Category
Dumb
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OPINION: Shakers and rumble are one of the worst inventions in gaming history, let's talk why, where and when
Am not a fan of shakers on pinball and rumble in controllers. This point will be lost in this article because some (many?) will read and think this is an absolute. It's not an absolute . I'm not completely opposed to…
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Russian Chess Player Poisons Opponent With Mercury + July 20 National Chess Day
Tomorrow, July 20, the chess community will celebrate National Chess Day. Let's revisit a story from 2024 that reminds that winning and losing with grace is important. This story takes desire to win at a game -- by any…
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What's with all the fake games ads? Show us real games we can play!
Ok, this fake game advertising thing is getting out of hand. I know, I know, you don't watch ads, use blockers, etc. If you play mobile games, ads can be a necessary evil at times, at least until you decide if you're…
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Aura Farming has something to do with gaming, really?
There are times in this world of 2025 that it feels like cultural modern hell. My eyes crossed when reading this trending thing called aura farming : "TikTokers count the aura points earned when they do something cool;…
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AI Voice Scanning to Auto Ban Human Gamers is another dumb use of AI
PGM member and Twitch Vtuber streamer Sonic321Master ( https://www.twitch.tv/sonic321master ) chimed into the Discord with this: Curiously, I started reading Steam reviews for the game Among Us 3D (…
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Yes, it's a bad idea under any circumstances to post classified documents in gaming chat
I'm somewhat familiar with the game War Thunder ( https://store.steampowered.com/app/236390/War_Thunder/ ). Am also familiar with online chats becoming heated. What I'm not familiar with is the idea of posting…
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Beast Games More About Bribery than Playing Games and Wasn't Profitable says MrBeast
Mea culpa: I don't follow MrBeast. The most attention I've given whatever promotion, contest or YouTube challenge he's running are intrusive ads that appear on a mobile game I'm currently playing. Most of these ads are…
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Elon Musk is good at (paying others to boost) his gameplay
Why this headline seems obvious for someone as insanely rich as Elon Musk it's a bit puzzling applied to someone that does play a lot of videogames. The obvious one word question is: Why? This is where we get into a lot…
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If any game company wants Steam to hide player counts, that's messed up
Here's a service at PGM readers probably didn't realize happens all the time: we often sit on news stories. We rarely report on "news" here because as the news evolves and isn't as it initially seems. It also takes…
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Humpday Wednesday + Microsoft OneDrive Should Be Opt-in, not Opt-Out by Default
Think I'm going to publish something from the draft bin on Humpday Wednesdays here and there. Once we get through the holidays and into Q12025 at some point we'll get back to what we've been doing on Wednesdays…
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Does Audience Non-Acceptance of Joker 2 Have Any Gaming Parallels?
As bizarre as this might sound, I kind of want to see Joker 2. You know, the sequel to a movie that made a bunch of money and surprised audiences everywhere. The $200 million budget sequel that is bombing hard right…
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Nintendo Alarmo is aimed at Kids, of course
I don't know what Nintendo is doing these days. Sales of Switch seem to be fading, especially since the Steam Deck. Look, we don't typically report on news here, and I have real work to do, but just had to break in on…
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That Microcode Patch for 13th and 14th Gen Intel CPU Issues We Keep Hearing About
Back in February of this year we touched on No, Thank You Unreal Engine Game Crashes Reported in some High-End Intel i9 CPUs . It's gotten worse. Much worse. And it goes beyond Unreal Engine. It's the Intel CPU itself.…
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Hey PC Gamer, it's Disappointing and Disturbing, not a "Bloodbath" when 220 people lose their jobs
It's too often these days that hyperbole with titles and headlines is taken too far. With all the serious stuff going on in the world, journalists, writers, we need to pick our words more carefully, more sensitively.…
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Microsoft Raising Game Pass Price Again and Introduces New (Sub)Standard Subscription Tier
Hold your wallets, if you want or need another .. Good Reason NOT to Renew Game Pass Ultimate No, this isn't about rogue chat bots running rampant during play sessions: @OllieNorris posted a screenshot of their…
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Will Feature-itis or Hyper-Monetization Destroy Discord?
Despite the title, which implies this author dislikes Discord, quite the contrary. The sometimes awesome, mostly good gamer communication utility, ah yes, there is a lot to like about Discord, but some of the new…
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Sony Apologizes for Publishing Internal Interview Misrepresenting Studio Views on AI and More
Sometimes the wheels of PR spin come off. Then again, this could be tail wagging the dog. In this example, the tail is AI and the dog is Sony. Maybe . If you want to focus on AI being pushed as a narrative, because it's…
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Clicking a Banana over and over again, is this really a game?
Do you try and keep an open mind to different genres of games? Or are you set on what you like and won't budge on things that seem way outside the norm? Like this game that's rising in the Steam DB charts about, yes,…
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2024 Game Server Terminations Continue - Sony Shuts Down LittleBigPlanet 3 Servers, Killing years of Sharing Customer Creations
With gaming in 2024, we're increasingly being reminded -- as gamers -- that big studios only care for a limited amount of time how much we play their games. And, yes, they seem to care even less if we spend our precious…
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Human Programmers Make Mistakes, Customers Should Not be Unwilling Beta Testers
Recently, Stern Pinball came under fire because an extraordinary player, Eric Stone, from Florida registered a 4+ trillion game on their newest Jaws pinball machine. There was a bug in the code that allowed ridiculous…
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Due to "Lack of Resources" Warner Bros. Delisting Adult Swim Steam Games Instead of Transferring Ownership to Developers
Remember a few months back, Antstream losing the Warner Bros. licensing for Midway and other classic arcade games ( Breaking: Antstream Arcade Losing Warner Bros. / Midway License )? According to Antstream, they are…
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OPINION: Google's AI Genie Creating Faux 2D Platformer Games Likely Another Idea They Give Up on Too Soon
Bonus article tonight because my newsreader is blowing up on Google's new AI Genie. There is no link to the Genie AI service yet (not public yet), but you can google "Google Genie " if you want to get lost in the rabbit…
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Pac-Man Played on Largest Video Game Screen Ever + Man Arrested for Climbing 300 Foot Vegas Sphere
We pre-empt an engaging interview on the Apple Vision Pro scheduled for tomorrow morning with news in a couple odd places in Vegas. Some old, some cool, some dumb. Let's tackle the dumb first. Recently, we discussed a…
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TIME SENSITIVE: Bill & Ted's Retro Collection on Nintendo Switch being delisted less than 1 year after launch
No idea if Bill & Ted's Retro Collection ( Nintendo Switch Store Link ) is worth the roughly $10 it's selling for, I didn't buy it or play it, but what's disturbing and prompting this article is this game collection…
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Skee-ball Rage in NJ Arcade: Woman Hits Child With Wild Skee-ball Throw
Just when you think you've heard of every kind of ignorant thing to do at an arcade, comes a woman getting angry about something and throwing a skeeball and hitting a child. Wish I was joking, as this appears to be what…
