First reported by Eurogamer, Paradox announced this weekend that PlayStation Store preorders of Vampire: The Masquerade – Bloodlines 2 are being refunded with the instruction that customers renew their preorder after planned “adjustments” to the game and its price. This is in response to the backlash over core content being locked behind a $30 DLC,…
As reported by Eurogamer, Hollow Knight: Silksong has not met Chinese players’ expectations the way it has globally, with a 42% positive “Mixed” review status from nearly 20,000 Chinese language users, who say that the game’s localization was abysmally, uniquely poor. Team Cherry has already responded to the issue, promising to work on the Chinese…
As reported by the New York Times, AI company Anthropic has agreed to a $1.5 billion settlement in a groundbreaking copyright lawsuit involving some 500,000 authors. Anthropic illegally downloaded the authors’ books and used them to train its AI model. The total settlement for this case is the largest for any copyright case in U.S….
Penned by GamesIndustry.biz veteran James Batchelor. Author and former GamesIndustry.biz scribe James Batchelor has just announced that he’s written an unofficial history of the Pokémon video game franchise, and it’s coming out early next year. Published by White Owl Books, The History of the Pokémon Games will profile over 150 different games and will feature…
Life is Strange is officially getting a screen adaptation on Amazon Prime Video, first reported by Variety. The show will retell the story of the first game in the series, which was originally released in 2015 by Don’t Nod. It’s too early for any casting announcements, but we know who will be writing and producing….
“It’s bizarre that Musk would not recognise where he sits in the Deus Ex universe”. The co-writer of the original Deus Ex has indulged in a pretty sizeable rant about the world’s richest man, Elon Musk, and pointed out his discomfort at the fact that Musk considers the game to be one of his favourites….
Weird Weekend Weird Weekend is our regular Saturday column where we celebrate PC gaming oddities: peculiar games, strange bits of trivia, forgotten history. Pop back every weekend to find out what Jeremy, Josh and Rick have become obsessed with this time, whether it’s the canon height of Thief’s Garrett or that time someone in the…
Twin peeks. BOKURA: planet is a two-player, two-device-only co-op game that launched on Switch and Switch 2 on 7th August. A follow-up to 2023’s BOKURA, indie developer tokoronyori says of the first game that he “kept wondering what scenery I might have seen if I’d gone in the complete opposite direction…In the end, I couldn’t…
Terminally Online This is Terminally Online: PC Gamer’s very own MMORPG column. Every other week, I’ll be sharing my thoughts on the genre, interviewing fellow MMO-heads like me, taking a deep-dive into mechanics we’ve all taken for granted, and, occasionally, bringing in guest writers to talk about their MMO of choice. My credentials? Well, I’ve…
While Myst and its sequel Riven are omnipresent games thanks to developer Cyan Worlds constantly remaking them, games directly inspired by Myst are few and far between. The most notable example is Jonathan Blow’s maze-obsessed puzzler The Witness, which distressingly will be a decade old come January. Now though, veteran publisher MicroProse has just released…