Larian publishing director on mass layoffs: 'None of these companies are at risk of going bankrupt. They were just at risk of pissing off the shareholders' ( www.pcgamer.com )
Fans of Pokémon-inspired MMO Temtem are arguing with the developer about what MMO means after Crema CEO says it's 'not feasible' to keep adding content forever ( www.pcgamer.com )
Old School RuneScape player says 'see ya at a million!' after pickpocketing 500,000 NPCs in a doomed quest for treasure under multiple self-imposed restrictions ( www.pcgamer.com )
Eat_my_yarmulke is on a quest to complete the easy treasure trail collection log (OSRS lets players track the drops they get from the game's various activities via logs, which turn green when completed), but they're also operating under multiple self-imposed restrictions. For one thing, they're playing on Ironman Mode, which...
Official Minecraft wiki editors so furious at Fandom's 'degraded' functionality and popups they're overwhelmingly voting to leave the site ( www.pcgamer.com )
Here's hoping they migrate to wiki.gg as Terraria's contributors have a while ago.
Game studio owner suddenly lays everyone off and blames a Kotaku report that hasn't been published ( www.pcgamer.com )
In the memo, Possibility Space owner Jeff Strain, who previously co-founded ArenaNet and Undead Labs, tells the studio's staff that he was recently contacted by Kotaku reporter Ethan Gach with questions about the closure of Crop Circle Games, another studio he owned with wife Annie Delisi Strain under their company Prytania...
Russian Twitch streamer sentenced to more than 5 years in prison for criticizing the invasion of Ukraine ( www.pcgamer.com )
FromSoftware says Elden Ring's popular Seamless Co-op mod is 'definitely not something we actively oppose,' and may even 'consider ideas like that with our future games' ( www.pcgamer.com )
Redfall's devs were reportedly building out its massively delayed Hero Pass content 'very recently'—before Microsoft closed Arkane Austin for good ( www.pcgamer.com )
Escape From Tarkov dev finally caves, says people who paid $150 for the game will get access to its new mode 'in waves' ( www.pcgamer.com )
'Marketing's dead, and I can back this s**t up': Larian's publishing director says players 'just want to be spoken to, and they don't want to be bamboozled' ( www.pcgamer.com )
Bethesda teases The Elder Scrolls 6 in anniversary message and brags its developers are already 'playing early builds' and loving it ( www.pcgamer.com )
Todd Howard asked on-air why Bethesda didn't optimise Starfield for PC: 'We did [...] you may need to upgrade your PC' ( www.pcgamer.com )
You heard him 4090 users, upgrade to a more powerful GPU.
God of War Ragnarök will require a PSN account to play on PC ( www.pcgamer.com )
Sony learned nothing from the Helldivers 2 shitshow.
Casper Van Dien geeks out over Helldivers 2's references and gives it a patriotic 10/10—'such a tribute to Starship Troopers it's really quite wonderful' ( www.pcgamer.com )
Tarkov studio claims it actually doesn't have the server capacity for everyone who bought the game for $150 to play its upcoming PvE mode, still wants players to pay extra ( www.pcgamer.com )
Ubisoft is stripping people's licences for The Crew weeks after its shutdown, nearly squandering hopes of fan servers and acting as a stark reminder of how volatile digital ownership is ( www.pcgamer.com )
Helldivers 2 boss apologizes for 'horrible' dev comments, says Arrowhead has 'taken action internally to educate our developers' ( www.pcgamer.com )
Ray tracing made possible on 42-year-old ZX Spectrum: 'reasonably fast, if you consider 17 hours per frame to be reasonably fast' ( www.pcgamer.com )
Todd Howard asked on-air why Bethesda didn't optimise Starfield for PC: 'We did [...] you may need to upgrade your PC' ( www.pcgamer.com )
lol. has anyone found ways to optimize starfield for their pc, like reducing stuttering, FPS drops, etc?