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Raspberry Pi-based homebrew dongle enables full wireless Sony DualSense controller functionality on the PC including haptics

Fancy the full PS5 controller experience on PC? Right now, it’s not possible wirelessly. That’s because you lose the Sony DualSense’s full haptic functionality over Bluetooth on the PC. Or at least you did until this homebrew solution turned up based on a Raspberry Pi Pico 2W acting as a dongle. Spotted on Reddit, this…

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A gaming CEO just said ‘We’ve been a little bit too romantic about the idea that we should have employees and give people long-term job security’, and doesn’t that sum up everything wrong with the industry right now

Ustwo Games CEO Maria Sayans recently came under quite a bit of heat for an interview with Game Developer at London Games Fest, people caught onto the following: “We’ve been a little bit too romantic about the idea that we should have employees and give people long-term job security,” when discussing Ustwo’s strategy—specifically how the…

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After a glitch accidentally gave away a beloved RPG for free, the developer is letting you keep it

Two weeks ago, a “glitch” caused one of developer inExile Entertainment’s games to temporarily be completely free on the Xbox/Microsoft Store. That’s a pretty big mistake to make when you’re a business. That game was Wasteland Remastered, a classic RPG reborn back in 2020. But this debacle was even more troublesome because the version players…

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Subnautica 2 devs say it’s ‘an exploration game first,’ expanding on the first game’s ‘masterclass’ in player-driven discovery

If you check the Steam listings for the Subnautica games, you’ll find the “Survival” tag prominently featured—mostly on account of the gathering, and the crafting, and the risk of drowning in an overtly hostile biosphere. In an interview with PC Gamer ahead of its upcoming early access launch, however, Subnautica 2’s developers say that’s something…

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Subnautica 2’s lead game designer says it helped cure his sea terror—only for its new apex ocean predator to give him all-new phobias: ‘This is going to make many people sad and scared’

Getting ambushed by a reaper leviathan in Subnautica has, by now, become a canonical PC gaming experience. It’s distilled oceanic horror, confirming all the player’s thalassophobic anxieties in a singular moment of aquatic violence—and in an interview with PC Gamer, Subnautica 2 game design lead Anthony Gallegos said it had only become bearable after years…

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