very annoying to spend years trying to convince people to stop saying shit like 'the game sucks because it's on Unity' because game engines don't work that way and then every single Unreal Engine 5 Game is actually exactly like that

My FPS rotation

"There’s not much at stake, just free speech, the oxygen that sustains life in this town."

In the second edition of my FPS column, FOV 90, we're talking FPS rotations: Do you cycle between a handful of familiar shooters that continue to be great? www.pcgamer.com/games/fps/wh...

In the second edition of my FPS column, FOV 90, we're talking FPS rotations: Do you cycle between a handful of familiar shooters that continue to be great? www.pcgamer.com/games/fps/wh...

If you're okay with doing remote work to what is effectively Pitcairn Island, we are starting to look for a game designer at Deep Field, creators of beloved title Abiotic Factor.

I used to think this, but now I think the modern-day stuff is weird and fun and usually inoffensive, especially in recent games. To axe it would just make Assassin's Creed (a sci-fi world at its core!) less interesting. Even weirder to axe it from a 12 year old game.

New Skate is fun and all, but deeply cringey in ways that seem unpatchable. Every time somebody is talking to you, it sucks. Challenges are samey, there's no story, and everything free is doled out by obnoxious loot boxes. It doesn't need updates, it needs a transplant.

Battlefield 6's big maps are glorious and easily the most fun I've had with it yet. It's a shame that there are only like 3 of 'em at launch. www.pcgamer.com/games/fps/i-...

When your game is so good, you steer around particularly critical critics for launch day

"Silksong will beat you, burn you, rub your face in the dirt, and then dazzle you with another piece of a haunted clockwork world." - @tylercolp.bsky.social 90% review www.pcgamer.com/games/action...

There are two types of big-bidget open world games: 1) Everywhere is dangerous and you have to murder the open world one region at a time and 2) You are a person in a world where normal people do stuff, and sometimes there's violence. Increasingly tired with 1s and enamored by 2s.

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

Baseball is so silly man. A 100-year-old guy behind the plate can completely blow a call that decides the game, and we all just have to watch it happen.

"When I assumed Doomscroll was the work of a trained game dev with some free time, the ways it was sorta crap didn't bother me in the slightest, but heavy use of AI generation has a way of erasing the vulnerability of whatever it makes up." www.pcgamer.com/software/ai/...

Sigh www.pcgamer.com/software/ai/...

As we share how 2K withheld review code to ensure PC Gamer can't have Borderlands 4 criticism at launch, seems like a good time to reread our Borderlands 3 review. It was real good. www.pcgamer.com/borderlands-...

When you're very confident that your game is good. www.pcgamer.com/games/fps/wh...

Think I'll have a nice dinner tonight

cucked behavior. if someone merc’d newsom in the same way, Charlie wouldn’t have skipped a single beat before saying it was newsom’s own fault for his “divisive rhetoric”. He would’ve joked about it. We gotta stop with this shit.

Really cool vibes this team has

football-ass celebrity fan (derogatory)

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...

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...

This ad about how great Google Gemini is ends by telling us how Ted, the protagonist and a big James Blunt fan, “found something he didn’t even know he was looking for” at a James Blunt concert where James Blunt is playing not “High” by James Blunt but “She’s So High” by Tal Bachman.

Last night's Champed-Up MVPs

Interesting perspective here, though it doesn't really engage with the fact that day one reviews are valuable purchasing advice. Now more than ever it's good to have something other than paid YouTubers and ads to judge against. You don't want that to go away because embargoes are sometimes silly.

to understand your enemy, you have to meet them at their level

PC Gamer wrote up one of the more fascinating stories to come out of my recent interview with Glen Schofield. www.pcgamer.com/games/call-o...

Hey everyone thanks for being excited about my birthday, but to be clear my name isn't "Silksong"

It's as fun as it looks

Hello, I am sad about the videogame. www.pcgamer.com/games/fps/as...

It's as fun as it looks

Holy smokes, just saw that @pcgamer.com covered the Palestine games charity bundle too!!! Thank you so much for the coverage!! ❤️ www.pcgamer.com/games/you-ca...

Hm I think these ol dodgers are gonna lose the division

I've missed looking forward to cutscenes in a Kojima game.

silksong ragebait

When is the last time a big-budget shooter made "we have a persistent server browser" a back-of-the-box feature? www.pcgamer.com/games/fps/in...

That time when @wes.readonlymemo.com saw The Vision. www.pcgamer.com/what-if-bald...

Watching some Outer Worlds 2 gameplay & thinking these RPGs went down the wrong path when Fallout 4 let you open containers just by looking at them. Obsessive looting supercharged.

I'd like to apologize for making fun of the hilarious Nvidia hair comparison screenshot that looks like the "they're the same picture" Office meme. More efficient hair tech is cool i guess.

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...

I love the #Skate series dearly, but I'm not sure this is the direction it should take My preview after over 40 hours of game time for @pockettactics.com 👇

when you're trying to share your cool new Halo armor but you're playing Helldivers 2

They're calling it "the most convoluted bullshit of all time"

Back in 2017 (jfc) I interviewed Team Cherry about how they designed Hollow Knight's map, and got a bunch of sketches and mockups from throughout the game's development to go with it. Bringing it back in anticipation of Silksong!

Really feels like the mood around gaudy premium skins, the backbone of the entire live-service machine, is turning sour in a lasting way. www.pcgamer.com/every-time-a...

A strange half measure that will give Black Ops 7 a clean break from all those ugly skins, but leaves the door very open for Activision to stink up the joint with new ones over the next year. www.pcgamer.com/games/fps/ac...