And part three of the news:

Dusk creator unveils 'microshooter' meant to be completed in a single sitting
https://www.pcgamer.com/dusk-creator-unveils-microshooter-meant-to-be-completed-in-a-single-sitting/
New Blood member and Dusk creator David Szymanski has announced his next project, Chop Goblins, a "bite-sized" FPS where you squash goblins throughout time and space. The shooter's set to release on January 2, with a projected runtime of about 30 minutes.

Resident Evil Village VR might come to PC
https://www.pcgamer.com/resident-evil-village-vr-might-come-to-pc/
Back in June, Sony announced that RE-series-highlight-mashup-reel Resident Evil Village was going to get a PSVR2 release complete with 4K, eye-tracking, 3D audio, and all the other fanciness that a modern VR version brings. Much as we'd like one of the best horror games on PC to get the same treatment on our platform of choice, given that Resident Evil 7's VR release has yet to make the jump it seemed unlikely.
Until now. Redditor u/LitheBeep has datamined a hint that Village VR might make it to PC after all. In the game's executable they found references to PSVR followed by "OpenVR", "OculusTouch", "OculusVR", and "OculusRemote", as well as the string "autoLaunchSteamVROnButtonPress".

New World opens some fresh servers to celebrate its reworked game start
https://www.pcgamer.com/new-world-opens-some-fresh-servers-to-celebrate-its-reworked-game-start/
Amazon games' MMO New World has opened up a suite of "Fresh Start" servers, letting you kick off a new character on an untapped server where there're no long-established players from the game's first year. The new servers come alongside an entirely reworked early game experience for the game, requiring less travel and grouping quests closer together along with requiring far less grinding.

There's a free Goya-themed horror game and someone's definitely eating their son
https://www.pcgamer.com/theres-a-free-goya-themed-horror-game-and-someones-definitely-eating-their-son/
Hell yeah, friends, it's time for some art history with PC Gamer! Impasto is a horror game by student designers out of USC Games, the University of Southern California's game design school, and it's inspired by one of the greatest painters of all time: Francisco Goya. It's named after the technique he used extensively, Impasto, of thickly-laid and textured paint which gives paintings physical depth.
If you already know what that is and what it means then all I need to give you is a link: Impasto is on Steam and completely free.

Stranger Things VR game casts you as the villainous Vecna
https://www.pcgamer.com/stranger-things-vr-game-casts-you-as-the-villainous-vecna/
Tender Claws, the studio responsible for sinister AI comedy Virtual Virtual Reality (which we dubbed one of the best VR games), has announced that it's working on a Stranger Things tie-in horror game. Based on the brief teaser trailer, Stranger Things VR will be about exploring the Upside Down, encountering the monstrous denizens of that dimension, and doing psychic battle with the series' protagonists, all from the perspective of season 4's big bad, Vecna.

EA granted patent for system that changes controls based on how good (or bad) you're playing
https://www.pcgamer.com/ea-granted-patent-for-system-that-changes-controls-based-on-how-good-or-bad-youre-playing/
Electronic Arts has been granted a patent it applied for in late 2020, named "Automated controller configuration recommendation system", which outlines a system whereby a game would adjust controller settings depending on the user's skill. That's right: why git gud when you could git algorithm.

Xbox Studios boss says Halo Infinite's launch was like 'stumbling as you come across the finish line'
https://www.pcgamer.com/xbox-studios-boss-says-halo-infinites-launch-was-like-stumbling-as-you-come-across-the-finish-line/
Xbox Game Studios head Matt Booty has been getting candid about Halo Infinite. As spotted by The Gamer, Booty was asked to give his take on the game's rough launch during an appearance on the Friends Per Second podcast, and compared Halo Infinite's release to "the classic runner's mistake of kind of tripping and stumbling as you come across the finish line".

Phil Spencer 'excited' at the idea of more StarCraft
https://www.pcgamer.com/phil-spencer-excited-at-the-idea-of-more-starcraft/
Phil Spencer hasn't been shy about the possibility of resurrecting Activision-Blizzard's old library of games if the acquisition goes through. One of those may possibly be beloved RTS StarCraft, something which Spencer seems pretty excited about.

New NYC pay law gives us a rare insight into what game devs really make
https://www.pcgamer.com/new-nyc-pay-law-gives-us-a-rare-insight-into-what-game-devs-really-make/
A new law in New York City is giving us an unusual insight into the earnings of game developers at some of the world's biggest game studios, Axiosreports. The law requires that—as of November 1—companies in NYC must include a "good faith salary range" for the jobs they advertise, game studios included.

Watch the PC Gaming Show: 2023 Preview on November 17
https://www.pcgamer.com/pc-gaming-show-2023-preview/
Later this month we're returning to twitch.tv/pcgamer and other livestreaming platforms to look ahead at 2023 on PC. Tune in on November 17th at 10 AM Pacific (1 PM Eastern, 6 PM GMT) for an overview of next year's most interesting games, featuring a few unveilings of never-before-seen games, along with new footage and commentary on what could be big in '23.

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4080 Graphics Card Geekbench 5 Benchmark Leaks Out, Up To 15% Faster Than RTX 3090 Ti

https://wccftech.com/nvidia-geforce-rtx-4080-graphics-card-geekbench-5-benchmarks-leas-out-faster-than-rtx-3090-ti/

Terrible uplift for it's price. Will get smoked by 7900XTX easily.

More NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4080 Custom Models Listed Online, Preliminary Prices Close To RTX 4090

https://wccftech.com/more-nvidia-geforce-rtx-4080-custom-models-listed-online-preliminary-prices-close-to-rtx-4090/

This GPU will be a zen 4 situation for Nvidia. Overpriced while competition/last gen are better value. I suppose that is what they are going for but still. Idk who in their right mind would spend so much for so little performance gain over current gen.

Nvidia is apperently blaming AIB partners for the burnt cable issue

https://www.reddit.com/r/nvidia/comments/yo246v/4090_rtx_gigabyte_adapter_cable_burned_in_the/

Maybe most people should just skip this gen for both Nvidia and AMD lol

Or we could wait to see the rest of the stack to see how they perform and their pricing. Because, you know, not everybody goes for the high end stuff.

If that's true, I agree that Nvidia isn't taking this problem as it should, and it can come back and bite them in the ass.

And it kind of looks like EVGA knew what was coming and choose the right moment to leave.

Guess they'll sort a proper N31 with the 7950XT, next year. Maybe. Lol.

Hopefully the Navi 32 (7800XT) and the RTX 4070 doesn't dissapoint in terms of price to performance and value. Who am I kidding.. These GPU's (thus far) are such a clusterfuck of dissapointment in uplift in cost to performance. Well maybe the 4090 is passable for being a Halo SKU product that delivers.

Jensen had a full fat AD102 lined up to take on whatever AMD was gonna put out and then his spies told him the performance expectations of the 7900XTX and he laughed his ass off and told everyone to milk the 40 series as much as possible.

The incompetent engineers at AMD tried to make Ampere on TSMC 5nm but they couldn't get RT/Ai/Reflex right along with having design bugs plaguing the arch which they couldn't delay otherwise Nvidia would have full resign for who knows how long. All their BS marketing about DP2.1 and RDNA 3 doesn't even have full bandwidth DP2.1 so it's barely better than HDMI 2.1 ports that Lovelace/Ampere/RDNA 2 already have.

Meanwhile some tard at Nvidia made the decision to force everyone to use this shit connector with shit adapters that make $5000 PCs look like they were taken out from the nearest junkyard cause of the shit cable management. And since it's also a fire hazard, $1600+ marvel of engineering is getting cucked by a 10 cent connector. Went from an ez win to lawsuits up the wazoo. Can't wait to make my claim when that happens cause I'll have the receipt this time around.

And don't even get me started with the shit CPUs and their 10-15% improvements lmao. What a shit generation for everyone right after two shitty years of getting cucked by miners and scalpers.

It's about damn time

PC gaming grew exponentially in Japan over the last years from being practically non-existant to an increasingly big player.

One of the main reasons is that CERO ratings became more restrictive, making several games and depictions more difficult, especially when it comes to sex and sexy outfits. The catch is that CERO is only regulates console games, but has no agency at all over PC games, thus allowing those to get past the radar and censors.

This is also why Japanese publishers largely ignored PC and even now still don't really commit to it yet. The more the PC market grows in Japan, the more those publishers have to go into PC gaming, further weakening consoles in Japan.