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June 30
- SimCity gets Airships DLC, yours for 8.99 luftballons
- Star Wars: The Old Republic adds Ewok companion as part of update 2.3
- A Myst hater gives the influential classic another chance
- Game of Thrones diary part one: Surviving Westeros
- Mod of the Week: Helgen Reborn, for Skyrim
June 29
- Edge of Space appears on Steam, pay £8 to get Early Access to the sci-fi sandbox
- Europa Universalis IV hands-on: an idiot's guide to founding the Netherlands
- Get in here stalker: Survarium alpha set to expand soon
- Meet the item creators: pro and self-taught artists making millions from Dota 2
- Will Love Tear Us Apart: a study on music, miscommunication and broken relationships
- Titanfall artist talks about the futuristic shooter's "old-school" beginnings
- Battlefield 4 campaign to be less linear, says DICE
- ArenaNet creating Guild Wars 2 API for players to build their own tools
June 28
- Here's 10 minutes of Saints Row 4's E3 gameplay footage
- Indie shooter Strike Vector gets Steam Greenlight gameplay trailer
- How Sid Meier became one of the most recognizable names in gaming
- 2013 MLG Spring Championship starts today
- Civilization V: Brave New World's launch trailer shows up early, and we're OK with that
- New Divinity: Dragon Commander video shows over 20 minutes of gameplay
- Here's what we're playing this weekend, how about you?
- Guncraft packs the heat with its preorder scheme
- EA intends to "re-establish Origin as a service to gamers"
- The Free Webgame Round-Up
- Just Cause 2 Multiplayer mod is back with another test weekend
- Gun Monkeys released: procedurally generated online deathmatch now on Steam
- Rogue Legacy out now: a 2D roguelike about heroism and genealogy
- Satellite Reign: spiritual successor to Syndicate Wars now on Kickstarter
- Total War: Rome 2 system requirements released alongside big picture full of elephants
- Surgeon Simulator 2013 puzzle leads to more ARG speculation, devs say it's unrelated to Valve's games
- Leisure Suit Larry Reloaded is out today
- Sanctum 2's first DLC pack is here, with a shady new playable character
- Former Ubisoft creative director: "The future is digital, and there's nothing you can do about it."
June 27
- Smite catches disco fever, releases huge patch
- Steam Workshop now lets creators give back to their supporters
- id Software CEO Todd Hollenshead leaves the company, will "pursue other personal interests"
- SimCity releases new Airship DLC with blimps, hot air balloons, and air commuting
- Civilization V: Brave New World's final two civs and how to play them
- Stone Wardens announced, new tower defense RPG hits Kickstarter
- Dead Island: Riptide review
- Arma 3 community video provides SITREP on the beta update
- Source SDK 2013 update gives modders "support for virtual reality via the Oculus Rift"
- Slick '60s dude battles aliens without losing hat in The Bureau: XCOM Declassified trailer
- Teleglitch to get "Die More Edition" upgrade and re-release
- Minecon 2013 announced, and the location is...
- Endless Space: Disharmony released, launch trailer promises to eradicate the Dust
- PlanetSide 2 to include user-generated missions from August
- Dragon Age: Inquisition gets first hi-res screenshots
- Steam Trading Cards is now live
- A new 20v20 battleground is coming to TERA
- Broforce development trailer shows explosions, guns, bros
- Risk = ISK: Finding EVE Online's most sophisticated scam
June 26
- Leaked Project Eternity screenshots give more glimpses into Obsidian's new universe
- Firefall hits last closed beta milestone, prepares for launch with new teaser
- BioShock Infinite: Columbia's Finest DLC drops bonus items, not story
- Ride to Hell: Retribution releases today, but the trailer still hides the gameplay
- Crusader Kings Chronicles: Lords of the North, Chapter 3
- Free To Play: first impressions of Valve's Dota 2 documentary
- Far Cry 3: Blood Dragon review
- How I Game: Brad Muir — Project Lead, Double Fine
- Unforeseen consequences: when a joke about Half-Life 3 gets out of hand
- Retro City Rampage updates with mod support, (slightly) better graphics
- Guild Wars 2 planning a two-week update schedule
- East vs. West competition gives you the chance to become a Cold War character
- Battlefield 4's Second Assault DLC could feature remakes of Operation Metro and Caspian Border
- Molyjam 2 theme announced, will use real Peter Molyneux quotes
- MechWarrior Online announces its lavishly named pre-order scheme
- Three cars tumble joyously off a cliff in latest BeamNG physics demo
- EA exec: DICE-developed Battlefront almost didn't happen, Mirror's Edge 2 only possible now
- Dreamfall Chapters gameplay footage is looking very pretty indeed
June 25
- MLG no longer working with Blizzard to host StarCraft 2 World Championship Series
- Dark Souls 2 hands-on: Four deaths in 15 minutes
- Ubisoft still won't rule out PC release of The Division
- The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt preview — a giant world of decisions and consequences
- MechWarrior Online team reveals its map-making process and devotion to detail
- Indie shooter Futuridium EP releases as a free download
- Saints Row IV refused classification in Australia, a first for new ratings guidelines
- What we want from Star Wars: Battlefront
- Zeno Clash 2 review
- Routine trailer brings four minutes of atmospheric lunar horror
- Minecraft's "Horse Update" pre-release rides in, official launch set for next week
- Guild Wars 2 trailer introduces the Sky Pirates of Tyria
- EVGA GeForce GTX 760 Superclocked review
- WoW hit by "increase in unauthorized World of Warcraft" logins, Blizzard warn
- Nvidia GeForce GTX 760 review
- How to Build a Linux Gaming PC
- Battlefield 4 video showcases updated engine with nice waves and soldiers falling over cones
- Borderlands 2: Tiny Tina's Assault on Dragon Keep trailer invites you to its twisted fantasy
- Dark Souls 2 director focused on balancing the game's difficulty
- Project Spark beta registrations now open
- Spicy Horse's next project is OZombie, currently asking for $950K on Kickstarter
- Deadpool releases tomorrow, launch trailer might undersell it
June 24
- Guild Wars 2 gets changes to traits and skills tomorrow
- Star Citizen trailer shows off Origin 300i spaceship, hangar app coming this August
- PC Gamer Podcast #356 - Scrolls and Skrulls
- How to Build: All-in-One PC
- EA explains Dragon Age: Inquisition's name change
- Humble Bundle with Android 6 brings deals to PCs and smartphones
- Total War: Rome II gameplay video shows combined land and sea battle
- Frontiers interview: exploration, discovery and survival in a one-man made indie RPG
- Check out the first five minutes of Tiny Tina's Assault on Dragon Keep
- TrackMania 2 Stadium is now live on Steam
- Mini-motherboards: the shape of things to come?
- Steam Trading Cards leave beta on Wednesday, ahead of event "everyone can be excited about"
- Baldur's Gate 3: Beamdog "still interested in the concept", despite legal troubles
- Heavy Gear Assault cancels Kickstarter campaign, seeks crowdfunding through own site
- Monster Hunter Online trailer shows the monsters that will be hunted
- Rift expansion teased in developer livestream
June 23
- Hotline Miami 2 gameplay video offers an unsettling first look at the gory sequel
- Mod of the Week: The Destroyer Class, for Torchlight II
- Watch Dogs trailer shows off the game's Dark Souls-style multiplayer features
- Wing Commander 3 remains one of the few attempts at making an interactive movie that worked
June 22
- Dragon Quest X coming to PC this September
- The Bitmap Brothers' classic steampunk shooter The Chaos Engine is getting a remake/reboot
- The Bureau: XCOM Declassified hands-on: a punishing, tactical take on XCOM's origin story
- Fez review
- Wolfenstein: The New Order dev says "you will cry blood" on hardest difficulty
June 21
- Interview: Dean Hall on his next game, and when he'll stop working on DayZ
- Star Wars: The Old Republic offers double XP weekends, first of three starts now
- Titanfall devs explain multiplayer-only decision and "single-player feeling world"
- Witcher 3 set to update combat, seeks voice actor continuity, dev says
- Dota 2 isn't free yet, but it is a lot cheaper
- PC Gamer UK Podcast: Episode 92 - If Only You Could Talk To The Mecha-Hitler
- The Free Webgame Round-Up
- Path of Exile announces third season of signature events, including brand new mode, "Descent"
- Surgeon Simulator 2013 gets a Heavy update
- Battlefield 4 spectator mode explained in DICE E3 video
- GOG discounts over 150 games in the latest day of their #NoDRM sale
- Company of Heroes 2 review
- Neverwinter leaves open beta, conjures launch trailer, teases future updates
- Mojang's Scrolls is profitable after one week in open beta
- Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag PC release will be a few weeks behind consoles
June 20
- Bethesda explains Fallout 4's absence at E3
- Star Wars: Battlefront could offer "huge, epic set-piece wars," says EA exec
- Grand Theft Auto: Vice City Stories gets a PC mod-port
- War of the Roses update adds firearms and a new map
- Xenonauts hands-on preview
- Bethesda VP: Prey 2 hasn't been shown because it "simply isn't good enough"
- Skulls of the Shogun coming to Steam, dev calls Windows 8 exclusivity "a deal with the devil"
- Shadowrun Returns delayed — but its belated release will include editing tools
- Akaneiro: Demon Hunters now has early access status on Steam
- Star Trek review
- Guild Wars 2 update - the Sky Pirates to descend next week
- Planetside 2 update aims to improve "Quality of Life"
- Magrunner: Dark Pulse trailer introduces Cthulhu to technology
- Mass Effect 3: series' former lead writer reveals original ending ideas
- The War Z renamed as Infestation: Survivor Stories - is still rubbish
- Baldur's Gate: Enhanced Edition withdrawn from sale over "contractual issues"
- Mass Effect 4's design doc completed; shares systems in Dragon Age 3
- Knights of Pen & Paper +1 Edition launches with predictably awesome trailer
- AMD claims Battlefield 4 optimized for them, EA responds
- Every game at E3 2013 and its PC release outlook
June 19
- GMod's Garry Newman releases open-world survival game Rust into alpha
- Project Eternity update gives first in-game glimpse of the Orlan race
- Behind the scenes of Valve's Portal 2 ARG
- Bungie wants Destiny on "as many platforms as possible"
- Come play Counter-Strike:GO on our new Arms Race server
- The complete list of PC Gamer's US game servers
- Crusader Kings Chronicles: Lords of the North, Chapter 2
- Rumor: Leaked Valve project tracker shows Half-Life 3, Left 4 Dead 3, Source 2 in development
- Batman: Arkham Origins hands-on: cleaning up Gotham's streets, one masked madman at a time
- Leviathan: Warships review
- The Bureau: XCOM Declassified trailer shows tactical battles, DLC info reveals PC redactions
- World of Tanks 8.6 update brings new artillery, loud trailer
- Joe Danger PC will include playable TF2 mercs, Minecraft characters and levels
- Hotline Miami 2 trailer is expectedly violent
- Steam game sharing code found in client's beta update
- The Witcher 2 combat rebalance mod in the works by CD Projekt RED dev
- Everquest Next was at E3, apparently
- Oculus VR obtains $16 million in additional funding
June 18
- Dead Space 4 not in active development, Visceral working on something new
- Tomb Raider writer Rhianna Pratchett will collaborate on indie adventure game Beatbuddy
- Torchlight is free as part of GOG's DRM-free summer sale, starting today
- Dean Hall: "I would love to make a DayZ turn-based Jagged Alliance game."
- The Division will ask players to rebuild New York's infrastructure
- Thief begins to find its form in a new dev interview
- Slender: The Arrival review
- Gigabyte G1.Sniper M5 motherboard review
- State of Decay confirmed for Steam release, date still unclear
- Incredipede free for Linux users, 50% off for less open-source operating systems
- Black Ops 2's next DLC could be Vengeance, according to leaked poster
- Dark Souls 2's new engine will allow for subtler expression and gimmicks, says co-director
- FIFA's Ignite engine might come to PC, but not until average hardware specs are higher
- SpeedRunners announced: four-player competitive platformer - with grappling hooks
- Hitman studio lays off almost half its staff, taking another swing at franchise
- New Broken Age video footage stitched into Double Fine backer appreciation video
- Surgeon Simulator 2013 gets heartstoppingly real with Rift support
June 17
- Battlefield 4 multiplayer preview — hands-on with Siege of Shanghai
- DayZ mod patched to 1.7.7, adds viral zombies and more
- The Witcher 3 developer lays out DRM and DLC strategy
- DayZ creator Dean Hall answers a slew of questions, from suicide to safe zones
- Dota 2 team banned for alleged match fixing
- PC Gamer Podcast 355 - E3 2013
- Cocktails, sand, and life-threatening situations are all a part of Sims 3: Island Paradise
- Minecraft Mod Spotlight: magic carpets, top texture packs and the power to part oceans
- Gun Monkeys headed to Steam, beta test starting soon
- System Shock 2: Source restoration mod abandoned, assets released to the public
- PC Gamer UK July issue: Dota 2
- The Division: Ubisoft encourages players to sign PC petition - over 50,000 do
- Randall: a dystopian action platfomer with mind control
- Salem dropped by Paradox, sandbox MMO to continue independently
- Battlefield 4 alpha trial starts today, system specs and vehicle customisation shots surface
- Dota 2 release date set for this summer
June 16
- Modding Saints Row is about to get a whole lot easier
- What's in your dream PC?
- Shadow Warrior footage offers a sworded look at the ridiculous reboot
- How AMD's hardware in next-gen consoles will affect PC gamers
- Mod of the Week: Deep Down, for Half-Life 2: Episode Two
June 15
- DayZ: mo-capped dysentery and other horrible diseases teased
- There are no less than three Assassin's Creed games in development
- Meet Tranquility, the military-grade monster that powers EVE Online
- Survival horror on display as Steam Greenlight approves six new titles
- Darksiders and Red Faction owner wants former developers to work on its games
June 14
- Nvidia heralds PC as the "best gaming experience" in E3 press conference
- Battlefield: Bad Company 3 is "still out there" according to DICE executive producer
- The Free Webgame Round-Up
- The Evil Within interview accompanies a gameplay demo that is nasty, brutish, and short
- Civilization 5: Brave New World trailer pursues diplomatic relations
- Joe Danger and Joe Danger 2 release dates announced
- Company of Heroes 2 demo now available
- Thief screenshots show stealth and whacking
- The Witcher 3 screenshots show beautiful scenery, frightening monsters, lots of horse bum
- Star Wars: The Old Republic update unleashes Operation Nightmare
- Medal of Honor developer Danger Close is no more
- Hands and eyes-on with the high-def Oculus Rift prototype
- Best E3 trailers of 2013
- Double Fine gets two games backed by Indie Fund
June 13
- Duke Nukem Forever developer sues Gearbox for unpaid royalties
- The Evil Within is "pure survival horror" says Bethesda VP Hines
- Call of Duty: Ghosts preview — follow orders, soldier, or you might miss the graphics
- Battlefield 4 mod support ruled out by DICE
- Payday 2 screenshots show robberies in progress, clown stealth
- Fez II announced in new chiptuney teaser
- Planetary Annihilation offers early-access to alpha
- CS:GO update adds de_mirage, visual grenade arcs
- Free gift copies of War of the Roses: Kingmaker sent to players today, Paradox seeks new recruits
- Oknytt explores the dark forest of Swedish folklore as a puzzle adventure game
- Six reasons the PC is winning E3
- PES 2014 will mark the "most comprehensive advance" for the series "since its inception"
- Master Reboot: a gorgeous indie horror adventure set inside the Cloud (no, not that one)
- NASCAR The Game 2013 announced, coming this summer from Eutechnyx
- Prison Architect bangs up 100,000 players, no word on the number of shankings
- A Tale of Two Worlds: a smart puzzle-platformer channelling The Longest Journey and Trine
- The Witcher 3 is not necessarily the end of Geralt's story, says developer
- Dark Souls 2 director says to get ready for clenched fists, suffering, and death
- The Oculus Rift has received an HD upgrade
June 12
- New Clockwork Empires dev blog details character behavior, military units
- Watch Dogs multiplayer discussed in Ubisoft blog
- Tom Clancy's The Division devs are "not ruling out any platforms for the future"
- Mirror's Edge 2 described as "open world" by EA
- Arma 3 beta beginning June 25
- The E3 2013 press conference PC gamers deserve
- Tom "Gunpoint" Francis leaves PC Gamer to become full-time indie developer
- EA exec discusses the company's next-gen future
- Kojima says Metal Gear Solid V on PC "not a priority," but could appear "sometime"
- Divinity: Dragon Commander announces August 6 release date
- Magic 2014: Duels of the Planeswalkers flaunts new Sealed Play mode
- The Witcher 3 will utilize Witcher 2 save files
- Ethereal Minecraft mod Aether gets a sequel
- Cause tourist town havoc in Infinite Crisis' new map
- Gunpoint commentary: Chris and Tom play the game Tom made. Badly.
- The Incredible Adventures of Van Helsing II announced, imports hero from previous game
- Leviathan: Warships trailer wins E3 - launches free Jazz Boatman update
- DayZ screenshots are stealthy, contemplative, and not exactly action-packed
- Rift trailer celebrates free to play launch with a round-up of its many features
- Team Fortress 2 Workshop creators have collectively earned a staggering $10m
- Total War: Rome 2 "approaching beta," watch our E3 Sega booth tour
- Company of Heroes 2 trailer is all about the multiplayer
- DayZ Standalone: New 10 minute video shows off animation, crafting system, gestures
- Final Fantasy XIV screenshots show the eternal battle between cuteness and monsters
- Jane Jenson's Moebius gets an E3 trailer, featuring tarot cards, ninjas, a stargate
- Elder Scrolls Online to separate players by platform
- Total War: Rome 2 screenshots show campaign map and camelkazi tactics
- The Walking Dead: 400 Days preview
- Dean Hall addresses zombie behavior in DayZ Standalone
- Diablo 3 expansion not likely till 2014
- Bohemia Interactive goes where few sims have gone before with Take On Mars
- Three things I loved about Total War: Rome II at E3
- Warhammer 40,000: Eternal Crusade announced, a third person MMO due 2015
- Lego Marvel Super Heroes gets a trailer, screenshots and cute mock comic covers
June 11
- Deus Ex: Human Revolution Director's Cut coming to PC
- Telltale would love to do a Mad Men game, new announcements coming in 2013
- CD Projekt RED tells gamers "Vote with your wallet"
- Halo: Spartan Assault is unlike any Halo you've ever played
- Battlefield 4 stream is showing multiplayer games live from the E3 2013 show floor
- South Park: The Stick of Truth has fart jokes, alien probes, and everything in between
- The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt developer diary brings players up to speed
- Battlefield 3: Close Quarters DLC free to download during E3
- Murdered: Soul Suspect wants you to use your brain, not your trigger finger
- GTA 5 screenshots show shoot-outs, dusty shores and smart shirts
- Transistor's Reveal Trailer shows off stellar vocals set over sci-fi gameplay
- Saints Row 4 achieves the impossible and becomes even sillier
- World of Warplanes landing soon in open beta territory
- Destiny gameplay video shows off public events, armored supersoldiers and lots and lots of aliens
- The Mighty Quest for Epic Loot is now in closed beta
- Mad Max game finally announced, being developed by Just Cause studio
- Titanfall screenshots show all the mechs and jet-powered bum-bags you could ever want
- Star Citizen has raised $10M and counting, enough for Roberts to build his own universe
- Splinter Cell Blacklist trailer puts new voice actor through his paces, as Ironside sits it out
- Watch Dogs E3 demo explains how to be a jerk to the police
- South Park: The Stick of Truth reassures us of its existence, as Randy farts on a small boy
- The Elder Scrolls Online ropes in Dumbledore, and all manner of beasties, for its E3 showing
- Titanfall E3 conference trailers show mechs, explosions, and mech explosions
- The Walking Dead: 400 Days announced, adds an extra episode to season 1
- E3 2013 daily round-up
- Peggle 2 announced—here's what we want
- Trials Fusion backflips onto the PC
- Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag E3 trailers turn full circle
- Ubisoft announces The Crew, a racing game in an online persistent world
- EA demos Battlefield 4 multiplayer, teases Commander Mode in new video
- Ubisoft announces Tom Clancy's The Division, a third-person shooter MMORPG set after a plague
- Command & Conquer trailer introduces generals, opens beta sign-ups
June 10
- Star Wars: Battlefront lives on in DICE-developed sequel
- Goon unceremoniously dropped onto Christmas tree in Batman: Arkham Origins E3 trailer
- Plants vs. Zombies: Garden Warfare combines tower defense and third person shooters
- Dragon Age III: Inquisition gets release date and doom-laden trailer
- Mirror's Edge 2 announced with debut trailer at E3 2013
- Titanfall officially announced with debut trailer, is multiplayer-only
- Battlefield 4 gameplay video takes you onto a sinking carrier
- What can the PC learn from the new generation of console hardware?
- Geralt now roughly 10% angrier than before, Witcher 3 trailer reveals
- Player character miraculously endures entire E3 2013 Dark Souls 2 trailer without dying
- MolyJam Deux invites you to spend a weekend making high-concept games pitched on Twitter
- E3 2014: Predicions and wild, feral speculation
- Battle For Graxia to shut down at end of June, just two months after launch
- Aion 4.0: Dark Betrayal E3 trailers reveal new classes, skills and talkative villains
- Saints Row 4 system specs announced
- Multiplayer WWI shooter Verdun enters open beta
- Unrest: an RPG about uprising and famine on the streets of Ancient India
- "Something new from Dragon Age" at EA's conference - should we expect the Inquisition?
- Beyond Good & Evil 2 announcement hinted at by Ubisoft's Facebook page
- Call of Duty: Ghosts trailer takes the fight underwater, gives you a remote control dog
- Watch Dogs' CGI E3 trailer leaks ahead of conference, Ubisoft presumably hacked off
June 9
- E3 2013: What the next gen consoles mean for the PC
- Unreal Engine 4 gets Oculus Rift support, could spell good things for future indie games
- E3 2013: The impact on the PC
- Dark's E3 trailer undermines itself with a terrible, terrible music choice
- Mod of the Week: Endless Warfare, for Fallout: New Vegas
June 8
- The best games of E3 2013 so far
- Penny Arcade's still rain-slick fourth and final episode is out now
- SpecialEffect: one charity's mission to help disabled gamers
- State of Decay: the state of the delay on this open world zombie survival game
- E3 2013: What we're excited to see
- Procedural horror game Daylight will see the light of day early next year
- Explore 7,000 years of family history in 7 Grand Steps
- Guncraft release date set for July
- Sins of a Solar Empire: Rebellion gets its first expansion pack
- Neverwinter addresses rocky open beta with a new public test server and bug fixes
June 7
- StarCraft II World Championship Series season finals are underway
- Dying Light's debut trailer is a race for survival
- PC Gamer US Podcast #354 - Uncle Samurai
- New Witcher 3 screenshots show strange monsters, open world
- SimCity update 5 patch notes reveal upcoming multiplayer and multi-city fixes
- Crysis 3 multiplayer DLC The Lost Island now out, here's the launch trailer
- PC Gamer's E3 2013 predictions
- PC Gamer UK Podcast: Episode 91 - Psychopath Ghost Lightning
- The Free Webgame Round-Up
- Indie Royale's Arclight bundle features upcoming AI War expansion, other Arcen games
- Amazon Indie Marketplace to challenge Steam by offering "every functional indie game"
- Serious Sam 4 to be funded through the seriously good Humble Weekly Sale
- Arma 3 screenshots prepare you for E3 by showing the full game and beta
- Thief E3 trailer shows a man who likes to steal things
- AMD say "PC ports of next-generation console titles are likely to struggle" on Intel tech
- Strata: create colourful crossweaves in this musical puzzler
- World of Tanks celebrates 60 million registered users with explosive CGI spectacle
- Freespace IP returns to Interplay for just $7,500
- The Walking Dead: 400 Days DLC appears in the Steam Apps Database
- Rising Storm review
- Castlevania: Lords of Shadow 2 pre-E3 trailer takes the series to the modern day
- Guild Wars 2's World vs World multiplayer mode to be revamped with new player roles
- Diablo 3 gets a new game director
- Prey 2 allegedly stalled due to contract disputes, attempted buyout by Bethesda
- Go hug yourself, and everybody else in the world, in HUGPUNX
- Dota 2 documentary is almost finished, private screenings starting soon
- The best Civilization V mods
- Civilization V is free on Steam this weekend as it ventures toward a Brave New World
June 6
- Team Fortress 2 fixes its unintentionally crazy hats
- MechWarrior Online update adds Firebrand Hero mech, tweaks jump jets and damage
- Baldur's Gate replicated in Neverwinter Nights 2 mod
- Cleopatra's coming atcha in this Total War: Rome 2 trailer
- Neverwinter goes live in exactly two weeks, followed by a free expansion this summer
- Saints Row 4 also gets an E3 trailer, featuring nudity, swearing and mech suits
- Respawn Titanfall announced via Game Informer cover
- Blood Bowl 2 announced, and teased, by uncommon commentators Jim and Bob
- Amazon launches US-only Indie Games department, accompanied by sale
- Haswell CPUs are a poor choice for desktop gamers. Here's why.
- Shroud of the Avatar introduces "layaway" scheme, pay for reward tiers in instalments
- Hellraid E3 trailer features skeletons by the boneload, looks a bit like Hexen
- Justice restored: The Dishwasher Vampire Smile to get an enhanced official port
- Conclave throws out tabletops for browser windows
- How much is World of Warcraft's Stormwind Keep worth?
- Primordia players can now enhance their experience with a free graphic novella
June 5
- Skyrim's all-in-one Legendary Edition is now available
- Counter-Strike: Global Offensive pro team films documentary
- Crusader Kings Chronicles: Lords of the North, Chapter 1
- The Dishwasher: Vampire Smile comes to PC via hacker's pirate port
- Spy Party casually enters open beta, hopes the sniper isn't watching
- Murdered: Soul Suspect announced again with new announcement trailer
- Castlevania: Lords of Shadow coming to PC as Ultimate Edition
- Spelunky returns to PC this summer with HD edition
- Arma 3 gears up snipers ahead of E3
- Europa Universalis 4 release date set for August, pre-orders now live
- Firefall gets final test weekend, ahead of the open beta launch
- Humble Indie Bundle 8 expands with four more games
- Virtuix Omni, a "movement pad" input device, gets funded pretty much instantly
- Shadow of the Eternals pulls its crowdfunding campaign
June 4
- Leaked DayZ Standalone footage appears to come from an early build
- StarCraft II Starter Edition adds Spawning, lets friends play online for free
- Battlefield: Bad Company franchise is not in active development
- Double Fine's Massive Chalice funded in less than a week
- Halo: Spartan Assault announced for Windows 8
- World of Tanks reinvents in-game store to remove "pay-to-win" items, pushes for eSports presence
- Crusader Kings 2 to conquer the next two years with more expansions
- Mojang on Scrolls' future and the trouble with microtransactions
- Remember Me review
- DuckTales Remastered confirmed for PC
- Company of Heroes 2 open beta deploys today
- EVE Online: Odyssey released, trailer and screenshots inside
- Guild Wars 2 planning a Dragon Bash - it's not what you think
- Telltale teaser possibly hints at more The Walking Dead
- World of Warships trailer shows a perfect storm of boating battles
- Deus Ex: The Fall officially teased, more info tomorrow [Update: Oh, it's for mobiles and tablets]
- Zynga lays off 18% of its staff, "necessary to move forward," says CEO
- Dark Souls 2 release date set for March 2014
- GRID 2 mods bring back the cockpit view
- Organic Panic has fruit fighting back against meat in destructible puzzle levels
- Plants vs. Zombies 2 release date announced, PopCap hints at PC release
June 3
- Spintires puts you in the driver's seat of a massive truck in the Russian wilderness
- Dota 2 update adds new tools for commentators
- Papers, Please will release this summer, according to easily bribed border guard
- Nelson Brodela leads the Broforce onto Greenlight
- Gunpoint released: here's the launch trailer and the reason why we're not reviewing it
- Stonehearth Kickstarter gets successfully funded, and then some
- Defiance event infects San Francisco with mysterious plague, definitely not zombies
- OpenRelativity: free toolkit from MIT Game Lab lets Unity developers play with time and space
- Path of Exile update 0.11.0 brings new leagues of Onslaught and Anarchy
- Indie Royale's Hammerhead Bundle includes Primordia, Forge, no visible sharks
- Wargaming.net announce Weekend at War, a four day festival of classic World War 2 films
- The Old Republic teases update 2.2, offers free server transfers off APAC server
June 2
- EVE Online video outlines Odyssey expansion, parodies like it's 2001
- Top-down SWAT-like Door Kickers now has a demo
- Mod of the Week: Ultimate Difficulty, for Dishonored
June 1
- Dishonored devs rumoured to be working on Prey 2
- Kentucky Route Zero Act II is suddenly out now
- Runescape 3 preview: how one of the world's longest-running MMOs plans to hand control to its players
- MechWarrior Tactics closed beta footage shows loadouts, gameplay
- It's adventure time on GOG with up to 50% off classic Activision games