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Danganronpa creator says his latest game ‘might truly become the last grand, 200-hour game story in human history written entirely without AI’

Danganronpa creator Kazutaka Kodaka reckons his latest game might be the last one with a 100% human-created story. Listen, I know you’re probably sick of reading about AI by now—I’m sick of reading about it, hearing about it, writing about it. Unfortunately it seems that it’s very much here to stay, at least for the…

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If you thought Bloodlines 2 lacked bite, remember that The Witcher 3’s director left CD Projekt to make a vampire RPG, and it’s out next year

2025 finally brought us Vampire: The Masquerade—Bloodlines 2, but whether you liked or loathed The Chinese Room’s follow-up to Troika’s wildly ambitious and deeply flawed RPG, it’s safe to say that it wasn’t the follow-up most fans expected. On a personal level, what I wanted from Bloodlines 2 was basically ‘Bloodlines 1, but fixed’, an…

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EVE Online players destroyed 1,142,260,784,813,930 ISK worth of ships in 2025, which according to my caveman-level maths amounts to over $6 million lost to the void

EVE Online developer CCP Games just released its end-of-year statistics for its ruthless space sandbox, in celebration of what has been a big year for the veteran Icelandic MMO. The game received two new expansions which introduced player-created freelance missions and an overhauled mining experience, as five new ships. CCP’s stats suggest these expansions went…

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This neat Windows registry trick boosts NVMe SSD performance up to 80% but it’s only officially available for enterprise users

Users have discovered a registry tweak that can improve NVMe SSD performance on Windows 11, namely those all-important random 4k speeds. Windows treats most drives as SCSI (Small Computer System Interface), which has been used for decades now and largely intended for hard drives. As such, NVMe drives that offer higher parallel performance than a…

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The now-settled KOTOR 2 lawsuit saw accusations of demonic possession and the plaintiffs’ lawyer hitting back at Aspyr with Lil Wayne lyrics: ‘Okay you’re a goon, but what’s a goon to a Goblin? Nothin. Nothin. You ain’t scaring nothing.’

The strange case of the gamer’s lawsuit against Aspyr was resolved earlier this month. The suit, which saw a fan upset at the studio’s “false advertising” after DLC based on KOTOR 2’s Restored Content Mod failed to materialise as part of its Nintendo Switch port, culminated in a settlement between Aspyr and the gamers who…

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Zelda: Twilight Princess Has Been Decompiled

Paves the way for native ports to other platforms. The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess has been decompiled to its source code, as highlighted by Video Game Esoterica. Decompilation is the process of translating an executable file back into high-level source code, and it paves the way for recompiled, native ports to other systems –…

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