We may not have a roadmap or balance patch just yet, but at least Path of Exile 2's bugfix patch notes are funny

‘Super Bowl for Excel nerds’ crowns the king of the spreadsheets in Vegas, complete with championship belt and adoring crowd: ‘You’d never see this with Google Sheets’

I’m not going to suggest you watch all seven hours of the livestream of the Excel World Championship Finals but, if you start watching, you’ll be treated to an exceptional creation: The Excel World Championship theme song. A kind of soft rock ballad that is AI-created but seems to be sung by an actual human,…

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You can pick up a refurbished Steam Deck OLED directly from Valve for as little as $439 if others haven’t already scooped them all

I’ve been enjoying some quality time with the office Steam Deck. Between finally checking out Mouthwashing and giving 1000XResist another playthrough, I’m not really putting the hardware through its paces. Still, it’s hard to argue with that gorgeous OLED screen or the promise of portability for combatting my ever-growing back log. However, when it comes…

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“New Players Won’t Feel Alone” – Square Enix Partners With Google For AI-Powered Dragon Quest Companion

The Slime has come. Over the weekend, Square Enix announced a collaboration with Google which will see a generative AI-powered “companion” added to Dragon Quest X. As highlighted in an article by news outlet Sankei Shimbun (thanks, NintendoEverything), Google’s Gemini will be integrated into the Japan-only MMORPG and power a conversational companion known as “Chatty…

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You can now play the most infuriating game of all time in your browser, and for some reason I’m hopelessly addicted

This week, I discovered a TikToker deliberately developing the worst game of all time—complete with impossible platforming, unskippable dialogue, and a rocket launcher that has to be reloaded 150 times between each shot. I ended that post anxious that creator Everywhere Nowhere might one day release their abomination into the world for people to actually…

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