 official league licenses
- Watch the Battlefield 5 reveal here
- Rocket League's Salty Shores update lands next week
- Dark Souls 3 'Don't Stop Moving' mod kills you for being too slow
- Get a Ryzen 5 1500X and B350 motherboard for $25 off
- Stardew Valley multiplayer mod lets you farm with unlimited players
May 22
- GOG adds 'a hot selection' of visual novels, Sunrider: Mask of Arcadius is free
- Mike Bithell's new game Quarantine Circular is another weird text adventure
- Unreal Gold is free on Steam and GOG
- Destiny 2's new Iron Banner Exotic emote costs $10
- Save 20 percent at Monoprice today with this coupon
- This 120GB SSD is just $30 right now
- Earthfall, a co-op shooter that mixes Left 4 Dead with Fortnite, leaves Early Access in July
- NZXT’s newest mid-tower cases aim to deliver a lot of bang for your buck
- Hearthstone's latest round of nerfs is now live
- Nexus Mods launches reward system for modders, seeds it with $100,000
- Razer rolls out a bigger, faster Blade laptop and cheaper external GPU box
- Fortnite's jetpacks are live, here's where to find them and how they work
- Intel and Micron tag team industry’s first QLC NAND flash memory for SSDs
- The Overwatch anniversary event is live, have a look at the new skins
- Build and defend pillow forts in twin-stick shooter Sleep Tight this July
- Get 75 percent off Dark Souls 2 and Dark Souls 3 on the Humble Store
- 10 years later, let's remember the single worst E3 trailer ever
- Former Wolfenstein, Bulletstorm devs set up new studio Neon Giant
- Devolver Digital reveals E3 2018 conference date: 'Apologies in advance'
- We Happy Few is the latest game to fall afoul of Australia's Classification Board
- Warhammer novels for children ages 8+ are on the way
- Valve rolls back crackdown against sexual content on Steam
May 21
- Raise plants and monsters alike in claymation survival game Disdoored
- Call of Duty: Black Ops campaigns could come back
- Become an amoral AI in Smart Home
- Get a DeepCool Gamer Storm RGB case and 850W PSU for $32 after rebate
- SEC created a fake cryptocurrency site to warn investors of ICO scams
- This Mario 64 romhack took over 2 years to make and turns it into an entirely new game
- Asus kills its recently formed Arez brand for AMD Radeon graphics cards (update: it isn't)
- Battlefield 5 teaser hints at return to World War 2
- 3D headphone startup closes up shop after crowdfunding $3.2 million
- Epic to provide $100 million prize pool for first year of Fortnite esports tournaments
- Paradox: 'There's room for improvement in how we present our DLC'
- The Crusader Kings board game Kickstarter has already tripled its target
- XCOM 2 mod adds over 1,000 lines from cult space sitcom Red Dwarf
- Tencent acquires majority stake in Path of Exile studio
- Grand Theft Auto 5 has sold over 95 million copies
May 20
- Ubisoft hints at a new kind of breacher for Rainbow Six Siege
- 'I’m definitely hoping for more cross-platform opportunities,' says Overwatch director
- Meet Akko and friends in Little Witch Academia: Chamber of Time's launch trailer
- "Change is always going to be hard for people," says Call of Duty: Black Ops 4 studio head
- League of Legends' Clash tournament will go to "Sudden Death" to end hour-long games in ten minutes
- Overwatch's upcoming Deathmatch map, Petra, has a breakable floor and a lethal pit
- The Monster Hunter movie secures $60 million budget and will go into production in September
May 19
- This perfect run of a custom Beat Saber VR track will blow your mind
- This BattleTech mod unlocks the entire map early so you can explore outside the campaign
- You can buy Rainbow Six Siege for 50% off right now
- Meet your alien allies in new Star Control: Origins trailer
- Dragon Ball FighterZ's first co-op Party Battle now live, runs until early next week
- Stellaris: Distant Stars story DLC is coming next week
- Paradox board games are coming: Europa Universalis, Crusader Kings, and more
- Imperator: Rome revealed at PDXCON 2018
- Hearts of Iron 4: Man the Guns expansion grows its naval game
- Europa Universalis 4 visits India in new Dharma expansion
- Crusader Kings 2 unveils Holy Fury DLC
- Age of Wonders: Planetfall goes sci-fi, due 2019
May 18
- Green Hell is a 'psychological survival simulator' set in the Amazon jungle
- Prey DLC teases continue to point toward a trip to the Moon
- The Crew 2 closed beta set for the end of May
- Heartfelt adventure game To The Moon is becoming a feature-length animated film
- Antigraviator, the Wipeout-style racing game with no speed limit, launches in June
- The first 4K HDR monitor with G-Sync is available to preorder for $2,000
- Fortnite's traps have been nerfed and players aren't happy about it
- This Thermaltake case with tempered glass panels is only $30 after rebate
- EVGA kicks motherboard driver DVDs to the curb, replaces them with flash drives
- Josh Sawyer is 'taking a break' from directing once Pillars of Eternity 2 is done
- Windows Insiders can already download the next big update to Windows 10
- Explore the abandoned compound of an apocalyptic cult in Sagebrush, out later this year
- Alphacool builds a full-coverage water block for high-end Vega and 1080 Ti cards
- Two things Ubisoft plans to fix in The Division 2
- Sea of Thieves' first expansion will surface on May 29
- Valve appears to be cracking down on sexual content in some Steam games
- PUBG's 50-player deathmatch mode is back after Bluehole fixes server troubles
- Play Torment: Tides of Numenera for free until Sunday, 60% off if you want to keep it
- No Man's Sky will get cooperative multiplayer this July
May 17
- Galactic Civilizations 2: Ultimate Edition is free in the Humble Store Spring Sale
- Ubisoft's PC sales continue to grow
- Far: Lone Sails is a lonely, contemplative journey across a barren landscape
- Spintires: Mudrunner free 'Ridge' DLC will add a new map, mode, and vehicles
- The downfall of cryptocurrency mining could be the enormous power consumption
- Call of Duty: Black Ops 4 will be on Battle.net, not Steam
- Lian Li launches aluminum RGB case fans to brighten your PC
- Call of Duty: Black Ops 4—Zombies will take you to the Titanic and ancient Rome
- Skull and Bones delayed until at least April 2019
- Get a Ryzen 5 2600 processor and 120GB solid state drive for $190
- Call of Duty: Black Ops 4 battle royale mode confirmed
- The Division 2 will release within the next 12 months, Ubisoft confirms
- Steam Link app now available for Android, iOS version still pending Apple review
- Nvidia's GeForce GTX 1180 is rumored to arrive in July
- Fortnite adds competitive Solo Showdown mode for limited time
- Watch the Call of Duty: Black Ops 4 reveal event here
- Take-Two chief says esports gambling could be 'meaningfully positive' for business
- New Total War: Warhammer 2 DLC out this month pits High Elves against Dark Elves
- Chrono Trigger patch brings back old-school battle UI and character design
- Microsoft to launch Adaptive Controller for players with limited mobility
- World of Tanks adds the Centurion, an Australian Army tank
- This RGB mechanical keyboard is just $63 for today only
May 16
- Another Overwatch Anniversary skin teased ahead of next week's event
- Destiny 2 is getting a PvP public test server this month
- You can now buy actual horse armor thanks to the Warcraft film prop auction (Updated)
- Divinity: Original Sin 2 Definitive Edition is coming in August (Updated)
- US Senate votes to restore net neutrality, but now it has to pass the House
- Meet Maestro, the second Italian operator coming to Rainbow Six Siege
- Google rolls back Chrome update that broke web-based audio
- This 27" 1440p 144Hz G-Sync monitor from Dell is just $350 right now
- Get a 480GB solid state drive for $90
- This GeForce GTX 1070 Ti Mini is on sale for $450 after rebate
- Hanzo's Scatter Arrow replacement is already getting nerfed
- EK’s new water blocks add colorful liquid cooling to your Asus GTX 1070 Ti
- Daily Show host Trevor Noah confirms Battlefield 5 reveal coming next week
- Relaxing exploration game Shape of the World out on June 5
- Asus ZenBook Pro 15 pairs up to a Core i9 CPU with GTX 1050 graphics
- Tyranny, Abzû, and seven others coming to Origin Access tomorrow
- League of Legends' tournament mode, called Clash, begins May 25
- Fantasy time-hopping murder mystery Omensight is out now
- Shenmue 3 delayed into 2019
- Sea of Thieves disables new private crews feature because of server instability
- GOG's latest weekly sale is brimming with '90s nostalgia
- Fortnite v4.2 update adds Burst Assault Rifles and healthy apples
- Metro Exodus delayed to 2019
- A speedrunner beat Pillars of Eternity 2 in 26 minutes
May 15
- Stalker 2 is in development (again)
- Cliff Bleszinski shares art and ideas from other games he'd hoped to make at Boss Key
- PUBG players have found mysterious golden chests on its newest map
- Play Rainbow Six Siege for free this weekend
- The Humble Hooked on Multiplayer Bundle features Rocket League and six indies
- Old-school FPS Bunker Punks is also a base management sim
- Intel leak confirms plans to launch an enthusiast Z390 chipset for Coffee Lake
- AMD's brand new Ryzen 5 2600X is already on sale
- Discord celebrates its third anniversary with a Fortnite-fueled update
- Add a large capacity 2TB solid state drive to your PC for $269
- Hearthstone nerfs confirmed: Warlock, Paladin and Quest Rogue all get the hammer
- AMD has begun sampling second-generation Threadripper processors
- Bulletstorm studio People Can Fly is working with Square Enix on a new 'AAA shooter'
- Valve now lets you map your own custom controller bindings in SteamVR
- GTA Online adds Trap Door mode with double GTA$ and experience
- Stardew Valley multiplayer mod makes sharing invite codes easy
- Overwatch has more than 40 million players
- Fortnite rubber duckies locations: find all 19 in the Week 3 Battle Pass challenge
- Rage 2 gets a gameplay trailer, due in 2019
- Twitch now lets you filter PUBG streams by remaining living players
- Next Outlast to be 'a departure' from series, set in same universe
- GTA 5 gets a cloud retexture mod that's out of this world
- This Dark Souls 3 all bosses without skips WR speedrun is great
- Phoenix Point delayed to 2019
- Zone of the Enders: The 2nd Runner Mars release date set
May 14
- PUBG's PGI North America qualifying tournament signups are now live
- Crucial's MX500 1TB SSD is just $216 on Amazon
- US Supreme Court opens the door to legal esports gambling
- Rainbow Six Siege video highlights a new defender and her holograms
- Cliff Bleszinski closes Boss Key Productions
- Intel reflects on Moore’s Law as 50-year anniversary comes into view
- The first 4K 120Hz monitor arrives with a $1,400 price tag
- Get an AMD Ryzen 7 1700 processor for $192
- Fortnite's Thanos mode ends tomorrow
- HP launches a 34-inch all-in-one with a GTX 1050 and a bunch of other PCs
- 11-11: Memories Retold shows off 'seductive' art in WWI-set adventure
- Overwatch second anniversary event confirmed, free weekend incoming
- Dark Souls Remastered's summon count could create OP bosses
- Rage 2 officially announced, gameplay reveal due tomorrow (Updated)
- This Stalker visual overhaul mod is gorgeous and terrifying
- Superhot is getting a Japan-inspired standalone
May 13
- Platinum claims it will 'turn the action genre on its head' with upcoming unannounced game
- Rocket League planning a 'Rocket Pass' that unlocks cosmetics as you level up, will have free and premium versions
- An 8-bit spin-off of Bloodstained: Ritual of the Night is coming later this month
- Overwatch Anniversary Event leak reveals new Junkrat pirate skin and May 22 start date
- Mod brings Dead Space's plasma cutter to Fallout: New Vegas
- Long dormant Half Life 2 co-op mod Obsidian Conflict is getting a Steam release
May 12
- Valve is paying hackers thousands of dollars for discovering Steam security flaws (Updated)
- Total War Saga: Thrones of Britannia will bump up the difficulty in an update next week
- Destiny 2 puzzle leads to real-life loot in upstate New York
- Take a first look at Rainbow Six Siege's beautiful Villa map, arriving in Operation Para Bellum
- Futuristic multiplayer sports game Laser League leaves Early Access, play for free until Monday
- Rising Storm 2: Vietnam to add new faction and five maps, including three made by modders
May 11
- La-Mulana 2 appears on Steam, set for release this summer
- Twitch has filed a counter-suit against banned CS:GO streamer Phantoml0rd
- Slay the Spire update includes a pile of new potions
- Fortnite 50v50 mode is back in action
- Latest Dead Cells update adds legendary weapons, reveals final release date
- Deus Ex 'is not dead,' Eidos Montreal boss says
- Pixel Game Maker MV is a sister engine to RPG Maker
- Logitech's Z506 surround sound speaker system is on sale for $53
- Hunt: Showdown's first major update aims to cut back on camping
- Nvidia is expecting a massive drop in GPU sales to cryptocurrency miners
- Gigabyte enters the SSD market with a pair of aggressively priced SATA drives
- Acer's 144Hz 1440p IPS monitor with G-Sync is just $550 right now
- Cowboy MMO Wild West Online has left early access, technically
- Final Fantasy 14's next major update arrives May 22
- The First Cylon War continues in Battlestar Galactica Deadlock: The Broken Alliance
- Bethesda continues to tease what increasingly looks like Rage 2
- You can now gift PC games on the Microsoft Store
- Worlds Adrift early access trailer shows off more airship shenanigans
- Thanos has been hit with more buffs and nerfs in Fortnite
- This week's Sea of Thieves update is now due out next week, along with DLC details
May 10
- Bungie details Destiny 2: Warmind issues, first hotfix slated for next week
- Red Sox pitcher pressured into giving up Fortnite
- Overkill's The Walking Dead trailer introduces grandfather with a gun
- This $200 enterprise-grade 960GB M.2 SSD costs less than even SATA drives
- Sword of the Stars developers launch a board game project
- APB Reloaded has a new owner with big plans for the future
- Unleash is a multiplayer tower defense game inspired by a Warcraft 3 mod
- Procedurally generated puzzler Subaeria brings its stealth hacking to Steam
- Get a 240GB SSD and $10 AMC movie card for $55
- The Flame in the Flood is free in the Humble Store Spring Sale
- Stock up on indies in Devolver Digital's weekend Steam sale
- VESA’s new software tool checks if HDR-certified monitors are working as advertised
- You can build two complete PCs inside Corsair's massive Obsidian 1000D case
- Lenovo's new budget laptops are affordable options for lightweight gaming
- Battlefield 1 Easter egg teases a new Battlefield reveal later this month
- Civ 6 spring update tweaks Joint Wars, adds 12 Historic Moments
- Pillars of Eternity 2 and Vermintide 2 are going cheap on Fanatical
- Sunless Skies adds new threats with weather and worship update
- Darkest Dungeon The Color of Madness DLC release date set
- Firewatch devs are 'all Valve employees now' but retain creative freedom
- Electronic Arts will 'push forward' with loot boxes in future games
- Risk of Rain 2 gameplay video shows ten minutes of third-person combat
May 9
- Agony has a new story trailer, and it's almost too much to bear
- Treyarch confirms Call of Duty: Black Ops 4 Zombies with a cryptic tweet (Updated)
- Bethesda reacts to Rage 2 leak
- DayZ creative director Brian Hicks is leaving Bohemia Interactive
- Fortnite camera locations: where to dance in the Week 2 Battle Pass challenge
- Get an Asus gaming desktop with Ryzen 7 1700 and GTX 1070 for $980
- Several popular websites and US Senators are making a last-ditch effort to save net neutrality
- A new Steam app will stream games to tablets and TVs without a Steam Link
- Buying a new graphics card? Nvidia has a new GPU driver available as well
- A retailer might have just accidentally confirmed a new Splinter Cell, Rage 2, Borderlands 3, and more
- Acram Digital games removed from Steam for review manipulation
- Graphics cards in stock: GTX 10-series drought ending, cards now widely available at MSRP
- Atomic Heart is an alternate Soviet-era shooter that echoes BioShock, Nier: Automata and Stalker
- Vampyr 4K system requirements revealed (Updated)
- Nvidia's online store is back in stock with graphics cards at MSRP
- Two Point Hospital wanted fictional DJ Alan Partridge to host its in-game radio station
- 'Prison Architect gave us the balls to make it' say Two Point Hospital developers
- PES 2019 release date set
- This Fallout: New Vegas dismemberment mod is absolutely brutal
- Night in the Woods dev slams crunch work culture: 'people are going to die'
May 8
- Dota 2 is getting a battle royale-style mode where you fight over cheese
- Stephen Fry has a cameo in Destiny 2: Warmind
- World of Warcraft DDoS attacker is going to prison for a year
- A Google Chrome update breaks the audio in numerous web-based games
- Steam study finds users leave negative reviews more quickly than positive ones
- Destiny 2: Warmind patch notes detail all the changes in season 3
- Epic warns against Fortnite Android beta scam
- Overwatch's Pink Mercy skin costs $15, proceeds go to charity
- Grab this Lenovo 27-inch curved G-Sync monitor for $300
- GTA 5 'Executive Business' mod brings Online enterprising to its singleplayer mode
- Early rumors point to Intel unveiling a discrete graphics card at CES 2019
- Conan Exiles leaves Early Access
- More Fortnite freebies are coming to Twitch Prime
- Fortnite's Thanos mode is live, here's how it works
- MSI unveils a 32-inch 1440p gaming monitor with a 144Hz refresh rate
- Middle-earth: Shadow of War gets Desolation of Mordor story DLC
- Square Enix reveals E3 2018 conference date
- Sign in to GTA Online this week and get over $1 million of free GTA money
- Free-to-play shooter Loadout will shut its servers later this month
- Mod for Skyrim fixes 'thousands' of item placement issues and other errors
May 7
- Egress is a neat looking battle royale focused on Souls-like combat
- PUBG's Savage map, now called Sanhok, will resume testing this Thursday
- The Council episode 2 goes live next week
- Overwatch players are earning Play of the Game for killing robot gondoliers
- Ubisoft reveals first details of Rainbow Six Siege's next season
- 198X is like an entire '80s arcade crammed into one game
- State of Decay 2 system requirements are out
- EVGA's GTX 1080 Ti SC is just $770 right now
- Our favorite game controller is on sale for $32
- Destiny 2: Warmind launch trailer teases new raid lair and first Exotic sword
- Hearthstone team considering nerfing Cubelock, Quest Rogue and Paladin once HCT playoffs are over
- Corsair launches a $50 case for budget builders to show off their hardware
- Bill Gates thinks investing in Bitcoin is crazy, Warren Buffett calls it rat poison
- Half-Life 2: Episode 3 fan project gets finished script and 'in-engine' teaser
- Samsung's speedy 970 Pro and Evo SSDs drop in price as they land at retail
- Thanos is coming to Fortnite in a limited-time Avengers: Infinity War event
- Battletech, Cuphead, PC Building Sim going cheap on Fanatical
- This GTA 5 mod transforms the game with 70 characters, 50 powerups, battle royale elements
- For Honor season 6 release date set with a new map, seasonal event and hero reworks
- Asura's Wrath is fully playable on PC thanks to the RPCS3 emulator
- Someone has made the island from Lost in Far Cry 5
May 6
- Zombie RTS They Are Billions adds its most powerful structures yet to improve late game survival
- MSI's GTX 1050 gaming laptop is just $597 from Fry's
- VR rhythm game Beat Saber, now the highest rated game on Steam, releasing level editor next week
- Oculus shows off 140-degree FOV Rift prototype that has moving displays
- Squad alpha version 11 adds British Armed Forces, Afghan-themed map and nine new weapons
- Smoke and Sacrifice, the survival fantasy RPG, is out on May 31
- Quake Champions to add bots
May 5
- Next Rusty Lake game, and accompanying film, beats Kickstarter goal within 10 hours
- Quake Champions shows off new body-mincing gore system
- PUBG halts its 50-player deathmatch mode after less than 24 hours because of server troubles
- Whip-cracking roguelike City of Brass, made by former Bioshock devs, leaves Early Access
- You can play XCOM 2 for free until tomorrow afternoon
- Radical Heights' second update adds scanner gadget that reveals enemy locations on your map
May 4
- Valve fixes Steam Hardware Survey, Windows 10 is back on top
- Destiny 2's new 'Prismatic Matrix' should make Eververse items easier to earn
- A massive collection of vintage PCs and games is going up for auction this month
- Rust gets a safe zone in the new Compound Update
- Nvidia just killed its controversial GeForce affiliate program
- Overwatch's Brigitte is already getting nerfed
- This month's PC Gamer Club Legendary game is King of Dragon Pass
- Asus patches older Intel motherboards to protect against Spectre and Meltdown
- Get an inflatable rocket launcher in the QuakeCon Swag Pack
- Save 15 percent on Ebay items priced $50 and up today
- Nvidia's 397.55 hotfix driver addresses GTX 1060 issues and Netflix stuttering
- Get Destiny 2 cheap in the June Humble Monthly Bundle
- Swery's The Good Life has a story trailer
- PC Gamer UK Podcast 64: Undeadinburgh
- This Dark Souls mod makes the game more like Breath of the Wild
- Legendary Italian goalkeeper Gianluigi Buffon is a playable captain in World of Tanks
- Save big on Star Wars games across Steam, GOG and Origin on May the 4th weekend
- Offworld Trading Company is free to try this weekend
May 3
- Destiny 2's big fall expansion will include a mode with a 'whole new style of play'
- Activision says Fortnite is 'a lot of competition right now'
- If you use Twitter, you should change your password right away
- Dead in Vinland gets a demo on Steam
- Call of Duty: WWII multiplayer is free to play for the weekend
- This 120GB SSD is just $30 for today only
- Get a Dell desktop with a GTX 1070 for $994 right now
- A serious security vulnerability has been found in 7-Zip
- Massive 8TB+ hard drives are just as reliable as smaller drives, BackBlaze data shows
- Monster mansion sim MachiaVillain is out this month
- Battletech is getting more customization options and maybe an expansion or two
- Microsoft’s Surface Pro is marked down 50 percent to $500 today
- Nvidia tells GTX 1060 owners that a new, non-buggy GPU driver is coming ‘very soon’
- This might be Fortnite's most impressive near-miss ever
- Disgaea 5 Complete is now officially delayed (Updated)
- MOBA brawler Battlerite is getting a battle royale mode
- Free-to-play jetpack FPS Midair rides launch trailer out of Early Access
- PUBG disables personal item trades to thwart third-party resellers
- PUBG's new 50-player deathmatch mode sets small squads loose in Miramar
- Total War Saga: Thrones of Britannia's launch trailer wants you to rewrite history
- PC Gamer UK June issue: Shadow of the Tomb Raider
- PUBG's latest update adds a new car, a new gun, and a 'heap' of weapon balance changes (Updated)
- For Honor is free to try this weekend
May 2
- Beyond Good and Evil 2 will get a livestream update later this week
- Arrested Overwatch hacker in South Korea fined $10,000
- Free browser game Oni Hunter is a fun mix of Gunpoint and Mark of the Ninja
- Steam gets official support for the Nintendo Switch Pro controller
- Lenovo's Y720 gaming laptop with a GTX 1060 is $1,199 today only
- You're a fruit-hoarding bird in the free demo for Feather
- Paladins, the free-to-play hero shooter, goes into full release next week
- Hearthstone will be giving out golden cards as part of the festival of Noblegarden
- Grab a capacious 2TB solid state drive for just $270
- The new Stardew Valley update calls you out for dating everyone
- Intel is discontinuing its quad-core Kaby Lake-X enthusiast processors
- FTC gives Asus, Microsoft, and Sony 30 days to change illegal warranty terms
- This week's Far Cry 5 live event can net you a shovel gun
- South Korea tops the 2018 Overwatch World Cup preliminaries
- New Elder Scrolls Online: Summerset trailer details joining the Psijic Order
- The Good Life, Swery's cats-and-dogs murder mystery game, is funded (Updated)
- This Fallout 4 mod gives you one chance to retrieve your items from your corpse after you die
- Battlefield 1 expansion They Shall Not Pass is now free
- Battlezone Gold Edition sheds VR exclusivity, bundles DLC
May 1
- Skelly Selest looks like Enter the Gungeon by way of Devil Daggers
- A Disgaea 5 Complete demo is now available from Alienware
- X-Wing Miniatures Game 2nd edition is coming this fall
- Ooblets developer update shows off adorable little houses and new characters
- Destiny 2 'Developer Insights' video promises no nerf for Vigilance Wing
- How to complete the Fortnite letter search Battle Pass challenge
- PixelJunk Monsters 2 is out this month, try the free demo now
- Get Ryse, Sniper, Homefront, and Cryengine assets in the new Humble Cryengine Bundle
- HP's Omen 24.5-inch 144Hz monitor for fast-action gaming is on sale for $190
- The 'Orange Shirt Kid' dance is now an official Fortnite emote
- Oculus Go standalone VR headset sells out just hours after landing on Amazon
- Star Wars: Episode I Racer soars onto GOG
- Sea of Thieves patch nerfs skeleton cannon accuracy, adds cosmetics
- NZXT made a PUBG-themed version of our favorite computer case
- The Ryzen 5 2400G processor is $154 from Newegg right now
- This 500GB SSD is just $112 on Newegg right now
- Yoku's Island Express explains why 'it's down to a pint-sized postman to save the day'
- GTA modding tool OpenIV launches v3.0 with vehicle animations, PS4 support
- Fortnite comet destroys Dusty Depot—Risky Reels and Hop Rocks new for Season 4
- State of Decay 2 launches technical beta
- The Forest has just launched out of Early Access, so here's a trailer to celebrate
- Blizzard teases big things coming to the Heroes of the Storm universe