I chose the worst four years to take a hiatus from gaming hardware because now I feel like I'm being handed alien tech when confronted with a Steam Deck (www.pcgamer.com)
Actors' union 'not happy' about GTA 6 strike exemption, but confirms it's in the contract: 'Insane, but it's there' (www.pcgamer.com)
Ubisoft's live-service pirate sim Skull and Bones pulls into port on Steam this August (www.pcgamer.com)
Escape From Tarkov studio Battlestate Games has put a bounty on cheaters (www.pcgamer.com)
Get a taste of automated, voxelated terraforming in the free preview of Eden Crafters (www.pcgamer.com)
The best deals in the 2024 Steam Summer Sale (www.pcgamer.com)
Its five year plan complete, Workers & Resources: Soviet Republic releases its industrial city-building into 1.0 (www.pcgamer.com)
Xbox executives just cannot give a straight answer to questions about Tango Gameworks (www.pcgamer.com)
Bit Reactor has a Star Wars tactical strategy game in the works, 15 XCOM veterans on its team, and an ambitious vision for the future of the genre (www.pcgamer.com)
In 1989, a Nintendo bigwig licensed SimCity on the spot by sliding a million dollar check across the table (www.pcgamer.com)
Slay the Spire co-creator advises that 'taking risks is actually the least risky thing you can do,' arguing for the appeal of 'hyper-engaging' games (www.pcgamer.com)
Borderlands 3 community scores a big win for science: 'These players have helped trace the evolutionary relationships of more than a million different kinds of bacteria that live in the human gut' (www.pcgamer.com)
Fallout: New Vegas director and CRPG veteran Josh Sawyer says burnout has "replaced crunch as the primary hazard of the game industry" (www.pcgamer.com)
So, looks like Putin's ordered the Russian government to 'consider the issue of organising' domestic versions of the Steam Deck, SteamOS, and Steam itself (with a side order of Steam Machines) (www.pcgamer.com)
Dead Space 2 players uncover easy money trick hidden right in front of them 13 years after release (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)
Teenage Grand Theft Auto 6 hacker given an indefinite sentence in a secure hospital due to his 'intent to return to cybercrime as soon as possible' (www.pcgamer.com)
Arion Kurtaj was a "key member" of the Lapsus$ gang that also hacked Nvidia, Samsung, and Microsoft.
In an amazing year for PC gaming, too many games launched with major issues (www.pcgamer.com)
Qualcomm's new PC chip delivers gaming performance on par with AMD's best integrated graphics (www.pcgamer.com)
Baldur's Gate 3's latest patch has introduced a 'very frustrating, borderline unplayable' glitch that makes companions dump their inventories on you (www.pcgamer.com)
The shared stash system is sharing too much.
3-screen Ridge Racer arcade sim left to rot, then salvaged (www.pcgamer.com)
The BioWare layoffs include the writer responsible for Dragon Age's best character (www.pcgamer.com)
Among the recent layoffs at BioWare was Mary Kirby, creator of Varric and some of the best characters of DA:I