Random Game Saturday: Hajime no Ippo: The Fighting! (GBA)

Cyberpunk 2077’s 2.0 overhaul was inspired by the ‘old school design’ of Diablo 2’s skill trees and Doom’s ‘relentless’ combat

Cyberpunk 2077’s 2.0 update changed so much about the game, it’d probably be quicker to list things it didn’t touch than the systems it tweaked or wholesale refinished. But the most impactful, I think, is the skill tree revamp, which changes how you build V and what you’re capable of. I only played about two…

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‘They chewed me up pretty good’: A US plaintiff attempted to use an AI avatar to argue their court case and the judges were far from amused

AI has many uses—or at least that’s what we keep being told—but one area where it might do some good is helping with the notoriously complex legal process. After all, should you find yourself faced with the task of self-representation in an upcoming court case, perhaps an AI may be able to present your arguments…

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‘Legality is not the defining factor’: Anti-porn group that pressured Steam and Itch.io adult game delistings says it goes after games it doesn’t like ‘even when they are not illegal’

Ever since it claimed victory when payment processors compelled Steam to delist a number of adult games from its service, Australian anti-porn group Collective Shout has been relatively quiet, save for when its founder—pro-life conservative Christian Melinda Tankard Reist—popped up on X to denounce those upset about the delistings as “porn sick brain rotted pedo…

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Arc Raiders devs had to nerf the blueprint drop rate because players are too good at finding them: ‘First Wave caches have been handing out a lot of blueprints’

More tweaks have been dished out for Arc Raiders in its latest patch notes. We’ve got “a very hot fix” for the Dam Controlled Access Zone, and bug fixes for a snaphook glitch and an issue where arcs would cause drops in performance. But the biggest change is certainly how the drop rate of rare…

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