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?

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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?"

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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.

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.

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.

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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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).

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...

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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It's impossible to overstate how stupid this is

Who killed the game industry? Union workers make splash at Game Awards protest

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

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"

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?

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.

Werner Herzog is game of the year. www.pcgamer.com/games/action...

This game looks fun to me. I like that the protagonist is a big sweaty meathead.

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. www.pcgamer.com/software/win...

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...

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...

I am excited to Slay the Spire again. www.youtube.com/watch?v=6NgL...

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...

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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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...

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?

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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"I think that each project I make in whatever medium it will be, will largely be unconnected," says Blue Prince developer Tonda Ros.