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- May 31
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- Join Heroes of Newerth's [PCGC], the official PC Gamer clan!
- Call of Duty Elite closed beta taking applications now
- And in other PC gaming news...
- PC Gamer UK Podcast 56 – Chris Taylor and Danan Davis interview
- Fable 3 review
- Brink DLC detailed. Will include new maps, abilities, weapons attachments and outfits
- StarCraft 2: Legacy of the Void could have less units than Heart of the Swarm
- Metro: Last Light preview
- 20 Starcraft II: Heart of the Swarm screenshots
- US military commission $57m virtual reality training sim powered by CryEngine 3
- Assassin's Creed Revelations trailer shows road to E3
- Creative launches new motherboard sound chip, but where's X-Fi?
- Starcraft 2: Heart of the Swarm teaser trailer starts the hunt for Kerrigan
- Starcraft II: Heart of the Swarm preview
- Call of Duty Elite to bring monthly subscription service to multiplayer
- Dirt 3 review
- May 30
- May 28
- May 27
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- Magicka Dev Diary: Water bombing and crowd control
- Hard Stuff: Razer StarCraft II Marauder review
- And in other PC gaming news...
- The weekend playlist
- This week's winners
- Chris Taylor: Steam's dominance will 'shift' in the next five years
- Fifa 12 screenshots released, PC won't get "impact engine"
- Just Cause 2 video maps every in-game death in one haunting landscape
- The Witcher 2 patch 1.1 arrives, removes DRM, is enormous
- The future of indie
- Total War: Shogun 2 DLC adds new faction and warrior nuns
- Call of Duty: Black Ops patch paves the way for mod tools
- Renegade Ops preview
- Battlefield 3 art shows Gulf of Oman and Sharqi maps
- The future of Nadeo: creators of Trackmania, Shootmania and Questmania
- May 26
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- Winners of Guild Wars 2's video contest revealed
- And in other PC gaming news...
- Syndicate script leaked?
- PC Gamer receives mutilated doll's head in post. Investigation begins
- Chris Taylor on why PC gaming is bigger than ever
- Witcher 2 patch 1.1 delayed
- Minecraft 1.6 hands on: when hatches go bad
- Modern Warfare 3 screenshots non-leaked
- Into The Pixel 2011 collects incredible works of gaming art
- Super Street Fighter IV: Arcade Edition system requirements and DRM detailed
- Portal 2 mapping contest kicks off
- Minecraft patch 1.6 is live!
- Make your PC run quieter with one simple trick
- Download Portal 2: Songs to Test By (volume 1) for free
- New Runestone effects revealed for Diablo III
- May 25
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- Using League of Legends' new peer-review system to judge griefers (and the ridiculous things they say)
- And in other PC gaming news...
- The Witcher 2 patch 1.1 incoming
- Space Marine trailer and screenshots have so much blood, Squigs confirmed
- Lefties rejoice! NZXT announces ambidextrous gaming mouse
- World of Warcraft patch 4.2 live on test servers, full patch notes released
- Chris Taylor on why he couldn't go back from free-to-play
- TERA preview
- Deus Ex: Human Revolution trailer details Collector's Edition
- The Witcher 2 Tweaks Guide
- GameTrekking interview: "I released a new notgame from Cambodia today"
- US Navy MMO to brainstorm new anti sea-pirate strategies
- QuakeCon 2011 registration starts tomorrow
- Battlefield 3 and Mass Effect 3 to get live demos at E3 2011
- Age of Conan is going free to play!
- May 24
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- Giveaway: Beat up baddies with a Rusty Hearts beta key
- And in other PC gaming news...
- Gamecamp 4 - an Unconference about games
- Free-to-play Ghost Recon game announced: Ghost Recon Online
- Ghost Recon Online preview: hands on with Ubi's free shooter
- Ghost Recon Online trailer
- Frozen Synapse out this week, pre-order to get bonus copy
- Windows 8 launch next year will start "a real new push into PC gaming" say Microsoft
- Witcher 2 developers to announce new project at E3 2011
- Duke Nukem Forever has gone gold, hats eaten in their thousands
- Minecraft 1.6 patch adds multiplayer netherworld support, nerfs fire
- Brink patch fixes lag and improves performance
- Bioshock Infinite screenshots have skydiving! Firebombs! A dead horse!
- Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 trailer is an awesome action movie
- May 23
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- How To: Survive another day in the League of Legends arena
- Razer StarCraft 2 Banshee review
- And in other PC gaming news...
- Eve: Incarna screenshots show space station interiors
- Torchlight 2 screenshots and first info reveals randomised overworld and enormous new areas
- Team Fortress 2 Saxxy awards open to public vote
- Prey 2 preview
- EU Giveaway: Win one of five Intel 320 series 120GB SSDs with five year warranty
- Dungeon Siege 3 demo arriving in June
- First round of BlizzCon tickets sell out fast
- APB: Reloaded open beta to kick off today
- May 22
- May 21
- May 20
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- EVE Online pokes fun at doomsayers with a new login screen
- Exclusive guide: Get everything in Aion's Empyrean Crucible dungeon, and get out alive!
- Next year's Ford Focus is a LAN party on wheels
- Magicka Dev Diary: Shards, shields, and spam
- Mount & Blade: With Fire & Sword review
- Hard Stuff: Razer Naga Epic review
- And in other PC gaming news...
- Carrier Command: Gaea Mission to be shown at E3 2011
- EU Giveaway: Win a Rift 30 day pass
- Brink review
- Fallout: New Vegas Honest Hearts bugs shut out players
- Sponsored: Say goodbye to bezels with LG's UltraWide monitors
- Fifa 12 trailer leak shows "impact engine" in action
- Bulletstorm Gun Sonata DLC out now
- Call of Duty: Black Ops Escalation release date announced, Steam pre-orders now available
- Cargo! demo! Out now!
- Dragon Age 3 confirmed, Bioware recruiting now
- Transformers MMO to get first press showing in June
- PC Gamer US Podcast #273: Tell us some tales, Chuck Jordan
- May 19
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- And in other PC gaming news...
- Arma 3 system requirements revealed
- Hellgate: London to return as a free-to-play MMO
- BioWare on why you have to kill 300,000 Batarians before Mass Effect 3 starts
- Take one for the team with the latest addition to the Heroes of Newerth roster: Martyr
- Arma 3 announced, releasing Summer 2012, first screenshots
- Battlefield 3 Wake Island concept art is epic
- New Guilds Wars 2 profession revealed: the tinkering Engineer!
- Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 to get "exceptional post-launch support"
- APB: Reloaded open beta delayed
- The Witcher 2 review
- Valve not showing any games at E3 2011
- Geek toys review: Skitterbot!
- May 18
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- World Exclusive: Meet Grimrog, the dynamic duo coming to Bloodline Champions
- Did you know that you can wirelessly stream PC games to your television? Here's how it works
- And in other PC gaming news...
- Guild Wars 2 beta coming "in the second half of this year," 2012 release likely
- Play Flash games on Duke Nudem site to earn a glimpse of real-life boob
- Fable 3 dev: PC piracy "less problematic than second-hand sales on the XBox"
- Mass Effect 3's romance options have changed
- Atari to sell Cryptic studios
- A Game of Thrones: Genesis will be a PC exclusive set centuries before the books
- The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim to have an "unlimited number of dragons"
- Plants vs. Zombiesville? China gets exclusive adaptation from Popcap
- Deus Ex: Human Revolution trailer sells Sarif Industries
- Bioshock 2: Minerva's Den release date announced
- Portal 2 - The Final Hours now on Steam
- Crysis 2: Retaliation map pack out now
- May 17
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- Friends on different WoW servers will soon be able to run dungeons together...for a price
- Play Amnesia: The Dark Descent for free with OnLive
- Hard Stuff: Psyko Audio Labs Carbon review
- PC Gamer wants YOU for the Coconut Monkey army! [HoN, BLC]
- And in other PC gaming news...
- Terraria launch a huge success
- EU Giveaway: The Witcher 2 Collector's Edition
- Duke Nukem Forever trailers tease incoming demo
- Creative Assembly already working on new Total War game
- BioWare on how your choices determine Mass Effect 3's ending
- Dead Island trailer shows first in-game footage
- Minecraft creators planning to co-publish other indie games
- Civ World trailer brings Civilization to Facebook
- Intel's latest stock CPU cooler tested: is this the end for additional CPU coolers?
- Curious about esports? Watch the StarCraft 2 TSL tournament for free
- World of Warcraft Encounter Journal to detail boss fights, Firelands raid previewed
- Gotham City Impostors announced. Play as "The Bats" and "The Jokerz"
- Super Street Fighter IV: Arcade Edition gets early July release date
- Steam Daily Deals offer discounted games. PC gamers' economic stability threatened
- Red Faction: Armageddon trailer has evil space sorcerer
- Dead Island screenshots make a bloody mess
- May 16
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- Diablo III's NPC companion system revealed
- Hard Stuff: Sound Blaster X-Fi HD USB review
- PC Gamer US Podcast #272: Monstrous
- And in other PC gaming news...
- PC Gamer UK Podcast 55 – Deus Ex: Human Revolution interview special
- Assassin's Creed Revelations being developed by six studios, movie planned
- Blendimals lets you blend animals then explode them
- BioWare used DLC to experiment with Mass Effect 3 ideas
- Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 release date revealed, Infinity Ward respond to leak
- 2D Minecraft-alike Terraria is out today
- Corsair to launch high-performance, low(ish) cost SSD: hold on if you're planning an upgrade
- Sony Online Entertainment MMOs back online
- Witcher 2 launch trailers have headless kings and assassins
- Tweak Brink's FOV, mouse settings and more with Brink Config 1.4
- Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 trailers blast four major cities
- May 15
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- May 13
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- Heroes of Newerth's birthday giveaway: win one of 10 free copies of HoN
- Hard Stuff: Thermaltake eSPORTS Shock review
- And in other PC gaming news...
- GSL and MLG join forces to trade StarCraft II players and strengthen e-sports
- The weekend playlist
- Square Enix respond to the hack of Eidos and Deus Ex sites
- Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 plot details leaked. Locations, characters and multiplayer maps revealed
- Tali returns as a full-time squadmate in Mass Effect 3, Wrex probably doesn't
- Cargo! trailer drops a steamship from orbit
- Deus Ex: Human Revolution diary – The Thinker
- Brink disappears from UK Steam store. Customers unable to activate retail copies
- Heroes of Newerth is free to play until next Sunday
- Portal 2 Wheatley recordings were "exhausting" says Merchant
- Eidos and Deus Ex sites hacked, 80,000 users' data stolen
- How to make a great boss fight
- How to identify a motherboard when you want to upgrade
- Diablo 3 trailer shows Followers and freakish enemies
- May 12
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- Kingdoms of Amalur: Reckoning gameplay video released
- Access Denied! 18 Places Google Maps Won't Let You See
- Hard Stuff: Sound Blaster X-Fi Titanium HD review
- And in other PC gaming news...
- Capcom increasing PC focus, say that PC "is always at the bleeding edge"
- EU giveaway: win boxes and boxes of World of Warcraft loot
- American McGee's Alice rose above other 'dark Alice' adaptations by letting us discover Wonderland on our own
- EA bundling American McGee’s Alice with the PC version of Alice: Madness Returns exclusively through North American EA Store
- 5 lessons mod teams should learn from Red Orchestra
- Civilization V patch to add hotseat mode
- Deus Ex: Human Revolution diary – The Hacker
- Creative Assembly working on a "blockbuster based on Alien"
- Portal 2 delay decision explained, Newell was "biggest supporter" for the slip
- Play 8 Realms in your browser now for free
- The cheapest downloadable games to buy on PC
- May 11
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- Id Software's John Carmack picks a side in the Nvidia/AMD GPU war
- Hard Stuff: Razer Chimaera review
- Second Fallout: New Vegas DLC coming May 17
- And in other PC gaming news...
- Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 box art leaked?
- PC Gamer UK, June issue: Mass Effect 3
- PC Gamer UK Podcast 54 - Deus Ex: Human Revolution impressions special
- Deus Ex: Human Revolution hands on - the first ten hours
- Deus Ex: Human Revolution diary - The Psychopath
- Intel Z68 motherboards out now: offer support for Sandy Bridge's built in GPU
- World of Warcraft's first subscription drop: are you still playing?
- Notch to celebrate Minecraft's official release with MinecraftCon 2011?
- Get free access to the 8Realms beta with today's code word
- Hitman Absolution first details reveal new engine and plot info
- StarCraft 2 1.3 patch: Infestors slowed, Archons now "a massive unit"
- Portal 2 mod tools are out now
- Battlefield 3 Back to Karkand map pack detailed
- May 10
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- Xenonauts Dev Diary: Exclusive first ground combat screens and walkthrough
- Flawless run of the Impossible Boy achievement in Super Meat Boy
- And in other PC gaming news...
- Eve developers launch huge Q&A event, release comedy infomercial
- Duke Nukem Forever multiplayer preview
- Rift gets 7 day free trial
- Deus Ex: Human Revolution available to pre-order on Steam
- Get free access to 8 Realms with today's code
- Duke Nukem Forever available to pre-order on Steam
- Max Payne 3 screenshots have diving, shooting and hair loss
- The future of hard drives is hot
- Crysis 2 Retaliation map pack arriving May 17
- Bioshock Infinite 'Name in the Game' winner chosen
- 8 Realms preview
- First Tribes: Ascend screenshots released
- May 9
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- World of Warcraft subscriptions decline slightly to 11.4 million; new premium mount soon
- Diablo 3 beta in Q3; Blizzard hoping to launch full game in 2011 but "will not compromise on quality"
- Activision developing Call of Duty Online title for Asia; new details on next Call of Duty in "coming weeks"
- Security firm issues warning over insecure browser games
- Minecraft Dev Diary -- maps, Scrolls music, documentary
- And in other PC gaming news...
- FY_abbottabad lets you play Counter Strike: Source in Bin Laden's secret(ish) lair
- Gabe Newell on development: "We're going towards shorter and even shorter cycles"
- Diablo 3 beta news incoming
- Dungeon Siege 3 trailer shows four player co-op
- Space Marine hands on preview
- Jagex on 8Realms: lolcats, addiction and browser games
- Obsidian CEO: "I wish Fallout: New Vegas wasn't as glitchy when it came out"
- Panzer Command: Ostfront demo out now
- Free access to 8 Realms beta for 50,000 people
- Red Orchestra Darkest Hour mod gets new maps and tanks in huge 5.0 update
- Brink launch events to feature live matches and Quake pros
- Giveaway: Win one of 400 Dawn of Fantasy beta keys
- May 8
- May 7
- May 6
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- Hard Stuff: Black Ops|Enix PC review
- And in other PC gaming news...
- PC Gamer UK Podcast 53 - The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim, Rage and Mass Effect 3
- How Deus Ex: Human Revolution feels on PC
- Eve Online is eight years old, have a beer
- Deus Ex: Human Revolution dev diary offers PC UI overview
- Brink stat attack reveals 26,000 lines of dialogue
- Rage dev: id's old style of games "just don't work anymore"
- Frozen Synapse gets single player beta, pre-orders cheaper than ever
- Age of Empires Online beta open to all
- Team Fortress 2 gets replay editing. Win a Saxxy award by sharing highlights. Also: new hat
- From Dust trailer goes lava mad
- Get free access to the 8 Realms closed beta now
- PC Gamer US Podcast #271: Happy Birthday, Mechahitler
- May 5
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- Take all of my money: Legoed Portal 2 co-op robots
- Frozen Synapse preview
- And in other PC gaming news...
- Assassin's Creed Revelations revealed: launches on PC in November
- Rage to ship with full level editor, id studio
- Rage trailer has spider sentries and kickable turrets
- Deus Ex: Human Revolution will support DirectX11, 3D and AMD Eyefinity
- Revenge of the Titans review
- Try out World of Warcraft's Auction House and Remote Chat for free
- EA: Battlefield 3 is "flat out superior" to Call of Duty
- Fifa 12 first details reveal stronger players and revamped defense
- Super Meat World and level editor are now live
- Call of Duty: Black Ops Escalation in-game footage goes to the zoo
- Mass Effect 3 delayed until next year
- May 4
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- Well-endowed: NEA now issuing grants for digital works
- Alternate Lives: Dragon Age 2
- Eidos talk Deus Ex: Human Revolution PC exclusive features
- Welcome to the new(er) PCGamer.com
- Exclusive Deus Ex: Human Revolution PC screenshots dive into the action
- Star Wars: The Old Republic preview
- Mass Effect 3 screenshots have Liara, Anderson and Krogan husks
- Duke Nukem Forever system requirements outed
- Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 could be announced this week
- May 3
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- Dead State preview
- And in other PC gaming news...
- Brink trailer has bumslides and handy hints
- Fallout: New Vegas to get three summer expansions
- Deus Ex: Human Revolution system requirements detailed
- Exclusive Deus Ex: Human Revolution PC screenshots
- 20 free PC games you must play
- Monday Night Combat trailer rides a giant chicken
- TrackMania 2: Canyon screens feature plenty of flying cars
- Assassin's Creed Revelations teaser trailers leaked on Facebook
- Best Football Manager 2011 signings
- Saturday Crapshoot: Night Shift
- May 2
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- Sony Online Entertainment databases were hacked, players' credit card and bank information stolen
- Arma 2 webpage hacked, ARG senses tingling
- 21 Awesome Fan-Made Portal 2 Wallpapers
- The Force of TOR: MMO devs weigh in on what's at stake with BioWare's MMO
- Rift's Scott Hartsman responds: how he plans to make live world events fun for everyone.
