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PC Gamer just posted:

If you're trying to convince me your 'companionship' robot is 'lifelike', maybe don't rip her face off in the demo video

The Uncanny Valley just got some startling new inhabitants.

https://www.pcgamer.com/hardware/if-youre-trying-to-convince-me-your-companionship-robot-is-lifelike-maybe-dont-rip-her-face-off-in-the-demo-video/

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TheGamer just posted:

RGG Studio Is Never Going To Leave Yakuza Behind

A new spin on a beloved formula that also acts as a bold evolution.

https://www.thegamer.com/project-century-reveal-trailer-yakuza-sega-rgg-studio/

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Polygon just posted:

Popeye, Tintin enter the public domain in 2025

Tintin, the seminal hero of the pulp genre of boy adventurers, enters the United States public domain in 2025, though in a way that probably wouldn’t please his creator Hergé very much. Not necessarily because the cartoonist would be angry at other folks being able to legally make Tintin stories — but because the Tintin […

https://www.polygon.com/news/502293/2025-public-domain-list-tintin-popeye-mickey-mouse

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PC Gamer just posted:

Ballionaire review

What do you get when you combine a tree, a piggy bank, a trampoline, and a pachinko board?

https://www.pcgamer.com/games/roguelike/ballionaire-review/

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PCGamesN just posted:

New RTS game from ex Command and Conquer, Total Annihilation devs is out now

2024 has been a good year for RTS and strategy fans, and it just got even better. Veteran developers who previously worked on the Total Annihilation and Command and Conquer series have banded together for an industrious mix of factory-building and planetary warfare. Industrial Annihilation just launched in Steam Early Access after a strong ...

https://www.pcgamesn.com/industrial-annihilation/new-rts

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The Hard Times just posted:

Altoona McDonald’s 1-Star Reviews Shift From Complaints About Food to Complaints About Employees Being Class Traitors

ALTOONA, Pa. — A wave of 1-star Google reviews flooded a local McDonald’s location after an employee ratted out the suspected killer of UnitedHealthcare CEO…

https://thehardtimes.net/music/altoona-mcdonalds-1-star-reviews-shift-from-complaints-about-food-to-complaints-about-employees-being-class-traitors/

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PC Gamer just posted:

Hitman's Agent 47 is the ultimate proletarian hero that 2024 needs

Justice is bald and wields a tin of expired spaghetti sauce.

https://www.pcgamer.com/games/action/hitmans-agent-47-is-the-ultimate-proletarian-hero-that-2024-needs

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Game Developer just posted:

Future Publishing signs content partnership with OpenAI

The company behind Edge, GamesRadar, and PC Gamer will let OpenAI use its content to enhance the 'ChatGPT experience.'

https://www.gamedeveloper.com/business/future-publishing-signs-content-partnership-with-openai

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Eurogamer just posted:

Stalker 2 reportedly target of Russian disinformation campaign claiming it's used to draft players into Ukraine war

Stalker 2: Heart of Chornobyl is reportedly being targeted by a Russian disinformation campaign falsely claiming the post-apocalyptic shooter scans players' computers in order to help the Ukranian government "locate citizens suitable for mobilisation".
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https://www.eurogamer.net/stalker-2-reportedly-target-of-russian-disinformation-campaign-claiming-its-used-to-draft-players-into-ukraine-war

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PC Games Insider just posted:

Valve pulls controversial shooter from Steam after UK counter-terrorism unit request

Valve has blocked access to controversial shooter Fursan al-Aqsa: The Knights of the Al-Aqsa Mosque on the UK version of Steam. 404 Media reports that the title has been removed from the platform for UK consumers on the back of a request from the Counter Terrorism Internet Referral Unit (CTIRU). Fursan al-Aqsa: The Knights of ...

http://www.pcgamesinsider.biz/news/74844/valve-pulls-controversial-shooter-from-steam-after-uk-counter-terrorism-unit-request/

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TheGamer just posted:

9 Video Games That Use Asimov's Three Laws Of Robotics

Isaac Asimov created three laws to govern robots. These Three Laws of Robotics have found their way into these video games.

https://www.thegamer.com/video-games-that-use-asimovs-three-laws-of-robotics/

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Gematsu just posted:

This Week’s Japanese Game Releases: FANTASIAN Neo Dimension, Under Defeat, more

FANTASIAN Neo Dimension and Under Defeat for PlayStation 5, Xbox Series, PlayStation 4, Switch, and …

https://www.gematsu.com/2024/12/this-weeks-japanese-game-releases-fantasian-neo-dimension-under-defeat-more

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PC Gamer just posted:

CD Projekt promises that, compared to The Witcher 3 and Cyberpunk 2077, The Witcher 4 'will not be smaller, and it will not be worse'

"We don't want to go back."

https://www.pcgamer.com/games/rpg/cd-projekt-promises-that-compared-to-the-witcher-3-and-cyberpunk-2077-the-witcher-4-will-not-be-smaller-and-it-will-not-be-worse

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PCGamesN just posted:

Windows 11 needs to change, or it will lose PC gaming to Linux forever

Another bad Windows 11 update launched this week, which stopped several Ubisoft games, including the recent Star Wars: Outlaws, from working. A one-off, unseen error that no one could have predicted? Probably, but to me, it points to a bigger problem that Microsoft has to face. Gamers are fickle, and Microsoft's dominance over the gaming PC market is ...

https://www.pcgamesn.com/microsoft/windows-risks-losing-gamers

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PCGamesN just posted:

Valve just released a new version of Half-Life 2, and it’s free right now

Given that it was such a genre-defining game, Valve had been surprisingly hushed this week despite it being the 20th anniversary of Half-Life 2. Consider that silence well and truly broken now, as it has just dropped a two-hour long documentary about the game’s development, released a new update for the game to enhance it even further, and essentially ...

https://www.pcgamesn.com/half-life-2/anniversary-update-free

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Kotaku just posted:

Valve Reveals Early Gameplay Of Canceled Half-Life 2 Episode 3 And Why It Never Got Finished

In a new two-hour documentary from Valve, current and former members of the company talk openly about the creation of Half-Life 2 as well as finally spilling the beans on what happened to Episode 3, and even showing gameplay of early prototypes of the canceled game.

https://kotaku.com/valve-half-life-2-episode-3-hl3-update-canceled-ice-gun-1851701011

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TheGamer just posted:

Half-Life 2 Is Temporarily Free To Own Following Anniversary Update

Half-Life 2 has been given a major update for its 20th anniversary, making it temporarily free to own, giving it built in mod support, and more.

https://www.thegamer.com/half-life-2-is-now-free-to-own-gets-built-in-mod-support/

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Destructoid just posted:

The Shin Megami Tensei TTRPG is finally available in English

You read that right. Those looking for a way to bring the ATLUS JRPG series to their tabletop don't have to wait anymore for an official game. Shin Megami Tensei - The Roleplaying Game: Tokyo Conception first released in Japan in 2004, but despite its positive initial reception, it has only reached English-speaking markets this year via LionWing Publishing. ...

https://www.destructoid.com/the-shin-megami-tensei-ttrpg-is-finally-available-in-english/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=the-shin-megami-tensei-ttrpg-is-finally-available-in-english

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Eurogamer just posted:

Pokémon TCG Pocket review - uh oh, it's really good

The last thing I needed was for Pokémon Trading Card Game Pocket to be good. But here we are! It's a cracker, and annoyingly, worryingly, compulsively so. Over the past week or two since The Pokémon Company unleashed this fearsome dopamine machine onto the world, I've been hard pressed to put it down, filling erstwhile empty moments during tooth brushing, kettle boiling ...

https://www.eurogamer.net/pokemon-tcg-pocket-review

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GamingBolt just posted:

Avowed – Minimum PC Requirements Revealed

PC players will require an SSD and around 75 GB of free storage space, Microsoft and Obsidian Entertainment have confirmed.

https://gamingbolt.com/avowed-minimum-pc-requirements-revealed

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