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June 30
- The best AMD systems you can buy today
- What's the most underrated game on PC?
June 29
- This week's highs and lows in PC gaming
- Evolution: The Video Game is slowly morphing into something quite promising
- How Battlefield 5 fixes some of Battlefield 1's biggest mistakes
- Rapture Rejects is 2D battle royale that needs to do some soul searching
- Game Better With AMD
- Investigating the Origin of the Looter Shooter
- The Crew 2: six tips you should know before you play
- The making of Bioshock's twisted green belt, Arcadia
- Wrecking Ball is Overwatch’s most inventive hero to date
June 28
- Battlefield 5 improves on Battlefield 1, but it might make you pine for the original
- Big box PC games are alive and well in Taiwan
- Wrecking Ball abilities list: what Overwatch's new hamster hero can do
- Assassin's Creed Odyssey: release date, trailer and everything we know
- I murdered some trophy hunters in the woods in GTA 5 roleplay, but did I go too far?
- Call of Duty: Black Ops 4 is a thoroughly modern take on the Call of Duty series
June 27
- I returned to DayZ after almost 4 years, but it feels like I never left
- The Crew 2's America features some very weird stores
- Pro overclocker Der8auer on why the race to add CPU cores 'doesn't make any sense' and why you should still overclock
- What did you buy in the Steam Summer Sale?
- Edmund McMillen talks new card game Binding of Isaac: Four Souls, and why it's not a videogame
- The Awesome Adventures of Captain Spirit is a hit and miss teaser for Life is Strange 2
June 26
- Great moments in PC gaming: The Guardian speaks in Ultima 7
- Dota 2's battle royale mode has promise but needs polish
- What it's like playing PC games with the infamously massive ‘Duke’ Xbox controller
June 25
- The Lord of the Rings card game delivers something we don’t have enough of on PC
- Assassin's Creed Odyssey won't fix one of my biggest issues with Origins
June 23
- Mechanicus is Warhammer: 40,000 meets XCOM but with unique ideas of its own
- When did you know you were playing a game way too much?
- HyperX’s Alloy Elite RGB and Pulsefire Surge RGB offer the best in affordable, high-performance gaming hardware
June 22
- This week's highs and lows in PC gaming
- This VR fishing game is a bit buggy but still wonderfully relaxing
- The Legend of Bum-bo is a strange dungeon crawling puzzler, but it's still an Edmund McMillen game
- Lust for Darkness is cheap survival horror that treats genitals like jump scares (NSFW)
- The floor is literally lava in the beta of Klei's energetic first-person platformer
June 21
- CS:GO's UI update is a needed upgrade
- 9 great new board games from Origins 2018
- How to make your PC more environmentally friendly
- Sunless Skies' cosmos features cider, cricket, and tentacle monsters
- ElDewrito is the El Dorado of Halo potential on PC
June 20
- Easy stretches for PC gamers
- What's your single greatest frag in a multiplayer shooter?
- How to protect your privacy and PC online
- How to make original music with VCV Rack
- Warframe's latest story update is heavy on lore but light on new things to do
- Unlocking my shouty inner chef in Cook, Serve Delicious! 2!!
June 19
- The PC Gamer Best of E3 2018 awards
- How LIGHTSPEED tech makes the G305 an unbeatable gaming mouse
- Ark: Extinction brings pocket dinosaurs, ridable 'Gasbags,' and massive titans to Earth
- Bus Simulator 18 is a surprisingly stressful public transport sim
- Clash & GO creates a new genre by combining city-building strategy and augmented reality
June 18
- This developer made a game about her parents' jobs as spies
- Sable is a gorgeous, contemplative exploration game made by two friends who work in a shed
- Dying Light 2's stunning setting promises to fix the first game's biggest flaw
- Win a processor and graphics card from AMD's Component giveaway
- You can use severed limbs as weapons and projectiles in open world survival RPG Rune
- Beyond Good and Evil 2's demo feels so early it's hard to get excited about
- The origins of Cyberpunk 2077
- The Forgotten City is a popular Skyrim mod that could make a great game
June 17
- My Friend Pedro's bullet-time ballet is a work of art
- Cool things from the Cyberpunk 2020 RPG we'd like to see in Cyberpunk 2077
June 16
- Which of your existing games did E3 2018 make you want to play?
- We played Hitman 2's Sniper Assassin Mode and here's what we thought
June 15
- BioWare answers our biggest questions about Anthem
- The highs and lows of E3 2018
- The most popular PC games of E3 ranked by their total trailer views
- 10 trends we noticed at E3 2018
- Madden 19 on PC is pretty darn playable with a mouse and keyboard
- Anthem's combat and flying feel great, but can BioWare deliver on everything else?
- The 5 best solo board games
- Every E3 2018 news story
- What to expect from Warframe: The Sacrifice
June 14
- Cyberpunk 2077 interview: "We wanted to test ourselves as a studio" to make a game so different than The Witcher
- Code Vein is a surprisingly fun Souls-like with giant anime swords
- Forza Horizon 4 is a sequel of tasteful innovations and gorgeous seasons
- 5 absurd things from the Just Cause 4 E3 demo
- Get a Steam key for Circuit Breakers when you join the PC Gamer Club this month
June 13
- The no-show PC games of E3 2018
- We're live on Facebook now with two hours of Q&A from the E3 show floor (Update: thanks for watching!)
- You need teamwork, stealth, and steady nerves to survive co-op horror FPS GTFO
- Remedy's Control brings rad environmental destruction to a very freaky house
- Win The Witcher 3, Dead Cells, Prison Architect or a random game from GOG's Summer Sale
- Destiny 2's new Gambit mode may give the game a second chance on PC
- The Division 2's Washington DC is a more open world, and a more dangerous one
June 12
- Watch the Fortnite Celebrity Pro-Am live here
- Cyberpunk 2077: Everything we learned from the jam-packed E3 demo
- Bungie on why Cayde-6 must stay dead and how the raid will be 'the ultimate culmination' of Destiny 2: Forsaken
- Sekiro, From Software's next game, subverts nearly everything we've come to expect from Dark Souls
- Skull & Bones sends you to sea on pirate ships with ultimate abilities
- Metro Exodus is beautiful, punishing, and a bit buggy
- Trials Rising's local co-op mode, where two players share the same bike, is going to end friendships
- All the E3 2018 conferences reviewed
- Gorgeous new Destiny 2: Forsaken art is hiding a few secrets
- Every game at E3 2018 and its PC outlook
June 11
- Blood-drunk action game Overwhelm is way scarier than it sounds, and it's out today
- Morning Star is a 'post-cyberpunk' farming sim where computers are the soil and data are the crops
- Maneater interview: How you'll evolve your killer shark to become top of the food chain
- How the creators of Neo Cab want to make emotion 'truly matter to gameplay'
- Assassin's Creed Odyssey hands-on: RPG-style choices bring the game's story to life
- I played Jump Force and spent the entire time beating the hell out of Naruto
- 10 of the best board game Kickstarters from UK Games Expo
- Fallout 76 made a strong first impression, but we've got a lot of questions
- Let's figure out where The Elder Scrolls VI is set
- Show us your rig: The LowSpec Gamer
- Everything we learned from the Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice trailer
- Cyberpunk 2077 trailer hints at character classes and Combat Zones
June 10
- Here's 10 minutes of Battlefield 5 Grand Operations gameplay
- How Raft conquered the seas of Steam
- Watch Bethesda's E3 press conference here
- Watch Microsoft's E3 press conference here
- Man jailed 6 years for threats made in Runescape finally released
June 9
- Hands-on with turn-based Cold War spy thriller Phantom Doctrine
- The best new hardware of Computex 2018
- What do you wish they'd announce at E3 this year?
- A closer look at Intel's 5GHz 28-core CPU
- This week's highs and lows in PC gaming
June 8
- Battlefield 5's new revive and squad systems are its most exciting features
- The Europa Universalis board game is shaping up to be a monster
- Noctua was the only hardware company at Computex totally ignoring RGB
- Watch The PC Gaming Show here
- Corsair iCue finally integrates RGB lighting and other smart features into one easy-to use-app
- Ewok Hunt is Battlefront 2's best mode
- The worst marketing misfires and PR moves in PC gaming (and a pair of console flubs, too)
June 7
- Tips for Rainbow Six Siege’s new map and new operators in Operation Para Bellum
- 40 amazing case mods and custom PC builds from Computex 2018
- In the demo for horror game Beware, the only thing scarier than driving is stopping
- 5 big changes coming to Total War: Three Kingdoms
- Exploring the weird world of Far Cry 5 custom maps
- Steam's new 'anything goes' policy is doomed from the start
June 6
- Forgotton Anne is a game you should see in motion
- What to expect from the PC Gaming Show at E3 2018
- Diablo-like Warhammer 40,000: Inquisitor—Martyr needs to polish up its best ideas
- State of Mind is an intriguing, dense sci-fi adventure with pretty environments
- Trying to save lives in Flashing Lights, the wonky emergency services sim
- How mods made The Binding of Isaac a phenomenon, and why Edmund McMillen laid it to rest
- Can the Forsaken expansion turn around Destiny 2's fortunes on PC?
June 5
- What kind of PC do you need for game development?
- 5 rules of PC gaming etiquette according to Webster, the gamer duck!
- The story of Somewhere, a game that might not exist
- Phanteks' redesigned Evolv X case has mounts for 9 SSDs and room for a second PC
- Great moments in PC gaming: Going to year 2 in Grim Fandango
- MSI is making a classy, 2.6-pound ultrabook that will actually be able to play real games
- Computex's showpiece display is an obelisk of liquid cooling
June 4
- Windows Server vs. Network Attached Storage Which is better for a home server?
- After months in the toilet, Overwatch League's Dallas Fuel is suddenly good
- What happens when online games go down for maintenance
- Far Cry 5: Hours of Darkness DLC focuses on stealthy survival in the Vietnam War
- We're at Computex 2018! Here's what to expect
June 3
- Indie hard mode: The couples making games together
June 2
- Great moments in PC gaming: The Ocean House Hotel in Vampire: The Masquerade—Bloodlines
- Which game series burned you out?
- Make next generation gaming a reality with John Lewis' VR range
- The making of What Remains of Edith Finch
- As sexual content on Steam is threatened, developers look elsewhere
June 1
- This week's highs and lows in PC gaming
- Ascension is a great intro to deckbuilding games
- Summerset is Elder Scrolls Online’s strongest, and silliest, chapter yet
- Survival horror game Agony is too dark for its own good
- Underworld Ascendant doesn't feel like the great comeback we were hoping for
- Trespasser: a groundbreaking disaster with a great Richard Attenborough performance
- Fix the lack of Outrun in your life with Slipstream
- We made a PC Gamer Indie zine! Read it for free here