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Morgan Park @morganpark.bsky.social · 1d

My review-in-progress of Battlefield 6 is live. www.pcgamer.com/games/fps/ba...

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Tyler @tylercolp.bsky.social · 2d

The Megabonk patch notes cracked me up lol www.pcgamer.com/games/roguel...

A screenshot of a PC Gamer story written by Tyler Colp. The headline reads: After cheaters broke Steam's most popular roguelike's leaderboards, its dev issued a fix and a warning: 'Cheaters you better watch your ass or I'm clapping your cheeks back to the shadow realm where you belong'

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lincoln carpenter @lincolnhello.bsky.social · 3d

"'The more we try to understand what's going on in the world around us—the more we don't just withdraw into a hermitude of my family and I as a nuclear unit, the more we try to understand our society—I think the more these kinds of games speak to us,' Short said."

Founder of Dwarf Fortress and Caves of Qud publisher Kitfox Games says its procgen sims for sickos are 'giving storytelling tools back to the people when games and passive media took them away'

Streets of Fortuna, Kitfox's own in-development "megasim," is chasing that same systems-driven storytelling.

pcgamer.com

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Kelsey McKinney @mckinneykelsey.bsky.social · 4d

i wrote about The Life of a Showgirl

Defector @defector.com · 4d

No good art comes from greed: defector.com/taylor-swift...

No Good Art Comes From Greed | Defector

The packages arrived square and thin and carefully wrapped on Saturday afternoon. There were three of them, but only one was mine. If I could have rejected my package, sent it back from whence it…

defector.com

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Tyler @tylercolp.bsky.social · 7d

The award for The Most Video Game of the Year goes to Megabonk. www.pcgamer.com/games/roguel...

A slot machine for gags disguised as a Vampire Survivors-like is taking over Steam, and I'm just as addicted to pulling the lever as the other 90K people playing it

Megabonk keeps on giving.

www.pcgamer.com

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Christopher Livingston @chrislivingston.bsky.social · 7d

We joke about Steam reviews but sometimes they get their point across in a single sentence whereas it takes me about 1,800 words. Anyway, I made a quiz where you try to guess the game based only on a blurb from a Steam review. Pretty much everyone is is acing it. www.pcgamer.com/games/can-yo...

Can you guess the game based only on a blurb from a Steam review? Take our quiz and see if you score a thumbs up!

We're (overwhelmingly) positive you'll do great on this quiz.

www.pcgamer.com

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lincoln carpenter @lincolnhello.bsky.social · 9d

"Private equity firms have gained a sinister reputation thanks to a counter-intuitive strategy in which firms can cannibalize their own acquisitions, extracting profits at the expense of the company and its workforce."

www.pcgamer.com/gaming-indus...

EA's $55 billion acquisition is the biggest leveraged buyout in private equity history. Here's why it has everyone terrified

Private equity and PIF investment aren't a reassuring pair.

www.pcgamer.com

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Tyler @tylercolp.bsky.social · 9d

Sharp piece here from the shooter expert himself.

Morgan Park @morganpark.bsky.social · 10d

"Maybe it's a sign that Call of Duty—or more accurately, the machine that produces a clone of the previous Call of Duty every 12 months—is in decline. Maybe doubling up on Black Ops right after doubling up on Modern Warfares finally broke Call of Duty." www.pcgamer.com/games/fps/th...

This year's 'COD Next' served up everything wrong with Call of Duty: Nonstop ads, manufactured hype, and a stagnant game

Black Ops 7's big multiplayer debut was loud and insecure.

www.pcgamer.com

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Tyler @tylercolp.bsky.social · 10d

the video game you saw on that ncis episode is real and everyone is playing it

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Ana Diaz @pokachee.bsky.social · 10d

I interviewed Toby Fox again. :) You can read the conversation in both and digital and print (!!!!!) editions of Game Informer. We talked about the “stupid” way to make games and his new journey with Deltarune. Read to see our convo and some awesome fan art.

gameinformer.com/2025/09/30/i...

Inefficient And Laborious – The Ongoing Path To Making Deltarune

We spoke with Toby Fox about his “stupid” way of making games and the big leap from Undertale to Deltarune.

gameinformer.com

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Maddy Myers 🏳️‍🌈 @midimyers.com · 10d

i wrote about how i have a terrible sense of direction in games and in life. and also specifically hollow knight www.endlessmode.com/video-games/...

Our Love-Hate Relationship with Silksong's Compass

The misguided way Hollow Knight: Silksong has its compass take up an item slot adds frustration for frustration's sake.

www.endlessmode.com

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Tyler @tylercolp.bsky.social · 14d

Silksong players are very normal. www.pcgamer.com/games/action...

A screenshot of a PC Gamer article about a Hollow Knight: Silksong player using speedrunning tricks to trap protagonist Hornet in jail. The text reads: "This is your end and your beginning," Kilroy says. "This is your life. And this is a particularly nasty kind of softlock because you're so close to freedom. You can get your stuff back, but you can never leave."

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Zoë Hannah @zoehhannah.bsky.social · 15d

My first for Aftermath!! Thx for the great edits @rcmacleod.bsky.social

Aftermath @aftermath.site · 16d

Playing Is This Seat Taken? feels different when you live in DC
aftermath.site/is-this-seat-t...

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Kallie Plagge @inkydojikko.bsky.social · 23d

I dug into that recent Pokémon patent on @theverge.com in the interest of getting some facts straight www.theverge.com/games/779062...

No, Nintendo and Pokémon did not patent ‘summoning characters and making them battle’

Is that even allowed?

www.theverge.com

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Tyler @tylercolp.bsky.social · 24d

loll

Tyler @tylercolp.bsky.social · 24d

I've been playing a lot of Path of Exile 2 and dreading another Diablo season with the exact same items to build around. This won't solve everything, but it's a really promising step in the right direction. www.pcgamer.com/games/rpg/di...

Diablo 4's new 'Chaos armor' is a card game-inspired response to criticisms over boring seasonal powers

Season 10 completely shakes up what Diablo builds can be.

www.pcgamer.com

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Morgan Park @morganpark.bsky.social · 26d

"Silksong will beat you, burn you, rub your face in the dirt, and then dazzle you with another piece of a haunted clockwork world." - @tylercolp.bsky.social 90% review www.pcgamer.com/games/action...

Hollow Knight: Silksong review

A 2D action game that'll make you work to see what all the hype was about.

www.pcgamer.com

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Tyler @tylercolp.bsky.social · 27d

I reviewed the bug game. www.pcgamer.com/games/action...

Hollow Knight: Silksong review

A 2D action game that'll make you work to see what all the hype was about.

www.pcgamer.com

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season of the apple cider witch 🍎🎃 @applecider.bsky.social · 28d

I started a bearblog just to have a space to scribble down thoughts that aren't quite pitches but are too long for social media, and I decided to write about Dance Gavin Dance's new album Pantheon that came out today
applecider.bearblog.dev/a-sea-change...

Album cover of Dance Gavin Dance's Pantheon, which is a hand-drawn illustration of a huge floating city that is mirrored both up and down, infinity symbols and the darkness of space and stars behind it.

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Joshua Rivera @jmrivera.bsky.social · 29d

Wrote about Silksong as a cause célèbre

slate.com/culture/2025...

The Buzziest Video Game of the Year Is Here. Its Success Proves Something.

Hollow Knight: Silksong, the sequel to one of gaming’s biggest surprise hits, offers a way forward in a bleak industry.

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Morgan Park @morganpark.bsky.social · Sep 8

Hello. I just launched an FPS column I've wanted to start for ages. It's called FOV 90, it's weekly, and I hope you dig it. www.pcgamer.com/games/fps/th...

The death and resurrection of Battlefield: Bad Company 2 is exactly why real server browsers are important

Welcome to FOV 90, PC Gamer's new FPS column.

www.pcgamer.com

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Tyler @tylercolp.bsky.social · Sep 8

hardest boss fight in the game

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Fox Harper @foxharper.bsky.social · Sep 7

At one point @tylercolp.bsky.social was doing this, and @applecider.bsky.social was using the pizza cutter's buzzsaw special, and the sound of them both going off simultaneously was deafening

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Watch dentist duchess build by hellociaran and millions of other Elden Ring: Nightreign videos on Medal. Tags: #eldenringnightreign, #roleplayingrpg, #action

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Tyler @tylercolp.bsky.social · Sep 5

lol I thought about posting it last night but figured I should give people a day or so to run into them even if they're really early.

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Tyler @tylercolp.bsky.social · Sep 5

this is what I'm blasting when you hand me the aux

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