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Tyler @tylercolp.bsky.social · 2d

Double Fine’s Keeper is one of the most gorgeous games I’ve ever played. Here’s my review: www.pcgamer.com/games/advent...

Keeper review

A bite-sized adventure game that draws on Double Fine's best work.

www.pcgamer.com

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Morgan Park @morganpark.bsky.social · 3d

After a week of good times, here's my final Battlefield 6 review.

"Battlefield 6 understands that the best FPS is a place, not just a service. The execution isn't perfect, but the heart is there." www.pcgamer.com/games/fps/ba...

Battlefield 6 review

The series that once languished in Call of Duty's shadow now has all the juice.

www.pcgamer.com

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Maddy Myers 🏳️‍🌈 @midimyers.com · 5d

thinking about "gaming is waiting" again

Maddy Myers 🏳️‍🌈 @midimyers.com · Dec 1

reposting the origin of "gaming is waiting" feat. me, nico and tyler

nico: i have to wait to hit something? nah
maddy: i'm similar in that turn-based bores me
tyler: (responding to nico) you literally play MMOs
maddy: like i can literally get up and walk away during a fight? stupid
maddy: MMOs aren't turn based though
tyler: lol but you do have to wait
maddy: ok but
tyler: not long tho
maddy: they're not turn based tyler
GOD

tyler: we're back to agreeing nevermind
maddy: so yeah great point tyler
tyler: i tried
maddy: all gaming is waiting
nico: you did try tyler
nico: you've never heard me play a fire mage it sounds like this TAPTAPTAPTAPTAPTAPTAPTAPTAPTAPTAP
tyler: all gaming is waiting is transforming things for me

maddy: all gaming is waiting
nico: is that the grand unified theory
maddy: no
nico: of gaming
maddy: lmfaooo
you could say that about fucking anything
nico: MADDY BUT
maddy: all eating is waiting
all breathing is waiting
tyler: life is waiting
maddy: tyler am i blowing your mind

nico: well technically you don't have to wait to breath do you
maddy: sleep is actually just waiting
you have to wait to breathe in, while you're breathing out
and vice versa
nico: no but you could argue that the speed of a game and your adherence to time does a lot of things
tyler: sleep is waiting and there's no reward because you have to wake up to all of this

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season of the apple cider witch 🍎🎃 @applecider.bsky.social · 7d

WITCHBANE // Sojourn

It is very obvious this cosmetic is inspired by Bloodborne so I spent quite a few weeks cobbling this set together from all of the spooky castle/Victorian city places, which is hard in Overwatch!

#overwatch #sojourn #gamephotography #virtualphotography

Overwatch 2 screenshot of Sojourn in her Witchbane cosmetic, which looks similar to the hunter outfit from Bloodborne. It is a leather suit with a tricorn-esque hat, fitted waistcoat, leather pants and boots. She's strapped with buckles and vials of fluid and has her face covered. She's standing in front of a blood moon with her left arm out.

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Morgan Park @morganpark.bsky.social · 10d

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

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Tyler @tylercolp.bsky.social · 11d

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 · 12d

"'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 · 13d

i wrote about The Life of a Showgirl

Defector @defector.com · 13d

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 · 16d

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 · 16d

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 · 18d

"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 · 18d

Sharp piece here from the shooter expert himself.

Morgan Park @morganpark.bsky.social · 19d

"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 · 19d

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 · 19d

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 · 19d

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 · 23d

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 · 24d

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

Aftermath @aftermath.site · 24d

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 · Sep 17

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 · Sep 17

loll

Tyler @tylercolp.bsky.social · Sep 16

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 · Sep 14

"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 · Sep 13

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 · Sep 12

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 · Sep 11

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.

slate.com

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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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