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After facing his samurai iteration, you can recruit Darth Vader to your squad in Fornite, though be aware that he’ll now talk to you with an AI-recreated version of James Earl Jones’ iconic voice. The Chapter 6 Star Wars season of Fortnite, called Galactic Battle, is bringing famous characters and seasonal items themed around a galaxy far, far away. But no Star Wars-themed season could ignore the most famous Sith...
This week marked 20 years since the reveal of the Xbox 360, an anniversary noted by Kotaku, and as someone old enough to remember getting hyped for this thing, I had to watch it.The reveal took place in 2005, and is basically a collection of signifiers that we're back in 2005: The video (embedded below) opens with an iPod ad featuring the Gorillaz, and then we get into the real...
“ULTRAAAAAAAA COMBO!” A battle cry that became popular with young fighting game fanatics in 1996 has returned: Killer Instinct Gold is now available on the Nintendo Switch Online + Expansion Pack subscription. And I’m thrilled. Killer Instinct Gold includes 10 playable characters and features exclusive to the Nintendo 64 game such as team battle, team elimination battle, and training mode. Admittedly, I never owned the game when it first came out...
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The Doom Slayer doesn’t have a deep wardrobe in Doom: The Dark Ages, but you can still add some flavor to his look. Among the options, you have the Butcher skin. It gives the Doom Slayer a bloody look, one that represents the feeling of playing this game. And the best part? It’s a free skin. Claiming the Butcher skin is a quick process — one that doesn’t even require...
Size Five Games' Dan Marshall has been making games for around 20 years, and was one of the early indie adopters of Steam when he released the excellent Time Gentlemen, Please! on the platform back in 2009. He's been around the block, then, and he's seen it change dramatically.Trying to figure out the secret to blowing up on Steam as an indie is an impossible task. There are so many...
Steam's newly automated monthly top-seller list now lets you go all the way back to 2004, and it's been a fun way to take a trip down memory lane. And as Jody noted, it's shined a light on one particular oddity: Rag Doll Kung Fu.Chances are you've never heard of it, but this fighting game has the honour of being the first ever third-party game to come to Steam, back...
A few days ago we reported on the deeply concerning, nay totalitarian, news that one of Oblivion's largest communities (the TES4 subreddit) found itself having to lay down a ban on people hornyposting about the flame Atronachs in Oblivion Remastered.I apologise for briefly providing context: developer Virtuos paid some special attention to the flame Atronach model, and made it rather shapely. Needless to say many Oblivion fans, and this certainly...
Elon Musk's Grok AI has been having a very normal one: It's become obsessed with South African racial politics and answering unrelated queries with frequent references to the apartheid-era resistance song, "Kill the Boer."It's an anti-apartheid song calling for black people to stand up against oppression, but the lyrics "kill the Boer" have been decried by Musk and others for promoting violence against whites: the word "Boer" refers to the...
Star Wars is turning May into a month-long cautionary tale about the dangers of associating your brand with generative AI. First, Lucasfilm's Rob Bredow unveiled a near-universally reviled Star Wars-branded short film of AI-generated animal mashups. And today, Fortnite added a Darth Vader NPC that can speak with players using "conversational AI," which has—regrettably—gone exactly as you'd expect.Epic's AI Vader generates responses to voice and text chat from nearby Fortnite...
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After visual and musical artist Antireal (aka 4nt1r34l) accused Bungie of using her artwork without credit in Marathon’s recently released alpha build, the studio has admitted to wrongdoing. On Thursday, Antireal said on X, “The Marathon alpha released recently and its environments are covered with assets lifted from poster designs I made in 2017.” And she came with receipts, showing triangular V graphics, a series of boxed icons, and a...