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- July 31
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- Star Wars: The Old Republic adding free to play option, microtransactions this fall [UPDATED]
- How to install Warface, Crytek's upcoming F2P shooter, and play right now
- PC Gamer UK issue 243 is totally warsome. And you can buy it tomorrow!
- Get Guild Wars 2 for £25 for a limited time
- The Stanley Parable: Attack Of The Narrator
- Rumour Mill: Bethesda taking over STALKER 2?
- Indie game Blindside turns out the lights
- Goodbye BBFC, hello PEGI - All change for the official UK games ratings system
- Prison Architect preview
- The Secret World throws free weekend party
- July 30
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- The Walking Dead - Episode 2 review
- Orcs Must Die 2 review
- Dawnguard PC info coming "later this week"
- League of Legends patch trailer rolls back Rumble, upgrades Urgot, boosts Cho'Gath
- Baldur's Gate Enhanced Edition will have cross platform co-op
- Uplay security risk spotted, Ubisoft "looking into" the issue now
- Minecraft mod adds beautiful lighting and water
- Awesomenauts release date revealed, it's Wednesday
- Dota 2 patch boosts bots, tweaks attack desire, defend desire, Roshan desire
- July 28
- July 27
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- Hands-on with Lord of the Rings Online's new mounted combat system
- The War Z new screenshots, interview on weapons, game systems, ambition
- You have 3 days left to vote in the PC Gamer Poll!
- Dota 2 update: Nyx Assassin, Keeper of the Light and Visage arrive
- Bethesda on Dawnguard PC: "we have not announced Dawnguard for any other platform"
- Need for Speed: Most Wanted trailer shows a race and a chase in Fairport City
- Battlefield 3 Aftermath DLC detailed: four maps, new game mode, new vehicles
- Orcs Must Die! 2 demo out now
- PC Gamer US Podcast #323 - Newell News
- Baldur's Gate: Enhanced Edition release date and price announced
- July 26
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- Total War: Shogun 2 Saints and Heroes DLC adds new units: spiked clubs and master ninja
- Crysis 3 trailer blows a dam using stealth and shotguns, also bombs
- Dishonored trailer shows three daring escapes: teleportation, decapitation, possession
- Edge put every Edge cover ever online
- Slender Man Source mod will let you scare the hell out of yourself for free, with friends
- Dota 2 heroes incoming: Nyx Assassin, Keeper of the Light and Visage
- Microsoft Flight development stops
- Planetside 2 beta release "next Mon or Tuesday"
- PlanetSide 2 "Death is No Excuse" CGI trailer is over three minutes of choreographed warfare
- Community heroes: modders debug and restore cut content in Knights of the Old Republic II
- July 25
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- Gabe Newell: "I think Windows 8 is a catastrophe for everyone in the PC space."
- Portal speed run record shattered
- Civilization V: The Swedish Saga, part 2 (430 A.D. to 1702 A.D.)
- Braid dev on Steam vs. consoles, and how platform bureaucracy "makes all games worse"
- Notch on why Minecraft still isn't on Steam
- Tribes: Ascend update adds Twinfusors, new maps, voice packs, skins, party system
- World of Warcraft: Mists of Pandaria release date announced
- Company of Heroes 2 screenshots show war and death on a frozen front
- Avellone "very tempted" to run Planescape reboot Kickstarter
- Left 4 Dead 2 update adds Cold Stream, opens up all mutations
- Dead Space 3 preview: Meet the Swarm Infector
- Latest Indie Royale bundle includes Geneforge Saga, Puzzle Agent, and more
- July 24
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- Arma 2 patch 1.62 attacks AI bugs and multiplayer stability issues
- Watch Notch, Freddie Wong, Valve, Bethesda, and us fight for charity, honor in Team Fortress 2
- The PC Gamer Poll: Which PC game franchises are getting better—and which ones are getting worse?
- PC Gamer UK Podcast: Episode 72 - Humans Are Magic
- Allods Online New Horizons to add smugglers and mercenaries, build your own allod
- Crysis 3 screenshots tread deep into the urban jungle
- Dragonica: Phoenix patch updates graphics, adds more dastardly dungeons
- Skyrim patch beta fixes crashes, improves optimisation
- Diablo 3 invulnerable wizard exploit hotfix arrives
- Our five favorite MMO meet-ups
- Nvidia releases new tech demo to show off Kepler-based GPUs
- July 23
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- Critical Path documentary series interviews top game makers
- Leap motion controller looks better than Kinect, shown working with Half-Life 2
- OMG Space realises enormity of the solar system in your browser
- Portal 2's space core is headed to space, courtesy of anonymous NASA engineer
- Mojang sued for patent infringement
- Diablo 3 exploit makes Wizards immortal
- July 21
- July 20
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- Weekend Game Deals - Summer Sale vol. 2
- PC Gamer US Podcast #322 - Feline Mothership
- Ready Up: MLG Summer Arena starts today, we have free HD codes
- Heroes of Newerth heroes now entirely free
- Firefall trailers tease Engineer and Biotech updates: lightning guns, poison clouds
- PES 2013 demo next week
- EA boss: "the fastest growing platform for video games today is the PC"
- July 19
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- What does Day Z's creator think of The War Z?
- Torchlight 2 release date still planned for this summer
- The War Z announced: zombie survival shooter-MMO with strong parallels to Day Z
- Fortnite always-online requirement being considered
- Diablo 3 always-online requirement "critical" to D3's "long-term integrity" says Blizzard boss
- Windows 8 release date confirmed
- Ofcom report highlights the rise of online gaming and laptops
- Guild Wars 2 intro sequences set up Human, Norn and Charr races
- Total War: Shogun 2 patch tackles multiplayer desync bugs, improves lighting
- Civilization V: The Swedish Saga, part 1 (4000 B.C. to 430 A.D.)
- PSA: Origin downtime scheduled for tonight, no Mass Effect 3 or Battlefield 3 multiplayer
- July 18
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- Team Fortress 2 crew coming to Hero Academy, cross-over hats coming to TF2
- Black Ops 2 trailer talks craft with Trent Reznor and Dark Knight Rises co-author David S. Goyer
- Mechwarrior Online trailer shows Centurion class, deals damage with dazzling lazers
- Lord of the Rings Online: Riders of Rohan trailer shows mounted combat
- PlanetSide 2 hands-on preview: soaring over a free-to-play wonderland
- Battlefield 4 beta not just for MoH pre-orderers, "we will continue to support BF3" say DICE
- Skyrim mod collection adds Minecraft man, diamond sword, Creepers and rideable pig
- GTA 4 iCEnhancer mod version 2.1 released, GTA games super cheap in Steam sale
- Portal Lego prototype gets 10,000 supporters, enters review stage, remains adorable
- Mass Effect 3 Earth DLC trailer has teleporting space samurai
- July 17
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- Chinese developer accused of asset theft by Torchlight boss
- PlanetSide 2 CGI teaser declares that "size always matters"
- Napoleon: Total War Darthmod update has "enhanced Battle AI that awaits to crush you"
- Battlefield 4 is real, beta arriving Autumn 2013
- Having some form of "expert voice" in Greenlight is a good idea, say Valve
- Community heroes: we talk to the man behind Civilization II's Eternal War
- Dungeons of Dredmor: Conquest of the Wizardlands DLC gets release date
- Valve Linux bringing Steam and Left 4 Dead 2 to Ubuntu
- Orcs Must Die! 2 available to pre-purchase
- Star Wars: The Old Republic CGI trailer introduces army of killer HK-51 droids
- Awesomenauts is coming to PC
- July 16
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- Meet Borderlands 2's Ellie: The "opposite of how most females tend to be represented in games"
- Steam deals don't "cannibalise" sales, says Valve's director of business management
- Maxis on SimCity: EA "investing quite a bit" in making always-online work
- Battlefield 3's biggest map "re-discovering the classic Battlefield" say DICE
- EA Origin EU Summer Sale kicks off, 11 IPs cheapened
- Will cloud-based gaming kill off gaming PCs? We ask Gaikai's David Perry
- StarCraft 2 Battle.net World Championship finals heading to Shanghai
- Medal of Honor: Warfighter pre-order offer teases Battlefield 4, trailer teases multiplayer
- Mass Effect 3 video shows Earth DLC characters, weapons and maps
- July 14
- July 13
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- RaiderZ EU closed beta beginning August 9th
- Prime World roster expands with six new stone-cold killers
- ShootMania Storm preview: how Nadeo plan to reinvent the competitive FPS
- Dota 2 update adds better bots, new special chests and new hero: Templar Assassin
- Rome 2 lead designer talks ancient warfare, modding, DLC, and the importance of working with the community
- Valve's Jason Holtman on Greenlight's rating system: "People are smarter than we think"
- The winners of our Microsoft Flight competition
- Firefall trailer shows updated assault class: railguns, fusion cannons, faster jetpacks
- Rocket: DayZ is "two or three hours away from complete disaster at any time"
- Diablo 3 real money auction house gets gold trading, game guide explains magic find
- F1 Race Stars to offer colourful arcade take on Formula One
- Assassin's Creed 3 trailer hunts Brits in Boston
- July 12
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- New Arma 3 screenshots
- Fortnite will be a PC exclusive and Epic's first Unreal Engine 4 game
- EVE Online war journal: how I became an embedded reporter
- Steam Summer Sale is live!
- Guild Wars 2 beta key giveaway
- Crytek tech to purge texture popping
- Hitman: Absolution trailer shows 17 minute mission walkthrough, is encouraging
- Metro: Last Light preview
- How Steam is about to change its role
- GTA 5 screenshots show pretty pier, chilled out chopper
- Borderlands 2 trailer has mechs, turrets, rockets and killer wildlife
- Bioware announce free to play Ultima Forever, beta sign-ups live
- 453,000 Yahoo passwords exposed, hackers claim
- Splinter Cell designer and Far Cry 2 director Clint Hocking moves to Valve
- We've played the controversial Tomb Raider scene, here's what's really happening
- July 11
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- Civilization V: The Celtic Chronicle, part 3 (520 A.D. to 1450 A.D.)
- PC Gamer UK Podcast: Episode 71 - Wordless Yelling
- World of Goo designer teases new game, Little Inferno
- Mass Effect 3 Earth DLC details leaked: new characters, weapons and Platinum difficulty
- Call of Duty: Black Ops 2 trailer shows new bad guy, jetpack skydive attack, drone strikes
- Carmack VR headset Kickstarter kicking off soon
- 10 things I love about Skyrim's Dawnguard DLC
- Star Wars: The Old Republic now free to play up to level 15
- Source Filmmaker now available to all
- PlanetSide 2 beta launching "within the next month," according to SOE
- Defense Grid 2 launches Kickstarter, includes Radeon HD 6870 for $325-tier backers
- July 10
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- Which Diablo 3 builds does Blizzard use?
- Marvel Heroes hands-on preview
- Penny Arcade aims to go ad-free with Kickstarter campaign: "We want to sell out to you"
- Deus Ex: Human Revolution film in the works
- Wasteland 2 to come bundled with original Wasteland
- Dead Space 3 trailer shows 15 minutes of in-game footage: co-op, snow, giant freakin' drill
- Windows 8 release date set for "late October"
- Valve on how Team Fortress 2 inspired Greenlight: "We hardly make anything anymore"
- DayZ weekly update: 1.7.2 patch finally released, axe murderers, and Reddit to the rescue
- Splinter Cell: Blacklist release date spilled by retailer
- July 9
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- Steam Greenlight announced, will let gamers vote indie games on to Steam
- Tera's political system opens itself to exploitation, devs close the loophole [UPDATED]
- Guild Wars 2's final beta weekend unlocks two never-before-playable races
- Possible Steam Summer Sale details arise
- Green Man Gaming merges with gaming social network, Playfire
- Street Fighter X Tekken review
- Warren Spector regrets listening to Invisible War focus testers
- Raspberry Pi competition to encourage young coders, $1000 prize on offer
- Overgrowth update video shows objectives, brutal rabbit knife battles
- Killing Floor Summer Sideshow event adds new monsters, map and guns, has crazy trailer
- DayZ updates to add dogs and bear traps
- July 7
- July 6
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- Spelunky and the City of Gold
- SpyParty dev on the "cultural ghetto" of gaming: "we have to make games about different stuff"
- Iron Front: Liberation 1944 review
- The Trench: three days, two trenches, one last charge
- Fuji wants to teach you to build a PC
- Battlefield 3 "Matches" feature will let players create tailored grudge matches
- Dota 2 update adds new heroes: Disruptor and Undying
- DICE general manager thinks FPSs will start "moving away from the modern setting"
- Minecraft 1.3 update due out August 1
- July 5
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- Realism Theater: one Arma 2 battle, three perspectives
- EVE devs launching another space balloon at 17:00 GMT (10 AM PDT)
- Dishonored hands on: rewired death fields, whale bombs and possessed piranhas
- Scrolls enters alpha stage
- Runescape Evolution of Combat beta weekend starts tomorrow
- Endless Space launches. Giant space war may now begin
- Watch a man play Starcraft 2 with a joystick
- Blizzard admits Diablo 3's endgame is lacking: "We know it's not there right now"
- Slender Man game released, scare the hell out of yourself for free
- How to save even more space on your SSD
- July 4
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- Final Fantasy VII getting PC re-release
- ArmA 3 demos show off vehicles, diving and and night ops
- Edge iPad edition is a very pretty fusion of web and mag
- Green Man Gaming CEO speaks out on EU digital sales ruling
- PC Gamer UK issue 242 reveals Rome 2
- Assassin's Creed 3 live action trailer is sad about slow motion oppression
- Call of Duty DLC on sale for charity
- Assassin's Creed 3 trailer features armies, battles and explosions, but not many assassins
- Razer partners with top DOTA 2 team Team Zenith
- End of Nations beta weekend starts July 20th
- Did Age of Empires Online's revamp solve its biggest problems?
- July 3
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- Orcs Must Die! 2's Endless mode and co-op play will be revealed in our livestream Thursday
- The Secret World review as it happens
- Introducing League of Legends' 100th champion: Jayce, the Defender of Tomorrow
- Dave Gibbons to reunite with Charles Cecil for new game; good times for adventurers
- Quantum Conundrum demo hits Steam
- Windows 8 Upgrade to be $40 (UK price TBA)
- Call of Duty Online on its way to China
- European Court of Justice rules on the right to sell your digital games and licenses
- Total War: Rome 2 announcement trailer features total betrayal, total murder
- Call Of Duty reaches bottom of comedy barrel, bravely keeps digging to planet's molten core
- Resident Evil 6 trailer fails to remove the head or destroy the brain
- DayZ weekly update: bear trap controversy, hacker attacks, and boar vaulting
- Baldur's Gate to open further with new DLC
- EA going "100% digital" in the near future
- The Secret World opens for business today
- July 2
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- World of Tanks Update 7.5 trailer shows off new Mediums and Tank Destroyers
- Carribbean is a pirate RPG from the makers of Mount & Blade's expansion
- Jens Andersen on the future of DC Universe Online and DC's New 52 comics
- Valveconomics: Why We Gift In Team Fortress 2
- Legend of Grimrock digs deeper with level editor
- Alan Wake to return in extra Ordinary game?
- Project CARS screenshots reveal stunning looking Pagani Huayra
- Meet The Source Filmmaker
- Total War Rome 2 video interviews: Creative Assembly on battles and the campaign game
- A Day In The Life Of Max Payne
- Total War Rome 2 preview: every detail about the new engine, naval combat, multiplayer and mods
- Planet Explorers is a charming looking voxel based exploration game. Alpha available now
- Prototype 2 developers won't be making any more games, PC version unaffected
- Portal 2 Lego Set can happen; must happen
- Left 4 Dead 2 Cold Stream to be released on July 24th
- Sir, You Are Being Hunted brings new screens; extremely polite robots out for your blood
- Watch Dogs website updates, may be the start of an ARG
- Civlization V: Gods and Kings gets a demo
- Lara Croft and the Guardian of Light coming to Chrome
