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Multiple notable groups, including Stop Killing Games, Mozilla, the Electronic Frontier Foundation, and numerous others have come together to pressure the UK government to stop “[undermining] the open internet.” In a joint statement, 19 organisations (listed below) wrote that “the open Internet is a global public resource that has long since become foundational to the…
If you recognise the name Galax, it’s probably because you’ve seen one of its graphics cards at some point. As PC gaming gear only gets more expensive, fans thought the brand was closing last week, but it now clarifies that it was all due to a misunderstanding. Last week, in a now-deleted tweet, Ronaldo Buassali…
Witcher fans have long speculated as to why our beloved Geralt decides to name every single one of his horses Roach—it’s not exactly a term of endearment after all. Every mare Geralt rides on the path has borne this mysterious moniker, and until late last year, all us English-speaking folks could do was speculate as…
Some big changes out of EVE Online developer CCP Games today, including that it is no longer called CCP Games: The studio has parted ways with Crimson Desert maker Pearl Abyss, entered into an AI research partnership with Google DeepMind, and ditched its nearly 30-year-old name, rebranding itself as Fenris Creations. Pearl Abyss acquired CCP—sorry,…
WHY I LOVE (Image credit: Valve) In Why I Love, PC Gamer writers pick an aspect of PC gaming that they love and write about why it’s brilliant. This week, Harvey waxes lyrical about Deadlock’s great map design. MOBAs are an unassailable genre at the best of times—they require not just a high level of…
Earlier this week Gabe Newell made a surprise appearance in an ad for Oceanco, the company he liked so much that last year he just straight-up bought them. Oceanco is, of course, behind the construction of the Valve co-founder’s $500 million custom superyacht, Leviathan, and it looks like this is PR week for the company:…
Recently, Microsoft put out a new blog that attempts to educate/sell the notion of AI in the workplace, and perhaps most strangely, it admits to using huge swathes of anonymised data in the process. The blog, titled “How Frontier firms are rebuilding the operating model for the age of AI”, says that authors, editors, directors,…
You know, amid the steady stream of murderable celebs in Hitman: World of Assassination and the hoopla around 007 First Light’s imminent release on May 27, I forgot that IO has another iron in the fire—the online fantasy RPG it announced in 2023 (and which I apparently wrote the news article for. The past is…
Ubisoft suck at keeping a secret. It’s long had a problem with leaks, and the Assassin’s Creed series has probably suffered more from that than its other series. Even Ubisoft has joked about Assassin’s Creed Black Flag Resynced being “gaming’s worst kept secret” following leak after leak. Much like the Age of Piracy in Black…
Developer Rebel Wolves boasts more than a few veterans of The Witcher 3 on its team, and there’s certainly no hiding that lineage in the studio’s debut title The Blood of Dawnwalker. Like the Witcher series, it’s set in a dark fantasy world grounded in ideas from real history. And it’s just as shot through…