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Programmer Christopher Green has had a long career in the games industry, with a development history that included Amiga’s Flight Simulators, Ultima Underworld, and Magic: The Gathering Online before ultimately working at and retiring from Valve—twice. Green had previously made a six-year attempt at retirement starting in 2017, but returned to Valve for another go…
If there’s one thing we know about Todd Howard, it’s that he doesn’t hate Obsidian. We know this because he keeps telling us. He keeps telling us because Fallout fans won’t stop speculating that secretly, deep down in his heart of hearts, Todd Howard hates Obsidian. How often has he denied hating Obsidian? A quick…
What’s the name for that phenomenon when you learn about something for the first time and then start seeing it everywhere? Ah, the frequency illusion! I was frequently illused while scanning through these July 1996, 2006 and 2016 issues of PC Gamer magazine, because they just keep talking about RAM. And given our current RAMpocalypse,…
The living room PC is a certified thing now, and not just for those of us with extra long HDMI cables. The Steam Machine is “out” for the dozens of people who’ve picked up the $1,000 cube, but before that, folks were already making their own living room machines that run SteamOS. Anyone can make…
In what feels like an inevitable move to combat an avalanche of criticism over the new Diablo 4 season, Blizzard has dropped an emergency patch that alleviates all the frustrations at the cost of undoing the entire point of it. The Season of Death Awakening has the usual stuff you’d expect from a Diablo 4…
One of the biggest questions left in the aftermath of the Xbox layoffs earlier this month is the state of legendary Doom and Quake studio id Software. Some have claimed the cuts ran so deep that the studio’s ability to make new games and support its proprietary idTech engine are in question, while id Software…
Just four months after the release of Marathon, game director Joe Ziegler has announced that he’s leaving the game, and Bungie, effective today. His role will be filled by Del Chafe III, previously the assistant game director, who along with creative director Julia Nardin will “guide Marathon into the next chapter with an even better…
Well what a silly goose I am. Only a few days ago I was hyping up some new Windows (Insider) updates for actually looking like they might be decent for a change, and now I’m tearing my hair out trying to fix whatever the latest update (KB5101650) seems to have done to my PC. And…
When I heard the that Team 4 would be stopping work on Overwatch’s Stadium, I didn’t feel very surprised. Then when I learned that only 6% of the playerbase actually engaged with the game mode, and I was even less so. But that doesn’t mean I’m not really sad to hear the news. I didn’t…
A post shared by Everyone Hates Elon (@everyonehateselon_) A photo posted by on Acerbic activism group Everyone Hates Elon (EHE) don’t just aim their ire at Mr. Musk. The group’s latest guerilla effort involves two bus stop ads lampooning Meta’s latest smart glasses offering, taking aim at the wearables’ capacity for covert surveillance. The first…