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Tyler Wilde

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US Editor-in-Chief, @pcgamer.com | tyler@pcgamer.com | Signal: tylerwilde.01

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Tyler Wilde @tjcwilde.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
I am mildly annoyed by casual use of the word 'fix' in reference to game developers making design changes in response to player feedback, as if there is an ideal version of every game that can be inched toward one feedback survey at a time.
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The weird experience of liking a game before it's 'fixed'
Has this ever happened to you?
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Samuel Roberts @samuelwroberts.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Why do so many video games have silly names? I wrote about it for PC Gamer. www.pcgamer.com/games/why-so...
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Why so many Steam games have weirdly similar (and forgettable) names
"Suddenly everything's called Rise of the Bonelord: Origins of Dust."
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Tyler Wilde @tjcwilde.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
correct www.pcgamer.com/games/fps/ma...
A poll which asks "VIP or Capture the Flag?" and Capture the Flag has 100% of the votes.
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Tyler Wilde @tjcwilde.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
The cure for missing old electronics with dials and LEDs and cool stuff like vacuum tubes is unfortunately pretty expensive, and other people will most likely be indifferent to your pursuit, which you will practice alone, for yourself, possibly next to a potted plant, but it's analog synthesizers.
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Tyler Wilde @tjcwilde.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
When I wrote this I thought I was sharing a funny, lighthearted moment we could all enjoy, but the responses indicate otherwise. Chill levels on the internet seem to be dangerously low.
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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.
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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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Catherine @whitequark.org · 07/08/2026
so i reverse-engineered the code that draws InstallShield's famous background gradient and text and reimplemented gist.github.com/whitequark/2...
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Tyler Wilde @tjcwilde.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
Been playing Big Walk with @chrislivingston.bsky.social and @morganpark.bsky.social and it's a lot of fun. Can be harrowing, like when you go off on your own in the middle of the night, fall in a big hole, and have to scramble around in the dark looking for the walkie-talkie you dropped.
The night sky seen through a small opening far above. It is otherwise pitch black.
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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.
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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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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.
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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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Tyler Wilde @tjcwilde.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
I still have the disc for the first game I reviewed as a professional.
A DVD-R labeled “Dragonball Z Super - 05 June 2006 For Preview Only.”
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Tyler Wilde @tjcwilde.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
Glad to hear Obsidian is not on the chopping block. Wouldn't have expected it to be, but who knows these days? Studio leaders said last year that they want to stick around for 100 years by not chasing infinite growth and profit, but I wonder if Microsoft feels the same way.
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Obsidian says it won't chase huge profits or grow aggressively, and that's how it's going to last 100 years in the RPG business: 'Are we serious? Yes'
The Avowed studio expects each game to be a "mild success" and budgets accordingly, say company leaders who want it to reach its 100th birthday.
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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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Tyler Wilde @tjcwilde.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
Pretty astonishing to watch the tech industry go from promising more power with each new hardware generation to looking around for "new business models."
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Microsoft doesn't know what to do about the memory pricing crisis Microsoft is causing
It's astonishing how much expectations are being lowered for the next Xbox.
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Tyler Wilde @tjcwilde.bsky.social · 08/06/2026
Who hasn't faced that common problem where you see an unidentified ball
A demonstration of "Siri mode in Camera" explaining what a cricket ball is after analyzing a photo of one.
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PC Gamer @pcgamer.com · 07/06/2026
WE ARE LIVE! www.youtube.com/watch?v=tRVx...
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PC Gaming Show 2026
YouTube video by PC Gamer
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Tyler Wilde @tjcwilde.bsky.social · 06/06/2026
I originally understood "ofc" to mean "of fucking course" and thought people were being really rude to me until I realized they were just saying "of course." I worried it had just been me all this time, but via Urban Dictionary it turns out there's a whole fight about this. Vindicated!
Urban Dictionary post that reads "ofc: Of Fucking Course.

Many random internet people use it as of course, but the origin of this acronym is Of Fucking Course."
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Corey Brickley * Blight's Hollow Dot Com @coreybrickley.bsky.social · 06/06/2026
i can really imagine coach mcgirk saying "It's a tool, Brendan." then having full blown ai psychosis later in the episode
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Tyler Wilde @tjcwilde.bsky.social · 06/06/2026
Hyped for the new N game.
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N Plus Infinity Times Two is a multiplayer-focused follow-up to one of the best platformers on PC: 'we don't think anyone else on this planet is as crazy about 2D platformers as we are'
Ten years later, the virtually endless N++ gets a multiplayer-centric follow-up.
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Tyler Wilde @tjcwilde.bsky.social · 02/06/2026
Something that annoys me about 2020s internet/media speak is how everyone and everything is always "facing backlash." Usually the backlash is comments on the internet.
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Tyler Wilde @tjcwilde.bsky.social · 30/05/2026
With a remake out next week, I had the opportunity to talk to one of The 7th Guest's creators about its origin, including the legend of his "firing" from Virgin and the creation of this throbbing-brain skull dude, which really stuck in my head 30 years ago: www.pcgamer.com/games/puzzle...
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Tyler Wilde @tjcwilde.bsky.social · 28/05/2026
Considering whether I can pull something like these off.
A pair of round glasses.A pair of round glasses.
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Tyler Wilde @tjcwilde.bsky.social · 26/05/2026
Per Epic this was "a concept image provided by the Porsche team." It was part of a larger thread in which they show how it was turned into the 3D scene here: configurator.porsche.com/en-WW/mode/m...
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senseiRuss @senseiruss.bsky.social · 15/05/2026
My latest for @pcgamer.com - EverQuest Legends beta impressions www.pcgamer.com/games/mmo/i-...
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I was worried EverQuest Legends making me too OP would ruin the magic of the classic MMO, but crushing hordes of frogloks is incredibly satisfying
Friction is great, but triple-classing isn't so bad, either.
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PC Gamer @pcgamer.com · 15/05/2026
This is the part of our Subnautica 2 base where we do our deep thinking. Currently we are contemplating whether there are good ways to catch fish besides grabbing them with our bare hands. Not coming up with anything.
A Subnautica 2 character sitting in an underwater base, fingers steepled as if contemplating something important.
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Tyler Wilde @tjcwilde.bsky.social · 14/05/2026
Being infected by an alien virus that solves our problems is all the rage these days, I've noticed.
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In Subnautica 2, survival is a prison and humanity might be better off becoming something else
It's not the only 2020s sci-fi wondering whether being "inhuman" is really so bad.
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Tyler Wilde @tjcwilde.bsky.social · 13/05/2026
The gradual reinvention of the expansion pack continues.
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Christopher Livingston @chrislivingston.bsky.social · 11/05/2026
So if someone steals your clothing in Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2, it's because I lost my boots in Kingdom Come: Deliverance 1 and made a big stink about it 👢👢 www.pcgamer.com/games/rpg/if...
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If you've ever had your shoes stolen in Kingdom Come Deliverance 2, that was apparently PC Gamer's fault, sorry
Chris Livingston's fault specifically.
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Tyler Wilde @tjcwilde.bsky.social · 11/05/2026
An album I've been fascinated with recently is Come On In: Hill country blues legend RL Burnside (1926-2005, grandfather of Cedric Burnside) mixed by Tom Rothrock in 1998, loop heavy 'blues fusion.' Best tracks imo are "Let My Baby Ride," "It's Bad You Know" (used in The Sopranos), and "Shuck Dub."
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R.L. Burnside - Come On In (Full Album Stream)
YouTube video by Fat Possum Records
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Tyler Wilde @tjcwilde.bsky.social · 08/05/2026
I agree with the general complaint here about the 'we've heard your feedback' era (I hate it when design changes are called 'fixes'), but I like the creative exercise of designing cities in Civ 6/7, and I don't really have the impression that Firaxis is a mere slave to feedback.
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Ted Litchfield @dilfpatrol.bsky.social · 07/05/2026
Very happy with how this one turned out www.pcgamer.com/games/fps/it...
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It's time to set the record straight: Doomguy's armor does not have a tummy window, his shirt just got ripped
Thy Shirt Consumed.
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Tyler Wilde @tjcwilde.bsky.social · 05/05/2026
You should come up with reasons to sculpt little things just to use this stuff. It rules.
A package of La Doll Premix air dry clay.
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PC Gamer @pcgamer.com · 24/04/2026
Have you ever seen a magazine look this good? PC Gamer's new redesigned magazine is here!
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Tyler Wilde @tjcwilde.bsky.social · 23/04/2026
Tech companies keep telling us about the bad things they're doing in an "isn't this great?" tone that is driving me mad.
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Big Tech openly wants to manipulate us with AI. That seems bad to me
"Hyperpersonalization" is the next frontier for videogame marketing, and it doesn't sound good.
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PC Gamer @pcgamer.com · 23/04/2026
The study's authors said they tried to inform LLM providers about the vulnerabilities exposed in their research, but they didn't receive a response.
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AI is 10 to 20 times more likely to help you build a bomb if you hide your request in cyberpunk fiction, new research paper says
After jailbreaking AI with adversarial poetry, researchers reveal what they call a "critical gap" in current AI safety practices.
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Wes Fenlon @wes.readonlymemo.com · 22/04/2026
When is a laptop not just a laptop? When it's maybe the only thing standing between you and the total mental obliteration following the tech industry in 2026
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At least there's one tech company making me feel sane in an increasingly insane world
In the AI era, the upgradeable computer is now a subtle act of rebellion.
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Elizabeth Lopatto @lopatto.bsky.social · 20/04/2026
from the annals of getting high on your own supply (gift link) www.theverge.com/tldr/915176/...
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Silicon Valley has forgotten what normal people want
Did the tech industry get high on its own supply?
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Tyler Wilde @tjcwilde.bsky.social · 18/04/2026
This is a thoughtful essay. The impulse to bitterly shout at its surface-level framing rather than take a moment to consider what was meant by it is ironically illustrative. (Though possibly everyone just read that Altman story and ran out of free New Yorker articles for the month.)
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Wes Fenlon @wes.readonlymemo.com · 15/04/2026
After almost 15 years of covering GDC as a journalist, I was on a panel for the first time! Waow. And now you can watch it on the internet. I talked about game preservation that would likely never happen without the mad dedication of the emulation community -- and, uh, @quest64official.bsky.social
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What's New in Game History: 2026
How do games live on after launch? Documenting the underrecognized last stage of the development ecosystemgame afterlivesthis fast-paced panel spotlights the most vital new work in game history, prese...
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PC Gamer @pcgamer.com · 16/04/2026
Anyone here know John Comcast?
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Windrose developers ask players if they 'happen to know someone at a major ISP' who can help diagnose online co-op issues
"To be completely transparent, we’re still trying to figure out what exactly is going wrong here."
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Lauren Morton @comradecupcake.bsky.social · 08/04/2026
Can't stop staring at this ridiculous four-leaf clover hidden object game made by a guy who actually likes looking for real four leaf clovers.
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Oh you think you know hidden object games? Then go find a four-leaf clover
One In A Thousand is a mesmerizing replication of real life's most notorious hidden object challenge.
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Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 08/04/2026
Free newsletter: We need to talk about the inherent weirdness of the AI bubble, and how strange it is that an industry that loses billions of dollars to create few productivity benefits is described as a disruptive technology rather than an industry of WeWorks. www.wheresyoured.at/ai-is-really...
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AI Is Really Weird
If you like this piece and want to support my independent reporting and analysis, why not subscribe to my premium newsletter? It’s $70 a year, or $7 a month, and in return you get a weekly newsletter...
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Christopher Livingston @chrislivingston.bsky.social · 06/04/2026
Not sure which is worse, the hubris of thinking I could become a pro bowler without actually knowing how to bowl, or my insistence on dancing after every single strike www.pcgamer.com/games/sports...
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PC Gamer @pcgamer.com · 02/04/2026
Hello Bluesky! We're bringing back the Letters section of PC Gamer magazine and want your thoughts, opinions and questions for our next issue. 📨 Write us at letters@pcgamer.com and the best messages will make their way into print! On *real* paper!
Students in a Computer Lab at Spokane Falls Community College in January 1994. You could look this cool if you started dressing like it was the '90s, gathered four of your best friends together and crafted the perfect email to letters@pcgamer.com.

Photo by Bob Rowan/Corbis via Getty Images
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Evan Lahti @elahti.bsky.social · 02/04/2026
Here's my Slay the Spire 2 interview—feat. details about the final ending, new character(s), new modes, and how The Regent's regal buffoonishness was autobiographical, speaking with @megacrit.com's Casey Yano. www.youtube.com/watch?v=FlmD...
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What's next for Slay the Spire 2: the ending, new character(s), new modes?
YouTube video by PC Gamer
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Christopher Livingston @chrislivingston.bsky.social · 29/03/2026
This week's job sim: Zoo Life Simulator, where you can put a single goose in a pen and visitors will absolutely lose their shit with excitement over it
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Turns out running a zoo is easy unless you spend all your money on chickens
Visitors in Zoo Life Simulator will pay top dollar to look at anything: a rabbit, a goose, and even a hot dog stand.
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Tyler Wilde @tjcwilde.bsky.social · 26/03/2026
I am not sure how to interpret OpenAI dropping Sora and its erotic chatbot plans. What does that signal?
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Tyler Wilde @tjcwilde.bsky.social · 25/03/2026
If you worked at Epic Games within the past six years or so and are comfortable chatting briefly about its recent internal priorities (I will not share your name), you can reach me on Signal at: tylerwilde.01.
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Tyler Wilde @tjcwilde.bsky.social · 25/03/2026
Poor rabbit shouldn't have underestimated Kenshiro.
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Critically endangered hare spotted in surprising location for the first time in 40 years — but it was already dead
Scientists in China have announced the first confirmed sighting of the critically endangered Hainan hare in part of its native range in four decades, after spotting its completely flattened carcass on...
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Tyler Wilde @tjcwilde.bsky.social · 24/03/2026
It may end up only amusing me in the end, but considering making this a series in which I ask once a week: "Is this thing someone just said about AI true?"
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AI gaslighting watch: Is there AI in my fridge?
Answer: No, but there could be intelligent life forming in its recesses.
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