'I finally managed to make her smile': Umamusume player gives 'the shining star of losers everywhere' her first big win in a race intentionally set up for her to lose

‘I finally managed to make her smile’: Umamusume player gives ‘the shining star of losers everywhere’ her first big win in a race intentionally set up for her to lose

I’ve done plenty of yapping about Haru Urara this week, the beloved Japanese racehorse who lost every single one of her 113 career races. Both the real Haru Urara and her anime counterpart in Umamusume: Pretty Derby have been feeling all of the love since the game launched an English version in June, introducing her…

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Data sleuth discovers that Sekiro’s inexplicable, skyscraper-sized rope man who gives you a lift to Heaven might have once been a boss fight or level unto itself

Longtime FromSoftware dataminer Zullie the Witch has uploaded a new video that interrogates one of the studio’s most memorably strange non sequiturs: The giant guy made of rope who carries you from the kingdom of Ashina to the celestial Fountainhead Palace. It seems like there was once much more to Mr. Rope-a-Dope than we saw…

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Video: Game Builder Garage Still Rules On Switch 2

Kirby! Mario Kart! Deltarune! The magic of Game Builder Garage lives on Nintendo Switch 2. As one of a handful of games to receive a free update for the new console — including Mouse Mode compatibility — fans are continuing to develop weird and wonderful creations in the game. So, with the recent Game Builder…

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Arc Raiders almost had an auction house like Escape From Tarkov, but Embark nixed it because the game became ‘just about coins’

Embark is enjoying the organic trading culture that’s emerged in Arc Raiders, but when it expands on trading in the future, it won’t be in the form of an Escape From Tarkov-style auction house. That’s because, according to design lead Virgil Watkins in an interview with GamesRadar+, they tried it during development and found that…

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Valve had next-gen VR ‘headsets ready three, four years ago and they were big, bulky devices’ but went back to the drawing board after actually putting them on

The Steam Frame is here and it’s one of the best VR headsets I’ve ever had attached to my face, just don’t ask me about the price. But when we spoke to two of the people at Valve who helped create the device—Joy Lyons and Jeremy Selan—they told me the company actually had its new…

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