Tyler Wilde
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US Editor-in-Chief,
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Christopher Livingston
about 19 hours ago
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
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Turns out running a zoo is easy unless you spend all your money on chickens
Visitors in Zoo Life Simulator will pay top dollar to look at anything: a rabbit, a goose, and even a hot dog stand.
https://www.pcgamer.com/games/sim/turns-out-running-a-profitable-zoo-is-super-easy-unless-you-keep-blowing-those-profits-on-dozens-of-chickens/
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I am not sure how to interpret OpenAI dropping Sora and its erotic chatbot plans. What does that signal?
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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.
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Poor rabbit shouldn't have underestimated Kenshiro.
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Critically endangered hare spotted in surprising location for the first time in 40 years — but it was already dead
Scientists in China have announced the first confirmed sighting of the critically endangered Hainan hare in part of its native range in four decades, after spotting its completely flattened carcass on...
https://www.livescience.com/animals/land-mammals/critically-endangered-hare-spotted-in-surprising-location-for-the-first-time-in-40-years
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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?"
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AI gaslighting watch: Is there AI in my fridge?
Answer: No, but there could be intelligent life forming in its recesses.
https://www.pcgamer.com/software/ai/ai-gaslighting-watch-is-there-ai-in-my-fridge/
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Wes Fenlon
8 days ago
We don’t do a lot of personal blogging on
@pcgamer.com
so please enjoy my first person account of getting sloppergangered in 2026
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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.
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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.
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senseiRuss
17 days ago
My latest for
@pcgamer.com
- on
@path-of-exile.bsky.social
’s sweet new league.
www.pcgamer.com/games/rpg/pa...
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Path of Exile's new Mirage league might be the best chance you'll ever get at obtaining the rarest item in the game
This map's so nice I'll run it twice
https://www.pcgamer.com/games/rpg/path-of-exiles-new-mirage-league-might-be-the-best-chance-youll-ever-get-at-obtaining-the-rarest-item-in-the-game/
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Friendship ended with blockchain.
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For the first time in years, there are no blockchain gaming talks at GDC
NFTs are out, generative AI is in at this year's Game Developer's Conference—though much of the industry isn't on board with that, either.
https://www.pcgamer.com/gaming-industry/for-the-first-time-in-years-there-are-no-blockchain-gaming-talks-at-gdc/
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Wes Fenlon
23 days ago
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…
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Grammarly is using our identities without permission
Grammarly’s AI stole my boss’s identity.
https://www.theverge.com/ai-artificial-intelligence/890921/grammarly-ai-expert-reviews
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Wes Fenlon
24 days ago
Uh excuse me what the fuck
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PC Gamer
25 days ago
Designed by developer Woe Industries, the AGAT challenged players to complete an '80s adventure game without using a walkthrough.
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800 gamers tried to beat an '80s adventure without a walkthrough—only 2 did
Only .25% completed the AGAT: the Adventure Game Aptitude Test, designed by fiendish developer Woe Industries.
https://www.pcgamer.com/games/adventure/more-than-800-gamers-took-an-exam-to-prove-they-could-complete-an-80s-adventure-game-without-peeking-at-a-walkthrough-and-only-2-passed/
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Christopher Livingston
about 1 month ago
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
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Lauren Morton
about 1 month ago
OddFauna demo is good. Hand-sculpted game characters are so stinkin cool. Look at my biggo goofy whale house boy.
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My new indie darling is this crafting game with hand-sculpted creatures
OddFauna's handmade critters are absolute catnip for my crafting game brain.
https://www.pcgamer.com/games/survival-crafting/my-new-indie-darling-is-this-crafting-game-stuffed-with-hand-sculpted-creatures-made-by-a-husband-and-wife-dev-team/
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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."
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New Xbox boss promises no 'soulless AI slop' after moving over from Microsoft's CoreAI products division
"We will not chase short-term efficiency or flood our ecosystem with soulless AI slop," said Asha Sharma, the new CEO of Microsoft Gaming.
https://www.pcgamer.com/gaming-industry/asha-sharma-xbox-no-ai-slop/
about 1 month ago
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Wes Fenlon
about 1 month ago
Doing a little Friday afternoon divination based on the platitudes of Xbox's new CEO
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If Xbox is 'recommitting' to its console, what does that mean for its recent 'everything is an Xbox' strategy?
Divining meaning from the words of Microsoft Gaming's new CEO.
https://www.pcgamer.com/gaming-industry/if-xbox-is-recommitting-to-its-console-what-does-that-mean-for-its-recent-everything-is-an-xbox-strategy/
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Charlie Hall
about 1 month ago
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.
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An Elite Dangerous player discovered a way to write new stories into the margins of the 12-year-old space sandbox, and now thousands are testing it
How the nearly 9,000 players on the Distant Worlds 3 expedition are contributing to the birth of something new.
https://www.pcgamer.com/games/mmo/metaelite-interview-elite-dangerous/
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I didn't notice this news yesterday. Devil Daggers is cool.
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Devil Daggers 2 is in development, as its creator confirms fewer than 1,500 people survived longer than 8 minutes in the original
Because it's as scary as it is hard.
https://www.pcgamer.com/games/fps/devil-daggers-2-is-in-development-as-its-creator-confirms-fewer-than-1-500-people-survived-longer-than-8-minutes-in-the-original/
about 1 month ago
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Morgan Park
about 1 month ago
Death to the many-boxed roadmap.
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The many-boxed roadmap represents everything I hate about shooters right now
Our relationship with the biggest shooters around have contorted from player to investor.
https://www.pcgamer.com/games/fps/the-many-boxed-roadmap-represents-everything-i-hate-about-shooters-right-now/
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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.
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Judging by the GPT-4o situation, game developers will have a big problem if they get serious about AI chatbot NPCs
Balance patches that tweak guns and spells can enrage players. What if what you're re-balancing is their romantic partner?
https://www.pcgamer.com/software/ai/judging-by-the-gpt-4o-situation-game-developers-will-have-a-big-problem-if-they-get-serious-about-ai-chatbot-npcs/
about 1 month ago
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PC Gamer
about 1 month ago
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.
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The dev behind my top upcoming RPG is a Hungarian chef who thought 'if not now, then when?' and learned coding from scratch to make his dream 'eurojank' masterpiece
"People have been craving this sort of experience, which was offered by Larian and CD Projekt."
https://www.pcgamer.com/games/rpg/the-dev-behind-my-top-upcoming-rpg-is-a-hungarian-chef-who-thought-if-not-now-then-when-and-learned-coding-from-scratch-to-make-his-dream-eurojank-masterpiece/
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Unsure if my mildly provocative headline here perfectly communicates my point, but my intent is just to dislodge the idea that the baseline level of success a new FPS can expect is anything more than what Highguard has seen. Budget and time-spent don't seem to change the equation.
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Highguard didn't flop
Most games aren't massive hits, but publishers, developers, and investors remain exceedingly hopeful that they'll be the exception.
https://www.pcgamer.com/games/fps/highguard-didnt-flop/
about 1 month ago
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This is one of those things where, when you say it, 90% of the responses are that actually headbob is bad and no one likes it, but if you look up YouTube footage of popular first-person RPGs you'll struggle to find one where it's turned off.
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about 2 months ago
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Robert Jones
about 2 months ago
The latest
@pcgamer.com
magazine is out now, with world exclusive access to
@worldofwarcraft.blizzard.com
: Midnight. Plus, Total War: Warhammer 40,000, Nova Roma, Steam Machine, gaming CPUs tested, and much more, too. 🌑⚔️✨
www.pcgamer.com/games/pc-gam...
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PC Gamer magazine's new issue is on sale now: World of Warcraft: Midnight
Plus, Total War: Warhammer 40,000, Tomb Raider: Legacy of Atlantis, Nova Roma, Steam Machine, Hell Is Us, gaming CPUs tested, and much more, too
https://www.pcgamer.com/games/pc-gamer-magazines-new-issue-is-on-sale-now-world-of-warcraft-midnight/
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If we get into a fight about review scores we can set a new annual games criticism discourse topics speedrun WR (no skips, must collect Geoff Keighley).
2 months ago
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Morgan Park
2 months ago
One of the most interesting things happening in multiplayer gaming is Foxhole, the fantasy WW2 MMO with months-long wars fought by thousands of real players. And by "fought," I mean some people just build train tracks and load clothes onto trains.
www.pcgamer.com/games/mmo/fo...
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Foxhole, the war MMO with months-long battles fought by thousands of real players, is evolving once again with planes, bombers, and paratroopers
The war MMO's next update finally takes the battle to the skies.
https://www.pcgamer.com/games/mmo/foxhole-the-war-mmo-with-months-long-battles-fought-by-thousands-of-real-players-is-evolving-once-again-with-planes-bombers-and-paratroopers/
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Morgan Park
2 months ago
New FOV 90 (PC Gamer's FPS column): Matt Larrabee, the indie dev behind the best movement shooter of the decade, talks about the indie FPS scene, Steam, and making "2007-core" shooters.
www.pcgamer.com/games/fps/i-...
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'I consider it a millennial shooter': The FPS dev making hit shooters by leaning into '2007-core'
Echo Point Nova's Matt Larrabee talks movement shooters, making niche games, and '2007-core' game design.
https://www.pcgamer.com/games/fps/i-consider-it-a-millennial-shooter-the-fps-dev-making-hit-shooters-by-leaning-into-2007-core/
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Tim Clark
2 months ago
This is a cool new role in video working across
@gamesradarplus.bsky.social
and
@pcgamer.com
in the UK. Please share if you think you know people who'd be interested.
apply.workable.com/j/29B1BC6C85
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Jason Schreier
3 months ago
It's impossible to overstate how stupid this is
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3 months ago
Who killed the game industry? Union workers make splash at Game Awards protest
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Who killed the game industry? Union workers make splash at Game Awards protest
A vigil for those trampled in the name of profits.
https://www.gamedeveloper.com/business/-who-killed-the-game-industry-union-workers-make-splash-at-game-awards-protest?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=bluesky
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Kaizen Game Works - Promise Mascot Agency OUT NOW! 🛻✨💕
3 months ago
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Christopher Livingston
3 months ago
Tried recreating the Leonardo DiCaprio Pointing meme in Garry's Mod (it was for work reasons because my job is fun like that) and this is how it turned out -- only asking someone appreciate that he does have a cigarette between two fingers because that part took the longest
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Wes Fenlon
3 months ago
We knew some people would be surprised by invoking cozy here, but that was intentional. PMA is absolutely a cozy hangout game, despite eschewing the stereotypical mechanics and aesthetic of the life sims that dominate the "genre"
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Mozilla may have good intentions here, I don't know, but opening with an obvious falsehood doesn't help its case: "AI isn't just another tech trend—it's at the heart of most apps, tools and technology we use today." At the heart of most technology we use today? How do you come to that conclusion?
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Rewiring Mozilla: Doing for AI what we did for the web | The Mozilla Blog
AI isn’t just another tech trend — it’s at the heart of most apps, tools and technology we use today. It enables remarkable things: new ways to c
https://blog.mozilla.org/en/mozilla/rewiring-mozilla-ai-and-web/
3 months ago
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Larian is seen as a bastion of integrity in an industry that's spent the 2020s cutting corners, cutting jobs, and bending to culture warriors, so it's not surprising that generative AI use is being felt as a betrayal. But imo it's rather premature to declare it lost to hubris, based on what we know.
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Larian defends itself as fans react to generative AI use: 'I'm not entirely sure we are the ideal target for the level of scorn'
Larian says that nothing AI-generated will appear in its games, and that it does not "develop concept art" with AI tools.
https://www.pcgamer.com/games/rpg/baldurs-gate-3-developer-larian-defends-itself-as-fans-react-to-generative-ai-use-im-not-entirely-sure-we-are-the-ideal-target-for-the-level-of-scorn/
3 months ago
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lincoln carpenter
4 months ago
Werner Herzog is game of the year.
www.pcgamer.com/games/action...
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The true highlight of The Game Awards was Werner Herzog explaining Warframe
What could be better than this?
https://www.pcgamer.com/games/action/werner-herzog-explaining-warframe-is-the-highlight-of-the-game-awards/
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This game looks fun to me. I like that the protagonist is a big sweaty meathead.
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4 months ago
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I remember trying out this theme, probably a few times, because I thought it was cool... maybe the colors reminded me of comic books or something. I'm sure I always switched back after a few minutes of experiencing the Hot Dog-verse.
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Windows 3.1 included a red and yellow 'Hot Dog Stand' color scheme so garish it was long assumed to be a joke, so I tracked down Microsoft's original UI designer to get the true story
Setting the record straight, 33 years later.
https://www.pcgamer.com/software/windows/windows-3-1-included-a-red-and-yellow-hot-dog-stand-color-scheme-so-garish-it-was-long-assumed-to-be-a-joke-so-i-tracked-down-the-original-designer-to-get-the-true-story/
4 months ago
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lincoln carpenter
4 months ago
My Skate Story review's up: "It's an esoteric art installation and interactive concept album navigated via powerslide and axel grind: a mesmerizing ode to the miserable occupants of an uncannily familiar underworld."
www.pcgamer.com/games/sports...
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Skate Story review
Skate the (under)world.
https://www.pcgamer.com/games/sports/skate-story-review/
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Since it is a time of year for sharing music we listened to, I discovered the late Ryuichiro Senoh this year. RIP to a real one. Been learning to play this one.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=uIRn...
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Rockin' Chair
YouTube video by Ryuichiro Senoh - Topic
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uIRnDlu57Vk
4 months ago
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I am excited to Slay the Spire again.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=6NgL...
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Slay the Spire 2 Developer Interview | PC Gaming Show: Most Wanted 2025
YouTube video by PC Gamer
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6NgLqPWqDss
4 months ago
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Jake Tucker
4 months ago
PC Gaming Show is live now, my face is in it in a couple of places (sorry) but there's also a load of new games and chat / trailers from people much more talented than myself (not sorry) Come watch:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=b9DJ...
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PC Gaming Show: Most Wanted 2025
YouTube video by PC Gamer
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b9DJ0eynbX4
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Morgan Park
4 months ago
This week's FOV 90 asks the question: Which FPS do you firmly believe plays better on controller, even when mouse and keyboard is an option?
www.pcgamer.com/games/fps/so...
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Sometimes, an FPS really is better with a controller
FOV 90: Which FPS do most people play with a mouse, but you swear by on controller?
https://www.pcgamer.com/games/fps/sometimes-an-fps-really-is-better-with-a-controller/
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PC Gamer
4 months ago
Don't miss the PC Gaming Show: Most Wanted on Thursday, December 4!! ⏰ 12pm PST / 3pm EST / 8pm GMT / 9pm CET 📺 Join us on X, Twitch, YouTube and Steam 🔢 Countdown the 25 Most Wanted games ✅ Exclusive interviews and announcements 🕹️ Don't miss our 30 min preshow with Midas Set a reminder below 👇
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This week I discovered an artist called Freshman Biology who uses busted up folk instruments to make music that specifically sounds like it was made by a band of small, boisterous goblins and other creatures
freshmanbiology.bandcamp.com/track/the-je...
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The Jesters of Scraprock, by Freshman Biology
track by Freshman Biology
https://freshmanbiology.bandcamp.com/track/the-jesters-of-scraprock
4 months ago
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The tech industry's smol bean act is so maddening. Gee, all we did is put out products that make frequent errors while telling everyone they're going to lose their jobs to them. How come they don't like that?
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Microsoft's head of AI doesn't understand why people don't like AI, and I don't understand why he doesn't understand because it's pretty obvious
Is it really "mindblowing" that people are skeptical of software that consistently doesn't do the things we're told it can do?
https://www.pcgamer.com/software/ai/microsofts-head-of-ai-doesnt-understand-why-people-dont-like-ai-and-i-dont-understand-why-he-doesnt-understand-because-its-pretty-obvious/
4 months ago
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Josh Sawyer
4 months ago
Rebecca was one of the founders of Interplay and programmed & designed for some of the most influential games of my youth, notably Bard's Tale I & III and Wasteland. She will be missed.
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PC Gamer
4 months ago
We're delighted that
@frankieward.bsky.social
will be joining us to present the PC Gaming Show: Most Wanted on Thursday, December 4. Join us as we unveil the 25 most wanted games coming to PC
#PCGamingShow
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PC Gamer
5 months ago
"I think that each project I make in whatever medium it will be, will largely be unconnected," says Blue Prince developer Tonda Ros.
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My favorite game of 2025 won't get a sequel, says its developer: 'Each of my projects will be completely standalone'
"I don't ever plan on making a sequel to Blue Prince," said developer Tonda Ros.
https://www.pcgamer.com/games/puzzle/my-favorite-game-of-2025-wont-get-a-sequel-says-its-developer-each-of-my-projects-will-be-completely-standalone/
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