A newly-published paper entitled “Vibe coding kills open source” makes the claim that everyone’s favourite new hobby—that is, using AI tools to code their own products—is actively damaging the developers of open source software. “Vibe coding raises productivity by lowering the cost of using and building on existing code, but it also weakens the user…
February’s PlayStation Plus Monthly Games lineup is a bumper one, with four titles available to PS Plus members*. Battle to victory in the ring in boxing sim Undisputed, survive an alien world in Subnautica: Below Zero, mix combat and gardening in Ultros, and take to the skies in Ace Combat 7: Skies Unknown. All these…
Pope Leo XIV—who’s become a remarkably familiar presence in the pages of PC Gamer of late—has once again taken to the pulpit to exhort us to be careful about this “AI” nonsense. In a message for the 60th World Day of Social Communications (which is actually on May 17), the Bishop of Rome implored humanity…
I’ve already used my quota for Gen Z slang for the year in the headline—as a 33-year-old man, I’ll keep things age-appropriate from here on out. And nothing has made me feel older than this programming language my colleague just put me onto that exclusively uses Gen Z slang and was dreamt up by Anthropic’s…
“Perfect for gaming obsessives, retro collectors, tech historians, and product design obsessives”. Bitmap Books has just announced that its latest project, Leaps + Bounds: a Visual Guide to Nine Console Generations, will be available to order next month. Running to 336 pages, the book is billed as “a journey through the history of home gaming,”…
It’s a great day to be a rubber duck collector in Arc Raiders. Ok, that’s very specific, but it’s a great day nonetheless. As part of the Headwinds update, Embark has overhauled the OG yellow rubber duck and has added heaps of new collectable rubber ducks, all with different skins. Part of the new map…
Should you wish to allow the (extremely dubious) astrological laws of the universe to decide the CPU scheduling within your home machine, I’ve found just the Github project for you. Also, you shouldn’t. I just wanted to get that in early. Nevertheless, scx_horoscope is a fully functional CPU scheduler that loads into the Linux kernel…
Nostalgia is a potent thing in the technology world right now. And I say that as someone with a brand new Commodore 64—a faithful replica of my very first computer—sat beside my desk. AMD is smart enough to understand this, to understand the way the cosy old days tug at the heart strings of PC…
It’s only been a day since Arc Raiders’ big Headwinds update launched, but unfortunately, it hasn’t had the release Embark would’ve hoped for, as a massive DDoS attack has affected server stability. “Both Arc Raiders and The Finals have been under extensive, coordinated DDoS attacks,” one of Embark’s community managers, Ossen, says in a post…
For a limited time only. If, by some chance, you are one of the six remaining people on Earth who haven’t played Stardew Valley and you have a Nintendo Switch Online membership, then boy, do we have good news for you. Nintendo has announced that ConcernedApe’s beloved farming sim is the next title to get…