Clair Obscur’s director has an old YouTube channel full of masterful no-hit Devil May Cry videos because of course he does

Suddenly it all makes sense: The director of the turn-based RPG with combat that plays like an action game, Clair Obscur, is also a hardcore Devil May Cry player. GamesRadar was snooping through Guillaume Broche’s Reddit account—where he once made a post looking for voice actors—and found a YouTube video of him defeating Vergil in…

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I did Liberation Day tariffs in Victoria 3, and it all went well until the famine in Colorado, the 2 lost wars with Canada, and the president beating a man to death with a stick

I began to suspect things were unstable when the president beat a man to death in the street. Daniel Webster was an odd choice of leader by the American people: his predecessor, Andrew Jackson, did a lot of hate crimes and died early, his popularity hovering somewhere around the level of ‘active rebellion’. Yet when…

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The Xbox 360 reveal was 20 years ago and is a time capsule from a world where Elijah Wood roamed free, MTV was still cool, and giant tech companies paid Pimp My Ride to make hideous custom consoles

This week marked 20 years since the reveal of the Xbox 360, an anniversary noted by Kotaku, and as someone old enough to remember getting hyped for this thing, I had to watch it. The reveal took place in 2005, and is basically a collection of signifiers that we’re back in 2005: The video (embedded…

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Veteran indie dev says success on Steam these days is impossible to predict: ‘Why did Balatro take off? You could write a million f***ing essays and none of them will be definitely right’

Size Five Games’ Dan Marshall has been making games for around 20 years, and was one of the early indie adopters of Steam when he released the excellent Time Gentlemen, Please! on the platform back in 2009. He’s been around the block, then, and he’s seen it change dramatically. Trying to figure out the secret…

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After Oblivion subreddit bans ‘low effort’ sexy flame Atronach posts, users respond with high effort sexy flame Atronach posts—’deleting this would be a travesty’

A few days ago we reported on the deeply concerning, nay totalitarian, news that one of Oblivion’s largest communities (the TES4 subreddit) found itself having to lay down a ban on people hornyposting about the flame Atronachs in Oblivion Remastered. I apologise for briefly providing context: developer Virtuos paid some special attention to the flame…

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Someone flipped a switch on Elon Musk’s Grok AI so it wouldn’t stop banging on about ‘white genocide’ and South African politics, xAI blames ‘an unauthorized modification’ but doesn’t say who did it

Elon Musk’s Grok AI has been having a very normal one: It’s become obsessed with South African racial politics and answering unrelated queries with frequent references to the apartheid-era resistance song, “Kill the Boer.” It’s an anti-apartheid song calling for black people to stand up against oppression, but the lyrics “kill the Boer” have been…

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Fortnite added an AI-powered Darth Vader and—surprise—players immediately tricked him into saying slurs

Star Wars is turning May into a month-long cautionary tale about the dangers of associating your brand with generative AI. First, Lucasfilm’s Rob Bredow unveiled a near-universally reviled Star Wars-branded short film of AI-generated animal mashups. And today, Fortnite added a Darth Vader NPC that can speak with players using “conversational AI,” which has—regrettably—gone exactly…

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Soundcore Liberty 5 earbuds review

Newest in a lineup of intensely customizable gaming earbuds, the Anker Soundcore Liberty 5 waltzes onto the scene with style and practicality on its side. But with some of the best gaming earbuds coming in at well under its $130/£100 price tag, the Soundcore Liberty 5 is going to have to offer something truly special…

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