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- What does GTA Online 2.0 even look like—and, more to the point, what do we even want from Grand Theft Auto 6 multiplayer?
- How do you feel about AI videogame music?
- 'The last time I liked everything about a game was probably Baldur's Gate 3': Raphael Colantonio, co-founder of Arkane Studios, talks us through the games installed on his PC
- Steam may be celebrating the railway experience with its Train Fest, but let's remember how rubbish the typical train trip is with some Train Sim World DLC
- July 25
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- Videogame villains who sing at you are the best
- One excellent, unforgettable expansion has fixed Doom: The Dark Ages
- Conceived in a secure military facility, this Jedi Knight fansite has been running consistently for almost 30 years: 'It looks really close to what it did back in 1998'
- Discussion time: Have you ever said goodbye to an MMO you've played for 1,000s of hours?
- July 24
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- A new expansion and the ability to be a crow wizard has me enjoying a 10-year-old action RPG for the first time
- Tired of carrying around a Steam Deck? The Samsung Galaxy S26 Ultra might be your new go-to gaming device for travel
- The challenges of developing the colony sim, from Dungeon Keeper to Dwarf Fortress and beyond
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- I used videogames to solve my country's politics: Turns out the answer is ultra-mega-communism
- I'm not worried about Fallout: New Vegas 2, because Obsidian knows how to make the best out of a bad situation
- The toughest choices in PC games
- Question time: How long have you been playing MMOs?
- For years, survival games have convinced us that chopping down 400 trees is somehow part of the fantasy—Palworld proves them wrong
- Glass mouse pads haven't won me over but gamer sleeves are a different story
- July 17
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- Does anyone know how to drive this thing?
- How much RAM do you need for an 'ultimate gaming machine?' July in PC Gamer 10, 20, and 30 years ago
- Overwatch stopping work on Stadium may be an even bigger fumble than PvE
- Overwatch's attempt at bringing back 6v6 feels like a bad compromise—it just doesn't work
- Castlevania: Belmont's Curse is like playing classic 'Vania on fast forward, with a whip to die for
- July 16
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- Hollywood still has time to avoid the gaming industry's disastrous consolidation endgame
- I've helped 100 cats mail parcels in Cat Mail Co. which is why I can safely say it's one of the best management sims I've played in a very long time
- This is my 3rd time playing EVE Online's upcoming extraction shooter little brother, and it finally feels like it's coming together—all without the ambitious crossover features it was made for
- July 13
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- 'I'm in this whole new world': Here's what Eric Barone had to say about the life-changing Stardew Valley 10 years ago this month
- Violent criminals keep escaping justice, but I sure am taking some nice photos of evidence in this crime scene simulator
- Even though Old School RuneScape was 'not built to have a LAN setup at all,' it just had a live esports tournament with 4,000 attendees: 'We were doubting at times whether we actually can pull it off'
- Budget OLED versus budget mini-LED: The best real-world PC gaming monitor tech tested
- July 12
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- Going from skull-cracker to safecracker in Dishonored 2
- We're not quite done with 2026, but here are 9 videogame bangers that have defined the year so far
- 2026's best RPG might look like Disco Elysium, but it was heavily inspired by Deus Ex, and its creator wants 'to do a first-person game at some point'
- Black Flag Resynced certainly scratches my nostalgia itch, but do you know what else does? Assassin's Creed Black Flag
- July 11
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- I've found my perfect summer game: A stomach-churning horror story about Czech train conductors built over a bafflingly deep simulation of a fictional subway
- The Elder Scrolls Online's developer deserved better than to get sucker-punched by Microsoft twice in two years
- Handheld gaming PCs are cooked
- July 10
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- How do you put a price tag on a legacy like id Software's?
- The only indie roguelike action RPG that rivals Hades and Diablo for me just got an incredible new expansion
- PC ports of old console games are the new AI vibe coding battleground
- After 16 years of exploring the final frontier, Star Trek Online devs are 'trying new things' and 'trying to push the boundaries' of what they can achieve
- Ubisoft has added a cash shop and weekly challenges to its 'faithful' remake of the 13-year-old Black Flag, because of course it has
- Black Flag's combat may have been a total cakewalk, but at least it had its novelty
- Are you excited for a new Fallout game from Obsidian? You know, given everything
- July 8
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- I played 4 hours of The Blood of Dawnwalker and it borrows a heck of a lot from The Witcher 3, for good and bad
- My first 40 days in Moonlight Peaks started off with juicy feuds, but its anemic character writing is starting to show through
- 16-year-old MMO Star Trek Online is moving forward by tinkering with the past, unearthing and remaking one of its oldest storylines—and you can play it right now
- This action RPG's more-with-more-on-top excess is as fun as expansion design gets
- My cozy game of the month is a moth-watching game where you can explore whimsical forests and uncover more about these fuzzy legends
- July 6
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- Brigador devs think it's crucial that their abrasive, hardcore mech sims aren't for everyone: 'I think we make boy slop, but that's okay'
- What was the first videogame song that you ever heard?
- Hasbro should stop looking for a Baldur's Gate 4 studio and take a leaf out of Larian's book by trying something new
- Darktide's new Skitarii class is its most unique yet, but it also advances our understanding of Warhammer 40k lore
- July 4
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- Crossfire is actually the second singleplayer shooter named after Korea’s Counter-Strike—and the last one was made by Remedy
- Dragon Age setting creator David Gaider is pitching a heist RPG that's 'make or break' for his studio
- Somehow, the $1,000 Asus ROG Xbox Ally X is the best value gaming handheld I can think of right now
- This little orb's going to be sitting on my minimap for the rest of WoW's current expansion, and I couldn't tell you why
- July 3
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- Mouthwashing's follow-up is self-described 'friendsweat' where 3 players struggle to operate a tank in a defiled city: 'We're definitely not quite at Peak, but we're not trying to make Arma either'
- The latest Chinese PC gaming hit is an indie game that spent the last 8 years growing into something you've never played before
- Horror fans are being spoiled courtesy of these two unsettling yet enthralling upcoming games
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- July is a little light on the big new game releases, but your co-op horror Discord gang will be feastin'
- Consoles continue their trend of just becoming worse PCs
- Netflix has finally figured out how to get viewers off their phones with its newest horror game, but it doesn't quite stick the landing
- "You are the endgame": Total War: Warhammer's new nightmarish Chaos invasion finally gives Archaon the apocalyptic event he's been waiting 10 years for
- The cozy game launches of July are absolutely stacked with cats, even more than usual
- How to push 007: First Light to the max with Nvidia GeForce GPUs
