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September 20
- 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
- I played the adventure game so scandalous that it was physically destroyed by UK customs
- World of Warcraft: Forever's convinced me that we lost too much to modern MMO quest design
September 18
- 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
- Wardogs is the only FPS where I actually expect to get revived
- I have officially made Grand Theft Auto 5 good by turning it into a golf sim
September 16
- GTA 5's 'Become a celebrity' mod is almost weirdly fully featured
- I've been waiting all year for the 2nd Chapter to last year's best JRPG remake—it did not disappoint
September 15
- Wardogs delivers what Battlefield 6 was too console-brained to pull off: A real server browser
- I am Mark Zuckerberg
September 14
- 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
- The RAMpocalypse support group
- 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
- 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
- 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
- Shroom and Gloom is my new deckbuilder obsession thanks to its fantastic fights, beautiful artwork, and tasty mushrooms
- Feel the thrill of competition with Logitech G's mechanical keyboards
- Bribing medics to revive me first in Wardogs is one of my favorite shooter mechanics in ages
September 10
- PC Gamer magazine's new issue is on sale now: The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt – Songs of the Past
September 9
- 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
- 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
- Steam Week in Review: 54 idle games released on Steam last week, and many look eerily similar
- 'If you're designing an RPG, you have to go back to the source:' The post-apocalyptic RPG Entropy takes notes from Fallout and a long-abandoned Warhammer spinoff
September 6
- Onimusha: Way of the Sword proves the parry formula is far from stale, you just need to get freaky with it
- I never thought a fishing sim could be this fun, but How to Fish proves me wrong with its ridiculous physics, killer spider crabs, and classic co-op chaos
September 5
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- OP, Sandisk's masked streamer, is here to crush competition this fall
- 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
- 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