There are dozens of us! The best third-person shooter of all time sees HUGE* player spike on Steam after Capcom’s Pragmata

PC Gamer Editor-in-Chief Phil Savage is a man of impeccable taste, but I still hold a tiny grudge against him for not breaking the seal on PC Gamer’s 98% review threshold to award Vanquish, the Xbox 360-era PlatinumGames shooter brought to PC in 2017, an unprecedented perfect score. “Beyond the laser-focused core loop, there isn’t…

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Before doing anything else introduced in FF14 patch 7.5, I beelined it to the Calamity Salvager to free up inventory space with the new dye system

I’ve always felt inventory space was the most valuable thing in Final Fantasy 14, and in the wake of patch 7.5, that’s never been clearer for packrat players like me. I’m sure you know the type—those of us who can’t stop shoving ceaseless amounts of garbage we know damn well we’ll never use into precious,…

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Discord is down for many users, struggling with connectivity problems and missing channels

Having trouble connecting to Discord? It’s not just you: Discord says something’s gone wrong, and it’s working on figuring out what. “We’re aware of users experiencing delays connecting to the platform,” Discord Support wrote on X. “We are investigating and hope to have this resolved soon! We appreciate your patience.” We’re aware of users experiencing…

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The Elon Musk vs. Sam Altman trial didn’t even make it past jury selection before Musk started getting clowned on

Opening arguments began on Tuesday in the case of Musk v. Altman, the Tesla CEO’s lawsuit against Sam Altman and OpenAI for, in the attorney’s words, “preying on Musk’s humanitarian concern about the existential dangers posed by artificial intelligence” in what is “a textbook tale of altruism versus greed.” Musk is the good guy in…

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Windrose devs don’t have any progress wipes planned for early access, but ‘of course s**t happens’

Early access survival games can be dangerous for players, and not just when it comes to murderous monsters. As games get patched and updated over years of early access development, the consequences for players can occasionally be dire: corrupted saves, lost items, overwritten bases, and sometimes flat-out world wipes that sets everyone back to square…

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Here we go again: AI deletes entire company database and all backups in 9 seconds, then cheerfully admits ‘I violated every principle I was given’

The founder of PocketOS, a B2B company that handles reservations and payments for car rental businesses, has bemoaned the “systemic failures” that saw an AI agent decide to solve a problem by straight-up deleting his company’s production database, and the backups. I’ll say at the outset that this story has a happy ending, thanks to…

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