Katamari Damacy creator Keita Takahashi is known for making unusual games, and his latest digital escapade To a T is no different. Players assume the role of a teenager stuck in a T-pose as they try to navigate everyday life via interactive scenes like brushing their teeth and eating breakfast.Speaking at GamesCom LATAM earlier this year, Takahashi revelled in his own ridiculous concept. "It's so stupid," he said in a...
More quizzes!(Image credit: Larian Studios, PC Gamer)Want to keep testing your knowledge of gaming trivia We've got loads more PC Gamer quizzes, on everything from healthbars to weird currencies to absurd patch notes.With the right words, hand gestures, and offerings, those with an otherworldly talent can pull at the threads of the impossible, weaving them into spells and manifesting them against their enemies… usually to do about 2d6 fire damage.I...
It's the weekend, and that means you've earned yourself a little break. Relax, you're about to win today's Wordle. If you'd like that win to come in the form of a clue for the July 26 (1498) puzzle, then we've got just the thing you need. Take a peek right now or at any point later, it'll definitely help you out. And if you'd much rather someone let you cut...
Variety reports that Amazon is developing a Wolfenstein TV series with Patrick Somerville, who made post-apocalyptic miniseries Station Eleven and wrote some of HBO's The Leftovers (a show with a genuinely good twist), and Kilter Films, the production company behind Amazon's Fallout TV show.Variety says that the show's being pitched with the one-sentence description: "The story of killing Nazis is evergreen."That echoes the tone of the recent Wolfenstein games from...
The ear is the most convincing part of Reddit user Ipyreable's post that claims artwork posted by official Diablo Immortal social media accounts was created with generative AI. Human ears simply do not look like that, even in the fantasy universes of Warcraft and Diablo.The art, which depicts a Warcraft character playing Hearthstone against a Diablo Immortal character to promote an upcoming crossover event, has several other strange artifacts that...
In a lengthy interview with YouTuber Zalkar Saliev (TikTok, Instagram), Valve co-founder Gabe Newell attributed his billions to "luck" and "being surrounded by great people."Asked whether there's a difference between enormously wealthy entrepreneurs and everyone else, Newell said that the only reason to think so comes from "unsound" analysis. (The topic comes up around 30 minutes into the video.)"There's this thing called survivor bias, where if you study the people...
"Walking. Sprinting. That's all we need," declared the prophet JoovYT, a YouTuber with a bone to pick with how we sprint in shooters these days.In the 21-second video captioned "My Battlefield 6 wishlist," Joov makes a fierce case that Battlefield 6, and any other FPS for that matter, need not offer two different sprint speeds.Well, "makes a case" might be an overstatement: he just insists that tac sprinting is bad...
Survival MMO Dune: Awakening got off to a strong start in June, but here at the tail end of July it's gotten stuck in a bit of quicksand. Even making changes to the controversial chopper-heavy endgame hasn't stopped recent Steam reviews from sliding to "Mixed," and despite several patches to squash exploits and hackers, cheating and griefing remains a problem.A bit more bad news arrived today: Steam Family Sharing for...
As Richard Nixon famously remarked, "We are all Dungeons and Dragons guys now." The popularity of stuff like Critical Role and the fact the government mandates we all have, at minimum, one Baldur's Gate 3 tattoo now means absolutely everyone is at least a little Faerûn-pilled these days. And if you're desperately hungry for more D&D content, then, well, you should probably not actually pick up Humble's latest bundle. Sorry.Unless...
The Financial Times recently published an investigation into chip exports during an early three-month phase in the Trump administration, when export controls were being tightened to prevent the sale of high-powered US AI hardware to China. According to the FT, at least $1 billion worth of Nvidia GPUs were shipped to those sanctioned shores during this period, although the exact method of their entry is under dispute.The FT says that...