Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater 3 + 4 developer is trying to figure out who put the edgy Guitar Hero gag in the game it made, promises to remove it in the next update even though players want it to stay

Iron Galaxy, the studio that made the Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater 3 + 4 remake, says it is investigating how an amusing, some might say slightly edgy, reference to Guitar Hero and developer Neversoft ended up in the game. It also committed to removing the image in question, even though players are now asking the…

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Microsoft’s 200 laid-off King devs are reportedly being replaced by AI they helped build, while its ‘absolute ‘s***show’ HR department looks away and whistles

If you needed further evidence we live in a dystopia an editor would chuck out for being too on-the-nose, try this: per sources spoken to by MobileGamer.biz, laid-off staff at social-game dev King (as in Activision Blizzard King) are being replaced by AI. The AI they helped build, in fact. If you can cast your…

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The Nintendo DS had it right all along: Ayaneo launches Flip 1S DS and Flip 1S KB, two new clamshell handheld gaming PCs with prices to make your teeth clench

We like the Ayaneo Flip DS. So much so, it sits as our top recommendation for the best compact handheld gaming PC, with our Jacob being a particularly big fan. So you can imagine the cooing and cawing in the PC Gamer office this morning when Ayaneo launched its two new clamshell models, the Flip…

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Guild Wars 2’s sixth expansion is taking players to an island paradise this October, with beachside player housing and a major addition to buildcrafting

A few weeks ago, ArenaNet started teasing the next Guild Wars 2 expansion with a daily drop of mysterious icons. For the community the implication was immediately obvious: New elite specializations are being added for each character class. This should be a pretty major shakeup to buildcrafting. Each of the game’s nine classes currently has…

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Escape from Tarkov begins to quietly U-turn after last week’s hardcore wipe left players penniless and bored to tears with the grind

Last week Escape From Tarkov released a sweeping patch and what it calls a “Hardcore Wipe”—resetting progress for all players, upending how the game’s economy works, altering the progression system, and even changing the game’s structure and disabling existing maps. Naturally, players reacted in a calm and rational manner. Only kidding: most were mad as…

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