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June 30
- Heroes of the Storm’s new map brings a whole lot of Diablo
- Why 3D platformers could be one of virtual reality's best genres
- Side-scroller Luckslinger turns luck into a resource
- Tell us your greatest game save tragedy!
- Show Us Your Rig: Croteam's Mario Kotlar
- Ill-Gotten Gain: Part Two update comes to GTA Online next week
- The psychology of CCP's virtual reality prototypes
- Choosing your first three Dirty Bomb mercs
- Into the Stars is a flashier FTL
June 29
- Build of the week: Victorian Desktop
- We played Terraria's 1.3 update a day early
- Putting the seal on Sivir
- Playing with the balance of battle in C&C: Red Alert
- How To: A Guide to BIOS Settings
June 28
- Mods let you use European buildings anywhere in Cities: Skylines
June 27
- The best videos of the week
- Galactic Civilizations 2 war report: part three
June 26
- The week's highs and lows in PC gaming
- Cosmic Star Heroine: recapturing the soul of an SNES RPG in 2015
- Cable management 101: how to control cable chaos outside your PC
- Top new PC games of 2015
- Win a free Steam key for Fearless Fantasy
- I no longer regret my decision: making better choices in Dota 2
June 25
- Hands-on with Armikrog's incredible claymation world
- A treasury of the least popular gaming petitions
- Total War: Warhammer E3 impressions
- Broken Bat: finding the good and bad in the Arkham Knight debacle
- Tales from the Borderlands: Episode Three - Catch a Ride review
June 24
- EarthNight: a freerunner where you stab dragons
- The dong dilemma: Why being well hung in Rust is bad news
- Total War: Warhammer's battle designer on blood and badass magic
- Get a free Steam key for Grimoire: Manastorm, with Bundle Stars
- AMD Radeon R9 Fury X tested: not quite a 980 Ti killer
- Meet Shinra, Square Enix' powerful cloud processing tech
June 23
- Master of Orion: Wargaming's plan for remaking a classic
- Oculus VP Nate Mitchell on exclusive games and DX12's impact on VR
- Best of E3 2015 awards
- Show Us Your Rig: Frozenbyte's Kai Tuovinen
- Why I'm excited about Shenmue 3
- A look at Batman: Arkham Knight's launch day issues
June 22
- Build of the week: Nova Custom Designed 17.0L 5-Slot mATX Case
- Tripwire Interactive on Killing Floor 2's world of gore
- The dangers of bad virtual reality
- Looking ahead to The International from ESL One Frankfurt
- Revamp League of Legends with three features
June 21
- Play Crusader Kings 2 as a god on Earth
- EG's PPD talks ESL One Frankfurt and that Aui_2000 performance
- Rogue System takes the hardcore flight sim to the stars
June 20
- Harvest Moon: Seeds of Memories is not the game you're hoping for
- Galactic Civlizations 2 war report: part two
June 19
- The week's highs and lows in PC gaming: E3 2015 edition
- What does it mean to have 'Xbox' in Windows 10?
- Here's what you need to know ahead of ESL One Frankfurt 2015
- Guild Wars 2 players rightly upset by Heart of Thorns' pre-purchase scheme
- Star Wars Battlefront: fun, sprawling, and worryingly simple
- Fallout 4: everything we know so far
- Playing Co-op VR with Palmer Luckey is Mindblowing
- Why our Batman: Arkham Knight review is delayed
- Edge Of Nowhere makes a convincing case for third-person VR games
June 18
- Sword Coast Legends' powerful DM tools are promising
- Dota 2 Reborn and why the MOBA will never be the same again
- Portal Stories: Mel is huge and challenging and free
- The best thing about XCOM 2 may be how moddable it will be
- Five new Deus Ex: Mankind Divided abilities revealed
- Dark Souls 3 preview: a grander sense of scale, but still familiar
- The Oculus Touch is an intuitive, exciting VR controller
- Mass Effect: Andromeda trailer analysis
- Hearthstone’s new Tavern Brawl game mode is madness
June 17
- I tried Microsoft's $150 new controller (and I liked it)
- 10 better games than Minecraft for the Hololens
- What we want from the Final Fantasy 7 remake
- Feet meet faces in these Street Fighter V screenshots
- No Man's Sky confirmed for PC
- Watch the full Dirty Bomb E3 trailer, and get a free mercenary
June 16
- For Honor: light strategy and heavy swords in a medieval dueler
- Wreaking havoc in Just Cause 3's playground of explosions
- Ghost Recon Wildlands: military action in a systemic open world
- Watch the PC Gaming Show
- Watch the Square Enix E3 conference live
- Assassin's Creed Syndicate screens show mayhem, vehicles, Big Ben
- Why building is Fallout 4's best new feature
- The Division screenshots show a very festive apocalypse
- Tombs, bears confirmed in Rise of the Tomb Raider screenshots
- Every game at E3 2015 and its PC outlook
June 15
- The Division preview: playing PvP in the lawless Dark Zone
- Rainbow Six Siege Terrorist Hunt video and impressions
- Fifa 16: a host of small changes hope to make a big impact
- Dark Souls 3 is the 'final episode': here are the first screens and art
- Watch EA's E3 press conference live
- Watch Microsoft's E3 conference
- Dishonored 2: everything we know so far
- Fallout 4 screenshots show jetpacks, mutants, more
- Doom is back: the best moments from today's gameplay reveal
- Doom's best new feature: Hell demon pinatas
- No Man's Sky screenshots and art leak ahead of E3
June 14
- Game of Checkers Part 10: a tiny drama in CK2's Game of Thrones mod
- No Wii U? You can now play Splatoon in Minecraft
June 13
- Galactic Civilizations 2 war report: part one
June 12
- PC Gamer's E3 2015 predictions
- The week's highs and lows in PC gaming
- Chasm preview: sprawling, procedural dungeon crawling
- 40 awesome custom rigs we saw at Computex
- Fallout series retrospective
- Battleborn: a heroic royal rumble from Gearbox
- World of Warcraft lead designer talks patch 6.2 and flyable mounts
June 11
- Computex's best trend: USB 3.1 Type-C motherboard ports
- 12 cases from Computex 2015 to watch out for
- It's the Steam Summer Sale!
- Watch the Oculus Rift event live [update: it's over!]
- Outside the box: what Dota players stand to gain from other MOBAs
- Wargaming on Master of Orion: "This is a passion for us"
- Tales From The Borderlands: Episode Three out later this month
- Street Fighter 5 introduces the V-Gauge
- Dirty Bomb review (beta)
June 10
- TIE Fighter: does a modern flight stick mesh with a classic game?
- Taipei's shopping malls are a paradise for PC gamers
- If you like Dead Space you’ll also like…
- The music of Half-Life 2
- Watch us play dino survival game Ark: Survival Evolved
- Descending into uncharted territory in Hellblade
- Star Wars Battlefront: the fight for Endor
June 9
- Running a games company (into the ground) in Software, Inc.
- Show Us Your Rig: Heroes of the Storm's Peter Green
- GeForce GTX 980 Ti 3-Way SLI: Overkilling It
- Get ready for the PC Gaming Show
- Lego Worlds review (Early Access)
- Perception has a fresh take on haunted house horror
- Metal Gear Solid 5 delivers spectacular open world stealth
- How motherboards are made
June 8
- Esports aren't a ticket to mainstream acceptance of gaming
- Get better at movement in CS:GO
- Rise above your rank in Royals, an optimistic peasant simulator
- Hands-on with Fortnite co-op
- A showdown with Cersei in Game of Thrones
- Reworking rune customization in League of Legends
June 7
- Game of Checkers, Part 9: a tiny drama in CK2's Game of Thrones mod
- Quell blazes and practice CPR with the GTA 5 Firefighter mod
June 6
- Here's the Coolest/Craziest Stuff We Saw at Computex 2015
- Could Steam's refund policy have a weird effect on game design?
June 5
- BeamNG.drive hands-on: realistic driving and glorious crashes
- Lian Li's PC-Q17 is an ROG modification of the NCase M1
- The week's highs and lows in PC gaming
- You've probably never heard of this RAM, but it's ridiculous and fun
- Bethesda releases high-res screenshots from the Fallout 4 trailer
- Nvidia GTX 980 Ti 2-way SLI nearly doubles performance at 4K
- NVIDIA GTX 980 Ti 2-Way SLI: Crushing Performance
June 4
- Tyrion Lannister’s dead body is an easter egg in The Witcher 3
- We Happy Few preview: blending in with the drugged masses
- ESL's James Lampkin on ESL One Frankfurt and the future of Dota
- PC Gamer UK July issue: Total War – Warhammer
- Total War: Warhammer brings heroes and monsters to battle
- Total War: Warhammer screenshots show fantasy battle
- Fractal Design shows off two new small form-factor cases
- Hands-on: Ducky Shine 5 RGB keyboard and gaming mouse
- Batman: Arkham Knight: Vigilante Tag Team
- Next-gen Z170 Intel Skylake motherboards on sale in August
June 3
- Killing Floor 2: NVIDIA’s next gen Zed-blasting tech explained
- Batman: Arkham Knight: 180 days of awesome
- Kirkwall and Korea: How games can be better tourist destinations
- Fallout 4 trailer breakdown: Boston, dogmeat, and a voice
- Best Kodi (XBMC) Add-ons
- The writing in FTL
- Phil Spencer on why Microsoft is joining the PC Gaming Show
- A closer look at FFXIV: Heavensward's dungeons
- AMD confirms Fiji graphics card announcement for E3
- Patriot defies god and man, puts two scroll wheels on gaming mouse
- AMD's Carrizo notebook APU launches with promising efficiency improvements
June 2
- The mystery of the detective who won't touch stuff
- XCOM 2 details emerge, and it's bad news for humanity
- Show Us Your Rig: BitMonster's Demond Rogers
- GeForce GTX 980 Ti Overclocked
- Drive Any Track turns music into racing tracks
- Win Premium tickets to ESL One Frankfurt 2015!
- What we want from Fallout 4
- Intel announces Broadwell desktop CPUs — here's why you shouldn't buy them
- Watch In-Win's crazy H-Tower concept PC case transform
June 1
- Stonehearth: the townbuilding game with an unfortunate name
- The New SHIELD is Coming. Be Excited... Be Very Excited
- Build of the week: mITX Gaming Ammo Can “Munitionskiste”
- The future of CS:GO legends Ninjas in Pyjamas
- GTA Online update brings ill-gotten gains next week
- Forging fragile alliances in Chaos Reborn
- Corsair’s Bulldog DIY living room PC aims for 4K TV gaming
- We're at Computex 2015! Here's what to expect