Henry Cavill bares rippling chest, powerful triceps, and deep-cut Planescape: Torment knowledge in new photo that inspires one PC Gamer editor to declare, ‘He just like me fr’

Henry Cavill, PC Gamer’s second-favorite jacked gamer, is well known as a fan of Warhammer 40,000 and The Witcher. But it turns out he’s got an appreciation for another uber-nerd game that he shared in a new series of images posted to Instagram. “Endure. In enduring, grow strong.” – Dak’kon, Planescape: Torment A post shared…

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Game Pass gets major price hike ‘to offer more flexibility, choice, and value,’ Microsoft says with a completely straight face

Canadians of a certain age will likely recall the Friendly Giant urging them to “look up—way up” at the beginning of each of his children’s television adventures. I thought of those words today in the wake of Microsoft’s announcement of an overhaul of its Game Pass program, which among other things is now a whole…

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Final Fantasy Tactics – The Ivalice Chronicles director is a big PC gamer, and says he was ‘very particular’ about making sure they got the new UI just right

“They’ve actually done it: Not only can I finally play Final Fantasy Tactics on my PC, but this timeless classic has been done justice,” begins our 91% review of The Ivalice Chronicles, the long, long-awaited remaster of one of the all-time great strategy games. As the developers at Square Enix have recently attested, pulling off…

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YouTube rolls over and pays $24.5 million to settle Trump lawsuit after suspending his account in the wake of the Capitol riots, president calls himself a ‘shadowbanned patriot’

YouTube has joined the ignominious list of tech companies rushing to settle lawsuits brought by US president Donald Trump. The Alphabet-owned platform has agreed to pay $24.5 million to settle a lawsuit filed after it suspended Trump’s YouTube account following the riot at the US Capitol on January 6, 2021. Trump has accused various tech…

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Teenager pleads guilty to sending Epic staff death threats: ‘I intended for the messages to be viewed as a threat’

A teenager from South Dakota has changed his plea to guilty over threatening messages sent to developers at Epic Games in relation to Fortnite (thanks, Gamespot). Jayden Griffin, who is 19 years of age, was indicted by a grand jury in December 2024 over electronic communications sent to Epic Games staff between October 24, 2024,…

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Swery/Suda51 collab Hotel Barcelona sheepishly apologises for AI content, promises ‘We are opposed to any professional GenAI use’ that kills the planet, steals jobs, or is otherwise ‘Unethical’

A confession: the only Suda51 game I’ve ever played is Flower, Sun, and Rain on the Nintendo DS, which I enjoyed despite having no clue what was happening at any given time (I think it had something to do with The Silver Case?). A second confession: I love—non-ironically—Deadly Premonition, Swery’s 2010 opus that does a…

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As World of Warcraft winds down its combat AddOn support, director Ion Hazzikostas is all composure about rule-breakers because ‘Frankly, this is far from the first time’

World of Warcraft: Midnight will be doing something very dramatic—slowly, steadily, but dramatic nonetheless. After 20 years of working in complete concert, Blizzard will be removing most of its AddOn creator’s access to its combat API, meaning AddOns like WeakAuras will no longer function. In place of that, it’ll be adding its own increasingly-comprehensive suite…

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World of Warcraft: Midnight deep dive reveals a continent-hopping questline as part of its main campaign, a cosy ‘Arcantina’ hub, and the release date of player housing’s early access

World of Warcraft: Midnight just received a massive deep dive on its official channels. It’s mostly an assemblage of information already out there, such as the new Demon Hunter Spec, the game’s new zones, the transmog updates, and the upcoming Prey feature—which as a difficulty sicko with precious few mates that have raid-accessible schedules? I’m…

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