Stellaris gets a DLC about AI that features AI-created voices, director insists it's 'ethical' and 'we're pretty good at exploring dystopian sci-fi and don't want to end up there ourselves' ( www.pcgamer.com )
Catholic 'media ministry' defrocks AWOL AI priest after it told faithful you can baptise babies in Gatorade and that, sure, it can totally perform your wedding ( www.pcgamer.com )
The RTS genre will never be mainstream unless you change it until it's 'no longer the kind of RTS that I want to play,' says Crate Entertainment CEO ( www.pcgamer.com )
Making good, profitable games 'will no longer keep you safe': industry expresses fury and heartbreak over closure of Hi-Fi Rush and Prey studios ( www.pcgamer.com )
Ultrakill dev says it's fine to pirate his game if you don't have money to spare: 'Culture shouldn't exist only for those who can afford it' ( www.pcgamer.com )
I actually bought ultrakill but now I have an even bigger respect for the chad that is Hakita
Sony backs down on demand that Helldivers 2 players log into a PSN account ( www.pcgamer.com )
The wild successes of Helldivers 2 and Baldur's Gate 3 send a clear message: Let devs cook ( www.pcgamer.com )
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Study finds a quarter of all webpages from 2013 to 2023 no longer exist ( www.pcgamer.com )
Kerbal Space Program fans react with anger over Intercept Games closure, and you know what that means: Review bombing on Steam ( www.pcgamer.com )
Meta spent $4.3 billion on its VR division in three months, and made *checks figures* $440 million in return ( www.pcgamer.com )
'We have not confirmed any instance of Vanguard bricking anyone's hardware' following its League of Legends rollout, Riot says, but there are definitely problems for some players ( www.pcgamer.com )
Fallout 4's most popular mods are now ones that remove Bethesda's disastrous 'next gen' update ( www.pcgamer.com )
An AI company has been generating porn with gamers' idle GPU time in exchange for Fortnite skins and Roblox gift cards ( www.pcgamer.com )
Don't say Manor Lords was made by a 'solo developer,' argues competing city builder maker: 'The team size on it is maybe even larger than ours' ( www.pcgamer.com )
President of Xbox at Microsoft asked about the closure of Hi-Fi Rush developer Tango Gameworks, spends close to a minute saying almost nothing ( www.pcgamer.com )
I'm so annoyed that they're calling the new hobbit game 'A The Lord of the Rings Game' ( www.pcgamer.com )
A Konami code variant in Castlevania has been discovered after a quarter of a century ( www.pcgamer.com )
Helldivers 2 remains delisted in 177 countries and territories even as Sony backs down on PSN requirement, Arrowhead CEO says 'I won't rest in my desire to have it available everywhere' ( www.pcgamer.com )
The Divinity: Original Sin board game took 6 years to make because Larian was determined to do right by the series ( www.pcgamer.com )
Apple keeps flogging 8GB of RAM for its Mac computers but it's still a dead horse ( www.pcgamer.com )
Elon Musk finally says something we can all agree on: No one wants to have to log in with a Microsoft Account on Windows 11 ( www.pcgamer.com )
Steam keeps on winning ( www.pcgamer.com )
From the opinion piece:...
Arrowhead initially planned to make Helldivers 2 in 3 years—instead it took 7 years, 11 months, and 26 days ( www.pcgamer.com )
A Tekken 8 streamer spent almost a week using a one-button mashing bot to prove that Eddy Gordo is as big a menace as ever ( www.pcgamer.com )
That is honestly hilarious from a old, old used to play Tekken player.