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4 Tips to Help You Succeed at Fall Guys

As Fall Guys players, we’ve all experienced it: the shame that descends upon you during the elimination screen as you watch your bean-shaped avatar tossed to the gutter, bouncing across an array of pegs like a helpless pachinko ball.

How Today’s Games Makes Full Use of 11th Gen Intel® Core™ Processors

Laptop-based gaming has become more and more sophisticated as advancements in mobile technology continue to enable higher-quality experiences. Gaming on the go requires less compromise than it did years ago.

Still Serious After All These Years

It has been nearly 20 years now since a small games development team from Croatia looked at the first-person shooter genre and said, “Let’s do that but more fun.” Thus, Serious Sam was born.

Why It Pays to Play Marvel’s Avengers with High-End Hardware

There’s more to the anatomy of a successful superhero action scene than a hero simply exercising their powers; things like environmental cues heighten the emotional stakes of a scene by demonstrating just how powerful a hero’s abilities are in context.

Game with Intel for a Mightier PC Experience

Intel teamed up with Crystal Dynamics and Square Enix as the CPU partner for Marvel’s Avengers to deliver a PC gaming experience worthy of Earth’s Mightiest Avengers.

How to install free mods, liveries, and add-ons for Microsoft Flight Simulator

Start adding free planes, skins, scenery, and other mods to Microsoft Flight Simulator.

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8 Indie Games to Keep on Your Radar

From gothic roguelike tactics to competitive ghost vs. ghost hunter action, these are some of the indie games that most excite us at the moment.

Five Superpowers We Can’t Wait to Try in Marvel’s Avengers

Iron Man and his repulsors. Thor and his hammer Mjolnir. Black Widow and her Widow’s Bite. The Avengers include some of Marvel’s most iconic personalities, each with powers to match.

How A Total War Saga: TROY Bridges History and Myth

Rapt with violent rage, the epic hero Achilles divides the Trojan army by routing half of their ranks to the river Scamander, filling it with the bodies of dead soldiers. The reason? He seeks revenge for the loss of his companion Patroclus, who was slain by the Trojan prince Hector.

Magic: The Gathering’s digital history, from first build to end step

It was easy to get into Magic: The Gathering when I was 11 years old. Brought to you by VentureBeat

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Dual Universe beta starts in August, will require a monthly subscription fee

Dual Universe "allows millions of players to interact with each other in a single, fully-editable world," declares the narrator in the trailer above. It's a spectacularly ambitious claim, which naturally makes a person wary among all the other attempts

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Why Crysis Remastered Can Reach Its Fullest Potential in 2020

Back in November of 2007, PC gamers had a chance to glimpse divinity. All they had to do was boot up Crytek’s latest release,

7 things I wish I knew before playing Gears Tactics

Gears Tactics has an efficient tutorial. It's an easy game to dig into, but it's also hiding some cleverly complex tactics and important differences from XCOM that aren't obvious in its early hours.

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Our Top 11 Indie Games to Play This Summer

With summer fast approaching, it’s safe to say that we’re all ready for a little R&R — and what better way to relax than with a new indie game? Check out a handful of our current indie recommendations.

6 new ways Crusader Kings 3 will let you be a terrifying jerk

Crusader Kings 3 built a lot of its word-of-mouth popularity from stories of the absurd villainy and depravity you could get up to leading your own feudal realm.

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Mount & Blade II: Bannerlord Can Be As Epic As It Wants To Be on PC

The enemy emerges from behind a white hill: three chevrons of infantry, horsemen to their left and right, archers climbing through the snow who will soon station at the hill’s crest and rain arrows into the melee in the valley.

Mods We Like for 9 Games We Love

A good mod is a minor miracle. Say you’re enjoying a game, but the UI is slightly clunky or, due to some nigh unforgivable oversight, there is a dog you cannot pet.

How a Fighting Game Became an MMORPG-MOBA-Battle Royale Hybrid

The developers at Mantisco, an independent South Korean studio, have always wanted fighting games to expand their reach. As self-professed “hardcore gamers” and passionate fans of games like Tekken and Street Fighter, they recognize that the genre’s main barrier of entry for new and...

10 Games You Need to Check Out Again

One of the joys of gaming in the modern era is the knowledge that games often continue to develop and become more and more robust over time.

How The Coalition Designed Gears Tactics for Everyone to Play

In the beginning, Gears of War was meant to be one thing and one thing only — a system seller in the console wars.

Take a Walk on the Wildside with the Planet Zoo South America DLC

Go wild with the South America Pack and let your imagination run from the Amazon basin to the Andean slopes!

Intel officially releases its 10th Gen H-series mobile CPUs

Intel has finally officially announced its 10th Generation H-series mobile CPUs.

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Mount & Blade 2: Bannerlord feels like a refined Warband

Mount & Blade 2: Bannerlord is finally a tangible thing that you can play right this very second, seven years after TaleWorlds first announced it.

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How Capcom Reinvented Resident Evil 3’s Raccoon City

Here’s what we’ve known about Resident Evil 3’s Raccoon City for over two decades: It’s been flung into chaos...

3 DOOM Eternal Demons That You Will Love to Destroy

DOOM Eternal is here. Hell’s armies have invaded Earth and the only thing they fear…is you.

Why Minecraft Dungeons Is the Perfect Next Step For the Minecraft Universe

There’s a moment at the beginning of every new Minecraft save that approaches divinity.

9 Indie Games to Play While Staying In

Whether you’re looking for a puzzle platformer, a creative vehicle sim, or a genre-blending co-op FPS...

Gnome Chompski, Dr. Breen, and other Half-Life: Alyx Easter eggs we've found (so far)

Poke around a bit in Half-Life: Alyx and you'll find lots of little treasures.

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James Bardolph Wanted a Dual-PC for Streaming and Gaming—So We Gave Him One

James Bardolph wants it all. “I want something I can play on and stream from all in one box,” he says.

Get Ready to Fall in Love With Every Single Animal on Planet Zoo

Though animals tend to make appearances in games as companions, as enemies,and even as decorative background...

3 Beginner Legends of Runeterra Decks That Won’t Break the Bank

Legends of Runeterra, the digital collectible card game made by Riot Games, has been in open beta for just...

Everything That’s Led Up to Half-Life: Alyx

In a Reddit AMA in 2017, Gabe Newell uttered, ominously, “The number 3 must not be said.”

The best co-op games

Grab a friend and enjoy the best co-op games the PC has to offer.

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Learn How CS:GO Pro Karrigan Became the Person He Is Today

How to Get Started in Temtem, the Creature - Collecting MMO

Temtem is a creature-collecting game that brings familiar mechanics to an MMO context

Capcom’s 5-Step Guide to Becoming a Street Fighter V Champion

Casting a successful “Hadouken” in Street Fighter remains one of the most satisfying feelings in gaming

5 Indie Games to Help You Brave the Winter

In Act II of Kentucky Route Zero, the player stumbles upon an office floor full of grizzly bears and overgrown greenery...

The Difference Between Refresh Rates and Frame Rates

You’ve likely seen the terms “frame rate” and “refresh rate” - measured in FPS (frames per second)...

This Cosmic Battlestation Is Out of This World

Every serious PC builder knows that a successful gaming setup isn’t just about the machine itself...