“Cuter & Tougher Than Ever”, NMK’s Two-Player Arcade Platformer ‘Bomb Jack Twin’ Explodes Onto Consoles Later This Week

A blast from the past. Hamster has revealed that NMK’s 1993 platformer Bomb Jack Twin will be the next game coming to modern consoles as part of its Arcade Archives series, following last week’s reissue of Touchdown Fever. The game is an updated version of the 1984 platformer from Tehkan (which is already available through…

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Fallout Season 2 episode 5 finally mentions Forced Evolutionary Virus, an integral part of the Wasteland and the source of the Super Mutants

Eagle-eyed viewers, or just those who are as nosey as I am, may have spotted something particularly interesting towards the end of the latest Fallout Season 2 episode: The first mention of the Forced Evolutionary Virus (FEV). After breaking out of Vault 31, Norm and the rest of Bud’s Buds travel the Wasteland and arrive…

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Hazelight Founder Josef Fares On EA: “Let’s Be Honest, There’s Not A Publisher In The World That Hasn’t F****d Up”

“Nintendo, Microsoft, Sony, everybody’s done something”. Electronic Arts has been in the headlines for all sorts of reasons over the years, but Hazelight Studios founder and director Josef Fares (who is known for expressing his honest opinion) can’t help but feel the third-party video game giant is still “getting more s**t” than it deserves. His…

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Music marketplace Bandcamp bypasses AI disclosures and obtuse policies to announce a wholesale ban on AI slop

One of the internet’s largest music marketplaces has banned content “that is generated wholly or in substantial part by AI”. Bandcamp announced the new policy today, which also prohibits the use of AI tools designed to “impersonate other artists or styles”. Here are the guidelines, straight from Bandcamp: Music and audio that is generated wholly…

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