Game devs praise Steam as a 'democratic platform' that 'continues to be transformative' for PC gaming today (www.pcgamer.com)
Game devs praise Steam as a 'democratic platform' that 'continues to be transformative' for PC gaming today (www.pcgamer.com)
Celebrating the 20th birthday of City of Heroes: an MMO resurrected by the people who loved it enough to 'bring the game back for good' (www.pcgamer.com)
Meta spent $4.3 billion on its VR division in three months, and made *checks figures* $440 million in return (www.pcgamer.com)
'Marketing's dead, and I can back this s**t up': Larian's publishing director says players 'just want to be spoken to, and they don't want to be bamboozled' (www.pcgamer.com)
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)
Slay the Spire co-creator advises that 'taking risks is actually the least risky thing you can do,' arguing for the appeal of 'hyper-engaging' games (www.pcgamer.com)
This Fallout-inspired post-apocalyptic wasteland game runs in Excel, because spreadsheets will outlive us all (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)
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)
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)
The PC Gaming Show returns June 9 to celebrate its 10-year anniversary and the most exciting new PC games (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...