Bloomberg: Vicarious Visions is working on a remaster of Diablo II

Mortal Kombat co-creator Ed Boon says that he “would love to see” a Mortal Kombat character added to Smash Ultimate

Mortal Kombat co-creator Ed Boon, in a D.I.C.E. Summit 2020 interview with Shacknews, was asked about the possibility of a Mortal Kombat character, such as Scorpion and Sub-Zero, getting representation in Super Smash Bros. Ultimate. Boon said that “for me personally (I can’t speak for all of Warner Bros or anything), that would be kind…

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Eric Barone says he’d ‘love to’ make Stardew Valley 2 someday: ‘A whole new set of characters, a whole new world, maybe capture some of that original energy that I had back in 2012’

Stardew Valley debuted 10 years ago this month, but creator Eric Barone is still hammering away on it. He’s also working on a whole new game called Haunted Chocolatier. It’s a lot for one guy, and so you might reasonably think that there’s not much room in there for thoughts of a full-on Stardew Valley…

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Overwatch players freak out over supposed Widowmaker butt nerf, proving that Marvel Rivals gooner skins have wound back the clock 10 years

Overwatch 2’s Street Fighter 6 collaboration has been officially announced, and the eight new skins are ready to appear on the in-game shop today, and just on cue, some players are already finding issues with the skins. “They won’t be able to dethrone Marvel Rivals by having a half-assed Cammy skin,” one player says. “Pun…

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Supermicro Readies an Intel Broadwell Gaming PC

An unexpected face in the consumer gaming space You’ve probably at least heard of Supermicro, a well established player in the server and workstation markets. Supermicro also dabbles in small form factor (SFF) cases, but as far as full fledged gaming PCs go, options are few and far between. Nevertheless, Supermicro is getting ready to…

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Anthropic ditches its defining safety promise to pause dangerous AI development because it’s basically pointless when everybody else is ‘blazing ahead’

Given the way the AI industry is going these days, the following news probably isn’t a huge surprise. But it’s unnerving all the same. Announced in a new blog post, Anthropic, arguably the sole remaining example among the major AI players that really bigs up its safety responsibilities, has ditched its core commitment to “pause”…

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