"The mediocrity of the new is so profound that being stuck with 'just OK' hardware is increasingly a savvy move."
Morgan Park@morganpark.bsky.social · yesterdayWelcome to the great Tech Pause. It could be worse. www.pcgamer.com/gaming-indus...
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Morgan Park@morganpark.bsky.social · yesterdayWelcome to the great Tech Pause. It could be worse. www.pcgamer.com/gaming-indus...
Embrace the great Tech Pause
It's a great time to enjoy the stuff we already have.
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"Playing the best versions of aged games in whatever form I want feels more like living in the future than stressing my graphics card."
Morgan Park@morganpark.bsky.social · yesterdayWelcome to the great Tech Pause. It could be worse. www.pcgamer.com/gaming-indus...
Welcome to the great Tech Pause. It could be worse. www.pcgamer.com/gaming-indus...
Embrace the great Tech Pause
It's a great time to enjoy the stuff we already have.
pcgamer.com
Minor spoilers for Big Walk, but this @chrislivingston.bsky.social recounting of our adventures is a fun read. www.pcgamer.com/games/puzzle...
One of Big Walk's puzzles is simple to solve but still gave us an existential crisis
The solution is a snap, but it still almost broke us.
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They're calling it the Personal Computer
Sean Hollister@seanhollister.bsky.social · 2d agoMicrosoft's leaked memo isn't just about Xbox 360 games coming to PC. It's a sales pitch. It's trying to sell publishers on a big idea: What if Xbox Helix could play every Xbox game ever made? www.theverge.com/games/974773...
Big Walk is quite good, though I wonder if the tik-tok kids will see what 30+ year-old journalists see in it. www.pcgamer.com/games/puzzle...
Big Walk ignores 'friendslop' trends, and is better for it
A co-op game for friends with attention spans.
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i’m never gonna be able to fire a cruise missile yet the question of using my tax dollars for them has never been up for debate
USA TODAY Opinion@usatodayopinion.usatoday.com · 3d agoOpinion: Mamdani's idea may sound appealing, but it's NYC taxpayers who will take the hit, subsidizing discounts they may never even use.
my Spider-Man: Brand New Day review: 30 mins in I turned to my fiancé and said "this feels like a real movie." Didn't think MCU could tap into genuine emotion anymore. Great!
The biggest "do you actually know ball" check in sports is whether or not you're actually bothered by teams wanting to win
Jason Fry@jasoncfry.bsky.social · 3d agoThose of you eager to serve wealthy MLB owners as volunteer Pinkertons won’t like to read this, but as usual Joe Sheehan nails the real problem:
Those of you eager to serve wealthy MLB owners as volunteer Pinkertons won’t like to read this, but as usual Joe Sheehan nails the real problem:
Deus Ex does a fun thing for stealth games where taking pieces off the board almost always costs something. Melee costs battery. Mech guys need an EMP before they're even vulnerable. Some routes are a no-go unless you craft super limited multi-tools.
let's take a moment also to celebrate the first absolute meatball down the middle getting fucking crushed. the first woman in pro baseball league history to get her shit rocked
Rodger Sherman@rodger.bsky.social · 4d agoand Denae Benites hits the first home run in Women's Pro Baseball League history!
8-8 in the bot 7th. Great game cooking here
Rodger Sherman@rodger.bsky.social · 4d agoand Denae Benites hits the first home run in Women's Pro Baseball League history!
Only @joshuawolens.bsky.social could have written this, and I'm pretty sure @pcgamer.com is the biggest site on the web that would publish it. www.pcgamer.com/games/roguel...
My new favourite Tolkien game is free, has over 40 years of history, and would run on a toaster
Feeling Sil-y.
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Once upon a time, Sony was so hyped about its PC CD-ROMs that it took out a 16-page ad in @pcgamer.com magazine just to talk about how much they wipped ass
In happier times, Sony was courting PC gamers with lavish magazine ads for its 'most popular CD-ROM titles'
Back when Sony still liked discs *and* publishing games on the PC.
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This is a completely correct take from @ricklane.bsky.social on Bulletstorm, which was and is a brilliant shooter and deserved far better than it got.
Bulletstorm is the stupidest game ever made, and also one of the cleverest shooters ever
Enjoying the high-kicks and low-brows of a timeless FPS.
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He's right. But even if Feige made Blade, it would've been rubbish. It would've released in 2023 and got 68% on Rotten Tomatoes (following rave tweets from some influencers you've never heard of at the premiere). It would've had Kang in the post-credits and made $352 million on a $250 million budget
Culture Crave 🍿@culturecrave.co · 6d agoMahershala Ali says he’s moved on from ‘Blade’ “I have moved on … I'm good … you had me under contract … if they wanted to do the movie, we would've done the movie. So we're not doing the movie … They didn't want to do it, so they should answer that question” (via GQ Magazine)
I love the subreddit r/whatisit because its full of paranoid parents and insecure partners snooping around in their loved ones' stuff and finding what they always assume are drug-related accessories or sex toys. (Which they very occasionally are.) So I made a gaming version of it
We snooped in our favorite character's inventories. Can you ID these items?
Like r/whatisit, but for games. See?
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genuinely think MMOs lost sight somewhere along the road of the ways that multiplayer in a shared, persistent world can be a wonder and not just a rote feature of the form
Crystal@crystal.undertow.cards · last wk.FFXI is the goat because I died right before the final checkpoint of the final dungeon and Ava made it tot hr checkpoint and went back to town to recruit a white mage to raise me... multiplayer is awesome
Spent 20 minutes last night examining objects in Deus Ex: Mankind Divided
Now that Halo: Campaign Evolved is actually out, here are some words about why it's very skippable. 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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Morgan Park@morganpark.bsky.social · 2w ago"Where I used to gaze out at Alpha Halo's horizons and see a misty, hauntingly beautiful facsimile of nature floating in space, I see in its place picturesque compositions of mountains, trees, and water that belong on a gift shop postcard. This remake makes Halo, the place, less alien."
sure, one could be scandalized by Christopher Nolan making a movie about a haunted man who wants to go home to his kids, but then again have you seen most of his movies
So here's a piece about a long-running Jedi Knight fansite that's also kinda about the Internet as a whole, charting the boom and bust of the dotcom era, and mourning a web that doesn't really exist any more. www.pcgamer.com/games/action...
Conceived in a secure military facility, this Jedi Knight fansite has been running consistently for almost 30 years: 'It looks really close to what it did back in 1998'
The story of The Massassi Temple.
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