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August 31
- PlayStation Now on PC isn't quite Netflix for games, but it comes close
- What a Myst and Riven superfan thinks of Obduction
- These NA League of Legends teams have one last shot at Worlds
August 30
- Watch us beat back the demonic hordes in World of Warcraft: Legion
- PC games to look out for in September, October, and November
- Hands-on with Rising Storm 2: Vietnam's helicopters, tunnels, and guns
- Where Fallout should go next
August 29
- How the Radeon brand came to be
- In Ennuigi you play a depressed, chain-smoking Luigi who's lost all hope
- A game developer believes Steam Spy puts its employees in danger
- Build of the week: Lair of Grievous
- Unturned: inside the popular free survival sim
- Titanfall 2 singleplayer features platforming, puzzles and a big friendly bot
August 28
- Use No Man's Sky mods to make trees, rocks, and creatures much bigger
August 27
- Minecrafter builds historically-accurate castle, complete with poop chutes
- PC Gamer UK Podcast 022: The PC Gamer Top 100
August 26
- The week's highs and lows in PC gaming
- Improve your D.Va play in Overwatch
- How Pokémon Uranium and a community of amateur developers is walking the line between love and theft
- Master Auriel in Heroes of the Storm
- 6 things I wish I'd known before starting Master of Orion
- The best pro gaming to watch this weekend
- PC piracy survey results: 35 percent of PC gamers pirate
- PC Gamer UK October issue: Quake Champions
August 25
- GoldenEye: Source review
- An ode to the optical drive
- #LCSForever rises from the fallout between Riot and the League of Legends community
- Best gadgets for back to school
- Dead By Daylight: tense horror movie multiplayer marred by a lack of polish
- Virginia brings the weird mystery and TV pacing of True Detective to games
August 24
- Deus Ex: Mankind Divided Easter eggs reference Portal, Sonic, and Mitt Romney
- The five biggest changes in World of Warcraft: Legion
- Can Call of Cthulhu ever be a good videogame?
- Learn why face is not always the place in The Elder Scrolls: Legends
- The planets of No Man's Sky, ranked
- Why I love climbing to the highest point in open-world games
- The strange art, fashion and architecture of Deus Ex: Mankind Divided
August 23
- Every PlayStation 3 game you'll be able to play on PC through PS Now
- Deus Ex: Mankind Divided augmentation guide
- How to get the best performance out of Deus Ex: Mankind Divided
- The Witcher 3 takes PC Gamer Top 100 top spot
- 9 things I wish I knew before playing Deus Ex: Mankind Divided
August 22
- Best accessories for back to school
- Build of the week: the BFG
- Illegal and important: the catch-22 of PC fan games
- Adam Jensen's Mankind Divided apartment: an analysis
- Watch the first hour of Divinity: Original Sin 2
August 21
- You won't go pro playing Overwatch with voice commands, but it's a ton of fun
August 20
- 10 of the toughest MMO raid bosses ever
- The best music to pair with No Man's Sky
August 19
- Star Citizen 3.0's planetary landing blows No Man's Sky away
- The PC games we're looking forward to most
- 11 changes we want to see in No Man's Sky's future updates
- The best pro gaming to watch this weekend
- Check out Deus Ex: Mankind Divided's graphics and UI options
- PC Gamer UK Podcast 021: Deus Ex: Mankind Divided, No Man's Sky
August 18
- Loot Rascals is the weirdest roguelike since The Binding of Isaac
- How to prepare for Legion, WoW's next expansion
- Unturned: how a survival game made by a 16-year-old racked up 24 million downloads
- Top CS:GO pros weigh in on the Nuke and Inferno map switch
- The worst PC ports ever
- A post-EVO look at the current Street Fighter V world standings
- South Park: The Fractured But Whole - super heroes and fart jokes, together at last
- How to enjoy No Man’s Sky
August 17
- 8-Bit Hordes brings a Warcrafty spin to 8-Bit Armies
- Looking back at the history of surprise picks in League of Legends
- Tips we wish we’d known before starting The Elder Scrolls: Legends
- Farewell Fnatic: looking back on one of CS:GO's most legendary lineups
- If you like No Man’s Sky, you’ll also like…
- Why I love the contemplative peace of Blade Runner's balcony
August 16
- No Man's Sky resources guide: what they're for, and how to find them
- Let's design an Overwatch hero together
- No Man's Sky Atlas Pass guide: how to find v1, v2, and v3
- Revisiting Deus Ex: Invisible War, one of PC gaming's biggest disappointments
- Here are the results of our Hearthstone Priest card design competition
- No Man's Sky photo diary: My first 20 hours
- Nvidia launches GeForce 10-series notebook GPUs
August 15
- How to increase inventory space in No Man’s Sky
- You can play Resident Evil in this Doom 2 mod, and it’s surprisingly faithful
- How to make money in No Man’s Sky
- The anatomy of hype: how No Man’s Sky became the best and worst game ever
- Build of the week: Arcade Dragon
- How a stolen skin became CS:GO's most legendary gun
- Duelyst’s first major expansion launches later this month, here are 8 new cards
- Dawn of War 3 hands-on: Evaluating the Emperor's finest, one unit at a time
August 14
- The International 2016 ends with a spectacular grand final
August 13
- The top three Dota 2 teams in the world emerge in a dramatic penultimate day at The International
August 12
- PC gamers, fill out our survey about piracy
- Best portable storage for back to school
- Path of Exile is getting an end-game overhaul
- The best pro gaming to watch this weekend
- The International 2016 is becoming an underdog fairytale
- No Man's Sky guide: tips for getting started
- PC Gamer UK Podcast 020: Quake Champions, Prey, Abzu
- What's at the centre of the No Man's Sky universe?
- The psychological tricks of VR
August 11
- 20 hours in the biggest Skyrim mod ever, Enderal
- What critics think of No Man's Sky so far
- The weirdest, coolest No Man's Sky aliens and planets we've seen so far
- Impossible odds are overcome on day three of the International 2016
- How Ark: Survival Evolved and Twitch are breathing new life into roleplaying
August 10
- What No Man's Sky could learn about exploration from Kerbal Space Program
- No Man’s Sky impressions: our thoughts after two days on PS4
- The state of PC piracy in 2016
- The problem with League of Legends’ challenger system
- The biggest upset in the history of pro Dota 2 shocks the International 2016
- Why I love being the 'hero' in Spec Ops: The Line
August 9
- Play out your Overwatch fan fiction in Starbound with these custom skins
- RimWorld beginner's guide
- A band of Robin Hoods will help you get WoW's rare moose for free, and some raiders aren't happy
- Heartbreak and triumph on the first day of the International 2016
August 8
- We simulated a Donald Trump presidency in Supreme Ruler
- Get off to a strong start in The Elder Scrolls: Legends
- The 10 most overhyped PC games
- Design us a good Priest card for Hearthstone and you could win 60 packs
- The most ridiculous patch notes from 10 years of Dwarf Fortress
- Build of the week: life-sized Nick Valentine
- Revisiting the opera house in Hitman: Blood Money
- Win a trip to Paris to celebrate the launch of AOC's ultra-responsive Agon monitors
August 7
- You can play a violent version of Pokemon Go in GTA 5
August 6
- The International 2016: everything you need to know
- All 45 cards now revealed for Hearthstone's One Night at Karazhan adventure
- Only one player knows what’s behind this MMO’s mysterious door, and they aren’t telling
August 5
- The FPS inspired by Quake, Spelunky, and the '90s
- How WoW's "craziest world event" borrows from Blizzard’s RTS past
- Master Gul'dan in Heroes of the Storm
- The best pro gaming to watch this weekend
- The best Hearthstone teams
- The best writing in PC games
- Anyone who uses the C key to crouch is a hopeless degenerate
August 4
- I got drunk and almost burned to death in this custom RimWorld scenario
- Fans are having fun with No Man's Sky's gold disc picture
- How to kick ass as Soldier: 76 in Overwatch
- Our Dark Souls 3 DLC wishlist
- Investigator 4K gallery: woe and cataclysmic weather
- We have 20,000 LawBreakers alpha keys to give away (Update: all out!)
- I followed Dendi in VR for an entire Dota game and it was weird
- Giant chainsaws and tiny black holes are just two things that can kill you in Half Dead
- Filling up the book of grudges in Total War: Warhammer
August 3
- Why dank memes are killing the discussion around esports
- Why I love multi-classing in RPGs
- Grow Up takes Bud the robot to new frontiers
- The International 2016: your guide to the teams
- The International 2016: get ready for the group stage
- Nvidia Pascal Titan X preview
August 2
- Mike Donais on One Night in Karazhan, whether Priest really has a problem, and if Fiery War Axe is the best card in Hearthstone
- Someone recreated an Overwatch map in TF2, and it works surprisingly well
- Take a look at all of Overwatch's Summer Games 2016 skins
- Making a clan of cannibals with RimWorld's scenario editor
- Chun Li challenges the top spot on the emerging Street Fighter V tier list
- How to use your utility grenades in Counter-Strike: Global Offensive
August 1
- What we can learn from games that play with real places
- Why aren't there more great pirate games?
- The International 2016: your guide to the wildcard teams
- Build of the week: Rebreather
- Get the definitive Mirror’s Edge: Catalyst experience with GTX 1080 & 1070
- Returning to Quake 2, the legendary shooter that's still fun today