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January 31
- Last Stand is the last thing The Division needs right now
- What's happening with the GTX 1080 Ti?
- An evening of flatulence and pigeon shooting in Battlefield 1
- The case for taunts: feeding the fighting game community's love of drama
- Build of the week: a spider tank gaming PC
January 30
- Eight burning questions about Ark's growable beards, answered
- This diary of a low-level orc brings the joy back into WoW's early zones
- We asked developers how they would fix Early Access
- The Nilfgaard faction shows Gwent has a life after The Witcher 3
- The best mods to use with The Long War 2
- AMD's new Ryzen CPU: details and expectations
January 29
- Gaming hardware needs to grow up
- Tame, breed, and ride dragons with this mod for Ark: Survival Evolved
January 28
- How to beat the boathouse boss in Resident Evil 7
- How to find the best guns in Resident Evil 7
January 27
- This week's highs and lows in PC gaming
- Chopping down trees in survival games, ranked from worst to least-worst
- How to beat the greenhouse boss in Resident Evil 7
- Does our dad die in Mass Effect: Andromeda?
- Welcome to The Zero: the making of Kentucky Route Zero's open road
- Stealth, silencers and drug syndicates in Ghost Recon Wildlands
January 26
- The forgotten joys of turtling in strategy games
- It’s a damn shame we can’t play Resident Evil 7 in VR on PC
- Dauntless is the PC Monster Hunter game we've all been waiting for
January 25
- How to beat the butcher room boss in Resident Evil 7
- Microsoft explains how Windows 10 Game Mode will improve performance in UWP and Win32 games
- Eldar domination: hands-on with Dawn of War 3's space elves
- Apocalypse Now is becoming a psychedelic first-person horror game
- Why I love watching my hands in first-person games
- What does the start of the spring split tell us about the state of NA League of Legends?
January 24
- How a disabled gamer uses his feet to play Final Fantasy 14
- 6 Ways Just Cause 2 & Deus Ex: Human Revolution grant SHIELD gamers freedom
- How to be a better Battlefield 1 medic, and better to your medics
- Resident Evil 7 saved a troubled series
- How to get the most out of Pharah on the Overwatch ladder
January 23
- Build of the week: a Dalek from Doctor Who
- It's time to embrace wireless gaming mice
- Three bizarre sci-fi tales from Torment: Tides of Numenera
- PC Gamer UK Podcast #32: Space Engineers, Elite Dangerous
- The rise and fall of Half-Life 2: Deathmatch
January 22
- Hearthstone’s Ben Brode on how long until Pirates walk the plank
January 21
- Grab a free Steam key for Minion Masters
- How developers want Steam to improve in 2017
January 20
- This week's highs and lows in PC gaming
- How Stardew Valley inspired the creator of Ooblets to quit her job
- Improve your strategy in Heroes of the Storm's Braxis Holdout map
- Do we really need Half-Life 3?
- We're giving away a thousand skins for Smite and Paladins!
- Resident Evil: Revelations 2 was overlooked, but it was great survival horror
January 19
- How many frames per second can the human eye really see?
- I'd rather paint Might & Magic: Showdown's figurines than play the game
- The Long War 2 mod is a must-play reinvention of XCOM 2
- Halo Wars 2 feels like a return to the C&C era of real-time strategy
- My tortured quest to become the bunny whisperer in Ultima Online's spiritual successor
- The greatest acts of unintentional gaming heroism
January 18
- Gaming without a dedicated graphics card on i7-7700K
- The story behind gaming's greatest mystery, Frog Fractions 2
- Detention is a beautiful, creepy Taiwanese horror adventure
- Assessing the impact of League of Legends' new ban system
- Why I love the sense of regret in Life is Strange
- The PC Gamer UK Podcast #31: Games of 2017
- Put Monster Hunter's monsters into Ark with this mod
January 17
- After eight years, Overgrowth's kung fu rabbits are ready for a beta release
- Everything you need to know about the NA and EU teams going into Overwatch Apex Season 2
- Get to know the major teams of the 2017 Capcom Pro Tour
January 16
- Seven must-watch speedruns from Awesome Games Done Quick
- Why I love Ark's pickiest creature: a giant snail that only eats cake
- Build of the week: it's a damn tire
- How the Prison Architect developers broke the Geneva Conventions
January 15
- While you wait for Bannerlord, here's a mod that recreates Mount & Blade in Crusader Kings 2
- How Resident Evil 4 led to Visceral making Dead Space—instead of System Shock 3
- THQ Nordic bringing titles to the PC Gamer Weekender
January 14
- Which graphics settings should I always disable?
- Hitman: Blood Money speedrun devolves into hilarity with the help of a magic coin
January 13
- This week's highs and lows in PC gaming
- It’s time to get excited about keyboards
- We have 100 Shards Online trial keys to give away
- Three legends, a pubstar, and their boss: what's up with China's new Dota 2 squad?
- Win a LEGO 'games at the movies' set worth $700
January 12
- Customize Steam's Grid View icons for a beautiful library
- Experiencing multiple mass extinction events in Ark: Survival Evolved
- Wargaming in 2017: a new graphics engine for World of Tanks, better matchmaking, new games
January 11
- Pit People is a great strategy game that is also absolutely bonkers
- How much should games cost?
- Why I love Stellaris' slick interface
- The best Total War: Warhammer mods
- Get up to date on every pro NA League of Legends team before the LCS returns
- Even with one hand paralyzed, this CS:GO player continues to kick ass
January 10
- Use 2D signs to traverse a 3D world in platformer The Pedestrian
- What we want from Microsoft in 2017
- 15 of the best PC builds from around the web
- How Soldier 76, Sombra and Symmetra are changing the Overwatch meta
- The dreamy interactive art of Islands: Non-Places
January 9
- Battlefield 1's Operations was 2016's best multiplayer mode
- Build of the week: the L3p Steigerwood is a home theater dream machine
- These disappointed No Man's Sky players are turning to Star Citizen
- What we want from Hearthstone in 2017
- The action at ESL One Genting bodes well for Dota 2's new meta
- Saying one last goodbye to Dishonored
January 8
- Is my SSD dead?
- Get ready for the Smite and Paladins championship finals
January 7
- Meet the pilot who made first contact with aliens in Elite: Dangerous
- What you need to know ahead of the Smite World Championship semifinals
January 6
- Smite Rivals works hard to escape obvious comparisons
- This week's highs and lows in PC gaming
- Watch me die a lot in Frost, a mod that turns Fallout 4 into a true survival game
- For 21 years the Interactive Fiction Awards have celebrated a vibrant, exciting scene
- Diablo 3 Darkening of Tristram: a clever homage that left us wondering about Diablo's future
- The best vents in PC gaming
January 5
- The most absurdly expensive PC accessories and components
- How to unlock the secret Cow King battle in this week’s Hearthstone Tavern Brawl
- Feast your senses on the exhilarating sci-fi racer, Redout
- AMD Vega: Everything you need to know about the next GPU architecture
- Kaby Lake overclocking tested: the quest for 5GHz
- Diablo 3 Darkening of Tristram secret guide
- What you need to know about the Smite and Paladins championships at HRX 2017
- What to expect from CES 2017
January 4
- Intel's Kaby Lake: Everything you need to know
- No Man's Sky's best bases
- Overlooked games of 2016
- How Riot chase the ever-evolving goal of fun in League of Legends
- Why I love the low-fi tech of Alien: Isolation
- Astroneer's survival crafting experience is lovely, serene, and occasionally very deadly
January 3
- How PC gaming can improve in 2017
- The early winners of the new Street Fighter V meta
- The making of Sapienza, Hitman's best level
January 2
- Why PC players should be excited about Tekken 7
- Space Marine: the 40K brawler a sequel or two away from brilliance
January 1
- Our 2017 gaming resolutions
- Rocket League: 10 Tips from Pro Players
- OMEN by HP Presents... The Next Gen Athletes