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Baldur's Gate 3 art with Michael Douse
'Marketing's dead, and I can back this s**t up': Baldur's Gate 3 publishing director says players 'just want to be spoken to, and they don't want to be bamboozled'

By Wes Fenlon Published

News In our State of PC Gaming roundtable, Larian's Michael Douse argues marketing isn't the right way to reach today's gaming audience.

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PC Gamer roundtable with Larian, CPP, Digital Extremes, and Mega Crit
State of PC gaming roundtable: Larian, Digital Extremes, CCP, Mega Crit on making games in 2024

By Wes Fenlon Published

GDC Special The developers behind some of PC gaming's biggest hits discuss the state of our hobby and the biggest trends, risks and opportunities in PC gaming today.

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Covert Protocol AI demo
I tried two demos of machine learning AI NPCs, and they didn't convince me AI will lead to anything that immersive sims like Deus Ex haven't already done better

By Wes Fenlon Published

Immersed? Does an NPC that reacts to anything I say into a microphone actually lead to more player agency?

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The Elder Scrolls Online has made nearly $2 billion in its lifetime, 9 years after the big comeback that doubled its player count overnight

By Lauren Morton Published

News After 10 years, TESO is an even bigger financial success than I realized.

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Sky: Children of the Light - two players stand together uner an umbrella at a little lake party in a forest
Somehow Dark Souls was the inspiration for player messages in the kindest MMO around

By Lauren Morton Published

News Sky: Children of the Light's creative director says that its minimal text chat was inspired by Dark Souls.

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Smaller games can be 'more creative,' says designer who made one of Ubisoft's most acclaimed games with a tiny team

By Tyler Wilde Published

news "If you've got a more limited budget than triple-A, and you've got a more limited timeframe to do it, I think you get more innovation..."

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Female system shock hacker holding laser gun with cyborgs approaching from behind
The System Shock remake is getting a massive patch with a revised ending, choice of female player character '8 years in the making', and a significant quality of life improvement

By Ted Litchfield Published

news I'm glad I put off my replay of 2023's best remake.

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Upcoming pirate RPG wants to break from cliché and show 'what piracy really was'

By Tyler Wilde Published

news Flint: Treasure of Oblivion promises big tactical battles and an un-Hollywood-like vision of pirates.

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Eternal Strands - a large metallic monster holds a hammer while a player climbs its face
Former Dragon Age creative director says 'I just desperately don't want to overhype anything' in his new studio's first game

By Lauren Morton Published

News At GDC, Mike Laidlaw talked around the imminent Eternal Strands announcement and plans for Yellow Brick Games' future.

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Windblown roguelite
For their new roguelite, the Dead Cells team scrapped 2 years of work on combat and redid it in just 3 weeks: 'We need to be able to dare to kill a feature when it doesn't work'

By Wes Fenlon Published

News Motion Twin ditched Windblown's combat just a month before its reveal.

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