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- December 31
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- Fortnite's New Year's Eve event drops a giant disco ball from the sky and makes you dance
- PSA: Resolve to clean your PC every once in a while in 2019
- This Half-Life 2 combat rework mod was 9 years in the making
- Jack Black launched a YouTube gaming channel and he already has over 2 million subs
- China is licensing new games again, ending a nine-month freeze
- Fortnite adds a boombox that destroys buildings, players reckon it's overpowered
- December 30
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- Portal speedrunner beats own world record with this mind-bending run
- Chinese-only RPG The Scroll Of Taiwu has sold 1 million copies on Steam
- Watch this Cities: Skylines small-town Texas build, complete with stories about its citizens
- A game from Black Mirror's Bandersnatch is playable now with emulator
- EA adds third-party games to Origin Access Premier, including Darksiders 3
- Celeste devs cancel Skytorn, their 2D action game
- December 29
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- Monster Hunter: World and Assassin’s Creed to combine in crossover event
- GTA Online now has its own version of Rocket League, called Bomb Ball
- From Software is working on two unannounced games
- Valve reveals 2018's most controller-friendly Steam games
- This GTX 1060 gaming laptop is on sale for $799 (Update: Back in stock)
- Get five free Overwatch winter loot boxes next time you log on
- Atlas devs apologise for 'rocky start' to Early Access
- Get 20% off ALL Dell’s UK gaming systems for the next two days at Dell Outlet
- December 28
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- Super Meat Boy is free on the Epic Games Store
- EVGA's RTX 2080 graphics card is $100 off for five more hours
- Windows Mixed Reality headsets from Acer and Lenovo are just $170 for the next few hours
- Almost everything on eBay is 15% off for the next few hours
- Grab a Blue Yeti microphone and Assassin’s Creed Odyssey for $76
- WannaCry ransomware could still wreak havoc if there’s an internet outage
- Blizzard targets Twitch chat toxicity with new Overwatch moderation scheme
- Soma is free on GOG right now
- Valve lists the 100 best-selling Steam games of 2018
- December 27
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- BioWare founders awarded the Order of Canada for 'revolutionary' impact on videogames
- Leaked specs give a potential first look at Nvidia’s mobile GeForce RTX lineup
- Grab this GTX 1050 gaming laptop for just $499 right now (Update: Back in stock)
- This VR mask accessory aims to bring real smells to virtual worlds
- Epic's Tim Sweeney reveals how the company lands exclusives for the Epic Store
- Bethesda asks suspected Fallout 76 cheaters to write essay about why cheating is bad
- December 26
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- Get this 16GB kit of Corsair Vengeance DDR4-3000 RAM for $100 today
- Lenovo's Mixed Reality headset is just $199 right now
- Atlas is off to a disappointing start in Early Access
- Intel's Crimson Canyon gaming NUC is just $409 at Newegg
- Linus Tech Tips finds a range of issues in $1,500 gaming PCs
- Get a free Rainbow Six Siege operator or 25,000 Renown just for logging on
- This HyperX Cloud Alpha Gaming headset is just £60 today
- The first Beyond Skyrim dev diary shows footage from Cyrodiil, Roscrea and Atmora
- The Razer DeathAdder Elite is just $40/£42 right now
- This Crucial 1TB MX500 SSD is at a best ever £111 on Amazon for Boxing Day
- December 24
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- Blizzard paying staff to leave in order to cut costs, according to reports
- This official Elder Scrolls cookbook will teach you to bake the perfect sweetroll
- Dusk is even better with these attack chopper cheats
- Doomba turns your robotic vacuum cleaner into a Doom map-making machine
- Escape From Tarkov trailer shows new underground lab location and scary scav boss
- Global Speedrun Association reveals live competition, cash prizes up for grabs
- Hotline Miami, Broforce and 13 other games free for Twitch Prime members
- December 23
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- Play Subnautica in co-op with this new mod
- Huge Watch Dogs mod adds custom missions, random events and danger zones
- Ring of Elysium's new mode is a cross between a battle royale and a survival game
- Giveaway: Get free goodies for vehicle-based MMO Crossout
- Trippy arcade shooter Polybius comes to PC with VR support
- Celeste adding free ultra-hard levels early next year
- December 22
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- Atlas is now live in Steam Early Access
- Quake Champions adds CTF game mode, gets rid of loot boxes
- Fallout 76 players will get Fallouts 1, 2 and Tactics for free next month
- You have eight days to kill Hitman 2's second Elusive Target
- Pillars of Eternity 2 devs accidentally added turn-based combat this week
- Darksiders 3 adds 'classic' combat mode with more forgiving dodges
- December 21
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- This mysterious concept art for a Dusk boss monster was drawn by a sixth-grader
- Thousands are watching Twitch streamers not play Atlas because it's been delayed again
- Heroes of the Storm amateur league announces new competitive division
- Overwatch League names-and-shames rulebreakers with new 'player discipline tracker'
- This 4K FreeSync IPS monitor from LG is just $300 right now
- The Bard's Tale 4 is getting a new, free dungeon and a big 2.0 update
- Fortnite players are racing to complete an infuriating obstacle course for cash
- AMD launches two more affordable Athlon CPUs with Vega graphics
- Mount and Blade 2: Bannerlord will let you talk your way out of (and into) trouble
- Intel accuses Qualcomm of trying to ‘stifle competition’ through patent lawsuits
- Acer’s 34-inch FreeSync monitor is a big display for gaming with a large price
- Epic Games Store users have been turning to Steam for Subnautica support
- Latest Windows Insider build adds a 'Sandbox' environment and makes it easier to type ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
- Final Fantasy 14 update 4.5 has a release date and, more importantly, includes Mahjong
- 13 Fanatical Winter Sale deals that beat the Steam sale prices
- Scum update lets supporters dress up their dicks for winter
- Artifact's update nerfed some expensive cards, so Valve is buying them back
- League of Legends' hit K-pop song is now in Beat Saber
- John Romero has been streaming his forthcoming new Doom episode
- December 20
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- The Quiet Man's new trailer celebrates how much The Quiet Man sucked
- Last-minute gifts for PC gamers under $50
- Star Citizen's singleplayer Squadron 42 expected to begin beta testing in second half of 2020
- Where to find doorbells in Fortnite for this week's ding-dong-ditch challenge
- The Walking Dead: The Final Season will be an Epic Store exclusive (unless you already own it)
- Where to finish the 'Search between three ski lodges' Fortnite challenge
- This Ryzen 7 2700X desktop with a Radeon RX 590 is on sale for $1,000
- Lego: Lord of the Rings is free until Saturday on the Humble Store
- Control's new story trailer reveals the creepy 'Oldest House' under siege
- This motherboard with its own waterblock will set you back $900
- Sapphire's RX 470 graphics card is just $95 right now
- SimCity creator Will Wright is teaching a game design course
- AMD’s latest GPU driver swats a bunch of bugs, including a Vega memory clock issue
- New Iron Harvest trailer looks like a World War 1 Company of Heroes with mechs
- Here's the Atlas map and everything we know about it
- Amazon's MMO New World shows off fortress construction in new screenshots
- The Long Dark's Redux update completely overhauls the story mode
- Islands of Nyne, the Early Access battle royale FPS, has ceased development
- December 19
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- Pirate MMO Atlas delayed 2 more days: now it'll be here on December 21
- Respawn has been recruiting for a new Titanfall project
- Outer Wilds, the game of cosmic exploration and campfires, is delayed into 2019
- Can this 'performance-enhancing gaming glove' help you become an Overwatch pro?
- Succubus is an action-oriented Agony spin-off coming to Steam
- Verdun developer will plant 2500 real trees to celebrate this year's 'Christmas truce' event
- Get this PC with a Ryzen 5 2400G and RX 580 for $530
- Play Stellaris as the most evil alien race imaginable: HP printers
- For Honor is getting four new heroes in the Year of the Harbinger
- Razer launches a $249 wireless keyboard and mouse combo for Xbox One and PCs
- Fallout 76 getting a new PvP mode early next year
- Slasher-flick survival game Last Year: The Nightmare is now available on Discord
- Security report highlights massive rise of cryptocurrency malware in 2018
- Gigabyte launches an overclocked GeForce RTX 2080 Ti with a blower-style cooler
- Final Fallout 76 patch of 2018 fixes duping exploits, lets you quit without crashing
- Squash a giant robot spider in Warframe's new update
- Outward is a sandbox RPG where there's more to losing a fight than dying
- PUBG's Vikendi map, with its dinosaur park and cosmodrome, is out now
- Rumour: This 'leaked' Red Dead Redemption 2 PC footage is promising but not entirely convincing
- Call of Duty: Black Ops 4's new update brings Operation Absolute Zero to PC
- Hearthstone's new balance update nerfs several powerful decks
- Someone is reading the original Leisure Suit Larry source code live on Twitch
- December 18
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- This Doom mod uses neural network image upscaling to improve on a classic
- Watch Ninja teach Jimmy Fallon the Pon Pon Dance and explain why people like Fortnite
- Indie digital storefront Itch.io joins the Winter Sale festivities
- This Radeon RX 580 graphics card is just $179 right now
- The Humble Sonic Bundle has 12 games and zero ridiculous hairy legs
- Solid state drive pricing could drop even further in 2019
- US government's School Safety report calls on ESRB to 'review and improve' its policies
- Viewsonic is prepping a fast 1080p monitor with RGB accent lighting
- Steam Winter Sale start date confirmed, Steam Award nominees announced
- Life is Strange 2's second episode gets a release date, live-action trailer
- Charter to pay record $174 million settlement for ‘defrauding internet subscribers’
- Degrees of Separation is a co-op puzzle game written by Chris Avellone
- A new Steam beta update hints at more cross-play with Xbox
- Close to the Sun looks like BioShock, but with Nikola Tesla and a boat
- Frostpunk celebrates Christmas with a big tree and a free update
- Fortnite 7.10 brings festive fights, free gifts and new modes
- Morrowind looks better than ever with this AI-enhanced texture mod
- EVE Online's holiday update appropriately has more fighting than festivities
- Nvidia's AI is generating totally believable human faces, completely cursed cats
- Fallout 76 player learns to fly by using mutations and team perks
- December 17
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- Sins of a Solar Empire: Rebellions is free on Steam
- Underworld Ascendant is getting an all-new save system and other big changes
- The voices of Liquid and Solid Snake reunite to perform The Night Before Metal Gear
- The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air's Alfonso Ribeiro and 'Backpack Kid' sue Epic over Fortnite emotes
- ‘123456’ is an incredibly bad password, and also still the most popular
- Anno 1602 is free from Ubisoft
- Geneshift, where battle royale rounds last only 2 minutes, is free to keep for the next 48 hours
- Battlefield 5's guns are going back to normal, thank goodness
- AMD is losing one of its Radeon graphics bosses after a year on the job
- World of Warcraft's Feast of Winter Veil includes a seasonal quest, decor, and more
- How to play de_dust2 in Fortnite
- Fortnite's new Driftboard vehicle, and the 7.10 update, have been postponed
- LG launches a 32-inch IPS monitor with FreeSync support for $349
- Pagan Online's heroes hack and slash their way through a new trailer
- War Thunder goes faster with its massive Supersonic update
- A World of Warcraft potion makes cross-faction chat possible
- Fallout 76's lunch boxes sure sound like the loot boxes it was never going to have
- Our top keyboard—the HyperX Alloy Elite—is $119.99 on Amazon
- Morrowind: Rebirth gets a big end of year update
- Steam's most wishlisted games might surprise you
- December 16
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- Platinum's PS4 RPG Granblue Fantasy Relink might end up on PC
- Invisible washing machines and squirrel timers: developers reveal their weirdest game dev tricks
- Fallout and Wasteland-inspired RPG Atom leaves Early Access next week
- Dungeon-crawling deck builder Book of Demons leaves Early Access
- Battlefield 5 will add more 'core' playlists with old TTK values next week
- December 15
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- Just Cause 4 patch aims to fix crashes and major performance problems
- Black Ops 4's Blackout mode getting camos and custom games next week
- Tech products are 10% off on eBay right now
- Capybara's dark, violent roguelike Below is out now
- WW1 shooter Verdun gets new map, mode and weapons in free update
- Get Assassin's Creed Odyssey for free if you test Google's game streaming service (US only)
- Pillars of Eternity 2's final DLC is a dungeon on the flesh of a god, out now
- December 14
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- Treyarch explains why Black Ops 4 updates on PC take longer than consoles
- Stardew Valley creator puts his new game on hold to make more Stardew Valley
- Heroes of the Storm pros furious over Blizzard's decision to discontinue HGC
- Activision forced Al Lowe to cancel his Leisure Suit Larry source code auctions
- Heroes of the Storm director says 'all is not lost,' despite development cutbacks
- Stellaris director is moving on to a new 'secret project' at Paradox
- Fortnite's Infinity Blade has been Vaulted
- Discord is offering developers a 90/10 revenue split
- Game Workers Unite UK becomes the country's first games industry union
- PC Gamer UK January issue: Atlas
- Subnautica is free until the holidays on the Epic Game Store
- Free Dishonored 2 DLC makes the world black and white
- Epic shuts down Fortnite leaker FNBRLeaks
- Slay the Spire gets an update and a release date
- Artifact 1.1 adds unusual chat system, new tournaments, and a leaderboard
- AMD delivers numerous updates with its Radeon Software Adrenalin 2019 Edition
- Oh no, I actually want this ugly Windows 95 sweater
- Riot Games COO gets two month unpaid suspension following misconduct investigation
- December 13
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- Infinity Ward evacuated its office this morning because of a bomb threat
- Fallout 76 text chat mod now includes global chat, message encryption
- Children of Morta, the roguelike about a mystical mountain family, is delayed until next year
- ESL and Oculus teams up to donate 100K through VR Charity Challenge
- Ubisoft's open-world racing game The Crew 2 is free to play this weekend
- No Man's Sky update adds a base terrarium, complete with tiny captive alien
- This Ryzen gaming PC with a GTX 1070 is $1000 right now
- Lego: The Hobbit is free on the Humble Store
- NZXT's BLD PCs are up to 15% off right now
- DayZ has left Early Access, and you can play it free for the weekend
- Where to find Fortnite's abandoned mansion and how to complete a dance off
- Witchfire, from the makers of Painkiller, is a supernatural shooter about witches and worse
- Hearthstone's Rumble Run is live
- Planetside Arena, featuring battle royale and a 250v250 mode, arrives in January
- Many PC peripherals are 15% off on eBay right now
- Where to find the Fortnite pianos near Pleasant Park and Lonely Lodge
- Nier: Automata's 2B is coming to Soulcalibur 6 next week
- Overwatch's Blizzard World has been closed after it imprisoned players
- Metro Exodus brings its release date forward by a week
- Gris is a gorgeous platformer that's out now
- Full Throttle Remastered is free on GOG right now
- Sins of a Solar Empire: Rebellion is still getting DLC after six years
- Insurgency: Sandstorm is very loud and out now
- Razer will give you store credit for mining cryptocurrency (that you don't get to keep)
- World War Z trailer showcases six zombie-killin' classes, developer confirms no Steam release
- December 12
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- Dell is returning to the public market
- The 2019 Overwatch League schedule begins with a rematch of the 2018 Grand Finals
- Epic is making Fortnite's cross-platform features free for all developers
- The VR lawsuit between Facebook and ZeniMax is finally over
- Intel aims to keep AMD at bay with its 10nm Sunny Cove CPU architecture
- Nvidia’s latest GPU driver lets you enable deep learning super sampling in Final Fantasy 15
- The cuddly yet violent Super Animal Royale is free to play for the next few days
- Where to find Fortnite's crown of RVs, metal turtle, and submarine for easy battle stars
- Where to find Fortnite's forbidden dance locations
- Prey's Typhon Hunter multiplayer mode is very bare bones
- Artifact has had a steep decline in players since launch
- Fortnite's Infinity Blade is causing chaos in the Winter Royale
- Toy soldiers have invaded Rising Storm 2: Vietnam
- Samsung’s 500GB 860 Evo SSD is 48% off at Amazon today
- Clean a Bond villain's lair in Viscera Cleanup Detail's new DLC
- This indie game is all about saving indie devs (from aliens)
- December 11
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- Sledgehammer Games co-founder Glen Schofield is leaving Activision
- Thomas the Tank Engine is finally where he should be: Monster Hunter: World
- Watch hooded men with chainsaws get blown into goo in the Dusk launch trailer
- Overwatch Winter Wonderland 2018 skins revealed
- Bethesda fixed a Fallout 76 event glitch, but players want it un-fixed
- Ghost Recon Wildlands crosses over with Future Soldier for Special Operation 3
- World of Warcraft's first expansion update is out today, aims to fix its biggest issues
- Asus wants to supercharge your home network with this ultra-fast router
- Thermaltake’s wavy case is a throwback design with modern RGB lighting
- Canada in Civilization 6 has hockey rinks, Mounties, and has to declare war politely
- Overwatch's Winter Wonderland event is live
- The GTX 1060-equipped MSI laptop is $699 right now
- Grab a 15-inch MSI gaming laptop for just $599 today
- Battlefield 5 TTK changes will begin to roll out tomorrow
- Get this Blue Yeti microphone bundle deal for $80
- GTA Online's Arena War update brings stadium-based vehicle combat
- MSI’s newest gaming monitor is a blazing 240Hz display meant for esports
- Maneater, Tripwire's shark RPG, is another Epic Games Store exclusive
- Pirate MMO Atlas has been delayed until next week
- The Forest's free update adds hang gliders, crossbows and more monsters
- Nier: Automata Game of the YoRHa Edition launches in February
- Fortnite's Infinity Blade is a mythical sword that kills in one blow
- Fanatical's Winter Sale has started and PC Gamer Club members get an exclusive discount
- Epic Games has removed the Infinity Blade series from Apple's App Store
- December 10
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- Metro 2033 film has been cancelled because the scripter wanted to 'Americanize' it
- World War Z is coming to the Epic Store
- This Corsair gaming mouse for $30 makes a great stocking stuffer
- Get an Intel Core i9-9900K processor for $508 today
- Junkrat Krampus is coming to the Overwatch Winter Wonderland
- Someone made the Avengers' Stark Tower in Fortnite, and it puts Tilted Towers to shame
- TP-Link’s latest routers are rated to deliver incredible speeds at premium prices
- Rainbow Six Siege autobans are being replaced with manual moderation
- StarVR’s future in question after putting promising VR headset ‘on hold’
- 3DMark owners can add a ray tracing benchmark for $3 to affirm RTX purchase
- Watch 25 minutes of Beyond Good and Evil 2
- The first Sonic the Hedgehog live action movie poster is creepy as hell
- Warhammer: Vermintide 2 DLC heads back in time today
- Cacowards 25 celebrates 25 years of Doom mods
- Own a statue of John Romero's head on a spike with the Sigil collector's edition
- John Romero's next project is Sigil, a successor to Ultimate Doom's fourth episode
- Play as Geralt in Monster Hunter: World with 2019's The Witcher 3 collaboration
- You can only preorder Rage 2 for Bethesda's launcher right now, not Steam
- The next Warframe is a furious, punchy monk
- Streamer arrested after allegedly assaulting his partner during a livestream
- December 9
- December 8
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- The Walking Dead: The Final Season continues in January
- This modder is recreating the entirety of World of Warcraft in Skyrim
- Some Epic Store games are pushing back or scrapping Steam releases
- RTS Conan Unconquered out next year, developed by C&C veterans
- CS:GO receives 14,000 negative Steam reviews in a single day after going free to play
- Skater XL is a realistic skateboard sim coming to Early Access this month
- Ashes of Creation MMO launches open beta for battle royale mode this month
- Path of Exile smashes its player count record following free Betrayal update
- H1Z1 developer Daybreak Games hit by another round of layoffs
- Fallout 76 players are making wonderful postcards from bugs and glitches
- December 7
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- Far Cry: New Dawn will bring back some familiar faces, but Boomer isn't one of them
- Sugar Plum Fairy Mercy will dance on your grave
- BioMutant gameplay trailer showcases bipedal trash pandas and stranger things
- Rust finally gives its naked citizens underwear, electricity
- Save 10% (up to $100) on Ebay items today, including this GTX 1070
- Anthem demo sessions are coming in January and February
- Daisy Ridley modded into Super Smash Bros. is perfect nightmare fuel
- Intel is 'pleased' with its progress on 7nm, believes it will spark Moore's Law again
- 1997 horror shooter Blood is coming back
- Path of Exile's free Betrayal expansion lets you play detective today
- Mozilla CEO says Microsoft’s switch to Chromium is ‘terrible’ for the web
- $10 million Magic: The Gathering Arena esports league will kick off in 2019
- Assassin's Creed creator's survival game Ancestors is out in 2019
- Company of Heroes 2 is free to keep this weekend on Steam
- BATALJ is a 1v1 mix of XCOM's strategy and Overwatch's style
- Devil May Cry 5 will have light multiplayer and a new Bloody Palace
- Iris.Fall is a gorgeous puzzle game set inside a monochrome diorama
- The Game Awards 2018: All the trailers and announcements
- Rage 2 release date revealed in a new 'open world' trailer
- 'The Block' will bring stuff from Fortnite's creative mode to battle royale
- Psychonauts 2 looks weird as hell in its first in-game trailer
- Mortal Kombat 11 launches in April, here's the first trailer
- The Pathless is a supernatural forest adventure from the makers of Abzu
- BioWare teases new Dragon Age game
- PUBG's new winter map, Vikendi, will be on the test servers tonight
- No Man's Sky studio announces a new adventure game
- Dauntless heading to Epic Games store, aiming for crossplay across all platforms
- The Outer Worlds is a new first-person, sci-fi RPG from Obsidian and the creators of Fallout
- Anthem's new trailer finally shows some of its weird story
- Subnautica will be free on the Epic Store for a limited time
- Far Cry: New Dawn trailer confirms post-apocalyptic leaks
- Journey is coming to PC
- The creator of Bastion just released a surprise new game called Hades
- The Stanley Parable: Ultra Deluxe will add new choices and endings
- Among Trees is a gorgeous sandbox adventure game coming in 2019
- Journey to the Savage Planet is a bizarre exploration game in space
- Bethesda confirms up to 65 customers may have had personal data leaked
- Ubisoft's post-apocalyptic Far Cry project is called New Dawn
- December 6
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- Monster Hunter World update roadmap includes 21:9 support and lots of monsters
- Star Control: Origins is getting a four-part season pass that debuts next week
- In Win built a $5,500 computer case for art collectors
- Ape Out, the ultra-violent ape escape game, finally has a release date
- DayZ leaves Early Access next week
- CS:GO goes Battle Royale and free to play
- 2 Milly sues Epic Games over Fortnite's 'Swipe It' dance emote
- Overwatch is really embracing the furry theme this holiday season
- Extreme overclocker teases a likely EVGA GeForce RTX 2080 Ti Kingpin card
- Black Ops 4 is now available for $30 without the Zombies mode
- Microsoft confirms plans to retool Edge browser around Chromium
- Prey: Mooncrash multiplayer update will go live next week
- AMD's oddly named 18.12.1.1 driver update adds support for the Epic Games Store
- Play Shadow of the Tomb Raider's opening levels in a free trial
- World of Tanks Holiday Ops 2019 gives you decorations for destruction
- Here's every Fortnite Season 7 skin
- Quake Champions is getting rid of loot boxes and overhauling its economy
- Fortnite Season 7's v7.00 patch notes introduce ziplines, Creative and a new flying vehicle
- Destiny 2 has a matchmaking bug that can be fixed by walking slowly
- After five years in development, Capybara's Below will release next week
- The first new Overwatch Winter Wonderland skin turns Zarya into a real Russian bear
- December 5
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- Valve explains Steam Discovery bug that made indie games harder to find
- Former Dragon Age creative director Mike Laidlaw is now with Ubisoft
- Starbreeze offices raided as Swedish authorities investigate insider trading allegations
- Day 2 of Amazon’s ‘12 Days of Deals’ focuses on PC hardware
- Is the GeForce GTX 1070 getting a GDDR5X memory upgrade? Not so fast
- Walmart did not pull its 'Overpowered' gaming desktop PCs from sale
- This 1080p IPS monitor from Acer is $105 right now
- A bunch of Logitech gaming peripherals are on sale at Amazon today
- Epic's final Fortnite Season 7 teaser hints at airplanes and ice-climbing
- Fanatical's Kingslayer bundle throws together both KOTORs, Oxenfree and loads more for $5
- Fortnite gets Creative mode with the arrival of Season 7
- Two Point Hospital gets surprise Bigfoot-themed DLC today
- Fallout 76's live in-game events will start in early 2019
- Tour Anthem's hub city in latest dev livestream
- Rumour: Dragon Age 4 is being announced at The Game Awards
- A bug made a Destiny 2 boss triple its normal size, and it is freakin' huge
- December 4
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- Unreal Tournament is not being 'actively developed'
- Insurgency: Sandstorm open beta begins on December 7
- Toejam and Earl: Back in the Groove is now set for release in March
- Destiny 2's Black Armory is open, so let's take a look at the patch notes
- Razer redesigns Blade Stealth laptop with thinner bezels and dedicated GPU
- NZXT cooks up a PUBG pan for mounting headsets, not headshots
- Microsoft rumored to replace Edge in Windows 10 with a Chromium-based browser
- Mutant Year Zero: Road to Eden, explore the wastelands like Fallout, fight baddies like XCOM
- Blizzard kicks off Hearthstone: Rastakhan's Rumble with free card packs for everyone
- Epic is starting a store to rival Steam, plans to attract users with free games
- Overwatch Winter Wonderland returns on December 11
- It's finally snowing in Fortnite
- Meet Zheng Jiang, Total War: Three Kingdoms' bandit queen
- Battlefield 5's first big DLC update has been delayed
- Assassin's Creed Odyssey's first DLC episode introduces an old man and his favourite knife
- Halo TV series production delayed as director Rupert Wyatt steps down
- Spend your Ubisoft Club points soon or they'll start to vanish
- December 3
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- Bethesda will send proper canvas bags to Fallout 76 Power Armor Edition owners
- Ghost Recon Wildlands Special Operation 3 begins next week
- Rainbow Six Siege’s Operation Wind Bastion launches tomorrow (with new operator nerfs)
- THQ Nordic buys Carmageddon, the ultra-violent combat racing game
- Arma 3's new Warlords mode features large-scale combat for control of an island
- See some of the sleek new weapons coming in Destiny 2's Black Armory
- The fantastic SteelSeries Arctis 3 headset is $40 today on Amazon
- Seagate’s 16TB hard drive makes your Steam library seem puny
- Oculus Rift with Touch controllers is on sale for $329
- Just Cause 4 Easter egg replaces Rico's grappling hook with instruments of sheer agony
- Nvidia's Titan RTX doubles down on extreme pricing
- Battlefield 5 update aims to boost ray tracing performance up to 50 percent
- A Steam bug has reportedly halved the revenue of some indie developers
- Get a first look at The Walking Dead's Negan fighting in Tekken 7
- Save 15% on a PC Gamer subscription just for today
- Elite Dangerous: Beyond's Chapter 4 update introduces squadrons next week
- Watch Star Citizen players recreate scenes from Top Gun
- Starbreeze files for reconstruction to avoid bankruptcy
- December 2
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- Play 24 new fan-made Thief missions to celebrate its 20th birthday
- Stellaris: Megacorp expansion will add roaming traders and galactic slave market
- Chinese city's government might cancel Dota 2 major over player's racist taunts
- Star Citizen's free fly week ends with $7 million raised, game packs discounted
- Mod that merges Fallout 3 and New Vegas gets long-awaited 'total rebuild'
- Grab four highly-rated Steam games for less than $4 in Fanatical bundle
- Nvidia's Titan RTX card coming soon, judging by these not-so-subtle teases
- December 1
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- Overkill's The Walking Dead gets a half-price Starter Edition following poor sales
- Stardew Valley going it alone after creator splits with publisher
- Darksiders 3 makes its easy mode even easier in first patch
- Valve's new Steam revenue splits favour big-budget games, and indie devs aren't happy
- They Are Billions gets level editor, and you can already play 120 custom creations
- X4: Foundations, the sprawling, open-ended 'universe sim,' is now available