Zelda Williams ethers AI ‘tributes’ to her dead dad: ‘You’re making disgusting, over-processed hotdogs out of the lives of human beings’

Zelda Williams, the daughter of the late Robin Williams, has launched a withering attack on the reams of AI-generated slop that’s been generated featuring the actor’s likeness. You can see why if you ever watch any of it. AI-generated video can barely manage a plausible normal human being for more than a few seconds, but…

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Peter Molyneux says ‘We never took a penny of money from people’ with his cursed cube game, contradicting Peter Molyneux who said it had made ‘a few tens of thousands’ in 2013

Peter Molyneux, founder of Bullfrog and Lionhead Studios, is notorious for overhyping his games. Back in the day, when I was a lot younger than I am now, this was considered a kind of adorable foible—the guy just got so excited about the stuff he was making he couldn’t help but make wild, unfulfillable promises…

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Telltale-esque superhero management sim Dispatch was originally going to be a live-action TV show before it became a videogame, but then ‘a thing called Covid hit’

Dispatch is a game I’m genuinely quite excited for. Made by AdHoc studios, which contains quite a few former Telltale employees, Dispatch is a gorgeously-animated comedy about a washed-up Superhero managing a telephone dispatch for a bunch of reformed crooks and losers. Aside from having a solid setup, it’s also got a fun management sim…

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Co-op dino survival horror game Deathground prepares to launch with one final reminder that, no, ‘you won’t be able to play as a dinosaur’

I’ve taken a few peeks at Deathground since it was announced back in 2020: it’s a co-op survival horror game where up to four players sneak and creep through an abandoned research facility, being stalked by ravenous dinosaurs every step of the way. It’s Jurassic Park simulator, in other words, where you try to complete…

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