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- December 31
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- World of Warcraft NYE celebrations begin
- EA to "retire" online support for select games
- Face Off: What was the best decade for PC gaming?
- Dead Space 3 co-op preview: can terror survive a twosome?
- The Game of the Year 2012: Mass Effect 3
- The Most Reassuring Absence of Bigotry of the Year 2012: The Walking Dead
- Sword of the Stars 2: Enhanced Edition review
- December 30
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- Shogo: Mobile Armor Division is a fascinating artifact from the anime boom times
- The Strategy Game of the Year 2012: XCOM: Enemy Unknown
- The Worst Reason to Pay for a Game Which Doesn't Exist Yet of the Year 2012: Nostalgia
- WRC3 - World Rally Championship review
- Sim-plicity: I am a working single mom
- December 29
- December 28
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- The War Z creator apologizes to players for "arrogance," promises improvements
- Soon Serenade canceled, soundtrack for first musical RPG released for free
- Fallout: Nuclear Winter, Part 5 of 5
- Police Quest pretended to be serious, but was really a nonsensical fever dream of a game
- Lego Lord of the Rings review
- Green Man Gaming community's game of the year revealed
- The Short-form Game of the Year 2012: FTL
- The Best Animal Husbandry of the Year 2012: Far Cry 3
- Tomb Raider hands-on: "a lack of meaningful interaction"
- The Text Adventures That Never Were: Hotline Miami
- December 27
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- Diablo 3 Team Deathmatch shelved, PvP dueling to debut in patch 1.07
- Humble Indie Bundle 7 adds three more games
- Fallout: Nuclear Winter, Part 4 of 5
- Reinstall: Rayman
- Ibb and Obb hands-on: co-op platforming in a topsy turvy world
- The Sim of the Year 2012: Euro Truck Simulator 2
- The Most Annoying Gaming Cliche of the Year 2012: Escaping Burning Buildings
- The Community Heroes of the Year 2012: Durante and Nwks
- Miner Wars review
- The Text Adventures That Never Were: Far Cry 3
- December 26
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- New Rise of the Triad trailer is holiday twisted
- Space Quest 5 remains a guilty pleasure of cheap gags and wish fulfilment
- Fallout: Nuclear Winter, Part 3 of 5
- Transformers Universe: we get some prime time with the robo-MMO
- The Multiplayer Shooter of the Year 2012: PlanetSide 2
- The Best NPC Barks of the Year 2012: Dishonored
- A Game of Dwarves review
- The Text Adventures That Never Were: Assassin's Creed III
- December 25
- December 24
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- Mine-Thon 2 raises over $10,000 for Child's Play charity
- Family Guy Online to shut down, cut-away gag explaining why not that funny
- Fallout: Nuclear Winter, Part 1 of 5
- Reinstall: Quake
- The Singleplayer Shooter of the Year 2012: Dishonored
- The Best Music of the Year 2012: Hotline Miami
- Stealth Bastard Deluxe review
- The Text Adventures That Never Were: Dishonored
- December 23
- December 22
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- Reinstall: FreeSpace 2
- Potatoman Seeks the Troof has a trailer that has to be seen to be believed
- A Valley Without Wind 2 beta now available on Steam, free if you already own the first game
- Family Guy: Back to the Multiverse review
- PC Gamer's best features of 2012
- Call of Duty "stamped out memories" of what made FPS games great, says THQ
- December 21
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- The best Far Cry 3 mods
- Riot Games details League of Legends champion price changes
- The best graphics mods of 2012
- Hawken review
- Far Cry 3's latest patch adds DLC support, frees up glorious screen space
- PC Gamer UK Podcast: Episode 81 - Gritty Gritty Bang Bang
- World of Tanks boasts 45 million players, 2 billion hours of collective tanking
- The Free Webgame Round-up
- Club3D quadfire Radeon HD 7990 tested: freakishly fast, not terribly stable
- Starcraft 2's Heart of the Swarm beta extending to pre-orderer customers
- Green Man Gaming's download chart Christmas number one revealed
- Bioshock Infinite will feel "at home on the PC," won't use Games for Windows Live or SecuRom
- Deus Ex: Human Revolution fan film looks pretty amazing
- Borderlands 2 Sir Hammerlock DLC releases January 15, trailer shows sparkly teeth
- Crysis 3 gameplay video shows dangers of tall grass, alien archery
- PlanetSide 2 tripling Station Cash purchases today only, vehicle weapons 15% off
- December 20
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- Hawken open beta impressions and criticisms
- Maxis explains the use of SimCity always-online DRM
- Hide yo' Heroes, hide yo' Stash, the Greevils have come to Dota 2
- DayZ creator Dean Hall on The War Z fiasco
- PC Gamer US issue #236: Neverwinter, plus an exclusive in-game item
- Steam Holiday Sale now live
- Next-gen consoles will struggle to beat PC, say industry insiders
- Black Ops 2, Assassin's Creed 3, Far Cry 3 benefit from new Nvidia drivers
- Violence and videogames: we look at the studies cited in the aftermath of Sandy Hook
- An Illusionist in Skyrim, part 15: the battle of Whiterun
- Company of Heroes 2 hands-on: advancing the frozen frontline of the RTS
- Vacant Sky: the indie RPG's second act gets revamped, released for free
- Supreme Commander developers tease "Project W" with 25 day countdown timer
- Battlefield 3 End Game pack to include vehicle dropship, dirt bikes, capture the flag
- Endless Space free update adds Christmas wonder, optional pirates, new hero
- Team Fortress 2 Mecha Update introduces robot Engineers, new weapons and winter items
- Steam Linux now available for everyone
- SOE's John Smedley: MMO worlds are "nothing more than a movie set"
- Payne Effects 3 mod for Max Payne 2 adds weapons, cinematic effects, and more
- The War Z interview: Sergey Titov responds to backlash, sale removal from Steam
- December 19
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- Chaos Reborn's Julian Gollop explains multiplayer modes, playback feature
- Double Fine's Tim Schafer: "Kickstarter made me unafraid of being open"
- STALKER Lost Alpha mod expands explorable land, adds cut and new features
- Neverwinter Trickster Rogue class trailer shows sneaky stabbing, clever flanking
- Humble Indie Bundle 7 includes Legend of Grimrock, Binding of Isaac, and more
- THQ declares bankruptcy, will continue publishing duties
- GOG takes your mind off the end of the world with a massive sale event
- Xmas Bundle 2.0 offers Offspring Fling, Serious Sams and more
- Dark Souls 2 protects the "core" of the series, despite its changes
- GeForce Experience: hands-on with Nvidia's optimisation tool-kit
- Diablo 3 account bans issued to "several thousand" players using bots
- Bioshock Infinite's first five minutes revealed in new trailer
- Call to Arms, the "true successor" to Men of War, starts funding drive
- The War Z apologises to players who "misread" false Steam information [Update: no longer buyable on Steam]
- South Park: The Stick of Truth initially lacked funding at Obsidian
- Blacklight studio has licensed Unreal Engine 4; is developing "psychological thriller game"
- Tomb Raider survival guide video shows comforting campfire, gear crafting
- Half-Life 2 Gravity Gun replica selling in 2013, sadly obeys gravity
- Dead Space 3 dev diary discusses co-op character sanity
- December 18
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- Resident Evil 6 releasing for PC on March 22, system requirements announced
- Interview: Ken Levine on player movement, Disneyland, and how BioShock Infinite's villain compares to Andrew Ryan
- Far Cry 3 map maker recreates Battlefield, Call of Duty, and Counter-Strike maps
- Heroes of Newerth hacker vows League of Legends attack next
- Total War: Rome 2 developer diaries show Carthage crumble
- Star Wars: The Old Republic's Rise of the Hutt Cartel expansion announced, due Spring 2013
- The Showdown Effect launches beta sign-up page and trailer, takes aim for March launch
- Minecraft: The Story of Mojang release trailer; film out Sunday
- Tales of Maj'Eyal is released, despite being out for 109 years
- Giveaway: War of the Roses Digital Deluxe Edition
- Far Cry 3's lead writer says its colonialism was "an exaggeration of most games"
- GODUS prototype video released as the Kickstarter reaches its final days
- War of the Roses update celebrates winter's arrival
- Huge Call of Duty: Black Ops II patch addresses balancing, graphics issues
- Black Mesa: Uplink mod recreates Half-Life demo with Source graphics
- Tales of Middle-Earth mod brings the War of the Ring to Age of Empires II
- SimCity Reddit AMA goes over modding, always-on DRM
- December 17
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- Chaos Chronicles trailer shows turn-based hex combat, dramatic running
- Steam Time Analysis tool compares friend data, tells you how much you've spent in Steam
- Reinstall: MechCommander
- Intel Says Company Committed to Sockets
- The War Z now available on Steam
- AMD announce GCN 2.0 graphics! But don't get too excited just yet...
- Activision's Bobby Kotick shares thoughts on Infinity Ward founder firings
- Military simulation sizzle reel: Watch ShackTac's Year In Review video
- Borderlands 2 Sir Hammerlock DLC rumoured, details emerge from the wild
- The best GTA 4 mods
- Crysis 3's first Seven Wonders episode: grass, guns and gravelly voices
- Elite: Dangerous developers cut staff, insist prospects "remain healthy"
- Maximus Action Carnage: a run-and-gun arcade game set in Dubya Dubya Two
- Street Fighter x Mega Man released
- Square Enix confirms lay-offs, says MMO service will be unaffected
- Dota 2 Polycount Contest overall winner revealed; Frostivus announced
- StarCraft 2: Heart of the Swarm will feature new training area
- December 16
- December 15
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- RAGE 'Scorchers' DLC sets the post-apocalypse ablaze next week
- Firefall preview: taking to the skies in Red 5's ambitious open world MMO
- A Valley Without Wind 2 alpha footage emerges
- The making of Uplink
- Ranger mode returns in Metro: Last Light for pre-purchasers
- Splinter Cell: Blacklist developer video details art direction, camera effects
- PC Gamer US Podcast #340 - Malicious Laser
- Infographic shows $13 billion spent worldwide on MMOs in 2012
- Turbine revives Asheron's Call 2, opens beta server
- December 14
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- DmC: Devil May Cry's PC release date is January 25, system requirements released
- Obsidian almost made Baldur's Gate 3 in 2008
- SOE president John Smedley on PlanetSide 2's future, free-to-play and EverQuest Next
- Conquest mode coming to MechWarrior Online this Tuesday
- The Cave character trailer introduces the Adventurer, Knight, other spelunkers
- Nvidia giving out free Metro 2033 keys on Facebook
- Everquest Next is "pretty crazy," says SOE president: "We're not trying to make WoW2"
- Prison Architect's Alpha 5 update adds foundation fixes and firemen
- The Free Webgame Round-up
- PlanetSide 2's future to be decided by players in January, in-game tutorial due by February
- ShootMania STORM's Beta 2 trailer may break your speakers
- Total War: Rome 2 reveals Carthaginian faction
- PlanetSide 2 cheats can expect cruel and unusual punishment, vows SOE president
- Dirty Bomb footage shows havoc on the streets of London
- Valve rumoured to be opening San Francisco office, headed by former PopCap devs
- Resurgent Guild Wars 2 tops PC download chart
- Steam adds guides, lets you share your wisdom with the community
- Red Orchestra 2 free weekend now live
- ArenaNet banned over 34,000 Guild Wars 2 bots in November
- Enemy Starfighter lets you "plan to shoot things in space before shooting things in space"
- Dead Space 3 trailer distinguishes single-player fear from co-op destruction
- December 13
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- Cliff Bleszinski on the prospect of a new studio: "It's not a matter of if, it's a matter of when and with who."
- Yes, GLaDOS' voice is in Guillermo del Toro's Pacific Rim
- Ace of Spades launch trailer shows cube carnage, obligatory Motörhead
- Interview: Ken Levine on American history, racism in BioShock Infinite: "I've always believed that gamers were underestimated."
- Code Hero creator responds to abandonware allegations
- MLG CEO: "There's no reason that we can't rival even the NFL eventually."
- 1000 Smite beta keys up for grabs - plus win ALL the gods
- Intel's Haswell i5 and i7 line-ups leaked
- Company of Heroes 2 trailer shows multiplayer carnage, tank death
- Arma 3 delayed after "an eventful year"
- Windows 8 store now accepting PEGI 18 rated games
- The Cave: plundering the depths of Ron Gilbert's new adventure game
- STALKER acquisition update: GSC responds, say they remain "sole owners"
- Bientôt l'été, Tale of Tales' latest, offers a virtual seaside, anonymous chess
- Battlefield Heroes receives supply drop of Christmas treats
- Gioteck offer £500k "dream job" to winners of their Design Challenge 2013
- GameSpy denies shutting online servers without warning
- GamesAid's Little Big Bunch 2 lets you pick five games for £6
- PC Gamer magazine now available to buy through Google Play
- EA's Play4Free becomes Origin Free to Play
- THQ's Humble Bundle has made over $5 million
- Valve selects first six winners of the Dota 2 Polycount Contest
- Elite: Dangerous dev video shows multiplayer roles, churning convoy ambush
- Irrational opens fan voting for BioShock Infinite reversible cover box art
- Relic: future Company of Heroes sequels could go "anywhere"
- Ron Gilbert wants to make a Monkey Island game, plans to contact Disney "at some point"
- December 12
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- Perspective out now, lose yourself in a free 2D/3D puzzle platformer
- Homeworld composer talks influences, changing soundscapes
- Hawken open beta to launch later today (update: it launched)
- SimCity interview: failure states, casinos, Minecraft, and the working class
- The Secret World subscription model Q&A with game director Joel Bylos
- Valve launches Steam Community Market beta for selling and buying items
- Crysis 3 hands-on: lost in tall grass, no ammo, no arrows, please send help
- First major PlanetSide 2 update rebalances infantry and vehicle weaponry, adds horns
- GOG.com sale offering 75% off Bullfrog Bundle, plus free Duke Nukem and other discounts
- NBA 2K13 review
- Hotline Miami has been torrented to a "staggering level"
- Club3D Radeon HD7990: Now this is what we call graphical overkill
- Unity of Command dreams of a red Christmas with its Soviet-focused Red Turn DLC
- Routine: indie survival horror from the dark side of the Moon
- STALKER license acquired by bitComposer [Updated]
- SPONSORED: Randy Pitchford on making a game within the influential Aliens universe
- The Secret World drops its subscription for a one-time purchase
- Trion Worlds hit by lay-offs
- Skyrim Requiem mod brings old school RPG sensibilities
- Trion Worlds wants former players to try Rift: Storm Legion for free
- BioWare releases update 1.6 for Star Wars: The Old Republic, trailer shows new Warzone
- Prop maker crafts functional, gorgeous replica of Fallout 3's Terrible Shotgun
- December 11
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- SimCity gameplay video shows thriving city of sin, meteor experiment
- The Walking Dead's first season now available in boxed version
- Dishonored Dunwall City Trials DLC out now, sneak and kill for best times and scores
- Peter Molyneux on GODUS: Co-op, Kickstarter, and being "a god with unbelievable prowess"
- Indie and Mod DB narrows top 100 nominations for pick of the year
- PlanetSide 2 Maps lets you recon Auraxis from the safety of your browser
- UK government's cultural test for tax breaks revealed, then thoroughly mocked by Twitter
- Metro: Last Light trailer shows brooding in-game footage [Update: plus free Metro 2033]
- A Short Tale of Solitude is a creepy horror game with dolls, choices, not many colours
- Dota 2 hits new high with 180k concurrent players
- Guild Wars 2's Wintersday event also brings World vs World changes
- Monaco pre-orders starting this week
- IL-2 Sturmovik: Battle of Stalingrad announced
- Tomb Raider's "Survivor" trailer: explosions, bows and even some wubs
- Christmas is no excuse to stop playing Guild Wars 2
- Fight undead gingerbread on a moonbase in Killing Floor's new Twisted Christmas event
- The Elder Scrolls Online Q&A talks Aldmeri Dominion player faction, elf and cat lore
- GameFly End of the World sale chops 75 percent off XCOM, Witcher 2, others
- The PC Gamer 2012 Game of the Year nominees
- December 10
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- Warhammer 40K: Dawn of War added to Humble THQ Bundle
- Star Wars: The Old Republic's Ancient Hypergate PVP Warzone in patch 1.6 tomorrow
- On the topic of torture in SimCity
- Freeworlds: Tides of War mod sticks Star Wars dogfights with Freelancer sights
- New Space Hulk game announced - trailer within
- Sportsfriends reaches Kickstarter target in final hours
- Viking: Battle for Asgard review
- Cooler Master Seidon 120M liquid CPU chiller releases this month
- Warhorse Studios show the gorgeous tech behind their medieval RPG
- Bioshock Infinite's box art isn't for gaming enthusiasts explains Ken Levine
- Dark Matter: a sidescrolling sci-fi Metroid-like from the creators of Nuclear Dawn
- Steam begins listing Linux system requirements on some game pages
- Assassin's Creed 3's Tyranny of King Washington trailer
- GameSpy shuts down multiplayer support for Swat 4, Neverwinter Nights and other classics
- December 9
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- Company of Heroes 2 to enter closed beta "shortly after the New Year"
- Painkiller: Hell and Damnation review
- New South Park: The Stick of Truth trailer shows us far too much of Mr Slave
- In 1991, Wing Commander 2 blew away everyone (who could run it)
- Sim-plicity: I am a San Francisco bus driver
- Valve confirms Steam Box - a "very controlled" PC for the living room
- December 8
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- Capcom announces Street Fighter X Mega Man, a free PC download releasing December 17
- New BioShock Infinite footage shows off Handyman, crow-flinging, quantum mechanics
- Far Cry 3, Assassin's Creed 3 now available on UK Steam store; FC3 HUD patch on the way
- PC Gamer community screenshots of the year
- Dark Souls 2 announced
- What I didn't love about BioShock Infinite
- Crusader Kings II: The Republic revealed, read our exclusive Q&A
- December 7
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- PC Gamer US Podcast #339 - Designated Marksman
- Quake II turns 15, id releases celebratory factoids
- Far Cry 3 wingsuit BASE jump video shows sunny scenery, close brushes with brush
- Crytek: Free-to-play future "isn't mutually exclusive"
- League of Legends appears in Steam apps database [UPDATED]
- Dishonored: No Trace, episode 5: The Whaler's Revenge
- GODUS interview: 22cans' Dictator of Art on designing worlds and working with Molyneux
- Cargo Commander review
- Portal 2 recreated in this Lego stop-motion animation
- BioShock Infinite ending "is absolutely different to anything you've seen in a videogame"
- Planetside 2 awards double XP this weekend
- Dragon Age: Origins and Dragon Age 2 promo items now available for free
- The Free Webgame Round-up
- What I loved about BioShock Infinite
- BioShock Infinite graphics options revealed
- BioShock Infinite: first impressions from our massive hands-on (spoiler free)
- Hotline Miami is 50% off this weekend, FTL also cheap!
- Tomb Raider tops PC pre-order sales chart
- Crysis 3's release date announced
- Humble THQ Bundle adds Titan Quest and Red Faction DLC
- Company of Heroes 2 developer diary video talks Essence engine tech, sinking tanks
- The 7 Wonders of Crysis 3 puts a cinematic spin on the world of Crytek's high def shooter
- December 6
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- Valve offering Steam distribution deals for IGF 2013 finalists
- EVE Online producer: "I don't ever want EVE to be nice and fluffy"
- GeForce Experience beta launches: Help Nvidia help you optimize your graphics settings
- Super Hexagon review
- End of Nations development picked up by Trion Worlds for "a more polished overall game"
- Don't Panic: Intel pledges to continue support of socketed CPUs
- Make Something Unreal finalists announced
- PC Gamer UK Podcast: Episode 80 - That's So Escort Mission
- Euro Truck Simulator 2 review
- League of Legends pre-Season 3 patch brings sweeping changes
- Dishonored's Dunwall City Trials DLC trailer features combat, explosions and rapping
- Project Eternity update shows off new art and renders
- Underrail - Arcanum meets Metro 2033 - is available to alpha-buy now
- Raspberry Pi used to build working Fallout Pipboy
- Total Warhammer: Creative Assembly partner with Games Workshop to create Warhammer games
- Project GODUS footage released, hundreds of tiny men die
- inXile crowdsourcing art needs: Get paid to provide 3D models for Wasteland 2
- December 5
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- Play over 300 emulated DOS games in your browser
- Developer IPKeys licenses Unreal Engine 3 for military training simulations
- Voting has begun for ModDB's 2012 Mod of the Year award nominees
- Black Ops 2 grosses $1 billion in just 15 days
- Natural Selection 2 review
- Riot employs a neuroscientist to address "players being jerks" in League of Legends
- First batch of new PlanetSide 2 weapons on the market tomorrow
- Total War: Rome II reveals first playable faction. But who could it be?
- Hawken enters open beta next week
- End of Nations' developer Petroglyph facing lay-offs [Updated]
- Path of Exile's open beta dated
- Ex-Madden developer speaks out against EA: "creativity is stiffed by corporate culture"
- Firefall beta key giveaway: win access to this weekend's test
- Star Wars: The Old Republic's free-to-play restrictions tweaked, Bioware stress "an ongoing dialogue"
- Brand new Bundle In A Box bigs up Eclectic Delights
- League of Legends pro-player banned for "persistent toxic behaviour"
- Macronix self-healing SSDs last ten times longer
- Tomb Raider preview
- December 4
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- Warhammer Online update unifies RVR currencies
- EVE Online: Retribution expansion releases with tons of new features, new ships and rebalances
- SOE's John Smedley on cheaters: "We'll hunt you down"
- The War Z enters beta, expands map and adds new characters and items
- Breaking: NCsoft Seattle offices undergoing "realignment"
- Three things you probably didn't know about StarCraft lore
- How to stream games with Open Broadcaster: a fast, free livestreaming application
- Indie Royale's Winter Bundle keeps you warm with Greed Corp, Bit Trip Runner, and others
- Hitman Absolution launches, then pulls, offensive Facebook promotion
- XCOM's Slingshot DLC gets trailered ahead of today's release
- Primordia: a robotic adventure with its sensors tuned to nostalgia, out tomorrow
- Perennial is a lo-fi platformer that gets around
- Wurm Online officially launches next week, after a six and a half year beta
- Company of Heroes movie has a trailer for you to puzzle over
- Star Wars: Battlefront 3's "99 percent done" claim contested by ex-LucasArts employee
- OCZ introduces the Vector SSD
- Barkley 2 announces oddball stretch goals for its successful Kickstarter campaign
- December 3
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- MLG Tournament of Champions starts tonight, features 8 of the best StarCraft 2 players on earth
- Skyrim: Dragonborn DLC releases on 360 tomorrow, we'll get it on PC "early next year"
- Fresh batch of Tomb Raider screenshots show raiding, possibly in tombs
- The five rules of stealth game design, according to Mark of the Ninja designer Nels Anderson
- How to outfit your air-to-ground fighter in PlanetSide 2
- Crysis 3's advanced graphics settings revealed, high-res textures at launch confirmed
- Steam Big Picture mode launches with controller-friendly deals
- Hitman Absolution's Deus Ex DLC augments Agent 47 (and makes him look ridiculous)
- THQ's stock rises nearly 40% thanks to Humble Bundle
- Sword of the Stars II: Enhanced Edition released, but does it fix the bugs?
- Molyneux talks Kickstarter backlash, Marmite comparisons
- STEALER: a stunning cyberpunk platformer focusing on "atmosphere and exploration"
- Steam's hardware survey shows Windows 8 outpacing Mac
- Reprisal trailer shows charming pixel terraforming and destruction
- Winners of the second annual Saxxy Awards announced
- Crysis 3's system specs revealed, ageing rigs look on in horror
- New Elite: Dangerous dev diary shows off galaxy evolution
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