The first reviews for Street Fighter have arrived… and while they are mixed to negative at best, they’re still better than the 1994 film. As it stands, Street Fighter, directed by Kitato Sakurai, has a 41% score on Rotten Tomatoes. The new live-action movie sees Ryu (Andrew Koji) and Ken (Noah Centineo) enter the World […]
2019With the burgeoning decomp and recomp scene now inundated with low-effort AI slop, a notable community tool is shutting down. Developer Luke “encounter” Street is closing decomp.dev, a site that once tracked decompilations of classic games, citing the negative effects AI has had on the community. Decomp.dev tracks – or, rather, tracked – the painstaking, […]
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Epic Games signed up for criticism this week by positioning its work-in-progress Epic Games Store launcher overhaul as a showcase of generative AI’s capabilities, boasting of how “we vibe coded the Epic Games Launcher” and insisting that “programming is hard.” The response from some players and developers has waffled between cringe and condemnation. Former Valve […]
2019Castlevania: Belmont’s Curse has released to critical acclaim, but there was a point in development where it was shaping up to be a very different game, and one I’d wager wouldn’t have scored nearly as well with critics or fans of Konami’s beloved series. Talking to PCGamesN, Evil Empire head of business Ben Laulan reveals […]
2019
RuneScape developer Jagex has canceled RuneScape Reignited, a recently announced and hugely controversial plan to soft-reset the MMO by spinning up forked servers with fresh economies and characters, after widespread player criticism. Jagex only just apologized for neglecting players and announced plans to pause and revisit this whole idea. Now, RuneScape Reignited is well and […]
2019VisionQuest star Ruaridh Mollica posted (and quickly deleted) a photo of his Tommy Maximoff Funko Pop… which reveals his live-action Speed costume. Mollica initially included the photo as part of an Instagram photo dump, writing, “Swipe to the end for a SNEAK PEEK of my Tommy Maximoff Funko Pop (probably not allowed).” The figurine depicts […]
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