Vtuber grannies for rent: Agency deploys 75-and-up anime girl grandmas to ‘resolve issues of young people’

The folks at Japanese vtuber agency Otagroup are onto something. Its vtuber group of women aged 75-and-up aren’t just 3D anime girl streamers anymore: they’re vtuber grandmas for rent. Otagroup gained some traction in the vtuber space when its 86-year-old vtuber Hiroko went viral on X and YouTube. And now it’s going to offer an…

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‘It takes Anthem’s spot’: Former Dragon Age producer Mark Darrah thinks the original version of Dragon Age 4 would have released in February 2019⁠—a ‘compromised’ game, but likely better received than Veilguard

In response to a viewer question for a 200k subscriber Q&A on his YouTube channel, former BioWare producer Mark Darrah got into the fine details of what it might actually have looked like for BioWare to release Joplin, its initial pitch for a fourth Dragon Age, and whether he thinks it would have been better…

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Tactical RPG Demonschool flees to November as Silksong claims another victim: ‘We would not be doing Demonschool any favors by wading into waters we can clearly see are blood red’

The Silksong behemoth has claimed another victim. The tactical RPG Demonschool, which was set to launch on September 3, has been delayed to November 19, because 2025 has been “brutal” and launching the day before one of the most anticipated indie games to come along in years would just be asking for trouble. The Demonschool…

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Larian publishing chief says mainstream game industry has a ‘perverse attachment’ to indie studios, because indies still know how to follow their gut

Larian publishing director Michael Douse, never shy about sharing his opinions on the videogame business, did so again over the weekend with thoughts on why the big-budget game industry isn’t able to drive innovation and is thus becoming “perversely fascinated by indie,” which operates much more by gut instinct. The whole thing arose from some…

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