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June 29
- US StarCraft 2 champion ViBE on going pro, winning US title, and raising his game
- Editorial: E3 doesn't care about the PC
- Tens of thousands of EVE pilots fight over Delve region
- League of Legends to get new ARAM custom map?
- F1 2012 screenshots make little 'vroom' noises in your head
- Hero Academy coming to Steam. Includes TF2 characters and cross-platform play
- Max Payne 3 Local Justice DLC trailer released
- Age of Wulin screenshots show a Wuxia wonderland
- Dota 2 gets Heropedia and new heroes: Wisp and Luna
- Diablo 3 digital edition restrictions relaxed
June 28
- Carrier Command: Gaea Mission coming to North America
- Let there be loot: Diablo 3 increases high-end item drop rates
- Football Manager developer speaks out on Eidos split
- SEGA closes offices in France, Germany, Spain, Australia and Benelux. London HQ will remain
- Rumoured Half Life episode 3 concept art leaked
- Team Fortress 2 Pyromania patch is live
- Guild Wars 2 release date announced. Return to Tyria on August 28th
- Ghost Recon: Future Soldier released. Day one patch included
- Funcom making a LEGO Minifigures MMO
- Call of Duty: Black Ops 2 will feature a futuristic Nuketown map
- Mass Effect 3 Extended Ending files hint at future DLC
- Max Payne 3 Local Justice DLC coming July 17
June 27
- Tomorrow: Day Z livestream with creator Dean "Rocket" Hall and the Arma 3 team
- ShootMania Storm trailer hops between perspectives of hopping frags
- Valve to release its trailer-making tool to the public: Source Filmmaker
- Hindu leader requests removal of deities from Smite, Hi-Rez declines
- Tribes: Ascend is live on Steam
- EVE devs: our game is "the MMO equivalent of running Inferno solo with a naked Barbarian"
- Carrier Command: Gaea Mission video pits tanks against planes, voice acting against ears
- Dota 2 updates continue, but should we review the game?
- Cool insights from a candid and funny BioShock developer commentary
- Penny Arcade Adventures 3 released, trailer implores you to remember the past
- Magna Mundi cancelled by publisher, developers promise legal response
June 26
- Buy low, sell high in Team Fortress 2's "peculiarly sophisticated barter economy"
- The Old Republic Patch 1.3 live with group finder, ranked warzones, new Legacy goodies
- Microsoft Surface has pressure sensitive keys, could be perfect for stealth games
- Battlefield 3: Close Quarters DLC now available to all to buy
- Planetside 2 PC Gamer beta keys to be among "primary rounds" of invites
- Zombox: a bloody, boxy game of zombie survival
- Dwarf Fortress gets 238 page illustrated Getting Started guide
- Mass Effect 3 Extended Edition is out today
- DayZ weekly update: smarter zombies, smoother frame rates, and revealing player stats
- Darkness 2 developer making Warframe, a free to player co-op shooter
- Far Cry 3 delayed (and not just on PC)
- Trip launch trailer features art, exploration, all of the colours
June 25
- New details on Rift's patch 1.9, Conquest system
- EVE Online devs on DayZ, Elder Scrolls Online, and what'd make them quit the games industry
- Team Fortress 2 Pyromania event adds new map, new mode, Meet the Pyro incoming
- Scrolls closed beta incoming, new trailer and screenshots appear
- Tribes: Ascend update adds Stonehenge and Miasma maps
- Risen 2 demo offers piratical sabbatical, Magic: The Gathering 2013 demo also available
June 23
- EVE Online developers on the importance of harnessing player creativity
- Weekend Game Deals - Summer is here!
June 22
- Five EVE players make over $175,000 blowing up their own spaceships [UPDATED]
- Deus Ex: Human Revolution 75% off on Steam, original Deus Ex cheap as chips
- Diablo 3 72 hour level cap is a bug, fix incoming, other restrictions still apply
- Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 gets free game mode, map Collection 2 DLC released
- Guild Wars 2 beta reopening next week for four hour stress test
June 21
- Mists of Pandaria lets you flip tables in anger/frustration/celebration
- Diablo 3 digital editions restricted to Starter Edition for up to 72 hours
- Green Man Gaming are giving away free copies of Commandos 3
- Blizzard to issue refunds to South Korean gamers affected by Diablo 3 server problems
- EA COO on the rise of free to play: "ultimately, microtransactions will be in every game"
- Dark Souls PC system requirements: render eternal damnation on 1GB RAM
- Mass Effect 3 Operation Savage incoming: kill seven million goons for boxes
June 20
- Orcs Must Die 2 announced for July 30 release
- Free stuff for your free games: Need for Speed World giveaway
- Valve rolls out "Steam for Schools" to teach math and physics lessons with Portal 2
- Calculate your Steam hours-played, shameful backlog with this web utility
- DC Universe Online's PvP gets a well-executed overhaul in the latest DLC pack
- The Binding of Isaac sells 700k copies, Edmund McMillen games compilation on the way
- The Secret World final beta weekend open to everyone who registers by Friday
- Dota 2 in-game tournament support coming this week, more features to follow
- Guild Wars 2 designer on how subscriptions influence design - and the importance of fun
- World-first Diablo 3 Hardcore Inferno completion confirmed by Blizzard
- Dungeons of Dredmor: Conquest of the Wizardlands DLC announced
- Dishonored on PC "has its own different interface," PC standards are "a religion"
- New Planetside 2 video shows Terran Republic ground assault team
- Dead State developer Brian Mitsoda explains why zombies aren't the point
June 19
- The Secret World's Darkness War pits players, Native Americans, and Vikings against Mayans
- Win a year's subscription to EVE Online
- James Ohlen talks about the role of superservers in Star Wars: The Old Republic
- Realm of the Mad God devs acquired by social games company Kabam
- Diablo 3 patch 1.0.3 launching, downtime in USA today and Europe/Asia tomorrow
- World of Tanks update 7.4 trailer features tanks in the park, tanks at the beach, tanks in bushes
- Black Ops 2 dedicated servers confirmed for PC
- Join us on the PC Gamer DayZ server!
- DayZ weekly update: Extra cruelty, melee weapons, and giving infected the slip
- Court declares Tetris clone a breach of copyright, big implications for derivative games
June 18
- 8 justifications for Magic: The Gathering — Duels of the Planeswalkers 2013's existence
- SWTOR Game Director: it's not "super easy" to convert from subscription to free to play
- The best Dota 2 mods we want to see added from Steam Workshop
- Valve's new economist to post weekly reports, Gabe hints at "a shared currency"
- Just Cause 2 multiplayer mod video shows explosive boat races and plane chases
- Crytek going "entirely free-to-play" with future projects
June 16
- Listen to beautiful player-made music at LOTRO's Weatherstock music event today
- Day Z Video Diary -- Emotional Rollercoaster
- Weekend Game Deals - Total score
June 15
- Ready Up - StarCraft 2, LoL, and Dota 2 pros head to DreamHack Summer
- Dead Space needs "around five million" fans to survive, according to EA
- Amnesia: A Machine for Pigs trailer features dead pigs, angry pigs, outdoor environments
- The 8 best player-made items in Dota 2
- Namco on the challenges of porting Dark Souls: "we don't really have that strong PC experience"
- PopCap and Wooga abandon Google+
- Tony Hawk devs working on Call of Duty
- 10 awesome DayZ moments: freaky stalkers, blood fountains, tractor rampages and more
- Star Wars: The Old Republic lead designer: "we are looking at free-to -play"
- Limbo follow-up to feature color, questionable experiments on human bodies
June 14
- Carbine Studios' dev hosting reddit AMA on his 18 years in the MMO industry
- Civilization V adds Steam Workshop integration
- Aussie web store applies Internet Explorer 7 tax "to help make the internet a better place"
- MineCon 2012 headed to "secret location" in Europe
- 4.7 million watched MLG Spring Championship, previous viewership records shattered
- TERA gets seven day free trial
- Ghost Recon: Future Soldier PC delayed until June 29
- Gratuitous Tanks Battles gets gratuitous demo
June 13
- Pulsefire Ezreal skin for League of Legends changes as you level, is a kind of a big deal
- Civilization V: Gods & Kings dev chat introduces the expansion's new civilizations
- Splinter Cell: Blacklist game director talks stealth, goggles, "abusive" insta-fail missions
- Diablo 3 real money auction house "expected" to go live in Europe this Friday
- Steam Potato Sack sale strikes back, 13 indie games half-price again
- Counter-Strike: Global Offensive patch nerfs bots, pre-order access detailed, open beta teased
- Battlefield 3 double XP weekend incoming
June 12
- Diablo 3 real money auction house has launched in the Americas
- Details on Mists of Pandaria's Archaeology overhaul
- City of Heroes' first player-designed costume hits the cash shop
- EVE Online interview: betrayal at Fanfest, Burn Jita, virtual reality, and the President of Iceland
- The Old Republic opens free server transfers for 7.5% of servers
- Ten year game of Civ 2 results in "hellish nightmare" planet, permanent nuclear war
- Valve/Overkill not making Left 4 Dead prequel, making something smaller but "really cool"
- Diablo 3 cheaters will get perma-banned
- Indie Game: The Movie now watchable!
- Tribes: Ascend "Accelerate Update" to remove XP cost for upgrades, add 27 weapon variants
June 11
- David Jaffe making a free-to-play shooter, hates "pay-to-win" models
- DayZ hack fears due to "misinformed" dev overreaction, says mod creator
- Diablo 3 hotfix removes monster damage boost in co-op, Inferno teams breathe sigh of relief
- Dota 2 International 2012 tickets go on sale tomorrow
- MLG Spring Championship - Day 3: Twist endings and hard-earned victories
June 10
- MLG Spring Championship 2012 - Day 2: You come at the king, you best not miss
June 9
- MLG Spring Championship 2012 Day 1: An embarrassment of riches
- League of Legends database hacked. Riot Games "appreciate your immediate attention"
- PC Gamer's staff favorites of E3
- Exclusive reveal of 11 new cards coming in WoW TCG's next set, Tomb of the Forgotten
- Behind-the-scenes with the makers of the WoW TCG and a loot card giveaway
- Weekend Game Deals - Double the humble
- Starcraft 2 Heart of the Swarm's new units
June 8
- Starcraft 2 Heart of the Swarm video explains unit changes, build is playable at MLG tomorrow
- Ready Up - StarCraft 2 and League of Legends unite at MLG Spring Championship in Anaheim
- Natural Selection 2 developer: “It’s the most moddable game ever.”
- Dragon Nest's Tinkerer class takes on bad guys with a million-barrel gun
- Divinity: Original Sin could "get you in trouble with your girlfriend"
- Battlefield 3 Armoured Kill AC-130 detailed, Aftermath set in post-earthquake Tehran
- Watch Dogs coming out on PC in 2013
- Gameplay footage of humongous open-world boss fights in Rift's next expansion
June 7
- Star Wars 1313 running on Unreal Engine 3 on PC at E3, will be linear and light on Jedi
- Crytek talk different cultures' take on free-to-play
- Diablo 3 patch 1.0.2.b smooths out auction house transactions, fixes Barbarian crashes
- Diablo 3's secret Move key saved my hardcore Monk's life last night
- Peter Molyneux's new game, Curiosity, will feature a £50,000 DLC chisel
- Hitman Absolution game director apologises for controversial trailer
- Humble Indie Bundle 5 updated with Braid, Super Meat Boy and Lone Survivor
- Vivendi consider selling Activision Blizzard
- Sacrilegium: TopWare Interactive's new unpronounceable 3D horror title
- Assassin's Creed 3 multiplayer screenshots and information
- Payday: The Heist developers rumoured to be working with Valve on a Left 4 Dead prequel
- Max Payne 3 patch makes Max skinnier
- Dark Souls won't be optimised for PC: “Strictly a port from the console version”
- E3 round-up: day three
- Play Tera for 30 minutes in your browser for free
- Diablo 3's record-breaking release in handy infographic form
- Humble Indie Bundle V sells over 400K. Blame awesome games
June 6
- Watch Dog's second character was another player: "online is in the DNA of Watchdogs"
- PCs do it better: why I don't care about Smartglass
- Neverwinter E3 hands-on preview
- The Old Republic Patch 1.3 Class Changes Detailed, server transfers coming next week
- Rumour: DayZ creator instructed to work on mod full-time by Bohemia
- Total War devs planning mod summit in July
- Lord of the Rings Online makes it way to Steam
- Dawnguard will give you a new dragon shout, a magical mount and "your own armoured troll"
- Trion CEO says TOR is lacking in content, 38 Studios “never even came close”
- Diablo 3 Patch 1.03 adjusts endgame item drops, reduces crafting prices
- Diablo 3 and Guild Wars 2 devs will answer your questions on Reddit this afternoon [UPDATED]
- Hitman: Absolution E3 screenshots show a world where nothing is quite circular
- Sleeping Dogs E3 screenshots show racing, cleavers, man surprised by giant blurry gun
- EA Senior VP criticizes Steam sales: “I just think it cheapens your intellectual property.”
- Black Ops 2 E3 screenshots are bustin' and dronin'
- Star Wars 1313 E3 screenshots and video reveal gritty face-zapping
- Shootmania Storm E3 trailer gets down to some rockdubstep
- Dragonica celebrates third birthday with new PvP maps
- Medal of Honor: Warfighter multiplayer E3 trailer unites the world with rhythmic violence
- Spec Ops: The Line E3 trailer features a man making the same face in a variety of situations
- Borderlands 2 E3 screenshots are auroring success
- Dark Souls: Prepare to Die Edition in-game footage inevitably shows death
- John Carmack is making a virtual reality headset, $500 kits available soon, video interview inside
- Gameglobe strives for free-to-play game creation that's accessible and powerful
- E3 round-up: day two
- PlanetSide 2 E3 hands-on preview
- Dead Island: Riptide announced
- Duels of the Planeswalkers 2013 to be summoned June 20th
June 5
- Guild Wars 2 beta gets new content this weekend
- Miner Wars 2081 is a space combat sim with destructible terrain, will have MMO version
- Watch Star Wars 1313 running on a “high-end PC with Nvidia hardware”
- First look at Elder Scrolls Online's three factions in new trailer
- World of Battleships trailer shows large ships and larger explosions
- War of the Roses E3 trailer features arrows to the face, visually-impairing headwear
- Massive list of Diablo 3 features confirmed and denied by Bashiok
- League of Legend's new champion will push your micro skills to the limit
- Dungeons of Dredmor: You Have To Name The Expansion Pack available now
- Razer Artemis is a custom keypad/joystick/tablet peripheral for MechWarrior Online
- Battlefield 3 Armored Kill screenshots show AC-130 gunship, twilight tank battles
- ShootMania Storm screenshots show laser duels, impractical headsets
- Splinter Cell Blacklist E3 trailer features graphic violence, goggles, and a new Sam Fisher
- Fifa 13 E3 trailer goes pow, woosh, boooong, also features football
- Assassin's Creed 3 screenshots show dangling, accidental friend-stabbing, chasing, loitering
- Crysis 3 E3 trailer features Psycho, Prophet, slow-mo nano bow
- Warface E3 trailer shoots your misconceptions about free to play IN THE FACE
- The E3 2012 press conference PC gamers deserve
- E3 round-up: day one
- SimCity E3 trailer and screens show off tilt-shifted simulation, a purple monster
- How to download League of Legends' beta client and play all the new champions first
- Watch Dogs announced: cyber-crime and trenchcoats in a gorgeous open world
June 4
- Need for Speed: Most Wanted returns with open-world urban racing
- Dead Space 3 announced, will have co-op, outdoors, bigger monsters
- Tera's next update will revamp Warriors and Lancers, add PvP battlegrounds and dungeons
- XCOM: Enemy Unknown trailer initiates mankind's last stand, is awesome
- The Old Republic announces upcoming level cap, new species, new planet, and free trial
- Steelseries reveals new peripherals for Guild Wars 2, Dota 2, and World of Warcraft
- EA E3 2012 conference livestream and liveblog
- ARMA 2: Army of the Czech Republic DLC will add new army, new guns, new missions
- Battlefield 3 Premium confirmed: Close Quarters and all future DLC included [Updated]
- Counter-Strike: GO release date is August 21, $15 price on PC
- StarCraft 2 patch 1.5.0 beta unveils Arcade
- LEGO Lord of the Rings E3 trailer features voice acted mini-Frodo, brick Balrog, plastic Gandalf
- Battlefield 3 Premium confirmed by Reuters
- Alan Wake 2 teased by developer tweet, alternate reality blog, domain name update
- Kingdoms of Amalur: Reckoning developers find a new home courtesy of Epic Games
- World of Battleships E3 trailer features naval war, torpedoes, shipwrecks
- End of Nations E3 trailer features excited commentary, nukes, noodly 80s guitar
- Civilization V gets Steam Workshop support with Gods & Kings expansion
- Zeno Clash 2 announced! First-person brawler sequel features co-op, out next year
- Battlefield 3 down in advance of EA conference: Premium service rumoured to launch tonight
- Hawken live-action teaser trailer has stompy battlesuits, drama, metaphorical axes
June 2
- Weekend Game Deals - Humbled again
- Dungeon Fighter Online's new Male Mage class throws all sorts of elements in your face
- New game mode coming to builder/shooter Brick-Force lets you construct mid-deathmatch
- Guild Wars 2's Gendarran Fields has centaurs, pirates, zombies, and filthy lying apple vendors
June 1
- Rift: Storm Legion expansion brings two new continents and player-owned dimensions
- Blizzard offices raided over Diablo 3 refund policy after Error 37 strikes Korean gamers
- Guild Wars 2 beta key giveaway
- Rumour: Ex-STALKER devs form Union Studio, developing Fallout/Rage inspired shooter
- City of Heroes Dev Diary: Life after Statesman — the aftermath of a major lore change
- New Defiance trailer highlights giant monsters, laser weapons, and offroading ATVs
- Hitman Absolution developer on the tough balance between scoring and spoiling
- Humble Indie Bundle 5 makes $1.8 million in 15 hours
- SOEmote implants your facial expressions, movement, and voice onto your EQ2 avatar
- Get Dota 2 now using paid-for Early Access Pass
- Star Wars 1313 casts you as a bounty hunter in "dark and mature" new third person shooter
- Dota 2 officially free to play, all heroes will be free, store to sell community-created items