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Politico recently reported on a confidential draft of a proposed AI safety bill from Anthropic, the company behind Claude LLMs (via Tom’s Hardware). The bill, which has been pitched to US lawmakers, would let the government crack down on a given AI model “only if it poses a foreseeable, imminent risk of more than $1…
Gamedev may as well be conducted in a black box as far as many players are concerned, so it can be easy to think of a good game as one where development went smoothly and a bad game as one where things went terribly awry. But in the case of The Outlast Trials, making something…
Critical Hit (Image credit: Future) Welcome to Critical Hit, where I (or someone else on the PC Gamer team) celebrate and lament all things videogame music, audio design, and the ways our favourite games make our ears tingle. I have not played Hades 2 since October 4 of 2025. That’s not because I “fell out…
Play This Right Now Welcome to Play This Right Now, the site version of our weekly newsletter in which we celebrate a new game, update, or DLC that we think is well worth checking out. You can subscribe to the newsletter at the link if you want to get our thoughts about a new videogame…
Disk Cleanup (Image credit: Future) Welcome to Disk Cleanup, our regular weekend feature delving into the PCs of PC gaming luminaries. Come back every weekend to read a new interview, digging into the important questions, like “How tidy is your desktop?” and “What game will you never uninstall?” Joe Ziegler might be best known for…
Hellraiser: Revival’s commitment to being both gnarly and horny has already been thoroughly documented, with PC Gamer’s Wes Fenlon describing it as “nasty nasty” in his preview . This uncompromising attitude to both gore and kink went down well with fans, but it has also been celebrated by Hellraiser’s creator, Clive Barker. In an interview…
Red Barrels’ Outlast series has long held a reputation for pushing the envelope further than most horror games, with depictions of violence, gore and nudity that can be shocking even within a medium well versed in delivering scares. But it isn’t just audiences who have found the studio’s games shocking beyond the virtual horror norm….
Liquid Swords, the developer behind Samson, has gone bankrupt just six months after its run-based open-city crime sim was released. As reported by Breakit (via Rock, Paper, Shotgun), a bankruptcy order was issued against the Swedish developer on October 12. According to Breakit, Liquid Swords’ staff—around 30 employees—have gone unpaid for at least two months,…
This one is thin, man, but it has to do with one of my favorite games of all time, while the circumstances of the rumor are just kind of neat and weird, even if it turns out to be nothing. User Few_Interview8222 on the Vampire: The Masquerade – Bloodlines subreddit reported back from a Genitorturers…
At a glance: Qualcomm gets $2 from Arm in the Delaware jury’s decision, part of a yearslong licensing dispute between the two. Yahoo Finance puts their market caps at $210 billion and $243 billion respectively. Qualcomm alleges bad faith action by Arm over tech licensed by the former company from the latter. Qualcomm won $1…