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“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...
Last week, we asked you to share portraits of broken down and nature-filled landscapes from Days Gone Remastered using #PSshare #PSBlog. Here are this week’s highlights: dfgmendes shares a snowy mountain top MrioMoreno5 shares waterfalls along the canyon AdamWilson82 shares a winding wooden path into the abyss tulippooh3 shares a hazy forest morning meza6_9 shares a beautiful starry night EZ_takayoshi shares an island in the center of a lake ...
At long last, you can play as General Grievous in Fortnite, so long as you have the Chapter 6 Galactic Battle Pass. Grievous and his second outfit, Warlord Grievous, are locked to it, but unlike previous special pass skins there aren’t any specific quests you have to complete to unlock him. Below we explain how to unlock the General Grievous skin in Fortnite. How to get the General Grievous and...