Random: “Parents Thought It Looked Like A Wiggling Penis” – Remember When Animal Crossing Triggered A Lot Of “Angry Calls” To Nintendo?

“Our database even had a special page on dealing with the call”. The Animal Crossing series is known for its family-friendly nature, so it’s something of a surprise to learn that one of its most iconic features caused complaints back when the GameCube title hit store shelves in 2002. I’m talking, of course, about the…

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‘AI PCs will become more important’: AMD’s Lisa Su remains optimistic about the market despite runaway pricing caused by *checks notes* the AI industry

PC gamers (and PC users as a whole) find themselves in an increasingly expensive landscape, in part due to the AI data centre industry’s apparently bottomless appetite for memory. And yet, AMD CEO Lisa Su reckons “AI PCs will become more important” for the average consumer. Lisa Su told investors during AMD’s most recent earnings…

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Saudi-acquired EA is reportedly planning to make massive cuts after taking $18 billion of debt, and we all know what that means

Electronic Arts has officially now passed into the hands of Saudi Arabia—specifically, the Saudi Arabia Public Investment Fund, as well as firms Silver Lake and Affinity Partners. It is with a grim lack of surprise that I now inform you that this will, reportedly, involve a lot of layoffs. The news comes courtesy of Bloomberg’s…

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EA has fixed a niche Battlefield 6 issue where some Nvidia GPUs were crashing while changing attachments or ‘playing on maps with large bodies of water’

For some time now, Battlefield 6 players on Nvidia cards were running into a peculiar crash when changing attachments on the SOR-300SC carbine, using custom server search, or “playing on maps with large bodies of water”. If you have run into such a problem, you will be happy to know that it should now be…

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Sovereign Tower looks like a cosy management game, but it’s ruthless, full of murder and impossible choices, and features one of the best time travel systems I’ve ever encountered

Sovereign Tower has genuinely surprised me. At first glance, it’s a cosy-looking management romp with shades of Reigns and Yes, Your Grace. It’s colourful, a little silly and chock-full of charming eccentrics. This is not an inaccurate assessment, but it’s also so much more—and a lot darker than the soft colour palette and whimsical tone…

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