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Concord’s disastrous launch reportedly leads to its director’s self-demotion
19 Sep

Concord’s disastrous launch reportedly leads to its director’s self-demotion

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The ripples from Concord’s seismic implosion are still fanning out since Sony decided to take the game offline earlier this month. Now, the game’s director has reportedly decided to bow out gracefully. reported that game director Ryan Ellis of Firewalk Studios told staff members that he’s stepping down from his position. Ellis, who cofounded Firewalk after a stint as the creative director of Destiny 2, will remain with the studio but only in a support role.Meanwhile, the staff at Firewalk are still waiting to hear what Sony plans to do with their underperforming game. Just two weeks after Concord’s release,…
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Get a good gawp at Ghostface’s fatality and some new animalities for MK1
19 Sep

Get a good gawp at Ghostface’s fatality and some new animalities for MK1

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A new update for Mortal Kombat I (MK1) is less than a week away from release that will add new character skins, new finishing moves and (eventually) new fighters to its “kombatant” selection screen. NetherRealm Studios released a preview of the “karnage” that’s “koming” around the “korner” (OK, we’ll stop with the unnecessary K’s).The new trailer released on shows some of the new stuff MK1 players can expect from the Khaos Reigns pack scheduled for release on September 24 and future updates. The base game costs $49.99 for the , and and $39.99 on the . The Khaos Reigns DLC…
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An artist says Nerf’s Destiny 2 hand cannon is a ripoff of their work
13 Sep

An artist says Nerf’s Destiny 2 hand cannon is a ripoff of their work

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An artist who goes by on X says that the look of Nerf’s Ace of Spades handgun from Bungie's Destiny games came from a commissioned artwork they drew almost a decade ago.Nerf and Bungie unveiled its newest foam dart gun collaboration on Tuesday featuring a limited edition version of from Destiny 2 that is available for purchase on . The following morning, @tofu_rabbit posted images comparing Nerf’s newest foam dart launcher to a piece of art they made in 2015 and posted on their based on the same gun from the game.The artist pointed out 11 parts or designs on…
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Someone discovered a new cheat code for the 27-year-old Saturn port of Doom
11 Sep

Someone discovered a new cheat code for the 27-year-old Saturn port of Doom

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The first-person shooter Doom has so many ports on so many different consoles and computers that modders have had to find new places to port the game like autonomous lawnmowers, digestive bacteria and even in Doom II itself.One port that’s not nearly as popular or playable as the others is the Sega Saturn port that came out nearly four years after the game’s release. Gamespot’s Jeff Gerstmann called the Sega Saturn Doom port just about everything you can call a bad game without straying over the the boundaries of good taste: “completely worthless,” “drab,” “jerky,” “to be avoided at all…
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New AI Model Can Simulate ‘Super Mario Bros.’ After Watching Gameplay Footage
06 Sep

New AI Model Can Simulate ‘Super Mario Bros.’ After Watching Gameplay Footage

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Last month, Google's GameNGen AI model showed that generalized image diffusion techniques can be used to generate a passable, playable version of Doom. Now, researchers are using some similar techniques with a model called MarioVGG to see whether AI can generate plausible video of Super Mario Bros. in response to user inputs.The results of the MarioVGG model—available as a preprint paper published by the crypto-adjacent AI company Virtuals Protocol—still display a lot of apparent glitches, and it's too slow for anything approaching real-time gameplay. But the results show how even a limited model can infer some impressive physics and gameplay…
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Microsoft and Activision Blizzard accused of ‘bad faith bargaining’ by Raven Software union workers
29 Aug

Microsoft and Activision Blizzard accused of ‘bad faith bargaining’ by Raven Software union workers

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Raven Software’s union — the first of its kind in the gaming industry — has hit another snag negotiating its collective bargaining agreement with Microsoft and Activision Blizzard, games journalist Stephen Totilo reported in his Game File newsletter. The union has filed an unfair labor practice complaint with the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB), alleging chiefly that their employer refuses to bargain, or is not bargaining in good faith. The Raven workers succeeded in their union drive, joining the Communications Workers of America (CWA), over two years ago.The full complaints have not been made available to the public as of Wednesday.…
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Rugrats: Adventures in Gameland crawls out of its playpen on September 10
29 Aug

Rugrats: Adventures in Gameland crawls out of its playpen on September 10

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There are a ton of Rugrats games from early CD-ROM games to the Nintendo 64 but there’s never really been one that truly stood out on its own. The MIX Games, Wallride and Limited Run Games may have given us the definitive Rugrats game with Rugrats: Adventures in Gameland set for release on September 10 on Steam and both current and previous-gen consoles.The new throwback Rugrats game was announced last year almost to the date. Rugrats: Adventures in Gameland looks like it was inspired by those classic NES platformers that fueled your childhood fun and frustration (funstration?). The game comes in two…
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The trailer for Call of Duty: Black Ops 6’s zombies DLC has risen
23 Aug

The trailer for Call of Duty: Black Ops 6’s zombies DLC has risen

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A new Zombies mode is headed to Call of Duty: Black Ops 6. A new cinematic trailer released on Friday shows that the DLC will take players to a small town called Liberty Falls infested with the running dead.The trailer starts in a picturesque piece of America with an old-timey song setting the tone. Then everything goes to hell and our unnamed hero wakes up in a post-apocalyptic world from what was just a nightmare all along. He receives a bulletin that the running dead are on their way so he picks up a shock rifle to start popping off…
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Four Experts Explain How AI Will Change Hollywood
18 Aug

Four Experts Explain How AI Will Change Hollywood

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Good afternoon from 35,000 feet. I am en route to Cape Town for an extended break. The newsletter will continue in my absence; my colleagues are going to pitch in for the next couple of weeks. (If you insist on breaking news in the dead of August, please text me first.)Before I disappear, some additions to this year’s Screentime conference: Source link lol
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The adorable building game Tiny Glade is coming to Steam on September 23
17 Aug

The adorable building game Tiny Glade is coming to Steam on September 23

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The castle construction game Tiny Glade that’s got the Internet uttering a collective “Awwwww, ain’t that cuuuute?” has a release date. Wholesome Games announced today in a new trailer that Tiny Glade will be released on September 23 on Steam. If you can’t wait that long or just wanna get a head start on your virtual village, a demo is available right now on the game’s Steam page.Tiny Glade is a sandbox building game that seems to go against the competitive grain of most construction games. City building and construction games are fun, but maintaining a huge, virtual metropolis can…
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