And now it's official: Electronic Arts, one of the most storied publishers in videogame history, has been fully acquired by a consortium made up of Saudi Arabia's Public Investment Fund and investment firms Silver Lake and Affinity Partners. www.pcgamer.com/gaming-indus...
"It's my favorite color. I drove a yellow car, I have yellow furniture," one of the ethernet specification's creators said, but there was also a practical reason for the color choice.
TIL that the original ethernet cable was canonically '1968 Corvette yellow' to distinguish it from power cables
Accidental electrocutions were on the mind back in the 1980s.
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"Rust and Facepunch have consumed a huge part of my life. I've loved it, fought for it and given it everything I had," McFarlane wrote. "Leaving has been one of the hardest decisions I've ever made, but I'm incredibly proud of what we've achieved. I've lived my 10 year old dream."
Facepunch director Alistair McFarlane, who once offered to buy New World from Amazon and faked us out about Rust 2, has left the company
McFarlane says he's lived his dream, but it's time to start tending to other parts of his life.
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"...there's this assumption that Hasbro—and some of its customers—make where they assume that the D&D, D20-based framework can be applied to anything."
Star Wars will also be coming to D&D, and I'm worried Hasbro's trying to turn a TTRPG into Magic: The Gathering again
Secret draconic lair.
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Google says it is rolling back the AI image generation feature it introduced to Google Earth to work on "stronger guardrails."
Google Earth let me turn my hometown into a warzone with AI prompts
Google says it takes misinformation seriously, but that sounds as fake as the images I've generated with the tool.
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"Does this engine's built-in scripting language allow me to write code using the finest and most adaptive logo-syllabic writing system ever devised in ancient Mesopotamia? If you're considering Godot for your next project, the answer is a resounding 𒀭𒈾."
Godot supports coding in Sumero-Akkadian Cuneiform, if you needed another reason to switch game engines
Take cognizance that (from now on) I will not accept here any code that is not of fine quality.
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"You'll undertake delivery tasks to support and supply the expedition, all while managing fuel, navigating unpaved terrain, and ensuring whatever still-twitching godflesh might be weighing down your flatbed gets to its destination unspoiled."
This upcoming Steam game is pioneering the accursed trucking genre, and as a former delivery guy I could not be more thrilled
Prospice: Anomalous Logistics simulates the canonical deliveryman experience of having your dreambody dissolved in the labyrinth of collective death.
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Despite its success, Electronic Arts rewarded some of those who made Battlefield 6 by laying them off. It's a different story for EA CEO Andrew Wilson.
After laying off Battlefield 6 developers, EA pays its CEO $38 million because Battlefield 6 did so well
That's an $8 million raise over 2025.
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AI companies are reportedly scanning physical books for training material, destroying them in the process.
AI companies are anonymously buying and destroying millions of books through middleman services to avoid headlines about AI companies buying and destroying millions of books
Booksellers say they're facing a sudden surge of orders for seemingly random rare books—and fear they might be profiting from their destruction.
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Less than one month after Xbox spun off Double Fine Productions as an independent studio, the developer has laid off 23 employees, a move it says was necessary to ensure "the survival of our studio." www.pcgamer.com/gaming-indus...
"Corsair Cove might be the most exuberant city builder I've ever had the good fortune to play. A fantastical spin on the Golden Age of Piracy, it sees a bunch of ne'er-do-wells escape a prison ship and start a new life on a deserted island..." Read more: www.pcgamer.com/games/city-b...
Dee Bradley Baker and Matt Lanter will be reprising their long-running roles as clone troopers and Anakin Skywalker for Star Wars Zero Company. Vic Michaelis of the Dropout universe of improv shows voices Runa Blask, one of our favorite characters from our first hands-on.
Star Wars Zero Company reveals cast, including fan favorite actors from Clone Wars animated series
The crowd is going nuts, they want their Dee Bradley Baker, they're chanting Matt Lanter's name: "Lan-ter, Lan-ter, Lan-ter!"
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Blizzard has now fired the GM who cheated and killed some bosses for friends: www.pcgamer.com/games/world-...
Blizzard fires World of Warcraft game master who insta-killed bosses for friends
It will also be "taking action" against the players who were involved.
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Tyler@tylercolp.bsky.social · 2w agoThis is certainly an embarrassing way to risk your job. www.pcgamer.com/games/world-...
The Halo remake is decent. But playing Campaign Evolved and the original back-to-back reveals how right Bungie got it back in 2001. Review: www.pcgamer.com/games/halo/h...
I played the Halo: Campaign Evolved remake and original Halo back-to-back, here's my review
A neat, but fundamentally flawed remake that doesn't always understand the appeal of Halo.
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"Whenever LLMs provided an exogenous reference—that is, answers referencing a different country than the one associated with the language used—LLMs had a clear favorite: AI loves talking about Japan."
I regret to report that the AIs are weebs, too
An April 2026 study indicates LLMs display a "disproportionate prominence of Japan" when asked questions about culture.
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In short, player surveys were all over the place and Riot wants to cast as wide a net as possible. pc-gamer.visitlink.me/anW9Fr #pcgamer #pcgaming #lol #leagueoflegends #leagueclassic #riotgames
Marvel Tōkon, Avatar Legends, 2XKO, Invincible VS—are there any fighters you’d like to add to your collection? #pcgamer #pcgaming #marvel #marveltokon
LawBreakers was, by many accounts, a great game. But the 2017 shooter was a commercial failure, and developer Boss Key shut it down just a year after release. pc-gamer.visitlink.me/_xjYwC #pcgamer #pcgaming #lawbreakers
"When this work is complete, you'll be able to host your own servers using a dedicated server application, browse community servers directly from within the game, and join community-hosted matches just as you do today." pc-gamer.visitlink.me/FYUhQs #pcgamer #pcgaming #deceiveinc
I don't even really play Path of Exile, but I respect the devs for refusing to let people skip 50% of the experience simply because they want to eat dessert first. www.pcgamer.com/games/rpg/pa...
Path of Exile devs want it to be easier for new players, but still won't let you skip its 20-hour campaign every league—at least not yet: 'It feels very wrong to me'
Game director Mark Roberts said skipping it would be a "very, very bad way to go."
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Less than two weeks out from massive Xbox layoffs that will put 3,200 people out of work, Bethesda Softworks has laid out its plans for the future, including confirmation of a new Fallout game from Obsidian and that remasters of both Fallout 3 and Fallout: New Vegas are happening.
Bethesda confirms Fallout 3 and New Vegas remasters, makes Obsidian collaboration official, and says Fallout 5 is in 'pre-production'
In the wake of massive Xbox layoffs, Bethesda's decided it's time to sock a few dingers.
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This month @pcgamer.com magazine celebrates everything Duke Nukem, with a kick-ass anniversary issue delivering world-exclusive access to many of the key players and developers who helped make Duke an FPS icon. Let's rock! ☢️ tinyurl.com/5dfsju7b
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"No, I've only played Baldur's Gate 1," Way announced to the room. "Not that I probably wouldn't have liked 2 or 3. I did play the Icewind Dale expansion, but I just ran out of time, you know?" pc-gamer.visitlink.me/Z4IhWv #pcgamer #pcgaming #baldursgate3 #mcr #mychemicalromance
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Spoke with King of Dragon Pass designer David Dunham about Thousand Hells, his upcoming "tactical narrative" game that's aiming to make a new watermark for storytelling systems he formalized in the '90s: www.pcgamer.com/games/rpg/th...
The designer of cult classic King of Dragon Pass says his upcoming hellish heist game is pushing the boundaries of a concept he invented in 1999: 'There's really nothing else quite like it'
Thousand Hells: The Underworld Heists is a unique enough game that it needed a new genre descriptor.
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Turns out, Revelations is a perfect blend of Eternal's movement and level design, and The Dark Ages' timings-based combat. And you know what? I think it's the most fun I've ever had in Doom. pc-gamer.visitlink.me/Vhsmsr #pcgamer #pcgaming #doomthedarkagesrevelations #doom
"That's not the first time it's happened, and it'll happen again, where the business aspect of the videogame economy makes the decision for you ... the idea that we aren't in charge of our own goodbye is something I wake up thinking about every single day."
Warframe creative director says Destiny 2's end is tragic, because even with hard work 'the business side of this industry always gets the last remark'
"The idea that we aren't in charge of our own goodbye is something I wake up thinking about every single day."
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