Cloudflare CEO Matthew Prince says we should expect to see episodes similar to this week's PHP crisis on a regular basis in the years ahead as LLM technologies accelerate the discovery of exploitable security vulnerabilities.
'Every single week it's going to feel like the sky is falling': Cloudflare CEO says strap in for 'a couple years' of AI-powered internet security mayhem
This week's PHP crisis is likely just the first of many.
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'I'm forever grateful to BioWare': 16 game developers share the moment a BioWare game inspired them to join the industry
BioWare was the catalyst for a generation of game development careers.
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Lauren Morton@comradecupcake.bsky.social · 2d agoYou basically can't overstate how many of us my age are in this industry as a direct result of playing a BioWare game. For me it was Dragon Age: Origins that first made me realize that oh shit someone (multiple someones) had to write all that and maybe I could to.
Unfortunately, judging by how much of next year's memory supply has been locked down by long term agreements, it looks like things are about to get much worse before they get better. pc-gamer.visitlink.me/IKGk0k #pcgamer #pcgaming #samsung #ram #pchardware
Football's apparently not for all ages. www.pcgamer.com/gaming-indus... #pcgamer #pcgaming #fc27 #easportsfc #electronicarts
You must see Stuntboost, the spectacular racing platformer made by two people.
My GOTY is $7 and has 253 Steam reviews
Stuntboost is a racing game for FPS movement sickos.
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Epic has recently taken an aloof, defiant attitude toward AI critics, provoking reactions by calling its new launcher "vibe coded," and now with a many-fingered invitation to a game jam that mandates AI use.
Epic announces game jam where you have to use AI
The Unreal Engine and Fortnite company has extended the public a many-fingered invitation.
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Get ready to start talking about Half-Life 3 again, folks, because it's that time of year: Winter is closing in, The Game Awards are coming, and somebody at Valve said "HLX."
Half-Life 3 re-re-re-confirmed: A Valve dev just said 'HLX' out loud
There's no mistaking it this time—he said it.
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"This is such bad news, such a devastating historic event all I can say is that it's utter bullshit. Anyone who participated in this travesty should be ashamed."
Game industry legend Warren Spector blows up over BioWare's closure: 'it's utter bulls**t'
The recently retired producer of System Shock, Ultima Underworld, Deus Ex, and so many more wants to know why "the folks in suits" aren't losing their jobs.
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The day after the closure of BioWare and cancellation of the next Mass Effect game, a purported trailer for Mass Effect: Universe has surfaced on Reddit.
Someone leaked a Mass Effect 5 trailer and now I feel even worse, because it looks really good
The video was posted several hours after a purported EA employee said a trailer for the new game was ready to go.
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Grim Fandango’s Manny Calavera makes the prospect of death a little less terrifying. Any other chill, spooky characters out there? #pcgamer #pcgaming #grimfandango
We'll never play Mass Effect 4, but the small team working on it were very ambitious.
The next Mass Effect would have had 'a level of autonomy and choice that no other game has been able to match', according to BioWare veteran
BioWare had paid attention to Larian and CD Projekt.
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To honor one of the studios that defined PC gaming, we've republished more than 20 articles about BioWare today. The pcgamer.com homepage is dedicated to interviews, retrospectives, and making-ofs about some of the best RPGs of all time.
"The audacity to feed Machinarium assets to AI, make AI slop animations, and call it a love letter," the studio tweeted of the AI tribute. "Love letters are supposed to be handwritten."
Machinarium AI tribute cops a flogging from studio: 'This looks disgusting'
Three cheers for the slop intolerant.
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Do you remember ONE SPECIFIC moment in a BioWare game that put you on the path to working in the games industry? If you can, I want to hear about it and I may even want to put it into a story on pcgamerdotcom. Hit up my email lauren@pcgamer
"I've been able to set aside my fear that we'd be getting a repeat of Dawn of War 3's issues. Folks, I am loving these campaigns."
I've played 2 of Dawn of War 4's campaigns, and they're everything I hoped they'd be
We're so back, baby!
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In 1998, Baldur's Gate redefined what a computer RPG—and videogame interpretation of the D&D ruleset—could be. Just two years later, Baldur's Gate 2 expanded on it so much that development nearly ballooned out of control. This is the story of one of the most influential and ambitious RPGs ever made.
25 years ago, Baldur's Gate 2 set RPGs on the path to becoming the industry-defining genre they are today: 'We were putting all the fantasies that we had into the game'
The game's original developers let us in on the story of its ambitious and turbulent journey to release.
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BioWare is closing, and the next Mass Effect game is cancelled.
RIP BioWare: EA has shut down the legendary RPG developer
Bloomberg also reports that EA is cutting "around 400 jobs" across the company.
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Would you be jealous if your partner was spending more time with Judy from Cyberpunk 2077 than with you, or is a fictional love triangle nothing to worry about? #pcgamer #pcgaming #cyberpunk2077
The PHP security team has given advanced notice of an upcoming fix for two critical security vulnerabilities, both rated at 9.2 out of 10 on the CVE severity scale.
Hold on to your butts: Web admins braced for emergency PHP updates to plug leaked exploits
Batten down the virtual hatches.
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When sales for Outlast began to die down, Red Barrels co-founder Morin decided to reach out to Thomas Grip for some advice in how to navigate the changing tides of Steam. pc-gamer.visitlink.me/xUaQtS #pcgamer #pcgaming #outlast #amnesiathedarkdescent
"Hell Clock, one of my favorite indie roguelike action RPGs in the last few years, found a way to take the appeal of limited-time Diablo seasons and make them permanent—no FOMO involved."
My favorite indie roguelike action RPG is tempting me to come back with a transformative new update inspired by Diablo seasons
Hell Clock's Journey of Miracles update changes the entire game like a new Diablo season, but it won't ever expire.
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European game rating agency PEGI has begun increasing its age ratings for games that contain "paid random items," a process that's seeing games initially rated as low as PEGI 3—suitable for all age groups—bounced directly to PEGI 16.
EA Sports FC 27 gets a PEGI 16 rating in Europe because of loot boxes
Still rated E for Everyone by the ESRB, though.
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They really made an entire extraction shooter inside Call of Duty. 10 hours in, it's quite good. www.pcgamer.com/games/call-o...
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 4 review-in-progress, DMZ edition: An expansive extraction shooter that wants you to succeed
They actually made a whole extraction shooter inside Call of Duty.
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The entire Fromsoft collection is looking more and more accessible on PC www.pcgamer.com/hardware/ps5... #pcgamer #pcgaming #demonsouls
This week's Disk Cleanup is with Joe Ziegler, former director of Valorant and Marathon. We chatted about his ARPG obsession, his love of Kingdom Hearts, and why he joined (and left) Bungie. www.pcgamer.com/gaming-indus...
'There were a lot of disagreements across the place': Former Marathon director Joe Ziegler on leading Bungie's extraction shooter, playing Path of Exile for 3,437 hours, and why he'll never uninstall ...
The former game director of both Marathon and Valorant guides us through the games on his PC.
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"With launch still months away, sharing a build with tens of thousands of players feels like too big a risk," a spokesperson for the studio said.
Moonlighter studio won't host a public playtest of its next game due to rampant AI-led cloning
ReVamp will get a limited Discord playtest.
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"Over the Hill is a co-op (or singleplayer!) offroading adventure that launched on Steam this week, and even just playing a bit of it has made me determined not to just play more but to 100% it."
I haven't wanted to 100% a game in a long time, but…
I've only played a bit of offroad driving sim Over the Hill, but I'm already hooked. Or should I say: winched.
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Pierre-Louis Biojout, founder of Y Combinator-backed AI startup NanoCorp, was criticized by San Francisco residents and city leaders this week after publishing a vibe coded "zombie" shooter set in the city's poorest neighborhood.
Tech founder vibe codes game about shooting 'zombies' in San Francisco's poorest neighborhood
City residents and leaders denounced the free web game, which was taken down.
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