In 15 years of interviewing AAA game developers, I think this is the first time one’s straight up told me ‘Many people make games for money, but we make money for games’

I don’t think you can go by a nom-de-plume like “Soulframe” without really, really loving videogames. More than a decade before Digital Extremes started cooking up its Warframe sequel, young Chinese architecture student Qiwei Liang came up with the name as his internet handle, and has been using it ever since. It lasted through his…

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From “A Winner Is You!” to the NES Top Loader

Here’s the blunt opener: the same four words that crowned NES champs—“A Winner Is You!”—explain why the best online casino games still hook us today. Fast payoff, crystal-clear feedback, no fluff. That victory flash compressed everything into one clean dopamine hit. Modern online casino sites that copy this cadence—quick win cue, readable tally, back to…

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AI chatbot once again transforms from super genius into stupid tool the moment it goes off-script: ‘Grok doesn’t actually know why it was suspended’

In June, Elon Musk said that he’ll use Grok 3.5’s “advanced reasoning” to “rewrite the entire corpus of human knowledge, adding missing information and deleting errors.” Today, however, the AI chatbot is just a tool that doesn’t know anything, because after Grok’s X account was briefly suspended (via Business Insider), it declared that it got…

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Nexon teases its next big thing: A singleplayer action-adventure about a ‘Mage of the Way’ who battles injustice and corruption in ancient Korea

I wasn’t sure what to make of Woochi the Wayfarer when I first saw the title, but I reflexively assumed it would be cozy, and probably star a large anthropomorphic animal—an overweight bear, perhaps—with a bindle. I could not have been further off the mark if I had put conscious effort into it. It is…

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