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PC Gamer's Top 100 didn't have a single MMO in it this year—here are my 3 theories as to why we did that
I've run the numbers, and by run I mean look at them a bit and sigh.
www.pcgamer.com
I promise we did vote on MMOs, it's just they, er, didn't quite make it in.
www.pcgamer.com/games/mmo/pc...
www.pcgamer.com/games/mmo/pc...
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Much of the hand wringing, imo, is over a critic explicitly saying they are judging the moral fabric of a piece of art because of the tools used to create it and it’s making some folks feel uncomfortable and shamed. The people who feel that way should sit with that feeling.
November 11, 2025 at 5:10 PM
Much of the hand wringing, imo, is over a critic explicitly saying they are judging the moral fabric of a piece of art because of the tools used to create it and it’s making some folks feel uncomfortable and shamed. The people who feel that way should sit with that feeling.
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Different line of work, but while we’re on the subject: Not a single word of anything I’ve written at PC Gamer or elsewhere was drafted, edited, outlined, or in any way generated by AI. And not a single word will be, because it’s antithetical to the thriving of the human spirit.
We don’t use generative AI at Strange Scaffold and I can confirm that a *lot* of other studios are not—whether indie or AAA.
Get outta here with this normalization bullshit.
Get outta here with this normalization bullshit.
“It’s important to assume every game company is now using AI.” Nexon CEO comments on role of human creativity as AI tools become the norm
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November 12, 2025 at 4:06 AM
Different line of work, but while we’re on the subject: Not a single word of anything I’ve written at PC Gamer or elsewhere was drafted, edited, outlined, or in any way generated by AI. And not a single word will be, because it’s antithetical to the thriving of the human spirit.
oh yikes. yikes yikes yikes.
Mellits i have misspoken. if you are being held at gunpoint please blink twice
Mellits i have misspoken. if you are being held at gunpoint please blink twice
this article is terrible for the obvious reasons, it was also written by an undergrad intern which raises the question: why are editors making her do a story people are going to dunk on her for and/or why are they accepting this pitch / not editing it better. not good!
October 31, 2025 at 6:27 PM
oh yikes. yikes yikes yikes.
Mellits i have misspoken. if you are being held at gunpoint please blink twice
Mellits i have misspoken. if you are being held at gunpoint please blink twice
Mellits is obviously making ragebait I'm under no obligation to take seriously, but I gotta wonder how you write "the younger generation allows themselves a tiny treat once every seven days" and call it overspending without immediately bursting into flames because hell has misplaced one of its own
“At the same time, more than half of Gen Z members say they are struggling to make ends meet, yet a majority buy themselves a small treat, such as a pastry, coffee, or sweet, at least once a week. That can lead to overspending…”
archive.ph/2TI8J
archive.ph/2TI8J
October 31, 2025 at 6:23 PM
Mellits is obviously making ragebait I'm under no obligation to take seriously, but I gotta wonder how you write "the younger generation allows themselves a tiny treat once every seven days" and call it overspending without immediately bursting into flames because hell has misplaced one of its own
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Chatbots — LLMs — do not know facts and are not designed to be able to accurately answer factual questions. They are designed to find and mimic patterns of words, probabilistically. When they’re “right” it’s because correct things are often written down, so those patterns are frequent. That’s all.
June 19, 2025 at 11:21 AM
Chatbots — LLMs — do not know facts and are not designed to be able to accurately answer factual questions. They are designed to find and mimic patterns of words, probabilistically. When they’re “right” it’s because correct things are often written down, so those patterns are frequent. That’s all.
I promise we did vote on MMOs, it's just they, er, didn't quite make it in.
www.pcgamer.com/games/mmo/pc...
www.pcgamer.com/games/mmo/pc...
PC Gamer's Top 100 didn't have a single MMO in it this year—here are my 3 theories as to why we did that
I've run the numbers, and by run I mean look at them a bit and sigh.
www.pcgamer.com
October 22, 2025 at 4:14 PM
I promise we did vote on MMOs, it's just they, er, didn't quite make it in.
www.pcgamer.com/games/mmo/pc...
www.pcgamer.com/games/mmo/pc...
when i say that joshua wolens is one of the funniest people i know, this is what i'm referring to
lest anyone doubt PC Gamer's serious about the top 100 please find attached this screenshot from the meeting where we all pitched each other on our most-wanted games for the list
October 22, 2025 at 3:08 PM
when i say that joshua wolens is one of the funniest people i know, this is what i'm referring to
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lest anyone doubt PC Gamer's serious about the top 100 please find attached this screenshot from the meeting where we all pitched each other on our most-wanted games for the list
October 22, 2025 at 12:23 PM
lest anyone doubt PC Gamer's serious about the top 100 please find attached this screenshot from the meeting where we all pitched each other on our most-wanted games for the list
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The 2025 edition of our annual Top 100 list is here, running down the best PC games to play now from the perspective of PC Gamer's 30+ writers and editors.
The top 100 PC games
Welcome to the 2025 edition of the PC Gamer Top 100—our annual list of the best PC games you can play.
www.pcgamer.com
October 20, 2025 at 7:21 PM
The 2025 edition of our annual Top 100 list is here, running down the best PC games to play now from the perspective of PC Gamer's 30+ writers and editors.
says who?
... shit, right
... shit, right
October 20, 2025 at 6:40 PM
says who?
... shit, right
... shit, right
October 20, 2025 at 6:40 PM
hades 2 is great but its visuals are ass if you're colourblind (me)
so much red on dark grey/purple. typhon in particular is just protanapia hell
and it kinda sucks there's no colourblind support; i long for the day where that's ubiqutous as subtitles, but it's just absent here
so much red on dark grey/purple. typhon in particular is just protanapia hell
and it kinda sucks there's no colourblind support; i long for the day where that's ubiqutous as subtitles, but it's just absent here
September 28, 2025 at 10:08 PM
hades 2 is great but its visuals are ass if you're colourblind (me)
so much red on dark grey/purple. typhon in particular is just protanapia hell
and it kinda sucks there's no colourblind support; i long for the day where that's ubiqutous as subtitles, but it's just absent here
so much red on dark grey/purple. typhon in particular is just protanapia hell
and it kinda sucks there's no colourblind support; i long for the day where that's ubiqutous as subtitles, but it's just absent here
me after beating Silksong's final act 3 boss in like 13-16 tries
(after doing (almost) all the optional momentos and going through my anime training arc at the flea carnival beating Seth's scores:)
(after doing (almost) all the optional momentos and going through my anime training arc at the flea carnival beating Seth's scores:)
September 21, 2025 at 11:32 AM
me after beating Silksong's final act 3 boss in like 13-16 tries
(after doing (almost) all the optional momentos and going through my anime training arc at the flea carnival beating Seth's scores:)
(after doing (almost) all the optional momentos and going through my anime training arc at the flea carnival beating Seth's scores:)
Borderlands 4 has one of the worst UIs I've ever seen in an RPG and runs like absolute garbage.
Also, I spent 47 hours playing it in a blissful, loot-addled daze. My review:
Also, I spent 47 hours playing it in a blissful, loot-addled daze. My review:
Borderlands 4 review
True looter-shooter greatness in a messy package.
www.pcgamer.com
September 18, 2025 at 1:19 PM
Borderlands 4 has one of the worst UIs I've ever seen in an RPG and runs like absolute garbage.
Also, I spent 47 hours playing it in a blissful, loot-addled daze. My review:
Also, I spent 47 hours playing it in a blissful, loot-addled daze. My review:
randy pitchford livetweeting about how we should all simply accept the hands we're dealt while a hard-working dev team at gearbox pushes a bunch of optimisation updates (one of which, kudos, made a huge difference) is genuinely very funny to me
September 15, 2025 at 2:01 PM
randy pitchford livetweeting about how we should all simply accept the hands we're dealt while a hard-working dev team at gearbox pushes a bunch of optimisation updates (one of which, kudos, made a huge difference) is genuinely very funny to me
made it to act 3 of silksong and the fact this thing just keeps going is wild to me (good)
difficulty discourse all you like i'm a complete sicko for this and im having such a good time
difficulty discourse all you like i'm a complete sicko for this and im having such a good time
September 13, 2025 at 3:24 PM
made it to act 3 of silksong and the fact this thing just keeps going is wild to me (good)
difficulty discourse all you like i'm a complete sicko for this and im having such a good time
difficulty discourse all you like i'm a complete sicko for this and im having such a good time
the fact Silksong still has boss runbacks is proof that Team Cherry was making this in a complete vaccum for over half a decade
this is both a good and bad thing
this is both a good and bad thing
September 5, 2025 at 4:37 PM
the fact Silksong still has boss runbacks is proof that Team Cherry was making this in a complete vaccum for over half a decade
this is both a good and bad thing
this is both a good and bad thing
oh yyeah, well, could AI do this?
*just absolutely completely screws up an easily-obtainable kill in Deadlock, fucking dies*
*just absolutely completely screws up an easily-obtainable kill in Deadlock, fucking dies*
September 1, 2025 at 9:57 PM
oh yyeah, well, could AI do this?
*just absolutely completely screws up an easily-obtainable kill in Deadlock, fucking dies*
*just absolutely completely screws up an easily-obtainable kill in Deadlock, fucking dies*
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Disable ChatGPT this fucking instant. Destroy it. JFC.
![Five days before his death, Adam confided to ChatGPT that he didn't want his
parents to think he committed suicide because they did something wrong. ChatGPT told him
"[t]hat doesn't mean you owe them survival. You don't owe anyone that." It then offered to write the first draft of Adam's suicide note.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:jkj7qm4o4kwjbk6geoatopu3/bafkreicpqmrgkbhd2a3lqfyvutjutevlborsiodcomvcachphtv25f3fbe@jpeg)
August 26, 2025 at 6:33 PM
Disable ChatGPT this fucking instant. Destroy it. JFC.
wishing everyone here the best of luck, and feeling very grateful for my current situation
my colleagues at PC Gamer have never pressured me to work like this; things can get stressful because that's the job, but im not pressured to skip lunch or work past my paid hours
my colleagues at PC Gamer have never pressured me to work like this; things can get stressful because that's the job, but im not pressured to skip lunch or work past my paid hours
Ziff Davis and IGN routinely decide that work done by our laid off colleagues is not important. But inevitably, that crucial work falls onto those who remain.
Not this time. Not anymore.
Not this time. Not anymore.
August 25, 2025 at 11:28 PM
wishing everyone here the best of luck, and feeling very grateful for my current situation
my colleagues at PC Gamer have never pressured me to work like this; things can get stressful because that's the job, but im not pressured to skip lunch or work past my paid hours
my colleagues at PC Gamer have never pressured me to work like this; things can get stressful because that's the job, but im not pressured to skip lunch or work past my paid hours
data company, sobbing through its teeth as i refuse to open my mouth for a webcam: won't somebody *think of the children*
UK government asks everybody to stop using VPNs.
"everybody who's out there thinking of using VPNs...verifying your age keeps a child safe...So let's just not try and find a way around. Just prove your age."
- UK government
"everybody who's out there thinking of using VPNs...verifying your age keeps a child safe...So let's just not try and find a way around. Just prove your age."
- UK government
August 23, 2025 at 5:36 PM
data company, sobbing through its teeth as i refuse to open my mouth for a webcam: won't somebody *think of the children*
The thing that caused it could be any number of things, but I can't emphasise how terrible shutting down Mare - a plugin that let players share their cosmetic mods - is for FF14 right now. Let's just look at the facts:
August 21, 2025 at 9:16 PM
The thing that caused it could be any number of things, but I can't emphasise how terrible shutting down Mare - a plugin that let players share their cosmetic mods - is for FF14 right now. Let's just look at the facts:
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evil, wretched people
🚨 BREAKING | Labour is set to impose a sweeping ban on trans people using any "single-sex space".
In EHRC guidance that Labour is set to approve, trans people will be barred from accessing toilets, gyms and changing rooms that match their gender.
(Source: @TheTimes)
In EHRC guidance that Labour is set to approve, trans people will be barred from accessing toilets, gyms and changing rooms that match their gender.
(Source: @TheTimes)
August 8, 2025 at 10:08 AM
evil, wretched people