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- 'What's your salary? I told him, and he said no problem, we'll double. And those days are gone:' Listening to game dev legends reminiscing in 1989 about the 'golden days of computer games' already being over is a trip
- Blizzard is hiring for an 'open-world shooter' using Unreal Engine, which is more evidence that a new Starcraft game could be on its way
- Instead of making a joke, Valve celebrates April Fool's Day by rolling out a Steam storefront 'refresh' that makes it look much nicer
- Diablo 4's 'April Fowl's Day' joke is a big chicken boss who drops a cluckton of unique loot, like the 'Cluckonomicon' and the 'Eggcecutioner'
- The most baffling apostrophe in gaming history: a PC Gamer investigation
- US Patent Office revokes Nintendo's controversial Pokémon battling patent in nonfinal decision
- Garry's Mod successor s&box finally arrives on Steam on April 28
- Black Ops 7's April Fools' joke is very much real: the smallest Call of Duty map in history
- April Fool's Day is upon us, and you know what that means: Bubsy feet pics
- Gabe Newell stepped back from game design during Portal 2's development, because 'he always wanted to be part of the team, but being Gabe and being in his position, that never really worked'
- Shinji Mikami's next game was just stealth-announced in a YouTube video and it sure looks like the creator of survival horror is back doing what he does best
- Marathon has made everyone's favourite loot spot harder to access but even more rewarding, and it's got solo players raising pitchforks
- Stormgate, the StarCraft-like RTS that launched last summer, is losing online multiplayer support because its server partner was bought by an AI company
- It looks like Intel might ditch regular E-cores for its upcoming Core 300 laptop chips
- Billy the pickpocket is the unluckiest man in Crimson Desert
- Oracle, darling of the AI boom, is reportedly laying off around 10,000 people
- If you want to crank tons more gaming performance out of the Apple MacBook Neo, apparently a custom water cooling loop works
- WoW's latest raid cinematic could be the start of a massive story retcon for its worst expansion
- No, there isn't going to be a new lovecraftian Nier game with a caked-up tentacle robot, despite cope to the contrary
- Nvidia's big frame gen update to DLSS includes a new model for improved UI elements, but I can't see any improvements whatsoever
- 512,000 lines of Claude Code's own CLI source code have leaked due to 'human error', but the company says 'no sensitive customer data or credentials' were exposed
- Google says quantum computing will crack bitcoin cryptography sooner than expected, estimating a 10% chance of 'Q-Day' by 2032
- MindsEye's first major update, 'Blacklist', really will be used by former GTA lead to 'share some of the evidence of the sabotage’ that apparently made it bad
- 'Legally distinct Cammy': Overwatch revealed its newest hero and fans are saying she looks awfully familiar
- Crimson Desert's less than ideal launch is a distant memory as it hits the 4 million sales milestone
- There's only one budget wireless hall effect controller I'd recommend right now, and my current favorite is only $30
- Trendforce says DDR5 RAM kit prices have fallen 'sharply' in US, Europe and China but that contract memory prices 'remain stable'
- Web-code library with millions of weekly downloads poisoned by malicious release: 'This is unironically a malware nuclear missile'
- To the surprise of no one, running a PC without system RAM is not the solution to the memory crisis—but hey, you can always force Snake to run in the BIOS
- Now that you can try out Nvidia's new Dynamic Multi Frame Generation for yourself, you might want to know that there's a bit of an issue when it comes to frame rate limiters
- Geekbench says enabling Intel BOT paints an 'unrealistic picture' of CPU performance and makes Intel chips seem faster versus the AMD competition 'than they would be in typical, real-world usage'
- The latest Nvidia App beta update adds DLSS 4.5 Dynamic Multi Frame Generation support and an intriguing Auto Shader Compilation feature to the green team suite
- Amazon says its Fallout series has now been watched by 100 million people, 'with season two now joining season one as two of our top four biggest seasons we've ever launched'
- My 5 favorite cozy games in Steam's House and Home sale
- Super Mario Galaxy Movie reviews are in and, surprise: it's execrable churn
