‘Anyone mad is a cheater:’ Players are divided as Rust beefs up anti-cheat with more effective—and invasive—upgrades

Unfortunately, you can’t tell the story of Rust without including its “cheat community,” which Facepunch COO Alistair McFarlane once said routinely harasses and threatens the game’s developers when it’s not, you know, cheating. The latest measure the studio is taking to keep up with cheat makers is one you’ll find familiar if you’ve tried to…

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Videogame merch is basically diet cosplay, and I’m desperate for more brands to get in on being more fashionably nerdy

Character Select Welcome to Character Select, a weekly column where PC Gamer takes a look at the art and cosplay created by you. Each week, I’ll highlight a few of my favourite pieces, spotlight and interview creators and artists, or generally just chew your ear off about the talents of the gaming community. I’ve always…

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Get the complete editions of Civilization 4, 5 and 6 plus a bunch more games for $15 in Humble Bundle’s The Sid Meier Collection

It’s a testament to Sid Meier’s institutional status that we never pause to consider how profoundly unusual it is for a game creator to put his own name in the title. Even Hideo Kojima stops short of calling his games “Hideo’s Kojima’s Death Stranding” or whatever, instead settling for prefacing every title with “A Hideo…

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Get the complete editions of Civilization 4, 5 and 6 plus a bunch more games for $15 in Humble Bundle’s The Sid Meier Collection

It’s a testament to Sid Meier’s institutional status that we never pause to consider how profoundly unusual it is for a game creator to put his own name in the title. Even Hideo Kojima stops short of calling his games “Hideo’s Kojima’s Death Stranding” or whatever, instead settling for prefacing every title with “A Hideo…

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Thirty years after launch, this classic space combat sim just got updated to work on modern systems and released for free

Alongside first-person shooters and real-time strategy games, the ’90s was also the golden era of space combat simulators. From Star Wars: X-Wing to Freespace 2, whipping out your joystick to blow up spaceships in nausea-inducing 3D spaceflight was a formative experience for every first-generation PC gamer. Among those space sims jostling for supremacy was Star…

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