I remember how little time it took—just a few hours, really—for me to realize that The Witcher 3 was treating quests differently than any other RPG I’d played. In so many games, particularly ones released before The Witcher 3 in 2015, there’s a clear distinction in complexity and production value between the main quest and…
Last week, users on Reddit and ResetEra noticed that the GitHub library of DIY developer Lyall had been completely erased, with all links resulting in a 404 error. Lyall’s work included ultra widescreen patches for major games like Clair Obscur: Expedition 33, Assassin’s Creed Shadows, and more. I have reached out to Lyall and GitHub…
Most modern RPGs still can’t match what The Witcher 3 did 10 years ago. It’s a huge game with almost no filler, cool monsters to fight, and sidequests that don’t feel like sidequests. It’s a tremendous achievement that a lot of us at PC Gamer remember fondly and will be reminiscing about this week for…
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Last week, Epic was forced to deploy a hotfix to prevent Fortnite players from tricking its newly-added AI-powered Darth Vader from swearing and saying slurs with James Earl Jones’s voice. Today, AI Vader is the source of yet another controversy: SAG-AFTRA has filed unfair labor practice charges against Epic Games, alleging that the Fortnite publisher’s…
Even though Diablo 4 is much harder this season, a clever player has proven that you can get surprisingly far without using a single attack. I wouldn’t quite call it a pacifist run because it involves an entire army of wolves chewing through monsters, but it’s as close as you can get to a build…
SAG-AFTRA hits back. Voice acting union SAG-AFTRA has filed an unfair labour practice charge against Epic Games, the creator of Fortnite, and Llama Productions, the game’s signatory company, for using an AI-generated voice of James Earl Jones to portray Darth Vader in-game. In a statement posted on its website (via gamesindustry.biz), SAG-AFTRA says it “celebrate…
Ten years! How many times in the last decade have we fetched that frying pan, whistled for Roach to give us a lift, sliced drowners in half, and used our Witcher senses to track a blood trail to a monster’s lair, only to find a tragic story at the end of what seemed like a…
Last week Bungie was accused of using the designs of an independent artist, Antireal, without her knowledge or permission. It’s a pretty cut-and-dry case: elements of Marathon’s environment art unquestionably copy iconography from posters designed by Antireal in 2017. It didn’t help that several of the game’s art team also follow her accounts on social…
The very best Switch 2 games coming soon. The Nintendo Switch 2 is finally (almost) here, and a new console means a whole new slate of exciting video games. Nintendo’s next generation of hardware is coming out of the gate strong with an incredible 23 launch games, among which includes long-awaited ports such as Cyberpunk…