Steam will no longer offer physical gift cards

submitted by PonyOfWar to pcgaming
174 points | 41 comments

Kinda sucks for me, as I’ve almost exclusively used gift cards for the last few years. I get a bonus tax-free credit card by my employer, which I can only use at retail stores. So those were a great way for me to use that card to buy games. It was also a good option for people who wanted to avoid payment providers like Visa/Mastercard…

The remarkable story of Unreal 2, the sequel rescued from development hell by dooming it to failure: 'There was just no way we could succeed'

submitted by Agent_Karyo to pcgaming
11 points | 1 comments
https://www.pcgamer.com/games/fps/the-remarkable-story-of-unreal-2-the-sequel-rescued-from-development-hell-by-dooming-it-to-failure-there-was-just-no-way-we-could-succeed/

It made it possible for us to ship something, but what we shipped was not what people wanted.

"People want MMOs, and the sales of New World proved it" – Cryptic Studios head Jack Emmert on why MMOs are ripe for reinvention

submitted by Agent_Karyo to pcgaming
8 points | 6 comments
https://www.gamesindustry.biz/people-want-mmos-and-the-sales-of-new-world-proved-it-cryptic-studios-head-jack-emmert-on-why-mmos-are-ripe-for-reinvention

“I think that the idea that the MMO crowd doesn’t exist is belied by the number of players who are still in World of Warcraft”

Chinese memory maker CXMT enters mainstream consumer memory with Corsair Vengeance DDR5 kit — Chinese-made DRAM emerges as an antidote for crushing shortages

submitted by cm0002 to pcgaming
87 points | 6 comments
https://www.tomshardware.com/pc-components/ddr5/chinese-memory-maker-cxmt-enters-the-mainstream-consumer-memory-with-corsair-vengeance-ddr5-kit-chinese-made-dram-emerges-as-an-antidote-for-crushing-shortages

What happened to (arcade-type) Joysticks?

submitted by 1Fuji2Taka3Nasubi to pcgaming
18 points | 18 comments

I realized I haven’t gamed with arcade-type joysticks for a long time and kind of missed them.

It seems to me gamepads are way more popular than large joysticks nowadays, when joysticks used to be a popular gaming accessory.

Is it because they take up too much space?

Is it because they lack the modern gamepad features (analog…

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