Stadia's death spiral, according to the Google employee in charge of mopping up after its murder (www.pcgamer.com) angielski
A statement from a Google employee, Dov Zimring, has been released as a part of the FTC vs Microsoft court case (via 9to5Google). Only minorly redacted, the statement gives us a run down of Google's position leading up to Stadia's closure and why, ultimately, Stadia was in a death spiral long before its actual demise....
Former BioWare manager wishes Dragon Age had kept a 'PC-centric' and 'modding-driven' identity like Neverwinter Nights (www.pcgamer.com) angielski
"Dragon Age in the early days had its fair share of identity crises," Flynn says. "Was it going to be a tools-driven, modding-driven game like Neverwinter Nights? Was it going to be a big singleplayer RPG like The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion?"...
Dune: Spice Wars review (www.pcgamer.com) angielski
Microsoft would buy Valve 'if opportunity arises,' said Phil Spencer in leaked email (www.pcgamer.com) angielski
But its prime target was Nintendo, according to a 2020 email leaked during the FTC v Microsoft trial.
Cyberpunk 2077 2.0's revamped police force is finally good enough (www.pcgamer.com) angielski
Diablo 4 continues to walk back changes from its fiendishly unpopular 1.1 patch, boosting XP gain on World Tiers 3 and 4 (www.pcgamer.com) angielski
In the lead-up to Diablo 4's first season back in July, the game received a patch that was universally unpopular. That feels like an understatement—the community revolt was fierce enough to cause an honest-to-Lilith emergency broadcast where the devs stated: "we don't plan on doing a patch like this ever again"....
DC Comics adamant The Wolf Among Us' source material is not in the public domain, as its creator calls them 'thugs and conmen' and insists it is (www.pcgamer.com) angielski
"DC reserves all rights and will take such action as DC deems necessary or appropriate to protect its intellectual property rights."...
The ROG Ally gets a new Zen 4c chip and a worrying price tag (www.pcgamer.com) angielski
That's effectively half the Steam Deck's GPU for near twice the price....
Astrea: Six-Sided Oracles review (www.pcgamer.com) angielski
Astrea raises the deckbuilder stakes with gambling tension....
Payday 3 developer drops Denuvo from the game before it's even out (www.pcgamer.com) angielski
It's common practice for PC games today to launch with Denuvo, a form of DRM designed to stop the spread of pirated copies of games, and it's also common practice for developers to remove Denuvo several months after launch as interest (and the risk of piracy) dwindles. Less common is a developer publicly announcing it's removing...
The week that changed PC gaming forever (Half life 2 and Steams release in 2004) (www.pcgamer.com) angielski
Forget Phantom Liberty, Cyberpunk 2077's free 2.0 patch is a staggering upgrade on its own (www.pcgamer.com) angielski
Amnesia: The Bunker's Halloween update plans to make this year's scariest game even more terrifying (www.pcgamer.com) angielski
Fortunately, Frictional's planned Hallowe'en update to the game has a solution. Of sorts. As reported by RPS, The Bunker is soon to receive a new difficulty mode called Shellshocked, introducing an array of changes designed to make the experience even more horrible. Foremost among these is how it removes the obstacles that make...
Games consoles are infuriatingly exempt from California's otherwise important new right to repair bill (www.pcgamer.com) angielski
California, the biggest state in the US when it comes to both population and the sheer volume of tech companies squeezed into its borders, has just passed the country's most extreme right to repair bill in the US (via Ars Technica). It's the third state to pass such a bill, but goes further than either Minnesota or New York in...
No Man's Sky is enjoying its 'biggest month in the last few years', coinciding with the launch of Starfield (www.pcgamer.com) angielski
Space is big enough for both of them.
[Spoilers] If you finish Starfield 4 or 5 times, some seriously weird s*** starts happening (www.pcgamer.com) angielski
Starfield's New Game+ is full of bizarre sci-fi surprises, if you've got the patience to repeatedly beat the game....
[Spoilers] Baldur's Gate 3 has a secret, brutal game over scene for players who somehow overcome every safeguard to permanently lose a critical item (www.pcgamer.com) angielski
YouTuber BOB_BestOfBugs, however, realized that there's nothing stopping you from putting a Netherstone into a container like a crate or a sack (crucial to the Shadowboxing speedrun tech) and then getting rid of that container. I was able to replicate the trick in my own game, but curiously I only got the game over on losing my...
I've played the Star Trek game of my dreams, and it's a grand strategy game (www.pcgamer.com) angielski
Atari acquires massive Atari archive (AtariAge) after revealing a 'new' 2600 that takes cartridges (www.pcgamer.com) angielski
Firstly, Atari is to acquire AtariAge, which you could call a retro forum though that would vastly undersell what it is: over time this has grown into the best repository for everything Atari (as well as some other companies), both hardware and software, as well as being a major publisher for homebrew software....
Atari acquires massive Atari archive after revealing a 'new' 2600 that takes cartridges (www.pcgamer.com) angielski
Have you played Atari today?
Astarion's voice actor (Neil Newbon) is doing a let's play of Baldur's Gate 3 (www.pcgamer.com) angielski
Voice and motion capture actor Neil Newbon, known to fans of Baldur's Gate 3 as Astarion, is streaming a co-op let's play of Baldur's Gate 3 alongside friend and horror writer-director Tom de Ville. As they stream they laugh along to the game, and yeah, Newbon does The Astarion Voice a lot when he's in control of, you know, the...
The Talos Principle didn't need a sequel, but now that I've seen it in action I'm glad that it's getting one (www.pcgamer.com) angielski
One of the best of the many first-person puzzlers that followed in Portal's wake, The Talos Principle offered what felt like a complete experience. The possibility space of its puzzles—tools that you'd move around to overcome environmental obstacles—was thoroughly explored. And its story—a kind of meditation on the nature...
Baldur's Gate 3 has ruined Starfield for me (www.pcgamer.com) angielski
[Rumor] Nintendo Switch 2 reportedly uses Nvidia's DLSS to boost frame rates (www.pcgamer.com) angielski
Interestingly, the demo was apparently running ray traced visuals, and was utilising Nvidia's Deep Learning Super Sampling (DLSS) in order to offer playable frame rates that will make enabling such fancy effects actually worthwhile.