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- August 31
- August 30
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- Games that completely changed mid-development
- Tactics RPG Fell Seal: Arbiter's Mark shows tons of promise, even in Early Access
- Getting rich quick in Mount and Blade 2: Bannerlord's sandbox singleplayer campaign
- Destiny 2 Forsaken: Gambit Guide
- Hands-on with Amazon's MMO New World, where hundreds of players war over a supernatural continent
- August 29
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- Valve is getting into livestreaming, Amazon is making games, and Discord is selling them
- What were the best and worst parts of the Cyberpunk 2077 demo?
- Win a $9,000 Predator Orion battlestation at PAX West
- The secret lives of Shenmue’s NPCs
- Cannibalism, crafting, and extreme bodily functions in survival game Scum
- 2019 is too long to wait for My Friend Pedro's beautiful score attack action
- Exploring Middle-earth with cards is mostly a blast in Lord of the Rings: Living Card Game
- Dying Light: Bad Blood is a promising spin on battle royale, but I'll wait until it's free
- August 28
- August 27
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- Overwatch League's All-Star weekend was a ton of fun
- What was your favorite news from Gamescom 2018?
- Google Engineers, PhD students and child geniuses: Meet the new breed of Hearthstone pros
- 10 highlights from the Cyberpunk 2077 gameplay demo
- Catch the Predator Gaming After Party at PAX West 2018
- 5 ways Cyberpunk 2077's gameplay demo somehow lives up to the hype
- Major events in the Elder Scrolls timeline
- Great moments in PC gaming: The T-rex in Tomb Raider
- August 26
- August 25
- August 24
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- Battle Royale Simulator can simulate up to 600 players who suck at battle royale
- How to prepare for WoW: Battle for Azeroth endgame content
- Steel Division 2 is a 1:1 scale RTS inside a massive turn-based wargame
- My first 20 hours of Graveyard Keeper felt like purgatory
- Realism be damned: Ultimate Fishing Simulator's underwater camera is great
- The 8 best games of Gamescom 2018
- Interview: Tim Willits on Rage 2
- August 23
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- The best Fortnite settings and control tweaks
- Battlefield 5’s changing war zones could make me love the series again
- Western Legends is the best western-themed board game you can get
- Despite challenges, modders are adding clever new squads and enemies to Into the Breach
- Our most loved (and hated) Monster Hunter: World monsters
- Desperados 3 brings Shadow Tactics to the Wild West
- Ten ways to train for Battlefield V in Battlefield 1
- Devil May Cry 5: disposable exploding robot arms and frustrating camera controls
- Rage 2: Avalanche Studios does a solid impression of id
- August 22
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- Generation Zero is a fun but simple co-op FPS where the evil robots are the real stars
- What game's graphics blew you away the most when it came out?
- Mutant Year Zero is so tough that only one badass has beaten its demo (me)
- How Dead By Daylight proved analysts wrong and became one of the biggest games on Steam
- King and Assassins is a tense, tactical duel
- Graveyard Keeper turned me into the most evil character I've ever played
- Assassin's Creed Odyssey might have the best combat of the entire series
- From Software's next game is more Hotline Miami than Dark Souls
- August 21
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- Changes you might have missed in Rainbow Six Siege’s Grim Sky update
- Why these World of Warcraft diehards can't stop playing its most hated expansion
- Orphan Age is ‘The Sims meets Akira and Grave of the Fireflies’
- The Ewin Calling Series Gaming Chair is as sleek as they come
- Pathfinder: Kingmaker feels like the PC RPGs of old, warts and all
- Breach hands-on: co-op dungeon crawling that 'changes every time you play'
- The best and worst Fortnite limited time modes
- Lead an industrial revolution and change history in Anno 1800
- The story behind Late Goodbye, the song that defined Max Payne 2
- Metro: Exodus is a beautiful mood piece that will frustrate some shooter fans
- The Division 2 hands-on: are we still calling these Tom Clancy games?
- August 20
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- August 16
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- Fallout 76 has a lot to prove as it leaves Steam behind
- What piece of game music is always stuck in your head?
- The Fortnite seasons, ranked from worst to best
- My wild night in Atlanta with the voice of Geralt of Rivia
- How The Walking Dead's final season is changing the rules
- Total War: Three Kingdoms goes all-in on heroes
- August 15
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- How crafting and armor skills work in Monster Hunter: World
- Monster Hunter: World PC requirements and what you need for 60 fps
- Show us your best-looking monster hunters
- Fallout 76's anti-griefing should ensure a good singleplayer experience, but what about PvP?
- Everything You Need to Know About Sylvanas Windrunner
- Zandalar and Kul Tiras: Beautiful, Deadly, and Everything In Between
- Everything you need to know about Communities in World of Warcraft
- August 14
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- Relive your childhood with Old School RuneScape
- What Blizzard should do with Diablo next
- Managing a popular Fortnite streamer is hard, especially when you're their dad
- Treasure hunting and trap-tripping in The Elder Scrolls Online's Murkmire expansion
- 12 cool-looking indie games in development right now
- Horde and Alliance: Faction Pride Returns in Battle for Azeroth
- Nvidia unveils Turing architecture, providing a glimpse inside the next GeForce cards
- The most powerful Hearthstone Boomsday Project decks so far
- August 13
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- Call of Duty: Black Ops 4's new health system is a welcome change
- Steam has a hate group problem because Valve fails to enforce its own rules
- Why the Battle for Azeroth is happening: A quick WoW lore primer
- Villainous is a strategic board game where Disney villains battle for supremacy
- Nine obscure games from big developers
- Preparing for Rend's apocalyptic PvP events is a lot more fun than fighting in them
- The precarious business of living off modding
- Tech changes and Improvements in Battle for Azeroth
- Great moments in PC gaming: Meeting the Dopefish
- Five new Steam games you probably missed this week (August 12, 2018)
- The 16-year-olds who just released their first game on Steam
- August 12
- August 11
- August 10
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- Get off to a strong start in Monster Hunter: World
- The 6 most metal things in the Doom Eternal reveal
- Gamescom 2018: what to expect
- Shadow of the Tomb Raider's best new features are its custom difficulty settings
- WoW's game director responds to Battle for Azeroth's night elf genocide drama and rocky pre-patch
- I spent a day killing and stealing from players in No Man's Sky and all I got was a bunch of guilt
- August 9
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- Path of Exile finally gets an endless dungeon in its upcoming expansion
- Tips for playing Monster Hunter: World with a mouse and keyboard
- Deathgarden is a weird, exhilarating game of lethal hide-and-seek from the creators of Dead By Daylight
- Monster Hunter: World armor gallery
- Monster Hunter: World's theme music is ruining my life
- State of Mind: exciting sci-fi thriller With an unnervingly possible transhumanist future
- World of Warcraft Battle for Azeroth- Anduin Lore Breakdown
- August 8
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- Hearthstone's latest one-turn-kill combo is so absurdly complicated that streamers keep messing it up
- How likely are you to play a game if it's not released on Steam?
- Monster Hunter: World armor skills guide
- 6 ways Metal Gear can have a future after Survive
- I made a billion yen running a Yakuza 0 hostess club and I can't stop
- The rise of Tyler 'Ninja' Blevins
- Enter the Fray: What You've Missed Heading Into Battle for Azeroth
- How to Prepare for World of Warcraft -Battle for Azeroth Launch
- August 7
- August 6
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- Everything you need to know about Hearthstone's Boomsday expansion
- Fortnite leveling guide: how to maximize your XP gains
- Tips for healing with Fortnite's campfire
- How Monster Hunter rose from niche import to an international sensation
- Win a gaming PC with Fanatical's Summer Sale contest, $2400 worth of prizes
- Logitech G’s Already Stellar Gaming Keyboard Gets New GX Blue Switch
- How to get the Red Dead Redemption 2 stone hatchet and $250,000 of free money in GTA Online
- Monster Hunter: World weapons guide
- Monster Hunter: World beginner's guide to weapons, armor, hunting and more
- Ion Maiden's hero has come a long way since the 1990s
- August 5
- August 3
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- This week's highs and lows in PC gaming
- No Man's Sky Next: the answers to ten burning questions
- 9 degenerate combos coming with Hearthstone’s The Boomsday Project
- Ambitious 60-player survival game Rend started with three ex-WoW devs in a tiny room
- World of Warcraft players are removing their shoulder armor to protest their evil warchief
- Help, all my Sims are freezing to death
- The future of immersive sims
- Reasons to play RuneScape
- Watch us play Monster Hunter: World on PC
- What's the funniest thing that's happened to you in a game?
- What victory gets you in Rend, a survival game where matches last a month
- August 2
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- How Hero-U avoided disaster to resurrect '90s adventure game nostalgia
- Playing No Man's Sky without using a spaceship
- The best Windows shortcuts and tricks
- Crusader Kings 2 diary: How far can one AI go using wits, skill, and lots of cheats?
- Win a chance to gain early access to Frostkeep Studios' new team-based survival game in the Rend early access giveaway
- Kerbal Space Program mod recreates Andy Weir's The Martian
- After 10 years away, Madden 19's PC version runs well so far
- August 1
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- What happens if you say something racist in the most popular multiplayer games
- World of Warcraft's most controversial plot twist has the community tearing itself apart
- From spirits to artifacts, here's how you win a game of Rend
- What's confirmed for Destiny 2 Forsaken?
- Destiny 2 Forsaken: The story so far…
- The making of Pillars of Eternity 2: Deadfire's greatest quest
- The mind-bending science behind the planets of Elite Dangerous
