Obsidian says The Outer Worlds 2 isn't a deliberate critique of capitalism, which is even more ridiculous than the time Fallout's co-creator said that isn't either

Obsidian says The Outer Worlds 2 isn’t a deliberate critique of capitalism, which is even more ridiculous than the time Fallout’s co-creator said that isn’t either

The Outer Worlds games take place in an absurd dystopia: a slice of the universe dominated by corporations and the perverse, dehumanising logic that comes with making profit your god. Its people are cogs in a great, blood-greased machine overseen by CEOs, executives, and corpulent moneymen. But it’s not about capitalism. Not intentionally, anyway. So…

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Heart of the Machine, the strategy game that lets you be the fun kind of evil AI, leaves early access in March with two possible endings: ‘One is focussed on committing ALL the war crimes’

One of the many things that annoys me about modern AI technology is if it did somehow destroy the world as its early boosters often (and bizarrely) claimed it might, it’s far more likely to do so by accident than design. There’d be no cannily launching a nuclear attack against Russia knowing that the counterattack…

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