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Anthropic Nerfs Claude Again To Stop Users From Making AI Slop Out Of Any ‘Specific Existing Game’
Anthropic's new Claude guardrail is stopping users from recreating a game 'even if it is renamed or called original'
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18 Excellent Horror Games That Are Free With Game Pass For Halloween 2026
The Xbox subscription service has some good spooky picks
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Overwatch’s First Year-Long Story Reached Its Climax As Fans Ask What Was Even The Point
Was Vendetta a wasted villain used for Doomfist’s growth? Maybe, but let’s unpack it all
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Castlevania: Belmont’s Curse: The Kotaku Review
Belmont's Curse reminds you of how fun Metroidvanias can be while falling just short of claiming the genre throne
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How to open the Crimson Manor in Phantom Blade Zero
The Crimson Manor is a mysterious location in Phantom Blade Zero that you discover after riding a suspicious elevator in the Weeping Creek Valley. Although you can visit it in the first few hours of the game, the doors to the somber building won't budge until you have a unique…
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BioWare’s Knights Of The Old Republic Entirely Changed My Understanding Of What Games Could Be
The classic RPG exists as a core memory in my life
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HBO's Harry Potter Officially Casts Its New Sorting Hat and Ghosts
HBO's new Harry PotterTV show is just two months away, but key roles are still being cast — or at least officially announced — for the series. The new Harry Potter will be full of fresh faces, including new lead actors Dominic McLaughlin as Harry Potter, Arabella Stanton as…
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Bungie Outlines The Road To A ‘New, Forever Destiny‘ Given The Cards It’s Been Dealt After A ‘True Reset Moment’
Don't expect Destiny 2 to feel whole again before 2028
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Right-Wing Fans Ostracize VTuber With Female Avatar Following ‘Revelation’ They Were Assigned Male At Birth
VTuber Ember Paradox has come under fire from fellow right-leaning collaborators for 'lying' after her voice filter glitched during a livestream
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New Switch 2 Consoles Quietly Hide A Perfect 'Zelda' Homage
Lucky Nintendo fans who secured a pre-order for The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of TimeSwitch 2 are starting to open the boxes containing their swanky new consoles — and are receiving a nice, unexpected surprise.
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No Thank You, Roblox, I Do Not Want An AI-Driven ‘Explosion Of Content’
Roblox is proud of its firehose of AI-assisted games, and it's hoping to turn that blast onto the rest of the industry
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We Finally Know What Killed Mass Effect
On Oct. 21, EA announced that it was shutting down the beloved game studio BioWare and canceling its new Mass Effect sequel. The news was quite a blow, sparking theories that the studio was shut down because of pressure from Saudi Arabia’s Public Investment Fund, which recently…
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Animal Crossing’s Biggest Competitor Officially Launches in December
After months of silence about its upcoming cozy life-sim HoYoverse finally set a Petit Planet release date. Petit Planet launches Dec. 4 for PC and mobile devices, with pre-load starting on Dec. 1; HoYoverse hasn't announced plans to launch Petit Planet on consoles yet.
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Nintendo Cancels Kirby’s Switch 2 Halloween Event After It Kept Breaking Things
Kirby Air Riders was supposed to be all spooky, but it made the game repeatedly freeze up
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2026’s Secret 'Robin Hood' Movie Suddenly Drops on Streaming After Bombing in Theaters
Another 2026 box office flop is heading to streaming after a short theatrical run. The Uprising, which was briefly marketed in the U.S. as The Uprising: The Rise of Robin Hood, will stream exclusively on Peacock in early November.
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Ex-BioWare Devs Released A 40-Minute Gameplay Video Of Exodus And Yeah, That’s A Mass Effect Spiritual Successor Alright
Can't imagine why they chose now to share it with us, but I'm glad they did
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