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)
German government wants games like Baldur's Gate 3 to 'also go on to be developed in Germany' (www.pcgamer.com)
A Konami code variant in Castlevania has been discovered after a quarter of a century (www.pcgamer.com)
Deep Rock Galactic is rolling out a feature to let you play old seasons (www.pcgamer.com)
So many people are downloading Fallout mods after watching the show that the Nexus is straining to support all the traffic (www.pcgamer.com)
World of Warcraft boss says Microsoft is happy to 'let Blizzard be Blizzard,' but I'm not sure that's entirely true (www.pcgamer.com)
An AI company has been generating porn with gamers' idle GPU time in exchange for Fortnite skins and Roblox gift cards (www.pcgamer.com)
Bethesda teases The Elder Scrolls 6 in anniversary message and brags its developers are already 'playing early builds' and loving it (www.pcgamer.com)
Apple keeps flogging 8GB of RAM for its Mac computers but it's still a dead horse (www.pcgamer.com)
The PC Gaming Show returns June 9 to celebrate its 10-year anniversary and the most exciting new PC 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)
Grand Theft Auto publisher Take-Two Interactive is laying off 5% of its workforce and 'rationalizing its pipeline,' the latest skin-crawling corporate euphemism for people losing their jobs (www.pcgamer.com)
Nixxes is 'sort of waiting for FSR 3.1' before adding AMD's frame generation to Horizon Forbidden West because it wants 'the latest and greatest before integrating it' (www.pcgamer.com)
Game studio owner suddenly lays everyone off and blames a Kotaku report that hasn't been published (www.pcgamer.com)
In the memo, Possibility Space owner Jeff Strain, who previously co-founded ArenaNet and Undead Labs, tells the studio's staff that he was recently contacted by Kotaku reporter Ethan Gach with questions about the closure of Crop Circle Games, another studio he owned with wife Annie Delisi Strain under their company Prytania...
I tried two demos of machine learning AI NPCs, and they didn't convince me AI will lead to anything that immersive sims like Deus Ex haven't already done better (www.pcgamer.com)
Ubisoft is stripping people's licences for The Crew weeks after its shutdown, nearly squandering hopes of fan servers and acting as a stark reminder of how volatile digital ownership is (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)
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)
Star Wars Outlaws' $110 and $130 editions prompt a collective sigh from potential players tired of season passes and ill-advised early access periods (www.pcgamer.com)
Star Wars Outlaws' $110 and $130 editions prompt a collective sigh from potential players tired of season passes and ill-advised early access periods (www.pcgamer.com)
Just more nickel and diming of gamers…