ARC Raiders continues to have that cinematic timing RIP to a legend, died as he lived, blasting tunes over prox chat

"You raise your voice, I erase your voice." ICE in Minneapolis are erasing your rights. Please share our new video of what's happening in our city. youtu.be/W1dyNcRGRXY

Ian Austin, an Army veteran, was arrested for protesting ICE in Minneapolis. But he’s continued protesting. Senior reporter @julialurie.bsky.social spoke to him. “When they say, ‘Why would you be out here?’ How the fuck could I not be out here?” he says. “My nation is under attack."

Didn't realize the extent to which ICE are "content creators first and Gestapo second," as @ryanhatesthis.bsky.social is reporting. A paramilitary force whose violence is shaped by what will produce the highest-engagement Instagram Reel. www.theatlantic.com/podcasts/202...

The official policy of the government of the United States of America is that they will murder anyone they want, that they will tell any lie necessary to justify that murder, and that no one who resists them has any rights they are bound to respect. /1

Alex from our time working together, while he was in nursing school. Later, he moved to ICU, working as a nurse to support critically ill Veterans. He had such a great attitude. We’d chat between patients about trying to get in a mountain bike ride together. Will never happen now

Impossible to win the robot war in these conditions, smh

Welp, my car's battery froze. It's officially cold in Michigan.

I was today years old when I found out that the Defiant CD player is a thing that exists

Did a second playthrough of Dispatch, made almost entirely different choices, got the same major ending. I think this game is just a TV show.

I've been running an indie games studio for 15 years now, and it felt like a good time to boil down what I've learned into 4 pieces of advice: www.pentadact.com/2026-01-08-1... I hope it's of use, not least because goddamn I forgot how long blog posts take to write.

What deserves more criticism is the cowardice of ICE, who for all their weapons, armor, and numbers, should be brave enough to withstand a car moving at low speed near them without reflexively killing someone.

A real news outlet publishing the phrase "Grok apologized" should result in like a week-long timeout. Think about what you've done.

A 10-year, $927 million, Star Citizen-sized crowdfunding campaign, but for creating endless episodes of Dispatch

Keep Driving from Swedish studio YCJY Games is a delight and you should play it. Easily one of the best of a very good year for games. www.pcgamer.com/games/rpg/ro...

ram prices dropping 🔥

Still nuts about Monster Train 2 after 275 hours this year. 53 wins vs. the titans. It's become a better game than Slay the Spire for me—more replayable and reconfigurable, weirder, and dare I say more strategic, thanks to the three-floor unit deployment.

Spoke with Larian at The Game Awards after there announcement of Divinity, and here’s what we learned. www.pcgamer.com/games/rpg/it...

These are our favourite PC games of the year. www.pcgamer.com/games/pc-gam... #pcgamer #pcgaming #goty

Man, Etsy is just a sea of AI-generated generic merch now, huh. You'd think that founding a brand about handmade stuff would mean something to them.

Built my mom a new Windows 11 PC in October and paid $120 for 32GB DDR4. Same RAM is $210 now.

The worse Google gets, the more I find myself longing for a more primal internet experience: and the joy of clicking a link when you didn't know what awaited on the other side.

IDK if a gaming subreddit has more quickly gone from wide-eyed delight to a non-stop complain-a-thon as ARC Raiders has. We're 37 days post-launch.

Cheering on torture and murder is the natural progression of the Republican media landscape, where in order to get attention one must become more depraved and sadistic.

For this weekend's PC Gamer column, I went for a walk through Kowloon Walled City (in Minecraft). www.pcgamer.com/games/surviv...

Almost done with my expedition in ARC Raiders. Throwing all my loot into the endgame hole has made it a little more meaningful I guess but I wish there was some narrative attached to this system to make it more than incrementing progress bars. Gonna sting to lose all my blueprints, also.

"When your enemy rides an ill-advised zipline directly at you, shoot their balls off" —Sun Tzu

Relying on ChatGPT to teach you about a topic leaves you with shallower knowledge than Googling and reading about it, according to new research that compared what more than 10,000 people knew after using one method or the other. Shared by @gizmodo.com: buff.ly/yAAHtHq

Blue Prince but Rainbow Six Siege operators are busting through doors and blowing holes in the floor the whole time

I became a full-time paramedic in Arc Raiders, which is sorta like living out an Undertale pacifist run. Can recommend. www.pcgamer.com/games/third-...

Encountering so many good samaritans in ARC Raiders solo. Guy was helping me kill a Bastion, went down, then I flagged down a passerby who happened to have a defib, who stopped and saved my buddy.

Silicon Valley, 1990s: Free and open access to all the world’s knowledge will usher a new utopian age of information! Silicon Valley, 2025:

STREETS OF RAGE 3 SEGA 1994 SEGA GENESIS

Growing up in a time when “selling out” was the most shameful thing you could do and then being forced to live through the 2020s feels like being kicked in the head by a horse every day

I think we should stop using the word "hallucination" and just say AI is fuckin stupid. I asked for games with a "J" in the title and it gave me this

We've paid Amelia Tyler, the narrator of Baldur's Gate 3, to voice pieces of the PC Gaming Show since 2023. If *we* can do it, a major game studio can definitely pay actors to say "I found some rusted tools" in ARC Raiders.

Getting this post tattooed on my forehead now that I've learned that apparently "nearly one in three teens use AI chatbot platforms for social interactions or relationships." www.scrippsnews.com/us-news/fami...

Yoga is more complicated with armadillos

Very spirited @pcgamer.com GOTY meeting this year. Such a variety of games to debate the merits of, not a year where there's a perfect consensus on anything.

Stuff that's working in ARC Raiders for me: - ARCs are a threat, mostly due to relentless pathfinding and sensitivity to alert - Smooth movement and camera, almost nothing feels like it snags you - Interiors avoid the drab, copy-pasted feel of other extraction games despite reusing many assets

Remarkably, Arc Raiders is chill. www.pcgamer.com/games/third-...

Got a good achievement today in Ball x Pit

One of my favorite pages we publish each month. Such a great layout from @majora.bsky.social. www.pcgamer.com/games/pc-gam...

We're calling ourselves the Star Trek Away Team in ARC Raiders

“We never validated our core assumptions” is in the running for tech quote of the decade

No grocery stores, no public transit, no fire department, no schools, no connection to the outside world. Someone help, my SimCity is failing

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