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Morgan Park @morganpark.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

What is the greatest FPS mode of all time, and why is it [INSERT DEMOCRACY HERE]? www.pcgamer.com/games/fps/ma...

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Making our favorite FPS modes 1v1 to decide the greatest of them all

Vote on the greatest FPS mode of all time. There can only be one.

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Joshua Wolens @joshuawolens.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

did journalism today www.pcgamer.com/games/halo/h...

PC Gamer headline: How every major character in Dostoevsky's Crime and Punishment would fare if they had to survive the plot of Halo 1

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Evan Lahti @elahti.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

They made a whole-ass game out of the Into the Breach train escort levels, and it's called Fogpiercer

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Evan Lahti @elahti.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Games I wishlisted out of today's #pcgamingshow: Tenebris Somnia store.steampowered.com/app/2121510/... Wane store.steampowered.com/app/5189770/... Piroker store.steampowered.com/app/4517160/... Hellcard II store.steampowered.com/app/3106270/...

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Evan Lahti @elahti.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Media's god-given power to coin phrases is one of our last remaining superpowers. Just as Superman made the ultimate sacrifice against Doomsday, @cjpt.bsky.social gave his life to fix "MOBA."

PC Gamer headline: "Three Lane Highway: why I am deadly serious about the phrase "wizard-'em-up""

"Lane-pusher: What we briefly called MOBAs when Chris Thursten told us not to call them MOBAs. See MOBA."

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Evan Lahti @elahti.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

StarCraft trailer was sick. - Starship Troopers-adjacent, self-aware action, with the possibility of Themes??? - ”Welp, guess that wasn‘t the protagonist” rug pull - Overlords are scary - At least two (2) confirmed colors of goop

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Morgan Park @morganpark.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

If anyone outside the FPS scene has never heard of "Wardogs" and wants to know why it's suddenly one of the most popular games on Steam, I'm here to help. www.pcgamer.com/games/fps/be...

pcgamer.com

Believe the hype for Wardogs, possibly the next great multiplayer FPS

A 100-player milsim that's inspired by Arma but plays like Battlefield.

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Evan Lahti @elahti.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

I take every opportunity to tell people about the FFA, the wacky brain region that is probably the reason we see faces in sofas, pancakes, and cars en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fusifor...

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Evan Lahti @elahti.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Quick Linkedin thought (malapropism) I'm resharing here for my games industry colleagues: One of the best things you can do to get your game considered for coverage on PC Gamer is to send us 5+ Steam keys, unsolicited, as early as possible. www.linkedin.com/feed/update/...

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Crushed @silenttakedown.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

yeah sure whatever, let lara croft cook potato stew on her phone for 2m0s of damage resistance who gives a shit anymore

a screenshot from the upcoming remake of Tomb Raider 1. lara croft is looking at her phone in the middle of an ancient ruin, and it's showing her a generic crafting menu, and a png of saucepan of stew that apparently her phone lets her cook for "Damage resistance" if she has 6 potatoes

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lincoln carpenter @lincolnhello.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

"In the week I've spent revisiting Star Wars Galaxies, I've seen very little other excitement. I've killed no impressive enemies. I've done barely any quests. It's an MMO that's content to let me log in and do little of note whatsoever—and that's exactly what I've been missing."

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I want MMOs to waste our time again

I've accomplished very little on a Star Wars Galaxies private server, and I wouldn't want it any other way.

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Evan Lahti @elahti.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

Love it when @writnelson.bsky.social's Space Warlord Baby Trading Simulator sims me a baby whose life is just the experience of the average 40-year-old Battlefield player

chronology of life events: learned how to fire gun, experienced horrific breakup, subjected to experimental surgery, designated as new general, shot by enemy sniper. 43 years 3 months old

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Evan Lahti @elahti.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

The youth long for Jet Moto

Jet Moto 2 gameplay screenshot, a sort of jetski-hovermotorcycle racing game from 1997 on PlayStation

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Evan Lahti @elahti.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Fabulous reporting from Emanuel. Painful to read the interview question “What does it look like when they cut the spines off the books?”

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Tyler Wilde @tjcwilde.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

The Humankind 2 live-action trailer shown at Gamescom today triggered my 'is this AI?' reflex, but the studio says otherwise, and showed me some behind-the-scenes photos.

pcgamer.com

Humankind 2 trailer accused of being 'AI slop,' studio says nope: 'real actors, practical sets, and custom-made props'

The uncanny trailer shows the perspective of infants through space and time.

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Evan Lahti @elahti.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Bask in our new era of tactics supremacy. By law, all intellectual properties must now submit themselves for government turn-basedification

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Evan Lahti @elahti.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

Damon Lindelof, you thematically-dense bastard, you’re making me care about my least-liked Justice League member. Throwing True Detective and Fargo tropes at it helps, but mostly, anything Watchmen 2019-shaped is irresistible.

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Tobias Wilson-Bates @phdhurtbrain.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

James Bond: you think I haven’t faced death before? Supervillain: oh, I don’t expect you to die, Mr. Bond. I expect you to suffer. *opens travel funding reimbursement software I think you will find your motorboat rental and casino reservations especially complex James Bond: no. no. pls kill me

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Smokage of the Burning Leaf @pattheflip.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

"Thank you, 2XKO" I wrote about my thoughts and feelings about 2XKO's announced end of development. Thank you to the team, thanks to the players, and thanks for giving me a chance to learn how to make fighting games. Interactions on this post limited for my sanity. www.patreon.com/pattheflip/p...

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Evan Lahti @elahti.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

Preparing my mind and body for months of tedious realism vs. fun debates off the back of GTA 6

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lincoln carpenter @lincolnhello.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

As part of our experimentation with new post formats at PC Gamer, I'm pleased to present this Causality Chain, which chronicles how Stephen King's childhood trauma led to Kiefer Sutherland ordering a fake horse to perform tactical shitting 64 years later:

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How Stephen King watching a train hit a kid led to Kiefer Sutherland making his videogame horse crap on command: A PC Gamer Causality Chain™

Many of our greatest works are downstream of terrible woe.

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Evan Lahti @elahti.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

This was my favorite fish at the Toronto aquarium

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Evan Lahti @elahti.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

This is the era of no guarantees. Deep Rock was a major small-studio success story from 2018-on, and I would say the franchise has a genuine fan base. But an effective sequel has gone mostly unnoticed. Reception feels arbitrary at times in gaming.

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Evan Lahti @elahti.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

Have been canvassing with our ⒹⓈⒶ mayoral candidate @amber4thepeople.bsky.social over the last month and it's been such a positive counter to ambient cynicism. Now more than ever, I urge you to CS:GO to the polls

Backyard scene in Ypsilanti MI, a group of people supporting Amber Fellows in their 30s and 40s, smiling for the camera

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Evan Lahti @elahti.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

Natural trajectory of an attention economy that incentivizes saying (and believing) the most heinous things possible

NYT headline “ The MAGA Media Machine Is Fracturing”
Once united in support of President Trump, right-wing influencers are embroiled in feuds and losing viewers, creating a problem for Republicans in the midterm elections.

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Evan Lahti @elahti.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

Naming your fake shell company “Beignet LLC” to hide it from Louisianans is the most Batman villain (circa 1966) scheme I’ve heard in some time

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Evan Lahti @elahti.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

Man this looks so sick. BioShock but Andrew Ryan is a very serious Portland librarian.

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Evan Lahti @elahti.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

Read this phishing email test in the G-Man voice and it gets kinda uncomfortable

Email reads

Hi Evan

We’re planning a relaxed after work drink the first round is on us so a great excuse to step away for a bit unwind and catch up with everyone. Just a nice moment to see each other outside of work. See you soon HR.

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Evan Lahti @elahti.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

Journalists rightly bring up that not using the Oxford comma can create confusion, but Headline Case can likewise destabilize society

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Tyler Wilde @tjcwilde.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

When I started receiving emails about "AI Appreciation Day" last year, I became curious about where these "days" even come from, expecting the trail to lead me to a marketing company. Instead, it led me to a guy camped on a beach outside of SpaceX for a year.

pcgamer.com

What the heck is 'AI Appreciation Day'? Turns out it was started by an Elon Musk admirer who camped outside of SpaceX Starbase for a year hoping to talk to the billionaire about AI regulation

Some claim that the day was started to promote a movie, but its creator says he wants to encourage ethical AI development.

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Evan Lahti @elahti.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

Gonna pull off an elaborate heist with George Clooney and, when we're caught, we'll just explain that the stuff we took is training data

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Evan Lahti @elahti.bsky.social · 12/07/2026

Just started watching Pluribus and this scene gave me such high school group project overachiever PTSD flashbacks

Scene from Pluribus E2 where characters are meeting at a table inside Air Force One, main character expressing exasperation

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Tyler Wilde @tjcwilde.bsky.social · 11/07/2026

Xbox's new chief strategist is a metaverse true believer. Here's a brief look at what he's said on the subject in recent years, and how it may influence Microsoft's future in gaming.

pcgamer.com

Matthew Ball was hired to help fix Xbox. Will gamers like what he prescribes?

Xbox's new chief strategist is a metaverse true believer.

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Wes Fenlon @wes.readonlymemo.com · 10/07/2026

What Microsoft did to id Software this week was a tragedy -- a failure to safeguard the lives of its workers. But it was also a telling failure of vision to have *that* legacy in your hands and to discard it like so much nothing

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How do you put a price tag on a legacy like id Software's?

If Xbox can't find the value in owning the beating heart of the first-person shooter, perhaps it shouldn't be in the videogame business at all.

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Evan Lahti @elahti.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

Key line here in Xbox's dismal layoffs announcement. Gaming has been in an age of parity for years and years, but this is one of the first formal acknowledgements from a publisher—the biggest game orgs compete with individual game creators like Zeekerss or lemorion_1224 in the attention economy.

"We now find ourselves competing not only with the largest publishers, but also with smaller independent studios," writes Xbox

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Evan Lahti @elahti.bsky.social · 04/07/2026

Got this great Frank Gorshin sketch from @stevelieberart.bsky.social. Thanks Steve!

Black and white postcard illustration of The Riddler from Batman ‘66, with bowler hat

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Rodger Sherman @rodger.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

it's pretty funny that the World Cup has sensors that detect the ball's rotation, acceleration, and location every .002 seconds (not exaggerating, the actual tech specs of the sensor) but also the game gets to the end and the ref says "ok I think 9 more minutes ... maybe more if I feel like it"

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Evan Lahti @elahti.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

Drives me insane that Apple Podcasts does not instantly download podcasts when new episodes are published when you’re on wifi. What’s the point of something being automated if you have to manually check that it triggered?

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Evan Lahti @elahti.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

Absurd that we might well lose Blade *and* Arkane, good god. Absolutely foolproof license and studio match. Very hard to stomach one of the remaining stewards of imsim coming to an end.

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Wes Fenlon @wes.readonlymemo.com · 28/06/2026

Remember the internet before Google, before algorithmic feeds, before monolithic social media corralled us onto the same handful of apps? When small, *personal websites* and webrings linking them together reigned supreme? Time to bring it back.

readonlymemo.com

Introducing Warp Point, a Web 1.0 gaming blog directory built for 2026

It's a webring! And a website!

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Evan Lahti @elahti.bsky.social · 27/06/2026

As a big fan of nominative determinism, I want to believe that Bean Beanland, having tolerated flatulence jokes his entire life, was in the process conditioned to become an enemy of natural gas-fueled furnaces

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Evan Lahti @elahti.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

Thinking about becoming a guy who notices time signature changes and points them out

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Morgan Park @morganpark.bsky.social · 19/06/2026

This week's FOV 90 is an ode to the greatest FPS mode of all time: capture the flag. "There is no image more powerful in multiplayer gaming than a flag dropped mere feet from its destination—proof of a late hero who braved enemy lines and almost made it home." www.pcgamer.com/games/fps/th...

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The greatest FPS mode of all time is endangered

It never got better than capture the flag.

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