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April 2012
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- April 30
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- Gabe Newell on the merits of not hiring managers
- RaiderZ preview
- Sleeping Dogs preview
- The Pirate Bay banned by UK ISPs
- How to build a gaming PC
- Assassin's Creed 3 developer talks animals and AI
- NVIDIA launches GeForce GTX 690
- Free-to-play MMO publishers Nexon "interested" in buying EA
- Dungeons and Dragons Online: Menace of the Underdark preview - druids, dragons and Driders
- League of Legends Varus patch detailed. Buffs and nerfs aplenty
- Crytek on piracy: people "want to play our games, they just don't want to buy them"
- Indie Gala Bundle IV goes lIVe
- Men of War: Condemned Heroes review
- April 29
- April 28
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- Blizzard's new restoration system gives items back instantly
- Rayman Origins review
- Guild Wars 2 designer talks post-launch content and getting the community to play together
- Realm of the Mad God review
- PC Gamer US Podcast #314 – Super Monday Night Galactic Conquest
- Nowhere is safe in EVE Online as Goonswarm suicide-bombs galactic trade hub
- Weekend Game Deals - Stock up on guns and spells, and play Modern Warfare 3 for free
- April 27
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- League of Legends spectator mode revamp adds time controls and AI-driven camera
- Ready Up - League of Legends and MLG unite, Heart of the Swarm comes to MLG Anaheim
- Now Playing: Taste-testing alchemy in Skyrim
- PC Gamer weekly round-up
- Champions Online wants you to design a boss to fight
- Guild Wars 2 beta weekend: join the PC Gamer European community!
- Skyrim DLC additions teased in hidden patch files: Snow elves, crossbow, vampires
- Ken Levine on writing games: a "depressing process, but afterwards it's the best thing ever"
- Guild Wars 2 World vs. World PvP: 20 minutes of footage, plus commentary!
- Google "Zerg Rush" and prepare to defend your browser
- April 26
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- Kid-friendly MMO Pirate101 announced by makers of Wizard101
- Portal 2 "Perpetual Testing Initiative" release date announced
- Should you join League of Legends' new referral program, or stay in the old one?
- Battlefield 3: Close Quarters - hands-on impressions of Donya Fortress
- Sniper Elite V2 preview
- 23 bugs about eyelids: office quotes from BioWare during Mass Effect's development
- Battlefield 3 trailer and screenshots obliterate Donya Fortress, all pillars must die
- Skyrim DLC reveal teased for next week, what do you want to see from Skyrim DLC?
- Dishonored preview: power, possession and pacifism in a hand-crafted world
- Dishonored video interview: Harvey Smith and Raf Colantonio talk player freedom
- Star Wars: The Old Republic launches in 38 countries across Europe and Middle East
- Lord of the Rings Online turns five, celebrates with Gandalf firework festival
- Valve working on Linux Steam client
- Zwei: a "true survival horror game" from Resident Evil, Vanquish dev Shinji Mikami
- Crytek: Lens flares “very important“ to Crysis 3
- Mass Effect 3: Operation Exorcist challenges players to kill a million Phantoms
- Cryptic announces that hackers stole account info in 2010
- DC Universe Online maps show you where to find everything
- April 25
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- Champion Roundtable: Hecarim, The Shadow of War
- STALKER 2 finally dead, developers move on to another apocalypse with Survarium
- TERA guild PvP preview
- Wonderful WASD: Legend of Grimrock and the value of easy input
- Guild Wars 2 Asura preview: Experimental science and our exclusive hands-on impressions
- End of Nations trailer fires napalm strikes at metal men
- Crytek justify having aliens in Crysis 3
- Microsoft Flight review
- Introduce enough people to Tribes: Ascend and awesome things will happen
- A Valley Without Wind out now, demo available
- Crysis 3 interview
- Are Pixar making Grim Fandango and Psychonauts movies? No.
- Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 multiplayer free trial starts tomorrow
- Sniper Elite V2: how recklessly can you play?
- April 24
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- Lord of the Rings Online is five years old today, so we're giving you free stuff
- Crysis 3 preview
- SimCity dev: "We built this from the ground up to be a multiplayer game"
- Agricultural Simulator: Historical Farming delivers ancient tractor action, plays mean banjo
- PES 2013 trailer reveals existence of PES 2013, first screens and details arrive
- Batman: Arkham City trailer outlines game of the year edition
- Call of Duty announcement announced for May 1
- April 23
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- Tribes: Ascend "Raid & Pillage" update revealed, going live tomorrow
- Battle Report: DreamHack crowns ThorZaIN, DRG dethrones MKP at MLG Spring Arena
- Trendy offering $1000 prize in Dungeon Defenders map contest
- Intel releases Ivy Bridge CPUs. We review the i7 3770K
- Max Payne 3 PC system requirements and screenshots arrive
- 1000 Amps review
- Half-Life 2: Episode 3 silence due to development "twists and turns" says Newell
- Jumpgate devs launch Kickstarter campaign for new free-flying space-combat MMO
- Banner Saga kickstarter is a success, Police Warfare kickstarter cancelled
- BioWare doing "anything and everything" to keep players logging in to SW:TOR
- Max Payne 3 trailer is 90% slow motion, 10% explosions
- Gabe Newell on EA's Origin: "I don't think they're doing anything super well yet"
- Battlefield 3 server patch fixes AA missiles, tank armour, flying robot surfing
- Crysis 3 trailer blip shows dome, shoots bow, full trailer coming tomorrow
- April 22
- April 21
- April 20
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- GOG offers Botanicula owners gifts to make up for simultaneous Humble Bundle edition
- Spec Ops: The Line multiplayer trailer reveals zip-lines, head stomping, and lots of sand
- Tripwire's devs talk about research at the shooting range
- Ready Up - Springtime for MarineKing in NYC, winter for PartinG and DRG (4/20/2012)
- Now Playing: A streak of luck in Spelunky
- Otherland alpha sign ups available
- DOTA 2 will be free-to-play, but will "have some twists," says Gabe
- Syndicate makers Starbreeze hit Payday: the Heist devs with takeover
- Max Payne 3 preview
- Codemasters drop shooters and action games for cars, form Codemasters Racing label
- Diablo 3 open beta weekend begins today!
- April 19
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- Download TERA tonight, play it free all weekend
- Lone Survivor review
- Team Fortress 2 lore in 60 seconds
- Alienware update their laptop specs
- Humble Botanicula Debut now live. Machinarium and Samorost 2 bundled
- World of Warplanes trailer shows off new fighters
- Arma 3 gains over 19 square km of island real estate, trailer, screenshots
- Thief 4 will "bring more than just stealth" says dev
- Prey 2 lives, but won't be out this year
- Win a state of the art ASUS Z77 series motherboard
- EverQuest free-to-play is doing well
- Insanely Twisted Shadow Planet out now for PC
- Author sues Ubisoft over Assassin's copyright infringement. Amazon reviewers hit back hard
- Dirt Showdown trailer reveals May 25 release date, demo due May 1
- Intel, Plextor launch new SSDs: end days for hard drives in sight?
- Darksiders 2 release date delayed, "this is great news for the team at Vigil"
- PC market refuses to die, rises again in Q1 2012
- Star Wars: The Old Republic free trial available again this weekend
- Deep Black: Reloaded now on Steam. Punch robo-fish until they explode
- Call of Duty: Black Ops 2 teased by retail poster
- Play The Secret World's Secret War for potential beta access, in-game rewards, mild intrusion
- Sniper Elite V2 demo out now
- April 18
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- Guild Wars 2 pre-purchase beta event announced
- Microsoft "continues to support" Games for Windows Live
- EverQuest 2 update 63 live today, adds dragon city, dragon-free evil swamp place
- Grim Dawn Kickstarter seeks funding for ambitious open world action RPG
- Diablo 3 beta opens briefly, now closed
- Free UK-based CS: Source and Call of Duty tournament offers prize pool of £10,000
- Mass Effect: Paragon Lost trailer reveals Protheans, Prinze Junior in animated form
- Dark Souls devs say Games for Windows Live discussions are "still ongoing"
- Diablo 3 beta gets a final push. Release day is less than a month away
- Sniper Elite V2 team deathmatch coming to PC only
- April 17
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- Super Monday Night Combat accidentally releases a day early
- From closed to open beta in Warhammer Online: Wrath of Heroes
- What is League of Legends: Supremacy?
- de_train heat map for Counter-Strike: GO visualizes 6.5 million bullets
- First trailer and screens for Mercenary Ops, a Chinese-developed third-person shooter
- Why CD Projekt decided to update The Witcher 2 for free
- Dark Souls PC screenshots show giant dragon, giant hand, giant giant
- Windows 8 line up simplified, renamed
- Five essential Football Manager 2012 Mods
- The Witcher 2 is "finally finished," says dev, Enhanced Edition out now
- Legend of Grimrock review
- Wasteland 2 secures $3 million in funding
- Bethesda tease incoming reveal with greasy beardy man
- Star Wars: The Old Republic Rakghoul event guide: how to earn your crystals, pets, and title
- CryEngine 3 SDK DirectX 11 update trailer shows off new graphics tech, sea monsters
- Baldur's Gate: Enhanced Edition will raise level cap, add new characters, improve mod support
- Sword and Sworcery now on Steam. Features higher resolutions and less finger smudge
- MMO update: Allods Online
- April 16
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- Quantum Conundrum preview: how to vandalise a mansion in multiple dimensions
- Crysis 3 set in "sandbox" urban rainforest, screenshots show nano bow vs. alien robot
- Legend of Grimrock is doing quite well, patch coming soon
- Police Warfare Kickstarter seeks funds for cops vs. robbers FPS from former GTA, Crysis devs
- Rakghoul plague strikes Star Wars: The Old Republic in secret world event
- Mass Effect 3 trailer shows off Resurgence classes and weapons
- April 15
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- April 13
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- PC Gamer US Podcast #313 - When two Tribes go to TOR
- Trion discusses patch 1.8's fishing, face-punching raids, and the future of Rift
- Mastering the Arena: Another side of Warriors
- D&D Online: Menace of the Underdark gets trailer, will include shapeshifting tree huggers
- Assassin's Creed 3 screenshots show deer hunting in a snowy landscape
- Now Playing: Rainbow Six Vegas 2's terrible ending
- City of Heroes issue 23 will bring the Praetorian War to an end
- Giveaway: win a copy of Crusader Kings 2
- Dragon Age 3 won't reuse levels, will feature follower customisation
- Prototype 2 preview
- Valve job ad seeks engineer: "we're developing hardware"
- Firefall trailer drops spaceship on Fortaleza
- Wargame: European Escalation free DLC adds co-op play and new maps, 40% off this weekend
- April 12
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- BioWare gives TOR players free game time and cuddly pets, alongside 17,000-word patch
- Tribes: Ascend review
- Max Payne 3 bullet time trailer details Rockstar's take on the series' slow-mo trademark
- Cartography leads to victory with Aion's new map features
- Skyrim getting Kinect voice support on Xbox, free PC mod offers same features right now
- Mastering the Arena: Trial by Arcane
- C&C: Tiberium Alliance's tanks are very, very familiar to Warhammer 40k players
- Rift 1.8 screenshots show golden dragons, red dragons, giant purple pirate
- Skyrim publisher files for "Fus Ro Dah" trademark
- 0x10c screenshots show early build, shadows, shapes that aren't cubes and TF2 soldier
- Dark Souls PC release date announced: new bosses, PVP modes, Games for Windows Live
- Mass Effect 3 multiplayer event to give players a new Resurgence class
- Aion free-to-play launches in North America, brings huge updates
- April 11
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- Hands-on with legendary MOBA Smite
- Tribes: Ascend launching tomorrow, trailer previews Raindance and custom server options
- TERA announces new launch features: Dungeon matcher, more instances, and reputations
- Runescape getting free trial system and Troll Warzone starting area
- 5 things to see at The Gadget Show Live
- EVGA introduces Android overclocking
- The best free armor sets for your Skyrim Dragonborn
- Crysis 3 spotted on Origin, bows and arrows pictured
- Lost Planet 3 has man in robot suit fighting giant ice crab, here's Dave with the weather
- PC Gamer's Skyrim mod collections on the Steam Workshop
- The Witcher 2: Enhanced Edition available to preload now
- Star Wars: The Old Republic patch 1.2 out tomorrow, raid monsters prepare for beating
- Lian Li launches littlest (ATX) mobo, lovely for LANs
- April 10
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- Magic: The Gathering Duels of the Planeswalkers 2013 announced
- First screens of Kingdoms of Amalur's Teeth of Naros DLC released
- Free Mass Effect 3: Resurgence Pack DLC – Out today
- See World of Warcraft with infinite draw distance
- Resident Evil 6 gets a new trailer and release date
- Max Payne 3 preview
- Guild Wars 2 Elementalist preview
- Game of Thrones RPG screenshots tour Kingslanding
- Torchlight 2 release date would "ideally" be a month after Diablo 3, says Runic boss
- APB: Reloaded New Breed update will bring Radar Jammers, Tommy Guns and a brick
- Guild Wars 2 pre-orders now available
- Free loot for your free game as Warhammer Online: Wrath of Heroes goes into open beta
- Bulletstorm 2 canned, original hurt by poor port and piracy on PC
- Borderlands 2 "Mechromancer" class planned as post-launch DLC
- Nvidia drivers boost Skyrim, add FXAA shaders, adaptive Vsync and other fancy bits
- Intel intros series 7 motherboards
- Dark Souls PC port confirmed by German mag
- April 9
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- Orcs Must Die 2 preview
- PAX East: Dungeons & Dragons Online weaves a tale of expansion
- What is Epic Games' next PC exclusive?
- Grand Theft Auto V release date listed as "October 2012" in employee résumé
- League of Legends patch boosts comebacks, AI, Teemo, Kayle, and support champs
- Max Payne 3 is "f***ing brilliant," says Remedy CEO Matias Myllyrinne
- Aliens: Colonial Marines preview
- April 6
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- First Defiance gameplay trailer shows off massively-multiplayer bug shooting
- Neverwinter makes its debut as an MMO with action combat and gorgeous graphics
- Survive a Nuclear Blast in City of Heroes’ next Incarnate Trial, The Magisterium
- Carrier Command: Gaea Mission "Play & Contribute" beta launches
- PC Gamer US Podcast #312 - Never Cry Alien
- Weekend Game Deals - Free Fallout!
- Now Playing: The genius and maths of Rainbow Six: Vegas 2
- Mass Effect 3 multiplayer getting new characters, weapons, maps next Wednesday
- Alan Wake review
- Gotham City Impostors review
- Tribes Ascend preview
- Awesome Aztec mod seeks Tomb Raider types
- Watch 30 minutes of The Showdown Effect livestream footage
- April 5
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- Gabriel Knight creator Kickstarting new Sierra-style adventure games
- Civilization V: Gods & Kings release date announced
- Arma 3 video gives a glimpse of new animation system, lighting
- Exclusive reveal: Neverwinter's CG PAX teaser trailer and screenshots
- Champion Roundtable: Lulu, the Fae Sorceress
- Gigabyte says: buy a Z77 motherboard, get free watercooling
- 0x10c's spaceships will have fully functional on-board CPU, emulators are already available
- Mass Effect 3: Extended Cut free DLC to expand ending this summer
- Storming into Hell (again) in The Secret World
- EA wins "worst company in America" Golden Poo award
- Cooler Master joins mechanical keyboard club
- Prime World to offer discounts to women, incentives to form mixed gender teams
- April 4
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- Indie point-and-click adventure Botanicula releasing on April 19
- Google glasses just got real
- Watch the conceptualization of a PlanetSide 2 rifle scope
- Blizzard reveals Battle.net World Championship, aims to crown global StarCraft II champ
- Aliens: Colonial Marines - an inside look with the Gearbox team
- Shadowrun Returns joins the pack of Kickstarter-funded projects
- Kingdoms of Amalur: Reckoning 'Teeth of Naros' DLC releases April 17 on Steam
- Borderlands 2 preview
- Aliens: Colonial Marines screenshots show huggy aliens, big guns and abandoned ships
- Microsoft Flight preview
- Star Wars: Battlefront 3 footage shows early build of abandoned Free Radical sequel
- Borderlands 2: Gearbox VP talks PC special features
- Assassin's Creed 3 to feature "more Desmond than you've ever had before"
- Star Wars: The Old Republic friend free trial invites expanded
- April 3
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- Notch names his space game 0x10c, says its pronunciation is "a riddle"
- Superbrothers: Sword & Sworcery EP coming to Steam on April 16
- Ghost Recon Future Soldier release date and PC-specific features announced
- The Secret World pre-orders come with beta access, available now
- SimCity trailer shows industry in action
- Star Wars: Battlefront 3 files discovered on Resident Evil: Raccoon City disc
- Torchlight 2 pets include hawks, panthers, bulldogs and a weird raptor/ostrich thing
- Hitman Absolution trailer features axe murder, Agent 47 is not a convincing priest
- Peter Molydeux MolyJam is complete, play 280 mad Molyneux-inspired experiments for free
- Batman: Arkham City Harley Quinn and Robin DLC teased in achievement leak
- Kickstarter campaign seeks $500K for Leisure Suit Larry remake
- April 2
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- F2P strategy game Void Rim announced by former PoxNora devs
- Mass Effect 3's tragic effects on marriage
- The Political Machine 2012 announced: join the US presidential election this summer
- PlanetSide 2 GDC alpha footage highlights
- CraftStudio, "a game to make games," nearing funding goal on Indiegogo
- Naval War: Arctic Circle surfaces on April 10th
- World of Darkness will feature a "poetic" UI. It's "not going to look like a game"
- GAME acquired in the UK, saving over 3200 jobs
- Orcs Must Die! 2 coming summer this year, features co-op play
- "Legendary" PC RPG available for free on GOG this Thursday, courtesy of CD Projekt Red
- Watch 45 minutes of Guild Wars 2 dungeon footage, plus commentary!
- EVE Online creative director on microtransactions: "I personally think we shouldn't be doing it in the near future"
- Euro 2012 DLC on its way for FIFA 12
- World of Tanks 7.2 patch brings new maps and more US tank destroyers
- Battlefield 3 spectator mode and e-sports features teased by latest Battlelog update
- Mount & Blade Warband: Napoleonic Wars features guns, bayonets, men with massive flags
