Author: [email protected] (Ted Litchfield)
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Always keep backups: an ‘unprecedented’ Google Cloud debacle saw a $135 billion pension fund’s entire account deleted and services knocked out for nearly two weeks
What’s the worst thing you’ve accidentally deleted without meaning to? I can assure you that it wasn’t anywhere near as bad as Google Cloud deleting the entire customer account (including all backups) of $135 billion Australian pension fund, UniSuper, putting services for its over 615,000 members on the fritz for nearly two weeks. As reported…
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If you’ve somehow not played Baldur’s Gate 3 yet, our 2023 GOTY is on sale for 15% off, the lowest it’s been since launch
Look, it’s Baldur’s Gate 3, and it’s on sale on Steam for less money than it has been at any point since launch. If you have somehow not checked out the BAFTA Beast, the gaming award show hat trick champion, PC Gamer’s own 2023 Game of the Year and 16-year review high score champion, what…
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With a month to go until Elden Ring: Shadow of the Erdtree, FromSoftware has broken its silence once more to show us a messed up new guy we’ll fight in the expansion
Truly, there are few games that could work me into a lather with a single, context-free image of a new enemy, but Elden Ring is certainly one of them. The official Elden Ring Twitter account casually dropped the new nasty boy—who was not featured in the Shadow of the Erdtree expansion’s first trailer—this morning. “Fearsome…
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There’s already a company that will turn your dying relatives into perverse AI homunculi for $50K
There’s been plenty of controversy over AI deep fake videos and the digital necromancy of dead or aged actors (mostly in Star Wars), but how about taking that one step further? The company DeepBrain AI will collect audio and visual recordings of a loved one and then create an interactive AI version of them for…
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Microsoft is reportedly taking the nuclear option: releasing the next Call of Duty day one on Game Pass
First reported by The Wall Street Journal, Microsoft is allegedly planning to make this year’s new Call of Duty available on Game Pass from day one. According to the WSJ, Microsoft will officially announce the move during its June showcase in the industry’s customary, formerly-E3-centered game announcement week. Microsoft’s game subscription service has been a…
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The original Fallout had so much attention to detail, you could get special dialogue for speedrunning it in a weird order and returning to a completed zone to talk to a zombie who hates you
Like PC Gamer print editor Robert Jones, my big reaction to the Fallout show has been getting classic with it, replaying the 1997 original for the first time in over a decade. It more than holds up in so many ways, including accounting for player choices so deranged, you wonder how anyone came across them…
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One of my most anticipated upcoming RPGs doesn’t just have a fishing minigame—it has a full 3D aquarium where you can view your biggest catches and learn fantasy fish ‘lore’
Upcoming action RPG Mortal Crux is a game that always seems to have transformed in strange and unexpected ways every time I check in on it. Case and point: its full 3D in-game aquarium for communing with the fruits of a disquietingly extensive fishing minigame. This isn’t even supposed to be a fishing RPG—the quickest…
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Finally, I have another game about being a freaky little nasty guy trapped in an otherworldly hell dimension to look forward to
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With how advanced 3D graphics have gotten, I wish we’d use these rendering techniques to get more freaky with it, ya dig? Alan Wake 2’s funky lighting and lightning quick loading really scratched that itch for me last year, but 2022’s Scorn is really what I’m talkin’ about: a sickening fever dream that could only…
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The season of game company gaffes continues with NetEase apologizing for a Marvel Rivals preview contract that asked streamers not to make ‘subjective negative reviews of the game’
Publisher NetEase has walked back a controversial “non-disparagement” requirement for streamers and video makers previewing its upcoming hero shooter Marvel Rivals. Just one day after prominent streamer Brandon “Seagull” Larned criticized the contract on Twitter, NetEase made a statement on the game’s Discord and to PCGamesN that it would be amending the contract. Marvel Rivals…
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Ghost of Tsushima’s PC port has been delisted in nearly 200 countries and territories without PSN access, even though most of the game won’t require a sign-in
Mirroring Helldivers 2’s continued regional delisting woes, the upcoming PC port of Sucker Punch’s 2020 historical samurai slice ’em up, Ghost of Tsushima, has been removed from sale on Steam and other PC storefronts in nearly 200 countries and territories that are not served by Sony’s PlayStation Network. Previous Sony PC ports like God of…