What if instead of Agent 47 you were just some doofus who 'accidentally' killed a guy in a hotel room? Dispose of the evidence in this physics-based stealth game

What if instead of Agent 47 you were just some doofus who ‘accidentally’ killed a guy in a hotel room? Dispose of the evidence in this physics-based stealth game

Look, you’re no Agent 47. You’re not an expert in stealth, assassination, and the disposal of corpses. You’re just a normal person in a regular hotel room who has accidentally, or maybe “accidentally,” murked some dude. And now you and your friends need to get rid of the evidence. In physics-stealth game We Are So…

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EA Japan exec laments Microsoft’s crushing layoffs, and the demands shareholders make for ‘short-term results from large-scale investments’

Microsoft’s latest round of brutal layoffs and studio closures have garnered more attention than usual—possibly because Phil Spencer had the gall to boast about how its gaming business has “never looked stronger” in the same announcement that saw 9,000 employees laid off across its gaming division and several major projects cancelled. So much attention, in…

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My respec in Avowed turned the combat from Skyrim into Dishonored, and now I’m having a blast as an invisible parkour sword-mage

My first 15 hours in the Living Lands were a bit of a blundering affair. The game’s progression doesn’t pigeonhole you into any particular class path, and each time you level up you can pick abilities from Fighter, Ranger, and Wizard pools. Within each path, certain abilities and upgrades of existing ones require you to…

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PS VR support comes to Dreams on July 22

Announced during today’s DreamsCom showcase, Inside The Box, the Dreams VR expansion, is arriving on July 22! Dreams players will be able to download a free update that enables PlayStation VR compatibility in Dreams, with new tutorials, how-tos, and kits to get you started when creating with the PS VR system plus new content to…

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US federal judge on Meta’s AI copyright fair use argument: ‘You are dramatically changing, you might even say obliterating, the market for that person’s work’

Comedian Sarah Silverman and two other authors filed copyright infringement lawsuits against Meta Platforms and OpenAI back in 2023, alleging pirated versions of their works were used without permission to train AI language models. Meta has since argued that such usage falls under fair use doctrine (via Reuters), but US federal district judge Vince Chhabria…

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