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Mission Talita is a Grand Theft Auto mod meant to stop trafficking

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Image: Rockstar Games/Talita The Grand Theft Auto franchise has been indulging in all sorts of madcap...
Image: Rockstar Games/Talita The Grand Theft Auto franchise has been indulging in all sorts of madcap nonsense over almost three decades, from sophisticated criminal operations and heists at one end to sandbox shenanigans on the other, with the player running around, blowing stuff up, and attracting increasing amoun...
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Dragon's Dogma 2's combat is sloppy and unrefined – on purpose

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Apex Legends finals postponed after suffering unprecedented hack

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Image: Respawn Entertainment/Electronic Arts The North American Apex Legends finals have been postponed after hackers appeared...
Image: Respawn Entertainment/Electronic Arts The North American Apex Legends finals have been postponed after hackers appeared to give competitors cheats in the middle of tournament games, in an unprecedented attack on a major esports event. The Apex Legends esports X account said the decision to stop and postpone t...
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YouTube: The End of the MrBeast Era

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In the fall of 2023, a clip ripped from a video by Tom Simons and reposted...
In the fall of 2023, a clip ripped from a video by Tom Simons and reposted on X (formerly Twitter) saw Irish YouTube entertainer Seán “Jacksepticeye” McLoughlin strapped to a lie detector test. His friends were grilling him about everything, like whether or not he still enjoyed his job as a YouTuber and how much mon...
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Nintendo wins $2.4M in Switch emulator lawsuit, Yuzu to shut down

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Image: Nintendo Makers of Nintendo Switch emulator Yuzu owe Nintendo $2.4 million after reaching a settlement...
Image: Nintendo Makers of Nintendo Switch emulator Yuzu owe Nintendo $2.4 million after reaching a settlement with the Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom developer, following a lawsuit over the open-source emulator just last week. Both Nintendo and Tropic Haze, the company behind Yuzu, filed for a final judgment ...
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Palworld is the culmination of every game I've ever loved

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Palworld unfolds like a fever dream of so many games I’ve played and loved. I burst...
Palworld unfolds like a fever dream of so many games I’ve played and loved. I burst into its sprawling world riding on the back of a mythical deer, capturing cartoony creatures, as if it’s a Pokémon game. These fights with the creatures feel frantic at points; the combat itself plays like a first-person shooter wher...
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Unity cuts 1,800 more staff in 'company reset'

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Photo: Igor Golovniov/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images The Unity Technologies’ downward spiral continues as the company...
Photo: Igor Golovniov/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images The Unity Technologies’ downward spiral continues as the company intends to cut 25% of its workforce — or roughly 1,800 people — in a move it called a “company reset.” It’s the game engine maker’s largest layoff, bigger than all three of last year’s cuts...
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What goes right and wrong when games like Diablo 3 take a decade to make (2019)

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What does a decade’s worth of work look like? You can start and finish almost any...
What does a decade’s worth of work look like? You can start and finish almost any form of education; establish a career; raise a child; build a thriving business. For many, a decade of work could represent a house, a page on a resume, the title on a business card, or something less tangible — a feeling, even. For so...
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Palworld's success is partially born from Pokémon fans' discontent

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Image: Pocketpair Palworld is a massive success, celebrating an astonishing 1.5 million concurrent players on Steam....
Image: Pocketpair Palworld is a massive success, celebrating an astonishing 1.5 million concurrent players on Steam. In a highly competitive market flooded with quality games, it can be difficult to predict which games will succeed and which will vanish off the radar. Palworld’s selling pitch of “Pokémon with guns,”...
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Pacific Drive will make you fall in love with an old station wagon

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Ironwood Studios’ Pacific Drive is a road trip game about taking a drive through a disintegrating,...
Ironwood Studios’ Pacific Drive is a road trip game about taking a drive through a disintegrating, irradiated reality; it’s as if American Truck Simulator was set in a lonely, survivalist version of Fallout. Transported — either accidentally or on purpose, it’s not clear — into the Olympic Exclusion Zone somewhere a...
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StoryGraph is the Goodreads alternative worth switching to

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2023 ended on a very sour note for Goodreads. In early December, a writer was exposed...
2023 ended on a very sour note for Goodreads. In early December, a writer was exposed for review-bombing other authors, and she ultimately lost her book deal. While this scandal was horrifying, what’s more so is that it wasn’t surprising — nor was it the first high-profile case of review bombing on Goodreads that ha...
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Wizards of the Coast admits using AI art after banning AI art

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Image: Wizards of the Coast via X Magic: The Gathering publisher Wizards of the Coast has...
Image: Wizards of the Coast via X Magic: The Gathering publisher Wizards of the Coast has been forced to admit that it published a marketing image for the game featuring “some AI components,” despite an initial insistence that the art was “created by humans and not AI.” Wizards of the Coast had banned the use of AI ...
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