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A group of 17 authors, including Game of Thrones novelist George R.R. Martin, have filed a class action lawsuit against ChatGPT-maker OpenAI on behalf of fiction writers who believe that their work was used to train the generative AI chatbot. The lawsuit is being organized by advocacy group The Authors Guild, which said in a…
Help: I need to tell you about this excellent parody of the Friends sitcom opening made in Baldur’s Gate 3, but all I can think about now is really bad puns. Your love life’s D&D? When the brains start to pour? Bhaal Be There For You? I’m clearly not as skilled at punsmanship as VTuber…
Chris Metzen, the former senior vice president of story and franchise development at Blizzard, has returned to Warcraft, and this time it’s for real. Blizzard announced today that Metzen has taken on a “full-time role” as the executive creative director of the Warcraft universe. Metzen had a long and storied career at Blizzard, and was…
The voice actors behind Baldur’s Gate 3‘s origin characters—Astarion, Gale, Karlach, Shadowheart, Wyll, and Lae’zel—gathered for a two-episode D&D game that was livestreamed this past weekend. An hour into the first 160-minute episode, I can confidently recommend it to fans of our favorite new RPG. I don’t know if I’ll make get to the end…
It’s a question that’s captivated the most advanced minds of a generation: could painting pretend miniatures in a game ever be as satisfying as the real thing? It’s a proposition presented in Moonbreaker, a turn-based, tabletop tactics game from Subnautica developer Unknown Worlds. And to help to answer it accurately, PC Gamer teamed up with…
SAG-AFTRA, the union representing actors, broadcast journalists, hosts, voice actors, and other media professionals in the US, has voted overwhelmingly to authorize a strike against videogame companies including Activision, Electronic Arts, Epic Games, and Take-Two Interactive. The vote does not mean that a strike will be called, but the union hopes it will provide “added…
20 hours into Cyberpunk 2077 I’ve started filling out quite a collection of vehicles: two motorcycles, a sporty ’80s muscle car and a street racer with machine guns will all deliver themselves to my street corner with a snap of my fingers. Bugs scared me off Cyberpunk 2077 at launch, but now that I’m playing…
I’ve walked on nearly 200 different planets in Starfield in environments ranging from frozen tundra to baking infernos to toxic atmospheres. And in all that time I’ve only suffered one affliction that I felt a need to rush to a doctor to fix: I contracted a lung condition that eventually got so bad it made…
Need to Know (Image credit: Deep Silver) What is it? A co-op FPS with elaborate heists to take on. Release date September 21, 2023 Expect to pay $40 Developer Starbreeze Studios Publisher Deep Silver Reviewed on RTX 3080 Ti, i9 12900K, 32GB RAM Steam Deck Unsupported Link Official site Every time I learn something new…
At EVE Fanfest last week, I sat down with EVE Online game director Snorri Árnason for a wide-ranging chat about where the one-of-a-kind sandbox space MMO has been in recent years and where it’s going. We talked about big things like Dust 514 and EVE Vanguard, with Árnason lamenting that if the former had been…