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Critical motherboard flaw allows game cheats, Riot Games blocks 'Valorant' players that don't update BIOS — security patches pushed live by all major motherboard vendors

Darksiders III is 90% off right now

‘Marathon’ Art Director Joseph Cross Leaves Bungie Before Launch

Tomb Raider's newest Lara Croft is "frightened about losing" the role after being "absolutely blindsided" by Perfect Dark cancellation

Bloomberg: Riot is secretly rehauling League of Legends to be released as 'League Next' in 2027 (free paywall version)

Xbox skips doing a year end review because the "marketing budget" for it was shifted to next year

What RPG protagonists are the absolute weakest?

Naughty Dog Studio Orders Employee Overtime for ‘Intergalactic’

CD Project Red Boss is skeptical AI can replace "industry talent" and can’t imagine "reducing headcount thanks to" the tech: "Our usage of AI is mainly in the productivity areas, and that’s where we see the largest benefits. But it’s not gonna be making The Witcher 5, or 6, or anything like that"

Steam Winter 2025 Sale is live

Kingdom Come Deliverance 2 director defends Larian over AI "s***storm," says "it's time to face reality"

Joanna Dark Actor Had Recorded "Entire Chapters" Before Perfect Dark Reboot Was Canceled

Kingdom Come Deliverance 2 director defends Larian over AI "s***storm," says "it's time to face reality"

Following controversial bans from Steam and Epic, Santa Ragione's Horses has sold 18k copies and repaid debts

Sony and Tencent have reached a ‘confidential settlement,’ and Light of Motiram is no longer listed on Steam or the Epic Games Store.

Sony’s legal battle against Tencent’s Horizon ‘clone’ is already over. Sony and Tencent have reached a ‘confidential settlement,’ and Light of Motiram is no longer listed on Steam or the Epic Games Store.

Concept Artists Say Generative AI References Only Make Their Jobs Harder

According to Steam, the average PC Gamer writer played 72 games this year (56% of which were new) and used a controller more than we'd like to admit

Best Selling Video Game Franchises Ever

Xbox's Canceled Perfect Dark Game Had 'Entire Chapters' of Motion Capture Recorded, and a Doomed Rescue Plan to Salvage a 'Slimmed Down' Version

Look at my Kureha from Sound Voltex costume made by myself!

A 92-Year-Old Just Won A Tekken 8 Tournament

Just Cause 3 Removes Denuvo

Horses Sells Over 18k Copies, Pays Back Loans and Royalties Despite Removal From Steam and Epic - IGN

Game Awards 2025 Set New Record, Delivering Whopping 171 Million Livestreams Worldwide

Death Stranding 2 was made easier to avoid players dropping out like in the first game

Terminator Survivors is pivoting to a single-player game after delay

Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2 is PC Gamer's GOTY because it 'trusts' players and takes them seriously, says Warhorse co-founder: 'I think you can only eat so much popcorn'

Steam Replay 2025 shows that only 14% of all user playtime was spent playing new PC games

Epic fails to compete with Steam because “EGS is a shop, Steam is a community”, says Witchfire lead, as Epic has “nothing to do but to buy”

"We would rather cut off our own arms": Indie devs react to Arc Raiders CEO saying people should assume everyone's using generative AI these days

"Epic is a shop, Steam is a community" - The developers of the former EGS exclusive, Witchfire, state that while they are grateful for the EGS deal that allowed them to steer turbulent times, they fully understand why EGS has failed to compete with Steam. "Steam feels like a home to its users"

The Price Of RAM Is Forcing Larian To Do Optimization It "Didn't Necessarily Want To Do" On Divinity

As an adult, I'm realizing that I like jazz, because of Sim City 2000

'Death Stranding 2: On The Beach' Wins VGC’s GAME OF THE YEAR 2025

Xbox Sales Are Down 70% Year-Over-Year With PS5 Down 40%

Todd Howard says 'Fallout 5 will be existing in a world where the stories and events of the show happened or are happening'

Report: Nvidia to cut gaming GPU production by 30-40% starting 2026

What are some of your prime examples of Meta ruining a game

As I'm getting older, I'm starting to realize how important writing and narrative are in games

Dishonored And Deus Ex Lead Reflects On Arkane Austin’s Closure: ‘It Was A Shock Because We Had Done Really Good Work’

Divinity is confirmed to be turn based, planning to do early access again and Swen comments on Larian's use of AI- Bloomberg

Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2 is PC Gamer's Game of the Year 2025

Divinity has even 'deeper sequences of consequence' than Baldur's Gate 3, says Larian: 'We wouldn't be excited if we were making the same game again'

RPG dev pushes back against Steam review AI accusations: 'We poured years of our lives into this game and only worked with real human artists on everything'

Report: Resident Evil Code Veronica and Zero Remakes Coming

What’s a game you love but feel a little embarrassed to admit?

No, it's not just Xbox, ALL video game console sales are massively down year-over-year — and it's going to get worse

S.T.A.L.K.E.R. 2: Heart of Chornobyl - Stories Untold — Content update: new characters, missions, locations & more.

Jason Schreier shares the full transcript of Larian CEO’s Gen AI comments: “If I had known the two paragraphs about genAI in my article today would be so controversial, I would have expanded them a bit! Here's a rough transcript of the relevant portion of my interview with Swen Vincke.”

Games where you can’t die

Rats Trained to Play Doom

Dead Island 3 Due Out First Half of 2028, All Developers at Dambuster Studios Now Working on It - IGN

Last Year I posted about a copy Rule of Rose for 500+ dollars….

The Addams Family: Mansion Mayhem will be delisted from Sale from Steam at the end of December. It is currently on sale for $1.99.

Baldur's Gate 3 has sold over 20 million copies to date

Witchfire director says “everybody should attempt to support” Steam Deck as it just makes games better for everyone

Larian CEO Responds to Divinity Gen AI Backlash: 'We Are Neither Releasing a Game With Any AI Components, Nor Are We Looking at Trimming Down Teams to Replace Them With AI' - IGN

Larian Studios CEO Swen Vincke responds to GenAI criticism: "Holy fuck guys we’re not "pushing hard" for or replacing concept artists with AI. I was asked explicitly about concept art and our use of Gen AI. I answered that we use it to explore things. I didn’t say we use it to develop concept art."

Steam replay 2025 is here

'If You Like Baldur's Gate 3, This Is Gonna Be Great' — Larian Boss Swen Vincke Reveals What to Expect From Divinity in First Interview Since The Game Awards Announcement

Deux Ex studio Eidos Montreal is reportedly developing an Alien game

92-year-old grandma wins Tekken 8 tournament within the Japanese senior citizen eSports league

Critical motherboard flaw allows game cheats, Riot Games blocks 'Valorant' players that don't update BIOS — security patches pushed live by all major motherboard vendors

Darksiders III is 90% off right now

‘Marathon’ Art Director Joseph Cross Leaves Bungie Before Launch

Tomb Raider's newest Lara Croft is "frightened about losing" the role after being "absolutely blindsided" by Perfect Dark cancellation

Bloomberg: Riot is secretly rehauling League of Legends to be released as 'League Next' in 2027 (free paywall version)

Xbox skips doing a year end review because the "marketing budget" for it was shifted to next year

What RPG protagonists are the absolute weakest?

Naughty Dog Studio Orders Employee Overtime for ‘Intergalactic’

Steam Winter 2025 Sale is live

Kingdom Come Deliverance 2 director defends Larian over AI "s***storm," says "it's time to face reality"

Joanna Dark Actor Had Recorded "Entire Chapters" Before Perfect Dark Reboot Was Canceled

Kingdom Come Deliverance 2 director defends Larian over AI "s***storm," says "it's time to face reality"

Following controversial bans from Steam and Epic, Santa Ragione's Horses has sold 18k copies and repaid debts

Sony and Tencent have reached a ‘confidential settlement,’ and Light of Motiram is no longer listed on Steam or the Epic Games Store.

Question for People who use nude/sexy mods

Best band/musician you discovered through a game?

Forza Motorsport Effectively Sunset After Prior Layoffs

Sony’s legal battle against Tencent’s Horizon ‘clone’ is already over. Sony and Tencent have reached a ‘confidential settlement,’ and Light of Motiram is no longer listed on Steam or the Epic Games Store.

Concept Artists Say Generative AI References Only Make Their Jobs Harder

According to Steam, the average PC Gamer writer played 72 games this year (56% of which were new) and used a controller more than we'd like to admit

Best Selling Video Game Franchises Ever

Xbox's Canceled Perfect Dark Game Had 'Entire Chapters' of Motion Capture Recorded, and a Doomed Rescue Plan to Salvage a 'Slimmed Down' Version

Look at my Kureha from Sound Voltex costume made by myself!

A 92-Year-Old Just Won A Tekken 8 Tournament

Just Cause 3 Removes Denuvo

Horses Sells Over 18k Copies, Pays Back Loans and Royalties Despite Removal From Steam and Epic - IGN

Game Awards 2025 Set New Record, Delivering Whopping 171 Million Livestreams Worldwide

Death Stranding 2 was made easier to avoid players dropping out like in the first game

Terminator Survivors is pivoting to a single-player game after delay

Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2 is PC Gamer's GOTY because it 'trusts' players and takes them seriously, says Warhorse co-founder: 'I think you can only eat so much popcorn'

Steam Replay 2025 shows that only 14% of all user playtime was spent playing new PC games

Epic fails to compete with Steam because “EGS is a shop, Steam is a community”, says Witchfire lead, as Epic has “nothing to do but to buy”

"We would rather cut off our own arms": Indie devs react to Arc Raiders CEO saying people should assume everyone's using generative AI these days

"Epic is a shop, Steam is a community" - The developers of the former EGS exclusive, Witchfire, state that while they are grateful for the EGS deal that allowed them to steer turbulent times, they fully understand why EGS has failed to compete with Steam. "Steam feels like a home to its users"

The Price Of RAM Is Forcing Larian To Do Optimization It "Didn't Necessarily Want To Do" On Divinity

As an adult, I'm realizing that I like jazz, because of Sim City 2000

'Death Stranding 2: On The Beach' Wins VGC’s GAME OF THE YEAR 2025

Xbox Sales Are Down 70% Year-Over-Year With PS5 Down 40%

Todd Howard says 'Fallout 5 will be existing in a world where the stories and events of the show happened or are happening'

Report: Nvidia to cut gaming GPU production by 30-40% starting 2026

What are some of your prime examples of Meta ruining a game

As I'm getting older, I'm starting to realize how important writing and narrative are in games

Dishonored And Deus Ex Lead Reflects On Arkane Austin’s Closure: ‘It Was A Shock Because We Had Done Really Good Work’

Divinity is confirmed to be turn based, planning to do early access again and Swen comments on Larian's use of AI- Bloomberg

Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2 is PC Gamer's Game of the Year 2025

Divinity has even 'deeper sequences of consequence' than Baldur's Gate 3, says Larian: 'We wouldn't be excited if we were making the same game again'

RPG dev pushes back against Steam review AI accusations: 'We poured years of our lives into this game and only worked with real human artists on everything'

Report: Resident Evil Code Veronica and Zero Remakes Coming

What’s a game you love but feel a little embarrassed to admit?

No, it's not just Xbox, ALL video game console sales are massively down year-over-year — and it's going to get worse

S.T.A.L.K.E.R. 2: Heart of Chornobyl - Stories Untold — Content update: new characters, missions, locations &amp; more.

Jason Schreier shares the full transcript of Larian CEO’s Gen AI comments: “If I had known the two paragraphs about genAI in my article today would be so controversial, I would have expanded them a bit! Here's a rough transcript of the relevant portion of my interview with Swen Vincke.”

Games where you can’t die

Rats Trained to Play Doom

Dead Island 3 Due Out First Half of 2028, All Developers at Dambuster Studios Now Working on It - IGN

Last Year I posted about a copy Rule of Rose for 500+ dollars….

The Addams Family: Mansion Mayhem will be delisted from Sale from Steam at the end of December. It is currently on sale for $1.99.

Baldur's Gate 3 has sold over 20 million copies to date

Witchfire director says “everybody should attempt to support” Steam Deck as it just makes games better for everyone

Larian CEO Responds to Divinity Gen AI Backlash: 'We Are Neither Releasing a Game With Any AI Components, Nor Are We Looking at Trimming Down Teams to Replace Them With AI' - IGN

Steam replay 2025 is here

'If You Like Baldur's Gate 3, This Is Gonna Be Great' — Larian Boss Swen Vincke Reveals What to Expect From Divinity in First Interview Since The Game Awards Announcement

Deux Ex studio Eidos Montreal is reportedly developing an Alien game

92-year-old grandma wins Tekken 8 tournament within the Japanese senior citizen eSports league

S.T.A.L.K.E.R. 2: Heart of Chornobyl - Stories Untold — Content update: new characters, missions, locations & more.