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May 2019

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May 31
- Dealing with fires, mafia bosses, and toilet emergencies in Rescue HQ
- Fortnite scam artists are lying to kids on YouTube in the most obnoxious way possible
- We took a test to see if we have the newly classified 'Gaming Disorder'
- Inside a custom mechanical keyboard shop in Tokyo's Akihabara
- 9 games that have been MIA since E3 2018
- Is Death Stranding coming to PC or not? Let's examine the evidence
- Why the nerfs to Destiny 2's most popular exotic and pinnacle weapons hurt so much
- The 10 coolest, and downright weirdest things we saw at Computex 2019
- Computex 2019: everything you need to know
May 30
- Bloodlines 2's first five clans are a perfect starting lineup
- Everything CD Projekt has said about Cyberpunk 2077 since last year's E3
- BioWare finally unveils Anthem's endgame Cataclysm event, but it looks pretty meh
- Tickets to The PC Gaming Show are available now, and they're free
- Conan Unconquered is a brutal survival twist on the RTS genre
- The CPU wars are shifting in AMD’s favor
- In Call of Duty: Modern Warfare's campaign you'll play both as soldiers and 'freedom fighters'
- While we’re stuck in 2019, Intel is out here envisioning the GPUs of 2035
May 29
- Ubisoft E3 recap: Everything announced at Ubisoft's E3 press conference
- 7 amazingly terrible corporate promotional games
- How to get the Hush in Destiny 2's Season of Opulence
- How to get the Wendigo GL3 in Destiny 2's Season of Opulence
- How to get the Revoker in Destiny 2's Season of Opulence
- Intel is bringing dual monitors to laptops with Honeycomb Glacier
May 28
- Seriously, how the hell do you aim with a controller?
- Spyro Reignited Trilogy on PC mentioned by ratings board
- From Bubsy to System Shock, how indie devs bring old videogames back to life
May 27
- How to watch the Bethesda E3 2019 press conference
- Time Extend: Mirror's Edge
- Despite losing the spotlight to Fortnite, PUBG is still thriving in 2019
- Total War: Shogun 2 is still beautiful and ambitious
- What did you play last week?
- Five new Steam games you probably missed (May 27, 2019)
May 26
- The MSI GT76 Titan is an oversized musclebook with a curious 5GHz promise
- Great moments in PC gaming: Godzilla attacking SimCity
May 25
- What was the last game story you really cared about?
May 24
- The biggest PC gaming stories of the week
- 9 PC games that would work great with a Playdate crank controller
- It's hard to find much of a reason to play Dauntless over Monster Hunter: World
- What expansion should World of Warcraft Classic end on?
- 5 weird but kick-ass builds for winning in Mordhau
- Make mind-bending maneuvers in Splitgate: Arena Warfare
- The Metro 2033 books: a beginner's guide
- Why devs make merchandise and what it costs them
May 23
- Windows 10 May 2019 update: the best new features
- Prove your innocence by robbing houses and shooting cops in American Fugitive
- Best cheap cars in GTA 5 Online
- Total War: Three Kingdoms beginner's guide
- Censorship, Steam, and the explosive rise of PC gaming in China
- The real Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice was the friends I made along the way
- Total War: Three Kingdoms finally gets diplomacy right
- How New Processors Can Unleash Gamers’ Talents in 2019
May 22
- AMD and Nvidia's next fight could be over the number 3080
- We're giving away 100 Steam keys for the Rocket Arena closed beta
- How to disable Cortana in Windows 10
- Mordhau's duel servers have players lining up to do a polite murder
- Anno 1800 Expeditions guide
May 21
- Pew Dew Redemption is a bizarre fan-game that casts Pewdiepie as 'the last independent content creator'
- The state of singleplayer games in 2019 so far
- The best Z370 motherboards for 2020
- 9 cool-looking indie games in development right now
- In Phantom, you're a covert operative who spends the entire game in a... 'tactical kayak'?
- Best Nvidia GeForce GTX 1070 of 2019
- Best Nvidia GeForce GTX 1060 deals of 2019
- 25 MMOs that lived and died since World of Warcraft launched
May 20
- The official Game of Thrones browser game won't fill that dragon-shaped hole in your life
- Nowhere Prophet plays like a cyberpunk Slay the Spire
- I became a vampire with a nightclub as my lair in a GTA 5 roleplay server
- What's the most disappointed you've been by a game's ending?
- Rage 2 vehicle locations: a list of every car in the game
- Rage 2 Ark locations: find them all with our map and guide
- Great moments in PC gaming: Fighting mecha Hitler in Wolfenstein 3D
- Five new Steam games you probably missed (May 20, 2019)
May 19
- What did you play last week?
- Everything coming in Rainbow Six Siege: Operation Phantom Sight, and what it means for the meta
- Dark Future is Carmageddon gone strategic
May 18
- What game do you want a 'Classic' version of?
May 17
- Mech strategy Phantom Brigade has a new combat system that lets you peer into the future
- China is the next battleground for Epic and Steam, but why haven't they been banned?
- It's been 4 years since Arkham Knight, so what has Rocksteady been working on?
- What does Microsoft and Sony's ‘strategic partnership’ even mean?
- The biggest PC gaming stories of the week
- Total War: Three Kingdoms’ battles are bigger, bolder and more beautiful than ever
- Take a deep-dive into how battles work in Total War: Three Kingdoms
May 16
- I tracked down my childhood nemesis: the T-Rex in dinosaur hunting sim Carnivores
- Rage 2 desperately needs more fast travel options
- EA's comments about Anthem's marketing are a misdirection from its real problems
- Losing in slow motion: How it feels to flame out on Hearthstone’s biggest stage
- Razer Star Wars peripheral impressions: they’ll make you 98% less likely to be Force-choked by Darth Vader
May 15
- Intel is fighting a battle between performance and security
- I tried playing games with this wearable keyboard, but all I could do was jump
- World of Warcraft: Rise of Azshara seems more mini-expansion than update
- The secret sci-fi greatness of Call of Duty: Infinite Warfare
May 14
- The Legend of Grimrock devs are back with Druidstone, a new tabletop-inspired tactical RPG
- FFXIV: Shadowbringers: Release date, new jobs, and everything we know so far
- Let's dream about what a proper Marvel battle royale game could look like
- How first-person metroidvania Supraland became a hit, and what's in store for the sequel
- World of Warcraft Classic is more than nostalgia fodder
May 13
- 11 things I wish I knew before playing Rage 2
- Oddworld: Soulstorm is giving a classic platformer an injection of PC gaming DNA
- This Tali from Mass Effect cosplay even has a light-up mouthpiece
- What did you play last week?
- Five new Steam games you probably missed (May 13, 2019)
May 12
- Great moments in PC gaming: Exploring the cinema in Duke Nukem 3D
- What fictional setting should Total War do next?
May 11
- Which PC game has the best fishing?
May 10
- The biggest PC gaming stories of the week
- The Evil Within 2's milk-wife monster boss is stupid as hell and exactly why it deserves to be played
- The bastard's guide to winning in Mordhau
- The best Game of Thrones mods
- The best Final Fantasy game is...
- Topple dynasties from the shadows with your web of undercover spies in Total War: Three Kingdoms
- Here’s how armies work in Total War: Three Kingdoms
- How to fish in Sea of Thieves
May 9
- How it feels to die in a permadeath game after five years
- Ghost Recon Breakpoint is more about survival than Wildlands, but it lacks a compelling hook
- The next challenge for VR devs is to fix our damn jittery hands
- Barotrauma pits you against an ocean of horrors in a submarine
- Blood: Fresh Supply is the second coming of a classic FPS, and it's out today
- Anno 1800 tips: production lines, money making and more explained
May 8
- Remembering the Morris Worm, the first internet felony
- Meet the Minecraft artist whose beautiful sculptures skyrocket to the top of Reddit
- Intel CPU roadmap: all the 'Lakes' from 14nm to 7nm
- The Division 2's best exotics and how you get them
- Warfare gets personal in Total War: Three Kingdoms
- Iratus: Lord of the Dead is a roguelike where you play as the bad guys
May 7
- Rainbow Six Siege’s best moments don’t require a gun
- The pressure to constantly update games is pushing the industry to a breaking point
- 7 big questions we still have about Borderlands 3
- The 7 best changes in Minecraft's biggest update ever
- Behind the scenes on Subverse, the £1.6 million Kickstarter porn game hit
- The Oxenfree creators discuss Afterparty, a game about outdrinking Satan
- The best Apex Legends settings: How to get the best performance
May 6
- This game destroys real books to help players cope with grief
- The return of Fortnite's god awful drum gun has to be a prank
- 10 Mordhau tips to help you survive the melee
- The future of Kerbal Space Program under Take-Two's ownership
- The secrets behind the exquisite handling of Forza Motorsport
- What did you play last week?
- In Forager the real enemy is your own ennui
- Five new Steam games you probably missed (May 6, 2019)
May 5
- Great moments in PC gaming: Discovering the secret of the Warrens in Doom
- Which actor would you cast as your favorite game character?
May 3
- This week's highs and lows in PC gaming
- Last Epoch puts a brilliant new twist on the Diablo and Path of Exile skill systems
- How many people are playing Fortnite?
- The most crushing videogame deaths
- What is ray tracing, and how does it differ from game to game?
- Learn how personal relationships affect the tides of conflict in Total War: Three Kingdoms
May 2
- Cherry's MW 8 is the perfect portable mouse for small hands
- Where could a Sekiro expansion go next?
- Cooler Master's SK621 is the perfect keyboard to take to LAN parties (and virtually nowhere else)
- Hexgears is making affordable, high quality gaming keyboards with Kailh Box switches
- Why the Alienware Area 51m laptop could replace gaming desktops for good
May 1
- Remembering Rage, a flawed but technical marvel
- Hands-on: Borderlands 3 is a bigger, smarter Borderlands 2
- Watch the Borderlands 3 gameplay reveal event livestream here
- The MSI GE75 Raider’s RTX GPUs are ready for gaming’s future
- Every detail from our first look at Vampire: The Masquerade—Bloodlines 2