Diablo 4's pre-season 1 patch is here and no one is happy about it (www.pcgamer.com)
I really do not understand why people are kicking up a fuss here. This is what Blizzard does to every game since merging into Activision. Activision’s idea of a good game is to make you spend more and more time in the game. They reduce spawn rates, they nerf players and they make drops be exactly what you do not need or...
Payday 3 fans lament its inevitable shutdown after Starbreeze confirms transition to always-online: 'This game is on death row' | PC Gamer (www.pcgamer.com)
Cyberpunk 2077 subreddit gives Reddit the finger by designating itself NSFW and posting dozens of nude Vs (www.pcgamer.com)
lol
Vampire Survivors is finally getting couch co-op multiplayer for up to 4 players (www.pcgamer.com)
The streamer who spent $1M on an esports team says esports is a terrible business: ‘Everyone is losing a lot of money’ (www.pcgamer.com)
Lethal Company has just solved arachnophobia with words, literally (www.pcgamer.com)
Gabe Newell on why game delays are okay: 'Late is just for a little while. Suck is forever.' (www.pcgamer.com)
Half-Life was delayed a full year past its original release date, and Valve has no regrets.
5 years after trying for a 'Valve-Counterstrike moment' with Fortnite, the Epic Games Store still isn't turning a profit (www.pcgamer.com)
But don't worry, it's all part of the plan.
Well that didn't take long: Diablo 4 is coming to Steam (www.pcgamer.com)
Just four months after release, Blizzard is bringing Big Red to the big platform.
CCP knows Dust 514 should never have been a console exclusive: 'If we had been on PC the whole time the game would literally be alive' (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.
Stadia's death spiral, according to the Google employee in charge of mopping up after its murder (www.pcgamer.com)
A statement from a Google employee, Dov Zimring, has been released as a part of the FTC vs Microsoft court case (via 9to5Google). Only minorly redacted, the statement gives us a run down of Google's position leading up to Stadia's closure and why, ultimately, Stadia was in a death spiral long before its actual demise....
No Man's Sky is enjoying its 'biggest month in the last few years', coinciding with the launch of Starfield (www.pcgamer.com)
Space is big enough for both of them.
Old School RuneScape punishes innovation, prevents player from using their own severed toe to skirt anti-botting rules (www.pcgamer.com)
All I'm saying is it should be fine according to a strict reading of the TOS.
Starfield NPCs keep getting bodied mid-sentence and it never isn't funny to me (www.pcgamer.com)
You probably already know what I'm talking about here: that thing where you're in the middle of dialogue with an NPC, but the rest of the scene has chosen not to cooperate. It's a common feature of RPGs, but it shows up extra often in Bethesda games, and of course has returned in Starfield. I can't get enough of it....
Stardew Valley creator ignites new fan theories with five simple words: 'Here's a Haunted Chocolatier screen' (www.pcgamer.com)
Eric Barone says he has lots more images from his new game to share, but right now he's focused on Stardew Valley 1.6....
GeForce Now is shutting down in Russia (www.pcgamer.com)
Rockstar buys the makers of the GTA Online FiveM mod it banned 8 years ago (www.pcgamer.com)
Cfx.re, the maker of the FiveM and RedM multiplayer mods, is now officially a part of Rockstar.
Baldur's Gate 3 used intimacy coordinators for sex scenes: 'I never felt 'yuck' in a recording session at all,' says actor (www.pcgamer.com)
Larian Studios believes it’s one of the first motion capture games to use professional intimacy coordinators during production.
Anglers rejoice: Sega is giving out free Steam keys for Sega Bass Fishing, the Sega Dreamcast bass fishing classic (www.pcgamer.com)
You bet your bass I put my own email down for a copy of Sega Bass Fishing.
Denuvo plans to offer independent benchmarks in an attempt to prove its DRM doesn't cause performance problems (www.pcgamer.com)
Steve Huin, chief operating officer of videogames, said, "there is no perceptible impact on gameplay because of the way we do things."
Creator behind hugely popular Skyrim co-op mod gives up on the Starfield version of it because, drum roll please, 'this game is f***ing trash' (www.pcgamer.com)
"I didn't realize this until after I actually started playing the damn game a week after launch."