I don’t care about being able to kill everybody and steal the Mayor’s pants in an RPG like Avowed, and I’m tired of pretending it’s mandatory

There comes a time, dear reader, when us writers at PC Gamer are at odds—and I find myself on the other side of a fence shouting: ‘Nonsense! Balderdash! Tomfoolery!’ at my unfortunate colleagues Joshua Wolens and Robert Zak, who have got it into their heads that Avowed is somehow lesser for its lack of reactivity…

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Dragon Age voice actor says his favourite way to play Inquisition is as a woman who romances himself, which is apparently ‘the best’

The voice actor for Solas in the Dragon Age series, Gareth David-Lloyd, recently spoke about his experience working on the series and playing the games: Including his favourite romance option. It’s himself. I mean, you have to respect the honesty. Talking at York Comic Con, and filmed by streamer LadyCrazyDragon (thanks, The Gamer), it sounds…

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Gearbox CEO Randy Pitchford rants at internet randoms (again), insists we should ‘root for’ the Borderlands 4 team or ‘we’ll all pay the price’, then whips around and says ‘I love criticism’

Randy Pitchford, CEO of Gearbox software and prolific poster, has once again taken to social media to get into metaphorical fistfights with the developer’s critics over Borderlands. In case you’re unfamiliar, Pitchford has a bit of a habit of this—like when the Borderlands movie bombed horrendously, or when he compared his team to The Beatles….

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FragPunk launch times and release date

We’ve got yet another hero shooter on our hands as FragPunk gears up for launch. We’re only a couple of days away from when you can check out this new entry for yourself, perk cards and all, so here are all the unlock times so you don’t miss out. Despite a delayed launch on consoles,…

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AMD Radeon RX 9070-series launch day live: The promise of a ton of reference priced stock is a tantalising one but likely won’t last long

(Image credit: Future) Jump straight to the section you want…1. Quick links2. Card performance3. Purchasing tips4. Live updates The brand new AMD Radeon RX 9070 XT and RX 9070 cards launch today, March 6, at 6am PT/9am EST/2pm GMT. And there ought to be both a healthy selection of stock available and a corresponding level…

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US Justice Dept announces $10 million bounty on at-large ‘hacker-for-hire’ cabal it says targeted China critics, religious missionaries, and the Treasury

The US Department of Justice announced yesterday that it’s charging 12 alleged Chinese hackers over a string of cyber-attacks supposedly undertaken on behalf of China’s Public and State Security Ministries (the MPS and MSS, respectively). “Victims include US-based critics and dissidents of the PRC, a large religious organization in the United States, the foreign ministries…

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Nintendo wins major French piracy case with EU-wide consequences: ‘Significant not only for Nintendo, but for the entire games industry’

Nintendo has won a lengthy legal battle in the French Supreme Court against the company Dstorage, which owns and operates the file-sharing website 1fichier.com, in a judgement which the Japanese giant trumpets as a victory “for the entire games industry.” The verdict follows years of hearings and appeals, and means that any file-sharing company based…

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