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Pokémon streamer’s Kickstarter for a roguelite monster-collector hits its target in 10 minutes, then blows past $800K

Pokémon are everywhere right now. Turn away from the marketing blitz for Pokopia for a second and you’ll see imitators like Pickmon, a knock-off so shameless it makes Palworld seem restrained, and Aniimo, which combines Pokémon-esque design and gacha mechanics like there was an explosion at the cynicism factory.Wonderful Neoran Valley does actually seem like…

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Brendan Greene says AI content is ruining the internet because it’s ‘a loop, LLMs are scanning this junk, and then that becomes truth… it’s like a race to the middle of sh*t’

The next issue of PC Gamer magazine features an interview with Brendan Greene, perhaps better-known as PlayerUnknown, about his career in game development thus far, the wider landscape, and what PlayerUnknown Productions is up to over in Amsterdam.PC Gamer’s Joshua Wolens at one point asks Greene about his prediction that the future of computing will…

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Former EA chief Peter Moore says his game industry style of PR irritated his bosses at Liverpool FC, and that’s partly why he’s not the CEO of Liverpool FC anymore

Before there was Phil Spencer—thematically speaking, that is—there was Peter Moore: charismatic, engaged, and very high profile, at least by the standards of your typical game industry exec. He rolled up his sleeve to reveal the Halo 2 release date tattooed on his arm at E3 2004, for instance, an act he followed up a…

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