I'm so annoyed that they're calling the new hobbit game 'A The Lord of the Rings Game' (www.pcgamer.com)
With a near-unprecedented official license for its fan server, one of PC gaming's great MMOs has a vibrant future: 'Let it be shouted far and wide: City of Heroes lives again' (www.pcgamer.com)
Starfield's lead quest designer had 'absolutely no time' and had to hit the 'panic button' so the game would have a satisfying final quest (www.pcgamer.com)
'There's almost nobody left': CEO of Baldur's Gate 3 dev Swen Vincke says the D&D team he initially worked with is gone, due to Hasbro layoffs (www.pcgamer.com)
I assume that somebody, somewhere, has done the detached corporate penny-pinching to make this all make sense on paper. But this is a disastrous move from a consumer goodwill standpoint. If you have the CEO of a studio which handed you a major commercial success publicly mourning the depth and scope of your layoffs, something's...
VR still makes 40-70% of players want to throw up, and that's a huge problem for the companies behind it (www.pcgamer.com)
Why virtual reality makes a lot of us sick, and what we can do about it.
Baldur's Gate 3 used motion capture from 248 actors to bring its NPCs to life: 'You’re not only hearing the actors' voices, but you’re also seeing their physical performances' (www.pcgamer.com)
Baldur's Gate 3 performance director Aliona Baranova broke down the process.
Warhammer 40K: Darktide is adding RPG-style skill trees full of new abilities to its 4 classes (www.pcgamer.com)
Zerospace: RTS/RPG mash up now on Kickstarter (www.pcgamer.com)
Your Ubisoft account can be suspended and subsequently permanently deleted for 'inactivity,' taking your games library with it (www.pcgamer.com)
Direct from the horse’s mouth: www.ubisoft.com/en-us/help/account/…/000079595...
To combat torrent traffic, a South Korean ISP deployed a bold strategy: Infecting 600,000 of its own customers with malware (www.pcgamer.com)
A follow-up to the legendary Disco Elysium might have been ready to play within the next year—ZA/UM's devs loved it, management canceled it and laid off the team (www.pcgamer.com)
Qualcomm says it's tested 1,200 x86 Windows games on its new X Elite Arm chip but won't say how well they actually run (www.pcgamer.com)
Helldivers 2 remains delisted in 177 countries and territories even as Sony backs down on PSN requirement, Arrowhead CEO says 'I won't rest in my desire to have it available everywhere' (www.pcgamer.com)
'Marketing's dead, and I can back this s**t up': Baldur's Gate 3 publishing director says players 'just want to be spoken to, and they don't want to be bamboozled' (www.pcgamer.com)
US game devs celebrate as non-compete clauses, previously deemed 'a trash way to keep the talent', face a ban from the FTC—which would free up movement across the AAA industry (www.pcgamer.com)
A demo for Final Fantasy 16 is reportedly coming to PC soon, as producer Yoshi-P says work on the port is 'going smoother than we thought it would' (www.pcgamer.com)
I used to be a frame rate snob but owning a Steam Deck has made me realise the error of my ways (www.pcgamer.com)
Helldivers 2 is now PlayStation's biggest PC launch by a factor of two (www.pcgamer.com)
'If [money] is an issue, pirate it and buy a copy later': the devs of [Slay the Princess] want you to play it spoiler free—by any means necessary (www.pcgamer.com)
Armello studio lays off over half its staff and 'indefinitely' pauses development on its ongoing early access game because 'almost all funding and investment has evaporated from the videogame industry (www.pcgamer.com)
Embracer exec says laying off hundreds of people was an 'agonising process,' but that restructuring is 'how we win' (www.pcgamer.com)
"We know it's a necessary thing for us to hit our new and needed goals. So overall, good progress and we push on."...
Metro 2033 author Dmitry Glukhovsky sentenced to 8 years in prison for criticizing Russia's invasion of Ukraine (www.pcgamer.com)
Roblox data leak sees 4,000 developer profiles including identifying information made public (www.pcgamer.com)
ASUS ROG NUC 970 [pcgamer] review [ 86/100 ] (www.pcgamer.com)
Less than a month after joining work on the Sands of Time remake, Ubisoft Toronto lays off 33 employees 'to ensure it can deliver on its ambitious roadmap' (www.pcgamer.com)
