PC Gaming
Would you pay a quarter to leave a comment on PCGamer.com? Before you scream “no” at me in the comments for the bargain price of free, consider that the PC Gamer magazine readers of yesteryear were Built Different. Once upon a time, folks were so eager to mail their letters into the magazine that they’d…
New Xbox boss Asha Sharma had some good and bad news for Game Pass subscribers yesterday: the service is now cheaper, but new Call of Duty games will no longer be included with the service at release. They’ll now arrive a year later, around the time that they’re inevitably replaced by the next Call of…
Jack Buser is Google Cloud global director for games, a role in which he “enable[s] transformation of game industry developers, publishers and platforms with AI and cloud solutions.” And from that lofty perch he has devised a solution for the woes plaguing the videogame business. Can you guess what it is? I’ll tell you: It’s…
Hideo Kojima has been on his travels again and, rather than posting pictures of overly elaborate lunches like usual, he’s been posting photos of himself at places like Microsoft. And next on the agenda was Seattle and Valve HQ, where the Koj allowed himself a photo blowout with various cool things around the company’s office….
Fallout co-creator Tim Cain has a new video going over some of his principles for game design, and as you might expect has some strong opinions on the intersection between design intention, and what players actually end up doing. “Rule one, our game is non-linear—don’t assume that players will go somewhere first or talk to…
Fallout: New Vegas writer and former Obsidian creative officer, Chris Avellone, has given a new interview to Fallout content creator TKs-Mantis, and it’s a hefty one. Perhaps the most eyebrow-raising assertion is that Bethesda doesn’t have the source code for New Vegas (I’ve asked Bethesda about this, and haven’t had a response yet), but there’s…
While us mere Earth-dwellers are stuck in the middle of the RAMpocalypse, those bourgeoise folks up on the International Space Station have no such worries. The current crew are reviewing plans to replace network servers on the gigantic floating tin can—and discussing when they can activate their new laptops. And what magnificent machines they appear…
Rather than juggling way too many tabs in Chrome, I sweep them all into OneTab and promptly forget about them—extensions and plugins are great. If I still had my own blog, I’d probably use them for all sorts of things, but third-party platform add-ons also represent a security concern. It’s important to double-check the provenance…
I love money so much. I’d marry a banknote if it was socially acceptable, and then I’d cheat on it with coins. But I also love PC games, and oh no! They’re more expensive than ever. And don’t even get me started on console exclusives, that demand you pony up for the hardware too. That’s…
There are some questions in life that are rightly acknowledged as fundamental to our existance as human beings. Who am I? Why are we here? What’s that smell? What are they eating, that looks tasty? And it’s the same with PC gaming, and one of the most important question any PC gamer has to deal…