Blizzard announces World of Warcraft's next 3 expansions: 'We ain't screwin' around,' declares Chris Metzen (www.pcgamer.com)
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Thanks to a bug, players have found a 'realm of naked men' in Baldur's Gate 3 (www.pcgamer.com)
Minecraft's devs exit its 7 million-strong subreddit after Reddit's ham-fisted crackdown on protest (www.pcgamer.com)
Valve adds new security check after attackers compromise Steam accounts of multiple game devs and update their games with malware (www.pcgamer.com)
I've tested Nvidia's latest ray tracing magic in Cyberpunk 2077 and it's a no-brainer: at worst it's just better-looking, at best it's that and a whole lot more performance (www.pcgamer.com)
Astarion's voice actor is doing a let's play of Baldur's Gate 3 (www.pcgamer.com)
Japanese PC gaming saw another year of explosive growth (www.pcgamer.com)
Japanese gamers have continued to embrace the PC as a platform at staggering rates, jumping up 43% from 131.3 billion yen to 189.2 billion yen in 2022. That's a total size of about $1.3 billion US. The data comes from the latest report by Kadokawa ASCII Research Laboratories, an industry think tank which compiles yearly material...
TSMC is delaying its Arizona foundry over a lack of skilled workers alongsde a $5.85B income slump (www.pcgamer.com)
Microsoft's light-based computer marks 'the unravelling of Moore's Law' (www.pcgamer.com)
Discord is opening the monetization floodgates: get ready for microtransaction stores and paid 'exclusive memes' (www.pcgamer.com)
Skyrim's latest patch has pissed off players for two reasons: It broke old mods and added new paid ones (www.pcgamer.com)
Safe to say this isn't the most popular update.
Yes, Phantom Liberty and patch 2.0 really are Cyberpunk 2077's 'last big updates' and it's finally time to start the sequel, director confirms (www.pcgamer.com)
Unity apologises. (www.pcgamer.com)
Baldur's Gate 3 players continue to find little surprises: Astarion has rare voice lines if you nuke him with a sun ray (www.pcgamer.com)
We're gonna be finding this stuff for years, aren't we?
Larian CEO's advice about origin characters has thrown my Baldur's Gate 3 playthrough plans into disarray (www.pcgamer.com)
'Today is the end of Steam': Argentina and Turkey floored by new Steam price hikes as high as 2900% (www.pcgamer.com)
Cabal of 'gay furry hackers' claims over 3,000 files stolen in NATO website breach (www.pcgamer.com)
VR still makes 40-70% of players want to throw up, and that's a huge problem for the companies behind it (www.pcgamer.com)
Why virtual reality makes a lot of us sick, and what we can do about it.
Former BioWare manager wishes Dragon Age had kept a 'PC-centric' and 'modding-driven' identity like Neverwinter Nights (www.pcgamer.com)
"Dragon Age in the early days had its fair share of identity crises," Flynn says. "Was it going to be a tools-driven, modding-driven game like Neverwinter Nights? Was it going to be a big singleplayer RPG like The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion?"...
Baldur's Gate 3 minmaxer finds terrifying 240 damage-per-turn Monk build, carrying on D&D's long tradition of rules-based ultraviolence (www.pcgamer.com)
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'We haven't started on an expansion' to Baldur's Gate 3, Larian says, but it's not completely off the table (www.pcgamer.com)
A level 12-20 D&D adventure would pose major new design challenges.
US gov fires a warning shot at Nvidia: 'We cannot let China get these chips... If you redesign a chip that enables them to do AI, I'm going to control it the very next day' (www.pcgamer.com)
63 corpses lie at the feet of WoW Classic Hardcore permadeath tournament winner as he claims $50,000 prize (www.pcgamer.com)
After 3 years of 'hands-off' management, Microsoft is making Bethesda and ZeniMax report directly to an Xbox bigwig, Matt Booty (www.pcgamer.com)
Alan Wake 2 is a stunning example of what the future of PC gaming looks like—but only on Nvidia (www.pcgamer.com)
