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May 31
- What Rainbow Six Siege's possible new breacher and anti-breacher could mean for the meta
- The future of CRPGs beyond nostalgia
- Inside Eidos Montreal's darker, deadlier and stealthier Shadow of the Tomb Raider
- Level up by arguing with yourself in scintillating CRPG Disco Elysium
- Minecraft: Java Edition vs Bedrock Edition
- How comic-book noir game Framed makes great chases and escapes
May 30
- How to set up an Electrum Bitcoin wallet
- Fallout 76: our best and worst guesses about what it actually is
- Fox N Forests is a deeply authentic retro platformer
- How would you change Steam?
- Overwatch League's 'Battle for LA' finally gives fans a reason to hate each other
- Age of Wonders: Planetfall steers the strategy series in an exciting direction
- Can board games be scary?
- The best RTS campaigns on PC
May 29
- Dark Souls: Remastered 4K gallery
- Please constituents, crush dreams in the Cities: Skylines board game
- How GeForce Experience enhances today’s best PC games
- Great moments in PC gaming: The Dark Carnival level in Blood
- Here's what happens when four players try to run one town in Cities: Skylines
- We Happy Few's spruced-up world is fascinating, but the survival systems don't quite fit
- PC gaming's best expansions
- Win $500 worth of games with Fanatical
May 28
- MachiaVillain is a monster mansion management sim
- The hidden tricks bringing game worlds to life
- Watch Dogs 2 made San Francisco much more than just a playground
May 27
- Is my computer power supply dead?
May 26
- Saving the world means getting adventurers drunk in fantasy sim Epic Tavern
- Great moments in PC gaming: The Mr. Freeze boss fight in Arkham City
- Dark Souls Remastered runs at 4K 60 fps even on modest PC hardware
- What minor flaw in a game makes you madder than it should?
- The history of Championship Manager and Football Manager
May 25
- This week's highs and lows in PC gaming
- 5 mods for Skyrim that let you roleplay as someone other than the Dragonborn
- The best of PC Gamer's Dark Souls stories
- The best and worst Dark Souls bosses
May 24
- How hiring a pro Overwatch coach made me a better player
- Is Dark Souls Remastered worth playing without its former mystery?
- How an unlikely defense helped defeat the best team in Rainbow Six Siege
- How Team Fortress 2 changed FPSes forever
- Big changes are coming to Battalion 1944
May 23
- Testing the kindness of strangers in Grimmwood, a 'social survival game' now in free open beta
- The Crusader Kings board game brings the medieval soap opera to your tabletop
- How the Xbox Adaptive Controller will change the lives of millions of players with disabilities on PC
- What you need to know about the Rising Storm 2: Vietnam ARVN content update
- Rifter is a neon-drenched mix of Sonic the Hedgehog and Bionic Commando
- Rage 2 needs to lose Rage 1's miserly design to be great
- Classic Flash adventure The Room Tribute is still one of the best movie games on PC
May 22
- Valuing games by their cost per hour is bullshit
- Brigitte is breaking Overwatch League's most established strategies
- League of Legends wants to bring the thrill of tournaments to everyone with Clash
- Imperator: Rome has the makings of a gorgeous, accessible grand strategy saga
- Great moments in PC gaming: Photocopying manuals
- How the Enhanced Edition fixes Space Hulk: Deathwing
May 21
- We're re-reviewing some of the PC's biggest games
- The Framed Collection's noir puzzles are even better on PC
- PC gaming's most noteworthy nukes
- The art of making effective game trailers
- Let's build a better RPG than The Witcher 3
May 20
- Everything you need to know about Rainbow Six Siege: Operation Para Bellum
- How to easily swap between headphones and speakers in Windows 10
May 19
- Great moments in PC gaming: Firing the BFG for the first time
- Looking back at Dragon Age: Inquisition
- What was the first downloadable game you bought on PC?
May 18
- Monster Garden is a combat-free RPG about how to be an emotionally stable adult
- This week's highs and lows in PC gaming
- Save the world one time loop at a time in mystery action RPG Omensight
- Win a copy of Rising Storm 2: Vietnam ahead of Saturday's ARVN beta
- The best water in PC games
- Do FPS games still need a singleplayer campaign?
- Choose your weapon with Alienware
- Game on with Alienware
- Breed new plant life in VR experimental biology game Seed
- Black Ops 4 borrows from Overwatch and Siege to finally modernize Call of Duty
May 17
- Round up outlaws with your posse and your dog in Boot Hill Bounties
- E3 2018: The games, gaffes, and hardware we expect to see
- The Steam Link app doesn't quite make the physical Steam Link box obsolete
- The best ways to play board games on PC
- Be the bad guy in digital card game Cultist Simulator
May 16
- Mastering all the elements in Wizard of Legend is no easy task
- Here's some chilly Frostpunk concept art
- The history of trees in PC gaming
- Why I love the freedom of Burnout Paradise
- The Crew 2 is a truly massive racer obsessed with social media
- The Shanghai Dragons are much better than their 0-30 record suggests
- What was the last game you bought as a physical copy?
May 15
- You're a carrot warrior in board game-inspired dungeon-crawler Verdungeon
- House Flipper is like Viscera Cleanup Detail only for super gross houses
- The strangest, silliest PC gaming crossovers
- The games of summer 2018
- Not Tonight imagines a drudge-filled Brexit dystopia
- Great moments in PC gaming: Insult sword-fighting in Monkey Island
- The Logitech G305 brings an esports-friendly design to a $60 wireless gaming mouse
May 14
- Atomic Heart devs reveal more about the hottest shooter no one had heard of until last week
- A Russian designer transformed a kid's drawing into a real, and real strange, game
- For shooter wunderkind Shroud, esports fame was a stop on the way to Twitch superstardom
- I can't stop adopting stray animals in Pillars of Eternity 2: Deadfire
- Slay the Spire's unique robot hero is hopefully a sign of things to come
May 13
- Great moments in PC gaming: Finally going on the offensive in X-Com: UFO Defense
May 12
- The making of StarCraft
- What's your favorite non-violent game?
May 11
- This week's highs and lows in PC gaming
- Combine witchcraft with office work in oddball RPG Fortune-499
- Destiny 2: Warmind secrets guide
- Secret hatches, big eggs, and missile silos: what's going on with Fortnite's map?
- Why this modder is revamping Final Fantasy 11, a dying MMO, with gorgeous HD textures
- All the adorable ooblets we've seen so far
- Frostpunk developers on hope, misery, and the ultimately terrifying book of laws
- What you need to know when you're upgrading your RAM
- Phoenix Point is most exciting in the ways it's different from XCOM
May 10
- SpyParty's long journey to Steam
- In Path of Exile's Incursion update you travel through time to craft the perfect dungeon
- Why crypto mining wasn't the only culprit for wild GPU prices
- 5 mods for a more realistic playthrough of GTA 5
- Grab a key for the Not Tonight beta
- How blockbuster games are written
- Dominions 5: Gods go to war in 4X showdown for the ages
May 9
- You'll tame a volcano with poetry in Haiku Adventure
- Which game should Thanos appear in next?
- Solving puzzles is only part of the fun in the adorable Tiny Bubbles
- Overwatch League's $30 All Access Pass adds a new camera option, but not the kind we all want
- Tix.Tax is Tic Tac Toe that will break your brain
- Two Point Hospital hands-on: Theme Hospital fans are getting the exact game they want
- Fortnite players are making Thanos do the darndest things
May 8
- How to trade with other players in Warframe
- Solar Settlers is my new favorite game to kill an hour with
- Great moments in PC gaming: Entering the open world in Oblivion
- Lamplight City is a detective adventure where it's okay to fail
- Animated mannequins and industrial skylines in the baroque world of Forgotton Anne
- The highlights and high-lows of IEM Sydney 2018
May 7
- Here are EVE Online's greatest stories
- I made teams of videogame heroes and villains play each other in Super Mega Baseball 2
- Hearthstone’s 10 greatest (and most obnoxious) one-turn kill combos
- Grab a code for free items in action MMO Kritika Online
- Path to Mnemosyne is a trippy puzzler with infinite zoom
- Meet the modders restoring GTA 3's cut content almost two decades on
- The best free PC software
- From rough sketch to final model, here's how Frontier designs the ships of Elite Dangerous
May 6
- What is Windows Service Host SuperFetch and how do you fix it?
- What it’s like going 1v1 against a CS:GO pro
- Undefeated in their last 14 matches, Boston's Overwatch team is on fire
May 5
- How a Destiny meetup grew to become a massive charity event raising over $2 million and counting
- Great moments in PC gaming: Zapping the White House in Command & Conquer
- The making of Undertale
- What are games doing in 2018 that you thought they would have stopped by now?
May 4
- This week's highs and lows in PC gaming
- Thanos Rising captures the crossover fun of Infinity War
- What's next for BattleTech
- Fort Triumph is part XCOM, part Heroes of Might and Magic
- Fortnite building tips: basic structures, getting around, and editing tricks
- Steampunk World War 1 RTS Iron Harvest will have over 30 mechs and a powerful pet bear
- Get comfortable with noblechairs - the best premium gaming chairs money can buy
May 3
- Lancelot and a talking dog take on Jack the Ripper in this adventure game
- Go pro with the Logitech G Pro Gaming Headset
- Fortnite has its own rap scene, and it sure is something
- Star Wars Episode I: Racer is still the only good thing to come out of the prequel trilogy
- Jurassic World Evolution: dilemmas, disasters, and the best-looking dinos in games
May 2
- Way to the Woods follows a deer and her fawn through a post-apocalyptic world
- You should upgrade your keyboard to the Logitech G513 and here’s why
- What do you get from a $1,300 SSD?
- What it's like making a living from designing Twitch emotes
- See the sound with the Logitech G560 gaming speakers
- When is teabagging okay in first-person shooters?
- Amnesia mod Amadeus is so good it could have been made by pros
- Kingdom Come: Deliverance’s save system shows you just how fun failure can be
- Dual Universe isn't out yet but that hasn't stopped players from building a McDonalds
May 1
- Pato Box is a boxing game with a noir comic art-style where you're a duck for some reason
- Scythe is a great board game, but the PC version needs sharpening
- Overwatch pros analyze Brigitte's strengths, weaknesses, and place in the meta
- All the cool kids are doing Hop Rocks, Fortnite's new performance-enhancing drug
- Where should Far Cry go next?
- Today Theme Hospital is a fiddly management sim, but the daft jokes endure
- How to build the perfect RTS
- Like any great zombie movie, State of Decay 2 finds complexity in characters
- The Council makes conversation feel as meaty as combat