Romancing SaGa 2 Coming to PS4, PS Vita on December 15

Valve on viral marketing and leaks: ‘Everybody assumes we have some sort of like grand plan… and it’s literally just somebody fat fingering something’

A colleague and I recently travelled to Valve to get a behind-the-scenes look at the company’s upcoming product launches. Before we entered the building, we were already discussing one of the products yet to be announced, the Steam Frame. For many, this announcement will not come as a complete surprise, as intrepid detectives glean information…

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The UK government gets into bed with OpenAI as heroic professor decries ‘policymakers and idiots around the world getting sucked into this hype-fest… terrible, terrible companies, just crazy’

The United Kingdom’s Department for Science, Innovation & Technology (DSIT) has signed a new “memorandum of understanding” with OpenAI, a non-binding document that will nevertheless see the unaccountable chatbot maker thrusting its technology into any area of the UK public sector that smells vaguely like money. Ain’t life grand. For its part, the UK’s Labour…

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Silent Hill f’s lead actor was worried her first stream of the game would ‘end with an apology press conference,’ but she ended up loving it and got millions of viewers

It’s hard to be new at something, and it’s much harder when 5 million sets of eyes are peering over your shoulder ready to judge your every move. Regardless, Konatsu Kato—the voice actor and motion capture performer who played Silent Hill f protagonist Hinako Shimizu—tried the game for the first time live on YouTube on…

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