Video: Game Builder Garage Still Rules On Switch 2

Kirby! Mario Kart! Deltarune! The magic of Game Builder Garage lives on Nintendo Switch 2. As one of a handful of games to receive a free update for the new console — including Mouse Mode compatibility — fans are continuing to develop weird and wonderful creations in the game. So, with the recent Game Builder…

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Overwatch 2’s new China-exclusive dating sim event looks so good that players say they’ve been ‘robbed’ of the experience

Overwatch 2 is going in for round two of its Loverwatch dating sim—it first appeared two years ago on February 13. While this new iteration includes more heroes like Junker Queen and Mauga, it is, unfortunately, only available for players in China. The original Loverwatch only had two romance options, Genji or Mercy, with a…

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Astarion voice actor Neil Newbon sinks his fangs into AI and shreds it: ‘AI sucks … It doesn’t have the happy accident possibility that are those great moments in film’

AI! It’s the new big thing. It’s the foundation of the 21st-century digital economy. It’s going to feed the hungry and clothe the naked. It will punish the wicked and reward the righteous. It’ll bring about the resurrection of the dead and the life of the world to come. And you’re going to lose your…

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‘We proved people wrong:’ After Silent Hill 2, Bloober Team’s survival horror developers are no longer ‘feeling like underdogs all the time’

“Give us a chance,” horror studio Bloober Team asked Silent Hill fans last summer. Before Silent Hill 2’s remake racked up critical acclaim on release, the developers at Bloober Team spent two years working under the Sauron-like eye of a fandom that had weathered far too many disappointments, and a horror audience that saw Bloober’s…

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Cronos: The New Dawn’s sci-fi survival horror channels RE4 and Dead Space, but it took Bloober awhile to realize it ‘subconsciously’ is also a game about Covid

Jacek Zięba reflexively reaches for his temple as he recalls the moment he realized Bloober’s sci-fi horror game, set in alt-history Poland after a deadly outbreak, was about Covid. “We didn’t want to make a game about the pandemic,” the game director says. “When we started the story, it just worked for us. And at…

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