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Understandable AI paranoia has inspired a developer to change the handcrafted character art in its upcoming sim: ‘They look a bit AI’

Generative AI sucks for so many reasons, from its impact on the environment to the skyrocketing cost of RAM, but…

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League of Legends might be adding public voice chat—and as someone with a combined 2,655 hours in Dota 2 and Deadlock, I can safely say: Oh no

MOBAs are interesting videogames—imagine, if you will, a slot machine. Then imagine that slot machine takes forty minutes to do…

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I romanced a hunky British man with a shotgun for a head in a game that lets me have ‘US government approved pronouns’ like Jamestown, grits, and freedom

Developer Scope Creeps warns me as I boot up gun dating simulator Polyarmory: High Calibre Love that it is a…

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The new game from Disco Elysium’s studio feels like the first Christmas after your parents’ divorce

Commodity fetishism is the Marxist term for the process by which relationships between people become relationships between commodities. That is…

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I’m sorry to break it to you, but don’t expect to be able to play an evil pest in Crimson Desert: ‘Would I recommend a full playthrough in that playstyle? Eh, I don’t know’

Crimson Desert, the upcoming open-world action-adventure game made by the devs of the MMO Black Desert (don't worry, it miraculously…

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After a glitch botched Overwatch’s first big post-reboot event, it’s sending out the rewards—including 14 lootboxes—out to players anyway

Overwatch's grand return has, for the most part, been pretty damn good. I mean, it's not like the game ever…

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Microsoft’s ties with ICE come under fire amidst allegations that the company’s cloud and AI technology are being used to support mass surveillance of US citizens

No Azure for Apartheid, a worker-led organization that's previously carried out multiple protests over Microsoft's dealing with the Israeli military…

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