Modder behind the ‘Swiss army knife of PC gaming’ deletes their 20 year-old Steam account with anti-Valve manifesto: ‘By the end of my bitter dealings with Valve… there was zero hope’

If you have, at any point, attempted to wrestle the PC version of Nier: Automata into submission, odds are you’ve downloaded and installed Special K, a graphics and performance enhancement suite that you can plug into all manner of games (both Niers, Elden Ring, Persona 4, and plenty else besides) to hopefully get them running…

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You can thank John Romero’s hard-partying ways for the suits giving Deus Ex the extra dev time it needed: ‘These British guys would just get hammered with the Dallas team for three days straight’

PC Gamer recently dispatched Robert Zak to chat with the senior developers behind Deus Ex, in order to mark the 25th anniversary of a true classic. Among the many nuggets are that the initial pitch for the game starred Jake Shooter, supercop, and that the team never really thought that one of the most political…

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Miyamoto Views Games As ‘Products’, Not ‘Works Of Art’, Says Ex-Nintendo Dev

And yes, that’s a good thing. During Nintendo’s latest shareholder Q&A meeting, Shigeru Miyamoto stressed the importance for developers to “work for the consumer, not your boss”, ensuring that teams can produce games that will satisfy players. Afterwards, ex-Nintendo developer Takaya Imamura added his own two cents to the conversation and stated that Miyamoto has…

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Accessible Games Initiative Tags Now Available Across All Digital Xbox Experiences

Category: Announcements July 9, 2025 Accessible Games Initiative Tags Now Available Across All Digital Xbox Experiences Team Xbox Summary Accessible Games Initiative tags are now available across all digital Xbox experiences. The tags are an industry-wide push to help players identify the accessibility features available in a specific game, before they make a purchase. Read…

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Dune: Awakening studio says sorry for accidentally wiping a bunch of stuff in the last patch, promises to replace everything by the end of the week

The fun thing about videogame patches—and I’m using “fun” in the definitely-ironic sense here—is that sometimes they’ll cause new, interesting, and entirely unanticipated problems: Fix this, break that, it’s the circle of life. Such is the case with a recent update to Funcom’s survival MMO Dune: Awakening, which saw several PvE areas of the Deep…

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