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- September 30
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- This week's highs and lows in PC gaming
- If you're looking for No Man's Sky's giant sand snake, I found it in Osiris: New Dawn
- The worst bullshots in PC gaming
- So you want to play Counter-Strike: Global Offensive
- Civ 6's music evolves alongside your cities, and it's one of its best features
- How Civilization 6 runs on a laptop with integrated graphics
- The best pro gaming to watch this weekend
- We talk to lawyers about the No Man's Sky false advertising investigation
- Motorsport Manager captures F1 drama while emulating genre leaders
- Save 20% on a PC Gamer subscription for the next 24 hours
- September 29
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- Five common reasons game marketing is misleading
- Can League of Legends become a lifestyle product?
- The fighting game community shines at EGX
- Titanfall 2’s singleplayer campaign is more Portal 2 than Call of Duty
- Nidhogg 2 is on the way with axes, arrows, and a grotesque new art direction
- Analyzing the five biggest changes in Civ 6
- Every Civilization 6 leader, their unique stuff, and strategies for playing
- Revisiting Colonization, Sid Meier's overlooked resource juggler
- September 28
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- Dishonored 2 hands-on: exquisite stealth in a shifting clockwork mansion
- Will overheating my CPU cause any real damage?
- Why I love having NPCs do my bidding
- Battlerite is the best teamfight you've ever had, over and over
- How Divinity: Original Sin 2 will evolve in Early Access
- Randomly generate all of human history in this Crusader Kings 2 mod inspired by Dwarf Fortress
- September 27
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- PC Gamer vs. The Elder Scrolls: Legends devs — watch us duel and chat
- Sprint meters in open world games suck, and here's how to fix them
- The Division 1.4 pulls a Diablo 3 and gives you more loot all the time
- Our favorite Overwatch fan art
- Unhappy with No Man's Sky, some players are escaping to this space game
- Forza Horizon 3 4K gallery
- September 26
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- September 23
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- This week's highs and lows in PC gaming
- Is Microsoft's dominance set to end soon?
- Screaming skulls and garbage collection in Diaries of a Spaceport Janitor
- How level designers make us feel smart
- Despite a huge twist, Telltale's Batman is still mostly about a brooding rich guy
- Everspace's chronically dull resource gathering gets in the way of the action
- The best pro gaming to watch this weekend
- PC Gamer UK Podcast 025: Forza Horizon 3, Virginia, Everspace
- How Devolver Digital is redefining videogame publishing
- Can Riot's latest initiative save the League of Legends pro scene?
- Dawn of War 3 Eldar units and heroes detailed
- Watch Dogs 2 feels slick, enjoyable, but terribly hollow
- September 22
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- Deus Ex: Mankind Divided 4K gallery: Cyborg nights
- What it's like to have the fastest internet in the country
- Catch up on the Street Fighter V scene ahead of EGX
- What 'optimization' really means in games
- A grappling hook and a giant sword are exactly what Titanfall needed
- We're bringing back the Large Pixel Collider, our obscenely powerful computer
- PC Gamer UK November issue: Gwent
- Win a limited edition PC Gamer ship skin for Fractured Space
- Vote now in the Golden Joystick Awards 2016 and get three games for £1/$1
- Paladins isn't Overwatch, but it is pretty mediocre right now
- September 21
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- Living in my Cities: Skylines city taught me I am terrible at building cities
- What it’s like to manage a gaming community on fire
- Meet Ivern, League of Legends' revolutionary pacifist
- Why I love cracking Deus Ex: Mankind Divided's massive bank
- Dishonored 2 concept gallery, with insights from Arkane's art director
- September 20
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- The makers of No Man’s Sky need to start talking again
- The story of the worst basketball player ever in NBA 2K17's MyCareer mode
- Aven Colony is SimCity in space, but with sand worms
- Forza Horizon 3: impressions from the Xbox One version
- House hunting woes in Final Fantasy 14
- Build of the week: Open-air testbench
- September 19
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- September 16
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- This week's highs and lows in PC gaming
- The best pro gaming to watch this weekend
- Divinity: Original Sin 2 improves on the original
- It’s surprisingly easy to turn Left 4 Dead 2 into Overwatch
- Win access to Buck in the new Hi-Rez team shooter, Paladins
- Take a look at some Bioshock and Bioshock 2 Remastered comparison screenshots
- September 15
- September 14
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- Kripp on the future of Hearthstone: “They might be outpaced by an indie card game eventually”
- Books we'd love to see made into games
- Yorick's rebirth and the expansion of the League lore empire
- Admiring the spectacular feats of the Grand Theft Auto stunt scene
- For Honor's 1v1 mode is the deadliest game of rock, paper, scissors ever played
- September 13
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- Warcraft Adventures isn't good, but you should still play it
- Halo's weird, awkward history on PC
- Dead Rising PC port test: smooth, high-res zombie smashing
- We still need to talk about Valve's new CS:GO coaching rule
- Taming SOMA’s monsters with the Wuss Mode mod
- Crunch numbers and bones in the bizarre debut from Squanchtendo
- September 12
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- September 9
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- Ranking the god rays in Nvidia's Fallout 4 mod by subtlety
- The best pro gaming to watch this weekend
- WoW players just solved one of the game's oldest mysteries
- We have 2,000 Smash + Grab beta keys to give away
- 57 amazing space screenshots for your desktop
- Halo 5: Forge multiplayer on PC is going to explode
- Mafia 3 hands-on: 2K's crime saga goes full open world
- Don't wait to jump into Hitman, it's already great
- September 8
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- Meet the bards whose dedication moved Lord British to tears
- Pete Hines on The Elder Scrolls: Legends: “We could call it launched right now if we wanted”
- Take a quick survey for a chance to win a $250 Amazon voucher
- MU-MIMO wi-fi performance and gaming tested
- Secret Legend is a gorgeous game inspired by Zelda
- Infiltrate randomly generated cults ruled by the voices of GLaDOS and TF2's Sniper
- Funny, self-aware, and still fun today, Command & Conquer: Red Alert 2 holds up
- After years in Early Access, 7 Days to Die continues to waste its potential
- Endless Space 2 takes Endless Legend's quests and varied factions to the stars
- Our favorite games of PAX West 2016
- September 7
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- Thimbleweed Park is a wacky X-Files murder mystery packed with dad jokes
- Duke Nukem 3D 20th Anniversary Edition World Tour is a bad title but a good remaster
- Breaking down Mass Effect: Andromeda’s 4K gameplay trailer
- Duelyst’s lead designer on why their first expansion is just the beginning
- A developer who hates survival games is making a survival game
- If there was a League of Legends movie, what story would it tell?
- Trying to build a profitable Planet Coaster park without a single ride
- How do you build a massively ambitious space game in a post-No Man’s Sky world?
- Nier: Automata brings cult RPG action to the PC, with help from Platinum Games
- Why I love being a highwayman in vanilla WoW
- September 6
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- Team Fortress 2 gets equipped with Mega Man map, thanks to talented modder
- BattleTech is the mech strategy game we’ve all been waiting for
- Diluvion is a journey to the bottom of the ocean with FTL-like crew management
- How the disappointment of Mighty No. 9 helped 20XX flourish
- Master Zenyatta in Overwatch
- Dishonored 2's director on giving Corvo a voice and avoiding the "Deus Ex Effect"
- Alien: Isolation’s lost intro sequence
- Sonic Mania could be a worthy sequel to the original games
- September 5
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- Digital Extremes on how simple changes can make a big difference in Warframe
- Watch 10 minutes of the Gears of War 4 campaign running on a PC
- How Tyranny and Pillars of Eternity get player choice right
- Battling a backstreet Gwent grand master in The Witcher 3
- Kingdom of Loathing meets Skyrim in this stick figure RPG
- Hob proves Runic can do puzzles and atmosphere just as well as dungeon crawling
- Suda51 on finally bringing his bizarre serial killer murder mystery to the PC
- September 4
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- Veteran superhero modder brings Ghost Rider to GTA 5
- Lichtspeer proves that throwing laser spears at ice giant hipsters should be the next Olympic sport
- Firaxis answers one of its biggest player requests by adding Kongo to Civilization 6
- The Fall Part 2 teaches you how to ruin the life of a robot butler
- Book of Demons is Diablo distilled down to its purest form
- September 3
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- Dawn of War 3's orbital laser might be the prettiest RTS ability ever
- Strafe rekindles our love of old school FPS movement
- Watch Shadow Warrior 2's chainsaw katana liquify an army of monsters
- How will Gigantic stand out in a world ruled by Overwatch?
- Hand of Fate 2 is Batman's combat inside a D&D campaign, and it's improved a lot
- We save our space clones from suffocation in Oxygen Not Included
- September 2
- September 1
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- No Man's Sky gallery: Among the sea of stars
- The Beast is back! Daigo claims two Street Fighter V victories
- If you like Crusader Kings 2, you'll also like...
- About PC Gamer
- We asked you to make a new Overwatch character, and you made a mutant Canadian plant lady
- Why 'bad' items in games need to exist
- Owlboy is the retro-styled sidescroller you didn’t realise you needed
- Kick-ass choices for the ultimate gaming system
- Picking the right gaming laptop
- Overclocking the Ultimate Gaming CPU, Intel’s Core i7 6700K
- Best CPU for Civilization 6
- Why you want a Core i7 for multi-GPU systems
- Best CPUs for DirectX 12 games
- The best water-cooled gaming system
- How to build a great VR PC
- EVE Online players have produced some incredible propaganda
