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- August 31
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- The PC Gamer Show: Top 100, WoW: Legion, PAX West, and more
 - Hitman: The Complete First Season will be out at the end of January
 - PlayStation Now on PC isn't quite Netflix for games, but it comes close
 - Peter Moore shoots down hopes for a Mass Effect remaster
 - The Division is getting a Public Test Server
 - What a Myst and Riven superfan thinks of Obduction
 - Enter the Gungeon update adds: "a gun shaped like a bullet that shoots guns"
 - These NA League of Legends teams have one last shot at Worlds
 - The new Titan Quest Anniversary Edition is free on Steam for owners of the original
 - British Telecom sues Valve over Steam patent infringement allegations
 - Acer's crazy big Predator 21 X laptop wields a curved display and two GTX 1080s
 - EVE Online to offer free play using limited characters in November
 - Forza Horizon 3 system requirements detailed
 - Echo is a third person sci-fi action puzzler with evil clones
 - Battlefield 1 open beta is now live
 - The Final Station arrives with launch trailer
 - Europa Universalis 4’s Rights of Man release date set for October
 
 - August 30
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- The PlayStation Now PC streaming service is live, here's what it looks like
 - Elite: Dangerous pilots discover a strange alien crash site
 - Watch us beat back the demonic hordes in World of Warcraft: Legion
 - Torment: Tides of Numenera trailer shows Earth one billion years from now
 - PC games to look out for in September, October, and November
 - Warren Spector shares the first System Shock 3 details
 - Samsung ports quantum dot technology to new curved gaming monitors
 - GOG launches a new, DRM-free payment system called GOG Wallet
 - Intel unveils 14nm Kaby Lake processors but you'll have to wait for desktop chips
 - Hands-on with Rising Storm 2: Vietnam's helicopters, tunnels, and guns
 - This War of Mine studio announces new, morally-fraught survival game Frostpunk
 - H1Z1: King of the Kill will leave Early Access on September 20
 - Hacknet to get new 'Labyrinths' expansion later this year
 - System Shock 3 reveals ‘dream’ development team
 - Metal Gear Solid 5 to get ‘Definitive Experience’ edition
 - Starward Rogue devs pull latest game from Steam after just three days
 - Fallout 4 Nuka-World dev diary talks gangs, quantum paddle balls
 - Fallout 4: Nuka-World review
 - Where Fallout should go next
 
 - August 29
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- Watch Dogs 2 gameplay video features hacking, driving, and bounties
 - Arcanum, Quest for Glory, and other "Sierra Classics" are now on Steam
 - How the Radeon brand came to be
 - In Ennuigi you play a depressed, chain-smoking Luigi who's lost all hope
 - A game developer believes Steam Spy puts its employees in danger
 - Hearthstone teen prodigy defends pro gaming in Ted x Youth talk
 - The World of Warcraft: Legion launch trailer warns you'd better not screw this up
 - The Witcher 3 Game of the Year edition launch trailer and patch notes are out
 - Samsung pegs higher bandwidth GDDR6 release for 2018
 - Build of the week: Lair of Grievous
 - Ubisoft is picking The Division players to send to Sweden to help with the next patch
 - Valve isn't making special exceptions to its refund policy for No Man's Sky
 - Overland's "First Access" opens to the public tomorrow
 - Hot Lava is a first-person parkour-survival game from the maker of Don't Starve
 - Asus arms new motherboard with dual 10 GbE LAN ports
 - The Infectious Madness of Doctor Dekker: a "Lovecraftian FMV murder mystery"
 - Avadon 3: The Warborn out September 14
 - Unturned: inside the popular free survival sim
 - Prepare for Burly Men at Sea on September 29
 - Titanfall 2 singleplayer features platforming, puzzles and a big friendly bot
 - RimWorld alpha 15 adds tutorial, drugs
 - Battleborn's latest hero is a big pink hen
 - Here's when World of Warcraft: Legion will unlock in your region
 - Halo 5: Forge system requirements are here, and Windows 10 Anniversary is required
 
 - August 28
 - August 27
 - August 26
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- Master of Orion review
 - No Man's Sky may be erasing player discoveries [Updated]
 - Dear Esther update will be free for owners of the original
 - Improve your D.Va play in Overwatch
 - BioShock Collection Let's Play video shows off the original game's gloriously remastered intro
 - Ghost Recon Phantoms is closing its doors
 - How Pokémon Uranium and a community of amateur developers is walking the line between love and theft
 - Intel taps 3D NAND to push PCIe-based SSDs into the mainstream
 - Blizzard rolls out livestreaming from Battle.net to Facebook
 - Corsair cranks up the brightness on new line of LUX mechanical keyboards
 - Master Auriel in Heroes of the Storm
 - Lenovo's Y27f curved display bumps AMD FreeSync monitor tally to over 100
 - 6 things I wish I'd known before starting Master of Orion
 - Rick and Morty co-creator teams with Gears of War producer to found VR studio
 - The best pro gaming to watch this weekend
 - Endless Legend unveils next expansion
 - Prison Architect gets final update, dev tools and cheats available to all
 - The Long Dark reveals new locations in story mode update
 - PC piracy survey results: 35 percent of PC gamers pirate
 - Vampyr pre-alpha footage broods in the moonlight
 - Ashes of the Singularity, Offworld Trading Company discounted in Stardock sale this weekend
 - Mortal Kombat XL coming to PC, free open beta this weekend
 - PC Gamer UK October issue: Quake Champions
 
 - August 25
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- HTC hints at dropping League of Legends sponsorships over marketing beef with Riot
 - GoldenEye: Source review
 - N++ review
 - An ode to the optical drive
 - Killing Floor 2: Tactical Response update is now live
 - Ubisoft delays the next two Division expansions to focus on fixing the game
 - #LCSForever rises from the fallout between Riot and the League of Legends community
 - A new Duke Nukem game may be announced soon [Updated]
 - Check out this faithful adventure game tribute to Stranger Things
 - Adata's Ultimate SU800 SSDs pack 3D NAND memory and up to 1TB of capacity
 - Best gadgets for back to school
 - Intel Core i7-6850K Review
 - The Church in the Darkness gameplay trailer demonstrates a jungle rescue gone wrong
 - Dead By Daylight: tense horror movie multiplayer marred by a lack of polish
 - Owlboy release date set after nine years in development
 - Minecraft gets second Great Fire of London map
 - Civilization 6 to get 25th anniversary edition
 - Virginia brings the weird mystery and TV pacing of True Detective to games
 - Cities: Skylines modder to craft city-builder’s next DLC
 - Toejam and Earl: Back in the Groove partners with Adult Swim, due 2017
 
 - August 24
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- Deus Ex: Mankind Divided Easter eggs reference Portal, Sonic, and Mitt Romney
 - The five biggest changes in World of Warcraft: Legion
 - Can Call of Cthulhu ever be a good videogame?
 - EA promises Titanfall 2 tweaks in a multiplayer tech test update
 - The PC Gamer Show: Deus Ex: Mankind Divided, PS Now on PC, Loot Rascals, and more
 - No Man's Sky's player count has dropped 88 percent, but that's not unusual
 - Learn why face is not always the place in The Elder Scrolls: Legends
 - The planets of No Man's Sky, ranked
 - Why I love climbing to the highest point in open-world games
 - The Overwatch ARG now has a strange forum post counting down to something [Updated]
 - Halo 5: Forge comes to Windows 10 in early September
 - Cooler Master’s ambidextrous MasterMouse Pro L fits different grips
 - The first Deus Ex: Mankind Divided patch addresses "critical issues"
 - The strange art, fashion and architecture of Deus Ex: Mankind Divided
 - Dark Souls 3 Ashes of Ariandel DLC release date revealed with trailer
 - Battlefield 1 DLC and Premium Pass detailed, French and Russians en route
 - Deus Ex: Mankind Divided’s PC port suffers technical issues, backlash over pre-order bonuses
 - Fallout 4 dev stream shows opening hour of Nuka-World DLC
 - Hitman: Episode 4 review
 - Road Redemption delayed due to Louisiana floods
 
 - August 23
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- Every PlayStation 3 game you'll be able to play on PC through PS Now
 - Pathologic remake is delayed into the second half of 2017
 - Smash + Grab is a 3v3 online gang warfare game from the makers of Sleeping Dogs
 - Gigabyte's tri-slot GeForce GTX 1060 Xtreme Gaming is one cool card
 - The Dota 2 Dark Rift update brings Vrogros the Underlord to life
 - Duelyst is now available through Steam
 - Sony confirms PS Now is coming to the PC
 - GTA 5 Redux graphics mod has been delayed by hackers
 - Deus Ex: Mankind Divided augmentation guide
 - How to get the best performance out of Deus Ex: Mankind Divided
 - Astro Boy: Edge of Time, a Tezuka-themed CCG, is now on Kickstarter
 - Intel Core i7-6800K Review
 - Total War: Warhammer’s The Grim & The Grave DLC due next month
 - XCOM 2 modders release update video for ambitious co-op mod
 - Ex-BioShock dev to create interactive autobiography via a Doom 2 mod
 - Cities: Skylines used by Swedish city planners to design new city district
 - Grow Up review
 - The Witcher 3 takes PC Gamer Top 100 top spot
 - Mortal Kombat XL could be coming to PC after all
 - Overwatch's new Eichenwalde map pays tribute to Dark Souls
 - Disgaea 2 is coming to Steam early next year
 - 9 things I wish I knew before playing Deus Ex: Mankind Divided
 
 - August 22
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- No Man's Sky mod lets you fly your ship close to the ground, inside caves, and underwater
 - Installation 01 is a fan-made Halo game hoping to avoid shutdown
 - ZeniMax accuses John Carmack of theft in amended Oculus Rift lawsuit filing
 - Best accessories for back to school
 - Allison Road, the PT-inspired horror game, is back in development
 - Build of the week: the BFG
 - You can play Overwatch’s first new map on the PTR right now
 - Bethesda to livestream Fallout 4’s Nuka-World DLC tomorrow
 - Lost Ember’s teaser trailer is gorgeous
 - Deus Ex: Mankind Divided season pass contents and unlock times announced
 - Illegal and important: the catch-22 of PC fan games
 - Agony to bring its hell-bound horror in 2017
 - Adam Jensen's Mankind Divided apartment: an analysis
 - Divinity: Original Sin 2 launches on Steam Early Access next month
 - Watch the first hour of Divinity: Original Sin 2
 - Warhammer 40K: Eternal Crusade release date is bad news for foes of the Emperor
 - Puzzle platformer Little Nightmares is as cute as it is terrifying
 - Kingdom Come: Deliverance trailer shows stealthy slaughter
 - Facebook is working on an "all-new PC gaming platform" with Unity
 
 - August 21
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 - August 19
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- Ubisoft announces launch date for Steep, the open world extreme sports mountain game
 - New Europa Universalis IV expansion will bring the Rights of Man to Renaissance Europe
 - Emily Kaldwin kills everything in this Dishonored 2 gameplay video from Gamescom
 - Star Citizen 3.0's planetary landing blows No Man's Sky away
 - The PC games we're looking forward to most
 - 11 changes we want to see in No Man's Sky's future updates
 - AMD on approach for Zen landing
 - Valve explains why it's restricted coaches at CS:GO tournaments
 - The best pro gaming to watch this weekend
 - Lian Li's latest standing desks trades built-in case for lower price
 - New Prey gameplay trailer demonstrates the value of turning into a coffee cup
 - Check out Deus Ex: Mankind Divided's graphics and UI options
 - PC Gamer UK Podcast 021: Deus Ex: Mankind Divided, No Man's Sky
 - Watch nine minutes of Risen devs’ open world sci-fi RPG Elex
 - Deus Ex: Mankind Divided review
 - No Man’s Sky’s PC patch is out now
 - Eve Online is free to try on Steam this weekend
 - Mafia 3 trailers introduce the Marcanos and frontman Lincoln
 
 - August 18
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- Stylish roguelike Below has been delayed
 - Overwatch could be getting a free trial mode
 - Gears of War 4 graphical settings revealed at Gamescom
 - Loot Rascals is the weirdest roguelike since The Binding of Isaac
 - How to prepare for Legion, WoW's next expansion
 - Sorcerer King: Rivals, a standalone expansion to Stardock's 4X strategy game, is coming next month
 - Unturned: how a survival game made by a 16-year-old racked up 24 million downloads
 - Obsidian's Tyranny RPG is built on more than 600,000 words
 - Top CS:GO pros weigh in on the Nuke and Inferno map switch
 - No Man's Sky review
 - Nvidia throws $200 GeForce GTX 1060 3GB into the ring
 - Star Trek: Bridge Crew, Eagle Flight, and Werewolves Within will all be out by year's end
 - The worst PC ports ever
 - A post-EVO look at the current Street Fighter V world standings
 - Overwatch animated short "The Last Bastion" debuts at Gamescom
 - Konami opens up a little about what Metal Gear Survive actually is
 - South Park: The Fractured But Whole - super heroes and fart jokes, together at last
 - Deus Ex: Mankind Divided’s launch trailer shows cyberpunk sparring, stealth
 - Yooka-Laylee trailer is full of 90s platforming nostalgia
 - GeForce GTX 1060 Review
 - How to enjoy No Man’s Sky
 - Natural Disasters are coming to Cities: Skylines
 - CS:GO coaches banned from helping teams during competitive matches
 - For Honor closed alpha scheduled, PC port detailed
 - Watch Dogs 2 players will fight each other in new Bounty Hunter mode
 
 - August 17
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- Bandai Namco's first-person thriller Get Even has a bizarre new trailer
 - The Crew is getting a cops versus crims expansion this November
 - The PC Gamer Show: a special guest from Warframe, No Man's Sky, and more
 - If you type 'gg ez' in Overwatch, prepare to look like even more of a loser
 - Star Wars Battlefront's new Battle Station mode will let you blow up the Death Star
 - Lenovo and HP chase serious gamers with new high-end desktops
 - 8-Bit Hordes brings a Warcrafty spin to 8-Bit Armies
 - Overwatch PTR patch rolls out major changes to ranking system, new emotes
 - Nier: Automata is coming to Steam
 - Looking back at the history of surprise picks in League of Legends
 - Tips we wish we’d known before starting The Elder Scrolls: Legends
 - New Mount & Blade 2: Bannerlord gameplay surfaces in "Siege Defense" video
 - Deus Ex: Mankind Divided will not support DirectX 12 at launch, but it's coming
 - Microsoft plans for all Windows 10 PCs support HoloLens in 2017
 - Farewell Fnatic: looking back on one of CS:GO's most legendary lineups
 - No Man's Sky creator walks back "no paid DLC" statement
 - Acrobatic minimalist puzzler N++ set for Steam launch next week
 - If you like No Man’s Sky, you’ll also like…
 - Why I love the contemplative peace of Blade Runner's balcony
 - Dead Rising 4’s pre-order details, price revealed
 - GTA 5 Redux graphics mod looks better than ever ahead of next week’s release
 - Football Manager 2017 release date set for November
 - Metal Gear Survive is a co-op stealth game set in an alternate timeline to Ground Zeroes
 - Resident Evil 7 trailer teases new character, setting, stalker
 - See Rapture before and after in BioShock: The Collection Remastered comparison trailer
 
 - August 16
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- No Man's Sky resources guide: what they're for, and how to find them
 - PANIC at Multiverse High! may be the most ridiculous visual novel yet
 - Let's design an Overwatch hero together
 - After 15 years, a cancelled Game Boy RPG finds life on PC
 - Agony gameplay trailer showcases a first-person crawl through the bowels of Hell
 - No Man's Sky Atlas Pass guide: how to find v1, v2, and v3
 - EA exec drops hints that a remastered Mass Effect could be on the way
 - Here's the Titanfall 2 multiplayer beta trailer
 - Revisiting Deus Ex: Invisible War, one of PC gaming's biggest disappointments
 - Inkle's Sorcery! concludes in September with The Crown of Kings
 - Sean Murray says the No Man's Sky patch will make people very happy
 - Here are the results of our Hearthstone Priest card design competition
 - Gears of War 4 system requirements, 4K gameplay footage revealed
 - Overwatch's first new map will be a huge German castle
 - Nvidia’s releases 372.54 drivers for GeForce GTX 10 series notebooks and No Man's Sky
 - No Man's Sky player maxes out ship, exosuit, and crafts an Atlas Pass without leaving his starter planet
 - Gamescom pranked by 'Half-Life: 3' sign
 - EVGA SC17 gaming laptop wields a 4K display and GeForce GTX 1070 GPU
 - Watch 3 minutes of Dead Rising 4 in-game footage, new screens
 - Paragon enters free open beta today
 - No Man's Sky photo diary: My first 20 hours
 - New Bordeaux, bank robbing and bad guy blasting in Mafia 3’s Gamescom trailer
 - Microsoft to rival Steam by bringing Early Access-style initiative to Windows 10
 - Watch 15 minutes of sci-fi Souls-like The Surge
 - Oculus Rift to launch in UK and Europe next month
 - Sunless Sea’s Zubmariner expansion release date set for October
 - Logitech's new Pro Gaming Mouse aims for lightweight purity
 - Nvidia launches GeForce 10-series notebook GPUs
 - Monster Boy and the Cursed Kingdom video showcases six whimsical characters
 - What's up with No Man's Sky's mysterious fireworks?
 
 - August 15
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- Enderal: The Shards of Order — Skyrim mod review
 - League of Legends' Twisted Fate has been temporarily disabled
 - How to increase inventory space in No Man’s Sky
 - Big changes are coming to Overwatch in season two
 - You can play Resident Evil in this Doom 2 mod, and it’s surprisingly faithful
 - How to make money in No Man’s Sky
 - The anatomy of hype: how No Man’s Sky became the best and worst game ever
 - The Battlefield 1 open beta gets underway at the end of August
 - AMD Crimson 16.8.2 drivers add support for No Man's Sky
 - Build of the week: Arcade Dragon
 - Titanfall 2 multiplayer beta is not coming to the PC
 - Cooler Master’s MasterLiquid Maker 92 puts unique spin on AIO liquid cooling
 - You can finish Dishonored 2 "without killing a single person"
 - How a stolen skin became CS:GO's most legendary gun
 - Nine Parchments is a new co-op shooter from Trine devs Frozenbyte
 - Duelyst’s first major expansion launches later this month, here are 8 new cards
 - Dawn of War 3 hands-on: Evaluating the Emperor's finest, one unit at a time
 - Watch Fallout 4’s Nuka-World add-on in action
 - Failbetter Games’ founder now writing for Stellaris
 - StarCraft 2: Legacy of the Void to welcome big multiplayer design changes
 - Skyrim total conversion mod Enderal: The Shards of Order out now
 - No Man's Sky data miner finds possible player avatar and a Half-Life logo
 
 - August 14
 - August 13
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- The top three Dota 2 teams in the world emerge in a dramatic penultimate day at The International
 - Worlds Adrift trailer shows shipbuilding, ship battles
 - Keep Talking and Nobody Explodes gets Steam Workshop support
 - Valve announce Monkey King, the first Dota 2 hero that isn’t a port from DotA
 - Remedy says Quantum Break on Windows 10 has not been abandoned
 
 - August 12
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- Bethesda: Elder Scrolls 6 won’t be revealed until it's ready to release
 - PC gamers, fill out our survey about piracy
 - 212,620 people playing No Man's Sky at once makes it the biggest Steam launch this year
 - Best portable storage for back to school
 - Outcast - Second Contact coming in March 2017, first screens released
 - Path of Exile is getting an end-game overhaul
 - High-bandwidth support is being rolled out to Overwatch at this very moment
 - The best pro gaming to watch this weekend
 - Halo Wars 2 PC beta won't happen until early 2017
 - The PC version of No Man’s Sky is a mess for some players
 - Killing Floor 2 lines up for a full release in November
 - Shadow Warrior 2 release date set for October
 - Take a look at the PC graphics options for No Man's Sky
 - The International 2016 is becoming an underdog fairytale
 - No Man's Sky guide: tips for getting started
 - PC Gamer UK Podcast 020: Quake Champions, Prey, Abzu
 - Corsair and MSI tag team liquid cooled GeForce GTX 1080
 - What's at the centre of the No Man's Sky universe?
 - South Park: The Fractured But Whole demos nose-mounted Nosulus Rift
 - The psychological tricks of VR
 - The Shattering is a psychological horror game from the Lords of the Fallen devs
 - Nordic Games rebranded as THQ Nordic, refers to 13 unannounced projects
 - Reigns is a fun medieval monarchy management sim, out now
 - Here’s when No Man’s Sky unlocks on PC
 - No Man's Sky will be patched in the near future to address launch concerns
 - GoldenEye: Source receives first major update since 2013
 - New Dota 2 hero Underlord revealed at The International
 - Battlefield 1 gameplay video focuses on vehicular warfare
 - Titanfall 2 campaign is inspired by the latest Wolfenstein and Doom instalments
 
 - August 11
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- 20 hours in the biggest Skyrim mod ever, Enderal
 - Biostar brings racing themed motherboard to the mini-ITX scene
 - We have seen the future of watching esports, and it is good
 - Lichtspeer trailer reveals penguin Vikings, wurst zombies, and Das Walrus
 - What critics think of No Man's Sky so far
 - You can write stuff that might appear in the spiritual sequel to Maniac Mansion
 - Doom's deathmatch mode is still on the way, id would have released it earlier in hindsight
 - New Warhammer 40K: Inquisitor-Martyr trailer showcases "Blood and Gore"
 - Riot sues League of Legends botting service "LeagueSharp"
 - The weirdest, coolest No Man's Sky aliens and planets we've seen so far
 - Zotac’s liquid cooled GeForce GTX 1080 gives Pascal a chilly reception
 - Dell dishes up 24-inch G-Sync and 27-inch FreeSync gaming monitors
 - Eidos reveals Deus Ex: Mankind Divided system requirements
 - Endless Space 2 gunning for Early Access this summer
 - Impossible odds are overcome on day three of the International 2016
 - The Witcher 3: Game of the Year Edition is out this month
 - Broken Sword creator and Pewter Games unveil The Little Acre
 - How Ark: Survival Evolved and Twitch are breathing new life into roleplaying
 - Gears of War 4 multiplayer footage looks pretty sleek
 - This Is The Police review
 - No Man’s Sky limited edition box has online play icon hidden under sticker
 - Mafia 3 spotlights untrustworthy ally Cassandra
 - Master of Orion will leave Early Access later this month
 - Rainbow Six Siege player base has almost doubled since launch
 
 - August 10
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- What No Man's Sky could learn about exploration from Kerbal Space Program
 - Evolve Stage 2 is getting a co-op vs. AI playlist and a deadlier Orbital Drill
 - No Man’s Sky impressions: our thoughts after two days on PS4
 - Rayman Origins is the next free "Ubi 30" game
 - Telltale is teasing a Mr. Robot project
 - A new Overwatch animated short will debut next week
 - The purpose of No Man's Sky's mysterious Atlas Stones has been discovered
 - The state of PC piracy in 2016
 - The PC Gamer Show with Chris Avellone and Larian Studios: No Man's Sky, QuakeCon, Divinity: Original Sin 2
 - The problem with League of Legends’ challenger system
 - The Gwent closed beta has been delayed into October
 - Lian Li's modular 550W and 750W SFX-L PSUs bring big power to mini-ITX gaming PCs
 - BitFenix Aurora case flaunts tempered glass side panels and RGB lighting
 - Bundle Stars Summer Sale drops deals on Mad Max, Space Engineers
 - Quantum Break is coming to Steam and retail in September [Updated]
 - The biggest upset in the history of pro Dota 2 shocks the International 2016
 - Demons descend on World of Warcraft, new cinematics reveal major lore details
 - Why I love being the 'hero' in Spec Ops: The Line
 - Just Cause 3: Bavarium Sea Heist expansion available from tomorrow
 - Titanfall 2’s matchmaking is based on skill and contribution to matches
 - World of Tanks joins FACEIT tournament platform
 - Collectible card game Faeria goes free-to-play this month
 - The newest Humble Bundle is all about survival
 - BioShock: The Collection trailer shows a slightly nicer looking Rapture
 - Dota 2 forums reportedly hacked, usernames and passwords exposed
 
 - August 9
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- Two No Man’s Sky players manage to meet, but apparently can't see each other
 - Northgard is a Viking strategy/exploration game from the makers of Evoland
 - Play out your Overwatch fan fiction in Starbound with these custom skins
 - RimWorld beginner's guide
 - Dead Rising is coming to the PC in September, system requirements revealed
 - The Overwatch ARG takes a new direction as the search for Sombra continues
 - Take a look at 50 different planets in No Man's Sky
 - Engage in open-world deep sea exploration and submarine combat in Diluvion, out this fall
 - A band of Robin Hoods will help you get WoW's rare moose for free, and some raiders aren't happy
 - Free Shadwen update adds 14 "re-worked" levels and improved AI
 - AMD Crimson 16.8.1 driver bumps up max memory overclock for Radeon RX 480 cards
 - Nintendo issues DMCA notice against that really good Metroid II fan remake
 - Watch the No Man’s Sky launch trailer
 - Divinity: Original Sin 2 dev diary showcases new character creation
 - Heartbreak and triumph on the first day of the International 2016
 - Orwell is a surveillance thriller about the ethics of data mining
 - Stellaris details Heinlein patch 1.3, due October
 - League of Legends spotlights newest champion Kled, patch due tomorrow
 - Over 2000 Amiga games are now playable for free in your browser
 - Bethesda hints at The Evil Within and Rage sequels
 - Hearthstone lead designer explains why new Priest card is so bad
 - League of Legends OPL grand final hits Brisbane this weekend
 - No Man's Sky AMA reveals likely release time, FOV slider work and more
 - Enderal, the Skyrim total conversion, is coming next week
 
 - August 8
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- Watch Sean Murray play an hour of No Man's Sky
 - JFK survived in Prey's alternate reality, so now you have to fight aliens
 - We simulated a Donald Trump presidency in Supreme Ruler
 - Gears of War 4 gameplay trailer introduces the Deebees
 - Get off to a strong start in The Elder Scrolls: Legends
 - Blizzard warns against using the Lucioball character-changing exploit in Overwatch
 - Cloud storage outfit ranks hard drives on reliability; Seagate is worst
 - The 10 most overhyped PC games
 - Design us a good Priest card for Hearthstone and you could win 60 packs
 - The most ridiculous patch notes from 10 years of Dwarf Fortress
 - Quadrilateral Cowboy's source code has been released to the public
 - Build of the week: life-sized Nick Valentine
 - Vlambeer dev explains why the huge No Man's Sky day-one patch is a necessary evil
 - Leaked specs show GTX 1070 mobile wielding more CUDA cores than desktop GPU
 - SteelSeries Siberia 840 gaming headset brings the boom with Bluetooth support
 - No Man's Sky "maybe isn’t the game you imagined," says Hello Games founder
 - This week’s PC gaming deals
 - Suda 51’s The Silver Case getting remastered, free demo out now
 - Revisiting the opera house in Hitman: Blood Money
 - Watch Berserk’s combat in full swing
 - Hitman could get two more seasons
 - Win a trip to Paris to celebrate the launch of AOC's ultra-responsive Agon monitors
 - Resident Evil 7 teases green herbs and the possibility of in-game vendors
 - Ashes of the Singularity update improves unit movement, adds new maps
 - Earth Defense Force 4.1 to get Time of the Mutants missions DLC today
 
 - August 7
 - August 6
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- Why Prey has nothing to do with the original Prey
 - The International 2016: everything you need to know
 - What happened in hardware this week: new SSDs, HTC Vive price bump, a 1TB graphics card
 - No Man's Sky's servers will be wiped prior to official release
 - Long War dev's alien mod whacks in new XCOM 2 enemies
 - Overwatch season 1 ends in just over a week
 - All 45 cards now revealed for Hearthstone's One Night at Karazhan adventure
 - Only one player knows what’s behind this MMO’s mysterious door, and they aren’t telling
 
 - August 5
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- Sean Murray confirms that No Man's Sky will release on PC three days after PS4
 - The FPS inspired by Quake, Spelunky, and the '90s
 - Outreach promises a sinister mystery aboard an 80s-era Soviet space station
 - How WoW's "craziest world event" borrows from Blizzard’s RTS past
 - Battlefield 1 trailer reveals old weapons brought to a modern videogame
 - Latest Call of Duty: Infinite Warfare trailer introduces the Captains
 - StarCraft HD is reported to be in the works
 - Id Software doesn’t know yet if Quake Champions will be free-to-play
 - Master Gul'dan in Heroes of the Storm
 - Take-Two boss says he's not giving up on Battleborn
 - The best pro gaming to watch this weekend
 - The best Hearthstone teams
 - Steam hardware survey shows GeForce GTX 970 still holding strong
 - The best writing in PC games
 - Dishonored 2 had a QuakeCon demo, here's what was in it
 - Anyone who uses the C key to crouch is a hopeless degenerate
 - Hitman heads to Bangkok for Episode 4
 - Valve adds new Steam gifting restrictions to combat cheating
 - Fallout 4 update 1.7 lets players murder Jun and Marcy Long
 - Here's a new look at Manifold Garden's lovely architecture
 - 'Role-playing shooter' Slayer Shock is basically Buffy: The Video Game
 - It's possible to play Overwatch's Lucioball as any other hero, thanks to a bug
 - Rockstar is definitely working on something other than GTA Online
 - Overwatch World Cup 2016 announced, finals will take place at Blizzcon
 
 - August 4
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- Mafia 3 video introduces anarchic Irish Syndicate leader Thomas Burke
 - I got drunk and almost burned to death in this custom RimWorld scenario
 - Overwatch has earned half a billion dollars, breaking records for Blizzard
 - Watch the first Quake Champions gameplay trailer
 - Prey lets you transform into a mug
 - Watch the Doom: Unto the Evil trailer that didn't quite play during QuakeCon
 - The Elder Scrolls: Legends is now in open beta
 - Get Doom and Fallout 4 for 50% off during Steam's QuakeCon sale
 - Black Desert Online players protest 'pay-to-win' changes with in-game picket signs
 - New Prey gameplay trailer revealed at QuakeCon
 - Fans are having fun with No Man's Sky's gold disc picture
 - No Man's Sky "Roundup" trailer is a highlight reel of intergalactic exploration
 - Call of Duty: Black Ops 3 is free on Steam for the weekend
 - Finding Paradise, the sequel to To the Moon, is confirmed for 2017
 - How to kick ass as Soldier: 76 in Overwatch
 - Our Dark Souls 3 DLC wishlist
 - Steam VR tracking technology now available to third parties
 - F1 2016 Multiplayer Career Mode will support 22 racers over an entire season
 - Stellaris launches first official DLC: Plantoids Species Pack
 - Investigator 4K gallery: woe and cataclysmic weather
 - The official No Man's Sky soundtrack can be streamed free on YouTube
 - We have 20,000 LawBreakers alpha keys to give away (Update: all out!)
 - I followed Dendi in VR for an entire Dota game and it was weird
 - Watch 20 minutes of ‘super pre-alpha’ Battletech in-game footage
 - Giant chainsaws and tiny black holes are just two things that can kill you in Half Dead
 - Puzzle adventure Pan-Pan from the Shelter devs looks wonderful
 - Sudden Strike 4 bringing WW2-inspired real-time strategy next year
 - Three classic 16-bit Disney platformers are now available on GOG
 - Platinum Games co-founder hints at Vanquish PC port
 - Filling up the book of grudges in Total War: Warhammer
 - Quadrilateral Cowboy to get new, free missions in coming weeks
 - FIFA 17 system requirements revealed
 - Imitation weapons not permitted at Gamescom 2016, organisers warn
 - Overwatch game director reiterates position on Summer Games loot items
 
 - August 3
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- The first No Man's Sky patch is done, will bring new "features, balances and content"
 - Batman: The Telltale Series patch is out, new graphics option added
 - The PC Gamer Show: Civilization 6, Abzu, Karazhan, and more
 - Plants vs Zombies: Garden Warfare 2 ten-hour trial returns later this month
 - The Evolve Stage 2 "Shear Madness" event is now underway
 - Prey's "Secrets From the Announce Trailer" video teases something in the coffee cup
 - Why dank memes are killing the discussion around esports
 - Why I love multi-classing in RPGs
 - Sean Bean will be the voice of Civ 6's tech tree quotes
 - Overwatch Summer Games trailer hides a mysterious secret
 - Shadow of the Colossus comparisons are “flattering but terrifying,” says Prey for the Gods devs
 - Grow Up takes Bud the robot to new frontiers
 - The International 2016: your guide to the teams
 - The International 2016: get ready for the group stage
 - Watercolour puzzler Hue gets August launch date
 - Total War: Warhammer - Call of the Beastmen review
 - Chaotic kitchen simulator Overcooked out now, serves up launch trailer
 - Watch ten minutes of Rare’s Sea of Thieves in motion
 - Telltale's Batman flooded with negative Steam reviews
 - Activision details Marvel Ultimate Alliance fixes, offers free DLC
 - New LawBreakers videos focus on the rocket-wielding Titan
 - Nvidia Pascal Titan X preview
 - GTA Online gets a track editor for its Cunning Stunts mode
 - Battle.net is currently being hit with a DDoS attack
 - The Division film is definitely happening, Jake Gyllenhaal confirmed to star
 - Fan video recreates Firewatch scenes in real locations
 
 - August 2
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- Blizzard releases World of Warcraft: Legion "extended preview" trailer
 - "Augs Lives Matter" banner in new Deus Ex concept art draws criticism
 - Mike Donais on One Night in Karazhan, whether Priest really has a problem, and if Fiery War Axe is the best card in Hearthstone
 - Sniper Ghost Warrior 3 trailer showcases stabbing, punching, and some sniping, too
 - Someone recreated an Overwatch map in TF2, and it works surprisingly well
 - Take a look at all of Overwatch's Summer Games 2016 skins
 - Major gambling site CSGO Lounge makes awkward move toward legitimacy
 - Making a clan of cannibals with RimWorld's scenario editor
 - Chun Li challenges the top spot on the emerging Street Fighter V tier list
 - Biostar boards the hype train into SSD territory with G300 series for gamers
 - Overwatch update adds Lúcioball game mode and "Summer Games" goodies
 - Ark: Survival of the Fittest is once again a part of Survival Evolved, no longer available for free
 - Here’s how your city would look in Deus Ex: Mankind Divided’s 2029
 - New Grim Dawn DLC arrives tomorrow
 - How to use your utility grenades in Counter-Strike: Global Offensive
 - New turn-based Warhammer 40K game in the works
 - Big Robot’s next game is The Signal From Tölva
 - This year’s Golden Joystick Awards are open to the public
 - Dying Light devs announce Pure Farming 17: The Simulator
 - No Trace is Hitman meets Hotline Miami, out this year
 - Batman - The Telltale Series: Ep 1 review
 - Abzû review
 - Slain! is reborn following a poorly received launch
 
 - August 1
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- The latest Overwatch banwave inspires tears, threats, and hilarity
 - What we can learn from games that play with real places
 - Outlast 2 delayed until 2017, still promises to "scare the crap out of you"
 - Why aren't there more great pirate games?
 - The International 2016: your guide to the wildcard teams
 - The HTC Vive just got more expensive in the UK
 - Build of the week: Rebreather
 - Rainbow Six Siege: Operation Skull Rain trailer showcases interrogations and the tactical crossbow
 - Get the definitive Mirror’s Edge: Catalyst experience with GTX 1080 & 1070
 - Atlas Reactor, Trion's turn-based tactical combat game, is adding a "free mode"
 - Marvel Ultimate Alliance fixes are "on the way" [Updated]
 - Star Trek New Horizons mod boldly revamps Stellaris
 - Returning to Quake 2, the legendary shooter that's still fun today
 - Telltale’s Batman local multiplayer designed for up to 12 players, not 2000
 - Overcooked review
 - Fan-made Star Wars Battlefront successor blocked by EA, LucasFilm
 - FIFA goal of the year winner to quit football for esports
 - YouTuber replaces every Dark Souls 3 texture with Nic Cage and Shrek
 
 

