It's neat to think how none of us will ever do this bad a job at anything we ever do in our entire lives

oh look it's my AV Club debut! I wrote about Backrooms' blunt metaphor for a generation's codependent relationship with online spaces and hostile relationship with irl ones www.avclub.com/backrooms-ge...

Stephen King's editor:

"As a game about shrimp it has all the features you'd expect: You can pilot one of 11 weaponized combat shrimp-forms, imbue them with a cocktail of violent elemental powers, and equip them with dozens of armaments like shotguns, sniper rifles, and explosive cannon rounds."

I play a lot of these types of games and I've never seen any of them actually pull this off. Path of Exile 2 is setting a new standard for action RPGs. www.pcgamer.com/games/rpg/pa...

shout outs to @tylercolp.bsky.social for helping out the gr+ news team during the sgf of it all over the next several days

Somewhere, Benedict Cumberbatch is weeping: www.pcgamer.com/games/action...

lmao

the appliances in my apartment are from like 15 years ago, stove, fridge, dishwasher, etc, low tech. repair guy came in to fix a faulty wire with the stove and i asked him if i should think about getting a new one. he immediately was like "no man hold onto this thing for as long as possible" lol

Happy Pride Month. If you're a gay man, please remember your power. People often think that gay men are innately fashionable, which means if you wear some stupid shit for long enough, straight people, including homophobes, will copy you and then you can laugh at them.

Wizards of the Coast is returning to the Sword Coast, PC Gamer has learned.

Mockery is a legitimate form of protest and people underestimate how much bigots hate it.

We should be two “D&D Honor Among Thieves” sequels deep.

This may be the stupidest piece I have ever written but I am also so fucking proud of it. Here it is - Wemby is Blue player, and the definition of Control.

I made a Mortal Kombat pattern of Sub-Zero, Scorpion, and Reptile performing Fatalities on each other.

"After watching it shrink into a setting of corridors and closed-off chambers, it's comforting to see Destiny rediscover its appreciation for the spaces its players shared years before—even if it's just so they can offer their farewells."

a pointless fight in front of a half-demolished house is kind of the perfect metaphor for America

In the latest Video Game History Hour podcast, Frank Cifaldi is joined by Wes Fenlon, author of the bi-weekly newsletter Read Only Memo, which focuses on emulation, ROM hacks, translations, and decompilations: https://gamehistory.org/episode-156-read-only-memo/

"For a warlock, a shotgun becomes an implement of cosmic ritual; to a spacefaring knight-errant, a god roll assault rifle from the foundries of humanity's Last City can stand in for Excalibur."

Stacy’s mom is speakin’ in Klingon There’s ridges on her head and it’s got me feelin’ wrong Stacy can’t you see you’re too Cardassian for me I know it might be wrong but I’m par’Machin with Stacy’s mom @gailsimone.bsky.social

they stole this man’s voice when he was still alive and they’re gonna keep doing it as long as there’s money to be made. Guy was no saint but the way he was exploited in life and now death is shameful variety.com/2026/biz/new...

The reason people like the Pope’s AI missive is because there is simply no other institution has taken the side of humanity in the humanities sense. I’m not Catholic, but I am a human who cares about the human mind and the poetics Catholics call a soul.

They didn't die while serving in the military, but they died protecting our freedoms from those who would destroy them, nonetheless. Remembering these heroes on this Memorial Day.

if your feed sucks it's 100% a skill issue you're just bad at typing letters into the box

My baby crystallized my gaming life. She’s the star of the show, and video games are lovely recurring interludes. I’m back from leave with a big new column on @pcmag.com all about my feelings balancing new fatherhood while still playing a ton of games. www.pcmag.com/opinions/bec...

"A game is more than the keys it asks you to push. It's the way its nouns ping around your skull; the ominous poetry of its lore tabs and weapon names; its ability draw you to a halt halfway down a New Pacific Arcology hallway so you can consider a rusted Golden Age logo."

Recorded a podcast about everything being fake, manufactured outrage, support, blowback, and like everything else that qualifies as an internet sentiment, not being organic because of this investigative article that pulled the curtain back on BIG social media moments and companies that made them.

Rich Stanton is right: Roblox is a dark pattern hell designed to take money from children. www.pcgamer.com/gaming-indus...

The Forces of Aramán Collide - TONIGHT ⚔️ 🧭 🎭 As our fated conspirators converge and the curtain rises, the far-flung adventurers of Aramán will reunite as their saga reaches its first crescendo... #CriticalRole returns TONIGHT at 7PM PT on Beacon.tv, YouTube, and Twitch!

reasons you should purchase this: 1) PC Gamer magazine is, like, really good 2) i wrote the cover feature this month 3) i made @theastronauts.bsky.social endure an extra-long interview for that feature and thereby probably delayed Witchfire by like 8 months

He’s offended because The Odyssey is about something near and dear to him: being an absent father while chasing vanity for 20 years

My latest for @pcgamer.com - EverQuest Legends beta impressions www.pcgamer.com/games/mmo/i-...

Sometimes art is so breathtaking and poignant it defies all expectation

Hey so I know the vast majority of you are not going to GenCon, but for the slim minority that are, we're gonna be there, and I'm gonna tell you some events we're doing, with links. We put a ton of work into these, and it shows, because of how dumb and goddamn crazy they are.

these international preseason games are wild

Erenshor's singleplayer MMO raids seem neat, but my real hope is that it can simulate messy raid guild drama—because the human condition only becomes clear once you've witnessed a guild leader gradually destroy his own marriage one preferential DKP dealing at a time:

Now in print and online - you can read what I spent months working on. I talked to key developers behind Final Fantasy, Dragon Quest, Persona, Metaphor, and Sea of Stars. About the “turn-based reniassance,” if it really came put of nowhere, and what’s next gameinformer.com/feature/2026...

So if someone steals your clothing in Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2, it's because I lost my boots in Kingdom Come: Deliverance 1 and made a big stink about it 👢👢 www.pcgamer.com/games/rpg/if...

Doctors say that fluoride helps build strong teeth. A guy who snorts cocaine off toilet seats and takes raccoon penises home for “further study” says it causes autism. For busy parents, it can be hard to know who to trust.

knew this reminded me of something

“hi just out of curiosity but why did you think the f-750 that gets 3.5 miles/gallon was the future and why did you actively support gas guzzling policy, placing your company and the country at a disadvantage? was it because your personal bank account would grow?”

A class at my kids’ school put up little statements about the good they want to do in the world and I was over the moon about this one - then I learned they meant to say “teach people in jail” which is also good!

Spent most of my weekend bouncing between @lvlupexpo.bsky.social's show floor and the media lounge chasing this story. This post barely scratches the surface of what went on in this battle, especially since the full battle isn't technically over. www.mmorpg.com/news/battle-... @eveonline.com

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It's jarring to see ICE executing American citizens in our streets for exercising their free speech rights. It's jarring to see innocent people being kidnapped and sent to gulags in El Salvador. It's jarring to see children being traumatized in concentration camps.

"naked gun"-ass assassination attempt. frank derbin on the WHAC dinner trying to chase the assassin until he opens one of the doors to reveal kash patel's wife with another guy and then he turns to the camera and goes "huh" before closing it and resuming chase

Tech companies keep telling us about the bad things they're doing in an "isn't this great?" tone that is driving me mad.

Still feel like "Musk and his crew of incels destroyed a bunch of stuff they didn't understand and thereby hastened the deaths of millions of children" did not get the public attention it warranted.