Marathon cinematic director Alberto Mielgo says the 8-minute reveal video was not made with AI and frankly he can’t believe he even has to say that

Marathon is in a flat spin right now, but half a year ago—and despite some bumpiness at Bungie—Sony had high hopes: So high that it hired Oscar-winning director Alberto Mielgo to head up the creation of an eight-minute cinematic short that lays the foundation for the game’s setting and story. It’s very sharp and stylish,…

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After Downdetector itself went down, someone made a Downdetector Downdetector, and then someone made a Downdetector Downdetector Downdetector, and then…

Downdetector is a simple website that tells you whether or not online services like Discord are functioning so that you can determine whether problems accessing them are on their end or on yours. A funny thing happened this week, though: During a big Cloudflare outage on Tuesday, Downdetector itself went down. What do you do…

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After Krafton denied its CEO consulted with ChatGPT on the Subnautica 2 mess, Krafton CEO says he consulted with ChatGPT on the Subnautica 2 mess

The legal dispute between Krafton and the former top dogs at Subnautica 2 developer Unknown Worlds is now at the point where the lawyers are fully in control, sifting through the sands of everything everyone’s said and done over the past decade or so in search of the Ace Attorney bomb that will blow things…

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A year after Gearbox released Risk of Rain 2 DLC so broken the developer admitted it put the game ‘in a really bad place,’ it’s finally got a win: the new DLC’s 96% positive reviews have blasted it up Steam’s top sellers chart

Risk of Rain 2: Alloyed Collective, a new DLC for the ultimate numbers-go-up roguelike, launched on Steam yesterday to something new for Gearbox since it took over the game: Player acclaim. After taking over development duties from original indie developer Hopoo Games last year, Gearbox stepped in it pretty hard, releasing DLC so bad that…

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Peter Jackson’s King Kong: The Official Game of the Movie modder just released a fan patch for Peter Jackson’s King Kong: The Official Game of the Movie to celebrate the 20th anniversary of Peter Jackson’s King Kong: The Official Game of the Movie

On January 17, 2025, Update v33.20 brought King Kong to Fortnite as an Epic outfit that players could purchase for 1,500 V-Bucks. But while the dizzying pace of our contemporary culture might make it hard to remember, King Kong existed in media long before he could hit the Griddy or kill Sabrina Carpenter for sport….

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Like going to the office in Animal Crossing: my most productive work-from-home experience this year was spending all day online in this virtual co-working game

Some people have a great fondness for working in an office. I am not one of them; I consider normalizing work from home the only silver lining of Covid-19. When the pandemic initially sent entire corporate industries home, there was a flurry of experimentation in using games not just as hangout spaces, but online meeting…

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