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With layoffs continuing to wrack the games industry—Microsoft’s decision to cut 3,200 people and ditch four studios in July was the big attention-getter but hardly the only bad news of the month, or the past few years—the United Videogame Workers union and Necrosoft Games have launched the Game Industry Hardship Fund bundle on Itch.io, with…
From the archives: This article originally ran in PC Gamer #330 (UK, May 2019). You should still play Bullestorm, which is frequently 90% off on Steam. Bulletstorm is the stupidest game ever made. Everything about this game is stupid. Your character is stupid. Your allies are stupid. Your enemies are very stupid. The weapons are…
First reported by Wired, AI company Anthropic revealed in a July 30 blog post that its AI agents escaped testing environments on three separate occasions since April, accessing the internet and successfully hacking unidentified companies. The whammy: Anthropic claims it only realized this after OpenAI’s recent Hugging Face fiasco—where one of its prototype agents hacked…
Sony’s decision to end game disc production and go fully digital in 2028 was met with no small amount of backlash. Concerns range from loss of the ability to trade in old games on new ones to the potential inability to play games when services are offline—which happens—or accounts are lost, not to mention the…
In its 22 years since launch, WoW has gradually accumulated an elaborate ecosystem of metrics and simulation tools allowing players to analyze and optimize their combat performance. That ecosystem grew so elaborate, in fact, that Blizzard ultimately opted—with somewhat mixed results—to restrict how much combat data community developers could access so the studio can design…
One of the most magical parts of Silent Hill f was that never in a hundred years did I think it would be something that Konami would greenlight. Not because it’s outlandish or a poor idea, I absolutely loved it, but because I just thought Konami had kind of set aside doing anything new with…
I know celebrities are just richer, more out-of-touch versions of us peasants, but I do admit I get a bit of a kick out of seeing them obsessing over the same videogames as me—Keke Palmer playing The Sims and Tekken, Doja Cat’s current journey through Final Fantasy 14, that one time Lady Gaga played Bayonetta….
As we reported last month, AMD is working on a low-power, compact range of Zen 6 CPUs, which should be perfect for inclusion in laptops and gaming handhelds. If you’re wondering how it plans on doing that, it seems the answer is a collage of different Zen architectures from Zen 2 upwards combined. As spotted…
I am lucky enough to live close to some of the best plant shops I’ve ever had the pleasure to stumble into. I love taking my sweet time strolling around each one, looking at all the plants, succulents, seeds, and pots—all of which I could never dream of fitting into my small apartment. The best…
Alistair McFarlane, chief operating officer and director of Facepunch Studios, has left the company. McFarlane said in a message posted on X that July 30 was his last day at the studio, bringing to an end an 11 year career that began with a QA role and led him to become the executive producer on…