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September 30
- Cube World's infinite fantasy landscape is infinitely boring
- What it's like to go to college on an esports scholarship
- The internet has honked out a ton of Untitled Goose Game memes and art
- Crypto is Apex Legends' answer to aggressive players
- Apex Legends' new map is shaking up the meta
- Fly anywhere in the world in the impossibly massive Microsoft Flight Simulator
- What did you play last week?
- Five new Steam games you probably missed (September 30, 2019)
September 29
- Retro roundup: Quake 4, Chris Sawyer's Locomotion, Silent Hunters 5
- Great moments in PC gaming: Making it to Oregon in The Oregon Trail
- What's your favorite character creator?
September 28
- Crapshoot: Hopkins FBI, the detective game whose existence should be a crime
September 27
- Why is my PC beeping at me?
- How to play Until Dawn on PC
- The Deadliest Catch game has way more staring at crab crotches than I expected
- PUBG update 5.2: blow our tires with spike traps
- You can add animated icons to the new Steam library, and it looks awesome
- Build your own Hogwarts-style magic school in this charming management sim
- Magic: The Gathering - The Tale of the Flaxen Intruder
- PC Gamer plays: XCOM, One Finger Death Punch 2, Hades, and Woodwork Simulator
- The best management sims on PC
September 26
- I love my Dell XPS 13, but an unsolvable bug is slowly driving me insane
- The HDD is dead to me
- Fortnite: Bat Signal locations outside of Gotham City
- Fortnite: Joker canister locations
- The best Sekiro mods: unlock FPS, Bloodborne combat, and more
- How to beat Captain Cervantes in The Surge 2
- How to beat Little Johnny in The Surge 2
- The best player-made Portal 2 campaigns
- Planet Zoo beta: My turtles are sad and my hogs are horny
September 25
- Overwatch update 1.41: Balance changes to 13 heroes on the way
- Inside the wild speedrunning community of 16-year-old SpongeBob: Battle for Bikini Bottom
- Killing Nazis in VR with Respawn's Medal of Honor: Above and Beyond
- The Surge 2 traversal items and abilities guide
- Gamedec is an investigative cyberpunk RPG that swaps combat for case files
- The Surge 2 survival guide—tips and tricks to help you plunder the post-apocalypse
September 24
- Creature in the Well is an unlikely but enjoyable hack-n-slash pinball mashup
- The action-RPGs you should be playing
- FIFA 20 FUT mode—everything you need to know about the changes and additions in this year’s update
September 23
- Warframe is the new Guitar Hero
- How a joke about the milkman inspired Psychonauts' best level
- We're giving away 300 Steam keys for fantasy RPG Hardland
- What did you play last week?
- Five new Steam games you probably missed (September 23, 2019)
September 22
- Retro roundup: Assassin's Creed 2, Freedom Force vs The Third Reich, The Settlers: Heritage of Kings
- Great moments in PC gaming: Becoming a king for the first time in Crusader Kings 2
- Crapshoot: The Crystal Maze, a good gameshow but a terrible game
- What do you think of the new Steam library?
September 20
- The biggest PC gaming stories of the week
- Borderlands 3 system requirements, settings, benchmarks, and performance analysis
- Modern Warfare has exciting hints of Rainbow Six Siege, but is still bogged down by tradition
- How can I tell if my motherboard is dead?
- 7 things you should know about Crying Suns, the new FTL-inspired roguelike
- Here's a gaggle of untitled goose gifs from Untitled Goose Game
- Unleash Your Inner Savage with the Lenovo Legion Savage Stream Challenge September 27-29 in San Diego
- How many chapters are there in Borderlands 3?
- Using a Goblin King's corpse like a giant hamster ball is just a normal day in surreal RPG Hardland
- You can play Demon's Souls on PC at 60 fps now, and mods make it even better
- How to make your keyboard beautiful with custom keycaps
- Horace is a massive platformer with an even bigger heart
- Here's how storming Area 51 will go, as predicted by video games
- Picking every fight in Mirror's Edge, part 3
September 19
- I've become the worst kind of Sea of Thieves pirate: the outpost ambusher
- A Total War Saga: Troy takes the series into the age of gods and monsters
- Here's where to find three Fortnite telescopes
- In Doom Eternal the Doom Slayer is faster, stronger, and more brutal than ever
September 18
- The parent's guide to PC gaming
- NZXT H500 vs NZXT H700: which case should you buy?
- How to prepare your PC for major Windows updates
- Be honest: Do you crank up the brightness slider in horror games?
- Why technical limitations make FF14: Shadowbringers the best Final Fantasy story in decades
- Picking every fight in Mirror's Edge, part 2
- Steam finally lets you take control of your game collection, but needs more options
September 17
- Fortnite Meteoric Rise mission list: How to get the Scientist skin
- Session is the skateboarding game I’ve wanted on PC for years
- How to get every mount in Final Fantasy 14: Shadowbringers
- NZXT H500 vs NZXT H500i: which case should you buy?
- Why I love listening to conversations in exploration games
September 16
- The 5 biggest PC games in China that you'll probably never play
- Fortnite Meteoric Rise: How to touch a giant cube, search a landing pod within a meteor, enter the Rift above Loot Lake
- 8 things I wish I knew before playing Control
- Picking every fight in Mirror's Edge, part 1
- Great moments in PC gaming: Online lightsaber duels in Jedi Knight 2
- What did you play last week?
- Five new Steam games you probably missed (September 16, 2019)
September 15
- What book should be turned into a visual novel?
- Crapshoot: Two invasions from the Leather Goddesses of Phobos
September 14
- Making your favourites kiss in The Sims
- Thanks, Goyo: Rainbow Six Siege's new gadget keeps killing friendlies
September 13
- The biggest PC gaming stories of the week
- Rhythm Doctor has the best distraction mechanics I've seen in any rhythm game
- How to complete The Charlatan quest in GreedFall
- How to find and use the Naut disguise in GreedFall
- See the incredible art behind Control and other PC games
- How Devil's Hunt breathes fresh life into the age-old war between good and evil
- The Sims 2 served as an extension of an already-embarrassing teen existence
September 12
- PlanetSide Arena's 240-player battle royale is pure chaos
- PC gaming in China: Everything you need to know about the world's biggest PC games industry
- Everything we know about the Rainbow Six Siege Battle Pass
- How to complete Bad Reception in Borderlands 3
- Feel what it was like to live in Ancient Greece in Assassin's Creed Odyssey's new mode
- How to read Eridian Writing in Borderlands 3
- How to complete Coin Guard Merchandise in GreedFall
- How The Sims has spearheaded queer representation in gaming
- We're giving away 30 Steam Early Access keys for PlanetSide Arena
- PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds settings and performance guide
September 11
- 5 things modern World of Warcraft does better than Classic
- Do games at 1080p look worse on a higher resolution monitor?
- What's the oldest program you have installed on your PC?
- How to speak like the Sims
- PUBG PC system requirements: what you need for 60 fps
September 10
- Steam lets bizarre, obscure games rub shoulders with big-budget hits, and I love it that way
- EVE Online will one day be sentient, its developers told me during a nude hot tub session
- Here's how one YouTuber recreated the What Remains of Edith Finch house in The Sims 4
- Calico is a cuddly little cafe sim all about collecting furry friends and baking cakes
- Take a survey about smartphones, maybe win a prize
- Win a Deluxe Adventure Bundle key for Hearthstone's Tombs of Terror
- Civilization 6 battle royale ditches the civs and cities but keeps the nukes
- Hitman 2's new high security bank is a joy to break into
- Fortnite Boogie Down missions guide
- How long is GreedFall?
- Why Ancestors: The Humankind Odyssey is the ultimate game of survival
- Laundry was the best and worst thing to happen to The Sims
September 9
- Where to find Fortnite's bat statue, aboveground pool, and seat for giants
- Where to find Fortnite's oversized piano
- The best wonderkids to sign in eFootball PES 2020
- What is the song from the Gears 5 trailer?
- Stuff, not stories, forms the real heart of The Sims series
- Five new Steam games you probably missed (September 9, 2019)
- What did you play last week?
September 8
- Great moments in PC gaming: The hotel chase in Call of Cthulhu: Dark Corners of the Earth
- Crapshoot: ImagiNation, Sierra's virtual world complete with LarryLand
- Borderlands 3 cosplay is already looking great
September 7
- What game feels the worst to lose at?
September 6
- The biggest PC gaming stories of the week
- Spiritfarer is a serene sim about helping animal spirits ascend into the afterlife
- Evolving in Ancestors: The Humankind Odyssey
September 5
- This Halo fan event was the surprise wholesome gathering of the summer
- Control abilities: how to get and master them all
- Sweaty jungle survival game Green Hell hacks its way out of Early Access
- Levelling an undead Priest in WoW Classic is surprisingly similar to modern Warcraft
- Where to find all the Action Figures in GTA Online
- Trying to make a buck in gangster sim Empire of Sin
September 4
- The Legion Trivia Truck brought excitement to PAX West in celebration of Intel®️ Gamer Days
- How to transfer game files between PCs
- How messy is your desktop?
- The best stadiums in eFootball PES 2020
- These are the zone requirements for each World of Warcraft Classic area
- Spacebase Startopia sticks closely to the 2001 classic
September 3
- This roguelike built around environmental weapons was my surprise favorite of PAX
- Sometimes you just need a relaxing pixel art fishing game, and this is a great one
- Control: How to get to Black Rock Processing
- ROG PAX West 2019: until next year
- PC Gamer plays: Quantum Break, Team Fortress 2, Euro Truck Simulator 2, and Road to Guangdong
- How to get the official team names, kits, and badges in PES 2020
- How I dealt with an escaped rhino and a bored tapir in Planet Zoo
September 2
- 7 big questions about Kerbal Space Program 2 answered
- The best weapons in Hunt: Showdown
- Here are the best Warframe Shawzin songs
- ROG PAX West 2019: win free stuff with Jon “Falloutt” Kefaloukos
- Republic of Gamers injects life into Pax West with enthusiast-grade hardware
- I stole a castle in Mount & Blade 2: Bannerlord
- Five new Steam games you probably missed (September 2, 2019)
September 1
- What did you play last week?
- Subscribe to PC Gamer magazine for £15 for 3 months, saving 22%
- Retro roundup: The Settlers 7, Dungeon Keeper, Wing Commander: Privateer
- Great moments in PC gaming: Crossing World of Warcraft by air
- Crapshoot: MST3K Presents: Detective, the game that makes fun of itself
- What are your favorite videogame Easter eggs?