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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.

Here it is. The absolute strategy beast that is Europa Universalis 5. My review: www.pcgamer.com/games/strate...

I really enjoy our tradition of publishing a new Top 100 list every year. Each year it makes people mad or happy in new ways and reflects something of the state of PC gaming—it's cool that Dwarf Fortress and Caves of Qud are both in the top 10 this year.

Double Fine and Obsidian appear to be doing well under Microsoft, but it is hard to square talk about nurturing creativity with everything else that has happened in the past five years. www.pcgamer.com/gaming-indus...

Strange perspective. The audience doesn't define itself, it's defined as whoever consumes the things. If whiners were the problem, publishers could price them out by charging $1,000, and then they would no longer be the audience.

lest anyone doubt PC Gamer's serious about the top 100 please find attached this screenshot from the meeting where we all pitched each other on our most-wanted games for the list

I've become mesmerized by Erik Satie's Gnossienne No. 1, whose sheet music includes instructions like "wonder about yourself," and spent the week practicing it obsessively. My piano skills are not quite worth sharing yet but here is someone whose performance I like. youtu.be/oOTpQpoHHaw?...

After a week of good times, here's my final Battlefield 6 review. "Battlefield 6 understands that the best FPS is a place, not just a service. The execution isn't perfect, but the heart is there." www.pcgamer.com/games/fps/ba...

For those with good taste in Battlefield modes

I don't think they should be allowed to do that

Enjoyed Absolum a lot. Definitely the most interesting beat 'em up I've ever played, with roguelite elements that I hope we'll see more of in this surprisingly quiet genre. www.pcgamer.com/games/action...

The @pcgamer.com team is constantly introducing me to cool games I hadn't heard of. @dilfpatrol.bsky.social turned me on to Sword Hero recently and it looks sick.

My review-in-progress of Battlefield 6 is live. www.pcgamer.com/games/fps/ba...

"Private equity firms have gained a sinister reputation thanks to a counter-intuitive strategy in which firms can cannibalize their own acquisitions, extracting profits at the expense of the company and its workforce." www.pcgamer.com/gaming-indus...

Here are all the trailers and interviews from our first PC Gaming Show Tokyo Direct! www.pcgamer.com/gaming-indus...

This is what dreams are made of ✨ From Anime + JRPGs as a kid ➝ to Tokyo for the first time, 🇯🇵 filming the PC Gaming Show: Tokyo Direct with PC Gamer. Truly blessed ❤️ tune in 28th September onTwitch & YouTube @pcgamer.com

I reviewed the bug game. www.pcgamer.com/games/action...

The latest @pcgamer.com magazine is out now, with world exclusive access to IO Interactive's exciting new James Bond action-adventure, 007 First Light. Plus, Titan Quest II, Aether & Iron, Phantom Blade Zero, Grounded 2, Raw Fury, PCIe 5.0 SSDs rated, and much more, too. 💥 tinyurl.com/mpjfn63d

Other websites' top story today: Look at the new thinner iPhone. It's thinner. @pcgamer.com today: A BUG MADE SPACE CADET PINBALL RUN AT 5,000 FRAMES PER SECOND

Hello. I just launched an FPS column I've wanted to start for ages. It's called FOV 90, it's weekly, and I hope you dig it. www.pcgamer.com/games/fps/th...

Help us help you read about games www.pcgamer.com/gaming-indus...

I still haven't finished Baldur's Gate 3, but I have restarted it with a new character way too many times, so Act 1 is basically a checklist at this point. I'm unsure if this quiz is hard or easy. www.pcgamer.com/games/rpg/ho...

This quiz by @chrislivingston.bsky.social is surprisingly hard. Turns out a lot of the games that stick out to me as having been huge hits came out 10+ years ago when there were far fewer Steam users. www.pcgamer.com/games/how-we...

Several aid seekers killed in southern Gaza and several others killed in attacks on Gaza City, medical sources say.

Nowhere can I be myself.

"It's buggy. The initial configuration is fiddly. Only a handful of missions are (mostly) playable, and your co-op partner will be riding an invisible horse. But it's functioning co-op in Metal Gear Solid 5. It's magical—even if it is a bit of a mess." www.pcgamer.com/games/action...

Nightreign's new Everdark boss may be a gimmick fight, but the gimmick completely reshapes the run and is such a fun surprise. I am so glad that @dilfpatrol.bsky.social agree on this one. www.pcgamer.com/games/action...

Listening to dance music on.soundcloud.com/eeFdSS4DVz0A...

"Around the third time I watched a Battlefield 6 dev calmly delivering their assigned marketing beats as a rotorcraft detonated in midair behind them, however, the helicopter death toll started to feel a little absurd." www.pcgamer.com/games/fps/th...

For an article, I'd like to talk to a computer scientist who has opinions on the speed of modern software/UIs. Why is it possible to render 3D scenes on my PC at 144 fps, but it sometimes takes a second for the Windows Explorer UI to load? Does it have to be that way? Is Wirth's law real? Etc.

The Battlefield 6 multiplayer reveal starts at 11:30 am PT today. We'll be covering it as-it-happens here: www.pcgamer.com/games/live/n...

Israeli attacks have killed at least 71 Palestinians seeking humanitarian aid, while hospitals recorded seven more deaths from famine and malnutrition aje.io/1p0bp5

When I played Mewgenics for this preview, Edmund McMillen loaded up a save file created by @tomrmarks.bsky.social from when he previewed the game, and I got Tom's cats killed. Sorry Tom. www.pcgamer.com/games/roguel...

Love the call and response here so much. APP has a question for us and the immediate and unequivocal answer is trance music. soundcloud.com/kraftek/paul...

For the past 5 years my inbox has been stuffed with "story opportunities" from Web3/AI companies with subject lines like "GoonJack partners with UPGOD to launch distributed TTxOs in MetaBrew, disrupting $500B friendship industry" and then I never hear from them again. It's like an art project.

Real unfortunate timing for this one. www.pcgamer.com/games/rpg/af...

Hey, look at this stupid project I am doing

"[Final Fantasy 11]'s like an interactive museum of an alternate MMO history, and there's apparently no shortage of other players drawn in by that siren call." www.pcgamer.com/games/mmo/23...

"The brilliant twist of Abiotic Factor's handcrafted corporate environments is that there are no blank canvases to work with. You're forced to carve a comfy home out of bland spaces with pre-existing dimensions and purposes."

I wanted to know where "AI Appreciation Day" came from. The articles I found claimed it was made to promote a movie, but the movie didn't seem to exist, so I found the guy who started it. He spent last year living in a tent on the beach outside of SpaceX Starbase. www.pcgamer.com/software/ai/...

Years ago there was an anti-DRM PC Gamer reader who hassled me in the comments every single time I linked to a game's Steam page but not its GOG page, and I probably do now remember to link GOG more than I would otherwise. So I guess the lesson is to hassle me in the comments if you want something.

Microsoft laid off approximately 9,000 employees today, including a number from its gaming division, and cancelled Rare's Everwild, an MMO in development at ZeniMax Online, and the Perfect Dark reboot. It also closed the studio behind the reboot, The Initiative.

We are dabbling in quizzes over at PC Gamer. I was the Chosen One (due to a birthmark on my head that spells out the word "QUIZ") to create our inaugural quiz, and if you would like to take the quiz and let me know what you think about the quiz that would be quiz www.pcgamer.com/games/quiz-t...

The game I've surely played more of than any other game turns 10 next month, and it was so finely distilled from the start that no one's improved on it.

"The ramped-down pace has me more focused and aware of my surroundings, so much so that I'm questioning if I ever liked sprinting in the first place, or if it just felt like a feature that's supposed to be there because it's an FPS." www.pcgamer.com/games/halo/t...

I wrote about my obsession with @vendingdokan.bsky.social for PC Gamer, and never in my life have I craved a Pocari Sweat and melon cream soda calpis as much as I do now. www.pcgamer.com/games/sim/im...

Hey, I hosted the PC Gaming Show. How'd that happen?! Big shout out to everyone that worked on the show and especially whoever thought up bringing me along to build a gaming PC during it. I had a blast. Now I'm just hoping they'll let me keep the dungarees...

The easy answer for me is Firefighting Simulator. www.youtube.com/watch?v=LJwX...

Love how this link preview is cut off.