Turns out the guy who hit a firefighting plane with a drone in LA was Treyarch co-founder Peter Akemann

As firefighters struggled to contain the devastating Palisades Fire in Los Angeles in early January, someone wanted a bird’s eye view—and ended up hitting a Super Scooper firefighting aircraft with their remote-controlled drone. That person has now been identified as Peter Akemann, co-founder of Treyarch, the game developer best known as the every-other-year Call of…

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YouTube’s explanation for why Dr Disrespect can start making money on his channel again doesn’t add up

Seven months after demonetizing Dr Disrespect’s channel over his admission of inappropriate communications with a minor, YouTube has decided that Guy Beahm, better known as the streamer Dr Disrespect, has served his penance and can start monetizing his videos again. After multiple sources reported the change in direction, Beahm himself triumphantly announced the remonetization in…

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Fallout: New Vegas lead writer returns to Obsidian after leaving 14 years ago, but before you ask, no, ‘It’s not FNV2’

14 years after leaving Obsidian Entertainment to ply his trade on games including Guardians of Middle-earth, Horizon Zero Dawn, and Horizon Forbidden West, Fallout: New Vegas creative design lead John Gonzalez has returned. But don’t get too excited, New Vegas fans, because he says it’s not for New Vegas 2. “I’m happy to share that…

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Baldur’s Gate 3 Patch 8 testers are whispering that a previously mediocre subclass is now an S-tier war god of infinite thunder smites, but there’s no way it can last

Baldur’s Gate 3’s upcoming deluge of new subclasses is practically as exciting as all the entirely new games we’re about to get in February, and we’re starting to get reports trickling in from loose-lipped Patch 8 stress testers about how those new subclasses work in action. One thing that really stands out to me among…

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