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Enough messing around: The objectively best PC gaming Prime Day deal is this boxed set of all three seasons of Twin Peaks and Fire Walk With Me for $45
Prime Day I'd buy it if I didn't already own everything in it.
The videogame voice actors' strike officially ends as performers ratify agreement between SAG-AFTRA and publishers
news AI was a huge sticking point, and it looks like SAG-AFTRA won some concessions.
John Wick Hex and Tron Catalyst dev Mike Bithell thinks licensed games have evolved past 'lunchbox tie-ins' because 'the people who played licensed games are now bosses in the companies that are licensing IP'
news "We're not just, 'I'll put something on a shelf so the Gran can buy it for the kid who likes the movie.'"
Update: Valve only blocked a creepy fascist Mount and Blade: Warband mod in South Korea, not worldwide, and the mod's own author took it down entirely
news The story now lines up with prior Valve moderation decisions.
Romero Games reportedly met with Microsoft just a day before the publisher pulled funding for the studio, and there was 'no mention' of the decision that put over 100 people out of work
news Romero Games is pursuing alternate sources of funding, but for the time being, it sounds like the dream is dead.
Xbox bet that Game Pass would be the future of gaming, and we're all paying for it
news There's triage, and then there's this.
Obsidian stuck to some fantasy conventions for Pillars of Eternity and Avowed because that's what people want: ''I didn't want to completely flip it and say, oh you want to play an elf? F**k you, this isn't your daddy's elf'
News At least the team still gave us orlans.
Subnautica 2 studio begs rioting fans for benefit of the doubt after leadership axed by owner Krafton: 'The team that has been working on the game day-to-day over the last few years remains completely unchanged'
news I don't think it's enough to win people back.
Former Forza dev says original Motorsport series died in Microsoft's cuts, but Forza Horizon lives on
news Developer Fred Russell left the studio in 2016, but presumably still has connections at Turn 10.
Obsidian director Josh Sawyer says it's a 'mistake' for RPGs to sacrifice crunchy 'sweaty boy' systems in favour of a 'one size fits all' game, since easier difficulties aren't too hard to make
News "With not a whole lot of effort, but just good planning, we can support a wide spectrum of players."
If you're curious about the crazy-ambitious space survival game from the makers of EVE Online, it's got a free trial running through the next week and change
news EVE Frontier 1.0 is a long way away, but now's a good time to check in if you're curious.
A rising Peak lifts all boats as climbing sim Cairn breaks 500k demo downloads after endorsement from mountaineering megahit Peak's devs
news One of those actual feel-good stories.
The dev behind one of my favorite recent FPSes is making a 'horror game about a trainee metro driver trapped in the dampest subway east of anything that matters' set in a real city that doesn't actually have a subway
news HROT was already a scary shooter, so this feels like a great next step.
The first true 1:1 test we have shows Steam OS getting better performance than Windows in 10 big games, tying in 2 more, and it's got me salivating for a desktop version of Valve's OS
news Liberate me from this prison.
Despite always preferring turn-based combat in RPGs, Pillars of Eternity designer Josh Sawyer thinks a lack of experience and opportunity meant the studio couldn't pull off a similar swing to Larian taking Baldur's Gate turn-based
"I guess we did South Park, but other than that, we hadn't done turn-based ever, really."
New Vegas lead Josh Sawyer thinks turn-based combat fell off in the 2000s due to a lack of 'tactical variation': Even Fallout 1 would 'get to the point where you're always doing nut shots and eye shots'
news Real time with pause won the 2000s, but turn-based won the war.
I screwed up Karlach's ending in Baldur's Gate 3: I thought I'd picked her best outcome but her actor says 'not very much' of her is actually left
News Honestly it was impossible for me to know it was a bad idea.
System Shock 2: 25th Anniversary Remastered is a light touch remaster, but it's the best way to play the imsim classic
Shockingly Good The way you should play System Shock 2.
Larian jumped to improve Karlach's ending in Baldur's Gate 3 right away, with voice actor Samantha Béart saying it was nigh-on immediate: 'As soon as it was out, I got a call'
News "People were still in the character creator."
Karlach's actor knows about the 3,138 'filthy' Baldur's Gate 3 stories you've written on fanfic sites and still sends all their love to fans for changing their life: 'I don't read it, but I am aware'
News The fandom has Tiefling fever.
Death Stranding 2 launch times and release date
strand game The second Strand-type game.
One gamer got so tired of waiting for Valve, he made his own 'Steam Controller 2' out of Steam Deck parts, and it even splits in half like Switch Joy-Cons
news TommyB made instructions, firmware, and components all readily available if you want to try this yourself.
Sega just accidentally leaked its own sales numbers, and somehow Sonic Frontiers sold more than the last two mainline Yakuzas combined, but Persona 5's putting the rest of the stable to shame
news Blue Blur somehow still raking in the dough.
