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Take-Two CEO says the original Borderlands’ art style overhaul cost a year of dev time and $50 million: ‘Had we not done that, Borderlands wouldn’t have been a hit’

It’s hard to imagine Borderlands without all the stylized ink lines and butt stallions, but when the game was first teased nearly two decades ago, it looked much greyer and more brooding—the sort of thing you’d expect from a shooter released in the late aughts. CEO of publisher Take-Two, Strauss Zelnick, said in a recent…

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Nintendo 64 emulator just implemented rollback netcode for the entire library: ‘It was honestly not that hard’

I’ve always loved the clean simplicity and disgusting combo game on offer in the original Super Smash Bros. but it’s hard to actually get a game with other humans together in 2026. The same goes for anything that’s most easily played on archaic hardware. While several emulators have netplay features, anything requiring twitch reactions tends…

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