Talking Point: “Why Bother If You’re Not Going To Do It Properly?” – Why SEGAGAGA’s AI Translation Is Upsetting So Many People

“The game IS the writing”. Late last week, Sega fans got a welcome surprise thanks to the release of the English language patch for Segagaga, a Dreamcast RPG which had remained untranslated for decades. The work was undertaken by a team led by Exxistance, and finally gave fans the chance to play the game in…

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Resident Evil Requiem performance actor says they sometimes filmed in the dark ‘to make the situation feel as close to what it was without, you know, having a real-life zombie running at you’

Leon Kennedy is a veteran of the zombie apocalypse, and performed by a veteran too. Nick Apostolides returns to the role after voicing Leon in the remakes of Resident Evil 2 and 4, as well as the animated series Infinite Darkness. Grace Ashcroft is the opposite—Resident Evil Requiem is very much her first rodeo, and…

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Why I love Diablo 2, Act 1

WHY I LOVE (Image credit: Blizzard) In Why I Love, PC Gamer writers pick an aspect of PC gaming that they love and write about why it’s brilliant. This week, Jody remembers Diablo 2’s dark opening. It’s weird to feel affection for dreary bogs with names like Blood Moor, even if they do look like…

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One of my favorite Next Fest demos turned out to be this speedrunner’s delight modeled after 3D Sonic games, which just added ranked multiplayer races

If there are 0 fans of Sonic the Hedgehog’s early 3D outings from the Dreamcast days, I am dead twice over, because someone will almost certainly have to kill my over-enthusiastic ghost. Granted, the games did have their problems—levels were too cramped to accommodate your top speed, alternate characters came with less fun playstyles, and…

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Only 50 floppy disks of this prototype Japanese visual novel were ever produced, and one just got destroyed in transit: ‘Today, an important piece of history has been lost forever’

As Tom’s Hardware reported, X user Keripo posted an image and video of a physical game they had bought online on Feb. 26—more accurately, a rare pre-release trial version of the visual novel Tsukihime by Type-Moon. Only 50 copies of this particular trial version were ever produced, and as you can see in Keripo’s picture,…

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‘Sorry I can’t hear you over the roar of the Sunwell’: World of Warcraft players beg Blizzard to turn the volume down on the giant crackling beam in the sky

World of Warcraft: Midnight is the first time players have had a real reason to return to the elven city of Silvermoon since it was released in 2007. Many players, including me, find the expanded version to be a beautiful update to an iconic location in Azeroth. We also all agree that Blizzard needs to…

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