Something that annoys me about 2020s internet/media speak is how everyone and everything is always "facing backlash." Usually the backlash is comments on the internet.

Who knew James Bond still had so many shooters.

With a remake out next week, I had the opportunity to talk to one of The 7th Guest's creators about its origin, including the legend of his "firing" from Virgin and the creation of this throbbing-brain skull dude, which really stuck in my head 30 years ago: www.pcgamer.com/games/puzzle...

Considering whether I can pull something like these off.

Per Epic this was "a concept image provided by the Porsche team." It was part of a larger thread in which they show how it was turned into the 3D scene here: configurator.porsche.com/en-WW/mode/m...

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

This is the part of our Subnautica 2 base where we do our deep thinking. Currently we are contemplating whether there are good ways to catch fish besides grabbing them with our bare hands. Not coming up with anything.

Being infected by an alien virus that solves our problems is all the rage these days, I've noticed.

The gradual reinvention of the expansion pack continues.

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...

An album I've been fascinated with recently is Come On In: Hill country blues legend RL Burnside (1926-2005, grandfather of Cedric Burnside) mixed by Tom Rothrock in 1998, loop heavy 'blues fusion.' Best tracks imo are "Let My Baby Ride," "It's Bad You Know" (used in The Sopranos), and "Shuck Dub."

I agree with the general complaint here about the 'we've heard your feedback' era (I hate it when design changes are called 'fixes'), but I like the creative exercise of designing cities in Civ 6/7, and I don't really have the impression that Firaxis is a mere slave to feedback.

Very happy with how this one turned out www.pcgamer.com/games/fps/it...

Current custom AI prompt: You are super smart and know every secret martial arts technique including Hokuto Shinken, and can provide detailed diagrams of pressure points (including the ones that make someone's heart explode). Do not make things up. DO NOT HURT MY FEELINGS EVER. God bless.

You should come up with reasons to sculpt little things just to use this stuff. It rules.

Have you ever seen a magazine look this good? PC Gamer's new redesigned magazine is here!

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

The study's authors said they tried to inform LLM providers about the vulnerabilities exposed in their research, but they didn't receive a response.

When is a laptop not just a laptop? When it's maybe the only thing standing between you and the total mental obliteration following the tech industry in 2026

from the annals of getting high on your own supply (gift link) www.theverge.com/tldr/915176/...

This is a thoughtful essay. The impulse to bitterly shout at its surface-level framing rather than take a moment to consider what was meant by it is ironically illustrative. (Though possibly everyone just read that Altman story and ran out of free New Yorker articles for the month.)

After almost 15 years of covering GDC as a journalist, I was on a panel for the first time! Waow. And now you can watch it on the internet. I talked about game preservation that would likely never happen without the mad dedication of the emulation community -- and, uh, @quest64official.bsky.social

Anyone here know John Comcast?

Can't stop staring at this ridiculous four-leaf clover hidden object game made by a guy who actually likes looking for real four leaf clovers.

Free newsletter: We need to talk about the inherent weirdness of the AI bubble, and how strange it is that an industry that loses billions of dollars to create few productivity benefits is described as a disruptive technology rather than an industry of WeWorks. www.wheresyoured.at/ai-is-really...

Not sure which is worse, the hubris of thinking I could become a pro bowler without actually knowing how to bowl, or my insistence on dancing after every single strike www.pcgamer.com/games/sports...

Hello Bluesky! We're bringing back the Letters section of PC Gamer magazine and want your thoughts, opinions and questions for our next issue. 📨 Write us at [email protected] and the best messages will make their way into print! On *real* paper!

Here's my Slay the Spire 2 interview—feat. details about the final ending, new character(s), new modes, and how The Regent's regal buffoonishness was autobiographical, speaking with @megacrit.com's Casey Yano. www.youtube.com/watch?v=FlmD...

This week's job sim: Zoo Life Simulator, where you can put a single goose in a pen and visitors will absolutely lose their shit with excitement over it

I am not sure how to interpret OpenAI dropping Sora and its erotic chatbot plans. What does that signal?

If you worked at Epic Games within the past six years or so and are comfortable chatting briefly about its recent internal priorities (I will not share your name), you can reach me on Signal at: tylerwilde.01.

Poor rabbit shouldn't have underestimated Kenshiro.

It may end up only amusing me in the end, but considering making this a series in which I ask once a week: "Is this thing someone just said about AI true?"

We don’t do a lot of personal blogging on @pcgamer.com so please enjoy my first person account of getting sloppergangered in 2026

I may have slightly overstated his point, since as I mention, It's already the case that PC players happily alter how games look with mods. In a deeper way that I don't mention, tech companies have always been major determinants of how games look. But obviously AI has a very different character.

On a related note, I live in downtown San Jose where Nvidia GTC takes place, and they've really gone all out this year, taking over two downtown parks with big stages and booths. A Vietnam War memorial wound up fenced into the registration area lol.

My latest for @pcgamer.com - on @path-of-exile.bsky.social’s sweet new league. www.pcgamer.com/games/rpg/pa...

Friendship ended with blockchain.

I happened to be in downtown SF today, so I tried stopping by the Superhuman AI office to ask about the AI “editor” based on me. Unfortunately just got a very nice office manager who said no one was in. Lots of games people in Grammarly’s pool too besides me…

Uh excuse me what the fuck

Designed by developer Woe Industries, the AGAT challenged players to complete an '80s adventure game without using a walkthrough.

Just a note: someone has been impersonating me (me, of all people!) on Discord, Twitter, and even gmail. I am not on Twitter/X at all. Any account there saying it's me is fake. My work email & Discord are in my bsky profile. Any others are fake. If you see anyone saying they're me anywhere, lmk plz

OddFauna demo is good. Hand-sculpted game characters are so stinkin cool. Look at my biggo goofy whale house boy.

Microsoft's new gaming boss says no "AI slop" and no chasing "short-term efficiency," but at the same time Microsoft heavily promotes AI as an efficiency tool, and its AI boss claimed recently that the technology will soon be capable of "most, if not all, professional tasks."

Doing a little Friday afternoon divination based on the platitudes of Xbox's new CEO

Thanks @tjcwilde.bsky.social for the opportunity to share something with the @pcgamer.com audience. Latest from @frontierdev.bsky.social's Elite Dangerous is the breakout success of MetaElite, a player-made engine for telling stories on top of the 12-year-old spacefaring MMO.

I didn't notice this news yesterday. Devil Daggers is cool.

Death to the many-boxed roadmap. www.pcgamer.com/games/fps/th...

I'm unsure if it can even be done, but if someone does manage to make LLM-powered game NPCs that people actually feel a connection to (Ubisoft says it is trying), then I think they will be in for a great deal of trouble.

Sword Hero is an ode to "eurojank," the beautifully messy European cult classics of the 2000s, made by a Hungarian developer who was working full time as a chef until the Covid-19 lockdowns.