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July 2018

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July 31
- Fortnite's Season 5 easter eggs feature familiar mascots, new toys, and possible new skins
- How the Reckoning event turns faction-based survival game Rend into an all-out war
- Great moments in PC gaming: Digging through discs of 1000 shareware games
- The pinnacle of pyromania: the best flames and flamethrowers in PC gaming
- The best No Man's Sky creatures we've seen
- More than a decade on, does Bioshock still hold up?
- Why I love Max Payne 2's twisted funhouse
July 30
- How to find a complete X-01 power armor set in Fallout 4
- Player feedback and mods will shape the future of Rend
- A moon with a giant vagina, and other weird discoveries in No Man's Sky
- How to use Fortnite's Port-a-Forts to support a winning playstyle
- Behind the scenes with Serious Sam 4: Planet Badass
- How games are built and rebuilt for conventions
- Composing the score for puzzle game Ashi: Lake of Light
- Five new Steam games you probably missed this week
July 29
- The cyberpunk art of Benedykt Szneider gave Ruiner a brutal beauty
- Show us your rig: Lisy and Darcy of Armello creators League of Geeks
- Great moments in PC gaming: The 'ludicrous gibs' of Rise of the Triad
- What is the Windows.old folder, and how do you get rid of it?
- Major events in the Fallout timeline
July 28
- Clutch ultimates headlined day one of the Overwatch League Grand Finals
- New Dota 2 Challengers League could give aspiring pros a path to the big leagues
- This No Man's Sky planet has constant godawful weather and I never want to leave
- Which game deserves a No Man's Sky-style comeback?
July 27
- This week's highs and lows in PC gaming
- What it's like to launch an indie game in 2018, hour-by-hour
- Next is the reason to play No Man's Sky again
- 10 things you should know before starting Yakuza 0
- How I accidentally became an arms dealer in survival PvP game Rend
- World of Warcraft's early-level combat is broken and Blizzard doesn't know how to fix it
- The coolest things I’ve seen in No Man’s Sky Next so far
- You can only move your left hand in this game, so I flipped off my mean nurse
July 26
- Thanks to its huge expansion, I no longer suck at Enter the Gungeon
- Vampire: The Masquerade finally returns to the tabletop with big changes
- How to get into Warframe, gaming's most complex co-op shooter
- A police game that asks you to think before shooting
- Explore the beautiful, hostile world of Rend
- The long, tough journey of Dungeon Keeper successor War for the Overworld
- Looking back on Myst, and the aftermath of its unbridled success
July 25
- I found the most dismal No Man's Sky planet where absolutely no happiness is allowed
- Beneath Overcooked 2's charming wrapper is a brutal co-op romp
- Devil's Hunt is a new action game that will take you to hell and back again
- What's your favorite line of dialogue in a game?
- Brig 12 struggles to break free from its free-to-play mold
- Owning a nightclub in GTA Online is fun, but keeping it successful is a little boring
- How to choose and defend your faction in team-based survival game Rend
July 24
- World of Warcraft's pre-expansion event is pretty dull
- Meet the streamer making Guitar Hero cool again, one insanely hard song at a time
- The weirdest mods people have made for classic Doom
- How 60-player survival game Rend lets you build the perfect Norse warrior
July 23
- PC Gamer requires freelance hardware writers
- Huge upsets send underdog teams into the Overwatch League Grand Finals
- Is multiplayer really what No Man's Sky needs?
- Fortnite $130,000 winner cleared by Epic after Reddit's cheating allegations debunked
- Returning to RollerCoaster Tycoon 2 with new tools
- 8 Warhammer 40,000 games that don't exist, but should
- How a game about dicks sold hundreds of thousands of copies
- Anna Podedworna's art brings the world of The Witcher to life
July 22
- Vermintide 2's Photomode mod lets you pose your own Warhammer art
July 21
- What's the most hyped you've ever been about an upcoming game?
July 20
- Two years later, the hype for No Man's Sky is back
- This week's highs and lows in PC gaming
- Meet the deaf Destiny 2 players who raid using a custom-made comms app
- Gamer snacks around the world: What are the international Doritos & Dew?
- The chefs making Stardew Valley's recipes real
- We matched food and drink to some of our favourite games
- Realm Royale's class-based combat is clever but it leans too heavily on genre cliches
- I ate my own dead body to stay alive in Early Access survival game The Wild Eight
- Trying to murder a tavern full of people with Oblivion's poisoned apples
- What it's like to explore No Man's Sky Next with three other people
July 19
- A $30 clicker game is one of the most popular games on Steam right now
- We've got three new cards to reveal from Hearthstone's new expansion
- 5 things driving game Tacopocalypse gets wrong about the impending tacopocalypse
- The primordial island of Zandalar is one of the best WoW zones in years
- The rise of videogame bread
- Gaming's tastiest dystopias
July 18
- What is the absolute best gaming snack?
- No Man's Sky: Next multiplayer trailer breakdown
- The history of hit points
- Watch us cook an egg on an Nvidia GTX 1080 Ti
- Snail Trek is a Sierra-style adventure with modern twists, like autocorrect and autosave
- I've somehow been WASDing wrong my whole life
- Farewell to Legion, World of Warcraft's best expansion in a decade
- How data analysis is helping Hearthstone players crush their opponents
- Two Point Hospital is hilarious, at least until the corpses start piling up
- Everyone but me is very good at Islands of Nyne battle royale
July 17
- Slick and sharp, Scythe Digital Edition delivers dreams of turn-based glory
- I tried all 100 recipes in the World of Warcraft cookbook and it made me love the game again
- Why food may be the most powerful game design tool
- Cuisine Royale started as a joke, but it's now a fun and currently free battle royale shooter
- Anime and bubble tea inspired this food physics sim
- PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds vs Fortnite: Which one is right for you?
July 16
- Epic's first official Fortnite competition was a total disaster
- Wayward Souls is a 16-bit roguelike with a story to tell
- Win a chance to gain free access to Frostkeep Studios' new survival game in the Rend alpha key giveaway
- PC gaming's nicest (and nastiest) virtual foods
- Welcome to food week!
- Game remakes shouldn't be afraid to change the classics
- This guy's Metal Gear Solid collection is incredible
- The best Hurk lines from Far Cry 5: Lost on Mars
July 15
- The joy of RPG cooking: why games shouldn't abandon the culinary arts
July 14
- How to survive the competitively cooperative world of REND
- What was the first game you upgraded your PC to play?
July 13
- This week's highs and lows in PC gaming
- Fighting Fantasy Legends Portal is a good old fashioned choose-your-own-demise
- Screw Lovecraft, let's talk about other horror universes games could explore
- The Crew 2 is an unremarkable PC port of a lackluster racer
- Quarto is what would happen if Tic-Tac-Toe were a fun game
- I took Scotland to glory in FIFA 18's Russia World Cup 2018 mode
- The futile search for a single message in Far Cry 5
- Interview: How World of Warships brings historical designs to gaming life
July 12
- Everything in Fortnite's Season 5 battle pass
- Fortnite Season 5 is all about movement, messing around, and punishing campers
- Getting my friends into World of Warcraft is a nightmare
- Warframe has quietly become the best free-to-play game on PC
- Kingdom Come’s From the Ashes DLC doesn't add much to the game
- A few hours in, The Bard's Tale 4 is a captivating dungeon crawler
- We have 1000 PUBG premium Event Passes to give away
July 11
- Tips for playing Fortnite Battle Royale
- The best evil endings in PC games
- How to build a Raspberry Pi wireless access point
- What does no one seem to understand about a game you love?
- Games like XCOM coming to PC
- Age of Sigmar second edition brings Warhammer close to its former glory
July 10
- Fear the Wolves battle royale beta is in rough shape but has a great endgame
- 10 of the best Fortnite pros to watch right now
- How to record a remote podcast without lag
July 9
- The 10 best plays from Overwatch League season one
- The 80s and 90s PC games still unbelievably being updated today
- Monster Hunter: World producer talks PC updates, mouse and keyboard support, and more
- Win over $600 worth of Sega goodies with Fanatical
- How one EVE Online player's stubborn obsession turned him into a hero
- From Chef Ignis to Solid Snake, here are 10 fun Final Fantasy 15 outfit mods
- Interview: Infliction's creator talks personal horror and the power of Kickstarter
July 7
- Warframe's new expansion is a stunning alien landscape full of giant robo-bugs
- We asked a bunch of kids how to win at Fortnite
- Touring Old School RuneScape, where 2007 never ended
- Has a game ever felt like it's become your job?
July 6
- This week's highs and lows in PC gaming
- Everything we know about Madden 19 on PC
- A look at the thriving Dark Souls ASMR scene
- Prismata is a mutant hybrid of RTS and board game, and it works
- Oh yeah, that's why I don't play MUDs anymore
- How Warframe's comic book series complements the shooter's overarching lore
- Win keys for the Call of Duty: Black Ops 4 PC Multiplayer Beta
- The weirdest and wildest creations ever made in building sims
July 5
- Warframe players can get Ash Prime by watching TennoLive 2018
- Battle passes are replacing loot boxes, but they're not necessarily a better deal
- Other classic movies that deserve the Alien: Isolation treatment
July 4
- Fractured Lands is like Mad Max Battle Royale complete with vehicular carnage
- How to lock down Facebook to protect privacy
- Why I love being in a clan
- There's one more day of the Steam Summer Sale—here are our favorite deals
- What we want from Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order
- What's the most unpopular gaming opinion you're willing to stand by?
July 3
- The single biggest upgrade you can make to an aging PC
- Great moments in PC gaming: Max Payne's face
- Red Faction: Guerrilla Re-Mars-tered brings back the best destruction ever
- Why I'm a fan of OWL's Shanghai Dragons, even after they went 0-40
July 2
- Weird, fun, and useful tools for getting more out of Steam
- Where to find every Skeleton Throne in Sea of Thieves
- Less is More: Martin Wallace on game design trends, new game Wildlands
- Playing Fallout again makes me long not for Fallout 5, but for a new old-school RPG
July 1
- The 7 must watch PC speedruns of Summer Games Done Quick 2018
- 10 fascinating facts about the history of LucasArts
- How to choose the right AMD processor