If there's anything the leaders of the AI era love more than watching the billion-dollar valuations of their companies tick up, it's warning us that the software making them rich might just destroy the world. AI is going to kill us all. Now, can we have more money for data centers, please?Their next favorite activity? Coming up with trendy phrases that either explain how toooootally smart the next upcoming AI...

One of the developers running the World of Warcraft: Forever beta has no patience for the people who think they can get away with naming their characters something inappropriate.I was surprised at how many awful player names I've seen while playing the beta over the last week. WoW usually has a pretty strict filter that covers a lot of racist or disgusting names and all their permutations. But in the...

In the wake of Microsoft gutting Halo Studios to a skeleton crew and passing off the series to Activision, new reports from insiders tell a believable story about what was happening in Halo Studios as the plug got pulled. The accounts come from The Verge's Tom Warren (longtime Microsoft beat writer) and YouTuber Rebs Gaming (whose sources within the Halo machine are often accurate).According to sourcesThe drastic cuts were a...

Oh good, it looks like Marathon players might have to fight a Gundam: In its developer insight video explaining Marathon's upcoming pivot away from full-on extraction focus, Bungie offered a brief glance at an internal Miro board showing concepts for potential enemy additions. One of those concepts was labeled "UESC Mecha (BOSS)," a behemoth that looks like it's sporting its own Deep Striker-tier weapons arsenal. Best of luck, runners.exCUSE ME?...

I've played enough horror games at this point to wonder whether I'd be any good at actually surviving one. While some games are simply out of the question after finishing Silent Hill: Townfall recently I came to the conclusion that yes, given the right circumstances I'd probably make it to the end. But what about the rest of the PC Gamer team? Well I have an answer for that as...

My first MMO character was... Don L LegsBorn: [I was a small child]Game: RuneScapeMy memories from this time are hazy at best. If this is all bollocks to a seasoned RuneScape player, this is at least what I thought was happening at the time. I was very young, but I think I remember a few things. I got really good at fishing. Like, really good. I was top level or...

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Here are some reasons to try the Gravhounds open playtest on Steam:It's free for the next few days and seems well put-together for a playtest of an unreleased early access gameIt's a co-op wave shooter and those are basically always fun to muck around in with friends, at least for a bitThe movement feels good, especially gliding across networks of buildable cablesThere's a light resource mining and tower defense element...

Summer Eternal is an RPG studio co-founded by ex-ZA/UM designers Argo Tuulik and Dora Klindžić, as well as developer/organizer Aleksandar Gavrilović (quoted above). Given the former two developers' experience working on a canceled Disco Elysium expansion, it makes sense they'd want to try something radically different for their new studio's financing and governance.Worker-owned cooperatives are rare but not unheard-of in games, but Summer Eternal is also looking to offer ownership...

Spotted in Tokyo: It appears that brothers Mario Mario and Luigi Mario are getting lit at this barbershop I passed in Harajuku. Really puts the Super Mario Bros. Super Show's "hooked on the brothers" in a different light. Do you think anyone from Nintendo's ever stopped by Mr. Brothers for a haircut?(Image credit: Wes Fenlon)