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Genshin Impact Fires Voice Actor Post Alleged Sexual Misconduct

Image: HoYoverse One week after a Genshin Impact voice actor publicly apologized following accusations of having sexually inappropriate relationships with fans, HoYoverse has finally taken action. The studio announced on Twitter and Reddit that the actor, Elliot Gindi, will no longer voice Tighnari due to a “breach of contract.” According to HoYoverse, the character Tighnari

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What People Get Wrong When They Think About Video Game AI

Last year, AI generated art finally broke through the mainstream—but not without significant public controversy. The rampant art theft required to build an AI’s dataset and the resulting forgeries eventually led to a class action lawsuit against AI generators. Yet that hasn’t stopped developers from using the technology to generate images, narrative, music and voice

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What You Should Know About Sony’s New Horizon Game On PS VR2

A fully realized VR experience in the world of Sony’s Horizon franchise is an exciting prospect indeed, but Horizon Call of the Mountain can’t fully deliver on that promise. It’s too small in scope, has a surplus of arcadey combat scenarios that instantly break immersion with their rigid structure, and what strengths it has only

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Great Tech, Solid Games, A Little Painful

VR is not the Future of Gaming™. Rather, it’s an active, thriving, wonderful part of its present with many great experiences to enjoy. PS VR2 joins in on that fun with one of the best headsets you can presently buy. But at a cost of $550 dollars for the unit and its controllers (in addition

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Two More Online Shooters Are Dying In The Best Ways Possible

Image: Natural Selection 2 So many online games have shut down so far in 2023 that we’ve already had to do a roundup, and it’s only February. Which means loads more are going to meet similar fates over the next 10 months, and the next two to meet their demise are Natural Selection 2 and

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Valve Edits Blog Post, Walking Back Its Team Fortress 2 Hype

Image: Valve It was pretty cool last week when Valve, developers of the ancient Team Fortress 2, said that the game was getting “a full-on update-sized update”. It is less cool a week later to find that the company has edited that announcement post in an attempt to pump everyone’s brakes. You can’t blame folks

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Pickle Rick Might Come To MultiVersus Just As Game Is Dying

Screenshot: PlayerFirst Games MultiVersus, Warner Bros. popular online fighting game that made the phrase “LeBron James frame data” a real thing you can say, has experienced a significant drop in its daily player count on Steam. According to SteamDB, the number of folks playing MultiVersus simultaneously has gone from its peak of 153,433 concurrent players

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‘All Your Base’ Game Missing Famous Meme On Steam

Image: Toaplan / Kotaku / eveleen (Shutterstock) Toaplan’s Zero Wing is the game that spawned the classic (ancient, even) meme of “All your base are belong to us.” And it’s now out on Steam, easily accessible on modern hardware. As you might expect, the game’s store page references the beloved memes Zero Wing spawned decades

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Apex Legends’ Team Deathmatch Helps Set New Player Record

Guess you could say TDM was Apex Legends’ lifeline. 👈(゚ヮ゚👈)Illustration: Apex Legends (Respawn Entertainment) Just in time to celebrate its fourth anniversary, Respawn Entertainment’s popular free-to-play hero shooter Apex Legends has hit a new peak concurrent player count on Steam. As of today, Apex Legends’ new peak for the number of people playing simultaneously is

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VRChat Sex Worker Denied Entry To US Over ‘Prostitution’

Image: PuppyHexy / VRChat / Kotaku An online virtual reality sex worker was left confused and frustrated when, after applying for a United States tourist visa, she said she received a letter explaining she was “permanently ineligible” for admission to the U.S. The reason given was “prostitution.” In online VR games like VRChat, players can

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