This week in Las Vegas, 30,000 folks came together to hear the latest and greatest from Google Cloud. What they heard was all generative AI, all the time. […]
Why is Caravaggio so important to Netflix’s ‘Ripley’?
Why is Tom obsessed with Caravaggio in “Ripley”? Here’s a guide to the art in the Netflix series.
Baldur’s Gate 3 Dev’s Next Game Will Likely Be Early Access
It’d be quaint to suggest that Baldur’s Gate 3 was just another big-ass game. The hit RPG launched out of early access late last year and positively took the world by storm, becoming the fixation of everyone near and dear to me. It set records and brought significantly more attention to Larian, the studio behind it…
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Nearly 30% Of The Top 100 Steam Deck Games Aren’t Verified
Recently, Valve published a list of the top 100 most-played Steam Deck games over the last 12 months. Digging into this much data is fun, and the full list is both a snapshot of recent trends and a reminder that old favorites are some of the most popular options on Valve’s portable PC.
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Elden Ring Has Been Teasing Shadow Of The Erdtree All Along
FromSoftware’s award-winning 2022 RPG Elden Ring is full of secrets. Its most evocative ones are hidden in environmental details and item descriptions, and when they’re discovered they offer information about The Lands Between’s characters and lore. Apparently, one of those secrets may have been alluding to the game’s…
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Helldivers 2 Nerfs First Metas, Throws In Fire Tornadoes
Helldivers 2 has only been out for about a month and has already evolved so much. At first, players were only laying waste to bugs, but now there are also killer robots to fight on the other side of the galaxy. Planets have been liberated, while others have fallen, and divers discovered that they’re more or less…
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Remastering Star Wars Dark Forces For Consoles Wasn’t Easy
First released back in 1995, Star Wars: Dark Forces is a first-person shooter that plays similarly to Doom, but included new (for the era) features—like rooms on top of rooms, looking up and down, and jumping—elevating it beyond a simple clone. It also had an original Star Wars story and introduced new, popular…
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Antitrust enforcers admit they’re in a race to understand how to tackle AI
Antitrust enforcers on both sides of the Atlantic are grappling to get a handle on AI, a conference in Brussels heard yesterday. It’s a moment that demands “extraordinary […]
OnlyFans star Lena the Plug’s 2024 AVN diary
OnlyFans star Lena the Plug shares an inside look at AVN, the biggest adult expo of the year.
Obsidian RPG Avowed Will Defy One Major RPG Trend
Amidst the recent flurry of information about Obsidian’s forthcoming RPG Avowed, one crucial morsel of information went under the radar. We learned that the first-person role-player would have lively combat, a classless main character exploring large, sprawling levels set in the same universe as Pillars of Eternity,…
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