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...
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)
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)
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)
After 5 years, NCSoft officially grants a licence to popular City of Heroes private server Homecoming: 'Your accounts and characters are safe' (www.pcgamer.com)
Someone please correct me if I'm wrong, but I don't believe there's a precedent for this: a pirate MMO server has been granted an official license to continue operating legally. At the moment, it sounds like this is a deal applying to this one City of Heroes server, but hey, baby steps. City of Heroes was the only MMO I ever got...
'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)
Delve a hopeless dungeon and die of despair in indie action RPG Into the Necrovale (www.pcgamer.com)
[PCGamer] boldest predictions for PC gaming in 2024 (www.pcgamer.com)
[PCGamer] What we want to see from PC gaming tech in 2024 (www.pcgamer.com)
Factorio pretty much rewrote its world generation to account for new planets—like this volcanic one (www.pcgamer.com)
PC Gamer Hardware Awards: The best motherboard of 2023 (www.pcgamer.com)
Steam keeps on winning (www.pcgamer.com)
Steam keeps on winning (www.pcgamer.com)
From the opinion piece:...
2024 could be the year the PC finally dumps x86 for Arm, all thanks to Windows 12 and Qualcomm's new chip (www.pcgamer.com)
2024 could be the year the PC finally dumps x86 for Arm, all thanks to Windows 12 and Qualcomm’s new chip::We’ve already reported on Qualcomm’s new 12-core Arm uberchip, the Snapdragon X Elite, and its claims of x86-beating performance and efficiency. But it takes two to tango when it comes a maj
Intel CEO laments Nvidia's 'extraordinarily lucky' AI dominance, claims it coulda-woulda-shoulda have been Intel (www.pcgamer.com)
Intel CEO laments Nvidia’s ‘extraordinarily lucky’ AI dominance, claims it coulda-woulda-shoulda have been Intel::Intel CEO Pat Gelsinger has taken a shot at his main rival in high performance computing, dismissing Nvidia’s success in providing GPUs for AI modelling as “extraordinarily lucky.” Gels
In an amazing year for PC gaming, too many games launched with major issues (www.pcgamer.com)
Spider-Man developer Insomniac Games victim of horrendous leak, as hackers steal a decade's worth of plans for the studio's future (www.pcgamer.com)
Personal information of employees was also stolen.
PC gaming's biggest disappointments of 2023 (www.pcgamer.com)
This fan-made HD PC port of Zelda: Link's Awakening is so cool I can't believe Nintendo hasn't taken it down yet. **GUYS GUESS WHAT!** (www.pcgamer.com)
Insomniac Games has reportedly been hacked, with details of its upcoming Wolverine game included in the stolen data (www.pcgamer.com)
Personal data belonging to employees has also been stolen.
'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...
'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)
Suffering and success.