Kramer!

Delighted with the Deadzone Rogue 2 demo until I got to a jumpy-jump platformy bit where it seemed absolutely impossible to make the final jump to exit the room. It’s 2026, hasn’t every game developer learned not to put jumping puzzles in a FPS?

Who’s the leader of the club that’s made for you and ther? M I C K E Y G O A T S E

The old games industry is dying. The new games industry is struggling to be born. Now is the time of absolutely batshit corporate decision-making.

Next Fest is essentially useless at this point. “Please enjoy these 7200 demos being thrust in your piehole at once like that one Merrie Melodies where the pig is force-fed by a mad scientist.” Better off drawing a Steam page link QR code onto paper airplanes and throwing them out the window

To honor one of the studios that defined PC gaming, we've republished more than 20 articles about BioWare today. The pcgamer.com homepage is dedicated to interviews, retrospectives, and making-ofs about some of the best RPGs of all time.

GTA6 is coming & hypothetical casual players may be looking for a console. Is Xbox even thought of? All news from Xbox is terrible, it's nearly extinct outside of the US, Game Pass has flopped and they shed devs & projects daily. What's the reason to buy Xbox over PS5 for the average consumer?

I'm glad the industry is changing and Big Box Publishing Mentality is imploding, even though it might not be so good for my future employment. If your team of Genius Executives making millions of dollars a year can set a studio like Bioware on fire then just maybe you are doing things wrong.

Hear me out: the 2026 Street Fighter movie is the best of the three Street Fighter movies, an admittedly low bar. Light years better than the forgotten Kristin Kreuk as Chun Li, less coked up than JCVD. Totally biased but I enjoyed it more than MK2. I may have seen it on a Friday, but for Bison?

Fingers crossed, this is the exact reaction we’ll have in a few hours.

Going to Street Fighter tonight with my buddy Scott, my first manager in games. He brought me on board the Capcom “Game Counselor” team in ‘93. This will be our third time laughing at a Street fighter movie together. Would be better if Seth K was with us, looking embarrassed and fretful.

Billionaires: start paying your fair share of taxes instead of paying 200+ million on TV ads. This November 3rd we are going to tax the billionaires by voting Yes on 40 and No on 41 and 42. #YESon40 #NOon41 #NOon42

Hey California! Be careful this election because the big money creeps are trying to trick you (again).

republicans used to complain about the violence in gangster rap and now they want to livestream an execution

In the @gamediscoverco.bsky.social newsletter today, Simon discusses the upcoming Steam Next Fest starting Oct 19 and notes: "...currently >8,000 demos (!) queued for the fest - though that number will come down, as some games drop out late." That is just... too many games.

Caveat: I'm supporting Well Dweller with PR. That said, I'm playing the game on Steamdeck and LOVING it. Metroidvanias are my thing and this particular one is genius. It's juuuust hard enough and very respectful of the player's time/life. Some really great boss fights and excellent overall design.

We’re working with Top Hat on Well Dweller, which is a fantastic game with great reviews across the board. If you’re a creator or media and would like a key to review the game, hit me up! Yeah, September has been nuts, but don’t let this game get away from you.

Should be reposted every month....

Clearly posted by the Bureau of Control outside the Oldest House

i am going to regret what this is going to do to my inbox but it's The Busy Time so: if you're a freelancer that covers games and don't ALREADY hear from GR+ editors on the regular, hit me up: rollin dot bishop at futurenet dot com

The agenda is being forced upon us. Even our games aren't safe.

Artificial intelligence systems do not think, feel, want or understand. Avoid language that gives them human characteristics.

This Steam event has most mexican games released on that platform and several have discounts, go give them a check! store.steampowered.com/sale/mexican...

Based on tweets from Anthropic employees

Dropped my phone sunny side down onto asphalt this weekend, gouging a few small scrapes into the screen. “This is the universe telling me to get a new phone,” I thought (I’d been drinking). Today, I see the new weird bendy phone is $2000. Who thought this was a good idea? The future sucks.

I would like to go back in time to tell my younger self not to get rid of these books

Tacoma WA feels like (and I mean this in the best possible way) an alternate Portland where zombies ate 30% of the population but, like, just the mime tutors and chainsaw jugglers, leaving relaxed PNWers behind to chill and go out on a Saturday without having to wait in a 3 hour line for ramen.

I fully support this.

Dammit, Miss Dolly. Saw these billboards all across the US on my recent motorcycle ride to South Dakota.

The direction that Polygon headlines have taken in the last few months really bums me out. Click here to find out why

Daaaamn. “AI is the asbestos we're shovelling into the walls of our technological society. Our descendants will spend generations digging it out again, and the longer the bubble goes on without popping, the longer it will take to repair the damage." www.thenerve.news/p/cory-docto...

Pretty sure this was at E3 ‘98 because I have a publicity photo of myself standing with her thanks to more short time in games media

If Gemini AI is so great, why do I still have to manually add contact details and information in Gmail even when all that info is in both the email address itself as well as in a signature line at the bottom of the message?

Maximum Kramer Quotability in this here article. It’s not often I’m the one being interviewed so I try to make sure I provide Good Content when it happens

The Strokes made some real choices with their new album, Reality Awakes. I do not believe most people who enjoy The Strokes are going to be onboard with those changes. Bands should and do change their sound over time but this seems less like an evolution and more like an experimental solo album

Downey’s Latverian accent is very What We Do In The Shadows

Ah yes, there’s all that hatred and bigotry that Jesus was such a big fan of

ICE are heavily armed killers. They’re also huge losers

No, Laura. It’s not “Antifa.” It was Patriot Front, a white nationalist organization. They covered their faces because they’re cowards who don’t want to be identified. We’ve been saying for over a year that ICE officers shouldn’t be allowed to wear masks either. They are cowards also.

I have such an expertly curated algorithm that I'm seeing posts from Mexican street food restaurants in the US and this is how they're advertising the game tomorrow night. "Good vibes"