‘It’s a whole new kind of blerp’: YouTube’s AI-enhanced reply suggestions seem to be working as well as you might expect

Have you heard of the dead internet theory? It’s essentially the idea that the internet is primarily populated with bots and AI-generated responses, intentionally designed with the overall goal of minimising human interaction and promoting products. The theory posits that humans on the internet are relatively rare, but bots responding in a manner just like…

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After 3,500,000 units sold and its Game Awards wins, Balatro does a victory lap and absorbs 8 new crossovers in its unstoppable march to turn all games into cute little cards that get you points and stuff

Dear reader, I have some sorry news to report—Balatro is taking over all of gaming. No RPG, no strategy game, no charming indie hit is safe. If you have a videogame, you are getting absorbed into Balatro, until all is rendered poker, praise be to the Almighty Blind. This is the part where you imagine…

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Fans reckon that Ciri’s on the path in The Witcher 4 because The Witcher 3’s endgame screwed everything up

CDPR dropped its Witcher 4 reveal trailer at big Geoff’s Game Awards last night, and surprise: You’re Ciri now. Little Zireael has followed in her adoptive dad’s footsteps and taken on the mantle of witcher, seemingly confirming the ‘Witcheress’ ending for The Witcher 3 and turning our Ciri into an itinerant monster-slayer and probable Gwent…

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The Witcher 4 was always going to be about Ciri, ‘even when we were doing The Wild Hunt actually’, but don’t worry about Geralt: ‘Definitely he’s going to appear’

The Witcher 4, perhaps one of the most anticipated RPGs of the next decade—if only because it might give us a new bathtub Geralt equivalent to use—was announced at The Game Awards yesterday. One of the biggest reveals was that the game would be allowing Geralt to hang up his silver and steel for a…

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