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One tragedy about the fall of Arkane Austin—aside from Microsoft’s seeming unwillingness to give studios a chance beyond the next quarter—is the pervasive feeling that the studio, whose devs were previously known for their immersive sims, was forced to make something way outside of their wheelhouse. Redfall was a live service shooter, and a pretty…
Good news everyone: we’ve got even more Silent Hill: Townfall to help fill the void until its release. But instead of a short story or teaser trailer, we have 18 minutes of poor old Simon Ordell wandering around the abandoned (and increasingly hostile) town of St. Amelia. It’s the first extended cut of playthrough we’ve…
If your games started unexpectedly crashing after getting a Windows update on or after August 11, you aren’t alone. And Microsoft says it’s looking into the problem. Microsoft reports the following “symptoms” popped up for “a limited number of games”: The game application becomes unresponsive The game application closes without notice The error “EXCEPTION_ACCESS_VIOLATION” is…
A cybersecurity advisory jointly authored by multiple US agencies, including the NSA, CISA, FBI, DOE, and EPA, warns the owners and operators of industrial facilities of an “active cyber threat” to Siemens S7 programmable logic controllers. “The threat actors are conducting reconnaissance and capability development against US-based Siemens PLC installations using AI-generated exploitation scripts disguised…
Redfall is one of the biggest industry disasters in recent memory—coming from Arkane Austin, a studio known for an all-time classic in Prey, the game was panned both critically and commercially. Even we, at PC Gamer, dubbed it the “first Arkane game we don’t like“. It also served as the death knell for the studio…
This month, the biggest leveraged buyout in the history of private equity went through and now EA is owned by a consortium made up of Saudi Arabia’s Public Investment Fund and the investment firms Silver Lake and Affinity Partners. We don’t know what EA will be like under its new owners, but Employees are bracing…
The developers at Guerilla Games are making a last-minute pivot for their live service co-op game set in the Horizon universe after receiving negative player feedback during recent playtests, Bloomberg reports. Horizon Hunters Gathering was supposed to be a live service co-op action game where you group up as a team of animated heroes and…
Grab a bucket, because GTA 6 is springing leaks in every direction. A group (individual?) called Cyberleek has been publishing seemingly genuine clips from Rockstar’s latest for two days now, giving us our first glimpses of gameplay a week ahead of the big Netflix reveal happening on August 27. There’s electricity in the air around…
A manifesto shared yesterday by the people responsible for the big Grand Theft Auto 6 leak contains a lot of language that will be familiar to anyone following the Stop Killing Games campaign, most notably a demand that any game with singleplayer content have an “offline fallback state” ensuring that games remain playable when their…
Alright class, I’ve graded your last test, and there’s no need to even grade on a curve. My first pixel art quiz was too easy, so I plan to step it up. More quizzes! (Image credit: Future) Want to keep testing your knowledge of gaming trivia? We’ve got loads more PC Gamer quizzes, on everything…