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[Game] Diablo 4 is coming to Steam (www.pcgamer.com)

While it was playable before through 3rd party tools, this will make it much more accessible to many Steam Deck players....

Worst fear confirmed: You can't launch Modern Warfare 3 without first launching Modern Warfare 2 (www.pcgamer.com)

I…what the…HUH??...

Bethesda finally put proper ladders in a game, so of course players have dedicated themselves to designing Starfield ships without any (www.pcgamer.com)

Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodlines 2 will have a voiced main character: 'it draws the player in that much more', says the game's ex-Bioware narrative designer (www.pcgamer.com)

Valve doesn't sell ad space on Steam so it can make room for surprise hits: 'We don't think Steam should be pay-to-win' (www.pcgamer.com)

Sean Murray is risking another No Man's Sky launch disaster, but he knows exactly what he's doing and it's kinda genius marketing (www.pcgamer.com)

The next Planetary Annihilation game is half Factorio, half RTS, all 'Tsar Bomba level annihilation' (www.pcgamer.com)

Payday 3 developer drops Denuvo from the game before it's even out (www.pcgamer.com)

It's common practice for PC games today to launch with Denuvo, a form of DRM designed to stop the spread of pirated copies of games, and it's also common practice for developers to remove Denuvo several months after launch as interest (and the risk of piracy) dwindles. Less common is a developer publicly announcing it's removing...

Cyberpunk 2077's redemption is complete, but the future remains murky for CD Projekt (www.pcgamer.com)

Intel is making progress on a handy new material for building even bigger computer chips: glass (www.pcgamer.com)

'Segregating high skill players from the population at large, forcing long wait times on them, is a form of discrimination': former Halo multiplayer lead on the 'failure' of SBMM in modern games (www.pcgamer.com)

'Dad, people are sending me pictures of bears': Baldur's Gate 3 boss Swen Vincke 'wasn't ready' for the bear sex scene to go so viral (www.pcgamer.com)

When your son's friends start sending him bear pics, you know you made a splash.

AITA: My Starfield wife wants a divorce and all I did was chuck one grenade into a crowd of bystanders (www.pcgamer.com)

Baldur's Gate 3 is a 122GB download and you can't preload any of it (www.pcgamer.com)

Larian has finally confirmed that preloading won't be available, apparently because of a limitation with Steam.

Reddit is still a mess with r/place begging users to 'never forget what was stolen from us' (www.pcgamer.com)

Your Ubisoft account can be suspended and subsequently permanently deleted for 'inactivity,' taking your games library with it (www.pcgamer.com)

Direct from the horse’s mouth: www.ubisoft.com/en-us/help/account/…/000079595...

Microsoft would buy Valve 'if opportunity arises,' said Phil Spencer in leaked email (www.pcgamer.com)

But its prime target was Nintendo, according to a 2020 email leaked during the FTC v Microsoft trial.

Why the original, 1999 version of EverQuest is still one of the best MMOs to play today (www.pcgamer.com)

A new Tribes game is coming next year and it's not free to play: 'We made some mistakes in how we monetized Ascend' (www.pcgamer.com)

'This is only the beginning': Metal Gear Solid fans lose their minds as David Hayter returns to voice Solid Snake in a new teaser (www.pcgamer.com)

Cult of the Lamb devs said they'd make the 'sex update' meme come true if they got 300,000 followers and, well, you can guess what happened next (www.pcgamer.com)

The fans really rose to the occasion.

'Today is the end of Steam': Argentina and Turkey floored by new Steam price hikes as high as 2900% (www.pcgamer.com)

Baldur's Gate 3 has ruined Starfield for me (www.pcgamer.com)

Bethesda's latest can't help but feel shallow by comparison.

ULTRARAM may be a silly name but it's the holy grail for memory tech and means your PC could hibernate for over 1,000 years (www.pcgamer.com)

I once speculated to a friend about 15 years ago that eventually solid state storage space would be so fast that it could serve as active memory. I can’t wait to tell him.

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