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Deliver Us Mars developer KeokeN Interactive has laid off its entire team after being unable to secure funding for future projects. The studio said in today’s announcement that it has “exhausted all our possible options for publishing, work for hire, and co-development.” The sci-fi thriller Deliver Us Mars, and its predecessor Deliver Us the Moon, […]

First reported by Android Authority, a recent Google earnings call included praise for a pilot program to show users ads when they pause videos on YouTube‘s TV app. The company has so far only experimented with pause ads on the TV app, but its apparent success is a cause for concern with future inclusion on […]

Like many at PC Gamer, I’ve been enjoying a healthy amount of Helldiving the last two months. Whether I’m shoulders-deep in pulped bug biomass or cowering beneath a storm of automaton energy bolts, Helldivers 2 has been a refreshing surprise. I expected Helldivers 2 to be good, but not “unforeseeable appeal that knocks out back-end […]

We couldn’t hold a roundtable interview on the State of PC Gaming without asking developers about the most ubiquitous name in PC gaming: Steam. After 20 years the store is still a fixture, and despite increased competition from Epic, Ubisoft and other storefronts, it continues to thrive. The perspective of the developers we invited to […]

Reversing a Trump-era ruling from 2018, the Federal Communications Commission voted today to restore net neutrality rules, so as to “bring back a national standard for broadband reliability, security, and consumer protection.” The vote has been several years in the making, as President Biden signed an executive order in 2021 directing the FCC to restore […]

Casey Yano, co-founder of Slay the Spire developer Mega Crit, quit his job several years ago to work on the deckbuilder that would eventually earn a 92% from PC Gamer and a 97% overwhelmingly positive rating on Steam. It wasn’t a smash hit at first, when it launched in early access, but as Slay the […]

During Baldur’s Gate 3’s trip around the award circuit winning every major GOTY trophy there is, the developers at Larian have taken some of their stage time to criticize corporate greed and mass layoffs. In the wake of its massively successful self-published game, Larian hasn’t been shy about pointing the finger at what it sees […]

During Baldur’s Gate 3’s trip around the award circuit winning every major GOTY trophy there is, the developers at Larian have taken some of their stage time to criticize corporate greed and mass layoffs. In the wake of its massively successful self-published game, Larian hasn’t been shy about pointing the finger at what it sees […]

Workers from just about every industry in the US are celebrating a landmark announcement by the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) that, unless stopped, will ban non-compete clauses in around four months. A non-compete is, in essence, a clause that dictates whether a worker can find employment (or create a product) that directly competes with their […]

This month PC Gamer delivers world-exclusive access to Frostpunk 2, the gripping new city-survival game from 11 bit studios. Flying to Warsaw, Poland, to visit 11 bit’s studio, experience the game in action, and interview its developers, we have the authoritative inside scoop on a game that’s already looking like one of the best new […]

Few videogame marketing terms are more aggravatingly ambiguous than “early access.” Most painfully, it can refer to two very different scenarios: Sometimes it means putting an in-development game on sale before it’s done, and other times it means offering access to a finished game early, typically as a deluxe edition preorder bonus. Starfield offered several […]

Few videogame marketing terms are more aggravatingly ambiguous than “early access.” Most painfully, it can refer to two very different scenarios: Sometimes it means putting an in-development game on sale before it’s done, and other times it means offering access to a finished game early, typically as a deluxe edition preorder bonus. Starfield offered several […]

Few videogame marketing terms are more aggravatingly ambiguous than “early access.” Most painfully, it can refer to two very different scenarios: Sometimes it means putting an in-development game on sale before it’s done, and other times it means offering access to a finished game early, typically as a deluxe edition preorder bonus. Starfield offered several […]

If you’ve not been following the journey of Embracer, let me speedrun an explanation real quick: Over the course of seven years, Embracer snapped up a bunch of companies, hit an iceberg of a sunken $2 billion dollar deal, subsequently laid off 1,400 people in six months, and scrapped a bunch of projects while selling […]

Six months after its 2023 acquisition by Microsoft, it sounds like its business as usual at Blizzard. In an interview with VGC, World of Warcraft executive producer and vice president Holly Longdale said being a part of Microsoft has “just been helpful,” and that so far the new owners are taking a light touch. “We […]

First reported by StackDiary and The Register, a website called Spy.pet claims to have scraped billions of public Discord messages made by almost 620 million users, selling the individual messages and profiles for crypto. Spy.pet ties message logs to the users who sent them, and also collects Discord aliases and linked social media and Steam […]

Trade Prince Gallywix counting his ill-gotten gains or Bobby Kotick enjoying post-Blizzard life? (Image credit: Blizzard) This isn’t the article I wanted to write today. I wanted to tell you how much fun the new Duos mode in Hearthstone Battlegrounds is, having jammed a couple of games with my colleague on GamesRadar last night. We […]

The weather is warming and the snow is melting, which can only mean one thing: It’s nearly Game Announcement Season and almost time for the best showcase of them all, the PC Gaming Show, which will return June 9 at 1 pm Pacific (4 pm ET/9 pm BST). The opportunity to share news about some […]

I can’t quite say I called it, because Keanu Reeves was only second on my list of likely Hollywood heavyweights to be cast as Shadow the Hedgehog. But boy was I close. The Hollywood Reporter confirmed today that Mr. Wick himself is playing the big bad in the third Sonic the Hedgehog film, according to […]

Skybound Entertainment has kicked off a crowdfunding campaign to support the development of a new videogame based on the hugely popular Invincible comic and animated TV series. This isn’t a Kickstarter-style campaign, though, but an investment into Skybound itself, being run through the Republic investment platform. “Most crowdfunded videogames are centered around indie games and […]

First reported by VG247, Former Blizzard president Mike Ybarra took to Twitter a few days ago to suggest a new form of showing developer appreciation: having the option to leave a $10 or $20 tip on a game you love. You know, I guess I like the sentiment at least. “When I beat a game, […]

Eurogamer took to the red carpet at the BAFTA awards to check in with the voice actors behind Baldur’s Gate 3 and some of the other big games of 2023, and despite the buoyant mood at the show, they all had concerns and harsh criticism for AI voiceover tools⁠—especially unauthorized reproductions of their own voices. […]

As reported by The Verge, developers of Yuzu-derived Nintendo Switch emulators Sudachi and Suyu have had their Discord accounts banned and their servers wiped. While the devs themselves seem to operate in a grey area left open by Yuzu’s settlement with Nintendo, their presence on the platform was still terminated with that settlement cited as […]

It’s despairingly common to hear about game studios closing lately, but I don’t think I’ve ever heard a studio owner blame their company’s closure on leaked information that has yet to be made public. That’s what happened today when every employee at Possibility Space, a young studio whose first game hasn’t been revealed, was suddenly […]

It’s despairingly common to hear about game studios closing lately, but I don’t think I’ve ever heard a studio owner blame their company’s closure on leaked information that has yet to be made public. That’s what happened today when every employee at Possibility Space, a relatively young studio whose first game hadn’t yet been revealed, […]