Tyler

Unlike Lincoln, I love enduring the constant mental assault that is being alive in 2025. Don't know what his problem is.

The Anti-Porn Crusade That Censored Steam and Itch.io Started 30 Years Ago Keywords and tags have never been a useful metric for distilling nuance. Pushing for regulations based on them is repeating a 30-year history of porn panic online.

when it comes to porn panics, we're repeating the mistakes of the past every damn day www.404media.co/steam-itchio...

Everything that grinds our gears about PC gaming in 2025 Introducing a week of gripes about our pastime, and using computers in general.

Welcome to Gripes Week on @pcgamer.com! We'll be venting our bugbears with our beautiful hobby all week, one gripe at a time. www.pcgamer.com/games/gripes...

Maddy has a very matter-of-fact style/voice that cracks me up, I love reading her work through something like this

Still have to find time for Hell Clock now that it's out, but thought it looked really promising when I wrote about it before launch in May. Especially the bit where the protagonist barks that many have been "enslaved and exploited by the laws of men."

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it's so good and I need more people to check it out. game basically takes the power fantasy of Diablo and makes it about slaying racist monsters across time. They're even adding mapping later this year

A screenshot of Hell Clock. An overhead view of the main character exploring a poison-filled area with a UI reminiscent of action RPGs like Diablo. There is a row of abilities in between a health and mana orb.

A screenshot of Hell Clock with three options to augment your abilities in the style of Hades.

An older woman holds a knife to a skeleton man's throat and asks "Do you know what decoration's missing from your uniform?"

An older woman from Hell Clock yelling "A red tie!" after slicing a skeleton man's throat with a knife during an animated cutscene.

Hopefully going to write something about it later this week, but Hell Clock is an incredible action RPG (Diablo/PoE/Hades) about killing cops. Tight combat, fun builds, and a bold art style. There's a whole new endgame system coming this week too. store.steampowered.com/app/1782460/...

Put another way: I see the run as almost a *different game* than the Nightlord fights. Losing to the final boss can be frustrating, but it's like playing chess for 90% of the run and then losing at solitaire.

I empathize with people not liking how it invalidates your gear, but I don't see the run as the only measure of how successful you'll be on the Nightlord. I've been max level with an inventory full of legendary weapons and have died to a Nightlord in the first 30 seconds. It just doesn't bother me.

I'm not always a fan of references like this but to me it feels demonstrably different in the context of Nightreign—another example of FromSoft being willing to bend its own rules.

Sorry haters, Elden Ring Nightreign's much maligned new Everdark boss is its best yet I will defend you, Everdark Augur.

Nightreign's new Everdark boss may be a gimmick fight, but the gimmick completely reshapes the run and is such a fun surprise. I am so glad that @dilfpatrol.bsky.social agree on this one. www.pcgamer.com/games/action...

Peak Is A Playground For Slapstick Comedy - Aftermath Peak creates space for players to really fuck around, punctuated by a swift emphasis on finding out

My newest piece for @aftermath.site is up and it's about how much fun the slapstick comedy of @landfall.se and @aggrocrabgames.bsky.social 's PEAK is, especially with friends (gift link!)

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I played this! It was actually pretty good ngl

You can tour the entirety of Silent Hill 2 in Roblox now, but the creator recommends playing the real thing first: 'This is not the best way to experience Silent Hill 2' We have Silent Hill 2 at home.

Played Silent Hill 2 for the first time today (in Roblox) www.pcgamer.com/games/horror...

Visa and Mastercard pressuring Itch.io and Valve does 'nothing to protect' women, and shock games will just be 'side-stepping the ban entirely', say affected indie devs "Cutting these women off from income streams and audiences does nothing to 'protect' them."

really good write-up of this whole situation with payment processors enabling right-wing censorship of adult games www.pcgamer.com/gaming-indus...

Are you a graphics programmer/technical artist/someone with experience in the ways game engines (particularly Unreal) can influence visuals and aesthetics? I'd love to speak with you for a piece I'm working on! If you're interested, my Bluesky DMs are open.

Reposts appreciated!

A scene from And Roger. The main character rests against a sofa holding a cup of coffee on the left side of the screen. On the right side, a close-up shot of the coffee as the player moves a button to swirl the liquid as time passes.

A scene from And Roger where the player guides a blue button around puddles as the main character takes a rainy day walk with her husband. A large puddle in the middle of the sparse scene has their reflections in it.

A scene from And Roger with two identical shots of the main character sitting at a table alone within a rectangle cutout.

A scene from And Roger with text in the middle that credits the designer of the game, Yona. A lone pair of orange footsteps trail across the middle of the frame toward the right.

And Roger might be the saddest game I've ever played in my life. Beautiful art, music, and mechanics, but NOT a game to start your day off with.

A 21-second video of a hand ignites a sizzling debate over the FPS 'tac sprint' "Walking. Sprinting. That's all we need."

Down with the tac sprint www.pcgamer.com/games/fps/a-...

After selling to Krafton, Last Epoch dev says fans shouldn't be worried about the Subnautica 2 dispute: 'Krafton isn't looking to change us' Eleventh Hour Games already has plans to hire several more developers in the coming months.

Real unfortunate timing for this one. www.pcgamer.com/games/rpg/af...

As someone who writes long headlines for them, I still don't fully understand it either lol

I don't think they should make this Wouldst thou like to live deliciously?

"It's controller by way of Cronenberg: Where one might expect their hand to rest upon a right analog stick and grip, the patent art instead sees the controller's right side splay outwards with non-Euclidean hubris into an unwarranted and unholy expanse of mousepad."

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Absolute disaster. www.pcgamer.com/hardware/str...

World of Warcraft Classic player loses world first race by 2 minutes and 22 seconds after someone decided to verify it just in case Ouch.

Imagine being this much of a sore loser about a race to get a video game number the fastest. www.pcgamer.com/games/world-...

"The brilliant twist of Abiotic Factor's handcrafted corporate environments is that there are no blank canvases to work with. You're forced to carve a comfy home out of bland spaces with pre-existing dimensions and purposes."

23 years after launch, Final Fantasy 11 is suspending character creation on its most popular server as it buckles beneath the weight of player congestion Vana'Diel's still kicking. Possibly too kicking.

"[Final Fantasy 11]'s like an interactive museum of an alternate MMO history, and there's apparently no shortage of other players drawn in by that siren call."

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Wuchang: Fallen Feathers review An action RPG dragged down by references to much better games.

The thing that gets me about games that turn out this way is that it's probably a situation I run into with students a lot -- they (understandably!) want to make something LIKE the things they find meaningful, but that's not a recipe for a successful design.

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Wuchang: Fallen Feathers review An action RPG dragged down by references to much better games.

What I saw of Wuchang via @tylercolp.bsky.social had none of the art direction or character of an actual Souls game and his review goes into it a lot more - "a soulslike without a soul"
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