The Sony State of Play 'open-world dress-up adventure' game and the RPG where you carry a child on your back are both headed for PC (www.pcgamer.com)
Valve has now filed for a trademark for Deadlock, the hero shooter it refuses to admit exists (www.pcgamer.com)
Take-Two CEO: The idea that AI will make everyone unemployed is 'the stupidest thing I've ever heard' (www.pcgamer.com)
It Takes Two's Steam Deck update broke old cloud saves, but EA has an old-school workaround (www.pcgamer.com)
Zenless Zone Zero is an "urban fantasy action RPG" where you can play as a bear or a wolf man [from the maker of Genshin Impact] (www.pcgamer.com)
CD Projekt doesn't feel 'threatened' by Larian's move into Warsaw: 'The more, the merrier' (www.pcgamer.com)
A delightfully-detailed, Discworld-inspired inn manager with absurd furniture customisation stashed in the larder: Tavern Keeper enters early access this year (www.pcgamer.com)
You can't take it with you, but you can't leave it for someone else either: Valve says you aren't allowed to bequeath a Steam account in a will (www.pcgamer.com)
Baldur's Gate 3 head writer reveals we almost got to revisit the first game's 'academic dungeon' prologue area, Candlekeep (www.pcgamer.com)
Families of Uvalde victims sue Activision, say Call of Duty is 'the most prolific and effective marketer of assault weapons in the United States' (www.pcgamer.com)
Arrowhead initially planned to make Helldivers 2 in 3 years—instead it took 7 years, 11 months, and 26 days (www.pcgamer.com)
Atari vanquishes its most ancient foe by acquiring Intellivision, declares end to 'the longest-running console war in history' (www.pcgamer.com)
Snapdragon X Elite spotted running Baldur's Gate 3 at around 30fps, supporting claims that Windows games 'just work' on ARM chip (www.pcgamer.com)
Ubisoft insists yet again that its uncanny AI-generated 'NEO-NPCs' will make games 'more alive and richer', whatever that means (www.pcgamer.com)
Stellaris gets a DLC about AI that features AI-created voices, director insists it's 'ethical' and 'we're pretty good at exploring dystopian sci-fi and don't want to end up there ourselves' (www.pcgamer.com)
The RTS genre will never be mainstream unless you change it until it's 'no longer the kind of RTS that I want to play,' says Crate Entertainment CEO (www.pcgamer.com)
Bungie's first big hit, Marathon, is now free on Steam thanks to a fan revival that has Bungie's blessing (www.pcgamer.com)
Homeworld 3 performance analysis: Surprisingly scalable but no ultra-high frame rates (www.pcgamer.com)
President of Xbox at Microsoft asked about the closure of Hi-Fi Rush developer Tango Gameworks, spends close to a minute saying almost nothing (www.pcgamer.com)
Helldivers 2 remains delisted in 177 countries and territories even as Sony backs down on PSN requirement, Arrowhead CEO says 'I won't rest in my desire to have it available everywhere' (www.pcgamer.com)
Redfall's devs were reportedly building out its massively delayed Hero Pass content 'very recently'—before Microsoft closed Arkane Austin for good (www.pcgamer.com)
Making good, profitable games 'will no longer keep you safe': industry expresses fury and heartbreak over closure of Hi-Fi Rush and Prey studios (www.pcgamer.com)