Brazil's president has signed a ban on selling loot boxes to minors as part of a larger online child safety law (www.pcgamer.com) angielski
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[...] Steve Wozniak [75th birthday]: "I gave all my Apple wealth away because wealth and power are not what I live for" (www.pcgamer.com) angielski
New report lays out Israeli military use of Microsoft services that prompted employee protests and a boycott of Xbox and Game Pass (www.pcgamer.com) angielski
Mastercard deflects blame for NSFW games being taken down, but Valve says payment processors 'specifically cited' a Mastercard rule about damaging the brand (www.pcgamer.com) angielski
Low-Budget Repairs is like House Flipper but you're trying to cut every corner you can as the scummiest handyman in '90s Poland (www.pcgamer.com) angielski
Game developers association decries 'financial censorship' amidst payment processor crackdown on NSFW games, calls for 'greater transparency and fairness in how adult games are moderated' (www.pcgamer.com) angielski
Preservationists discover a 'nearly complete' build of a lost Animaniacs game 22 years after it was cancelled, and you can play it right now (www.pcgamer.com) angielski
'They told me to destroy' my backups, Fallout creator Tim Cain says: 'People high up at companies take authority but no responsibility' for game preservation (www.pcgamer.com) angielski
John Carmack celebrates Quake's induction in the Videogame Hall of Fame: 'We threw everything we had at it, and it was really a little bit more than we could chew at the time… it was rough' (www.pcgamer.com) angielski
DayZ creator says Unity is accusing his studio of violating its software license based on the email addresses of two people who never worked there (www.pcgamer.com) angielski
Morrowind modders continue to astound, add object physics with 'pure lua' to a 23-year old game (www.pcgamer.com) angielski
Oblivion Remastered modder has already fixed its awful levelled loot system, after very reasonably blacking out in an 'incomprehensible fury' (www.pcgamer.com) angielski
Oh Bethesda…
After 6 years of hype, can Hollow Knight: Silksong really live up to the sky-high expectations? (www.pcgamer.com) angielski
I don’t think it’ll live up to the hype but it’ll still be a great game.
Gabe Newell is hooked on Stalker 2 and once he's got the fourth ending (!) will 'figure out what I'm going to play next' (www.pcgamer.com) angielski
The first non-Steam Deck SteamOS handheld is now available for preorder, and Lenovo may be aiming for the ROG Ally X's throne (www.pcgamer.com) angielski
Papers, Please creator Lucas Pope says 'it's a tragedy' his 2013 immigration sim now feels so on-the-nose (www.pcgamer.com) angielski
Game dev union marches through industry event to demonstrate that it's about 'taking action and organizing change' (www.pcgamer.com) angielski
Good for them.
After suing a Disco Elysium writer to prevent him from making his own game, a tech CEO who's allegedly banned from the Disco Elysium subreddit is trying to crowdfund a spiritual successor (www.pcgamer.com) angielski
Steam just cracked 40 million concurrent users for the first time, meaning Valve's user count was bigger than 80% of the countries in the United Nations (www.pcgamer.com) angielski
Amazon thought it could compete with Steam because it was so much larger than Valve, but Prime Gaming's former VP admits that 'gamers already had the solution to their problems' (www.pcgamer.com) angielski
I did not realize they were trying to compete in the first place.
Valve's monthly survey reveals that almost 45% of Steam users on PC are still using Windows 10 even with the sword of Damocles hanging over them (www.pcgamer.com) angielski
The biggest PC gaming subreddit [r/rpcgaming] has blacklisted X for being 'hateful' and 'toxic', citing Elon Musk's 'distasteful' behavior (www.pcgamer.com) angielski
Popeye and Tintin have entered the public domain, so I'll just go ahead and start the countdown clock for our first Sailor Man soulslike (www.pcgamer.com) angielski
Russian disinfo is trying to spark a boycott of Stalker 2 by claiming it's going to draft you into the war in Ukraine somehow (www.pcgamer.com) angielski
