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October 31
- Crapshoot: The other Blair Witch videogames
- Ghostbusters: The Video Game is the real Ghostbusters 3
October 30
- The Dread X Collections are bizarre, brilliant medleys of horror hits
- The mayor of Silent Hill talks the pandemic, the election, and the future of the famously haunted town
- This FPS finally does WWI combat right
- 5 ways to avoid hurting yourself while PC gaming
- RuneScape is a lot weirder than I remembered
- Where to find all the Corrupted Memories in Watch Dogs Legion
- What should you do with Skye Larsen in Watch Dogs Legion?
- Here are all the spooky Halloween events happening on the PC Gamer forum
- Teardown is a chaotic destruction sandbox and a great puzzle game
- How to start the Stormzy mission in Watch Dogs Legion
- Due Process is a procedurally generated Rainbow Six: Siege with visuals to die for
- Among Us works because it's a board game in disguise
- Surround yourself with sound with these affordable HyperX Headsets
October 29
- The 12 pettiest reasons I refused to recruit someone in Watch Dogs Legion
- Interview: Darkest Dungeon 2's new 3D look, monsters, The Narrator, and its surprising 'aspirational' spirit
- Get these skills first in Watch Dogs Legion
- Alien: Isolation is still a terrifying audiovisual masterpiece
- These are the best recruits to enlist in Watch Dogs Legion
October 28
- Every World of Warcraft expansion ranked
- Performing menial tasks is my favourite part of Among Us
- Build an intricate trash-powered supply chain in Everything is Garbage
- G String is a captivating cyberpunk shooter, made almost entirely by one person over twelve years
- UPlay+ is becoming Ubisoft+, but still isn't worth the money
- Totally Game: Modern Warfare's Ghost goes undercover
- Watch Dogs Legion: Liberate London with these 1337 hacker tips
October 27
- Big publishers are pushing subscriptions, but at least they're making better clients these days
- How to eliminate Shadow Midas and get his mythic drum gun in Fortnite
- Where to visit different witch shacks in Fortnite
- The best Fortnite costumes for Halloween
- This streamer turns '80s found footage into wildly entertaining weekly mixtapes
- I beat Razer to the ultimate RGB pumpkin and almost burned down my apartment
- World of Warcraft is the best it's ever been for a solo player
- PowerWash Simulator lets me obliterate dirt into nothing and now I'm more powerful than ever
- Revisiting Team Fortress 2, the most influential multiplayer shooter of the 21st century so far
- Everything we know about Horizon in Apex Legends
- Should I buy an AMD Ryzen 3 3100?
- Should I buy an Intel Core i7 9700K?
October 26
- FEAR's goofy mix of Japanese horror and extravagant action was a PC gaming miracle
- PC gaming's best trips to the moon
- What's your best in-game Halloween look?
- Tenderfoot Tactics is a tactical RPG with an undulating, mesmerising open world
- Watch us explore (and make a mess of) Watch Dogs Legion's open world
- Watch Dogs Legion: Farting, beatboxing, and other ways to be a pest in London
- Tracing the evolution of Crytek, from Far Cry to Hunt: Showdown
- Five new Steam games you probably missed (October 26, 2020)
October 25
- What did you play last week?
October 24
- What deserves to be the next streaming phenomenon like Among Us or Phasmophobia?
- Genshin Impact understands the value of taking your time
- 8 things every Hades player should know
- How to configure your mouse so it doesn't hurt you
- Here are some Ouija board questions you can ask in Phasmophobia
- Crapshoot: Les Miserables, the Japanese fighting game
- How to complete the Fortnite week 8 secret challenge
- Fortnite secret challenge: How to cleanse the tanks and escape
October 23
- Where to find floating rings at Steamy Stacks in Fortnite
- Where to find a witch broom in Fortnite
- Doom Eternal's Ancient Gods expansion takes a firm stance: Marauders are good, have some more
- Try and survive the Alaskan wilderness with a group of very good sled dogs in The Red Lantern
- Drone Swarm is the most unusual RTS that I've played in ages
- Today I had to uninstall Baldur's Gate 3 or risk never playing outside of Early Access
- How to use the crucifix in Phasmophobia
- The best bad endings
- Should streamers pay game developers to stream their games?
October 22
- Where to dance at the highest spot and lowest spot in Fortnite
- 30 years later, Sierra's Laura Bow mysteries are still a treasure
- Here's how Hearthstone's new seasonal reward track and paid Tavern Pass will work
- World of Warcraft beginner's guide: How to get into WoW
- Immortals Fenyx Rising is a fun riff on Zelda: Breath of the Wild, with a few cool ideas of its own
- How to use smudge sticks in Phasmophobia
October 21
- Should you gamble on Genshin Impact's Sparkling Steps Banner?
- PC gaming is really unpredictable right now and it's fun as hell
- Fortnite: where to find candy
- Leisure Suit Larry returns for another misadventure in Wet Dreams Dry Twice
- These old gaming Winamp skins are both incredibly badass and a fascinating time capsule
- Here's where to find all the Trick or Treat crates in Warzone
- I don't know what's scarier: Playing Phasmophobia or watching it
October 20
- Everything we know about Fortnite's Fortnitemares 2020 event
- If Baldur's Gate 3 isn't D&D enough for you, Solasta may be the dice-obsessed RPG you're looking for
- Doom Eternal's first expansion feels like more than DLC (so far)
- Haunting of Verdansk: Everything we know about Warzone's Halloween event
- Watch Destiny YouTubers read out salty comments from cheaters who've had their aimbot shut down
- What Spirit Box phrases and questions to use in Phasmophobia
- Valorant Skye: Everything we know about Valorant's next Initiator agent
- Snipers continue to ruin the Call of Duty: Black Ops – Cold War beta's multiplayer modes
- Catch the best of the breed with this Red Dead Online legendary animals guide
- Giveaway: win a Razer prize pack from Iceflake & Paradox on the PC Gamer forums
- Four great gaming chairs for a comfy Christmas
October 19
- Amnesia: Rebirth has one of the most surprising button prompts I've seen in a game
- Every Sierra graphical adventure game, ranked
- Evil Genius 2 updates the best parts of the cult classic villainy sim
- Iceflake Studios are taking over the PC Gamer forums this week
- Football Manager 2021’s natural gestures expand the series' RPG potential
- Should I buy an Intel Core i5 9400F?
- Five new Steam games you probably missed (October 19, 2020)
October 18
- Nativo
- What did you play last week?
October 17
- How do you feel about the state of VR today?
- Crapshoot: Pyst, the parody of Myst they really called 'Pyst'
October 16
- Second Extinction's janky co-op dino shooting shows potential
- Should I buy an Nvidia GeForce RTX 2060?
- Should I buy an AMD Ryzen 9 3950X?
- Return to the chaos and comfort of Crawl
- Five things you should do in the Call of Duty: Black Ops – Cold War beta this weekend
- Where to find the Tighten the Noose intel in Warzone
- The best JAK-12 builds for Warzone
October 15
- Riot defends League of Legends' new champion and K/DA star, Seraphine
- Streamers have reached their final form: cryptocurrency
- Come get a PC beta code for Call of Duty: Black Ops - Cold War
- Where to drive a car through a rift portal for the Fortnite week 8 challenges
- Genshin Impact's endgame grind is as frustrating as it is unnecessary
- The best Amazon Prime Day deals still live as the dust settles
- Multiplayer is very nearly the most fun I've had in VR
- Please do not look at these horrifying Crusader Kings 3 characters
- How to unlock the golden Transfer Students in Hearthstone
- Step into the future with Oculus Quest 2
- The best Baldur's Gate 3 builds
- Here's what the best Spelunky players are still struggling with in its sequel
- I can't tell if this sim about being an airline passenger is a horror game or just glitchy
October 14
- The best Amazon Prime Day gaming laptop deals
- The best Amazon Prime Day gaming monitor deals
- The Ooblets Nullwhere update brings spooky new ooblets and a whole new zone
- 15 Assassin's Creed Valhalla sidequests, reviewed
- Going Under pokes fun at the capitalist nightmare of tech start-ups
- The best Star Wars: Squadrons loadouts
- Prime Day deals on useful PC accessories you'll be glad you have one day
- The Prime Day deals we actually bought ourselves
October 13
- The 10 most popular Prime Day PC gaming deals so far
- What you can do in the Shadowlands pre-patch
- Talking Torchlight 3 and clicking on monsters with ARPG design veteran Max Schaefer
- Scarlet Hollow is a chilling tale lifted by good jokes
- Yakuza, I love you, but please fix your subtitles on PC
October 12
- Fortnite Daredevil cup: How to get the Daredevil skin
- Every version of The Oregon Trail, ranked
- It's a great time to get into virtual reality
- How the hell did Hearthstone's meta get so healthy?
- Vanquish the god of the dead with this Hades weapon guide
- Deceive your friends with these sneaky Among Us tips
- Here's the latest on Nvidia RTX 3080 stock this week
- New hero, new turn-based combat, but Yakuza: Like a Dragon is still the game you know and love
- Phasmophobia is the best ghost game ever made
October 11
- Five new Steam games you probably missed (October 12, 2020)
- What did you play last week?
October 10
- Which character class is your default choice?
- Crapshoot: Bethesda's Terminator game from the 1990s
October 9
- AMD RX 6000 GPU benchmarks put it seriously close to Nvidia's RTX 3080. Maybe even ahead
- Star Wars: Squadrons has a fun campaign, but it's missing the brilliance of TIE Fighter's military flavor text
- Ignore your dying wife to cure the spider flu, for some reason, in Animal Rescuer
- The best SP-R 208 loadouts for Warzone
- Should I buy an Intel Core i7 8700K processor?
- The best guns to get in Destiny 2 to prepare for Beyond Light
- Should I buy an AMD Ryzen 3 3300X processor?
- 6 ways Baldur's Gate 3 is similar to Divinity: Original Sin 2, and 6 ways it's different
- Apex Legends' Flashpoint mode offers slow matches with chaotic final circles
- Should I buy an AMD Radeon RX 5700 XT?
- Ryzen 5000 pricing shows that AMD isn't the cheap alternative anymore
- HCS Voicepacks let you play space sims alongside legendary sci-fi actors
October 8
- Genshin Impact Lisa gift guide: How to complete the Troublesome Work quest
- Genshin Impact's co-op multiplayer is too limited to be fun
- Where to find spider webs at the Authority in Fortnite
- Watch 7 of the most outrageous cheaters in PC gaming
- Wall Guys is the only Fall Guys level that matters now
- Where is Tony Stark's hidden lake house laboratory in Fortnite?
- The story of Virtual Springfield, the Simpsons walking simulator that spawned a tourist attraction
- The Pathless is a fast-moving game of exploration in a corrupted mythological world
- Baldur's Gate 3 taps into the unique PC gaming thrill of improvised weapons
October 7
- You can make the Gonk droid in Star Wars: Squadrons dance forever, if you're a monster like me
- How to sit at a desk with good posture
- How to play Baldur's Gate 3 multiplayer, and whether or not you should
- How to efficiently grind for Cipher Decoders in Destiny 2's Festival of the Lost event (Updated)
- Fall Guys Season 2—everything you need to know about the medieval season
- The best Fortnite horror map codes for Creative Mode
- Should I buy an Nvidia GeForce GTX 1660 Super?
- Valorant: How to attack and defend on Split
- How does Baldur's Gate 3 compare to the classic games?
- 8 reasons to subscribe to PC Gamer magazine
October 6
- Should you play Baldur's Gate 3 now or wait for the full release?
- How to drift in Star Wars: Squadrons
- Tell us your scariest PC building horror stories
- How bad are Genshin Impact's microtransactions anyway?
- The best Star Wars novels and comics to read today
- Baldur's Gate 3 companions: gather your party before venturing forth
- Baldur's Gate 3 Early Access review: It's finally here and I can't stop pushing people off ledges
- Should I buy an AMD Ryzen 5 3400G?
- Hunting for an RTX 30-series GPU feels like having a second job
- Hypnotizing friends and making lifelong enemies in Watch Dogs Legion
- Destiny 2 Festival of the Lost 2020: Everything you need to know
- In this weird new puzzler you play as a sentient bed sheet that eats everything it touches
- FIFA 21 Ultimate Team guide: Everything you need to know
October 5
- A journey through Early Access helped make Hades a masterpiece
- Don't waste money chasing RAM speed for gaming on AMD or Intel
- Why I love playing a jungler in League of Legends
- Five new Steam games you probably missed (October 5, 2020)
- What did you play last week?
October 3
- Crapshoot: The brief period when videogame reviews came on VHS
- Which lockpicking or hacking minigame are you good at?
October 2
- Who would be on PC gaming's Smash Bros. roster?
- Genshin Impact co-op guide: How to adventure with other players
- Star Wars: Squadrons VR setup tips
- Should I buy an AMD Ryzen 5 3600 processor?
- Should I buy an Nvidia GeForce RTX 2070 Super?
- Should I buy an Nvidia RTX 2080 Ti graphics card?
- I'm using Warzone's subway to hide from the new marksman rifle
- Here's what the PC Gamer community has been discussing on the forums this week
- How Hades and Going Under soothe the sting of failure
- Warframe Gauss guide
- How to get Neural Sensors in Warframe
October 1
- Genshin Impact is astounding
- Lil' Rag is the most busted of Hearthstone's new Battlegrounds minions
- How Star Wars: Squadrons crossplay works
- Where does Wolverine spawn in Fortnite?
- Why I love Spelunky 2's adorable and evolving cavemen
- Why Nightdive Studios thinks remote game development is the future
- When is Apex Legends getting crossplay?
- Should I buy an AMD Ryzen 5 2600X processor?
- How to solve the Warzone Season 6 Easter egg and get the Bruen blueprint
- Update: Hearthstone's new Mage portrait is getting unique voice lines to appease disappointed fans