Evan Lahti
@elahti.bsky.social
Strategic Director @pcgamer.com • FPS, games, journalism • My name anagrams to Leviathan for some reason
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"When your enemy rides an ill-advised zipline directly at you, shoot their balls off" —Sun Tzu
November 22, 2025 at 5:24 AM
"When your enemy rides an ill-advised zipline directly at you, shoot their balls off" —Sun Tzu
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Relying on ChatGPT to teach you about a topic leaves you with shallower knowledge than Googling and reading about it, according to new research that compared what more than 10,000 people knew after using one method or the other.
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November 21, 2025 at 11:48 AM
Relying on ChatGPT to teach you about a topic leaves you with shallower knowledge than Googling and reading about it, according to new research that compared what more than 10,000 people knew after using one method or the other.
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Blue Prince but Rainbow Six Siege operators are busting through doors and blowing holes in the floor the whole time
November 20, 2025 at 6:06 PM
Blue Prince but Rainbow Six Siege operators are busting through doors and blowing holes in the floor the whole time
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I became a full-time paramedic in Arc Raiders, which is sorta like living out an Undertale pacifist run. Can recommend. www.pcgamer.com/games/third-...
I became a full-time paramedic for strangers in Arc Raiders, and ended up showered with more rare loot than I could carry
Dodging, talking, and healing my way through the apocalypse.
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November 20, 2025 at 12:37 AM
I became a full-time paramedic in Arc Raiders, which is sorta like living out an Undertale pacifist run. Can recommend. www.pcgamer.com/games/third-...
Encountering so many good samaritans in ARC Raiders solo. Guy was helping me kill a Bastion, went down, then I flagged down a passerby who happened to have a defib, who stopped and saved my buddy.
November 19, 2025 at 3:47 PM
Encountering so many good samaritans in ARC Raiders solo. Guy was helping me kill a Bastion, went down, then I flagged down a passerby who happened to have a defib, who stopped and saved my buddy.
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Silicon Valley, 1990s: Free and open access to all the world’s knowledge will usher a new utopian age of information!
Silicon Valley, 2025:
Silicon Valley, 2025:
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November 15, 2025 at 1:28 AM
Silicon Valley, 1990s: Free and open access to all the world’s knowledge will usher a new utopian age of information!
Silicon Valley, 2025:
Silicon Valley, 2025:
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STREETS OF RAGE 3
SEGA 1994
SEGA GENESIS
SEGA 1994
SEGA GENESIS
November 15, 2025 at 12:03 AM
STREETS OF RAGE 3
SEGA 1994
SEGA GENESIS
SEGA 1994
SEGA GENESIS
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Growing up in a time when “selling out” was the most shameful thing you could do and then being forced to live through the 2020s feels like being kicked in the head by a horse every day
November 13, 2025 at 5:32 PM
Growing up in a time when “selling out” was the most shameful thing you could do and then being forced to live through the 2020s feels like being kicked in the head by a horse every day
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I think we should stop using the word "hallucination" and just say AI is fuckin stupid. I asked for games with a "J" in the title and it gave me this
November 14, 2025 at 5:36 PM
I think we should stop using the word "hallucination" and just say AI is fuckin stupid. I asked for games with a "J" in the title and it gave me this
We've paid Amelia Tyler, the narrator of Baldur's Gate 3, to voice pieces of the PC Gaming Show since 2023. If *we* can do it, a major game studio can definitely pay actors to say "I found some rusted tools" in ARC Raiders.
I'm here to tell you that voice actors (even very very good ones) are not expensive, more than make up for their cost in the value they bring to your game, and if Baldur's Gate can record real actors for every line of dialogue in the game, so can you for your 100 generic barks or even specific ones.
November 11, 2025 at 3:38 PM
We've paid Amelia Tyler, the narrator of Baldur's Gate 3, to voice pieces of the PC Gaming Show since 2023. If *we* can do it, a major game studio can definitely pay actors to say "I found some rusted tools" in ARC Raiders.
Getting this post tattooed on my forehead now that I've learned that apparently "nearly one in three teens use AI chatbot platforms for social interactions or relationships." www.scrippsnews.com/us-news/fami...
Chatbots — LLMs — do not know facts and are not designed to be able to accurately answer factual questions. They are designed to find and mimic patterns of words, probabilistically. When they’re “right” it’s because correct things are often written down, so those patterns are frequent. That’s all.
November 9, 2025 at 4:56 PM
Getting this post tattooed on my forehead now that I've learned that apparently "nearly one in three teens use AI chatbot platforms for social interactions or relationships." www.scrippsnews.com/us-news/fami...
Yoga is more complicated with armadillos
November 7, 2025 at 1:41 AM
Yoga is more complicated with armadillos
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Very spirited @pcgamer.com GOTY meeting this year. Such a variety of games to debate the merits of, not a year where there's a perfect consensus on anything.
November 6, 2025 at 6:22 PM
Very spirited @pcgamer.com GOTY meeting this year. Such a variety of games to debate the merits of, not a year where there's a perfect consensus on anything.
Stuff that's working in ARC Raiders for me:
- ARCs are a threat, mostly due to relentless pathfinding and sensitivity to alert
- Smooth movement and camera, almost nothing feels like it snags you
- Interiors avoid the drab, copy-pasted feel of other extraction games despite reusing many assets
- ARCs are a threat, mostly due to relentless pathfinding and sensitivity to alert
- Smooth movement and camera, almost nothing feels like it snags you
- Interiors avoid the drab, copy-pasted feel of other extraction games despite reusing many assets
November 4, 2025 at 6:53 PM
Stuff that's working in ARC Raiders for me:
- ARCs are a threat, mostly due to relentless pathfinding and sensitivity to alert
- Smooth movement and camera, almost nothing feels like it snags you
- Interiors avoid the drab, copy-pasted feel of other extraction games despite reusing many assets
- ARCs are a threat, mostly due to relentless pathfinding and sensitivity to alert
- Smooth movement and camera, almost nothing feels like it snags you
- Interiors avoid the drab, copy-pasted feel of other extraction games despite reusing many assets
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Remarkably, Arc Raiders is chill. www.pcgamer.com/games/third-...
'One of the chillest communities I’ve ever encountered': Arc Raiders is becoming the anti-Tarkov as solo players choose love over war
It's impolite to shoot at others in Arc Raiders, which is surprising for an extraction shooter but also beautiful.
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November 4, 2025 at 1:31 AM
Remarkably, Arc Raiders is chill. www.pcgamer.com/games/third-...
Got a good achievement today in Ball x Pit
November 2, 2025 at 5:04 PM
Got a good achievement today in Ball x Pit
One of my favorite pages we publish each month. Such a great layout from @majora.bsky.social. www.pcgamer.com/games/pc-gam...
The PC game releases we're most excited about in November
If Black Ops isn't your thing, there's a whole slew of early access games on the way.
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November 2, 2025 at 3:10 PM
One of my favorite pages we publish each month. Such a great layout from @majora.bsky.social. www.pcgamer.com/games/pc-gam...
We're calling ourselves the Star Trek Away Team in ARC Raiders
November 1, 2025 at 4:48 PM
We're calling ourselves the Star Trek Away Team in ARC Raiders
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“We never validated our core assumptions” is in the running for tech quote of the decade
"We never validated our core assumptions before investing heavily in solutions. The truth is that gamers already had the solution to their problems, and they weren't going to switch platforms just because a new one was available," a former Amazon exec said earlier this year.
As Amazon's game business crumbles, the public is surprised to discover that it was trying to compete with Steam all this time
If you're wondering how it all went so wrong, former VP Ethan Evans might be able to shed some light on things.
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October 29, 2025 at 8:04 PM
“We never validated our core assumptions” is in the running for tech quote of the decade
No grocery stores, no public transit, no fire department, no schools, no connection to the outside world. Someone help, my SimCity is failing
October 29, 2025 at 2:11 PM
No grocery stores, no public transit, no fire department, no schools, no connection to the outside world. Someone help, my SimCity is failing
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The 2025 edition of our annual Top 100 list is here, running down the best PC games to play now from the perspective of PC Gamer's 30+ writers and editors.
The top 100 PC games
Welcome to the 2025 edition of the PC Gamer Top 100—our annual list of the best PC games you can play.
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October 20, 2025 at 7:21 PM
The 2025 edition of our annual Top 100 list is here, running down the best PC games to play now from the perspective of PC Gamer's 30+ writers and editors.
Wasn't really feeling Ball x Pit at first but glad I stuck with it, it's gotten a lot more interesting after you unlock the second set of upgrades and the resource-gathering minigame opens up.
October 21, 2025 at 1:28 PM
Wasn't really feeling Ball x Pit at first but glad I stuck with it, it's gotten a lot more interesting after you unlock the second set of upgrades and the resource-gathering minigame opens up.
Finally some gamer representation at the protest
October 18, 2025 at 5:07 PM
Finally some gamer representation at the protest
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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 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.
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October 16, 2025 at 10:37 PM
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 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...