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Overwatch 2’s ‘Sexual Harassment Simulator’ Made A Brief Return

Image: Activision Blizzard Trigger warning: sexual assault and harassment. An inappropriate Overwatch 2 game mode reappeared, but it’s not one to get excited about. The mode, titled “sexual harassment simulator,” was played enough times that it appeared as one of the most popular over the weekend for some players, according to PC Gamer, which spotted

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World’s Biggest Chess Site Is So Popular, Fans Can’t Play Now

Image: PNG Wing / Kotaku / Kurt Kleemann (Shutterstock) The halcyon days (if there ever were any) of the covid pandemic can still be felt today with the resurging popularity of online chess. However, the world’s largest chess website has become a victim of the king’s game’s success because its servers are struggling to meet

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Washington Post Shuts Down Gaming Section Amid Wider Layoffs

Photo: Alex Wong (Getty Images) The Washington Post imposed more layoffs on Tuesday just a week after owner Jeff Bezos visited its Washington D.C. office. Among the ritual sacrifices will be Launcher, the newspaper’s burgeoning gaming section, which routinely broke important news stories, landed big interviews, and asked the tough questions. Launcher had only just

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New AI Tech Gives Twitch Streamers Constant, Creepy Eye Contact

Nvidia’s come up with new AI-powered tech that swaps out your real eyes for digital ones that will never stop looking at your webcam. It’s very creepy, and one more sign of how unnatural you have to act online to become a popular streamer in 2023. That’s just how it is: To succeed in the

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The 11 Best Metroidvanias To Get Lost In Right Now

The Metroidvania is by far the most esoterically named genre of video games. A portmanteau of Metroid and Castlevania, it pretty much boils down to: non-linear platform games with ability-gated exploration. Or, you know, you explore until you reach a point that requires a skill you’ve yet to pick up. Read more… Source link

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Blizzard Boston Devs Blame Boss For Torpedoing Union

Image: Blizzard Workers at Proletariat Studio, also known as Blizzard Boston, won’t be unionizing after all. The Communications Workers of America Union announced on Tuesday that it will pull its petition for a union election, and blames Proletariat CEO Seth Sivak for treating workers’ organizing efforts as a personal betrayal and holding a series of

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Twitter Has A Lot Of Useless Video Game Knowledge

Image: Capcom It’s right there in the Bible—ask, and it will be given to you. It’s also right there on gaming Twitter, where the small gaming podcast Super Pod Saga posed an innocent question on January 15 and people showed up to respond in droves: “What is the most useless piece of video game knowledge

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The Last Of Us Show Might Be Better If It Worked Like The Game

Screenshot: HBO / Kotaku Though HBO’s The Last of Us largely preserves the story and lore of the original game, it rarely seems interested in adapting the actual things most players spend time doing when playing The Last of Us. In prioritizing the game’s narrative over depicting specific gameplay mechanics, there’s a tension told through

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Twitch Streamer Plays Elden Ring Using Only Her Brain

Screenshot: Perrikaryal / Kotaku When you tune into Twitch streamer Perrikaryal’s channel, you might see her playing FromSoftware’s role-playing game epic Elden Ring with fourteen, unfamiliar black sensors stuck to her scalp. It’s her—as she said during an informational stream earlier today—“just for fun” electroencephalogram (EEG) device, something researchers use to record the brain’s electrical

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League Of Legends Company Blackmailed Over Hacked Source Code

Image: Riot Games On Tuesday, Riot Games announced that the source code for both League of Legends and Team Fight Tactics was stolen, and that it would not be paying the ransom demanded by hackers to get it back. It’s the latest in a spree of data breaches at big game companies, and means both

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