I didn’t foresee spending almost 50 hours with Schedule 1 earlier this year, and I’m a tad embarrassed by how much of that I accumulated in just a couple of weekends. It was the go-to for my friends and I in early April, and then we just… fell off hard. The 50 hours playtime in…

Not satisfied with getting OpenAI to say that his dad could beat up Sam Altman’s dad, Elon Musk has now filed a lawsuit against Apple and Open AI, accusing them of “joining forces to ensure their continued dominance in a world rapidly driven by the most powerful technology humanity has ever created: artificial intelligence.” “AI…

For the first time since its early access release, Path of Exile 2 will be completely free to play for a limited amount of time. From August 29 to September 1, the action RPG will open its gates to everyone so they can try out the new Third Edict update. There will be no limitations:…

In 2005 I lived and breathed fansites, many of which I can still name off the top of my head: Eyes on Final Fantasy, Zelda Universe, Animal Crossing Ahead, DK’s Jungle Vine—outside of gaming magazines, these sorts of websites dominated my bookmarks folder so that I could hunt down any scrap of news from the…

The folks at Japanese vtuber agency Otagroup are onto something. Its vtuber group of women aged 75-and-up aren’t just 3D anime girl streamers anymore: they’re vtuber grandmas for rent. Otagroup gained some traction in the vtuber space when its 86-year-old vtuber Hiroko went viral on X and YouTube. And now it’s going to offer an…

In response to a viewer question for a 200k subscriber Q&A on his YouTube channel, former BioWare producer Mark Darrah got into the fine details of what it might actually have looked like for BioWare to release Joplin, its initial pitch for a fourth Dragon Age, and whether he thinks it would have been better…