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The First Official Pokémon LEGO Sets Are Finally Available
Pokémon’s 30th anniversary is coming right up, and to help celebrate, a trio of Pokémon LEGO sets is now available. There’s an adorable Eevee, a dynamic Pikachu, and a pricy (yet incredible) set depicting Venusaur, Charizard, and Blastoise. All sets…
He directed 4 Far Cry games, but Project Windless is offering its lead developer a chance he’s been waiting for his whole career: ‘I never had the opportunity to work on a medieval fantasy’
Based on Lee Youngdo’s fantasy series The Bird That Drinks Tears—novels being published in English for the first time this June—Project Windless and its big, beautiful bird berserker will offer an international audience an opportunity to explore a unique and…
Following fan backlash, God of War: Sons of Sparta’s two-player roguelike challenge mode can now be accessed from the off
The team behind 2D side-scroller God of War: Sons of Sparta has shared details on how to access the game’s two player co-op content without finishing the main story first. Read more
Disgaea Returns To Switch 1 & 2 This Summer With An Action RPG Twist
Ta ra, turn-based. We’ve grown used to the Disgaea series’ tried-and-tested tactical gameplay on Nintendo consoles over the last ~20 years, but the next game promises something a little different. In Disgaea Mayhem, it’s all about the action. NIS America…
Stardew Valley is celebrating being one third the age of Pokémon with a video looking at its highly anticipated next update
Pokémon is 30 this week. Stardew Valley is 10! Coincidence? YOU DECIDE. Our focus here, though, is developer Eric “ConcernedApe” Barone’s smash-hit farming game, which is celebrating its major birthday milestone with a special video featuring, among other things, a…
Say hello (and thank you) to Patty, Burger King’s new AI chatbot, which will live inside its employees’ headsets to monitor their etiquette and branch performance
Of all the places I thought AI would knock on the door of, like a grim reaper, I never expected it to be Burger King. Tech, videogames, movies, sure—they’re all about cutting-edge technology, even if it’s misguided and self-destructive—but a…
Anthropic ditches its defining safety promise to pause dangerous AI development because it’s basically pointless when everybody else is ‘blazing ahead’
Given the way the AI industry is going these days, the following news probably isn’t a huge surprise. But it’s unnerving all the same. Announced in a new blog post, Anthropic, arguably the sole remaining example among the major AI…
Look for your lost documentary making sister in an ancient fungus filled Antarctica in the walking sim horror Cryptica
Antarctica is quite possibly the perfect setting for anything remotely horror related, given its absolute remoteness. All you’ll find there are penguins, seals, and fungus, it is as no where as no where can be, of course serving as the…
Hours before its open preview weekend, Marathon is suddenly very close to the top of Steam’s top sellers list
There’s a lot riding on Marathon, potentially even the fate of legendary developer Bungie given the current state of Destiny, which has been carrying the studio’s baton for years. Now it’s time to pass the burden onto Marathon, I guess,…