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There is something very badly behaved on the other side of door eight of the RPS Advent Calendar. Badly behaved and very noisy.

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Has it been a whole week already? Opening door seven of the RPS Advent Calendar will take you to new places!

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It's been an eventful decade for PC games, and it would be hard for you to summarise everything that's happened in the medium across the past ten years. Hard for you, but a day's work for us. Below you'll find our picks for the 50 best games released on PC across the past decade.

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Hopefully you're feeling outdoorsy, reader, because today, day six of the RPS Advent Calendar, we're going for a walk. Mostly a walk.

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Day five of the RPS Advent Calendar is much more relaxed than yesterday's. You can hear people chatting on the other side of the door. Maybe you should sit down and listen to the wind in the leaves for a while.

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Today is day four of the RPS Advent Calendar but to be honest, you should probably keep that door shut. No seriously, you don't want to open a chink in our defences.

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Day three has dawned! That means it must be time to open another door in the RPS Advent Calendar! Put your ear to the keyhole. It's quiet, and the metal is very cold.

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Another day another door in the RPS Advent Calendar - day and door two, to be precise. Oh whoops, do be careful, the door is in a different place every time you open it. Oh no, now it's burning one pixel at a time. Who set this door on fire? And where did that acid rain come from?

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We've checked our list, we've checked it twice, we've decided which games were naughty or nice. We've then cursed the games on this list to reside behind the doors of an advent calendar, and only you can set them free. We're videogames Santa, we're out of control, and these are the best PC games of 2019.

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The first day of the RPS Advent Calendar has arrived! Harken to the scritching and scratching of approaching festivity, and open the first door!

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You'll ocassionally find someone on the internet sounding off about how the strategy genre is dead. If you see such a person in the future, send them this list of the best strategy games ever made.

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A new hope. After two boring-but-fine Star Wars: Battlefront games, we're now on the verge of EA's third swing of the lightsaber with the release of Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order. There are reasons to think it might be more interesting than early trailers suggested, after writers such as our own Matt came back from a recent preview event with his pockets filled with (qualified)…

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The Workbench in The Outer Worlds, among many other useful things, gives you the ability to apply all sorts of powerful mods to your weapons and armor. This alone makes the Workbench one of the greatest tools available to you, and the best part is that you can find at least one in pretty much every region of the game, including your own ship, the…

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The best shooters endure. While other genres warp beyond recognition, there is something solid about the first-person shooter that makes it as dependable as a nice big AK-47. Maybe it’s the gung-ho simplicity - look down a barrel and pull the trigger. It's as fun to fire a double-barrelled shotgun from an early 90s FPS as the slick shotties of today. For that reason, this…

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Alice Bee: Good afternoon, esteemed colleagues. We were all locked, at one time or another, in the RPS EGX dungeon this weekend. Given that it's a veritable bonanza of video games, both large and small, we should discuss the bestest games we saw over the weekend. I'm sure it will be entertaining and useful for our readers! Who wants to offer the first game up…

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Xbox Game Pass for PC is two things: firstly, it's quite a mouthful; and secondly, it's the new subscription service by Microsoft that gives you access to a bunch of games from the Microsoft Store for a monthly price. New games are being added each month, though there has for the first time been one game removed from the service. We've got details of all…

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Look! A ranking of the 50 best RPGs on PC. I know, you never asked for this, but here it is. It is 100 percent correct, we double-checked. The RPG is a broad and deep sea and fishing out the best games from its characterful waters is no easy task. But we are capable fishers on the good ship RPS, and know when to humanely…

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