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- February 28
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- Fortnite's no-aim-required lock-on assault rifle is an all-time stinker, and I hope Epic vaults it into oblivion
- You've never heard of it, but a Russian studio made a fantasy take on original Fallout way back in 2001, and it honestly kind of rules
- As an ergonomic keyboard skeptic, I made the switch this month and it's so much easier than I expected
- After its disastrous launch last year, I'm here to tell you that 2025's most promising auto-battler finally lives up to its potential
- Stardew Valley has basically become the Tolkien of cozy gaming
- February 27
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- Is Marathon's time-to-kill too fast, or am I too Arc Raiders-pilled?
- The Muri: Wildwoods demo blends cute critters and the same satisfaction of PowerWash Simulator to create what might be my favourite demo from Steam Next Fest
- Wuthering Waves 3.1 is here: Introducing a digital ghost, a gold-blooded doctor, and a huge new region
- In a sea of needlessly long videogames, Resident Evil Requiem proves that 10 hours is all you need if you're able to make every second count
- Bingo Betty is the new Balatro-like to top my Steam Library with its wacky items and mesmerising Mega Bingo chains
- Balatro meets Scrabble in this new roguelike from the creators of TimeSplitters—and I'm just thrilled to finally find a word game that lets me score with swear words
- Resident Evil Requiem's path tracing is tough on GPUs but it probably won't take as long as ray tracing did to become a mainstream option in games
- If you're hoping to make friends in Marathon like you can in Arc Raiders, expect a knife in the back
- February 26
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- Just Cause dev co-founder says the studio got too big and 'numbers focused,' so he quit and made a $25 open world crime brawler
- The Awaysis demo has taught me what Diablo always needed was a crumb of Gang Beasts slapstick
- If you're feeling overwhelmed by the sheer amount of demos available at Steam Next Fest, we've narrowed down our must-play cozy game demos to save you the stress of searching for yourself
- Thanks to Mewgenics' cruel sidequest items, I've accidentally created the conditions for the most cursed run ever
- It's been 10 years since the release of Stardew Valley, and these are the 10 best updates the game has released in that time
- PC Gamer magazine's new issue is on sale now: Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War 4
- February 25
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- 10 years later, I still can't believe Eric Barone thought Harvest Moon fans would hate Stardew Valley
- My new indie darling is this crafting game stuffed with hand-sculpted creatures made by a husband and wife dev team
- I thought the Midnight Ramen Shop demo might scratch the Papa's Pizzeria itch, but it actually just made me realise I could never run a ramen shop after getting everyone's orders wrong on purpose
- Resident Evil Requiem PC performance analysis: Great visuals and decent frame rates all round, though path tracing's an obvious frame rate killer
- Best VPN for gaming in 2026
- Can Resident Evil Requiem finally make good on Resident Evil 6's best and most botched idea?
- Steam Next Fest is full of Balatro-likes: here's 7 demos I think you should try
- February 24
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- The Witch's Bakery gives me all the fuzzy feelings of eating a fresh croissant on a warm spring morning
- Obsidian Moon is a Lovecraftian noir detective game about moving bits of paper around your desk and making sure you've got enough money for whiskey and beans
- After a decade of stale turn-based tactics, Menace is a breath of fresh air
- February 23
- February 22
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- Five new Steam games you probably missed (February 23, 2026)
- In defense of Doom (the movie)
- Project: Gorgon has recaptured the old-school MMO magic I thought was dead and gone by letting me ask a pig about its mother so hard it dies
- Debate: Which game series is the most popular to cosplay?
- I only needed 5 songs to know that In Falsus is going to be my go-to rhythm game when I can't get to the arcade
- Nightdive Studios' Stephen Kick has 8,544 hours in Dota 2, and just clocked his 5,000th win: 'I think it's made me a better leader'
- Age verification checks are now in force in the UK because of the Online Safety Act, but with the Discord fallout, it seems like one bad idea after another
- February 21
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- This musical RPG is doing important work by letting you beat up music snobs, but I really stuck around for the painful (brilliant) puns
- Avowed was always great, but now that it costs what it should have at launch and nobody's being weird about it online, it's kinda perfect
- Ubisoft made another Avatar game the world has forgotten about, so I opened Pandora’s boxed copy and dropped into the jungle
- Helldivers 2's siege of Cyberstan is the greatest galactic campaign the game has seen so far
- The Logitech Superstrike has allowed me to get excited over some genuinely new PC gaming technology for the first time in what feels like forever
- February 20
- February 19
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- Judging by the GPT-4o situation, game developers will have a big problem if they get serious about AI chatbot NPCs
- The next Witcher spin-off game is about Dandelion sharing his version of Geralt's adventures with the world: 'you might encounter a stuffed unicorn'
- The many-boxed roadmap represents everything I hate about shooters right now
- If you've ever had a crippling Vampire Survivors or Slay the Spire habit, avoid Vampire Crawlers at all costs
- Arc Raiders full interview: 'Nobody whatsoever thought we'd have this many players'
- Time Takers is an era-mashup lightning-fast survival shooter with a beta test you can dive into next month
- Birdwatching Notebook is meant to be a relaxing idler, but it drove me to new depths of unlock-obsessed birdmania
- The new game from Disco Elysium's studio feels like the first Christmas after your parents' divorce
- Fill out our quick questionnaire about your gaming habits and you could nab a $300 Amazon voucher
- The Killing Stone combines occult contract law with card-battling in an isolated 17th century mansion
- February 18
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- Spooky visual novel The Mermaid's Curse is the best kind of sequel: a self-contained mystery
- I didn't expect to kidnap alligators, save Woodstock or give people dysentery in a game called Transport Fever 3—but here we are
- Everyone should get into birdwatching, and as a birdwatching devotee, here are the 4 upcoming birding games on Steam I'm keeping tabs on
- The demo of Sucker for Love: Crush Landing is the gentle reminder I needed that dating an eldritch god wouldn't be straightforward, actually
- February 17
- February 16
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- I applaud this gacha game for ditching anime characters for puppets, but it still can't escape the pitfalls of a post-Genshin Impact world
- When Overwatch said it was returning to the story, I did not expect its most genius decision: Reworking maps for the fun of it
- Burglin' Gnomes is the next great friend-slop game that everyone with a PC and at least one other friend should check out
- The best King's Field-likes on PC
- You could win a $100 Steam gift card by sending us clips of your best, funniest, and wildest gaming moments!
- I'm sad Deadlock is 'just' a MOBA—not because I don't like them, but because I'm in love with Valve's lore and characters enough to want any other game instead
- I thought Fishing Shop Simulator was a joke after I saw mechs in ancient Rome, but after two hours with its demo, I'm hooked
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- I'm a Wizard, But I Dig combines my love of Minecraft strip-mining, casting spells, and little blob creatures in one big magical mining sim
- Konami got the main thing right with Metal Gear Solid: Master Collection Vol. 2, but it could and should have offered so much more
- February 15
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- Five new Steam games you probably missed (February 16, 2026)
- Doom co-creator John Romero adores Ghost Recon and has over 3,000 hours in World of Warcraft: 'God, I lived in that game every day for five years'
- The most surprising thing about Mewgenics is its amazing soundtrack—and after 115 hours, I'm still discovering new songs
- Someone is building a lifesized Seikret cosplay despite the fact they've 'never made anything like this before' and after seeing the process, you can't convince me this thing doesn't live and breathe
- February 14
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- The dev behind my top upcoming RPG is a Hungarian chef who thought 'if not now, then when?' and learned coding from scratch to make his dream 'eurojank' masterpiece
- Mewgenics provides the best proof yet that the turn-based tactics genre is the true home of drama and excitement in gaming
- Inside PC gaming's wildly creative Tomb Raider mapping scene: 'Being able to create my own adventures for other people to play is such an addicting concept'
- Question time: What role—tank, healer, or DPS—do you actually play in MMORPGS, and why?
- Digging a little deeper into Intel's Xe3 architecture shows exactly why Panther Lake's iGPU is good: It's basically an Arc A770 graphics card jammed into a mobile chip
- February 13
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- Nutmeg is a brilliant concept that at its best is almost football Balatro, but boy is this a game of two halves
- Fight At Midnight
- Yakuza Kiwami 3 spoils an interesting remake with odd changes and an abysmally misjudged recast
- Behind the curtain of mouse development: from hand-carving to mechanical flinging, here's how Logitech makes and tests its gaming mice
- Best gaming laptop 2026: I've tested the best laptops for gaming of this generation and here are the ones I recommend.
- Best handheld gaming PC in 2026: my recommendations for the best portable powerhouses.
- Highguard didn't flop
- February 12
- February 11
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- Hytale’s unfinished sandbox has finally given me hope for a voxel RPG, after Cube World broke my heart twice
- Emre's kit in Overwatch is the best of the new bunch, not just because it reminds me of Halo's battle rifle, but because it's just so simple
- This breakfast-based cooking roguelike is already my latest craving
- Underneath the Superstrike: How Logitech has kick-started the next generation of gaming mouse tech
- Call of Duty: Black Ops 7 content hub
- World of Warcraft: Midnight War Board Challenge terms and conditions
- Starsand Island is the first can't-miss cozy game of 2026 and it's already taken over 20 hours from me
- Warhammer 40k: Dark Heresy might just have everything I want from a CRPG
- Black Ops 7's new best mode is a returning classic
- February 10
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- Relooted is a fine heist game—but it's a better history lesson
- A mouse to meet the moment
- Discord's new age verification rules got you down? Allow me to suggest an alternative: Internet Relay Chat
- I've never felt smarter than playing this nostalgic horror puzzler that has me changing file types on a '90s computer to solve mysteries
- I don't understand what Riot wants from 2XKO
- Nobody is doing live service better than Helldivers 2 because Arrowhead makes expansions, not just updates
- February 9
- February 8
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- Sometimes simple character designs make the most effective cosplays, and this group of Peak Scouts is the perfect example of that
- Debate: Who is the best videogame composer of all time?
- A GTA modder has got the 1997 original working perfectly on modern PCs and Steam Deck, and it's a joy to behold: 'I wanted pick up-and-play GTA on Windows with the best possible compatibility without classic installation'
- February 7
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- In defense of Assassin's Creed Unity
- 219 hours of XCOM 2 and 20 minutes of Fallout: Size Five Games' director Dan Marshall takes us through the games on his PC
- Blitzball is alive and well in Final Fantasy 14, and I spoke to the community of passionate fans who built an entire 140-page D&D-like system to play it: 'Once you start playing, you just can't stop'
- If you thought Untitled Goose Game had a horrible goose, wait until you play this powerfully unsettling idle clicker where humans give birth to waterfowl
- I didn't realize how important headbob was until I played an RPG without it
- February 6
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- Did they hit a nerve? OpenAI CEO Sam Altman's response to 'authoritarian' Anthropic's annihilation of ads-supported AI doesn't make me trust it more
- Overwatch's glow-up didn't just happen overnight—its successes have been in the works for years now
- I wish I wasn't missing out on new quests in Arc Raiders just because I'm not willing to grind the old ones every two months
- Celebrate Lunar New Year with these Xbox Game Pass options
- I'm the biggest Baldur's Gate 3 fan, but the HBO TV show is filling me with dread
- February 5
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- My Madden simulation predicts a Patriots win in Super Bowl 2026, though I should point out I used the Madden game from 1988
- Everything in Black Ops 7 Season 2
- 'I don't want to shoot at a normal ass cat': Overwatch players react to its new feline hero
- Here's what we think the Steam Machine will cost now that Valve's admitted 'limited availability and growing prices' have forced it to change plans
- Nioh 3's open world is incredibly formulaic compared to Elden Ring's, so I'm slightly embarrassed by how much I'm loving it
- I'm glad I waited 25 years to play the longest Dragon Quest game
- February 4
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- I still can't master one of Nioh's simplest mechanics even after 10 years with the games, and 20 hours playing Nioh 3
- Of course there's a tiny Bridgerton reference in The Sims Royalty & Legacy expansion because it's basically a Lady Whistledown simulation
- Best gaming PC builds: Shop all our recommended system builds as we ride out the RAMpocalypse
- My testing shows that 16 GB of system memory is still absolutely fine for today's PC games but there are some caveats to it all
- Helldivers 2's new explosive hammer is the most dumb fun I've had in ages
- Fallout Season 2 finale post-credits sequence: 'Liberty Prime Alpha' explained
- Fallout Season 2 Episode 8 recap: 'Everyone works for me eventually'
- Helldivers 2's overpowered, wildly fun tank is the culmination of two years of balancing
- February 3
- February 2
- February 1
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- Five new Steam games you probably missed (February 2, 2026)
- One of BioShock Infinite's best narrative devices is its music
- Videogame merch is basically diet cosplay, and I'm desperate for more brands to get in on being more fashionably nerdy
- February is surprisingly light on cozy game launches but we're looking forward to these chill picks you shouldn't miss
- On-Together is the first focus tool videogame I've used that understands the importance of partnered-up productivity
