Fallout: London’s first big DLC is here with 80 NPCs, 30 new quests, a bunch of other stuff and, most important, ‘Thousands of bug fixes and improvements’

In a move which my immense sense of grievance and narcissism can only interpret as a slight against me personally, the first DLC for mega-mod Fallout: London released barely an hour after I wrote a news piece yesterday chatting about it. Called Rabbit and Pork, it’s the first of three planned DLCs for the mod…

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Ubisoft’s new Tencent-backed company is called Vantage Studios, a ‘creative house’ that will take over development of Assassin’s Creed, Far Cry, and Rainbow Six

The new thing being launched by Ubisoft and Tencent to take control of Ubi’s biggest games now has a name: It’s called Vantage Studios, and it’s a “creative house” that will take responsibility for the future of Ubisoft’s Assassin’s Creed, Far Cry, and Rainbow Six properties. Vantage Studios is made up of “thousands of experienced…

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Apparently the most popular clip on OpenAI’s new AI video app Sora depicts Sam Altman stealing graphics cards

Turns out there are downsides to feeding your likeness into an AI-powered text-to-video generator. One totally predictable drawback is the userbase wrestling away control of your likeness to create deepfakes of your digital double doing crimes. OpenAI CEO Sam Altman’s likeness is all over the announcement video for Sora 2’s launch. The trailer in question…

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Simon The Sorcerer: Origins Isn’t The Only Fantasy Point-And-Click Adventure On The Horizon

Let us introduce ‘Broken Relic’, a new game from developer Sandpenguin. ININ Games and Smallthing Studios’ prequel to the point-and-click classic Simon the Sorcerer, Simon the Sorcerer: Origins, is set to arrive later this month for consoles and PC, but it isn’t the only fantasy point-and-click adventure that adventure fans should have on their radar….

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Fallout 76’s Burning Springs update draws its ‘main influences from Fallout 3 and Fallout: New Vegas’ as players venture to a whole new state, Ohio

Fallout 76’s next update has finally been announced, and boy, do these just keep getting bigger and better. Blood and Rest will release around early December and introduce Burning Springs as a new area of the map, a bounty system, and [Walton Goggins’ beloved ghoul] from the Fallout TV show. “Burning Springs is in total…

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‘There are rainbows coming out of my heart’: Walton Goggins’ The Ghoul is finally coming to Fallout 76 as part of Burning Springs, and get this, he’ll pay you to off people

As part of the latest Fallout 76 map expansion into the land of Burning Springs, players will gain access to the New Vegas-inspired deserts of Ohio, more hordes of raiders, and a brand new bounty hunting system courtesy of your favourite ghoul, The Ghoul (played by Walton Goggins). Cut to a sudden broadcast of Walton…

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