Much of the hand wringing, imo, is over a critic explicitly saying they are judging the moral fabric of a piece of art because of the tools used to create it and it’s making some folks feel uncomfortable and shamed. The people who feel that way should sit with that feeling.

Different line of work, but while we’re on the subject: Not a single word of anything I’ve written at PC Gamer or elsewhere was drafted, edited, outlined, or in any way generated by AI. And not a single word will be, because it’s antithetical to the thriving of the human spirit.

oh yikes. yikes yikes yikes. Mellits i have misspoken. if you are being held at gunpoint please blink twice

Mellits is obviously making ragebait I'm under no obligation to take seriously, but I gotta wonder how you write "the younger generation allows themselves a tiny treat once every seven days" and call it overspending without immediately bursting into flames because hell has misplaced one of its own

Chatbots — LLMs — do not know facts and are not designed to be able to accurately answer factual questions. They are designed to find and mimic patterns of words, probabilistically. When they’re “right” it’s because correct things are often written down, so those patterns are frequent. That’s all.

I promise we did vote on MMOs, it's just they, er, didn't quite make it in. www.pcgamer.com/games/mmo/pc...

when i say that joshua wolens is one of the funniest people i know, this is what i'm referring to

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

The 2025 edition of our annual Top 100 list is here, running down the best PC games to play now from the perspective of PC Gamer's 30+ writers and editors.

says who? ... shit, right

we have atoned www.pcgamer.com/games/the-to...

hades 2 is great but its visuals are ass if you're colourblind (me) so much red on dark grey/purple. typhon in particular is just protanapia hell and it kinda sucks there's no colourblind support; i long for the day where that's ubiqutous as subtitles, but it's just absent here

me after beating Silksong's final act 3 boss in like 13-16 tries (after doing (almost) all the optional momentos and going through my anime training arc at the flea carnival beating Seth's scores:)

Borderlands 4 has one of the worst UIs I've ever seen in an RPG and runs like absolute garbage. Also, I spent 47 hours playing it in a blissful, loot-addled daze. My review:

randy pitchford livetweeting about how we should all simply accept the hands we're dealt while a hard-working dev team at gearbox pushes a bunch of optimisation updates (one of which, kudos, made a huge difference) is genuinely very funny to me

made it to act 3 of silksong and the fact this thing just keeps going is wild to me (good) difficulty discourse all you like i'm a complete sicko for this and im having such a good time

the fact Silksong still has boss runbacks is proof that Team Cherry was making this in a complete vaccum for over half a decade this is both a good and bad thing

oh yyeah, well, could AI do this? *just absolutely completely screws up an easily-obtainable kill in Deadlock, fucking dies*

Disable ChatGPT this fucking instant. Destroy it. JFC.

wishing everyone here the best of luck, and feeling very grateful for my current situation my colleagues at PC Gamer have never pressured me to work like this; things can get stressful because that's the job, but im not pressured to skip lunch or work past my paid hours

data company, sobbing through its teeth as i refuse to open my mouth for a webcam: won't somebody *think of the children*

The thing that caused it could be any number of things, but I can't emphasise how terrible shutting down Mare - a plugin that let players share their cosmetic mods - is for FF14 right now. Let's just look at the facts:

evil, wretched people

i'd like to thank PC Gamer's Gripes Week for giving me explicit permission to become as unhinged as I'd like to be about videogames all of the time www.pcgamer.com/games/rpg/th...

sidebar: I love TTRPGs so much. Two weeks in a row I've had players make rolls / the dice create scenarios that've been miraculous. The most recent one I got so excited I had to stand up and hop around the room in a circle

i don't think anyone is too stupid to be creative. i do, however, think that the people who use AI because they can't be creative are big piss-baby scaredy cats who are afraid to be bad at something. okay maybe some of them are also dumb

That's how you can tell human authors from AI. AI will put in some em dashes, then apologise and take them out when told off. Human authors will climb the filing cabinet, hissing, and defend their right to em dashes with a loaded stapler.

It makes me feel insane seeing all this talk for online safety and very rarely seeing education (both sex, relationship ed, and also up to date tech and media literacy) brought up as an actual way of addressing these problems.

might just be the one-two combo of the OSA and this stuff, but I've been struggling to find words for the @itch.io situation - which is usually a sign I should talk to someone else. so I did that. www.pcgamer.com/gaming-indus...

Goes without saying, it is absolutely fucking obscene that Mouthwashing - arguably one of our better examples of video games as a serious storytelling art form in recent years - has been removed from itchio due to pressure from pay processing services and weirdo activism.

[Arby’s CEO pointing to the bottom layer on a chart of Maslow’s hierarchy of needs] Our beef sandwiches go here

bro they're playing your leitmotif pizzicato. there's a slow clarinet lurking beneath it. you better not be about to betray me right now i swear to god bro

It's me. I am the old man yelling at a cloud. www.pcgamer.com/games/third-...

me, phoning up my mum: Yeah, r/Silksong has a flair with my face on it now, so I've basically 'made it'

REMEMBER: All the "Don't use em-dashes" "don't use rule of three" advice because it makes your writing "look like AI" is because they stole actual writers work, and their "predict the next thing" stuff just simulates what WE FUCKING DO. Keep writing well. Use every style and trick you have. Fuck AI.

LinkedIn was a mistake. www.pcgamer.com/gaming-indus...

It's wild (and more than a little unnerving) to've been here for barely two years and to've already accured enough cynicysm to contribute to this list (spawned off a little rant I had in a different article). If I don't laugh, I'll cry.

good news: figured out collissions and y sorting for rails! bad news:

me, sat next to a massive gaming PC designed to expel heat as efficiently as possible, "damn why is it so hot in here"

The Ministry of Justice scrubbing LGBT, race and gender from its diversity policy isn’t neutrality it’s erasure. You don’t protect marginalised people by pretending they don’t exist. This isn’t progress. It’s a warning sign, and we should all be paying attention!!

Hasan: "Millions of people protesting Trump all around the nation... meanwhile no one is attending his fuckass party. This is proof that the repulsive far right hug box that twitter and online spaces have become is not representative of real world support for MAGA and right wing policies."

I'm sorry but the largest protest of my lifetime is not the 7th or 8th biggest news story in the country behind "what does Gen Z want from Instagram?" This shit is humiliating. Rearrange your layout to meet this moment. Omitting the thing happening in every American city is malpractice.

A short while ago I interviewed @perrikaryal.bsky.social about her 'mind control' setup, and playing Elden Ring Nightreign with brain activity via EEG: www.pcgamer.com/hardware/she...

fuck, dude. the constant and unrelenting cruelty of the world at the moment is... i can't even imagine this. i can't imagine going through something like this and not just wanting to tear everything apart with your teeth. the blood boils.

As part of @pcgamer.com's Witcher 3 10th anniversary celebrations, I was asked to write about the whole Tub Geralt thing, aka, the most notable thing I have done in my career. www.pcgamer.com/games/rpg/ce...

We have a cool show for you on June 8. Start getting hyped with our Steam page, which is bright and colourful as all things should be. store.steampowered.com/curator/1850... (More info here: www.pcgamer.com/gaming-indus...)

sometimes you pitch an article, black out, and then wake up 2000 words later with no real recollection how any of it happened www.pcgamer.com/games/strate...