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Marathon completely changed my mind about extraction shooters
Marathon sets itself apart from other extraction shooters by putting you in the head of one of its perpetually endangered Runners.
Crimson Desert's lousy controls made me commit these 13 accidental atrocities
Crimson Desert's controls are clunky and challenging, and they led me to accidentally do some terrible things
The gen AI Kool-Aid tastes like eugenics
Like many people, director Valerie Veatch was intrigued when OpenAI first released its Sora text-to-video generative AI model to the public in 2024. Though she didn't fully understand the technology, she was curious about what it could do, and she saw that other artists were building online communities to share their new AI creations. The […]
Critical Role's Schemer table is redefining a fundamental aspect of Dungeons & Dragons
Critical Role Campaign 4's The Schemer table is redefining what it means to be an adventuring party in Dungeons & Dragons.
Oeuf is a punishing platformer in a cozy shell
The funny shape of eggs is the curious lifeblood of Oeuf, the new physics platformer by prolific developer Increpare Games. In a gaming landscape saturated with complex systems dropped into simple games, that grapples with metaphor within straightforward narratives, and that is desperate to bring cinematic sensibilities into gaming, Oeuf only asks that you briefly […]