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October 23
- Explore a reimagined Azeroth in World of Warcraft: Forever
- Vote now: The Mammoth Tank and Priest go head-to-head to determine the best RTS unit of all time
- I've tested every graphics setting in Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 4—tweak these four options for the best performance
October 22
- My GOTY is $7 and has 253 Steam reviews
- I've never seen a laptop cooler come with its own comic strip before, but it still hasn't convinced me this noisy beast is worth $50
- I've been waiting to see a pixel bounce into a perfect corner since childhood and finally this Next Fest Demo delivered it
October 21
- 5 reasons the Alienware 27 gaming monitor is the ultimate Black Friday value buy
- Ready for 240Hz? How the Alienware 27 OLED monitor transforms your gameplay
- What makes the Alienware 27 such a great value gaming monitor?
- I've played 2 of Dawn of War 4's campaigns, and they're everything I hoped they'd be
October 20
- What's the scariest PC horror game of all time? Nominate your favs and we'll pit them against each other
- I played 20 cozy game demos in Steam Next Fest and these 5 made it onto my wishlist
- I accidentally severed my finger with a butter knife as I panicked in a messed-up game of Five Finger Fillet
October 19
- I have added completely realistic Uber driving to Grand Theft Auto 5
- Steam Week in Review: Steam Next Fest has over 8,000 demos, as worthless vibe coded slop levels up
October 18
- No soundtrack does it like Hades 2
- Frozen Trail finally puts the 'raid' in Arc Raiders
- 'There were a lot of disagreements across the place': Former Marathon director Joe Ziegler on leading Bungie's extraction shooter, playing Path of Exile for 3,437 hours, and why he'll never uninstall Kingdom Hearts
October 17
- To help America, I used Crusader Kings 3 to figure out how to remove a doddering, senile lunatic from power
- Discussion time: Do you think zone chats in MMOs are forces for good, or evil?
- This game about grinding mute lumps of shapeless flesh has made me realise I've been hornswoggled by capitalism
October 16
- My career as a weed farmer was derailed by my unslakeable lust for golf
- Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 4 review-in-progress, DMZ edition: An expansive extraction shooter that wants you to succeed
- Cozy solarpunk life-sim Loftia is offering an in-depth demo as part of Steam Next Fest
- Semifinals: The brutal war to determine the best RTS unit of all time needs your votes
October 15
- GTA 5 finally measures up to the actual best GTA game now I've added a jetpack
- 79% of you think Razer's new gaming mouse feature counts as cheating
- Nvidia's RTX Spark makes for an impressive Arm-based gaming laptop but not one I'd recommend you buy just for PC gaming
- After Civ 7 stumbled, Humankind 2 looks like it's making smart choices to pick up the 4X torch
October 14
- I want to love the new Castlevania, but it just feels a little off
- I've given GTA 5's cars Bond-style ejector seats
- Looking back on 10 years of Overwatch, the promises kept, and where Team 4 goes from here
- How to choose a wireless gaming headset for PC and console
- Arc Raiders' PvE test is finally here and it's the perfect reason to jump back in
October 13
- I can summon jumbo jets and boats from the sky in GTA 5 now, and I'll do it in the middle of crowded intersections if I want to
- I was excited by Warlock: Dungeons & Dragons until the protagonist pulled out a sword
- Total War: SHOGUN 2 – Complete Edition is a gorgeous, modernised version of an all-time strategy classic
October 12
- Does Blizzard's revival of its classic games signal a return of the 'old Blizzard?'
- I don't know what Rick and Morty's about but I have turned GTA 5 into its perfect replica
- The RTX 4090 launched four years ago today, and now the RTX 5090 is rumoured for the chop, I can't help but look upon it with a warm glow
- Shogun 2 deserved better
- Steam Week in Review: The curious case of Wonder Boy in Monster Land's dubious PC debut
October 11
- Yahtzee is still out there being mean about videogames, and good for him
- RPGs are simply better when you're an idiot
- Escape from EloHello has me reliving my worst online PvP nightmares in roguelike-form
- 'I'm the type of player who loves to 100% a game': SungWon Cho on achievement hunting, why he doesn’t like multiplayer games, and the one Balatro joker that nearly drove him to despair
- Deadlock's City Never Sleeps update makes Valve's MOBA my favorite videogame setting in years
October 10
- WoW: Forever, by casting off modern convenience, has horseshoed back around to being casual friendly again
- The advent of first-person shooters introduced a wild frontier of unregulated video game level packs, and it ended in a lawsuit that changed copyright forever
- 2026's OLED monitors can nearly recreate the sublime clarity of a '90s CRT, but Windows will have to change before we can achieve true nirvana
October 9
- Don't worry, Valve: I've got your next Deadlock character concepts sorted
- I might finally have gone too far with a GTA 5 mod that imports most of Doom 2
- Google's golden age of AI games?
October 8
- Minecraft's new boss is the former chief product officer of Reddit
- The System Shock TV show has been cancelled
- Why a 21-year-old coder finally ported the real P.T. to PC: 'That something so influential could eventually become unplayable never sat right with me'
- Vampire games on Steam are a recession indicator and I have the charts to prove it
- I have added roving bands of militant furries to Grand Theft Auto 5
- Crowning the best FPS mode of all time through 1v1 combat (ROUND 2)
- Houses I'd build in a survival game, part 3
- PC Gamer magazine's new issue is on sale now: World of Warcraft: Forever
- Muramasa: Revenant Blades has 108 swords, and its definitive update for PC wants to make sure you use them all
October 7
- With Grand Theft Auto 6 poised to take over the world, I reached out to Jack Thompson and it did not go well
- 'You have HOW MANY unread emails?' PC Gamer shares their inbox shame
- We tried to earn as much gold in WoW: Forever as we could in 2 hours—which involved a mugging, slander, and at least one crashout
- "You guys wanna see a dead body?"
- Help, I have been abducted by a tiny car and cannot escape
- British voter Wordle
- I had 3 hours with Arc Raiders Frozen Trails update and spent most of it playing with the new grapple hook
- Quarterfinals: Vote for the best RTS unit of all time
- 2026 is a low-key revolutionary year for player movement in games
October 6
- Wait, who's writing Sebulba?
- My most-played album of 2026? Sorry, Mitski—it's Final Fantasy 10: House Grooves, a real thing that exists
- The PC Gamer Mysteries, Case #1, 'A Slice of Death': Why is there a dead golfer hidden in Golden Tee '99?
- At Fate's End is delayed to 2027
- Warhammer Survivors launches on November 10 and its demo is available now
- I've added scams to GTA 5, but I might have scammed myself
- You can zip around WoW: Forever in this nifty map viewer
- Gundam Rogue Orbit gave me a sick whip sword, but held back the one thing I want most in a mech game
- Warhammer Survivors is more than just a Vampire Survivors spin-off
- Deadlock isn't a MOBA or a third-person shooter anymore—City Never Sleeps has turned it into a horror game
- Exclusive – Warhammer 40,000: Dark Heresy will let you be a crooked cop, pinning crimes on the innocent, or follow in good boy Gregor Eisenhorn's footsteps
October 5
- Got myself a Pip-Boy... sorry, I mean a 'Rad-Lad'
- I am cavorting with a gazelle's grace in Grand Theft Auto 5
- I got my start writing for a PlayStation 2 magazine: These are my 12 PS2-pilled recommendations from the Steam Autumn Sale
- Warhammer: Blood Bowl is Blood Bowl 3.5 rather than a whole new game, but based on the beta it's definitely an upgrade
October 4
- Oh crap Dark Souls turned 15
- What does your dream videogame concert look like?
- Tonda Ros, creator of Blue Prince, has played UFO 50 for almost 700 hours: 'I think it's easily my favourite game of the last 20 years'
- Silent Hill: Townfall is the first horror game to make me feel bad for using a shotgun
- Steam's global top sellers are my Top of the Pops
October 3
- Forget what PC Gamer said: The Witcher 3 will always be my 2015 GOTY
- Deadlock is the king of MOBA character designs, and it's all thanks to Valve's embrace of New Yorkyness
- 11 underappreciated games you should buy in the Steam Autumn Sale, according to some of our biggest genre sickos
- Has your life ever been changed by someone you met in an MMO?
- Fallen London is where the writers of Baldur's Gate 3, Dishonored and Stellaris come to let their hair down
- 2026 is the year big brands have finally pushed gaming mouse technology forwards
- Bored with roguelikes? You might still want to play Dicevaders, a game about perfecting dice rolls
October 2
- Necks vs Milk experiment proves gamers like necks, hate milk
- Ace Combat director's dreams made real
- FPS tourney update
- GTA 6 marketing stunt reveals none of our UK editors have heard of the Miami Heat
- Valve's patch note supremacy
- The Rat King has arrived
- AI guys beefing with the pope: A brief recap
- Arc Raiders is free to play next weekend
- 7 musical clips of this incredibly charming magical school life sim with its goofy classmates and delightful soundtrack
- I added October-appropriate zombies to Grand Theft Auto 5
- Silent Hill: Townfall's monsters are terrible at hide-and-seek
- The upcoming sim about making games is so deep your in-game game can even get cyberleeked
- A surprisingly in-depth dressmaking simulator has the cosy gamers in a chokehold
- You should buy Lorelei and the Laser Eyes
- The 7 incredibly hyper-specific things I'm looking forward to when Destiny 2 brings back its deleted campaigns, raids and destinations
- I'm going to teach you to love hidden object games
- Final Fantasy 7 Revelation director on its 'very extravagant' final Sephiroth fight and whether anyone will ever pull something like this trilogy off again
- In my quest to find the perfect mouse for me, I've ended up with two completely different ones
- TIL: The Steam Frame can be used as a pair of night vision goggles
- Deadlock's got a scary troll
- 9 new 2026 games on sale in the Steam Autumn Sale
October 1
- Houses I'd build in a survival game, part 2
- Talos Principle 2 is $3
- One story about my first 30 minutes in this post-apocalyptic robot game led multiple people to buy it
- How to conquer Kuttenberg
- Reigns, Card Shark studio Nerial is closing
- Myhouse.wad remains very cool
- Grand Theft Auto 5 is a game about shapeshifting now. I don't make the rules
- I'm here to inform you the wrist rest included with the new Logitech G Pro X2 Rapid is very good and very wobbly
- This arse cushion is the biggest upgrade I've made to my gaming setup in 2026, which says a lot about where we're at right now
- I am here to save us all time by determining which of our most-played videogames would be more efficiently completed if you had a gun
- Chiptune Mozart is really good
- The greatest RTS unit of all time, determined by democracy
- I did every expedition in Arc Raiders and all I got was this t-shirt
- We're probably not getting a new Fallout game until well into the 2030s, but that's no reason to stop talking about them
- $30 extra for early access?