Bigger guns are louder and therefore riskier as of Rust’s latest update, with other players able to hear you from ‘much further away’

Rust has entered a quieter period as it stocks the hold for its naval update due in a couple of months. But Facepunch Studios still continues to add bits here and there. July brought an improved mission system and more realistic erosion, while August saw the return of hardcore mode in tougher, meaner form. September’s…

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The next Resident Evil movie is being directed by Zach Cregger of Weapons fame, who played ‘thousands and thousands of hours of Resident Evil’ but hasn’t seen any of the movies

The sketch-comedian-to-horror-movie-director pipeline is real. Jordan Peele went from Mad TV and Key & Peele to Get Out, Nope, and Us. Josh Ruben went from CollegeHumor to Werewolves Within, Heart Eyes, and Scare Me. And now Zach Cregger of The Whitest Kids U’ Know has become a horror-movie name to watch with Barbarian, Weapons, and…

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Paradox refunds PlayStation Store preorders of Bloodlines 2 in preparation for ‘adjustments’ to its reviled $30 DLC to be revealed later this month

First reported by Eurogamer, Paradox announced this weekend that PlayStation Store preorders of Vampire: The Masquerade – Bloodlines 2 are being refunded with the instruction that customers renew their preorder after planned “adjustments” to the game and its price. This is in response to the backlash over core content being locked behind a $30 DLC,…

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Hollow Knight: Silksong sinks to ‘Mixed’ Steam review status among Chinese gamers over its bafflingly bad translation, with Team Cherry promising to improve it

As reported by Eurogamer, Hollow Knight: Silksong has not met Chinese players’ expectations the way it has globally, with a 42% positive “Mixed” review status from nearly 20,000 Chinese language users, who say that the game’s localization was abysmally, uniquely poor. Team Cherry has already responded to the issue, promising to work on the Chinese…

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Anthropic agrees to pay $1.5 billion to authors whose work trained AI in priciest copyright settlement in U.S. history

As reported by the New York Times, AI company Anthropic has agreed to a $1.5 billion settlement in a groundbreaking copyright lawsuit involving some 500,000 authors. Anthropic illegally downloaded the authors’ books and used them to train its AI model. The total settlement for this case is the largest for any copyright case in U.S….

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I spoke to FF14’s ‘Solo Only’, who spent 85 days beating a single raid boss on his own, and I was wrong—that old MMO magic is still alive and well

Terminally Online This is Terminally Online: PC Gamer’s very own MMORPG column. Every other week, I’ll be sharing my thoughts on the genre, interviewing fellow MMO-heads like me, taking a deep-dive into mechanics we’ve all taken for granted, and, occasionally, bringing in guest writers to talk about their MMO of choice. My credentials? Well, I’ve…

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