Disney invests $1.5 billion in Epic, announces new 'entertainment universe' in Fortnite (www.pcgamer.com)
They didn't say metaverse, but they're definitely thinking it.
Palworld server costs near $500K per month as network engineer is ordered to 'never let the service go down no matter what' (www.pcgamer.com)
Japanese games are kicking ass on PC so far this year (www.pcgamer.com)
Ray tracing made possible on 42-year-old ZX Spectrum: 'reasonably fast, if you consider 17 hours per frame to be reasonably fast' (www.pcgamer.com)
Japanese games are kicking ass on PC so far this year (www.pcgamer.com)
Wizards of the Coast confirms it is not selling the d&d IP to tencent (www.pcgamer.com)
The Day Before was an even bigger disaster than you thought: devs reportedly made to pay fines for bad work, learned it was an MMO from the trailers, and no one's sure where the bosses are (www.pcgamer.com)
PC gaming's many launchers, reviewed for 2024: Steam still puts the rest to shame (www.pcgamer.com)
Spec Ops: The Line's sudden removal from Steam baffles its director: 'Why has this happened?' (www.pcgamer.com)
Yager's controversial military shooter was pulled from Steam and other storefronts last night.
MSI's new Claw handheld goes head to head with Lenovo and Asus at $700 (www.pcgamer.com)
Though you only get the pared back Intel Meteor Lake chip for that money.
Enshrouded has grabbed more than 1 million players in just 4 days, joining Palworld in making January an impressive month for early access survival games (www.pcgamer.com)
The obsession continues.
Intel CEO bullish about chip roadmap and confirms Arrow Lake CPUs for this year as share price plummets 12% (www.pcgamer.com)
Intel Battlemage: What can we expect to see with the second generation of Arc GPUs? (www.pcgamer.com)
Microsoft's current OS has been shrunk to a ridiculous 100MB in size, but only by getting rid of windows from Windows (www.pcgamer.com)
'Our long-term objective is to make printing a subscription' says HP CEO gunning for 2024's Worst Person of the Year award | Not satisfied with merely bricking printers, HP now wants to own them al... (www.pcgamer.com)
‘Our long-term objective is to make printing a subscription’ says HP CEO gunning for 2024’s Worst Person of the Year award | Not satisfied with merely bricking printers, HP now wants to own them al…::It was only the other day we reported how HP has been slapped with a lawsuit in response to measures that disable its...
Co-op survival RPG Enshrouded: forgiving survival systems in a surprisingly massive open world (www.pcgamer.com)
Just in case you forgot, there's actually two big early access survival game out this month.
Obsidian's next big RPG Avowed is looking to Vermintide's 'masterclass in having a sense of hitting and impact' to make its first-person sword-swinging feel weighty (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."
US Supreme Court has had enough of Epic vs. Apple, refuses to hear appeals, Tim Sweeney says the fight to open-up iOS 'is lost… a sad outcome for all developers' (www.pcgamer.com)
But vows to fight on anyway.
Analysts are calling 2023's decline in PC shipments 'unparalleled in the industry's recorded history' but suggest the only way now is up (www.pcgamer.com)
That Portal 64 demake we liked so much has been kiboshed by Valve: 'They have asked me to take the project down,' creator says (www.pcgamer.com)
Honestly, a bit surprised by this. It wasn't even on Steam. Hopefully switching to an open source SDK will get this back up.
[Esoteric Ebb] D&D-based RPG where you play as the world's worst cleric (www.pcgamer.com)
Ayaneo announces the Next Lite, the first non-Valve handheld PC with SteamOS preinstalled (www.pcgamer.com)
It's aiming to be budget friendly, so don't expect cutting edge hardware
MSI demos a monitor that gives you an AI helping hand in League of Legends and it might stretch the boundaries of what's considered fair (www.pcgamer.com)
CD Projekt narrative director declares Cyberpunk 2077 'just a warm-up' as work kicks off on the sequel (www.pcgamer.com)
The kind of warm-up that produces a devastating injury, but a warm-up nonetheless.
