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1 day ago | pcgamer.com | Joshua Wolens

Friends, I have a disease. Not, uh, not one of the bad ones, I mean a disease of the mind. In any management-esque game—from Theme Hospital to Factorio—I am incapable of planning until it's too late, until I have layered one haphazard system on another to an extent that I can't easily go back to the drawing board. I need to slap things together and see how things work to make a plan, but to implement the plan I need to tear apart the ramshackle monster I've built and do it all over again.

1 day ago | pcgamer.com | Jess Kinghorn

I really don't 'get' the buzz around modularity. For one, I like set-it-and-forget-it tech; once my keyboard is in situ, I'm not going to be regularly kickflipping it like a fingerboard to strap on extra bits. For another, my desk is messy enough as it is without a growing pile of modular attachments. As much as I love playing around with PC hardware like the expensive Lego it is, I've yet to see a truly killer use case for modular tech outside of what's already gone into my rig.

1 day ago | pcgamer.com | Andrea Shearon

While new, the GTA 6 map isn't an entirely unfamiliar destination. The Florida-inspired state of Leonida is home to places we've visited in Grand Theft Auto before, like Vice City, and other areas inspired by Miami's neighbors. Sure, it's been a couple of decades since Rockstar's last adventure there, but the scale and influence of its PS2-era heists loom over the series like a nostalgic hangover from a damn good night out.

1 day ago | pcgamer.com | Fraser Brown

Stellaris's recent 4.0 update, which launched alongside the (pretty unpopular) BioGenesis expansion on May 5, finally introduced the concept of babies. Their lack of inclusion previously made plenty of sense, of course. Babies are useless. Especially when it comes to giant space empires. But they are here now, which means a fun new bug has reared its head. The nascent stage trait is a negative trait that can be applied to humanoid, mammalian, reptilian and arthropoid species.

1 day ago | pcgamer.com | Joshua Wolens

It's a sad truth of the world that there are only so many war crimes you can render in pornographic detail before it all starts to get ho-hum. The electric thrill wears off, the dizzying highs transform into stultifying mids, and even the Red Cross stops calling when you execute your millionth downed opponent. This is, probably, not quite what former Call of Duty animator Chance Glasco was talking about in a recent interview with Tulsa's News 9 network (via GameSpot), but I like to pretend it is.