Florida is a vast and wonderful menagerie. It is home to over a billion species (I didn't research that claim and nor should you), ranging from alligators to snakes to… alligators. Grand Theft Auto 6, I must assume, will be basically like a trip to the zoo with gun crime.GTA 5, though? It does its best, but the animal quotient is low. In fairness, Los Santos, like its real-life counterpart,...

Generative AI is a hot-button topic in the industry, and for good reason—it's been kinda destructive, whether that's jacking up hardware prices or putting people out of a job—and while there have been some fairly mundane use cases that seem helpful, it's been hard to escape the sheer sense of mania that's built around its use. Or the bad PR, juiced out of the sheer exhaustion we've all had from...

A native PC port of Nintendo's 1999 platformer Donkey Kong 64 is finally here, and the team that pulled it off is proud to say that they used zero generative AI tools in the process.DK64 Rekongpiled, a recompilation or translation of the game's code for modern hardware (as opposed to emulation), dropped today. All you need is an original Donkey Kong 64 ROM to get it running.In a post on...

Hand Elden Ring players a handful of new armor sets and weapons and they'll spend the next week or more experimenting and crunching the numbers to find out how they stack up against everything else in the legendary action RPG.That is all that's been happening in the last few days since FromSoftware dropped the Tarnished Edition, a $5 DLC pack with new starting classes, armor sets, and horse armor.It took...

I don't envy Deadlock players who are dying to see the hybrid MOBA-shooter continue to grow in its pseudo-early access state. Valve is notoriously elusive when it comes to communication and has never made any promises to update it on a regular schedule.This is the kind of uncertainty that drives Deadlock players to salivate over any new rumor or post by the developer-run Discord and forum account known as Yoshi....