FromSoftware says Elden Ring's popular Seamless Co-op mod is 'definitely not something we actively oppose,' and may even 'consider ideas like that with our future games' (www.pcgamer.com)
Senior Riot devs say the League of Legends playerbase is getting older, with fewer newbies jumping in: 'Candidly, it's not the same situation it was 10 years ago' (www.pcgamer.com)
Hands on with the Zotac Zone gaming handheld: It's got a gorgeous screen, but the competition is ramping up [AMD Ryzen 7 8840U, 780M GPU,16GB Ram, 7-inch AMOLED 1080p, ~800$] (www.pcgamer.com)
GOG is going to start deleting oversized cloud saves at the end of August (www.pcgamer.com)
Game devs praise Steam as a 'democratic platform' that 'continues to be transformative' for PC gaming today (www.pcgamer.com)
'You won’t find our games on a subscription service' says the founder of Baldur's Gate 3 developer Larian, after Ubisoft forecasts a future of players 'not owning' games (www.pcgamer.com)
"Subscription models will always end up being cost/benefit analysis exercises intended to maximise profit."
It took a modder just hours to add 4K support to the Metal Gear Solid collection (www.pcgamer.com)
'Cheating and exploiting undermine the integrity of our game': Over 600 Star Citizen accounts have been suspended for racking up in-game currency (www.pcgamer.com)
Microsoft makes Recall ["Recall" is the name of the product] an optional feature on Copilot+ PCs after it 'heard a clear signal' from the public (www.pcgamer.com)
'We have not confirmed any instance of Vanguard bricking anyone's hardware' following its League of Legends rollout, Riot says, but there are definitely problems for some players (www.pcgamer.com)
'Devs are getting ground up as collateral damage': Fallout: New Vegas lead says burnout has replaced crunch as 'the primary hazard of the game industry' (www.pcgamer.com)
'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)
Minecraft is the first videogame ever to sell more than 300 million copies (www.pcgamer.com)
Stacked 3D cache is coming to Intel CPUs, and gamers should be excited (should we?) (www.pcgamer.com)
Starfield NPCs keep getting bodied mid-sentence and it never isn't funny to me (www.pcgamer.com)
My favorite Bethesda game quirk is how the world keeps trying to kill and maim everyone while they have conversations.
Riot was working on a Smash Bros-style fighting game, but MultiVersus helped convince it to pull the plug (www.pcgamer.com)
Bungie's first big hit, Marathon, is now free on Steam thanks to a fan revival that has Bungie's blessing (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)
RuneScape creator unveils new MMO after 10 years of development: 'At times it has felt like an insurmountably ambitious task' (www.pcgamer.com)
US gov fires a warning shot at Nvidia: 'We cannot let China get these chips... If you redesign a chip that enables them to do AI, I'm going to control it the very next day' (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."