Culture / Video Games
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Console Yourself
Sony’s $700 PlayStation 5 Pro Is Finally Coming in November
Sony’s PlayStation 5 mid-cycle upgrade, the PS5 Pro, is coming November 7. Lead PlayStation architect Mark Cerny revealed the console…
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Culture
New AI Model Can Simulate ‘Super Mario Bros.’ After Watching Gameplay Footage
Last month, Google’s GameNGen AI model showed that generalized image diffusion techniques can be used to generate a passable, playable…
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Bust or Boom
The Death of ‘Concord’ Offers a Bleak Look at Gaming’s Future
Earlier this week, after warping across the galaxy for 90 hours in a sentient spacecraft, Twitch streamer John Wissmiller realized…
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Culture
‘The Legend of Zelda: Echoes of Wisdom’ Gives the Princess Powers That Link Never Got
Princess Zelda has to escape from jail. She was tossed into prison over her alleged involvement in the appearance of…
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Culture
‘Black Myth: Wukong’ Devs Told Streamers to Avoid Politics in Their Playthroughs. It Backfired
Amid a long list of Twitch streams for Black Myth: Wukong, a new action role-playing game released this week, one…
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Culture
At Nintendo’s New Museum, Classic Games Get Reinvented for Today
This story originally appeared on WIRED Japan and has been translated from Japanese. Built in 1969 in Uji City, Kyoto,…
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Culture
'Assassin’s Creed Shadows' and How ‘DEI’ Became Gamergate 2.0’s Rallying Cry
On May 16, the gaming and entertainment news site Dexerto tweeted an image from the forthcoming game Assassin’s Creed Shadows…
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Culture
Gamergate’s Aggrieved Men Still Haunt the Internet
Ten years ago, a flood of gamers attacked developers Zoë Quinn and Brianna Wu and media critic Anita Sarkeesian. The…
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Culture
Gamergate’s Legacy Lives on in Attacks Against Kamala Harris
More moderators, stricter policies, mass bans, mea culpa proselytizing in front of Congress from leaders like Mark Zuckerberg, and repeated…
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