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Content warning: This article includes discussion of suicide. If you or someone you know is having suicidal thoughts, help is available from the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline (US), Crisis Services Canada (CA), Samaritans (UK), Lifeline (AUS), and other hotlines. A kind of simulated gullibility has haunted ChatGPT and similar LLM chatbots since their inception, allowing…

If you’re ever in dire need of a laugh, just hit up the Crusader Kings subreddit and read people’s honest discussion of the game. User mak112112, for instance, recently “discovered castration,” and said that they’re having the time of their life “lopping off people’s fun bits.” One of the sub’s most famous posts from a…

Content warning: This article includes discussion of suicide. If you or someone you know is having suicidal thoughts, help is available from the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline (US), Crisis Services Canada (CA), Samaritans (UK), Lifeline (AUS), and other hotlines. Facebook parent company Meta has said it will introduce extra safety features to its AI LLMs,…

Final Fantasy 14 director Naoki Yoshida loves Diablo. He’s talked about Blizzard games several times over the last several years, including when he named Diablo as his dream crossover for FF14 two years ago. If you’re worried he’s forgotten about it, don’t: in an interview with Techradar, Yoshida reiterated that he’d like nothing more than…

Right, let me be clear here. Crucial’s T710 is without a doubt an all-out assault against the majesty that is Sandisk’s WDSN8100. Without question, that drive is the best PCIe 5.0 SSD out there today and has been for a few months now. Certainly as far as performance is concerned. But no crown can remain…

Fortnite has finally taken action against the scourge of hormonal teens everywhere, and stopped certain emotes in the game being used in close proximity. The emotes in question are all moves that, when combined with certain other moves, may make it look like the avatars are engaging in a sexual act. Despite being fully clothed…

I had a grand old time with Valve’s MOBA, Deadlock, when I first took it for a spin back in August of last year. And then, because I am a person with a job, social obligations, bills, and—most importantly, two MMOs I’m currently playing—I dropped off. Well, given the six new heroes that dropped into…

The best game of 2024 is getting DLC. No, not Balatro. I don’t even know what that is. I mean Halls of Torment, the excellent Vampire Survivors-like (do we have a better name for these yet?) that I boldly and correctly made my personal game of the year for 2024. Called The Boglands and set…

The first widely available 1,000 Hz gaming monitor will launch in 2026, but unless you are at the top of the top in a select few games, you likely won’t be able to tell the difference between this and a monitor with a fifth of the refresh rate. As reported by ITHome, Chinese manufacturer AntGamer…

Roblox never fails to impress me with the sheer number of experiences it hosts, alongside the millions of constantly active players. However sometimes a game comes along and stops me in my tracks. The latest addition to this evergrowing list is Steal a Brainrot, a game inspired by the “Italian Brainrot” AI-generated images that dominated…