EA is looking at putting in-game ads in AAA games — 'We'll be very thoughtful as we move into that,' says CEO (www.tomshardware.com)
Starfield has lost 97% of its Steam players in less than six months (archive.is)
Poll shows 84% of PC users unwilling to pay extra for AI-enhanced hardware (videocardz.com)
Critics must rescore Dragon's Dogma 2 in light of microtransactions (www.downtimebros.com)
Valve faces a £656 million lawsuit in the UK for 'overcharging 14 million PC gamers' (www.gamingonlinux.com)
Court documents show that not only is Valve a fraction the size [only 336 employees in 2021] of companies like EA or Ubisoft, it's smaller than a lot of triple-A developers (www.pcgamer.com)
Steam is working on allowing you to mark a game as private and hide it from your friends (both you and Valve knows why) (nitter.net)
Transphobes are doxxing Stardew Valley fans after they asked the game developer for pronouns
thepinknews.com/…/stardew-valley-transphobes-doxx…
Steam Deck game library now 29% larger than that of Nintendo Switch (www.pcgamesn.com)
Steam is now refunding Ghost of Tsushima for people in affected countries. (lemmy.ca)
OneDrive is ruining my PC gaming setups | Digital Trends (www.digitaltrends.com)
Whatever you do, don't buy an Nvidia GPU right now | Digital Trends (www.digitaltrends.com)
No Man’s Sky soars again as new update prompts biggest discount yet (www.pcgamesn.com)
Just weeks before launch, Fallout London is delayed as creator says “Bethesda never changes” (www.pcgamesn.com)
Elden Ring: Shadow of the Erdtree currently has a 'Mixed' status on Steam, with many of the negative reviews complaining that the bosses are too hard [also game's PC performance] (www.pcgamer.com)
STEAM starting to issue refunds for players over the 2h playtime limit due to PSN on Helldivers 2 (nitter.poast.org)
twitter’s link...
PC gamers are finally embracing the controller, as usage triples [increase to 15% from 5% over the last six years] (www.pcgamesn.com)
What's your thoughts on Sony pushing PSN down on PC gamers' throats?
This is affecting many PC gamers around the world, such as myself, as the last 3 PlayStation releases on Steam have been blocked in many countries. I wanna know what’s your take on this. Please be respectful, and thank you. 😊