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Discussion time: Most big MMOs are seasonal now—do you prefer it that way, or do you loathe the FOMO checklist?
WELL SEASONED 'Tis the season.
Vampire: The Masquerade's D&D crossover is a condescending cave-in to people who are afraid of trying something new
BLOOD DRAINED The d10s can't hurt you, I swear.
D&D and Magic owner Hasbro is reportedly trying to get child actors from Peppa Pig to sign away their voices to AI
News This doesn't bode too well for Hasbro's videogames, either.
GTA 6's preorders mark the start of a long wait for it to come to PC, despite the fact we'll likely make up '50% of the sales'
LEFT OUT What are we, chopped liver?
Path of Exile co-creator used to think 'live service was entirely upside, in all cases', but 10 years of experience and games like Baldur's Gate 3 have shown him another way
News "This is a far more nuanced field than I thought it was 10 years ago."
The grim industry summer continues as EA lays off staff ahead of $55 billion sale to Saudi Arabia, likely to soothe the sting of its $20 billion debt
News The layoffs will continue until… well, something improves.
Warframe dev says 'no one is celebrating' Destiny 2 winding down: 'A game is healthy when you have competitors'
News We all lift together.
I had my doubts about Critical Role's new 13-player D&D campaign, but its latest episodes have me fully bought into its grand, ambitious promise
HIGH ROLLERS Three parties, one city, high stakes.
Guild Wars' devs tried to escape the MMO branding in 2005, citing all the things that would become genre staples 20 years later
News If you can't beat 'em, join 'em.
WoW's got the right to close private servers—but in this industry layoff hellscape, I also feel like I'm watching the MMO genre's future get snuffed out
NO CHILDREN Private servers are a symptom, not the disease.
WoW's quest to add variable difficulty to just about everything continues in Midnight patch 12.1's Mythic world bosses, though there's a catch
News Straight lair lurkin'.
Slay the Spire 2 patch fixes RNG bug after a fan's '8 hour descent into madness' proves it exists—alongside heaps of other updates and a new Act 3 boss
News "Rest assured that your suffering is now truly random!"
Gabe Newell buys $70.8 million mansion in Florida, and naturally it has a dock for his superyachts and a personal tunnel to the ocean
News How he does like to be beside the seaside.
D&D-inspired Critical Role's homegrown videogame is coming along well, says Laura Bailey: 'There's a lot of work being done'
News Downtime activity.
Final Fantasy 14 will give players in Japan a dog for paying their taxes
News Trade offer: I receive financed infrastructure. You receive: A dog.
Don't Kill Them All make you keep orc calm so orc not smash resources—big smart, neat game, like demo much
News Me can be different kind of orc.
It just keeps getting worse—Microsoft reportedly already had Ninja Theory in its crosshairs while pushing the announcement trailer for its next game
News "Microsoft had already planned to sunset or split with the studio."
Mistfall Hunter's demo might finally convince me, a souls sicko, to give extraction games a proper go—even if it's more modern God of War than Nightreign
News Kratos, is that you?
Destiny 2 comes full circle as players honour the tradition of pushing bosses to their deaths—this time by becoming a porcupine and smacking them with a void football
News No, really.
Social media is awful but the UK under-16 ban won't solve anything: 'Instead of punishing children, the government needs to target the source'
No quick fixes PC Gamer's writers and editors tackle the impending ban on Snapchat, TikTok, YouTube, Instagram, X and Facebook.
As Xbox eyes layoffs, Microsoft's CEO says its videogames aren't monetised enough—so it's not the cancelled games or $68.7 billion deals or AI overspending, then
News Watch that line go up, up up up up up.
Both Final Fantasy 7 remakes are dirt cheap right now in a franchise sale—but I think you should play FF12 and enjoy the series' best combat system at a discount, too
News Gambits, my beloved.
2 entire years after being raked over the coals for it, Dragon's Dogma 2 is removing a bunch of those silly little microtransactions that weren't even P2W anyway
News Was it worth it? No.
Ultima Online and Star Wars Galaxies vet tells me the theme park 'assembly line' MMO just isn't viable anymore, especially as dev costs spike: 'We hit the wall'
CANARY, COALMINE "The MMO audience feels underserved and overmonetized, that's how they feel about what's going on."
