Power-mad modder puts Sonic the Hedgehog at the heart of the most tedious game ever made, so you can speed boost to the end in 3 straight hours instead of 8. (www.pcgamer.com)
Larian originally wanted Baldur's Gate 3 to have multiple narrators, also Astarion was a tiefling (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)
How are CD Projekt's side quests so good? Cyberpunk quest designer says they reject 'over 90%' of their pitches (www.pcgamer.com)
How are CD Projekt's side quests so good? Cyberpunk quest designer says they reject 'over 90%' of their pitches (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)
WolfEye Studios [from Arkane founder] is working on something new: retro sci-fi first-person (www.pcgamer.com)
Summerfall Studios co-founder David Gaider speaks in favor of industry unionization and his studio's four day work week. (www.pcgamer.com)
Path of Exile 2's beta delayed from June 'until later in the year' (www.pcgamer.com)
Game developers come together at GDC for a 'GDScream' to vent rage at the state of the industry: 'It feels hard to be here and pretend like everything is fine' (www.pcgamer.com)
Starfield's lead quest designer had 'absolutely no time' and had to hit the 'panic button' so the game would have a satisfying final quest (www.pcgamer.com)
Metal Gear Delta's producer says 'we're doing our best' to create a 'modern-style Metal Gear' but the core design will remain unchanged (www.pcgamer.com)
Larian CEO Swen Vincke extols the 'incredible achievement' of Baldur's Gate 3 influence Ultima 7, but confesses he hasn't played since the '90s 'because I don't want to spoil the memory' (www.pcgamer.com)
Dwarf Fortress creator blasts execs behind brutal industry layoffs: 'I think they're horrible… greedy, greedy people' (www.pcgamer.com)
Alone in the Dark review [76/100] (www.pcgamer.com)
Apex Legends streamers surprised to find aimbot and other hacks added to their PCs in the middle of major competition via anti-cheat software (www.pcgamer.com)
Wow it finally happened. So glad I switched to steam running on linux mint last week. I refused to install helldivers because it wanted to install some no holds barred god level permissions anti-cheat software. Windows 11 was the last straw for me. Good times…...
Apex Legends streamers warned to 'perform a clean OS reinstall as soon as possible' after hacks during NA Finals match (www.pcgamer.com)
Tim Sweeney emailed Gabe Newell calling Valve 'you assholes' over Steam policies, to which Valve's COO replied internally 'you mad bro?' (www.pcgamer.com)
In 2018 a group of Valve staff tried to figure out just how efficient they were being—and found they were making more money per head than Apple, Facebook, and nearly every tech giant out there (www.pcgamer.com)
CCP reveals first details of survival game set on a single shard in the EVE universe, but wait: here comes the blockchain (www.pcgamer.com)
cross-posted from: sh.itjust.works/post/16182791...
RuneScape creator unveils new MMO after 10 years of development: 'At times it has felt like an insurmountably ambitious task' (www.pcgamer.com)
CCP reveals first details of survival game [codenamed Project Awakening] set on a single shard in the EVE universe, but wait: here comes the blockchain (www.pcgamer.com)
Former Xbox boss Peter Moore says Gen Z may reject new consoles in favor of smartphones and PCs (www.pcgamer.com)
Samsung does an Apple with its first Snapdragon X Elite laptop, suggesting the new Arm-based Windows machines aren't going to be a cheap alternative to x86 (www.pcgamer.com)
Interesting. Samsung making a bold move here, but one that could make sense.