Randy Pitchford challenged players to break the Borderlands 4 servers over the weekend, offering free DLC for anyone who takes part

Borderlands 4 is currently the top-selling game on Steam, and peaked at 288,130 concurrent players today. This in spite of the fact that it’s a bit of a stuffer-fest. But while the framerate may be nothing to write home about, Gearbox CEO Randy Pitchford is so confident in the stability of the Borderlands 4 servers…

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Final Fantasy composer shares concern about ‘stagnation’ in game music: ‘Frankly speaking, there’s less weird things now’

As reported by Automaton, iconic video game composer Nobuo Uematsu, best known for his work on the Final Fantasy series, has recently given his take on the state of videogame music. In an interview with Japanese outlet Real Sound, Uematsu commented on where the industry is now, particularly concern about creative freedom for composers being…

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The BioShock movie is still in the works, but scheduling conflicts mean it likely can’t come out before 2027, maybe even later

The screen adaptation of BioShock is still in the works at Netflix, but it sounds like we’re going to have a long wait before its release date. The delay is due to director Francis Lawrence’s busy schedule, according to an interview with The Direct. Producer Roy Lee didn’t reveal much about the film, but hinted…

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A Silksong gumshoe meticulously pixel counted both games to directly compare the size of their worlds, and Pharloom looks twice as big as Hallownest

Reddit user Karmyuh has produced one of the first major works of Silksongology: A direct size comparison of Pharloom and Hallownest, taking into account that Silksong’s world has been scaled up to account for the taller Hornet. “By overlaying screenshots of Hornet across both games, I found out that Hornet actually takes up the exact…

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The only good Postal game is a spinoff expressionist boomer shooter that takes place entirely in the protagonist’s depraved mind

Weird Weekend Weird Weekend is our regular Saturday column where we celebrate PC gaming oddities: peculiar games, strange bits of trivia, forgotten history. Pop back every weekend to find out what Jeremy, Josh and Rick have become obsessed with this time, whether it’s the canon height of Thief’s Garrett or that time someone in the…

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This physics platformer about a wiggly worm that travels into space has even got Tim Schafer excited: ‘It looks super cute and fun’

“Have you ever wanted to just be a worm for a day?” asks Riley Neville, the creator of the wacky annelid simulator Wirm. To which my response is “Not until now.” Crawling through the ground while pushing dirt through my pink and boneless body has, you’ll be surprised to hear, never sounded like a fun…

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Lights! Camera! Quiz time! How well do you know the weird and not-so-wonderful world of videogame movies?

More quizzes! (Image credit: Larian Studios, PC Gamer) Want to keep testing your knowledge of gaming trivia? We’ve got loads more PC Gamer quizzes, on everything from healthbars to weird currencies to absurd patch notes. What can we say about videogame movies? Not that they’re good, certainly—they usually aren’t, with a handful of begrudging exceptions….

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