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Blizzard is delisting the OG Warcrafts from GOG, but GOG says it’s gonna preserve them forever anyway, hands out a discount, and announces new policy for its preservation program to boot

Thank god for corporations, eh? Blizzard has acted swiftly to put an end to the scourge of people not spending $40 (£35) on its recent remasters of Warcraft 1 and 2. The studio is delisting the original versions of those games from GOG, ensuring no innocent consumer will accidentally pick up DRM-free, classic editions of…

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Grab 29 books from perhaps the best TTRPG publisher in the business, including a fantastic alternative to D&D, for just $18 in this limited time bundle

Even if you’ve never heard of TTRPG publisher Free League, you’ve probably at some point seen the cover of one of its games and gone “Wow, what’s that?”. With books like the Alien RPG, The One Ring, and Vaesen, the Swedish company has shown off incredible art direction, refined production values, and damn clever game…

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Arcane co-creator reminds fans ‘there are always constraints’, dispels theories the show was rushed or restrained by Riot’s higher-ups

Arcane’s second season has hit some fans all weird—while I’m of the opinion that animation studio Fortiche did a pretty dang good job all things considered, cramming as much story as it possibly could into every frame, it’s also an imperfect show in the sense that all shows are imperfect. Coulda, woulda, and even some…

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To stop its ‘strip-mining of journalism,’ some of the biggest Canadian news companies are suing OpenAI to the tune of $20,000 for every article fed to ChatGPT

First reported by The Guardian, a number of major Canadian news and media companies have banded together to sue OpenAI over its use of their articles to train large language models. In a statement about the lawsuit, News Media Canada president Paul Deegan argued that “these artificial intelligence companies cannibalize proprietary content and are free-riding…

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The actor behind Half-Life’s G-Man based his iconic, halting delivery on the idea he was experiencing multiple timelines at once: ‘His relationship to time is very different than you or I would think’

As part of Valve’s 20th anniversary Half-Life 2 documentary, Secret Tape (the same crew behind NoClip) spoke with some of the actors in the game’s prominent roles. Among them, Barney Calhoun and G-Man voice actor Michael Shapiro explained some of his craft and theories behind the Half-Life series’ iconic extradimensional stalker. “The moment where you…

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Dragon Age: Inquisition’s final expansion was going to force us to blow up our home base to kill a fan favorite Origins companion

BioWare art lead Matt Rhodes just keeps coming with the development revelations about the Dragon Age series. As reported by Eurogamer, Rhodes shared some pieces of concept art for Dragon Age: Inquisition’s Trespasser DLC that show a different, even darker ending for the status quo-upending expansion. “An earlier version of the story. Sten would arrive…

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