'Make a private hosted version of your game': Knockout City dev's top tip for studios shutting down a live service game is to give players the keys (www.pcgamer.com)
Larian originally wanted Baldur's Gate 3 to have multiple narrators, also Astarion was a tiefling (www.pcgamer.com)
How are CD Projekt's side quests so good? Cyberpunk quest designer says they reject 'over 90%' of their pitches (www.pcgamer.com)
Game developers come together at GDC for a 'GDScream' to vent rage at the state of the industry: 'It feels hard to be here and pretend like everything is fine' (www.pcgamer.com)
WolfEye Studios [from Arkane founder] is working on something new: retro sci-fi first-person (www.pcgamer.com)
Summerfall Studios co-founder David Gaider speaks in favor of industry unionization and his studio's four day work week. (www.pcgamer.com)
Dwarf Fortress creator blasts execs behind brutal industry layoffs: 'I think they're horrible… greedy, greedy people' (www.pcgamer.com)
Apex Legends streamers surprised to find aimbot and other hacks added to their PCs in the middle of major competition via anti-cheat software (www.pcgamer.com)
Wow it finally happened. So glad I switched to steam running on linux mint last week. I refused to install helldivers because it wanted to install some no holds barred god level permissions anti-cheat software. Windows 11 was the last straw for me. Good times…...
Path of Exile 2's beta delayed from June 'until later in the year' (www.pcgamer.com)
Metal Gear Delta's producer says 'we're doing our best' to create a 'modern-style Metal Gear' but the core design will remain unchanged (www.pcgamer.com)
CCP reveals first details of survival game [codenamed Project Awakening] set on a single shard in the EVE universe, but wait: here comes the blockchain (www.pcgamer.com)
Larian CEO Swen Vincke extols the 'incredible achievement' of Baldur's Gate 3 influence Ultima 7, but confesses he hasn't played since the '90s 'because I don't want to spoil the memory' (www.pcgamer.com)
In 2018 a group of Valve staff tried to figure out just how efficient they were being—and found they were making more money per head than Apple, Facebook, and nearly every tech giant out there (www.pcgamer.com)
Alone in the Dark review [76/100] (www.pcgamer.com)
Tim Sweeney emailed Gabe Newell calling Valve 'you assholes' over Steam policies, to which Valve's COO replied internally 'you mad bro?' (www.pcgamer.com)
Apex Legends streamers warned to 'perform a clean OS reinstall as soon as possible' after hacks during NA Finals match (www.pcgamer.com)
Former Xbox boss Peter Moore says Gen Z may reject new consoles in favor of smartphones and PCs (www.pcgamer.com)
CCP reveals first details of survival game set on a single shard in the EVE universe, but wait: here comes the blockchain (www.pcgamer.com)
cross-posted from: sh.itjust.works/post/16182791...
Samsung does an Apple with its first Snapdragon X Elite laptop, suggesting the new Arm-based Windows machines aren't going to be a cheap alternative to x86 (www.pcgamer.com)
Interesting. Samsung making a bold move here, but one that could make sense.
RuneScape creator unveils new MMO after 10 years of development: 'At times it has felt like an insurmountably ambitious task' (www.pcgamer.com)
Star Citizen's first-person shooting is getting backpack-reloading, dynamic crosshairs, procedural recoil, and other improvements to 'bring the FPS combat to AAA standard' (www.pcgamer.com)
Well, I mean, I would have launched it first (as an AAA game), but I’m no game developer. 🤷 And neither are they, from the looks of it. Good at perpetually raking in money for himself and his family, though!
Yes, the Steam Deck OLED is susceptible to burn-in if you really try, but it also really doesn't matter (www.pcgamer.com)
You have to run it for thousands of hours, while not playing games, to make it happen.
EA CEO talks AI, says the usual stuff before the bong rip hits and he starts blabbing about a future where 3 billion people are creating EA's games with it (www.pcgamer.com)
Convai aims to put an end to basic 'one-line' NPCs with AI but says it 'needs more high quality writers and artists, not less' to get it done (www.pcgamer.com)
New Blood boss []: 'If there's not anime big tiddy waifus in Dusk by the time we're done with the SDK, then we haven't done it right' (www.pcgamer.com)
