Itch.io deindexes NSFW games after becoming the latest target of skittish credit card companies and anti-porn group Collective Shout, catching an award-winning indie and more in the crossfire

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Itch.io, a platform that hosts and sells videogames (particularly popular in the indie dev industry) is the latest videogame distributor to fall to a recent sweep of puritan policies by credit card companies, designed to limit the sale of NSFW content. For those not in the know, credit card processors such as Visa and Mastercard … Read more

Killing Floor 3 review | PC Gamer

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Need to Know What is it? A co-op or solo action horror FPS which sees you take down hordes of bioengineered monsters. Expect to pay $39.99/ £34.99Developer Tripwire Interactive Publisher Tripwire Interactive Reviewed on RTX 3070, Core AMD Ryzen 5 5600G, 16GB RAMMultiplayer YesSteam Deck Not verified Link Steam I am but a simple creature; … Read more

You don’t need to buy a liquid cooler with a screen: Arctic’s Liquid Freezer III Pro 360 ARGB has everything you need, and that’s why it’s our new top recommendation

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How long until we end up with a screen included on the cooler for a solid state drive or RAM? It probably already exists. What we can be sure exists are liquid coolers with screens on them. They’re everywhere. I ended up testing many of them in recent months for a big update to the … Read more

‘Gaslight-driven development’: ChatGPT was convinced this app had a feature it didn’t, so the devs decided to add it in anyway

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I must remind myself not to humanise artificial intelligence, but it’s hard not to when it’s out there causing what at least one developer is calling “gaslight-driven development”, where the AI pretends features exist until the developer feels forced to add it. As reported by 404 Media, this is exactly what happened to developers of … Read more

I don’t think they should make this

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We at PC Gamer celebrate ingenuity. Where would our hobby be, were it not for the tinkering and experimentation of inventive minds? And yet, not all inventions are created equal. Just as we admire the drive to improve and innovate, we also admire the willingness to stop and ask, “Dear god, what horrors have these … Read more

CEO of collapsing vtuber agency accused of withholding over $500K in charity funds takes ‘full responsibility’ and plans to shut it down: ‘I’ve mismanaged the company into the situation you’re all witnessing’

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VShojo, the vtuber agency that was called out in a video on Monday by Ironmouse—who is arguably the biggest vtuber on Twitch—for failing to pay her “a significant amount of funds” and withholding a $515,000 donation to charity, is shutting down. After hearing her story, almost every other vtuber who was part of VShojo decided … Read more

Half-Life 2 just got a patch that fixes a progress-blocking teleporter bug and makes a train easier to race

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Last year, Valve brought the original development team back together for a 20th anniversary Half-Life 2 update. It integrated the post-launch episodes, added a new developer commentary track, brought in Steam Workshop support, and added a heap of map and gameplay updates. All of which was great—except for one progress-blocking bug it introduced to the … Read more

Wordle today: Answer and hint #1497 for July 25

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Solve your daily Wordle game without breaking a sweat with our incredible range of help. Our tips can give your puzzle solving a general polish, while today’s hint’s happy to provide something more targeted if you need an extra lift. And if those green letters are just refusing to turn up on time, the July … Read more