Windbound receives two large updates (patch notes)

Windbound receives two large updates (patch notes)

Windbound, which is available now on Nintendo Switch and other platforms, has received a couple of large updates bringing the version up to 1.0.36649.221. The patches include improvements for various aspects such as game performance enhancements, fixes for game saves, improvements for the tutorial and more. The game received mixed reviews, so hopefully the fixes…

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Despite everything, Assassin’s Creed Shadows preorders are ‘tracking solidly,’ Ubisoft says, ‘in line with those of Assassin’s Creed Odyssey, the second most successful entry of the franchise’

It’s been a rough year for Assassin’s Creed Shadows, which has been the target of outrage from some perpetually-outraged corners of gaming fandom; it’s also suffered a few self-inflicted wounds, and of course an ugly delay that pushed it into 2025, and then a second, smaller postponement that bumped it to its current release date…

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Twitch under fire for new gen AI training system that harvests streamer data for Amazon, says it’s on by default because ‘if it was opt-in, nobody would opt in’

Twitch has revealed that it is now using content in streams “to train generative AI content models across Amazon,” and making matters worse, everyone is opted into the training program by default. Rumors of an AI training program have been kicking around for at least a few weeks now—streamer Zach Bussey posted about it on…

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I had my doubts about Critical Role’s new 13-player D&D campaign, but its latest episodes have me fully bought into its grand, ambitious promise

This article contains spoilers for Critical Role Campaign 4, episode 30. I’ve been rather enjoying Campaign 4 of Critical Role—a 13-player, three-table epic that plans to reinvent the West Marches type of game for a modern actual play show. It’s almost daedalian in scope, pure and utter hubris. It shouldn’t work. And yet, 30 episodes…

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