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Five PS1 Games That Were Ahead of Their Time

Love the original PlayStation? So do we! Here are five PS1 games that we can all agree the world wasn’t ready for. Jumping Flash!: Why?: It was a first-person platformer that played like a FPS, but had characters that felt like a Ubisoft game. It was amazing. Dev Thoughts: “It was one of those ‘quirky’…

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Asked point-blank if they’re trolling dataminers with fake characters, Marvel Rivals dev scoffs and says they’d ‘rather spend our time developing the game’

Marvel Rivals’ popularity has led to that most contemporary of cottage industries: A whole bunch of dataminers and supposed leakers that descend upon any new version of the game, and get into the guts to predict what’s coming next. Almost immediately after launch a large chunk of the future roster was apparently revealed via “hero…

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If you’d like to see Meta’s AI gunk purged from WhatsApp, a new antitrust investigation in Italy might just do the trick

Italy’s antitrust authority, AKA the body the looks into monopoly abuses by companies, has reportedly launched an investigation into Meta. According to Reuters, the Italian authority is considering, “allegations the company abused its dominant position by installing its artificial intelligence tool on messaging service WhatsApp.” The key detail, it seems, is that Meta foisted its…

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Old School RuneScape just got its first new skill ever and players are psyched about it, apart from the guy the game accidentally branded ‘Morbid Loner’

Old School RuneScape has been around for, oh, about 12 years now, and in all that time it’s never gotten a new skill. Players have been working with—and making great sport of—the set of skills it inherited from the original RuneScape, which itself last got a new skill (that’d be Hunter) all the way back…

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Borderlands 4 shed its iconic UI and all it got was this stupid live service-y inventory that doesn’t let me filter my crap properly

In true looter shooter fashion, Borderlands 4 never stops throwing guns, shields, grenades, and weapon enhancements in my face. Loadout experimentation has always been the name of the game, which means regular pit stops to rifle through my backpack and decide what’ll get added to my arsenal and what’ll fund my future respawns. For a…

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