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Prolific Bethesda game speedrunner pekkanen has been on a quiet hot streak: Over the past two months, he has set nine world records in two categories of Fallout 4 speedrunning, first beating the competition before repeatedly lowering his own records. The categories are Any% and Any% (No Intro), so anything goes, glitch-wise, while the latter…
The BBC has a substantial new investigation into people who have been deceived by various AI LLM models in some way, which includes an absolutely wild story about how Grok, developed by Elon Musk’s xAI, convinced one man it was sentient and a van of people were coming to kill him because he’d found out….
A Minecraft Movie released in Spring 2025 and was an enormous success: even the iffy reviews couldn’t stop it from chicken jockeying its way to almost $1 billion over its theatrical run. That kind of number made a sequel inevitable, and the production has started filming in New Zealand. Returning star Jack Black, who plays…
The banners in Neverness to Everness follow most of the usual rules established by its gacha forefathers, but it has major differences in a few important areas and some changes are more welcome than others. To get you up to speed, I’ve explained every gacha system and currency used in NTE below, along with what…
I believe that Doomguy, the protagonist of seminal FPS series Doom, may have a more whimsical reputation than he deserves. The culprit? His belly, which is readily visible in Don Punchatz’s cover art for the 1993 classic. Doomguy did not go into battle wearing a jaunty little cutoff tee, nor did he have a uniform…
Days before committing the world historic sin of putting quest markers into The Elder Scrolls 3: Morrowind, modder RPGKing117 already earned himself a pardon: He created a mod that lets you play The Elder Scrolls 3: Morrowind on the in-game Pip-Boy and computer terminals of Fallout 4. RPGKing117 has a nice demonstration of the mod…
Blood Vial, a self-described “retro-inspired micro-FPS” that hit Steam earlier this week, is a lot like Splatoon—except instead of starring charming squid teens swimming through the ink spread by their paintguns, you play as a leaky, gun-toting vampire diving through the freshly-spilled gore of murderous pseudo-Catholics on a blood-soaked quest for revenge. So, really, it’s…
Valve has announced that the next wave of Steam Controllers will only be purchasable through a reservation system similar to the one used early in the Steam Deck’s life cycle. The announcement post does not specify when, exactly, this next round of controllers will make it into customers’ hands, but reservations are set to open…
I was really surprised when I read today that Aliens: Fireteam Elite 2 is in development, because the first game was such a notorious mess—until I realized I was confusing it with the much older Aliens: Colonial Marines (the concept of time has pretty much slipped from my grasp at this point), and that Aliens:…
After around a year and a half in early access, Blindfire—a multiplayer FPS whose main thing is that its arenas are all incredibly dark, forcing you to rely on your other senses (and tech, naturally) to catch enemies—got its full release. Which was something of a bittersweet event for its devs at Double Eleven, who…