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Uncharted Actor To Star In Romance Movie About Competitive Gamers Who Catch Feelings
The free TV and movie streaming service Tubi has announced a young adult romance movie called Game On, and it will feature veteran gaming actor Nolan North (Uncharted, Assassin's Creed).
The film follows the talented gamer Casey, played by Sky Katz, who is trying to win her high school's first gaming tournament for the game Eon Rush. Her main competition is a boy she has a crush on
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Square Enix Is Turning Slimes Into AI Chatbots In Dragon Quest X
Square Enix and Google have partnered to inject the tech giant's AI, Gemini, to help advise and guide players in the popular Japan-only MMO, Dragon Quest X.
Announced at a press event over the weekend, the partnership with see Square Enix turn one of the loveably blue slimes of the Dragon Quest universe into an AI-powered chat
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One Of The Most Controversial Battlefield Games Is Shutting Down On Consoles Soon
Electronic Arts has announced that Battlefield Hardline--the 2015 FPS entry in the series focused on police and heists, not traditional military warfare--will shut down on console this June.
The game will be removed from the PS4 and Xbox One storefronts on May 22, and that's also
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YouTuber Who Hid Behind GTA "Livestream" Found Guilty Of Murdering Pregnant Girlfriend
Stephen "Votesaxon07" McCullagh, a YouTuber who primarily engages with science fiction entertainment (like Battlebots toys and Star Wars sets), was convicted of murdering his 32-year-old girlfriend who was 15 weeks pregnant with a baby boy in December 2022.
According to the BBC, McCullagh--who was on trial for more than four
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Diablo 4 Season 12's Greatest Challenge Is Being Nerfed "Significantly"
Diablo 4's Season of Slaughter brought new, bloody challenges to Blizzard's ARPG, among them one so difficult that many players couldn't "reasonably" complete it.
As detailed in Diablo 4's most recent patch notes, an update
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Nvidia CEO Hates AI Slop Too, Promises DLSS 5 Isn't Making More Despite The Evidence
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang has clarified that he is also not a fan of AI slop, but that DLSS 5 is not aiming to turn games into it. Instead, it's a tool that developers can, or cannot, choose to use for development.
Appearing on Lex Fridman's
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High On Life 2 Delayed For Switch 2, No Longer Releasing On 4/20
High on Life 2 for Nintendo Switch 2 has been delayed. The game was originally set to launch on April 20--a date with the same humorous association as the game's title--but it's now coming out in July. The franchise is called High on Life in the first place because the plot involves aliens coming to Earth and using humans as a recreational drug, so 4/20 would have been very fitting for a
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CoD: Black Ops 7 And Warzone Season 3 Release Date And Details
Call of Duty is set to deliver a new batch of content with Season 3 of Black Ops 7 and Warzone. Season 3 includes a new battle pass, more multiplayer content, and map changes for Warzone's Avalon. The season will likely include a new Zombies map
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Dragon's Dogma 2 Fans Are Convinced Capcom Is Teasing An Expansion
Capcom's 2024 open-world RPG Dragon's Dogma 2 could be set to follow in the footsteps of its predeccesor with a major expansion, with the game's community convinced a recent piece of artwork celebrating the game's second anniversary is holding a number of clues.
A post on March 22 from the official Dragon's Dogma
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Pokemon Pokopia Players Are Building Incredibly Complex Creations
Pokemon Pokopia was created to give players the opportunity to build a comfortable home for their Pokemon, but some fans are already pushing the game's ability to craft and create to another level. At least two players have come up with different methods of creating calculators in Pokopia through a virtual electrical
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