‘We’re still on track to release *** *******’: Arc Raiders pokes fun at EA and Activision censorship while reminding players that they’re still coming for the end of the month

Word has spread about Arc Raiders’ censorship across EA and Activision. It may sound weird, but during the Call of Duty: Black Ops 7 beta, players who typed ‘Arc Raiders‘ in chat were met with a starred version as if they had just uttered the worst phrase known to man. I decided to check this…

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Zelda Williams ethers AI ‘tributes’ to her dead dad: ‘You’re making disgusting, over-processed hotdogs out of the lives of human beings’

Zelda Williams, the daughter of the late Robin Williams, has launched a withering attack on the reams of AI-generated slop that’s been generated featuring the actor’s likeness. You can see why if you ever watch any of it. AI-generated video can barely manage a plausible normal human being for more than a few seconds, but…

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Peter Molyneux says ‘We never took a penny of money from people’ with his cursed cube game, contradicting Peter Molyneux who said it had made ‘a few tens of thousands’ in 2013

Peter Molyneux, founder of Bullfrog and Lionhead Studios, is notorious for overhyping his games. Back in the day, when I was a lot younger than I am now, this was considered a kind of adorable foible—the guy just got so excited about the stuff he was making he couldn’t help but make wild, unfulfillable promises…

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Telltale-esque superhero management sim Dispatch was originally going to be a live-action TV show before it became a videogame, but then ‘a thing called Covid hit’

Dispatch is a game I’m genuinely quite excited for. Made by AdHoc studios, which contains quite a few former Telltale employees, Dispatch is a gorgeously-animated comedy about a washed-up Superhero managing a telephone dispatch for a bunch of reformed crooks and losers. Aside from having a solid setup, it’s also got a fun management sim…

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Welcome Keitai Archive – A New Site Focused On Making Japanese Feature Phone Preservation More Accessible

It’s never been easier to keep track of the community’s efforts. The feature phone preservation community has launched a new website dedicated to its ongoing efforts to save old and endangered Japanese mobile games from becoming lost media. RockmanCosmo, a prominent member of the community online, announced the new website, Keitai Archive, last week, sharing…

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