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It seems that the government of Japan is not happy with the US government’s habit of using images from Japanese videogames in its political rhetoric, which has included racist, war-mongering social media posts. A Mainichi Shimbun report (Google translated, via IGN) says Japan’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs has “repeatedly expressed concerns” about the use of…

Take-Two Interactive chief Strauss Zelnick has waded into the discs vs. digital debate, and given the company’s decision to release Grand Theft Auto 6 exclusively in digital format, you probably won’t be surprised to find that he thinks discs “don’t really make sense” these days. PC gamers have lived in an almost fully digital world…

Back in 2018, Blizzard revealed something very funny about its iconic mech hero D.Va: Everything about her is a mess under the hood. Game director Aaron Keller likened the way D.Va is programmed to a “plate of spaghetti,” when speaking to Kotaku at the time. When she ditches her mech, she’s actually transitioning into a…

Marvel Tōkon: Fighting Souls has been highly anticipated for some time and that’s partly because it’s from Arc System Works, the company behind the likes of Guilty Gear, Blazblue, and Persona 4 Arena. Yet Steam users are disappointed in its opening few days. That’s because despite many praising the game itself, it reportedly has a…

The Asus ROG Zephyrus G16 2026 is a fantastic 16-inch gaming laptop. There you go, review over, we can all go home. But wait, because it’s got a serious flaw that should make you hold your fire before pressing the order button. And that flaw, as those familiar with the ongoing memory crisis may have…

If you spend your time editing videos, you may have already invested in a macropad. Or, you’re probably used to the monotony of spamming shortcuts on your keyboard to swap between different tools. This can be a pain on the wrist because of the angle you hover over a keyboard, but there’s now a new…

ChatTJB, according to its Crunchbase profile, is a service that “provides a personal conversational response where an individual directly receives, processes, and writes answers to user inquiries”. That’s technically true, but not in the way you think… because it’s just sorta some guy. Futurism got to sit down with Tucker Bryant, the man behind ChatTJB,…

World bosses have been a part of the World of Warcraft player’s diet since classic—in case you haven’t played the game, what separates a world boss from any other raid encounter is the fact that it’s (self-explanatorily) out in the world, something you need to party up to defeat without going into a cave somewhere….

If one thing is true about AI, it’s that there’s a lot of money in it. Nvidia became the first $5 trillion company because of its role in the explosion of AI data centers, and OpenAI has been rounding up tens of billions in investments. So you’d think AI companies could buy pretty much whatever…

Keeping on top of chipset driver updates is a boring, but necessary part of maintaining a modern PC. Unfortunately, both myself and fellow hardware nerd Jacob Fox have run into an issue with the AMD Install Manager, which attempts to install the latest chipset driver and fails miserably on both our machines. Very unhelpfully, the…