The creators of Pathfinder have released their own version of D&D's controversial OGL—and it could have a huge impact on all tabletop RPGs (www.pcgamer.com)
Bonus article today because this feels important
Silent Hill: Ascension's proposed voting system makes it feel like a bizarre mass social experiment (www.pcgamer.com)
The 'players' of the interactive series will be making judgement calls on some heavy subjects.
Dave the Diver is exactly the kind of out-of-nowhere hit that makes gaming exciting (www.pcgamer.com)
2023's biggest surprise is far more than just a fishing sim, once you dive below the surface.
Official Minecraft wiki editors so furious at Fandom's 'degraded' functionality and popups they're overwhelmingly voting to leave the site (www.pcgamer.com)
Official Minecraft wiki editors so furious at Fandom's 'degraded' functionality and popups they're overwhelmingly voting to leave the site (www.pcgamer.com)
Here’s hoping they migrate to wiki.gg as Terraria’s contributors have a while ago.
Official Minecraft wiki editors so furious at Fandom's 'degraded' functionality and popups they're overwhelmingly voting to leave the site (www.pcgamer.com)
Citing "lack of transparency from Fandom [...] loss of features [...] and toxic company culture."
Denuvo plans to offer independent benchmarks in an attempt to prove its DRM doesn't cause performance problems (www.pcgamer.com)
Anger from voice actors as NSFW mods use AI deepfakes to replicate their voices: 'This is NOT okay' (www.pcgamer.com) Japanese
Skyrim VAs are speaking out about the spread of pornographic AI mods.
Diablo 4 Season 1—Season of the Malignant details | PC Gamer (www.pcgamer.com)
If Helldivers 2 isn't on your 2023 radar, this excellent gameplay trailer should correct that (www.pcgamer.com)
Yet another reason to ditch Musk's Twitter: You can play a crowdsourced Dungeons & Dragons campaign over on Mastodon (www.pcgamer.com)
Through the magic of democracy (Mastodon’s poll function), an account called Dungeons over on the federated Twitter-alternative platform is letting its audience choose their own adventure in an ongoing D&D campaign.
Wunderkind builds 'fully compliant RISC-V computer' entirely inside Terraria, then plays Pong on it (www.pcgamer.com)
Terraria's devs have been trying to stop developing Terraria for years, but they just can't quit (www.pcgamer.com)
Terraria is gearing up for its 1.4.5 patch, the latest major update in 12 years of continued support from developer Re-Logic. If you’re thinking to yourself, “Wait, I thought this game got its final update” already, you would be right—Re-Logic has been considering moving on to its next project for around eight years...
The cold dead hand of Games for Windows Live has pulled 5 Capcom games into the abyss for 600 days and counting (www.pcgamer.com)
Yet another argument in favour of piracy…
The cold dead hand of Games for Windows Live has pulled 5 Capcom games into the abyss for 600 days and counting (www.pcgamer.com)
I get that it doesn’t make a whole lot of sense financially for Capcom to update these games to make them playable, but it still sucks to see them let some of their back catalogue wither on the vine like this.
A new PS4 emulator is in development from the creator of RPCS3, though it's likely years away from running games (www.pcgamer.com)
'We are killing Sony': A 272-page PDF of classified Sega of America docs from the mid-90s is now something you can just download (www.pcgamer.com)
Starfield and Baldur's Gate 3 have reignited the 'quantity vs quality' debate around RPGs that promise a billion hours of gameplay, but I think they can actually deliver (www.pcgamer.com)
A cache of '90s internal documents at Sega has suddenly appeared online (www.pcgamer.com)
Microsoft's light-based computer marks 'the unravelling of Moore's Law' (www.pcgamer.com)
CS:GO ban wave results in over $2 million worth of skins and other items being lost (www.pcgamer.com)
Minecraft's devs exit its 7 million-strong subreddit after Reddit's ham-fisted crackdown on protest | PC Gamer (www.pcgamer.com)
What a win (www.pcgamer.com)
Minecraft's devs exit its 7 million-strong subreddit after Reddit's ham-fisted crackdown on protest (www.pcgamer.com)
Mojang exits Reddit, says they '"no longer feel that Reddit is an appropriate place to post official content or refer [its] players to". (www.pcgamer.com)
If you want official updates from the Minecraft dev team, you better not look on Reddit. A post from a Reddit user bearing the name sliced_lime and a flair indicating they are the Minecraft Java Tech