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Penguin Colony is a work of cosmic horror that I would recommend to anyone with even a passing interest in scares from the beyond, even though its unique penguin platforming can be frustrating to wrangle. pc-gamer.visitlink.me/7hS6_y #pcgamer #pcgaming #penguincolony

How can a game as good as The Phantom Pain have such an underwhelming ending? 😭 #pcgamer #pcgaming #metalgearsolidv #thephantompain

Ultimately, Clive Barker's Hellraiser: Revival was simply okay. www.pcgamer.com/games/horror... #pcgamer #pcgaming #hellraiser #hellraiserrevival

Are we playing movies and watching videogames? 👀 #pcgamer #pcgaming #detroitbecomehuman

Cloudflare CEO Matthew Prince says we should expect to see episodes similar to this week's PHP crisis on a regular basis in the years ahead as LLM technologies accelerate the discovery of exploitable security vulnerabilities.

Unfortunately, judging by how much of next year's memory supply has been locked down by long term agreements, it looks like things are about to get much worse before they get better. pc-gamer.visitlink.me/IKGk0k #pcgamer #pcgaming #samsung #ram #pchardware

Football's apparently not for all ages. www.pcgamer.com/gaming-indus... #pcgamer #pcgaming #fc27 #easportsfc #electronicarts

You must see Stuntboost, the spectacular racing platformer made by two people.

Get ready to start talking about Half-Life 3 again, folks, because it's that time of year: Winter is closing in, The Game Awards are coming, and somebody at Valve said "HLX."

"This is such bad news, such a devastating historic event all I can say is that it's utter bullshit. Anyone who participated in this travesty should be ashamed."

The day after the closure of BioWare and cancellation of the next Mass Effect game, a purported trailer for Mass Effect: Universe has surfaced on Reddit.

Grim Fandango’s Manny Calavera makes the prospect of death a little less terrifying. Any other chill, spooky characters out there? #pcgamer #pcgaming #grimfandango

We'll never play Mass Effect 4, but the small team working on it were very ambitious.

"The audacity to feed Machinarium assets to AI, make AI slop animations, and call it a love letter," the studio tweeted of the AI tribute. "Love letters are supposed to be handwritten."

"I've been able to set aside my fear that we'd be getting a repeat of Dawn of War 3's issues. Folks, I am loving these campaigns."

In 1998, Baldur's Gate redefined what a computer RPG—and videogame interpretation of the D&D ruleset—could be. Just two years later, Baldur's Gate 2 expanded on it so much that development nearly ballooned out of control. This is the story of one of the most influential and ambitious RPGs ever made.

Would you be jealous if your partner was spending more time with Judy from Cyberpunk 2077 than with you, or is a fictional love triangle nothing to worry about? #pcgamer #pcgaming #cyberpunk2077

The PHP security team has given advanced notice of an upcoming fix for two critical security vulnerabilities, both rated at 9.2 out of 10 on the CVE severity scale.

When sales for Outlast began to die down, Red Barrels co-founder Morin decided to reach out to Thomas Grip for some advice in how to navigate the changing tides of Steam. pc-gamer.visitlink.me/xUaQtS #pcgamer #pcgaming #outlast #amnesiathedarkdescent

"Hell Clock, one of my favorite indie roguelike action RPGs in the last few years, found a way to take the appeal of limited-time Diablo seasons and make them permanent—no FOMO involved."

European game rating agency PEGI has begun increasing its age ratings for games that contain "paid random items," a process that's seeing games initially rated as low as PEGI 3—suitable for all age groups—bounced directly to PEGI 16.

They really made an entire extraction shooter inside Call of Duty. 10 hours in, it's quite good. www.pcgamer.com/games/call-o...

The entire Fromsoft collection is looking more and more accessible on PC www.pcgamer.com/hardware/ps5... #pcgamer #pcgaming #demonsouls

I'll be there for the 2027 Gwent World Championship 😎 #pcgamer #pcgaming #thewitcher3 #gwent

A remarkably low-stakes payout 🏦 www.pcgamer.com/gaming-indus... #pcgamer #pcgaming #qualcomm

This week's Disk Cleanup is with Joe Ziegler, former director of Valorant and Marathon. We chatted about his ARPG obsession, his love of Kingdom Hearts, and why he joined (and left) Bungie. www.pcgamer.com/gaming-indus...

"Over the Hill is a co-op (or singleplayer!) offroading adventure that launched on Steam this week, and even just playing a bit of it has made me determined not to just play more but to 100% it."

Pierre-Louis Biojout, founder of Y Combinator-backed AI startup NanoCorp, was criticized by San Francisco residents and city leaders this week after publishing a vibe coded "zombie" shooter set in the city's poorest neighborhood.

So a town-based game, like Stardew Valley, that's more focused on the combat side of things? Brilliant, sign me up. pc-gamer.visitlink.me/VWxIsB #pcgamer #pcgaming #hauntedchocolatier #stardewvalley

Udyr didn't even make it yet 😞 pc-gamer.visitlink.me/KztzTl #pcgamer #pcgaming #leagueoflegends #lol #riotgames #leagueclassic

Valve has pushed a new update to its Steam client beta introducing big changes to how achievements work and how they're displayed.

"Consumers must have the right to own, the right to play, and the right to transfer the games they buy," says Representative Ritchie Torres of New York's 15th district. "A game that can be taken away the moment a company pulls the plug is not a purchase. It is a rental disguised as a sale."

"Your best-in-slot that you pick up from a previous raid tier may continue to be your best in slot for a long time. It's very much our intention to try wherever we can to not invalidate old content."

Ubisoft has laid off 70 people from developer Ubisoft Singapore. In a statement provided to PC Gamer, the publisher also said it plans to close the Ubisoft Redlynx studio outright.

"I don't think critics had a fair chance to explore and experience them while in the review period." pc-gamer.visitlink.me/IN0R5S #pcgamer #pcgaming #crimsondesert

Though currently a bulky prototype, the flexible sheet could one day be worn like a second skin that can more accurately track the transformation of a surface. pc-gamer.visitlink.me/L6dMcn #pcgamer #pcgaming #virtualreality

""We’re announcing update 1.7, which moves RimWorld from Unity to the Waylith Engine, our own in-house engine built by Ludeon Studios. The game looks and plays exactly the same, but in our tests performance is improved by 2-4x." pc-gamer.visitlink.me/z5uW2P #pcgamer #pcgaming #rimworld

I want creation that feels like play rather than work. I want zoo management that tells stories beyond "This habitat does not have enough soil." pc-gamer.visitlink.me/IPK-YY #pcgamer #pcgaming #planetzoo2