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Game store itch.io is getting flooded with AI slop
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Game store itch.io is getting flooded with AI slop

The scrappy indie store itch.io is facing a problem - lots and lots of AI slop getting uploaded to it, but they're attempting to fight back against it.Read the full article on GamingOnLinux.

GamingOnLinux vor 4 Tagen
Enshrouded 1.0 review
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Enshrouded 1.0 review

The fog of war clears around Embervale, revealing a survival crafting masterpiece.

PC Gamer vor 4 Tagen
You can make a vampire hunter who's afraid of the dark, disease and small spaces in Hunter: The Reckoning - Deathwish, and that's surely the best way to play
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You can make a vampire hunter who's afraid of the dark, disease and small spaces in Hunter: The Reckoning - Deathwish, and that's surely the best way to play

A month or two back I penned a 1500 word whine about feeling too powerful in Blood of Dawnwalker. "Gimme a vampire sim in which I'm a pathetic vein-nibbling goblin," I wrote, using many more adjectives than that. Well, never let it be said that I'm biased against vampires, for I am equally keen to play an RPG in which I am the least capable vampire hunter in the universe. A vampire hunter who screams when he wakes up with his hair over his face. A vampire hunter who has to spray the vampires wi

Rock Paper Shotgun vor 4 Tagen
Fix up towering robots while battle rages outside in Bay 12: Mech Repair, a first-person job sim with some handsome heavy duty analog tech
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Fix up towering robots while battle rages outside in Bay 12: Mech Repair, a first-person job sim with some handsome heavy duty analog tech

The most important thing to know about Bay 12: Mech Repair is that these are mechs of the MechWarrior or possibly Patlabor school – that is, basically WW2 tanks on hydraulic legs, with cockpits full of switches and wireframe displays. Their bodies are assemblages of pistons and reactors. They are not biomechs like the ones in Evangelion. An Evangelion Repair game would be… different. Less industrial, more Oedipal. You would dread removing the smallest piece of housing. Read more

Rock Paper Shotgun vor 5 Tagen
Fewer genAI clones of "someone else's specific game" should flood the net going forwards, as Anthropic tell Claude to stop messing with some stuff other people own
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Fewer genAI clones of "someone else's specific game" should flood the net going forwards, as Anthropic tell Claude to stop messing with some stuff other people own

Anthropic have told their genAI tool Claude to start ducking requests from users to recreate or clone existing games, following a flood of folks using the tech to generate six-fingered remakes. Instead of risking infringing on the intellectual property of series or titles that companies which aren't Anthropic own, Claude will instead restrict itself to only generating "original" games slopped together based on whatever data it's drawing on. Read more

Rock Paper Shotgun vor 5 Tagen