“Built On Theft And Plagiarism” – A Growing Number Of Game Developers Are Sick To Death Of Generative AI

“I’d rather quit the industry than use Generative AI”. The Oliver Twins recently resurrected one of their older games, Ghost Hunters, using Generative AI. The results are not pretty If you listen to Google, Meta and Microsoft, you’d be forgiven for believing that Generative AI is the future of, well, everything. Read the full article…

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Confession time: How long do you stick it out before you abandon a terrible MMO dungeon/raid group?

Terminally Online (Image credit: Future) This is Terminally Online: PC Gamer’s very own MMO column. Every other week, I’ll be sharing my thoughts on the genre, interviewing fellow MMO-heads like me, taking a deep-dive into mechanics we’ve all taken for granted, and, occasionally, bringing in guest writers to talk about their MMO of choice. Ah,…

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AMD’s FSR 4 open source whoopsie-daisy may be harder to take back than initially thought, thanks to the inclusion of a difficult-to-revoke MIT license

AMD made a bit of an oopsie yesterday, as it accidentally released the source code for FSR 4, before promptly hauling it back again. Despite the course correction, it seems possible that it’s too late to put the genie back in the highly technical bottle. What makes this specific mistake notable is the fact that…

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“We Have A Lot Of Companies That Are Interested” – Doom Co-Creator Hasn’t Given Up On His Cancelled Xbox Shooter

“Even if that doesn’t happen, you have $50 million worth of assets”. Earlier this year, the DOOM and Quake co-creator John Romero, along with his studio Romero Games, made the shocking announcement online that its publisher (heavily implied to be Microsoft) had pulled the funding for its next project — a new first-person shooter from…

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Valve removes pro-Palestinian shooter from Steam after complaint from UK Counter-Terrorism police, dev says ‘we see clearly the double standards’

Valve has removed a game from Steam in the UK in response to a request from the UK’s Counter-Terrorism Internet Referral Unit, a body that polices extreme content on the internet (thanks, 404). The game in question is called Fursan al-Aqsa: The Knights of the Al-Aqsa Mosque, was released in 2022, and casts the player…

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