Both lawyers in case use hallucinating AI, causing judge to throw up hands, bar them for 2 years, fine everybody, and call the whole thing off for 60 days

We at PC Gamer have covered the disturbing trend of lawyers—who are, on average, supposed to be competent and reasonably well-read, and quite literally where the phrase ‘passing the bar’ comes from—using AI citations in courtrooms before. But this one’s a doozy, because it turns out absolutely everyone involved had the same large language model…

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Legendary JRPG studio’s 23-year shun of the PC has ended: the next Vanillaware game will come to Steam

Muramasa: Revenant Blades is the newly announced action RPG from Vanillaware, a highly respected Japanese studio founded in 2002 and terminally aloof to the existence of personal computers. Until now: a revamped version of 2009’s Muramasa: The Demon Blade was announced at today’s Nintendo Direct. Initially a Wii exclusive, it’ll hit Steam in 2027. If…

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‘The curse of MIXED is broken:’ Suda51 & Swery65’s Hotel Barcelona claws its way to ‘Mostly Positive’ on Steam after Hail Mary patch and scrubbing AI assets

As reported by Automaton, action platformer Hotel Barcelona has finally pulled away from “Mixed” user review status on Steam to “Mostly Positive.” This came after developer White Owls Inc. updated the game in a number of ways, including cleaning up its controversial deployment of generative AI. The sidescrolling roguelike action game is notable as a…

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Destiny 2 goes out as God intended: Amidst absurd streamer drama featuring four content creators, an esports org, a boutique PC maker, an ex-NFL star, and $180,000

A legal dispute between a Destiny 2 streamer, another streamer, a former NFL pro, and a seemingly defunct esports organization has somehow gotten even weirder than you might expect, as a third streamer has jumped in to give the first streamer $180,000 so he can continue pursuing a judgment he actually already won. Got it?…

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