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October 31
- As a survival game fan I finally got around to reading Robinson Crusoe, and wow, that dude was definitely playing in creative mode
- 6 times we got seriously creeped out by games that aren't even horror games
- 2024 has been an incredible year for action RPGs: I've played the best of them, and here's why I think you should too
- 7 tips for Dragon Age: The Veilguard that you might accidentally miss
- I tracked down the guy who gave a negative review to Battlezone 98 Redux after playing for over 8,000 hours, and came away convinced he was right
- Student life sorted: Customising the perfect PC for your needs with PCSpecialist
October 30
- Is Concord the biggest live service failure of all time? Here's how it stacks up next to other major flops
- Call of Duty: Black Ops 6 'Omnimovement' is a hit because controller aim assist got a huge nerf this year
- I asked the PC Gamer hardware team to name the underrated bits of gear they use every day and these are the results
- Bluetooth is the bane of my hardware existence
- Intel's Arrow Lake chips aren't winning any awards for gaming performance but I think its new E-cores deserve a gold star
- A humble wardrobe is my favourite Dragon Age: The Veilguard feature
October 29
- Magic: The Gathering goes back to basics with Foundations: green decks go tall, monsters get bigger
- The Red Dead Redemption PC port isn't a GTA Trilogy-style disaster, it's now the best way to play the game
- Tarnished Blood is a time-bending tactical RPG that plays like nothing I've ever tried before
- Red Dead Redemption may still look like a 14-year-old game, but it's absolutely brilliant on handheld gaming PCs
- After 3 hours with Indiana Jones and the Great Circle, I don't think it's the grand adventure MachineGames is pitching—it's just a fairly basic stealth game
- With The Veilguard, Dragon Age has forgotten its dark fantasy roots and become BioWare's Avengers
October 28
- With no Disco Elysium 2 in sight, who exactly are behind the 5 studios of Disco devs now vying to make its spiritual successor?
- Finally, a dungeon crawler with what I've been missing in so many other fantasy adventures: common sense
- No matter what gaming PC you have, you should disable DoF, motion blur, and vignette in Dragon Age: The Veilguard before changing any other setting
- Dragon Age: The Veilguard performance analysis—decent frame rates and blessedly glitch-free
- This new FPS is so good, it's almost unfair that it's free: A '1v1 me bro' simulator with 70 maps and no microtransactions that feels like the sickest Counter-Strike: Source mod of 2007
- Five new Steam games you probably missed (October 28, 2024)
October 25
- Something is very wrong with spawn points in Call of Duty: Black Ops 6
- The bloated tyranny of two-factor authentication is ruining my online existence. There has to be a better way
- Final Fantasy 14's next big challenge: Making players feel like they're getting their monthly sub's worth—not just funding Square's flops while WoW stacks value
- With Fortnite, Epic Games has mastered the art of the crossover—so why do so few other developers follow its lead?
- Black Friday graphics card deals 2024: the big deals event is on the way and GPU deals are likely
- Generative AI is dividing RPG fans: Can AI really play Dungeons & Dragons, and should it?
October 24
- 8 'dead games' that are still very much alive
- The Sims 4: Life and Death may actually be the expansion to get the game back in my good graces
- Exploring the 'twisted road' of Irrational's doomed XCOM game—from fighting aliens 'the size of entire city blocks' to a multiplayer mode where you could be the aliens
- If you're getting a new Intel Arrow Lake chip, don't bother splashing out on super-fast RAM
- In this brilliantly clever RPG, you have to learn to play Tetris wrong to survive
October 23
- Sorry if this sounds shallow, but I do care about how long a game is before buying it
- Will these PC games ever come to Steam? We predict the chances of WoW, Minecraft, and more
- Deadlock's income mechanics and hero design are so game-changing I became a support main after a decade of hogging carry
- Romancing SaGa 2 is a remake of a weird, obtuse game that seemingly shouldn't exist, yet it defies the odds by sticking to what made it so unique in the first place
October 22
- The Zootopia Russian Roulette game is kind of a bummer to play, but it's fun to watch
October 21
- I played a popular new social fishing game on Steam and ended up blowing all my fish earnings on scratch-off lotto tickets
- Blizzard reinvented Diablo 4 by listening to what players want, but not by doing everything they suggested
- '90s action horror game Undeadline is the quintessential Halloween shmup: Brains, beauty, blood, and a nice thick slice of cheese
- Multiplayer focus aside, the Steam Next Fest demo charts reveal the weird unpredictability of PC gaming
- A bag of treats is coming to PC Game Pass this Halloween
- Apple is a better PC gaming platform than people give it credit for, but it's still not a gaming platform
- Five new Steam games you probably missed (October 21, 2024)
October 20
- Rogue Waters is a cross between Pirates of the Caribbean, Slay the Spire, and XCOM
October 19
- I had to lie down for awhile after finishing Mouthwashing, a vile horror game that's become my feel-bad favorite of Halloween 2024
October 18
- There's really only one reason for Rockstar to release Grand Theft Auto 6 later on PC
- Uncle Chop's Rocket Shop is a delightfully tactile spaceship repair sim that reminds me how terrible I am at reading instruction manuals
- The best strategy games on PC
October 17
- YouTuber LGR felt 'numbness at how powerless I was' as his one-of-a-kind retro PC collection took a direct hit from hurricane Helene, but seeing most of the trove survive now has him eager to share it with others
- Stalker's hardcore reputation didn't prepare me for how surprisingly basic Stalker 2: Heart of Chornobyl is
- New World: Aeternum isn't even the Amazon MMO's most dramatic update, let alone a new game, but it does make it better—slightly
- There's always one Steam Next Fest demo that inexplicably takes over my life, and this time it's this bizarre roguelike that mashes up Balatro with pachinko
- After DMing a bunch of D&D 5e, swapping over to Pathfinder 2e has felt like hanging out with a cool TTRPG uncle that lets you smoke weed
- Bungie is claiming that a bug with one of Destiny 2's exotic weapons is actually a feature, and I'm going to go into excruciating detail about why I think that's wrong
October 16
- No More Room in Hell 2 resurrects a legendary Source mod as a hardcore co-op zombie FPS
- Now that Silent Hill 2 is out, it's time for Konami to remake Silent Hill 4 next
- The 2025 game release calendar is going to tower over this year with constant major launches
- Overwatch 2's new Junkenstein event delivers on some PvE promises of old, but that doesn't mean the mode is flawless
- Streets of Rogue 2's Steam Next Fest demo is catnip for immersive sim and Dwarf Fortress sickos, and nothing proves that like my time as a Chef on a quest to kill the mayor
- This computer built inside Minecraft has 1,107,419 blocks, over 15 million views on TikTok, and all started 'for the fun of it'
October 15
- DayZ's Frostline DLC makes the brutal survival game even more inhospitable
- Every Goku in Dragon Ball Sparking! Zero, ranked
- Warren Spector's Disney platformer finally came to PC, so where's the Deus Ex in Epic Mickey?
- Sky-high sim SickWay VR is coming to Steam soon
October 14
- Metaphor: ReFantazio's turn-based combat excels, but its brief action-based fights are what's made me fall in love with the JRPG grind all over again
- RPGs are king, and 6 other things the PC Gamer Top 100 tells us about the state of PC gaming
- The 8 most heartbreaking cuts from this year's PC Gamer Top 100
- 9 games from the PC Gamer Top 100 given eternal life thanks to modders
- The top 100 PC games
- PUBG: BATTLEGROUNDS has been out for 7 years, and it isn't slowing down
- Dark and Darker Mobile is bringing the gruelling dungeon crawl to the palm of your hand
- Five new Steam games you probably missed (October 14, 2024)
October 13
- 420 Blaze It 2 may be a joke, but there's a solid shooter buried beneath the memes
October 12
- Death of a Partisan is one survival game where I didn't starve to death, thank goodness
October 11
- Metaphor: ReFantazio tips: 10 things I wish I knew before starting this 100-hour RPG
- 'That's what we're trying to do, be a DM that enables any player's play style:' Check out the upcoming RPG that's trying to do Baldur's Gate 3 in miniature⁠—in more ways than one
- Will GTA 6 keep its 2025 release date? 20 years of Rockstar delays say probably not
- Playing Echo Point Nova is like diving through someone's dreams after they've played too much Titanfall or Tribes
- The simple way to defeat Metaphor: ReFantazio's first real threat, Fire Dragon Mauna, and nab a great reward
- There's a future where you and your graphics card decide what a game looks like, not the developers
October 10
- The best FPS of 2024 so far is Echo Point Nova, a $25 hyper mobile co-op shooter I can't put down
- Don’t sleep on Deadlock’s active items
- The Dark Age of Paradox Interactive: What exactly happened to one of PC gaming's best publishers?
- Thunderbolt vs OCuLink external GPU interface-off or: Why I wouldn't touch Thunderbolt with a bargepole for gaming
October 9
- Bungie has doubled down on the most ridiculous-looking hat in Destiny
- Bonaparte: A Mechanized Revolution tosses mechs into the French Revolution, but doesn't toss out the history
- Karate Survivor is Vampire Survivors with karate, obviously—and you can try it for free now
- Nintendo is shedding its veneer of kindness and embracing a new reputation: Vigorous legal bully
October 8
- The coolest Prime Day board game deals, as picked by our tabletop gaming obsessives
- This farming sim lets you plant crops anywhere you want on a real-world map, so I patriotically grew corn and raised sheep under the Statue of Liberty
- Playing Infinity Nikki has convinced me that dress up games are about to go mainstream
October 7
- Alien: Isolation is my favourite horror game because it's taken me an entire decade to finish it
- Get into the zone with Acezone's new A-Spire Wireless Headset
October 5
- The Big Catch: Tacklebox is the hardest 3D platformer I've ever played, 8+ hours long, and a free to play 'prologue' to a bigger, better game on the way
October 4
- Every Civilization 7 leader we know about so far
- The making of Fallout Tactics: 'I sound like I'm down on it now, but I still love what we made'
- Copycat is an emotional adventure about a cat facing its greatest adversary: an extremely forgetful old woman
October 3
- Magic: The Gathering followed its fuzzy animal set with one based on slasher movies and horror novels, a juxtaposition that was 'both a coincidence and deliberate'
- 6 exciting city builders coming out before the end of 2024 (plus a few more to look forward to next year)
- I'm terrified for my free time after a few hours with the Dead Cells developer's new frantic co-op roguelike out this month
- 'None of this makes any sense': Amazon's latest MMO import is a localization disaster
- Gaming keyboards are becoming more like enthusiast keyboards and I can't wait to have my clicky clacky cake and eat it
- Fear the Spotlight's demo is a great way to kick off the spooky season even if it did make me face one of my irrational fears
- I spent 14 hours flying 6,230 miles to watch MSI make me a new motherboard in just 40 minutes
October 2
- Tiny Glade won't stop delighting me with new discoveries
- Fortnite isn't the future, it's an anomaly, and Tim Sweeney is just another CEO wrongly predicting the death of big singleplayer games
- Google's AI generated a 'podcast' from one of my articles and it's incredibly convincing at mimicking humans talking
- My 6 favorite creepy cozy games with autumn vibes
- Starfield: Shattered Space performance analysis—New DLC, new patch, same old frame rates
- Level up your gaming content with Wondershare Filmora 14 introduces new video editing tools
October 1
- The PC game releases we're most excited about in October
- The really simple solution to AMD's collapsing gaming GPU market share is lower prices from launch