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League of Legends won’t be following the trend of having tons of collaboration skins: ‘The second you do [it], the tone of your game completely changes’

The Fortnitification of videogames has seeped into just about every live-service excursion at this point. You can play as Nicki Minaj in Call of Duty. Final Fantasy 14 is getting an Evangelion raid series in its next expansion. Tekken 8 just announced a Baki character as its final Season 3 DLC fighter. Media can no…

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This creator shoved a Framework inside of a 2006 MacBook: ‘A reimagined classic, that’s only a little bit janky’

There’s a cheeky allure to the whole hackintosh thing. The idea of turning a Mac (a famously unupgradable and walled-off device) into something Frankenstein-esque is a nerdy joy, and this person who fitted their ‘06 MacBook with Framework embodies that cheekiness. As they say, it’s “a reimagined classic, that’s only a little bit janky”. You…

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Players are already finding creative solutions to Prologue: Go Wayback’s grueling difficulty: ‘You could just chug gasoline’

Prologue: Go Wayback! is probably one of the hardest survival games I’ve played in a while, but don’t let the supposed difficulty put you off giving the survival roguelike a go. Because if the playtests revealed anything, it’s that anything’s possible when you have a pocket full of blackberries and access to a heat source….

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Nintendo’s legal battle with Palworld looks shakier than ever: It may only get ‘$30,000 chump change’ if it wins at all

Palworld’s irreverent ‘Pokémon with guns’ conceit won it all sorts of buzz, but also attention from Nintendo’s infamous lawyers—Palworld developer Pocketpair was sued by the big ‘tendo back in 2024 over a few Pokémon patents for around $66,000 in damages—a small payout for such a big company, but with an apparent aim to bleed Pocketpair…

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Capcom smashes second, larger pane of emergency glass—pulling a big endgame Monster Hunter Wilds update from September and getting it ready for next month instead

I feel a little bad for Monster Hunter Wilds, a game I spent a very enjoyable 60-odd hours in, which is nonetheless currently tanking a severe “Overwhelmingly Negative” recent review rating on Steam. The problems are twofold: Firstly, the game hasn’t quite hit the same gameplay loop as past games, trading out (from what I’ve…

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Darkest Dungeon studio refuses to AI generate deceased narrator’s voice despite his permission: ‘I would never, ever erode his incredible and timeless performances’

Darkest Dungeon is one of the best dungeon crawlers period, and a huge part of its appeal is the dour, gravely tones of a mysterious “ancestor” who narrates your every move. The man behind the musings, Wayne June, sadly died last year—and in the wake of news like this, a ghoulish question tends to arise:…

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