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Valve's DRM was inspired by an exec's nephew, who 'used a $500 check I'd sent him for school expenses and bought himself a CD-ROM replicator… he sent me a lovely thank you note'

"I knew he wasn't a bad kid, but there'd been this generational shift."

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PC Gamer vindicated by Swen Vincke: Larian boss calls Balatro his personal GOTY as it sweeps top prize from devs at GDC awards

All well and good that Balatro got its plaudits, but what truly matters here is that we were right.

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Helldivers 2's Johan Pilestedt says developers need to start taking more risks: 'Safe bets are a death sentence for the studios that try to make them'

Pilestedt says the game industry has a "convergence problem," and it won't find sustainable success until it breaks out of it.

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Get ready for a bounty of PC games on June 8, as the PC Gaming show is back

Expect to see 50 plus PC games at the PC Gaming Show, including Steam Deck titles and more.

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Atomfall dev doesn’t understand how massive development teams manage to keep organised: "How do you organize a game that has 2,000 people working on it?"

"People who are in charge of the people who are in charge of the people"

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World of Warcraft guild cheats its way to winning Race for World First, gets caught, banned, then reverses its name and does it all over again

Everyone deserves a second chance... A second chance to cheat, that is

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You can theoretically beat Doom: The Dark Ages without using a gun, but 'You'd have a hard time, that's for sure,' says the game's director

Ultra Nightmare melee and shield-only any%.

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'I think only the shotguns are the same,' says Doom: The Dark Ages director, otherwise the guns are brand-new or significantly transformed

I really like the gun that pins enemies to walls.

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The sickest gun from Doom: The Dark Ages' trailer is called the 'Skullcrusher' and does such horrible things to demons, the game's lead dev boasts id has 'the best gore in the industry'

"It does exactly what you think it does."

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Monster Hunter Wilds art director and 20-year series vet says the new game intentionally leans into a question fans have debated forever: "What is a hunter?"

Are we human, or are we hunter?

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You might mock Microsoft's new emoji button in Windows 11 but as someone that's explained how to quickly access emojis and special characters too many times, I get it

Case in point: Two of my colleagues just learned about this handy shortcut from reading the draft for this article.

PC Gamer

If the AMD Radeon RX 9060 XT comes with a sub-$400 price tag, it might be the best-value graphics card PC gamers have ever seen

Keep it cheap, AMD

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'It was truly eye-opening to realize just how many people deeply love this type of game': Inzoi director hopes his life sim will 'bring comfort to many players' lives'

Life sim sickos unite.

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PC Gamer magazine's new issue is on sale now: inZOI

Plus: Doom: The Dark Ages, Assassin's Creed Shadows, Civ 7, Sniper Elite Resistance, Kingdom Come: Deliverance II, Gravelord, Total War: Warhammer III, an awesome RTX 5090 rig build, and much more!

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Inzoi's wild karma system can turn cities into literal ghost towns that you have to cleanse, game director says: 'If too many ghosts appear in the city, new Zois cannot be born'

Mind your alignment or your city may be overrun with spirits.

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Inzoi director says his son is the reason for swapping MMOs for life sims and that he wanted 'something that fans like us could enjoy for years to come'

Hyungjun Kim discusses his reasons for tackling one of the most complicated genres in videogames.

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Inzoi director says 'we have great respect for the legacy The Sims has built' and doesn't see their game as a director competitor: 'Our aim is to provide a different experience'

Hyungjun Kim wants life simmers to sample all of the goods.

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Monster Hunter Wilds reviews roundup: Either 'a new peak for the series,' or 'may have lost its soul,' depending on who you talk to

Potentially the most approachable Monster Hunter game yet, but it may have lost something along the way.

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Lemokey L5 HE 8K keyboard review

A compact but chonky boi with Hall effect switches.

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PUBG creator's next game might be too brutal – and that's exactly the point

Prologue: Go Wayback! aims for incredible realism.

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Avowed succeeds where Dragon Age: The Veilguard failed: An actionized, beginner-friendly entry point to a long-running series that doesn't sacrifice its identity

I enjoyed The Veilguard, but Avowed has put its successes and failures in a new light.

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Obsidian insisted that Avowed wouldn't have romance, but that wasn't quite true, because there's at least one eligible bachelor, and he's voiced by an iconic Mass Effect heartthrob

Could any more romance plots be hiding that we don't know about yet?

PC Gamer

Former GTA producer's GTA-like shooter will come out before GTA 6

Third-person action shooter MindsEye, from former Rockstar North president Leslie Benzies, is due out this summer.

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Elden Ring Nightreign's map will sometimes see "large-scale changes" to terrain including procedurally appearing volcanos, forests, and yes, swamps

The FromSoftware tradition lives on

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Nvidia is investigating reports of crashes plaguing RTX 5090 and 5080 GPUs, with possible driver issues maybe hitting RTX 4000 models too

Lots of potential workarounds are floating about, including dropping your monitor’s refresh rate – but let’s hope Nvidia can push out a fix swiftly.

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