Evan Lahti @ELahti Twitter profile

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Evan Lahti

@ELahti

7 months

Here are my space-time coordinates on the ever-warping twitterplane.

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Evan Lahti

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2 years

Wow, Elden Ring has lost 50% of its players in just one month. Rough launch, not enough content. Silence from the developer and no roadmap or battle pass in sight. Dead game?

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6 months

Wallpaper Engine has the most consequential branching story decision of any game on Steam.

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2 years

The tweets will continue until we curb this bad habit of wielding concurrent player data as a weapon to stoke community narratives about a game's decline

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2 years

Did you know that "dead game" Battlefield 2042 was one of the 12 highest-earning games of 2021 on Steam, according to Valve?

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5 years

SonicFox is a queer black furry fighting game pro who donated $10K of his winnings to his opponent's family so they can pay for cancer treatment. Heartening to see A+ humans like him in esports.

SonicFox Is Still The Best Injustice 2 Player In The World

Dominique “SonicFox” McLean won the biggest Injustice 2 tournament of the year. Again.

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2 years

@FriccenFriend I finished in 20 hours. That's a $3/hour ratio. Not even close to what gamers expect.

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6 years

@jamesdaykin @pcgamer FYI: Ubisoft is not The Government

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2 years

@DaveOshry You should be praying for FromSoft. All they've gotta do is put out a decent roadmap, maybe some seasonal events with Easter costumes and daily challenges (egg hunt?) and I bet players would flock back to the Lands Between.

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6 years

@nightquaker @pcgamer Hey look everyone, it's the word that sociopaths use to describe the concept of empathy.

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@ELahti

7 years

@mike_pence Your party drags the disabled out of wheelchairs.

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Capitol Police arresting protesters who rely on wheelchairs. They dropped one. #NoCutsNoCaps

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2 years

@timothydclark While I’m not a doctor, I’ve read a lot of EKGs on the internet and this looks a lot like tachycardia so Destiny 2 will probably die soon

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6 years

Cool that we’ve reached the point where an influencer is holding themselves hostage unless a game meets their demands to promote them and earn them money. Playful or not, this stuff adds to the antagonism we’ve seen grow between players and devs in the past few years.

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5 months

GTA 6 does not appear to be launching on PC in 2025, per a press release that Rockstar released that names Xbox and PlayStation, but no other platforms.

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7 years

@cfhorgan @kthorjensen fuckin' sjws and their universally-agreed-upon empirical evidence

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6 years

I know North Korea has a lot to answer for but I for one think their commitment to the payload is admirable

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6 years

@jarrasek @BigPaulieDoyle @HellblazerVice I don't know if copywriting can get more schizophrenic than this. "War is meaningless, my thirsty dude" "But also, help us win the war... against Coca-Cola" (our owners???) "Haha who cares about politics, my dude" "Viva la revolution, Brave Monster Solider"

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5 years

Trailer: Trains are giant, complex machines. You are its caretaker. Me: Sweet Trailer: Beware the snow Me: Got it Trailer: and WOLVES AND CHAINSAWS Me: Wait what Trailer: Sometimes you must KILL THE WOLVES Me: Trailer: Another foe is ALCOHOLISM

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2 years

I am begging Reddit to understand: 1 That this is normal, especially in the face of Halo Infinite 2 The difference between concurrent players and players 3 That some people finish games

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1 year

@Sen_JoeManchin Framing appliance regulation as a "my cold, dead hands" struggle against tyranny in order to protect the interests of the energy billionaires you're financially entangled with, thanks for the great representation man

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1 year

@DaveOshry Torment Nexuses are up 283% YoY, this rules

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7 years

@CNBCnow @austin_walker @CNBC That seems dangerously arbitrary.

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2 years

@pcgamer

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2 years

@bcolayco @day9tv Bob, please believe me when I say I did not expect to be told to commit suicide based on this tweet

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3 months

The tiny ways Helldivers 2 reinforces that you're fighting a pointless war are so funny. One of the primary macguffins is a "SSSD Hard Drive." You're telling me I'm out here dying in Robot Vietnam for something called a *Super Solid State Hard Drive?*

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7 years

@mike_pence And then, days later, claims to be supportive of free speech.

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I just published “Stand Up For Free Speech”

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7 years

"Oh hey, Mass Effect is out. I wonder what people are talking about, let's pop on the ol' Reddit and—"

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1 year

@johanlenox @reuterspictures What if I told you that photos also represent a series of artistic choices that necessarily interpret the world

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9 years

Pretty nice sale going on for Naruto on Steam, down from its usual price of 184 quadrillion dollars. http://t.co/85JmY0OvHI

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8 years

Important work already being done on Sega games by modders.

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2 years

@laczarus Think again.

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1 year

@helloiambear @AlpacaAurelius “I have anointed myself as wise” avatar pack

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6 years

About time. Every multiplayer game needs to get on board with adopting systems that purge and punish racist, homophobic, and sexist players.

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6 years

Rainbow Six Siege players who use slurs are now getting instantly banned

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1 year

@rynrly @rhinosoros Truly an epic bacon of a comment, take my upvote good sire

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7 years

@verge I'm good

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4 years

@AstroKatie @histoftech Y'all should see it in action, it's a spectacular queue:

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7 years

@Roxaereon @cfhorgan @kthorjensen ctrl + v beats the hell out of denying reality and undermining science

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3 months

@fryinthebag This guy is also walking around saying “for all intensive purposes” isn’t he

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2 years

I am retiring from posting, having received a lifetime supply of diamond-quality replies. Here are some of my favorites

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2 years

@HattedHer Imagine dropping in Weeping Peninsula and then rolling Caelid for final circle (ring). Epic

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3 years

@dissent_memo @ryanjreilly Gotta get those insurrectionist spouse Likes, right? Otherwise what's even the point of insurrecting

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6 years

PC Gamer is continually looking for smart freelance writers who we can pay to cover these games. Email me! PUBG Fortnite Rainbow Six Siege CS:GO Dota 2 Arma 3 GTA 5 Overwatch/OWL 📧 evan @pcgamer .com

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Evan Lahti

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2 years

@sarahjeong Federally mandated max patients per nurse would help, I’m told by friends. Some unions have been able to dictate this within their systems but it isn’t even a standard across states like California. One person can’t take care of 6+ acutely sick people

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1 year

@GoneEFK That’s as bad of a “contorting yourself to find grievance” I’ve seen

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This is one of the best videos in history of internet. I've said for a long time stop insisting regular people should speak like politicians.

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3 years

@ezralevin @EWErickson Thanks for pointing this out. MI's senator Gary Peters directly intervened to help my brother in law get unemployment benefits last year.

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2 years

@IRuDoKaI @Michael95663606 @FriccenFriend This is cyberbullying. I defeated the final boss, the Tree Sentinel. I will upload my 20 minute combat video later, you'll see

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Evan Lahti

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6 years

Self-promotion alert: I'm now Global Editor-in-Chief at PC Gamer. Happy to be continuing my decade here with our talented-as-hell team covering the most vibrant gaming platform.

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@ELahti

7 years

@nytimes oh good

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2 years

@dannyodwyer I posted my achievement data and they still don't believe me, Danny. I'd like to see them do the same

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@IRuDoKaI @Michael95663606 @FriccenFriend This is cyberbullying. I defeated the final boss, the Tree Sentinel. I will upload my 20 minute combat video later, you'll see

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5 years

I think I just experienced a trust fall in Apex Legends.

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2 years

@TitanSmashMTG It's sad, but I think modders will have to save this game, ultimately. At this rate in one more month there will be zero players.

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3 years

Windows key + Shift + S, pass it on ⌨️

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6 years

@Kotaku Yikes.

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7 years

@bgentry471 @mike_pence Right: dragging we, the people, out of wheelchairs for expressing their right to protest.

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6 years

@austin_walker like

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1 year

@DaveOshry You absolutely sure this isn't a manual for how to operate an F/A-18 Hornet

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3 years

I'm old enough to remember when Steam sold movies.

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2 years

@daveweigel Feels like an extension of this, the proliferating need to describe mundane aspects of life with heightened, medical language

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1 year

The Andrew Ryan cadence of this headline absolutely sent me, @AndyChalk .

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1 year

Pretty neat how we went from “no one makes SP shooters anymore 🥲” to “There are now so many one-word-named retro FPSes that you will struggle to separate them in your mind”

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Hope you're ready to shotgun jump... very soon. Welcome to SPRAWL Wishlist on Steam: Join our Discord: #gamedev #madewithunreal #UE4 #fps #SPRAWL #screenshotsaturday

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3 years

@JesseKellyDC Especially those Nixon tapes. Bro Code seriously violated!

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6 years

@BurgerKing Brands aren’t your friends

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7 years

@Heritage What lousy propaganda.

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9 months

@briantashman Libertarians love it when you tell them where they cannot legally drive, pretty sure I saw that on YouTube

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@ELahti

7 years

@SenMikeLee @realDonaldTrump While we're at it, get Ronald McDonald to run the FDA.

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Evan Lahti

@ELahti

10 years

Halo 2 running at 60fps, 1080p resolution. An experience we had seven years ago on PC.

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@ELahti

3 years

@hasanthehun Been there. I have to advocate strongly for physical therapy, if you haven't explored that yet. PTs are some of the smartest and most compassionate medical folks I've met.

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@ELahti

6 years

I heard the FCC is going to turn the internet into a series of loot boxes; pass it on

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@ELahti

5 years

We should probably acknowledge that @respawn surprise-launched a multiplayer game—without a public beta!—to more than a million people, with only modest technical issues. When's the last time that happened?

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I’m so overwhelmed right now, @PlayApex broke a million unique players in under 8 hours. ❤️❤️❤️ Thank you so much for showing up and being part of this with @Respawn you are amazing!!

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4 years

@VancityReynolds @TheMattKozar The Peloton Cinematic Universe is surprisingly dark

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1 year

@Coelasquid @tibermoon Who is asking this question lol

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2 years

@DuhSkacola @FriccenFriend Limgrave is the whole game, right Someone told me there's a horse but I just walked everywhere

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7 years

@JeffFlake Well, here's an unacceptable rationale:

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Trump really fired Comey when he was all the way across the country and had no way to preserve the integrity of his files. My God.

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4 years

Girlfriend, watching the Star Wars: “That’s a man with a plan. A mandalorian with a plandalorian.”

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3 years

@businessbarista I'm out. To do this without any kind of warning or communication with its users is disgraceful.

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9 months

Over the weekend the folks on the PCMR subreddit solved game development. Just make good games, everyone, it's that simple.

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@ELahti

4 years

@Vahn16 tired: Army, Navy recruiting kids to war through Twitch wired: The 2020 USPS Esports Team, planting the bomb on the bombsite in an extremely timely fashion despite all the obstacles placed before them📦

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6 years

@NaomiAKlein It's the people who care about each other vs. the people who care about themselves, and we're not winning.

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4 years

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1 year

@mamueca As an editor who was also awake during their heart surgery: at least surgery has drugs

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9 months

@esjesjesj Always a good sign that things are going well when you, the richest person ever, are panhandling

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7 years

@realDonaldTrump

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@ELahti

3 years

PSA for those still yet to create a character in Cyberpunk - there are apparently no customization options once you start the campaign. Once you finalize a created character, it's final. A shocking omission considering the game's themes.

How to create and customize your character in Cyberpunk 2077

Use the Cyberpunk 2077 character customization system to design the perfect version of V.

www.pcgamer.com

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Evan Lahti

@ELahti

3 years

German word for "playing multiple Early Access games that haven't reached maturity but you're invested in them so you can't quite put them down but they are ultimately unsatisfying because you cannot complete them."

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@ELahti

6 years

This guy in my last ranked game is the model of a good teammate.

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2 years

@dlberes I remember a strange time when trauma wasn't a regimented part of schooling

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2 years

Starsiege: Tribes still doesn't get enough credit for establishing the template of FPS we play today. In 1998, Tribes had: Open-air maps Physics-based skillful movement Classes, weapon loadouts Base infrastructure, deployables, repairing Aerial vehicles Char skins, mods

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5 years

@SAU_SIEGE @Rainbow6Game RIP cargo shorts Also, literally ripped my cargo shorts in excitement

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Evan Lahti

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7 years

March was our biggest month ever on —10.5 million readers. Hats off to everyone on our team.

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5 years

@SleepHussy

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4 years

Two US congresswomen played an old, $5 Unity game on Twitch last night for 430,000 people. An unfinished horror game is outselling Cyberpunk 2077 on Steam. A Chinese F2P open-world RPG has captured a massive western audience. Opinion: PC gaming be wild

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Three mega-hits in three months: Fall Guys, Among Us, Phasmophobia. Opinion: PC gaming is really unpredictable right now and it's fun as hell

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2 years

@joshcorbettpods @CadenHouse I am sorry to contribute to anyone's lessening faith in gamer-humanity today

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6 years

@austin_walker It's like if your parents were getting a divorce and dad decided to speak to you in a way that would appeal to you, a millennial child: a Squarespace page

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2 years

I've been playing a lot of Into the Breach lately, and happened to see that famed mech drawer @Alex_Connolly was taking commissions, so I asked him to draw the Steel Judoka and oh my god

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3 years

We’ve so quickly normalized “every game comes to PC” that we now live in a world where Microsoft scolds Sony for not releasing its games on PC fast enough.

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The rare shot against Sony from Phil Spencer: "We’re the only platform shipping games on PC, cloud and console simultaneously. Others bring console games to PC years later, not only making people buy their hardware up front but then charging them a second time to play on PC."

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@flglmn My reaction to this trad stuff is that it was definitely all grown in a lab by right-wing think tanks

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2 years

Stay safe out there, people on Twitter are openly performing the rituals (once thought consigned to oblivion) that will summon the old gods

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3 months

Also recommend this option to randomize the voice of your Helldiver *between deaths*. ie, canonically you're not even the same soldier over the course of one mission, but a series of 5-10 disposable grunts.

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@ziyatong @bengelinas sky dogs are good

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@therachelweber Heartman Deathman Die-Hardman Norman Reedus Yep that covers all the types of man

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