After grinding for a week, Diablo 4 player achieves world first clear of its hardest dungeon while wearing the wrong pants

Just in case you’ve forgotten all about them, AMD posts a less-than-convincing argument as to why AI PCs are better than any other type of PC

The most commonly used tech phrase in the PC industry last year was ‘AI PC’ and, according to Intel at least, we were promised that such computers would “save people hours weekly through built-in artificial intelligence.” So far the interest in AI PCs has been somewhat muted so AMD has decided that the best way…

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It looks like Blizzard’s escaped Xbox’s grim reset scythe for now, though there’s still time to be caught in the second 1600-strong layoff wave coming 2027

The Xbox reset is afoot, and while there aren’t strictly speaking any studio closures yet, with multiple developers in the process of moving elsewhere, the shockwaves from its impact are still being felt across Xbox’s continually-shrinking staff. All in the service of a mathematically improbable 1 billion daily player count, or something. It’s hard to…

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‘I’ve spent my entire career trying to recreate the feeling I had when I played D&D for the first time,’ says immersive sim godfather Warren Spector, with new game Thick as Thieves going multiplayer because ‘you don’t play D&D alone’

As part of a larger interview and preview of OtherSide Entertainment’s upcoming multiplayer sneaker Thick as Thieves with PC Gamer strategic director Evan Lahti, company co-founder and immersive sim OG Warren Spector explained some of the studio’s reasoning for splicing the classically single-player genre into a live service PvPvE multiplayer game. “For years, I’ve been…

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