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Rockstar thanks GTA Online player who fixed load times, official update coming (www.pcgamer.com)

1032 points by mmhsieh over 3 years ago | 321 comments
After 20 years the Dwarf Fortress devs have to get used to being millionaires (www.pcgamer.com)

674 points by robin_reala almost 2 years ago | 423 comments
'50% of transactions were fraudulent' when Steam accepted Bitcoin for payments (www.pcgamer.com)

477 points by mrkramer over 2 years ago | 324 comments
Unity is acquiring a company who made a malware installer (www.pcgamer.com)

440 points by doener about 2 years ago | 126 comments
Y Combinator backed MMO metaverse game is a blatant scam (www.pcgamer.com)

390 points by astlouis44 over 3 years ago | 238 comments
Blizzard's reputation collapsed in just three years (www.pcgamer.com)

377 points by azalemeth about 3 years ago | 223 comments
John Carmack and John Romero reunited to talk DOOM on its 30th Anniversary (www.pcgamer.com)

341 points by ChrisArchitect 9 months ago | 147 comments
EVE Online player uses obscure rule to pull off biggest heist in game history (www.pcgamer.com)

326 points by galleywest200 over 1 year ago | 178 comments
Ubisoft account -including games- can be permanently deleted for inactivity (www.pcgamer.com)

294 points by yabatopia about 1 year ago | 214 comments
Blizzard developers say return-to-office policy 'cost us some amazing people' (www.pcgamer.com)

284 points by ahiknsr over 1 year ago | 349 comments
SimCity launched a decade ago, and it was so disastrous it killed the series (www.pcgamer.com)

277 points by acdanger over 1 year ago | 250 comments
John Carmack goes off about online-only games being abandoned (www.pcgamer.com)

268 points by Michelangelo11 over 1 year ago | 223 comments
USB inventor explains why the connector was not designed to be reversible (2019) (www.pcgamer.com)

266 points by thunderbong 12 months ago | 530 comments
Linux overtakes Mac as Steam's second-most used OS, thanks to the Steam Deck (www.pcgamer.com)

263 points by neverminder about 1 year ago | 95 comments
Valve is paying open source developers to keep Steam Deck playable (www.pcgamer.com)

230 points by vincentchau over 1 year ago | 60 comments
Metro 2033 author Dmitry Glukhovsky sentenced to 8 years in prison in absentia (www.pcgamer.com)

221 points by mrzool about 1 year ago | 186 comments
Ubisoft about to take away games you bought (www.pcgamer.com)

219 points by snikolaev about 2 years ago | 200 comments
Doom hacker gets Doom running in Doom (www.pcgamer.com)

212 points by doener about 2 years ago | 30 comments
Blizzard fires WoW Classic lead after he protests employee evaluation policy (www.pcgamer.com)

207 points by healsdata over 1 year ago | 7 comments
Discord monetization: microtransaction stores and paid 'exclusive memes' (www.pcgamer.com)

188 points by isaacfrond about 1 year ago | 302 comments
Implant lets those with severe paralysis send texts with just their minds (www.pcgamer.com)

185 points by ohjeez over 1 year ago | 67 comments
Ubisoft is stripping people's licences for The Crew weeks after its shutdown (www.pcgamer.com)

181 points by croes 5 months ago | 125 comments
Portal 2: Desolation is giving the classic puzzle game a graphics overhaul (www.pcgamer.com)

162 points by sandebert over 2 years ago | 46 comments
Reasons to be cheerful: 'GPU mining is dead less than 24 hours after the merge' (www.pcgamer.com)

162 points by CharlesW about 2 years ago | 2 comments
Dataminers are finding developer comments and unlicensed songs in GTA Trilogy (www.pcgamer.com)

155 points by bobitsaboy almost 3 years ago | 81 comments
Developer returns to game after 4 decades, discovers and fixes typo so it works (www.pcgamer.com)

150 points by CarCooler about 3 years ago | 23 comments
Google's Privacy Policy Now Admits to Collecting All Your Data for AI Training (www.pcgamer.com)

144 points by sizzle about 1 year ago | 24 comments
A redstone PC in Minecraft to play Minecraft inside Minecraft (2022) (www.pcgamer.com)

142 points by vinnyglennon about 1 year ago | 37 comments
EverQuest players break sacred MMO code by waking up 20-year-old dragon (www.pcgamer.com)

138 points by evo_9 over 2 years ago | 51 comments
The original streamer, who ran his own public access gaming show in 1993 (www.pcgamer.com)

123 points by danso over 3 years ago | 22 comments
Eve Online's most notorious player has quit the game (www.pcgamer.com)

120 points by Vaslo about 2 years ago | 125 comments
Why Valve Is Switching from Debian to Arch for Steam Deck's Linux OS (www.pcgamer.com)

117 points by jrepinc about 3 years ago | 121 comments
Modders are using AI to put voice acting in Morrowind (www.pcgamer.com)

115 points by makaimc over 1 year ago | 87 comments
The new Windows update made me think I'd installed malware (www.pcgamer.com)

115 points by cannibalXxx 6 months ago | 72 comments
Google has killed Discord's best music bot (www.pcgamer.com)

114 points by ajdude about 3 years ago | 63 comments
You can now turn on Nvidia's excellent noise cancellation with any GeForce GPU (www.pcgamer.com)

109 points by woliveirajr over 3 years ago | 65 comments
Mariupol computer retro museum has been destroyed (www.pcgamer.com)

108 points by pvaldes over 2 years ago | 13 comments
Apple finally put USB-C in new iPhone, but limited to 23-year-old USB 2.0 speeds (www.pcgamer.com)

108 points by em3rgent0rdr about 1 year ago | 357 comments
Crypto CEO behind $2.5B 'rug pull' arrested (www.pcgamer.com)

107 points by mrkramer about 2 years ago | 96 comments
Hackers drain cryptocurrency accounts of thousands of Coinbase users (www.pcgamer.com)

101 points by hariswill almost 3 years ago | 36 comments
The top-selling game on Steam is a new 254-player FPS made by 4 people (www.pcgamer.com)

94 points by davikr over 1 year ago | 40 comments
US crypto mining used more power last year than all the computers (www.pcgamer.com)

91 points by geox over 1 year ago | 189 comments
The Metaverse Is Bullshit (www.pcgamer.com)

90 points by freediver almost 3 years ago | 41 comments
Stuck Suez cargo ship in Microsoft Flight Simulator (www.pcgamer.com)

85 points by timoth3y over 3 years ago | 27 comments
Nvidia predicts AI models 1,000,000X more powerful than ChatGPT within 10 years (www.pcgamer.com)

80 points by CharlesW over 1 year ago | 64 comments
GTA 5 actor goes nuclear on AI company that made a voice chatbot of him (www.pcgamer.com)

80 points by pavel_lishin 8 months ago | 91 comments
AMD Athlon K7 Easter egg has a revolver and map of Texas etched onto the chip (www.pcgamer.com)

79 points by FirmwareBurner 7 months ago | 50 comments
A driver containing rootkit malware was certified by Microsoft – PC Gamer (www.pcgamer.com)

77 points by djrogers about 3 years ago | 4 comments
Star Citizen is doing 'bedsheet deformation' physics now (www.pcgamer.com)

76 points by throwaway743 over 2 years ago | 91 comments
AMD refuses to limit cryptocurrency mining: We will not be blocking any workload (www.pcgamer.com)

68 points by partingshots over 3 years ago | 53 comments
Please stop making Discord servers for things that shouldn't be Discord servers (www.pcgamer.com)

68 points by julianlam over 2 years ago | 46 comments
Terraria's devs have been trying to stop developing Terraria for years (www.pcgamer.com)

64 points by blondin about 1 year ago | 14 comments
Indie dev baffled after acquaintance clones his game, puts it on Steam (www.pcgamer.com)

63 points by xyzzy3000 3 months ago | 5 comments
Indie developer Rob Hale has died, posthumously making their games free to enjoy (www.pcgamer.com)

61 points by belltaco about 2 years ago | 2 comments
Sierra founders got 'bored' in lockdown, making first new game in more 20 years (www.pcgamer.com)

60 points by CharlesW over 2 years ago | 2 comments
Asus agrees to a whole raft of US warranty service improvements after complaints (www.pcgamer.com)

57 points by MilnerRoute 3 months ago | 19 comments
Anger from voice actors as NSFW mods use AI deepfakes to replicate their voices (www.pcgamer.com)

56 points by CharlesW about 1 year ago | 49 comments
TSMC Has a Kill Switch in the event of a Chinese invasion (www.pcgamer.com)

56 points by cwwc 4 months ago | 32 comments
Retro Gadgets: A game about soldering and tinkering with old school electronics (www.pcgamer.com)

50 points by detaro almost 2 years ago | 4 comments