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Neil Newbon, the actor best known as Astarion in Baldur’s Gate 3, is giving Arc Raiders developer Embark its flowers for replacing AI voice lines with human ones.Newbon has been one of the most vocal critics of generative AI in the gaming community, having repeatedly slammed the tech as sounding like “crap” and imploring game studios to re-record AI voice lines with real human performances.Well, Arc Raiders studio Embark, which previously admitted to using AI-generated text to speech for some voice lines, has started following Newbon’s advice, and like the honorable person he seems to be, the actor is recognizing…
Pocketpair publishing lead John “Bucky” Buckley seems to be teasing an incoming April Fool’s joke, but if I’ve learned anything from Palworld April Fool’s jokes, it’s that they’re often not jokes at all.For April Fool’s Day 2024, Pocketpair revealed an anime-inspired Palworld dating sim visual novel. Everyone laughed and then dismissed it as an obvious April Fool’s Day joke, but then a year later, just in time for the 2025 holiday, Pal♡world! ~More Than Just Pals~ got a Steam page with an expanded gameplay trailer strongly suggesting that this thing is 100% real. After all, it’s very unlikely that Valve…
Undertale and Deltarune developer Toby Fox has responded to “some frustration from Latin American fans” over the fact that his RPGs do not have an official translation for languages like Spanish and Brazilian Portuguese. Fox says that, while he’s glad unofficial fan translations exist, he’s currently only willing to okay localizations for his games in languages that he speaks himself.”I know it sucks that there are no other official translations for UNDERTALE,” Fox says in a Bluesky post. “But I want to make it clear that this isn’t because I have a grudge against other countries. It’s because, if I…
We’re three races deep into the new Formula 1 season, which has brought with it a whole new set of regulations for the cars and their engines that have proven controversial among fans and drivers alike. Whether they love it or hate it, most of the drivers have a single reference point: these new real-life cars are a whole lot like Mario Kart.This year, F1 cars have moved to 50/50 hybrid engines, with exactly half the power provided by conventional combustion, and half provided by electric power. Like hybrid road cars, the racing vehicles recharge their electric batteries during stretches…
Amazon’s Spring Sale rumbles on, and in its final days in the ‘States, it’s knocked a staggering 37% off one of the beefier processors in AMD’s current lineup – the 12 core/24 thread Ryzen 9 9900X. At $315 from Amazon USA, it’s dropped to a new low price from the big online retailer down from a previous price of $370 or thereabouts, although Amazon is stating a bigger 37% discount on its $499 list price. We haven’t actually looked at the 9900X itself, so will lean on the extensive testing from Will at Eurogamer, which is quite revealing. On its…
Eidos Montreal, best known as the developer behind the modern Deus Ex games, has announced another round of layoffs, continuing a three-year streak. This time, the news is accompanied by the departure of veteran studio head David Anfossi.”The reduction in workforce affecting 124 employees is a result of changing project needs and impacts across production and support teams,” the studio says in its announcement on LinkedIn. “Today is a difficult day for our studio and reflects the need to adapt and concentrate efforts where Eidos-Montréal can be most effective.”The studio used similar language when it announced 97 layoffs in 2024,…
Konami has announced an increase in base salary for new recruits and existing employees in its Japanese offices.The company announced that its initial base salary for college graduates will be ¥310,000 per month, a 29% rise from ¥240,000 per month in February 2023.“This will enable us to offer competitive compensation for new recruits and create an environment where talented employees can thrive with a sense of satisfaction in their work,” it said in a statement.It also announced that it will be increasing its base salary for all employees – the fifth year in a row it has done this –…
Supergirl director Craig Gillespie says they’re going comic-accurate for the upcoming DC film, with Kara and Rutheye going on a multi-planet journey with multiple languages.”There are five languages in this film, and Kryptonian is one of them, all original languages,” Gillespie told Entertainment Weekly. ” So they had to learn a language. There’s some major scenes, like minutes and minutes of dialogue that they’ve got to work with. You really need actors of that caliber.”Gillespie went on to explain that there are “about nine distinct worlds, each with its own language,” adding that “there is quite a lot of traveling…
The Logitech G515 Lightspeed TKL first launched back in mid-2024 as a more affordable alternative to the Swiss brand’s all-conquering G915 TKL. It retained enough of the fundamentals – solid chassis, snappy low-profile switches, reliable wireless connectivity and so on – to make it feel like a strong value proposition at the time, although with current sales, has been made an even better one. I’m currently seeing it for its best prices in a while on both sides of the Atlantic – that’s £95 on Amazon UK and $70 on the Amazon USA – the latter is part of the…
Very few people expected Arc Raiders to do as well as it did. It was the surprise smash hit of 2025, at least in the multiplayer sphere (the Clair Obscur sweep is hard to ignore), and it brought the rather niche extraction shooter genre into the mainstream. Players would hear about Tarkov and the like, but that was always the place covered in shadow – we don’t go there, people in that corner of the internet take things very seriously indeed. Arc Raiders players take things seriously, too, of course, but their brand of a mean face is using prox…