The 10 cozy games I’m most excited for in 2024

Though “cozy” may be one of the more difficult genre trends to pin a definition on, there are ever more of us looking for the next game that’s chill, creative, cute, or some mix thereof. And in response to that growing audience, our choices for best cozy games just keep multiplying. This year looks like…

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Larian and Microsoft working to address ‘annoying and uncool’ Xbox account bans caused by the unfortunate combination of Baldur’s Gate 3’s notorious horniness and automatic gameplay uploads

Baldur’s Gate 3 is a notoriously oversexed videogame, and that’s causing headaches for some Xbox Series X-S owners who have found their accounts suspended after their consoles automatically uploaded gameplay clips of, as one redditor put it, “naked camp fun time.” Xbox rules state that even though a game is approved by Microsoft, gameplay clips…

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Nintendo Download: 4th January (North America)

*shrugs*. The latest Nintendo Download update for North America has arrived, and it’s bringing new games galore to the eShop in your region. As always, be sure to drop a vote in our poll and comment down below with your potential picks for the week. Enjoy! Switch eShop – New Releases 4×4 OffRoad Collection (Boomhits,…

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NY Times lawsuit holds OpenAI and Microsoft ‘responsible for the billions of dollars they owe for the unlawful copying and use of The Times’s uniquely valuable works’

A lawsuit filed in the Manhattan federal court last week by the New York Times claims that the defendants—Microsoft and OpenAI—have used millions of its articles to train and create its large language models (LLMs) and other products. The Times is seeking damages in realms of billions of dollars, though it doesn’t give a specific…

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After 5 years, NCSoft officially grants a licence to popular City of Heroes private server Homecoming: ‘Your accounts and characters are safe’

If you were like me, the shutdown of the GOAT superhero MMORPG City of Heroes broke your heart into itty-bitty pieces—it also probably made you happy to see people playing it again when it was revealed that the game code had been salvaged in 2019.  Homecoming—alongside a bunch of other servers—promised a return to the…

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