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March 2026
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- March 31
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- Somehow a movie that gave me nightmares as a kid has been turned into the delightful metroidvania palate cleanser I needed after Silksong
- The Call of Duty schism: Why fans are trapped in a forever war with each other
- I've only had my cyberpunk ripperdoc license for a week and the mob are already coming after me because I spent all my money upgrading my friend's robotic arms
- The consensus is that Crimson Desert has terrible storytelling—it's not true
- Hands-on with Nvidia's new Dynamic Multi Frame Generation: 5x and 6x modes push frame rates even higher than before, though you can have too much of a good thing
- Super Meat Boy 3D has no vibe
- March 30
- March 29
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- Five new Steam games you probably missed (March 30, 2026)
- The director of Tales of Kenzera: Zau learned his most important game development lesson while working with Ridley Scott: 'That's why we're able to make games faster'
- I am obsessed with these deep dives into how Overwatch cultivates its incredible sound design for each hero
- My childhood obsession with Webkinz has been reignited thanks to people hand-making custom plushies for the pets I never had
- Turns out running a profitable zoo is super easy unless you keep blowing those profits on dozens of chickens
- Xalavier Nelson Jr, director of Space Warlord Baby Trading Simulator, will never uninstall Warframe and would love to see an Outriders 2: 'I think that game would have been really special'
- Blippo+ is a campy FMV transmission from another world
- March 28
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- Pathfinder: Wrath of the Righteous' 232 subclasses make it the ultimate RPG for buildcrafting freaks—especially the overpowered Ranger who gets to ride a griffon from level 1
- Mechabellum is a conversation you should be having
- Were PC gamers right to take against Syndicate's FPS reboot? Only one man with an ancient disc copy can find out
- Discussion: Is it okay for an MMO expansion's launch to be buggy?
- Microsoft's Project Helix sounds like it could be better for gamers than the Series X but in a way that is worse for Xbox
- March 27
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- March 25
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- The companions in Owlcat's new Mass Effect-inspired RPG stand ready to have heart-to-heart chats, drag you into their sidequests, and blow a lot of stuff up
- Crimson Desert is great because it's a total mess, not in spite of it, and I hope Pearl Abyss doesn't change too much
- Arc Raiders is a shining beacon of hope in the darkest times of the RAMpocalypse, proving 8 GB budget graphics cards don't have to miss out on glorious graphics
- Is an Alienware Area-51 laptop really for you? Your questions answered
- March 24
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- If you think the citizens in city builders are grumpy and needy, try pleasing a bunch of jealous Roman gods
- I crashed out reading layoff condolence letters in this shop sim about a laid-off adventurer made by a laid-off Xbox developer
- AI gaslighting watch: Is there AI in my fridge?
- Intel's new 200K Plus chips support ultra-fast DRAM out of the box but as my tests show, there's little benefit for most PC gamers in using warp-speed stuff
- EverQuest Legends is classic EverQuest, but for people who don't have time for MMOs anymore
- I've tested Intel's new Binary Optimization Tool to see what all the fuss is about and while it's almost everything the chip giant claims it to be, few PC gamers will ever see the benefits
- March 23
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- A $5 Wikipedia-like mystery game consumed me for 2 straight hours as I dug for clues about a little town and its big weird tree
- There is nothing like Marathon's Cryo Archive map
- Masters of Albion is a 'Best of Peter Molyneux' greatest hits collection in one game, but I fear it might not measure up to the games that inspired it
- Oragnized Inside is the perfect follow-up to Unpacking and A Little to the Left, as you trail a stray cat around town and tidy up as you go
- Five new Steam games you probably missed (March 23, 2026)
- March 22
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- Geoff 'Zag' Keene, design director of Abiotic Factor, has 1,160 hours in PUBG and de-stresses using a Blizzard classic: 'Instead of going to therapy, guys will literally boot up Warcraft 2'
- Crimson Desert's soundtrack is criminally inoffensive but that hasn't stopped one song from driving me insane
- This cosplayer takes crochet to wild new heights by creating entire needlework outfits, and I'm feeling a little bad that the best I can do is a fuzzy shrimp
- I've finally found my true calling, and it's kicking people out of national parks for the slightest infractions of the rules
- March 21
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- From a 'single save-passing exercise' to an 'international community': How GTA’s world-hopping Chain Game has endured through hundreds of rounds—and how it's preparing for its biggest test yet with GTA 6
- These are my 20 RPG freak pick must-plays for $10 or less in the Steam Spring Sale
- The great RPG debate: Defined playable characters or blank slates?
- World of Warcraft: Midnight's class balancing is steering the MMO headfirst into a mistake that's been haunting FF14 for years
- I installed the 154 GB 'biblically accurate Skyrim' mod and only crashed my PC like 8 times
- March 20
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- First Grammarly cloned me without permission. Then another AI company asked if it could do the same—for $2,000
- Is the Logitech G Pro X2 Superstrike good enough for the pros?
- Here are 9 incredibly specific and petty beefs I have with Crimson Desert
- Gaming mouse software should stay out of your way and it's the smaller manufacturers that seem to have received that memo
- If there's one thing I've learned playing Crimson Desert for 75 hours, it's that you should absolutely treat this game as a slow burn
- March 19
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- I've spent over 100 hours in Crimson Desert—here are my top 20 quick tips to triumph in Pywel
- My real-world testing shows 8 GB GPUs are still enough for gaming in 2026, but I'm surprised at just how much faster the 16 GB versions are
- Solasta 2 is shaping up to be the kind of tactical D&D hexcrawl Baldur's Gate 3 very much was not
- March 18
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- Aether & Iron is a thrilling narrative RPG in a floating, skybound reimagining of New York City's vibrant 1930s landscape
- Peak extraction shooter is waiting 7 minutes and 38 seconds to kill one guy in particular
- Crimson Desert is the most hyped game I've seen in a minute
- On the ground at PlayerUnknown's 2-day in-studio modjam where devs broke their own game
- As a Pathfinder 2e sicko, I'm excited for Starfinder: Afterlight after playing an hour of its playtest—but Epictellers has a lot of work to do before demo time this summer
- OLED vs. IPS: How to pick the right Area-51 laptop display for you
- March 17
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- Nvidia DLSS 5 reveal: PC Gamer reacts... not wholly positively
- Going Medieval stole my heart with a large, cursed hole
- Pragmata's action is saved by its hacking, making it feel like a third-person shooter of old: 'Finding the sweet spot has been one of the main focuses in development'
- Pragmata checks off a crucial element of Japanese sci-fi with giant robot kaiju boss battles
- March 16
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- Five new Steam games you probably missed (March 16, 2026)
- Abubakar Salim, Surgent Studios founder and Raised by Wolves star, gives us a guided tour of his PC: 'My desktop is so bad that even my wife refuses to look at my screen'
- I spent 6 months saving up for a banged-up truck in GTA RP and now I know exactly what I want from GTA 6's multiplayer
- Split spacebars are surely the next big gaming keyboard trend
- As if seeing it on your screen wasn't enough, someone has created a lifesize animatronic version of the girl from Resident Evil Requiem, which is a really good, not at all terrifying idea, I'm sure
- March 14
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- Total Chaos is a relentlessly bleak and occasionally terrifying remake of one of Doom's greatest mods, though its brilliant legacy is also its biggest weakness
- Question time: How many of you actually care about going fast in an MMO dungeon?
- Asset reuse in videogames is essential, and we need to embrace it, says Assassin's Creed and Far Cry director: 'We redo too much stuff'
- My latest obsession is this vampire cathedral PC mod, so I spoke to the creators: 'We can do Bloodborne on the PC—not on PC, on the PC'
- March 13
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- The lyrics to the rap song about John McAfee, annotated
- I'm celebrating Spring by helping a little frog wake up from hibernation in the cosy puzzle game Walk the Frog
- Here's 8 minutes in nostalgic benchmark heaven, with me running 3DMark2001 on an RTX 5090 to celebrate its 25th birthday
- It's been 25 years since my jaw first dropped at 3DMark2001's Nature test but hoo boy, have 3D graphics changed since then
- Two laugh-out-loud moments in Zero Parades gave me hope that the Disco Elysium successor will still deliver flashes of brilliance
- Former EVE Online developers are building a society simulation MMO where your character keeps playing even after you log off
- March 12
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- Path of Exile's new Mirage league might be the best chance you'll ever get at obtaining the rarest item in the game
- Dive into the surreal darkness of Silver Pines with deliciously violent combat and a mystery begging to be unraveled
- Explore a strange but cosy planet as an adorable space rover with a dog's consciousness in the emotional Rover's Tale
- The worst part of Resident Evil Requiem is its final choice, which is an annoying throwback to Resident Evil 7's ultimatum
- March 11
- March 10
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- After 2 years in early access, Greedfall: The Dying World still feels unfinished
- Marathon ignores extraction shooter 'rules' and is better for it
- After beating Slay the Spire 2 with an 8 year old deck, I'm starting to feel like this is more of a remake than a sequel
- Marathon's Outpost is an extraction map masterclass that has me even more excited for Cryo Archive
- WoW: Midnight's new Prey mechanic is the coolest system the MMO's added in a while, but it needs to be meaner—even on lower difficulties
- March 9
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- Playing Slay the Spire 2 and Esoteric Ebb on my ROG Ally all weekend turned me into a happy lump of swaddled gamer joy
- Still humming with life 21 years later, Konami's Master of Epic is a wonderful time capsule of the experimental early MMORPG era
- An hour of puzzle-solving in the quirky world of Big Walk is the most fun I've had in co-op in ages
- March 8
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- Five new Steam games you probably missed (March 9, 2026)
- CEO of Kitfox Games reckons hundreds of hours playing Civilization could be the secret to the Dwarf Fortress publisher's success: 'Maybe Kitfox wouldn't be as successful if I didn't know how to alternate between science trees and army defences'
- Tell me: What's the worst videogame song you've ever had to listen to?
- I'm determined to turn my house into a museum with these stunning wildlife identification paintings from Holly Sweet Illustration
- In defense of Deus Ex: Invisible War
- Resident Evil Requiem delivered on the multiple-protagonist promise I've always wanted from Silent Hill
- March 7
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- WoW's recent revamp of Silvermoon for Midnight is so good, I'm starting to wonder if the MMO's model of a 'new exciting continent every 2-3 years' was ever the right way
- A decade before Stalker, this obscure Ukrainian Quake clone was quietly breaking new ground for first-person shooters
- Tabletop gaming saved videogame RPGs
- I'm a Linux bore now, so I used my new powers to resurrect a ten year-old laptop forgotten by Windows
- Marathon day two check-in: Into the Outpost, an overpowered shotgun, and why I love doors
- March 6
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- I got stuck in a 13-day stalemate with an eldritch god in Bloodletter, and now it's my new favourite deckbuilder
- Marathon's aura-farming NPCs show just how bland and lifeless Arc Raiders' AI-voiced characters really are
- Women take center stage in these Xbox Game Pass picks
- Birds Watching turned my comforting hobby into a fight for survival at the end of the world, against a monster that will haunt me for the rest of my life
- In the battle for our living rooms, Xbox Project Helix and the Steam Machine make for unlikely rivals on paper—but Microsoft's new PC gaming-capable console might be raising some eyebrows at Valve
- March 5
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- Marathon day one check-in: Thief impressions, broken Deluxe Edition bonuses, and so many Assassins
- Turtle Team-Up turns Magic: The Gathering into a chill co-op game so you don't have to beat your friends and feel bad about it
- Casting demons like they were spells with Diablo 4's warlock rules, but now I'm dying to see how Lord of Hatred will transform the other classes
- I've spent two days with Elgato's new Wave Link free audio mixing software and it's a genuine benefit for streaming, recording or gaming
- After playing a bunch of Midnight, I don't think I miss WoW's combat addons or my old class design at all
- March 4
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- Finally someone has threaded the needle between survival game and horse girl sim
- Overwatch's grand revamp event is a suffocating blip in an otherwise successful return to form
- Control Resonant is far more of an RPG than I expected, complete with talent trees, stats screens, and build-crafting that wouldn't feel out of place in a Diablo game
- After 6 hours, Crimson Desert is one of the most overwhelming, chaotic, madcap videogames I've ever played—and I'm hungry for more
- Highguard's failure is emblematic of something that has tormented videogame investors for years now: past live service hits do not equal future live service hits
- March 3
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- RIP Highguard: In a better world, an FPS is allowed to be unpopular
- It's only March, but I'm calling it: Esoteric Ebb is 2026's best RPG and the first worthy successor to Disco Elysium
- Should Marathon change its divisively fast Server Slam time-to-kill?
- Keep time on your side in Resident Evil Requiem with two Hamilton watches that bring Leon and Grace to life
- The Marathon server slam consumed my weekend: 21 hours later, I've gone from 'meh' to believer
- The PC game releases we're most excited about in March
- March 2
- March 1
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- Five new Steam games you probably missed (March 2, 2026)
- Cara Ellison, senior narrative designer on Vampire: The Masquerade – Bloodlines 2 before Paradox switched developers, discusses her love of Troika's original RPG: 'Everyone on the team helped really make that maximum goth'
- The only thing more impressive than the speed in which I bought the Overwatch Sanrio skins is the speed that people have created cosplays for them
- Stardew Valley's soundtrack is the game's unsung hero, and nails the surprisingly difficult task of making a cosy game's music memorable
- Fortnite's Chapter 7 loot pool is a blueprint for battle royale going forward: balanced, lethal, and flexible
- Almost all the cozy games of March have demos to try and I've been snapping up as many as I can
- Classic Resident Evil mutates into a comedy fever-dream through the power of BioRand
