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June 2023

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June 30
- The PC game releases we're most excited about in July
- I spent hours tracking down a game I barely remembered from my childhood, and it turned out it was a screensaver
- Here's how to permanently wipe OneDrive folders from your PC if they keep recreating themselves
- What if Baldur's Gate 3 isn't just getting out of Starfield's way by launching a month early—what if it's better?
- Cache is king when it comes to designing the gaming CPUs of the next 20 years
- The spirit of PC building will keep our gaming machines from disappearing into the cloud
- We're on the brink of the biggest changes to computing's DNA and it's not just quantum that's coming
- Silicon won't run our gaming PCs forever but it's far from finished
- The 6 best and most brutal baddies in Diablo
June 29
- The Witcher comics ranked from worst to best
- After only 3 hours this fishing and restaurant management RPG has rocketed to the top of my GOTY shortlist
- 7 games with big ideas that were years ahead of their time
- How Master Chief made it onto this very scientific survey of the most stylish video game characters is utterly beyond me
- It's hard to trust CD Projekt when it's still pretending Cyberpunk 2077's launch wasn't a disaster
- The best Honkai: Star Rail Yukong build
- This action-MOBA could fill the Battlerite-shaped hole in my heart, but I'm scared to hope again
- The Witcher Season 3 Volume 1 review: An aggressive goodbye to Henry Cavill in a season full of thrills and kills
June 28
- The once controversial Six Days in Fallujah is finally out in early access, but it's just a barebones milsim for now
- The Steam sale superstars you should never buy for full price
- This simple feature is the reason I'm still using this $99 headset over objectively better ones for the last two years
- How to open Mutterlock Chests in Diablo 4
- F1 Manager 2023's new scenario modes have me trying and failing to rewrite the season's greatest heartbreaks
- Destiny 2: How to catch Exotic fish and use each Broken Blade
- Where to trade Void-Touched Curio in WoW Dragonflight
June 27
- Back in 2006, this tiny indie developer made a mecha game that reveres Sega's Virtual On as much as I do
- How to grow grass and feed your cows in Story of Seasons: A Wonderful Life
- How to sell items and make money in Story of Seasons: A Wonderful Life
- 6 tips I wish I knew when I started Story of Seasons: A Wonderful Life
- Diablo 4 Paragon Board explained
- Magic: The Gathering finally gives me a reason to care about its least exciting cards
- Best Amazon Prime Day gaming monitor deals
- Your gaming PC deserves an SSD in 2023
- The best Honkai: Star Rail Luocha build
- The data suggests Britain's best years of electronics recycling are already behind it
- I took on Corsair's new DIY iCue Link system just as any good PC builder would: with no instructions
- Tutorials are becoming the bane of my existence
- Diablo 4 Brought to Heel quest: Where to find the red mushroom
June 26
- Best Amazon Prime Day gaming PC deals
- Where to find the rifle in Sons of the Forest
- Best Amazon Prime Day gaming laptop deals
- Best Amazon Prime Day PC gaming deals
- Hands-on with Payday 3's expanded stealth heisting, in which everything goes wrong
- Where to find and how to drive a golf cart in Sons of the Forest
- Five new Steam games you probably missed (June 26, 2023)
- Great moments in PC gaming: Building a little server community in Project Zomboid then dying six times in a row
June 25
- Has anyone walked in on you during an embarrassing moment in a game?
- Every Warhammer 40,000 game, ranked
- Anime action RPG Eternights is like a very horny Persona
June 24
- Afterlife, the 'Sim Hell' game by LucasArts, was a sadly wasted opportunity
- One of the best parts of Amnesia: The Bunker doesn't even involve its gruesome new monster
June 23
- BattleBit Remastered is dominating Steam because there's no catch: it's just a lot of game for $15
- Why you should consider a CRT for your PC gaming setup this year
- My new Necromancer gloves turn Diablo 4 into a hell governed by sprinting, suicidal skeletons
- Where to find the Sidereal Essence vendor in Wrath Classic
- This smart-yet-simple kingdom survival game might be my next strategy fix
- Magic: The Gathering's Lord of the Rings set gives the card game a mythic resonance other crossovers lacked
June 22
- This solo developer can't stop making his own riffs on famous stealth games, and his next looks like the best one yet
- In this mashup of Crusader Kings and RimWorld, I spent a huge amount of time watching people vomiting on each other
- The competitive fighting game community deserves better, and might finally be getting it: 'we're the next big thing'
- Sand Land is a promising manga-styled Mad Max with more tanks and much more slapstick
- Might & Magic: Clash of Heroes' 'Definitive Edition' updates almost nothing, but at least it's a second chance for the best puzzle RPG ever made
- Any app that makes 'create desktop shortcut' the default option is going straight in my recycle bin
June 21
- My favourite Steam Next Fest demo so far is this analogue '90s dial-a-witcher horror game
- This quiet adventure finally makes climbing towers fun again
- Stellaris Nexus is a 4X you can finish in an hour, but I was bored after just 20 minutes
- You've got to try this clever roguelike that turns Minesweeper into a turn-based strategy game
- 16 demos from Steam Next Fest that you need to play right now
- Here's where the Microsoft-Activision deal stands around the world
- I replayed Duke Nukem Forever 12 years later and, yeah, I've got opinions
June 20
- The way I used to enjoy Diablo games has been replaced, and it sucks
- Little Kitty, Big City is like Untitled Goose Game for cat fanciers
- The Cosmic Wheel Sisterhood lets you design your own tarot deck and seal your friend's fates, and I already know it's going to make me cry
- This cosy city builder is like Dorfromantik and Animal Crossing had a space baby
- This charming auto-battler tries to fuse Slay the Spire with Autochess, and gets it halfway right
- Lies of P has a comeback mechanic, and now I want it in every soulslike
- Diablo 4 item power breakpoints and how they work
June 19
- How to make Diablo 4 elixirs and potions
- Five new Steam games you probably missed (June 19, 2023)
- The Outlast Trials' opening moments are beyond terrifying, but it loses steam fast in multiplayer
June 18
- I'm hoping against hope that Cyberpunk 2077's expansion overhaul will finally fix the game's lingering mechanics malaise
- Great moments in PC gaming: Transforming a hero into something bizarre in Wildermyth
- The best sex games on PC that aren't garbage
June 17
- FMV fighting game Supreme Warrior was worse than a slap in the face
June 16
- The magical realism of Dungeons of Hinterberg unexpectedly stole my heart at not-E3
- I'm so mad that we have to wait for Final Fantasy 16 to release on PC, because it may be one of the best RPGs of the last decade
- All Diablo 4 Unique items and how to get them
- Don't Nod's latest game is like opening up Life Is Strange and staring at its guts
- Apple's Game Porting Toolkit previews a future free from overpriced GPUs
June 15
- How to build the best ships in Starfield
- Alan Wake 2 looks gorgeous, but the combat and mystery were less convincing in its recent demo
- Total War: PHARAOH—why it’s a worthy heir to the throne
- How to solve the Traveler's Superstition quest in Diablo 4
- How to unlock the ISO 45 in Warzone 2
- An extremely premature ranking of Starfield's 1,000+ planets
June 14
- The best games and announcements from all the summer showcases (and 7 hidden gems)
- I can't function unless my PC gaming desk is immaculate, so here are my 5 top tips for ensuring a Zen-level aesthetic
- The action in Armored Core 6 'cannot be reproduced with a human character' said FromSoftware, and the demo proved it
June 13
- Overwatch 2 charging $15 for story missions is the cherry on top of its worst month ever
- I cannot overstate how great it feels to have classic Assassin's Creed back
- This is almost certainly going to be the best year for fighting games ever
- This dark horror city builder is like being a mayor in The Witcher
- I didn't really get Starfield until Bethesda revealed we could just go around stealing giant space sandwiches
- This intense, bullet time-filled FPS is a glorious tribute to FEAR and the spirit of 2000s-era gaming
- Starfield traits list: what they do, our favorites, and how to remove them
June 12
- Is there a game you love despite absolutely sucking at it?
- 3 years after he faced sexual harassment allegations, new fighting game Diesel Legacy is giving disgraced Skullgirls developer Mike Zaimont a chance to prove he's now 'fundamentally different'
- Prince of Persia: The Lost Crown may not be the game you were hoping for, but trust me, it's the one you need
- Survive the wild American road in Alaskan Road Truckers
- If Starfield is 'grounded and realistic', what's with all the cowboys and space magic?
- How to solve The Pilgrim's Footsteps quest in Diablo 4
- How to watch the Capcom Showcase 2023
- Here's when to watch the 2023 Ubisoft Forward showcase today
- Undead magic and tight stealth tactics make Shadow Gambit a joy to play
- How to get Stone Grilled Olm in Honkai: Star Rail
- Diablo 4 is desperate to not be Diablo 3, but too timid to move past it
- Every game at the PC Gaming Show 2023
June 11
- Starfield Direct recap: sandwich heists, cowboy towns, space magic, and other things we learned
- Our 9 biggest unanswered questions after the Starfield showcase
- All the premieres and reveals from the Xbox Games Showcase
- In Sand, you'll explore the wastes of a dead planet colonized by the Austro-Hungarian empire
- Breathedge 2 is the funniest take on floating through an uncaring void I've ever seen
- My Friendly Neighborhood asks: what if Resident Evil happened on Sesame Street?
- Thread a train through the chaos of a civil war in this chilly new RTS
- Earthless is a new sci-fi deck builder from the creators of Homeworld 3 where you'll need to come up with ludicrous 'game-breaking' combos and win over your crew to have a chance at saving humanity
- Great! Macabre has given us *another* thing to fear in the Australian outback
- The making of the PC Gaming Show's Baldur's Gate 3 animated short
- The Xbox Games Showcase's biggest reveal is that Microsoft's now the PC publishing monster it always should have been
- Stormgate is shaping up to be a brilliant blend of modern and classic RTS
- A game that asks: 'What if Dirt Rally had meteor storms?'
- Chimera is a survival sim that makes Mother Nature your cataclysmic frenemy
- Parcel Corps is a biting bicycle courier adventure straight out of Saturday morning cartoons
- Pathfinder: Gallowspire Survivors lets you bring a friend to the horde slaying
- Metroidvania Altered Alma paints a vision of a cyberpunk Barcelona
- Build your own Umbrella Corps in Undead Inc
- Klei's love letter to Sid Meier's Pirates! is set in cosmic purgatory
- Creator of AI game Hidden Door: 'I don't think AI is innately evil—I think what we're arguing about is who gets to benefit'
- Critter Cove brings together Animal Crossing, MySims, and a savvy rat
- Mariachi Legends brings the challenge of 2D Ninja Gaiden to Mexico's streets
- Naheulbeuk's Dungeon Master brings Two Point Hospital's HR management to Dungeon Keeper
- This ambitious 'social sandbox' MMORPG is like EVE Online in medieval Europe: 'From the first minute you start playing the game, you can do everything you can imagine with other players'
- It's the end of the world, and this JRPG wants you to go on a date
- Finally, the Scrooge metroidvania we've all been asking for
- Starfield looks like the perfect place to spend 500 hours ignoring the main quest
- Idris Elba is my best friend in Cyberpunk 2077 Phantom Liberty, and we're gonna save the president
- Enter here for a chance to win a one month PC Game Pass membership
- Enter here for a chance to win a Park Beyond Collector's Edition
- Exclusive: Obsidian breaks 3-year silence to spill the secrets of Avowed, its next big RPG
- How to watch the Starfield Direct
- How to watch the Xbox Games Showcase 2023
June 10
- In 1997, horror game Haunted Casino tried to scare us chipless
- Our 11 favorite trailers from the 2023 Future Games Show Summer Showcase
- The 8 best cozy games to wishlist from the Wholesome Games Showcase
- This co-op farming game is the most jam-packed cutesy life sim I've seen since Stardew Valley
June 9
- I'm worried Diablo 4's open world is only there to sell me stuff
- Which Corsair Gaming Headset is best for you?
- Every Summer Game Fest 2023 trailer and moment you should see
June 8
- This Summer Game Fest showcase really brought it home: The idea of E3 died with E3
- Best Diablo 4 Barbarian build: Rend enemies and bleed bosses
- God help me, Pinocchio might become the coolest protagonist of 2023
- The FPS that gives you an instagib chainsaw leg just keeps getting better
- Diablo 4 world boss times and locations
- Where to find the Butcher in Diablo 4
- Turning a new PC into a personal computer is one of our hobby's great pleasures
- Diablo 4 with DLSS 3 is the ultimate demon-slaying experience
- Building D&D settings is so much less stressful with these brilliantly clever tabletop games
- Lords Mobile marches to PC in shiny new standalone form
- Is it just me or does co-op make Diablo 4 feel way too easy?
June 7
- If you're playing barbarian in Diablo 4, you really should try switching to controller
- Starship Troopers: Extermination is a 16-player co-op FTS/RTS hybrid with lots of promise
- How to unlock Nightmare Dungeons in Diablo 4 and how they work
- Diablo 4 Glyphs and how to use them
June 6
- Nintendo's claim that emulation 'stifles innovation' isn't just absurd—it's hypocritical
- 2023's most mind-bending puzzle game gives you a magic camera and invites you to break the world
- How to unlock Diablo 4 Helltide events
- The original Diablo 3 was canceled, and it looked surprisingly similar to Diablo 4
- Nvidia's name was on everyone's lips at Computex while the metaverse was barely a whisper
- The best Honkai: Star Rail Silver Wolf build
- Where to find Fiend Roses in Diablo 4
June 5
- Diablo 4's $21 Bone Guy armor is just another reminder of how numb we've gotten to Microtransaction Hell
- Rise of the Triad: Ludicrous Edition is a faithful remaster of a janky '90s FPS, for better and worse
- How to get Sacred items in Diablo 4
- How to solve the Reject the Mother quest in Diablo 4
- How to salvage gear in Diablo 4
- How to solve the Keeping the Old Traditions quest in Diablo 4
- Five new Steam games you probably missed (June 5, 2023)
June 4
- Great Moments in PC gaming: Landing an impossible shot in XCOM 2
- The AutoFull M6 gaming chair is one to look out for in 2023
- I never get tired of Hitman: Blood Money's inventiveness
- Prepare for the strangest ride of your life in 1993's Hell Cab
June 3
- Would you ever use a tiny keyboard?
June 2
- The PC game releases we're most excited about in June
- Diablo 4 high resolution assets: should you install them?
- Handheld gaming's greatest dungeon crawlers manage to hold their own on PC
- Diablo 4's first battle pass details: reward types, price tiers, and more
- How to reset dungeons in Diablo 4
- Talking Tom and Angela join forces for Green Game Jam 2023
- The best ways to farm XP and gold in Diablo 4
June 1
- If you long to play high-level D&D but don't have time, then Solasta's Palace of Ice DLC is for you
- How to unlock Street Fighter 6's classic outfits
- Each fighter's favourite gift in Street Fighter 6
- How to turn on Classic controls in Street Fighter 6
- How Diablo 4's World Tiers work and where to change them
- Where to find your Diablo 4 pre-order bonuses
- How to craft legendary gear in Diablo 4
- The end of the world can wait in this RPG: I've got a study session with a god
- Total War: Pharaoh is making huge changes to battles, from dynamic weather and terrain to armour degradation