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September 30
- Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag PC release date announced
- Giveaway: Win a copy of ARMA X: Anniversary Edition
- Tripwire: "SteamOS, Steam Machines, and Steam Controller will be the best thing to happen to PC gaming since digital distribution"
- MechWarrior Online's upcoming Community Warfare expansion detailed
- Xi3 Piston Console launches November 29 in US
- Star Citizen raises $20 million, unlocks planet-side first-person combat
- Games and art: Minecraft at the London Victoria & Albert museum
- Inescapable: an Amiga-style platform adventure with Lovecraftian elements
- Truck Stop: Burnout's Crash mode with added zombies, martian backgrounds...trucks
- Batman: Arkham Origins features a permadeath mode, plus DLC that reveals Origins' origins
- Vlambeer's Wasteland Kings is now Vlambeer's Nuclear Throne, still looks great
- The Dead Linger, and now they're decomposing all over Steam Early Access
September 29
- Mount & Blade II has some lovely new screenshots, also: exists
- Final Fantasy VII's crappy music quality finally fixed in latest update
September 28
- Scribblenauts Unmasked adds Batman, Superman and co., is yours to batbuy right now
- The Evil Within gameplay trailer shows that hiding trumps chainsaws (good to know)
September 27
- Linux developer says focus on free OS will benefit both players and programmers
- Surgeon Simulator 2013 ARG solved, unlocks extraterrestrial surgery
- Canceled Legacy of Kain sequel returns as multiplayer-focused Nosgoth
- Arma 3 rolls out a host of changes in first post-release update
- John Carmack shares thoughts on Steambox and AMD's Mantle
- Steam Controller announced by Valve
- Shadow Warrior launch trailer brings explosive weapons, musical interludes
- EVE Online: Rubicon announced, CCP want to give players more power over New Eden than ever before
- Lichdom announced, brings a magical RPG to CryEngine 3
- X Rebirth trailer explains trading and mining
- Battlefield 4 announces the full list of maps and modes available at launch
- Planetary Annihilation trailer heralds the launch of beta, the annihilation of planets
- Gun Monkeys can be played for free this weekend, is on sale for half price
- Double Fine: "We're rooting" for Valve and SteamOS
September 26
- Rising Storm Island Assault free content pack adds new map, weapons, mode
- Nvidia VP: "There's no way a 200-watt Xbox is going to beat a 1,000-watt PC"
- Train Simulator 2014 out today, launch trailer narrated by Sean Bean
- Paradox: "SteamOS is a great thing for PC gaming," confirms CK2 and EU4 will run natively
- Steam Family Sharing program starts for first 1,000 beta testers
- Star Citizen hints at its larger universe in latest trailer
- WildStar video explains "ability mechanics", blog update reveals new mission type
- Surgeon Simulator 2013 goes to space for the latest update
- AMD announce Mantle, a direct access graphics API that will debut in Battlefield 4
- Thief's 'Bank Heist' revealed: a "true homage" to Thief 2, hidden away as pre-order DLC
September 25
- Diablo 3 game designer makes a case for slower combat
- Ken Levine: SteamOS is "a brave and powerful idea"
- Valve's SteamOS and Steam Machines announcements: developers react
- South Park: The Stick of Truth fulfills its destiny on December 10
- Planetary Annihilation gets intergalactic lore download ahead of tomorrow's beta release
- Valve announces Steam Machines, coming in 2014 from multiple hardware manufacturers
- PlanetSide 2 launches "Operation: Make Faster Game," which aims to make the game faster
- Send us your fondest PC Gamer memories to be printed in our 20th anniversary issue
- Mount & Blade: Warband mod A Clash of Kings gets a v1.0 release
- Company of Heroes 2: Case Blue DLC released, adds new scenarios for Theatre of War
- Nvidia pledge to help Linux's open source driver community
- Battlefield 4 beta details outlined in latest video
September 24
- The pros and cons of SteamOS
- Rise of Venice is out this Friday, new trailer shows the trade system at play
- Catzilla benchmark brings feline vengeance upon your computer
- Dark Souls 2 set to keep Havok physics engine
- Rogue Legacy's Mac and Linux ports "very close", upcoming patch will add new content
- Europa Universalis patch 1.2 released, adds new features and cardinal mortality
- Guild Wars 2 prepares for Twilight Assault with extended free trial and sale
- Minecraft map of Great Britain created by Ordnance Survey
- Company of Heroes 2 gets two free maps, first Theatre of War update teased
- Battlefield 4 trailer details weapon customisation, active camo, tiered reloading
September 23
- Nowhere needs 120,000 euros to get somewhere
- Takedown: Red Sabre weighed down by launch-day bugs
- Free indie horror SCP: Containment Breach gets a new update full of low-fi scares
- SteamOS announced by Valve, a free operating system "available soon" for living room PCs
- Hellraid trailer brings death and decisions with an "interactive movie prequel"
- The Free Webgame Round-Up
- Battlefield 4 details new Battlelog, including in-game overlay and user-made missions
- World of Tanks announces the next nation to join the battle
- Total War: Rome 2's third patch launches another attack on performance and AI issues
September 22
- Maia heading to Steam Early Access on December 3rd
- Project Reality 2 announced, turns the military FPS mod into a standalone game
September 21
- Oculus Rift VR Jam winners revealed, both games see you hacking the internet
- La-Mulana 2 announced, original given 80% price cut to celebrate
- Clang production halted as team runs out of Kickstarter money
September 20
- New Arma 3 community guide tackles infantry and vehicle teamwork
- Uplay 4.0 infused with Twitch video streaming, automatic patching
- Chivalry: Deadliest Warrior vikings go berserk in new alpha footage
- Three big Valve announcements coming next week, probably a Linux-based Steam Box
- Assassin's Creed 4: Black Flag trailer shows more multiplayer violence
- Humble Weekly Sale offers Egosoft catalogue, Indie Bundle gets more games
- SOE will ban players for online abuse outside of their games
- Golden Joystick Awards 2013: host Ed Byrne explains the new categories
- Counter-Strike: Global Offensive launches second community map event, Operation Bravo
- State of Decay shambles on to Steam Early Access later today
- Dota 2 First Blood update adds local network play and new mode, goes live September 23
September 19
- SimCity expands its borders to Cities of Tomorrow in November
- Former Walking Dead, Mark of the Ninja designers form new indie studio
- Experimental Game Pack 01 now available, offers over 30 new games for $15
- Warhammer Online to shut down this December
- Greenlight approves 25 new games, including Next Car Game and SuperHot
- Team Fortress 2 now accepting Halloween item submissions
- Dark Souls 2 for PC will release after consoles; new details and trailer released
September 18
- Gearbox has more Borderlands DLC in development, but don't expect as much
- Firefall developer Red 5 Studios lays off 10 percent of workforce
- Dwarf Fortress story The Queen is now available and you should listen to it
- Diablo 3 to remain always-online, despite planned auction house closures
September 17
- EA's new CEO: "I envision EA as the World's Greatest Games Company"
- Arma Tactics releasing on Steam next month
- Diablo 3 auction house closing in March 2014
- The Long Dark, a new post-disaster survival sim, launches Kickstarter project
- GTA 5 PC release: all the evidence so far
- Gunpoint half-price for next two days, gets trading cards and special edition upgrade DLC
- The Evil Within trailer shows bad omens, ignores them
- Rise of the Triad update improves performance, adds multiplayer maps, caps blood spray
- Artemis Spaceship Bridge Simulator is on Steam and you should totally give it a shot
- Saints Row 4 GATV DLC is free today
September 16
- Terraria 1.2 trailer dishes out some wizardry and witchcraft
- Gabe Newell: "Linux and open source are the future of gaming"
- Total War: Rome 2's huge second patch promises performance and AI improvements
- Battlefield 4 open beta opens October 1, Shanghai skyscraper trembles in fear
- GTA 5 PC release petition raises over 350,000 signatures
- SuperHot dodges its way to Steam Greenlight for an expanded version
September 15
- The Sims 4's group dynamics revealed, via Max and O.B. off of Hollyoaks
- Indie Dizzy-a-like Spud's Quest is out now
September 14
- Going home with Gone Home
- Treasure Adventure World gets pre-order campaign thing, plus soaring new trailer
- Oculus Rift VR Jam finalists announced, winners revealed next week
- Firefall's PVP mode soon to be suspended until developer can "get it right"
September 13
- Payday 2 sells 1.58 million copies, 80 percent of sales were digital
- Roguelike RPG Legend of Dungeon launches on Steam today
- Multiplayer survival shooter Nether reveals new trailer, new details
- Elite: Dangerous trailer shows off deep-space slugfest, mercenary pilots jumping in to help
- Humble Weekly Retro Shooter Bundle revisits late-90s shooter classics for a fistful of dollars
- Football Manager 2014 release date announced
- Hyper Light Drifter sails past Kickstarter goal, securing the ARPG's eventual existence
- SpecialEffect launches crowdfunding campaign Playing With Your Eyes
- Blizzcon 2013 'virtual ticket' now on sale, grants HD stream access to the event
- Metro: Last Light's Developer Pack DLC detailed, arriving next week
September 12
- Dark Souls 2 producer says multiplayer to remain lonely, indirect, also comforting
- Frozen Endzone dev diary: Origin Story
- New League of Legends video uses stats to show how "rage doesn't win games"
- Tom Clancy's EndWar Online brings World War 3 to your browser
- Rift update 2.4 looks set to bring new wars, weapons, and slick hairstyles to Telara
- Chivalry: Deadliest Warrior announces full class lineup featuring pirates, vikings, and ninja
- Command & Conquer dev interview reveals plan to revisit Red Alert and Tiberium universes
- Dishonored: Game of the Year edition announced, bundles game and DLC bits
- Smite proving more successful than Tribes: Ascend, says Hi-Rez CEO
- Valve and the IGF team up again to bring 2014's finalists to Steam
- Arma 3 leaves Early Access, gets an official launch trailer
- Terraria 1.2 release date announced: major update due out beginning of October
September 11
- League of Legends shoutcasters hold Reddit AMA, advertise new commentating positions
- Spelunky speedrun flies through Hell on a jetpack in less than seven minutes
- Steam Family Sharing announced by Valve, lets others play your Steam games
- Humble Indie Bundle 9 is out: includes Fez, FTL, Mark of the Ninja and more
- Planetary Annihilation beta planned for release later this month
- Tex Murphy sequel Tesla Effect pulls a trailer out of the mid-'90s time machine
- World of Tanks 8.8 update stays true to expectations by adding new tanks
- Incognita opens for alpha access, trailer shows turn-based espionage in action
- The Stanley Parable trailer offers a spoiler-free sneak peek of some corridors
September 10
- New Elder Scrolls Online dev Q&A details faction battles and siege warfare
- Giveaway: Win a Digital Storm gaming PC and a copy of Total War: Rome II
- River City Ransom Underground Kickstarter launches, offers officially licensed sequel
- Kerbal Space Program update .22 bringing science to the masses
- Indie cyberpunk stealth game The Swindle put on hold indefinitely
- Take On Mars update adding Steam Workshop support, future plans include new environments
- SuperHot: the stylish free shooter experiment with a new take on bullet-time. Play it in your browser
- Call of Duty: Ghosts' campaign trailer has a bit where a dog pulls a man out of a helicopter
- Child of Light announced by Ubisoft: a painterly homage to JRPGs
- Valiant Hearts: The Great War tells a World War 1 story about five people and a dog
- Homeworld: Shipbreakers no longer free-to-play, tweets Gearbox head
- World of Warcraft 5.4 trailer previews the new features releasing later today
- Assassin's Creed: Liberation HD to bring spin-off stabbing to PC
- Battlefield 4 system requirements released
- Sanctum 2: Ruins of Brightholme DLC launches with new trailer
September 9
- Total War: Rome 2 creative director: launch issues are "totally unacceptable"
- Interview: Derek Paxton, Stardock's new head of games development
- Neo's Land revealed: a crowdfunded, crowd-designed, fantasy EVE Online
- Far Cry 3: Blood Dragon sold over a million copies, Ubisoft CEO promises more "mini-AAA"
- Eldritch combines roguelike and immersive sim in a first-person Lovecraftian adventure
- Space Engineers is a physics sandbox about creation and destruction
- GOG celebrate their fifth birthday with a build a bundle deal
- Delver, the first person RPG roguelike, dives into Steam Early Access
- Star Citizen still a perpetual money machine, will add first person ground combat at $20 million
- The Stanley Parable "almost there", will release next month
September 8
- DayZ's September dev video outlines usability upgrades, less braindead zombies
- Trails in the Sky is Carpe Fulgur's next project, their biggest localisation job yet
September 7
- Shadow Warrior gets a 'wangtastic' new trailer, flaunts fish physics and destructible bikes
- EVE Online lead designer jumping (space)ship to work on League of Legends
- MSI's Beat It! qualifiers gives you the chance to play against CS:GO pros
September 6
- Ghost Recon Online launches first official tournament, cup series starts Sept. 15
- State of Decay coming to Steam Early Access in "a couple weeks or so"
- Sniper Elite: Nazi Zombie Army targeting a sequel for 2013
- DICE talks Battlefield 4 weapon attachments in blog post
- Grid 2 trailer shows the twisted metal of Demolition Derby
- Starcraft Universe mod releases multiplayer boss battle in Kickstarter's final days
- Paranautical Activity starts haunting Steam Early Access
- Diablo 3 PC won't get offline play, Blizzard say co-op "is the ideal"
- AI War, Skyward Collapse, and the rest of the Arcen catalogue are this week's Humble sale
- RuneScape 3 infographic details new players, murdered cows
September 5
- Classic horror game I Have No Mouth, and I Must Scream finds release on GOG
- Final Call of Duty: Black Ops 2 DLC, Apocalypse, drops September 26 for PC
- Dean Hall: "If DICE wanted to kill Arma, all they'd need to do is release modding tools"
- Outlast is out now with a horrifying new launch trailer to match
- Assassin's Creed 4: Black Flag video shows side-missions and polite fights
- Hawken ascends to a "new age" with its biggest expansion yet
- See the first screenshots of Arcen's next game: the roguelike-like Bionic Dues
- Hotline Miami 2 dev removes mock sexual assault scene from demo, "you get a bigger picture when you play the whole game"
- Mirror's Edge tribute video shows real-life first-person parkour
- Men of War complete catalogue gets bundled up and sold for cheap
- MirrorMoon EP launch trailer shows stylistic space and enigmatic exploration
- Steam launches Trade Offers, enabling offline offering for inventory items
September 4
- Star Trek's USS Voyager recreated in Minecraft
- Final Fantasy XIV: A Realm Reborn producer apologizes for server issues
- Watch the PC Gaming World Congress from PAX Prime 2013
- Banished interview: player choice in an indie city builder sandbox game
- SpeedRunners sprints to early access with a new trailer
- Here's what Metro: Last Light's new DLC, the Tower Pack, is all about
- Double Fine shows off Broken Age's voice-acting lineup
- Budding artists can now tool around in StarCraft 2
- Watch Dogs footage shows open world events, multiplayer invasions
- XCOM: Enemy Within footage shows mechanical punching and super-legs
- Total War: Rome 2 to get first patch this Friday, weekly fixes for immediate future
- Guild Wars 2's Tequatl Rising update will improve a dragon, add a looking for group tool
- Sunless Sea sails out to Kickstarter in search of rescue
- Battlefield 4 will include a practice range for learning to fly helicopters and jets
- Euro Truck Simulator 2 heads east for its first DLC expansion
- Vlambeer celebrates birthday with free release of Wasteland Kings prototype and Gun Godz
September 3
- New indie puzzler Sokobond could be your next chemistry teacher
- Particulars developer: more Steam Greenlight games means more competition, and that's good
- Crypt of the NecroDancer continues to pump out the jams in a new trailer
- XCOM: Enemy Within mod tools aren't "on the table," but might be coming someday
- Football Manager 2014 videos show off new menus and interface
- Mighty No. 9 appears on Kickstarter, gets funded, reaches first stretch goal
- Grid 2's free Demolition Derby update releasing today
- Space Hulk: Deathwing announced; is a first-person shooter
- FlatOut devs' Next Car Game crowdfunds digital carnage
- Total War: Rome 2 trailer celebrates the betrayal of Caesar, the launch of the game
September 2
- Star Wars: The Old Republic teases upcoming space update
- Dragon Age: Inquisition footage shows combat, environments, inevitable dragon
- Mew-Genics trailer shows the catastrophic consequences of cat breeding
- Hardware: Shipbreakers partners with Gearbox to use Homeworld licence, gets new name
- Star Citizen raises $17 million, launches cosmetic store for hangar module
September 1
- Starbound official Let's Play shows good times with space-weapons and space-pickaxes
- Godus is getting a betaus via Steam Early Accessus
- New EverQuest Next Landmark details and videos revealed at PAX