Tyler Wilde
Tyler grew up in Silicon Valley during the '80s and '90s, playing games like Zork and Arkanoid on early PCs. He was later captivated by Myst, SimCity, Civilization, Command & Conquer, all the shooters they call "boomer shooters" now, and PS1 classic Bushido Blade (that's right: he had Bleem!). Tyler joined PC Gamer in 2011, and today he's focused on the site's news coverage. His hobbies include amateur boxing and adding to his 1,200-plus hours in Rocket League.
Latest articles by Tyler Wilde
Steam closes refund policy loophole, finally comes up with a name for the thing where you can play a game early if you pre-order
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news Let's hope publishers play ball and stop using "early access" to refer to two completely different things.
Klei's new co-op brawler makes a strong first impression in early access
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news Rotwood launched on Steam today at a discounted early access price.
German government wants games like Baldur's Gate 3 to 'also go on to be developed in Germany'
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news Germany started giving out federal grants in 2020 to "achieve international competitiveness" in game development.
Coming up with 'skeleton outfits' was one challenge of being the Fallout show's costume designer: 'We dressed skeletons right and left'
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news The show's costume department did "a ton of research" as it figured out how to distress the Wasteland's apparel.
18 times the Fallout show was exactly like a videogame
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game logic The show takes a hilariously literal approach to adapting the Fallout games.
How do the Fallout show's Vault suits look so good? Niche Italian fabric, it turns out
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news Cosplayers take note: You might have to up your fabric game to look as good as Ella Purnell or Kyle MacLachlan.
Fallout show creators decided on their own to faithfully replicate the iconic power armor: 'Bethesda didn't know what we were doing'
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news Bethesda "never said" they had to make the power armor look like it does in the games, but it's so cool they did it anyway.
All this Fallout TV show buzz and no new Fallout game to play—but so what?
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open the vault There are plenty of Fallout games to play, and people are finding them.
If the Windows 'update and shut down' option restarts your PC instead, it's not just you
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news You aren't losing it, you really did tell Windows to shut down.
People who don't play life sims might not understand that they're 'the most complex RPGs ever written,' says Life by You director
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news But they're inclusive and easy to pick up, which is why their popularity keeps growing, Rod Humble says.
The Fallout show's Lucy was described to Ella Purnell as a 'Leslie Knope/Ned Flanders-type' who would 'star in a toothpaste commercial but could also kill you'
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news And Walton Goggins says he's never played a character more badass than The Ghoul.
The Fallout show's Wasteland looks so good in part because it's real: Some of it was shot in the same desert as Mad Max: Fury Road
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news Locations included a real ghost town and "a bombed diamond mine that is now a hyenas' den."
Game studio owner suddenly lays everyone off and blames a Kotaku report that hasn't been published
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news Possibility Space's founder claims that leaks to press—which haven't been made public—led to a conversation that closed the studio.
Helldivers 2's new Eruptor gun is a beast: basically a support stratagem, but as a primary weapon
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news Players are being awed by the new bolt-action weapon's democratic fervor.
Slay the Spire 2 ditched Unity for open-source engine Godot after over 2 years of development
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news Mega Crit switched to the free engine after the install fee debacle that led to the resignation of Unity's CEO.
EA denies rumor that it canceled an in-progress Dead Space 2 remake
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news The publisher announced this week that the Dead Space remake leads are now working on Battlefield.
The Rogue Prince of Persia revealed: a slick 2D roguelite coming to Steam in May
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news Dead Cells developer Evil Empire is making the Prince's next adventure, and Ubisoft is skipping the usual Epic Games Store exclusivity period.
Slay the Spire 2 releases in 2025: 'The Spire isn't what it used to be'
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news Goodbye, free time: The sequel to the influential deckbuilder hits early access next year.
Battlefield 2042 won't get more new seasons as next Battlefield game enters full production
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news The Dead Space remake team at Motive is now working on Battlefield, too.
Card game developer says it paid an 'AI artist' $90,000 to generate card art because 'no one comes close to the quality he delivers'
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news "For us to get this with a team of traditional artists it would cost us a lot more money, and time," the developer told us.
Gamers seek legal win that would stop developers from rendering online games unplayable: 'It is an assault on both consumer rights and preservation of media'
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news The organizer of "Stop Killing Games" hopes to get France and other governments to examine the legality of live service shutdowns.
Smaller games can be 'more creative,' says designer who made one of Ubisoft's most acclaimed games with a tiny team
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news "If you've got a more limited budget than triple-A, and you've got a more limited timeframe to do it, I think you get more innovation..."
Upcoming pirate RPG wants to break from cliché and show 'what piracy really was'
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news Flint: Treasure of Oblivion promises big tactical battles and an un-Hollywood-like vision of pirates.