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Brian Raffel, who co-founded Raven Software in 1990 with his brother Steve, is retiring from game development after 36 years. Brian has been Vice President of Raven since its inception, and Studio Head since 1997. In 2024, he began sharing this position with Dave Pellas, who joined Raven in 2011. Raffel has also served as…
Recon is my favourite Shell to play as in Marathon, so I was surprised to learn that she is considered one of the weaker characters in Bungie’s extraction shooter. This is true both for the PC Gamer team and, apparently, Bungie themselves. Yesterday, game director Joe Ziegler revealed that Marathon’s intelligence-focussed Shell would be getting…
Take-Two Interactive has seemingly laid off its Head of Artificial Intelligence, alongside an unspecified portion of its AI team, just two months after CEO Strauss Zelnick said the Grand Theft Auto 6 publisher was “actively embracing generative AI”. Luke Dicken joined Take-Two as its Head of Artificial Intelligence in January last year following a decade…
Before a career second act at Nightdive Studios, the recently-retired Larry Kuperman‘s big project was Impulse. It was to be GameStop’s answer to Steam, but it went the way of the dodo in 2014. Kuperman went into his personal history building up Impulse’s catalogue when we spoke at this year’s Game Developers Conference. Kuperman came…
Last month, Slay the Spire 2’s controversial first beta balance patch inspired a massive backlash from its Steam reviewers, drawing over 9,000 negative reviews in the following 24 hours. In an interview with PC Gamer, Mega Crit co-founder Casey Yano said the intensity of the feedback rattled some of the studio’s newer developers—but he wasn’t…
This is April 2, which means April Fool’s is over and we can put the whole thing behind us until 2027. Except, well, this was just now brought to my attention, and I must insist you bear witness to it. Because this is The Emperor Protects: A Warhammer 40,000 Musical. “Experience Warhammer like you’ve never…
MORGAN PARK, STAFF WRITER (Image credit: Future) This week: Extracted a purple sniper rifle from a Marathon run, then promptly lost it to a knife rush. When I heard Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2019 was back in the limelight thanks to an unusually steep $6 sale on Steam, I wasn’t too surprised. Infinity Ward’s…
Linux is something that has been on our minds, and honestly on our gaming PCs quite extensively over the past few months. Since Valve dropped it into the Steam Deck, and Proton became the way forward for gaming on Linux distros the world over, there has been increased interest in the open source operating system….
Larry Kuperman made his mark on the industry as part of the team at Nightdive, the games preservation and remaster specialists, but before that, he was on the front line of the digital distribution wars from the early 2000s to 2013. He helped build up the online storefront, Impulse, which was later acquired (and ultimately…
A few of my coworkers might yell at me for saying so, but I’m calling this good news. Otherside Entertainment says it’s taking a “new direction” with Thick as Thieves, the multiplayer first-person stealth game it announced in 2024: Instead of being a four-player competitive multiplayer game mixing humans and AI enemies as it was…